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NEW YORK (AP) - A new Web site backed by some of the Internet's leading thinkers promises to make it easier — and cheaper — for artists, scholars and other creative people to share their digital works. Ourmedia.org seeks to become a central repository for such items.
"They are (now) all kind of scattered, a lot on people's computers (or) hidden away on the Web in faraway crevices," said J.D. Lasica, a veteran journalist who co-founded the project. "We thought it was important to gather a lot of this stuff under one roof."
The site also addresses a chief obstacle to posting video and other large files to the Internet: The more popular an item gets, the more its owner has to pay for Web hosting services.
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