Television Archiving

Raiding Eternity – Myspace – Gizmodo

Jeff Ubois — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:00:49 +0000

"When I die my Flickr Pro account will expire and a large percentage of my photos—girlfriends, family, vacations, my dog—will disappear from public view."

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Announcing the Open Library redesign « The Open Library Blog

Jeff Ubois — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:10:17 +0000

"This is version 1 of a reconstructed Open Library, and we’re going to keep it “soft” at a special URL until we’re sure it’s stable enough to make the final transition to openlibrary.org."

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Sputnik Mania! Documentaries, old footage, and copyright

Jeff Ubois — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:10:16 +0000

"Hoffman spent months tracking down bits of footage from collectors on eBay and from uploaders on YouTube. Whenever he made contact with someone who had posted one clip, Hoffman asked them what else they had. When he was done, he took all this material back to the networks—who promptly billed him the per-minute feature film rate for reusing their copyrighted material. The fact that Hoffman was making an independently financed documentary and not a traditional feature film was irrelevant, and the total bill for clearing rights came to $320,000…."

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C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web – NYTimes.com

Jeff Ubois — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:10:15 +0000

Good for C-Span. Now they need to hire the folks at Metavid (at least on a contract basis.)

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JISC ITT: Promoting Researcher Engagement with Web Archives : JISC

Jeff Ubois — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:10:14 +0000

Via Peter Kaufman: JISC offers 30K pounds to study / promote research uses of web archives. Deadline 23 March 2010.

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Kennisland : Publicatie businessmodelinnovatie cultureel erfgoed

Jeff Ubois — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:10:13 +0000

Excellent insights from Kennisland into the relationship between cultural heritage and ICTs. (in Dutch & English).

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ALA | Preservation Week

Jeff Ubois — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:17:21 +0000

The American Library Association will launch its first Preservation Week May 9–15, 2010. Take this opportunity to celebrate collecting and preservation in your community, and to highlight your institution as a source of preservation information.

FCC to propose new video archive in national broadband plan – Nextgov

Jeff Ubois — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:17:20 +0000

“A proposal in the draft of the government's imminent broadband plan would create a YouTube-like online archive called Video.gov to preserve agencies' Web content and possibly information provided by the media, an official with the Federal Communications Commission said on Monday.”

Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | A Second Lessig Fair-Use Video Is Suppressed By WMG

Jeff Ubois — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:17:19 +0000

Warner Music Group was the party holding copytright on a song that Lessig used in an unarguably fair-use manner. TechDirt is careful not to assume that an actual DMCA takedown notice was issued, on the likelihood that Google's automatic copyright-violation detectors did the deed.

Microsoft Online Surveillance Guide – Cryptome Leak | Geekosystem

Jeff Ubois — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:17:18 +0000

Dispute between Cryptome, and (Network Solutions + Microsoft), who are using copyright for purpses of censorship.

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