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• good copywrite resources here and 2008 FairUseGuide.and 2005 Documentary Film Guidelines

• Digital StoryTelling site

• Creative Commons: A Web site for music, samples, text, audio, etc, by independent artists or musicians. Also a solution to copyright ownership and issues. These artists want you to use their material, under simple license agreements.

    Royalty Free Music By Feel here
    Comprehensive List of Free Music here
Your Access station also as CD of Freeware Music.

Powerpoint as a TV Tool. Some books that can influence creation of slides: Garr Reynolds' Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, Presentation Zen Design, and slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations, by Nancy Duarte. Or this website done by Garr Reynolds.

• The Citizen Media Law Project's recently launched Legal Guide addresses the legal issues media creators may encounter while gathering information and publishing their work. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the guide is intended for those with or without formal legal training and allows users to search by keyword or browse by state or section:intellectual property, access to government information, dealing with online legal risks, and news gathering and privacy The guide, currently covers the fifteen most populous states and District of Columbia.


• Producer's Guide: Web site with some information on producing in the "industry." (Selling your programs, working under a commercial contract).

Regulations related to video-taping public meetings as a citizen producer here

• "How-to" guide with step-by-step instructions to create and distribute video coverage of local candidates and ballot measure campaigns easily. Prepared by Governmental Studies (CGS), a non-profit, non-partisan organization. Resources include: The complete Video Voter Guide with Production Tips and Video 2004 examples Also inluded is Downloadable letters and release forms and Legal issues reference.

• Eigen's Political & Historical Quotations is the world's largest collection of memorable quotes about and by historians, politicians and other public figures. The collection is designed for the use of students, journalists, teachers, historians, political scientists and the many other people who are interested in politics and political history.