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NPR API: Open-Sourcing Syndication?
In late July, NPR took an unprecedented leap into open-source development by releasing its application programming interface (API), which enables users to create applications featuring content from an archive of NPR programs dating back to 1995. This move makes it much easier for NPR content to migrate across platforms—featured widgets based on the API include players for iPhones, Facebook, and Google’s Desktop Sidebar. It also offers developers the chance to search and display targeted NPR stories on their own sites… more
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2008 Human Rights Film Series
Oct. 15 - Nov. 14, Wechsler Theater, 5:30 PM and WCL 6:00 pm
A Look At Human Rights In The U.S.
October 15 - November 13, 2008
Our 9th Annual Human Rights Film Series showcases films that show how film and video can make a difference for human rights. Discussions with expert speakers and award-winning filmmakers follow all screenings.
All screenings are FREE and open to the public.
Banished
Directed by Marco Williams (2007, 87 min.)
October 15, 2008, 6 pm, WCL
October 16, 2008, 5:30 pm, Wechsler Theatre
Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez
Directed by Kieran Fitzgerald (2007, 90 min.)
Co-sponsored by P.O.V..
October 22, 2008, 6 pm, WCL
October 23, 2008, 5:30 pm, Wechsler Theatre
At the Death House Door
Directed by Peter Gilbert & Steven James (2008, 98 min.)
October 29, 2008, 6 pm, WCL
October 30, 2008, 5:30 pm, Wechsler Theatre
Special Event: Three Years After Katrina - A week of events exploring the Gulf coast recovery
Film Screening: Cut Off
Directed by Broderick Webb and Edward Holub (30 min., 2008 )
WCL Nov. 12 @ 6 pm
Film Screening: When the Levees Broke
Directed by Spike Lee (2006, 64 min.) AU Nov. 13 @ 5:30 pm
National FEMA Trailer Tour
Learn first-hand about living conditions in the Gulf region, post-Katrina and the ongoing crisis in the region. How are leaders working to meet the needs of its poor and minority residents? Stay tuned for more info on the trailer’s visit to AU.
Additional events are in the planning stage. Please check the web for info on additional events taking place throughout the week.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.
This is a guide to current acceptable practices, drawing on the actual activities of creators, as discussed among other places in the study Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video and backed by the judgment of a national panel of experts. It also draws, by way of analogy, upon the professional judgment and experience of documentary filmmakers, whose own code of best practices has been recognized throughout the film and television businesses.