Good on Pelosi and Brian Lamb.

[Skidmore]

As disgusted as I get with Brian Lamb, he does endeavor to be fair in spite of his biases.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/03/12/c-span-liberalizes-copyright-claims/

C-Span Liberalizes Copyright Claims
By: Nicole Belle on Monday, March 12th, 2007 at 2:30 PM - PDT
Credit where credit is due. I respect C-Span's desire to keep control of their copyright, but anything that allows us more access and transparency in government can only be a good thing.

OpenCongress:

C-SPAN announced yesterday, in this press release, that they are adopting a new copyright policy:

C-SPAN is introducing a liberalized copyright policy for current, future, and past coverage of any official events sponsored by Congress and any federal agency– about half of all programming offered on the C-SPAN television networks–which will allow non-commercial copying, sharing, and posting of C-SPAN video on the Internet, with attribution.

This comes after a controversy involving the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), posting a minute of video from a House committee hearing shot by C-SPAN...