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Via Wendy, I see that C-SPAN has introduced a liberalized copyright policy for “current, future, and past coverage of any official events sponsored by Congress and any federal agency.” There’s apparently no legalese available, but C-SPAN says they’ll “allow non-commercial copying, sharing, and posting of C-SPAN video on the Internet, with attribution.”

This is great. C-SPAN appears to be licensing all of this content, dissemination of which is so important to democracy, under the equivalent of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. I look forward to seeing, for example, whether they allow the creation of noncommercial derivative works.