cspan While it is true that C-Span is not a “book”, it is a living repository of history. Over 160,000 hours of video footage of our government at work, spanning 23 years of network history.

And C-Span has now made all of that footage available for free, at C-SpanVideo.org.

This is every bit as valuable a resource as the Internet Archive—and searchable, too. Including on e-book related matters.

For instance, searching on “Digital Rights Management” brought up a number of results, including this clip of Soft Skull Books founder and Cursor developer Richard Nash (who we covered here) from a February 17, 2010 panel discussion on the future of publishing. (It even starts the video playback right before the mention of DRM.)

Searching on DMCA brings up 24 results. In fact, you can watch footage of any e-book-related discussion in Congress simply by searching on it. Or the discussion of any topic that interests you, for that matter.

This is a great tool for anyone interested in learning more about the way the US government works.

NO COMMENTS

The TeleRead community values your civil and thoughtful comments. We use a cache, so expect a delay. Problems? E-mail newteleread@gmail.com.