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In March, Carl Malamud finished organizing release on the Internet of videos of Congressional subcommittee hearings. Back in November 2006 Malamud was lobbying the Smithsonian Institution to rescind its exclusive contract with Showtime. Now he’s teamed up with others to multiplex such projects and get more done:

When you buy content, we get the material from the U.S. government and then upload the data to places like the Internet Archive, Google Video, and other fine content sources. Because this data is public domain, anybody can use the material without restriction!

— How Do We Do It? public.resource.org, accessed 9 June 2007

Already he says:

Per Lessig’s agreement with CNN, we’ve uploaded both Presidential Debates to the Internet Archive: