Holiday gift idea: a piece of the public domain
Submitted by jrjacobs on Sat, 2009-12-19 22:15.
Carl Malamud's FedFlix project is a joint venture with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) whereby he takes NTIS videos, digitizes them and uploads them to the Internet Archive.
Well now he's expanding FedFlix to include public domain videos from the National Archives. He's released 41 videos into the public domain in this way, but has put together an Amazon Wish List in order to expand public access to public domain video content from the National Archives. If you see anything you'd like to buy the public domain, they'll take your DVD and upload the video to YouTube, the Internet Archive, and to public.resource.org's own rsync/ftp public domain stock footage library. So why not add a gift of the public domain to your favorite person's/people's stockings this year? We'll all be glad we did!
UPDATE 12/25/09: The wish list has been fulfilled. You can watch all of the donated NARA videos on YouTube, Internet Archive, or public.resource.org's bulk server. Thanks Carl!
[HT BoingBoing!]
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I Purchased Three, How about you?
Thanks for sharing this item. I've purchased three items off the list for people who I think will appreciate the gesture.
Readers - If you buy off this list, would you let us know by commenting? Let's build the public domain together!
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.
2 more videos into the public domain
I ordered "Man of the Month: Ho Chi Minh, 1966" and "The Japanese Paper Balloon Bomb." Thanks public.resource.org!
Just 83 more videos to go! Who will post bail?
When I first signed on to the wish list, there were 126 videos. Now there are 83. This is great, but we can do better.
Please consider purchasing one of these videos as a way of bailing it out of it of digital limbo and putting into the online public domain where it belongs.
And thanks James for your purchases. Who's next? Let us know!
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.
List is cleared out, thanks everyone!
Checking the list this morning revealed zero items. Thanks to everyone who donated to liberate a video.
Stay tuned. With the success of this experiment, I bet Carl will be adding new items to the wish list.
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"And besides all that, what we need is a decentralized, distributed system of depositing electronic files to local libraries willing to host them." -- Daniel Cornwall, tipping his hat to Cato the Elder for the original quote.
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