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C-Span: Pod-unsafe

C-Span is offering some of its multimedia over the web in the form of Podcasts. That's the good news. The bad news: they don't want Podcasters (or Bloggers, it seems) to share the content:

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Use of C-SPAN Podcasts and RSS Feeds is Restricted. Please Read Notice Below Carefully.

The audio content of C-SPAN's podcasts and the content of C-SPAN's RSS feeds are fully protected by copyright.

Neither C-SPAN's podcasts nor their associated RSS feeds may be used for any political, commercial or otherwise unauthorized purpose. Any retransmission, sale, public performance or other unauthorized duplication of the podcasts or of the RSS feeds is strictly prohibited.

However, you may make copies of the podcasts and RSS feeds (by means of, for example, a PC, an MP3 player, or a CD) solely for your personal and noncommercial use.

No C-SPAN podcast or RSS feed may be displayed on any website, including personal websites.

Don't say you haven't been warned. But if non-profit C-Span's mission is public affairs cable-casting and web-casting, why put handcuffs on the public's use of its material to keep the discussion going?

By Ed Moltzen  ·   1 August 2005
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Exactly right. They were the orignal PODs. All they do is go to places and aim their cameras, in the spirit of "public service broadcasting."

Why can't we aim our cameras at their cameras?

Posted by: Roy at August 1, 2005 12:22 PM
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