<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Dan Christensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdc@uwo.ca">jdc@uwo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">David Brodbeck <<a href="mailto:gull@gull.us">gull@gull.us</a>> writes:<br>
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> I don't know if this helps or not, but the Prelinger Archives<br>
> (<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger" target="_blank">http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger</a>) have a lot of telecine content<br>
> that's fallen into the public domain. The quality of the source prints is<br>
> often pretty lousy, but the MPEG2 files are at roughtly SDTV resolution<br>
> and encoded at reasonable bitrates.<br>
<br>
</div>Thanks, that could be useful. But wouldn't fair use allow one to<br>
include 5 to 10 second clips of copyrighted material? Also, while<br>
I think it's good to include SD content, HD content is probably<br>
more important.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>Public domain means you don't have to consider use, fair or otherwise. <br></div></div><br>