All the TV News Since 2009, Now Available At the Internet Archive 70
6 writes with news that the Internet Archive has launched an online archive of TV news content. According to the NY Times, it will "include every morsel of news produced in the last three years by 20 different channels, encompassing more than 1,000 news series that have generated more than 350,000 separate programs devoted to news." In addition to preserving the works of humankind, the archive is for helping citizens "better understand the issues and candidates in the 2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning transcripts to borrow relevant television news programs."
Re:All the news since 2009!? (Score:5, Informative)
Actually US Broadcast news has special copyright exemptions http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/17/1/108
Re:All the news since 2009!? (Score:4, Informative)
The act of copying all this news material is protected under a federal copyright agreement signed in 1976. That was in reaction to a challenge to a news assembly project started by Vanderbilt University in 1968.
Re:This Will Help Political Trolls Everywhere (Score:4, Informative)
Still a misquote - you might call it a summarization, but leaving out the part about "establish a system" completely changes the meaning because what you actually found on the whitehouse website narrowly refers to the OGI.