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A Repository for Multimedia in the Public Domain?
8tim8 asks: "I was looking through my uni's record library yesterday (where they have lots of old jazz records) and it made me wonder, Is there anything like Project Gutenberg for audio or video files? I'm not talking about just a place to download old audio or video files, I'm talking about somewhere that has lots of old broadcasts/movies, and has actually checked to verify that what they have is in the public domain. It seems like there must be lots of stuff in the public domain...is there a place that let's people access it?"
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Archive.org Moving Images Repository: http://www.archive.org/details/movies Archive.org Live Music Repository: http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php I believe they collaborate with other projects to assemble these repositories, for instance their text database has Project Gutenberg's works (among others).
Archive.org's goal is to get tons of that stuff, and already have hundreds of gigs available for free download!
My daughter says you can get all sorts of new music and movies for free off the Internet. At least, that's what I'm getting ready to tell the RIAA in court next week.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
If you're looking for any public domain audio or video that was created on a computer, you may not find any due to the 70+ year copyright bullshit in the US.
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The Wikimedia Commons ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/ ) has a good deal of content under free licenses (GFDL, PD, CC, etc.). Finding specific typed of stuff is pretty easy. See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_ domain . Hope this helps. Good luck.
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undoubtedly there are tons more sites like ours. we recently converted our resources [community-owned hardware on donated bandwidth] to serve torrents, and have more tricky stuff up our sleeves for artists wanting a place to put their works (ipod integration, etc.)
we don't do much quality control, we do ask artists to stand by their work, and of course we have a discretionary control over content in order to protect ourselves from mis-use, but the purpose of the site is long-term archives under our own weight
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Movies are a different matter, but from the standpoint of federal law, the public domain does not exist for pre-1972 recordings because they are not covered by federal copyright law. That's why you don't see much movement in multimedia sound recordings to establish a public domain.
- 01Nov2003.html
Shocking, eh?
Here's a project to try to work around this restriction
http://www.projectgramophone.org/TeleRead-Article
Recently, there's been social pressures on uncommercial works to be released into something called the public domain.
Robert Nagle, Idiotprogrammer, Houston
Project Gutenberg
Did anybody notice that Project Gutenberg does do audio and video files?
The wikipedia suggestions are good, also check out Creative Commons; not quite the same, but useful.
karadar.com (with Cocoa.itc.it) has old performances of a ton of classical works, which are claimed to no longer be covered by copyright.