Radical Software: historic '70s zine about video, media theory

A number of early issues of the historic print zine Radical Software are available online. Looks like they've been on the web for a few years, but it's new to me. Snip from background:

[The publication] was started by Beryl Korot, Phyllis Gershuny, and Ira Schneider and first appeared in Spring of 1970, soon after low-cost portable video equipment became available to artists and other potential videomakers. Though scholarly works on video art history often refer to Radical Software, there are few places where scholars can review its contents. Individual copies are rare, and few complete collections exist.

Link. (Thanks, kerim)

[#1 posted by Yamara , December 23, 2007 6:28 PM]

Oh, hey. 1970s copyleft in Issue 1:

"To encourage dissemination of the information in Radical Software we have created our own symbol of an x within a circle (x). This is a Xerox mark, the antithesis of copyright, which means DO copy. (The only copyrighted contents in this issue are excerpted from published or soon-to-be published books and articles which are already copyrighted.)"

http://www.radicalsoftware.org/volume1nr1/pdf/VOLUME1NR1_0002.pdf

I leave the discussion open as to how Xerox and the MPAA would feel about the symbol itself.

[#2 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator , December 23, 2007 8:54 PM]

Interesting, Yamara. That's at least ten years earlier than the oldest "please do copy" publication I'd previously seen.