The Twitter feeds are also streamed onto Al Jazeera’s English Web site. During the weekend, there were more than 4,600 followers, not including the many more who view those short messages, called “tweets,” online. As the New York Times reports, the network “currently streams its broadcasts in a variety of formats and has a dedicated channel on YouTube with more than 6,800 videos.” The Times continues:Īl Jazeera said that since the war started the number of people watching its broadcasts via the Livestation service has increased by over 500 percent, and the views of videos on its YouTube channel have increased by more than 150 percent.Īlso, Al Jazeera has created a Twitter feed on the “war on Gaza,” which provides frequent short messages that refer the public to new material that can be viewed online. It would be good if western television news outlets were as willing to allow that level of scrutiny of and access to their broadcast footage.”Īl Jazeera has been a clear pacesetter, relative to western media, in using new media. One commenter asked “why does the CC need to take sides by declaring on its web site that this content is ‘valuable’?” This prompted another person to reply, “Having this footage available this way means that those commenters who believe it is ‘inflammatory political propaganda disguised as “reporting” ’ can challenge what Al Jazeera is saying and showing. This provoked a dustup on the Creative Commons blog. It claims six reporters, and its footage and interviews surely add to the mix of what is known about the conflict. Whatever one thinks of Al Jazeera’s editorial perspective, the network is probably correct that it is the only international broadcaster with a presence in Gaza. This helps boost the circulation of the network’s video, expose more global viewers to the suffering in Gaza, and bolsters Al Jazeera’s brand recognition. This means that filmmakers, bloggers and even rival networks can re-use the footage for free, without advance permission, so long as they credit Al Jazeera.
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!/sites/default/files/imagecache/large/Picture6.png!Īl Jazeera is using the least restrictive Creative Commons license - one that requires only attribution of the source – for its news coverage. cable systems have declined to carry Al Jazeera, the network realizes that “freeing its content” is the best way to reach a wider audience.
Since copyrights can inhibit video distribution, and since most U.S. So why has Al Jazeera, the independent Arab news network, announced that its video footage of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza would be available for free, under a Creative Commons license?īecause Al Jazeera realizes that in the emerging world of decentralized media, it is important to get one’s viewpoints circulating as widely as possible. The video produced by commercial television networks is usually regarded as strictly proprietary – something to be tightly controlled in order to eke out maximum revenue from it.
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