CSPAN Copyright policy

clipped from www.c-span.org C-SPAN holds the exclusive copyright in the video of all the public affairs programming it produces. Although C-SPAN is the only news media organization that regularly televises the legislative proceedings of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate, it does not hold a copyright in that video coverage. That government-produced video is in the public domain which means that it belongs to the American people and may be used without restrictions of any kind. As part of its mission to make the activities of the federal government more broadly available, C-SPAN has established a copyright policy that allows the public to use C-SPAN's video coverage of federal government events for their own purposes. Those who want to use C-SPAN copyrighted video will be able to do so without concern about further copyright restrictions as long as they adhere to the following policy:

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Very interesting to note that the paid model will not work in the future according to this research. This seems to again, go against current wisdom. This also will perhaps allow greater production by the public. Perhaps the model will be ad $ going to popular AND niche-rich productions.

clipped from playlistmag.com The iTunes Store’s salad days as an outlet for paid video downloads are short, according to a new report from Forrester Research. The company claims that paid video downloads will peak this year, to be replaced by advertising-based systems instead.