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Re: Congressional streams mirrored
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:06:36 +0900
Begin forwarded message: From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org> Date: March 1, 2007 3:16:16 AM JST To: dave () farber net Cc: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Congressional streams mirrored Hi Dave -
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu> Subject: Re: [IP] Congressional streams mirroredThe issue of C-Span videos is more complex than it would seem. Per anarticle in today's NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/technology/26cspan.html? ref=washington) some C-Span videos are copyrighted and not freely postable on the Net by others.
I think Speaker Pelosi should have asserted fair use on her use of C-SPAN material. And, I think C-SPAN is wrong to keep this particular material out of the public domain. Yes, they have a business to run, but they've already been well paid for the service they provide and keeping congressional hearings under lock and key is not in keeping with C-SPAN's charter as a public charity. Here's a letter to Brian Lamb on that topic ... http://public.resource.org/dear_brian.html Carl ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/@now Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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