C-SPAN TAKES LEAD IN MAKING VIDEO OF CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS, WHITE HOUSE AND OTHER FEDERAL EVENTS

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WASHINGTON (Wednesday, March 7, 2007) - Advancing its longstanding mission of bringing government closer to the people, C-SPAN announced today two major initiatives designed to greatly expand citizen access to its online video of federal government activities, such as congressional hearings, agency briefings, and White House events. These actions are intended to meet the growing demand for video about the federal government and Congress, in an age of explosive growth of video file sharers, bloggers, and online 'citizen journalists.' The policy change is effective immediately.

C-SPAN is introducing a liberalized copyright policy for current, future, and past coverage of any official events sponsored by Congress and any federal agency-- about half of all programming offered on the C-SPAN television networks--which will allow non-commercial copying, sharing, and posting of C-SPAN video on the Internet, with attribution.

http://www.c-span.org/about/press/release.asp?code=video

I was looking for the Plame hearing & found this little tidbit....

[Greeby]

1. Nancy Pelosi's Youtube page is the best place for these things

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=nancypelosi

And who says Democrats don't speak out?

[northofdenali]

2. Wow, this is great news!!

No Viacom here, eh?

[progressoid]

3. Cool. But one has to wonder how long that will last.

Actually, I've been wondering how long C-span in general will last. Pretty soon some RW corporate entity is going to see the potential profit being overlooked and that whole "non-profit, public service" ideal will be history.

Can't wait to hear..."This hour of House deliberations brought to you by McDonnalds... Ba ba ba ba baaa, I'm lovin' it!"

[bonito]

4. This is good news

Thank you for c-span! from an avid viewer.

[DemReadingDU]

5. Link to Waxman's site for video & docs

Here is a link from Waxman's site with video and related docs from today's hearing

http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1205


I watched c-span all day today, Our government in action!

[quiet.american]

6. This is fantastic. n/t

[gristy]

7. 9 videos up on youtube so far

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=plame+hearing&search=Search