FOIA Request Unveils Secret CIA-Produced Documentary About CIA Agents Captured & Held In China For Decades
from the what's-the-copyright-status? dept
This is fascinating. Apparently, a US plane with CIA agents on board flew into China in 1952, trying to recover a spy in that country. However, the plane went down, and the Chinese captured the two CIA agents who survived the crash… and then kept them until 1971 and 1973. That, in itself, is an interesting story. But making it even more interesting is that the CIA had a professional documentary made about the story (including reenactments), intended for internal audiences within the CIA. Yet, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Associated Press, the CIA is now planning to release the entire (short) movie on YouTube. Of course, as a work created by the government, it should be in the public domain, though I’m curious to see if that’s officially acknowledged anywhere.
Filed Under: cia, documentary, freedom of information
Comments on “FOIA Request Unveils Secret CIA-Produced Documentary About CIA Agents Captured & Held In China For Decades”
No, the AP will try to (wrongfully) hold the ‘rights’ to it, since they made the request.
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They have a copy of the video already, that they may release, but the CIA is putting it directly on their YouTube channel soon, so I don’t think AP will try to claim anything.
Public domain
So we can remix it and make our own versions as we see fit?
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Derivative works?
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(perhaps we can mix it with other videos made by the government. Make a sort of remix)?
It's online now
Interesting so far, I wonder if it can hold my attention for a full hour.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ciagov?ob=5#p/u/0/Z0Mh7EiXRJI
So Disney will try to copyright the terms ‘CIA, China, youtube…’
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Since when did Disney try to copyright ?terms??
Re: Re: So Disney will try to copyright the terms 'CIA, China, youtube...'
I think the other poster is referring to when they applied for a trademark for “Seal Team Six”
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/sarc, me thinks
“The Puzzle Palace” was written by James Bamford with documents that became declassified by internal criteria. It’s a very interesting look into the world of TS/SCI. This book was singlehandedly responsible for a whole new classification scheme that almost ensures that any document, once classified, will never become declassified in the future.
should be in the public domain
> Of course, as a work created by the government,
> it should be in the public domain
Mike, you must be behind the times. Haven’t you heard?
There’s no value in the public domain.
🙂
Re: should be in the public domain
.public=.thief