To piggyback on Buzzbrockway’s post below about YouTube warriors, consider the case of Congressional floor (speech) video…. who owns that material, and why has only C-SPAN had ownership and rights to that material… up until now?
Others are at least getting into the biz of selling back to us something that really should belong to us in the first place, least I feel that any and all video generated from the floor of OUR Congress should belong to us — and it should be free to access for any and all YouTube Nation tribal members to use as they see fit.
As the mighty media blogger, Jeff Jarvis says, and I fully agree:
Just as with the presidential debates, that democratic discussion should belong to the people and to truly give it to us, Congress should be doing everything CQ (Congressional Quarterly) is doing — for free.
Jarvis’ post in full is here. Times like this, we need to remind ourselves that we are now The Media.
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I was Time’s person of the year last year.
So was I buzz, small world!
I am still waiting for my trophy, and stipend.
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