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Closed Caption, Open Source

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This paper explores how television fans appropriate video for personal expression and how technology can support such creative appropriation. Televisions do not have an equivalent to a Web browser's view source option; however, programmes can be structured by their transcripts, embedded as closed captions in the signal of most shows. With our talkTV video-editing software, rearranging lines of dialogue automatically creates new scenes, thereby enabling television viewers to become authors and editors. We present a case study of how television fans used talkTV and conclude with a discussion of the implications to digital rights management of this work and the potential for 'view source' television.

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  1. E Blankinship
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  2. B Smith
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  3. H Holtzman
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Blankinship, E., Smith, B., Holtzman, H. et al. Closed Caption, Open Source. BT Technology Journal 22, 151–159 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BTTJ.0000047594.85806.c9

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