Archive for December, 2008
Dakota Media Access – Building Community through Media
Posted by: | CommentsThe organization formerly known as Community Access Television has changed its name to Dakota Media Access (DMA) to better reflect the changing media landscape and the services provided to the community. DMA also announces the official launch of Government Access, cable channel 2 which, as of January 2009, will be the primary viewing location for coverage of local government meetings, candidate and election information and programs originating from government sources. Coverage of LIVE Mandan City Commission Meetings is scheduled to begin January 6th.
www.dakotamediaaccess.org has been launched to distribute current information on DMA productions, volunteer crew calls, articles that focus on community media industry news, featured videos, links to agendas for upcoming local government meetings and other happenings at the DMA center. An RSS feed is available and the public is encouraged to subscribe to site updates via email or any RSS reader.
DMA serves the cities of Bismarck and Mandan by managing the production facilities, equipment, programming and distribution systems for the area’s public, educational and governmental (PEG) media needs. Originally incorporated in 1987, Dakota Media Access (DMA) is a North Dakota non-profit, 501(C)(3) corporation with a volunteer board of directors drawn from the community.
For more information contact:
Jack McDonald, DMA Board of Directors President, 751-1776
Mary Van Sickle, DMA Executive Director van@freetv.org or 258-8767
Change.gov Swaps Traditional Copyright for Creative Commons
Posted by: | CommentsIn what appears to be a major shift away from traditional copyright policy, the www.change.gov team Obama site has embraced the Creative Commons license this past weekend.
From their web site, www.creativecommons.org “uses private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare “some rights reserved.” Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.”
This shift could allow for some innovative uses of the content from Change.gov. Stay tuned.
Mary Van Sickle, Executive Director
Dakota Media Access (formerly Community Access Television)
