C-SPAN

Headline on Drudge right now: Obama tells Americans we're out of money.

Gee, thanks for the trillion dollar porkulus bill.

In the words of Mastercard: Priceless.

When copyright protection goes too far, you get stuff like this.

Last night, I created and posted the video below to YouTube.  Immediately after processing, I received a notification from YouTube that ITN News, a British media company, has claimed all rights to footage of the Republican National Convention, and my video would be disabled unless I chose to pursue a denial of their claim.

No, there are two things to note.  First, the video was not obtained from ITN, but rather from C-Span.  Second, the video was used in accordance with C-Cpan's copyright policy here: http://rnc08.cspan.org/About/Copyright.aspx

So YouTube has effectively become the watchdog for ITN who is misusing the copyright process to a) prevent anyone from posting convention video and b) prevent anyone using video from another source for posting convention video.

Congratulations to Patrick, who gave a stellar performance on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning at 7:30 EST, which is 4:30 PST, which is really, really early.  Also, happy Father's Day to Patrick and Jon and all you great dads out there.

I know that some of you either didn't hear about the show in time to get up at that ungodly hour and watch or TiVo it, so I will present, for your viewing pleasure, some highlights.