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The Associated Press is uploading more than 550,000 video clips to YouTube — covering news events dating back to 1895 — which the news org said will be the largest collection of archival news content on the Google-owned platform to date.
AP, together with newsreel archive provider British Movietone, will deliver more than 1 million minutes of digitized film footage to YouTube. The goal: to provide high-profile, searchable repositories that let documentary filmmakers, historians and others find news footage, and to promote licensing deals for rights to use the video.
The archival footage includes major world events such as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, exclusive footage of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. Celeb footage includes Marilyn Monroe captured on film in London in the 1950s and Twiggy modeling fashions of the 1960s, as well as segments on Muhammad Ali, Charlie Chaplin, Salvador Dali, Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley.
Well done, Associated Press (AP) and Movietone!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by gman003 on Saturday July 25 2015, @04:35AM
Unlikely. They have no history of doing that. They generally just delete sex/violence that's over the line, but I don't think the AP has done too much of that.
Well, yes. Any of it post-1923 is already copyrighted, they're merely making it viewable under license (that license implicitly being "yes, you can see it"). The pre-1923 stuff might get sucked up into the auto-takedown system, unfortunately, but that's hardly a catastrophe.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mendax on Saturday July 25 2015, @05:41AM
That may not necessarily be true. Copyright when it is applied to older film is very strange and I've never really understood it. An example, for those of you who are fans of the old Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, all of which were made between 1939 and 1946, four of them are currently in the public domain and can be obtained very cheaply. The rest remain under copyright for various reasons and are more expensive to get on DVD. But even newer films can sometimes fall into the cracks of public domain. The movie "Escape from Sobibor", a British TV movie from 1989 (I think) shown both in the US and the UK and in different versions, is in the public domain because the producers neglected to do something to obtain copyright.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday July 25 2015, @06:57AM
I beg to differ - they do it now. Many times I have to log in to watch videos that are described as containing extreme violence. That is why I raised the question. I would imagine that the bombing of Pearl Harbour or valuable WW1 footage could be described as violent. Even some music videos have limited viewing because of the 'sexual nature' of the accompanying video.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:57PM
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgzu1OZXyW0 [youtube.com]
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Leebert on Saturday July 25 2015, @09:48PM
Pro Tip: You can work around this relatively simply with just minor editing of the URL. For instance, change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgzu1OZXyW0 [youtube.com]
to:
https://www.youtube.com/v/Hgzu1OZXyW0 [youtube.com]
Note that this only works if you have Flash installed. I don't know of a workaround for videos using HTML5.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2015, @12:43AM
In all particular cases, I just download the video using an online service.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday July 25 2015, @04:06PM
Well, yes. Any of it post-1923 is already copyrighted
Thank god that 1941 Pearl Harbor footage is copyrighted! Just think, without those royalties nobody would have the incentive to bomb HI and film it!