[IP] Re: Congressional streams mirrored

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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 mirrored
> >
> > The issue of C-Span videos is more complex than it would seem.   
> > Per an
> > article 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


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