[BoingBoing] reports that Public.Resource.Org has released half a terabyte worth of public domain footage from the US Federal Government. The footage, containing various subjects from World War 2 Walt Disney films to US Army training films and nature documentaries.
For a small studio or a student filmmaker with a half-terabyte free, we thought you might appreciate the convenience of simply downloading the whole thing as NTSC MPEG-2 files all at one time and sorting it out later. We include the metadata files from the Internet Archive, and our servers support http, ftp, and rsync.
The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) reports via [Slashdot] that Google’s global privacy council have been charged with defamation after a video was uploaded which was captured in a Turin classroom. The video depicts four boys taunting a young man with down syndrome, and hitting him with a tissue box. The video was uploaded by one of the boys, to Google’s italian video site.
Google’s global privacy counsel will appear in Italian court this week on criminal charges of defamation and failure to exercise control over personal data. The charges follow a two-year investigation by Italian authorities into footage uploaded onto Google Video that showed a disabled teen being disparaged by peers. Google’s Paris-based Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer and three other executives charged in the case will appear before the Criminal Court of Milan on February 3. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 36 months.
We live in a walled in proprietary world were increasingly what we buy we do not own, we license. In order to balloon manufacturers profits, keep products afloat that otherwise would sink and if little else, to line the pockets of manufacturers with our pretty pennies, we are forced into a system whereby we cannot repair what we paid good consideration for, because those who made it feel it appropriate to prevent us from doing so. The Maker’s Bill of Rights is a step in the right direction, to give people the power to fix and repair what is broken, to ensure that products which are made are reusable, and provide less impact on the environment – though that may not be the reason for the bill, its a very agreeable side affect.
GamaSutra reports that AMD has released a toolkit for game developers to develop games which are social-issues oriented. The toolkit, ‘Let the Games Begin: A Toolkit 4 Making Social Issue Games’ proposes to enable game developers games on subjects such as energy consumption, poverty, health, and environment issues.
