Sunday, January 21, 2007

Screw Google - HassleHead News #2



Google, the company that pledges to "do no evil," is digitizing public domain films and videos from NARA, the National Archives and Records Administration. These materials are public domain content but Google is digitizing them into a proprietary format. This animated video news program demonstrates how you can access these materials which comprise an important part of our collective cultural heritage.

(c) 2006, Sliver Head Productions, available under Creative Commons License, attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives.

Voiced by: Rod McLucas, Emily Bell, Robert O'Connor, David O'Connor
Music: "Clover" by Neo-Wrold, available under Creative Commons License at: music.podshow.com
Screenshots: video.google.com, videodl.org, and media-convert.com are presented for reporting and commentary and constitute fair use.
SoundFX: "Explosion" by Erdie available on http://freesound.iua.upf.edu under creative commons sample plus 1.0 license
Drawings: Emily & David
Writing & everything else: David & Bob

Transcript available at: HHN Scripts, "Screw Google"!