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tla · 3429 days ago · link · · parent · post: The AP just put one million minutes of historical footage on YouTube — here are 17 of the best clips

Thanks!

More media archives should be doing this. Wait, no, ALL of them should be doing this. MOAR!

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dublinben · 3429 days ago · link ·

I wish they'd actually release these properly. Lets get all of this content on Archive.org, under a public domain license, and with no AP watermark. Lacking this, I can only see this recent move as a crass marketing ploy to sell more licenses.

+discuss+discuss

Cedar · 3429 days ago · link ·

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