AMIA Newsbriefs

Educational fair use: a provocation

Copyright expert Peter Jaszi blogs about the struggle to claim educational fair use of copyrighted materials, claiming that educators must be quick to define their positions on the law before publishers overtake the argument.

Read story here: http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/2009/03/educational_fair_use_a_provoca.html

Open Video Conference, June 19-20

Open Video is more than just open codecs. It's the growing movement for transparency, interoperability, and further decentralization in online video. These qualities provide more fertile ground for independent producers, bottom-up innovation, and greater protection for free speech online. The conference will showcase awesome cultural works, inspiring talks, and cool tech demos.

Read more here: http://openvideoconference.org

Voices -- Maurice Jarre, 1924-2009

Oscar-winning French composer Maurice Jarre, who wrote the rich, lyrical scores for films including "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia," has died in Los Angeles at the age of 84. The Los Angeles Times reprinted a Q&A with the composer conducted in 1993.

Read story here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2009/03/voices----mauri.html

Focal International Announces Final Nominations for Prestigious Footage Awards Ceremony

FOCAL International the trade body representing the world’s footage archives, professional footage researchers, consultants and facility houses is pleased to announce the final nominations for the 2009 FOCAL International Awards in association with AP Archive.

Read story here: http://www.focalint.org/focalawardnominations_mar09.htm

Video Consumer Mapping Study: Traditional Television Remains “800 Pound Gorilla” In Video Media Arena

A pioneering study conducted on behalf of the Nielsen-funded Council for Research Excellence (CRE) by Ball State University's Center for Media Design (CMD) and Sequent Partners dispels several popular notions about video media use. Results of the $3.5 million year-long Video Consumer Mapping (VCM) study, in which participants were directly observed throughout the day by CMD researchers, were released to the media industry today.

Read story here: http://www.researchexcellence.com/news/032609_vcm.php

Library of Congress embraces YouTube, iTunes

The U.S. Library of Congress has begun uploading its audio archives to iTunes, and it will soon begin to post videos on YouTube, in an effort to make its materials easier for the public to access. The expansion to YouTube and Apple's iTunes is part of the library's efforts to make its 15.3 million digital items more accessible, said Matt Raymond, the library's director of communications.

Read story here: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032709-library-of-congress-embraces-youtube.html

Should You Worry About Data Rot?

Data rot refers mainly to problems with the medium on which information is stored. Over time, things like temperature, humidity, exposure to light, being stored not-very-good locations like moldy basements, make this information very difficult to read.

Read the story here: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/should-you-worry-about-data-rot/?scp=4&sq=David%20Pogue&st=Search

Up on the Roof: On the making of Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures

The incendiary 1963 film Flaming Creatures was the only finished movie by Jack Smith, the legendary Lower East Side performer and personality. In 1997, critic J. Hoberman curated the first Jack Smith retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image, Jack Smith and His Secret Flix, including Smith’s films (preserved by Jerry Tartaglia), films that included his performances (such as Ken Jacobs’s Little Stabs at Happiness and Blonde Cobra), some of Smith’s favorite Hollywood movies (The Devil Is a Woman, Arabian Nights) and movies that were influenced by Smith (Pink Flamingos, Fellini Satyricon).

Read story here: http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/up-on-the-roof-20090312

Internet Archive, Sun create 'living history' of Web

Sun Microsystems, Inc. said Wednesday it's joining with digital library Internet Archive to create a "living history" of the Internet. “The Internet Archive offers long-term digital preservation to the ephemeral Internet,” said Brewster Kahle, founder of San Francisco-based Internet Archive.

Read story at: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/03/23/daily46.html

EMI copyright deal to protect Martin Luther King speeches

The speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. are to be protected under a copyright deal with a British record company.

Read story here: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23663617-details/EMI+copyright+deal+to+protect+Martin+Luther+King+speeches/article.do