This is a good portion of an interview with Rick and Megan Prelinger from December 18th, 2004 following our mutual participation in a rally to re-hire Anita Monga as Programmer at the Castro Theatre ... we came into the ECR studios and discussed many aspects related to archival material, journalism, the gift economy, an "appropriations friendly" library that they are running in San Francisco, the website with lots of great free downloadable material - ARCHIVE.ORG, and how the project that is re-defining copyright/copyleft issues known as CREATIVE COMMONS is coming along ... Jef

Some Related Links:

http://www.prelinger.com
- Rick Prelinger, the archives and the film,
"Panaroma Ephemera"

http://www.prelinger.net
- Megan Prelinger and the appropriations friednly library - at. prelingerlibrary.net ... or at,
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~alysons/library.html

http://www.archive.org
- be sure and check out the
free MOVING IMAGES archive there

http://creativecommons.org/
- check the downloadable contracts and licensing aggreements ... participate in the ongoing discussion and refinement of copyright/copyleft issues ...