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Googleholic for April 8, 2008



Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:

  • Google App Engine launches; spaces already filled, scalability questioned
  • YouTube adds C-SPAN channel
  • Use Google Docs for social spreadsheets

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Filed under: Video, News, Web services

Colbert, Pelosi help convince C-SPAN to loosen up copyright

C-SPANC-SPAN officials say the cable channel is "liberalizing" its copyright policy. Viewers will be able to copy and distribute C-SPAN's coverage of Congress and any federal agency, as long as its for non-commercial use. That represents about half the programming available on C-SPAN.

Of course, if you search for "C-SPAN" on YouTube today you'll find an awful lot of material that would fall under this new policy, and a lot of programming that would not, including an interview with Jimmy Carter, and a compilation of prank calls to C-SPAN shows.

In other words, C-SPAN's never enforced its copyright as firmly as say, Viacom.

So what's prompted the policy change? Well, first Republicans go and blast House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for posting a C-SPAN clip on her website. The network seemed a bit confused as to whether she was violating copyright law or not, first claiming she did, then that she didn't.

And then there was last year's video of Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner. While the video could have been a great promotional tool for C-SPAN, but the network hadn't distributed it and insisted it be removed from YouTube.

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