Author: OSVideo

Open Mail to the Lumiera Community

(Fwd. from the Piksel mailinglist, thanks Hadrian) Dear Lumiera Community ———————- Lumiera is a huge project, we will depend on every possible contribution. Sitting and waiting for other people to finish it would bring us nowhere, and if people want to use it they will need to consider to contributing; every little step counts. We […]

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CC Al Jazeera

Launch Press Release: Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage under Creative Commons License Doha Qatar – January 13, 2009: Al Jazeera Network today announced the world’s first repository of broadcast quality video footage released under the ‘Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution’ license. Select Al Jazeera video footage – at this time footage of the War […]

Collaborative filming, Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, Media archives, News

Sita hates copyright jail

From Questioncopyright.org: “Animator Nina Paley has announced on her blog her plans to make her award-winning, feature-length film “Sita Sings The Blues” available online for free decentralized distribution, as soon as she gets it out of copyright jail. As Nina Paley told us in her interview here last November, in order to release Sita, the […]

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Kaltura 1.0

Hi, I’m excited to update you that today we have officially launched our open source video module for Drupal, a leading open source Content Management Platform used by more than a million sites. Kaltura’s All in One Video Module enables Drupal site-builders to easily add video and rich-media functionalities to their Drupal sites. The module […]

Annotation tools, Editing software, News

Strobo scare

Via the Makezine blog: What a network camera combined with motion can do to keep your cat away from your plants: check out the Blender Defenderproject ” Have a cat that won’t stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out […]

Hardware, News

OpenCut contest

OpenCut claims to be a ‘completely open-source’ film competition designed to encourage people to take professionally shot material and edit it in their own way. It is organised by the Red company, producers of camera systems, and in that light we should understand that the true goal of the contest is to advertise their products. […]

Collaborative filming, News

Big Buck Bunny

Big Buck Bunny is a new film produced by the Blender foundation, makers of The Elephants Dream. Big Buck Bunny is a funny little showcase of what Blender is capable of: rolling 3D eyeballs, an über realistic 3D spacious layout, high definition detailed imaging, flying camera pans … an enjoyable film although a bit manieristic […]

Films and Projects, News

Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom

( From blog.wired.com ) Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. Viacom wants the data to prove that infringing material […]

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Stray Cinema

Stray Cinema is an open content filmproject. The idea behind it is that people from all over the world can download and re-edit raw footage, they make different films using the same footage. The films are then uploaded and voted on by the community. Stray Cinema organises ‘real world’ screenings of the top five films. […]

Collaborative filming, News

Open Source City festival

A good way to start the summer: From 20th to 22nd June 2008 folly and SoundNetwork are bringing Open Source City; a micro-festival of art and music to Liverpool, as part of the European Capital of Culture. Read more about the festival.

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