UC Berkeley nuked 20,000 Creative Commons lectures, but they're not going away / Boing Boing

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-03-18

Summary:

"A ruling about a DC university held that posting course videos to the open web without subtitling them violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (while keeping them private to students did not) (I know: weird), and this prompted UC Berkeley to announce the impending removal of 20,000 open courseware videos from Youtube.

Many archivists announced that they would capture and repost this archive (I understand the Internet Archive is on it), but the first group I know of who've announced a mirror of the UC Berkeley videos is Lbry, a pre-launch startup that says it will eventually host peoples' materials 'with no censorship and no advertising.' Lbry is making these videos available right now, but only through their command-line API.

The fate of the videos is sad, but it feels like it's also a quirk of history, as the judgment arrived just as it seems likely that videos like these could be subtitled and even translated by software using machine learning (there's already some of this at the margins, like the auto-indexing of Ted Talks).

This could and should be done regardless of whether the videos are licensed under Creative Commons. US copyright law -- and most other copyright systems, and the UN's Marrakech Treaty -- allows for the conversion of copyrighted works to formats accessible to blind people without permission."

Link:

https://boingboing.net/2017/03/17/fahrenheit-451.html

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Date tagged:

03/18/2017, 21:18

Date published:

03/18/2017, 17:18