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All the TV News Since 2009, Now Available At the Internet Archive

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-be-careful-not-to-accidentally-search-for-cnn dept.

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."

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  1. All the news since 2009!? by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How did they manage the copyright clearance for THAT!?

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    1. Re:All the news since 2009!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually US Broadcast news has special copyright exemptions http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/17/1/108

    2. Re:All the news since 2009!? by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, 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.

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  2. ALL = American? by diodeus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I guess "All the news" need not contain any foreign sources. Disappointing.

  3. Re:This Will Help Political Trolls Everywhere by Bigby · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hope they make everyone look so bad that the public just gives up on the "lesser of two evils" method of voting.

  4. Re:This Will Help Political Trolls Everywhere by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, stop with the selective editing already!

  5. Re:This Will Help Political Trolls Everywhere by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 3, 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.

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