US Department of Defense’s public domain archive to be privatized, locked up for ten years

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US Department of Defense’s public domain archive to be privatized, locked up for ten years

Archivist Rick Prelinger sez, “The U.S. Department of Defense has entered into a contract with T3 Media to get its gigantic still and moving image collection digitized at no cost to the gover…

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/12/21/us-department-of-defenses-pu.html

In exchange for covering a share of digitizing and hosting costs (the government will pick up an unspecified share of costs as well), T3 Media will provide access to the government and receive a 10-year exclusive license to charge for public access to these public domain materials.

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