If you'd like an easier and far less expensive way to show off your digital work, Ourmedia.org would like you to consider it for a central repository for those works.
Backed by some of cyberspaces top thinkers, Ourmedia.org plans to offer free hosting services and retain movies, photographs, cartoons, software, and any other digital work forever, except for porn and any item under someone else's copyright, with over a dozen volunteers around the world monitoring it, according to co-founder J.D. Lasica.
"They are all kind of scattered, a lot on people's computers (or) hidden away on the Web in faraway crevices," he said of the project. "We thought it was important to gather a lot of this stuff under one roof."
Owners must specific for each file what a viewer or user can or cannot do with the work, with choices from about a half dozen different licensing packages, Ourmedia.org said, and owners can claim full copyright protection, though Ourmedia.org added it encourages sharing.
Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, author and Internet journalist Dan Gillmor, and Lasica serve on Ourmedia.org's advisory board, while Internet Archive and Bryght, the latter a Canadian open-source publisher, have donated storage and bandwidth services to the project.
