National Archives Partners With CreateSpace and Amazon to Digitize Movies by Barbara Quint, Newsbreaks (Aug 9)
"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA; www.nara.gov), the federal government’s official archivist, has entered into an agreement with CreateSpace (www.createspace.com), an Amazon.com subsidiary, to digitize the motion pictures in its collection. ... CreateSpace will digitize movies chosen from NARA’s collection of more than 200,000 motion picture titles, most of them public domain. Amazon.com will then make the DVDs available in a DVD-on-demand service ($19.99). NARA will receive copies for preservation purposes. The first movies chosen for the program are Universal Newsreels covering from 1929 to 1967. The public domain status of the content raises some very provocative copyright issues."
Posted by Gwen at August 9, 2007 03:25 PM