Open Source Video

Category: Copyrights and licenses

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 […]

Bitnik + 68septante: copyleft film

Uploaded to Archive.org is a full length one hour unedited recording of the Pirate.tv session which took place in bookshop Quarantaine in Brussels on November 20, 2008 in the framework of the Collaborative Online Video workshop. Recorded by Bitnik Mediengruppe, the evening consisted of a Videotheque Nomade program compiled by 68septante. On television sets spread […]

Collaborative filming, Collaborative Online Video workshop, Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, Workshop Open Video Libre

Collaborative Online Video

Coming soon ! We’re happy to announce the upcoming Open Source Video Libre workshop + presentations around collective video distribution. The workshop consists of a series of hands on exercises in sharing (P2P) video, distributed editing and Content Management Systems for video sharing and archiving, and a series of evening presentations focusing on inventive practices […]

Collaborative filming, Copyrights and licenses, Hardware, News, Workshop Open Video Libre

Video tag in Firefox, an update

Spotted by Pierre Huyghebaert on Kein.org It was my last day at ISEA 2008 in Singapore and we were supposed to have a dinner with noborder/no one is illegal activists and the panelists of the bordercrossing theme, when jaromil came down the street smiling all over the face: “I have great news” he screamed. “Firefox […]

Copyrights and licenses, News, Patents

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 […]

Copyrights and licenses, News

The pearls you cast before swine make you seem alive

Committed to sharing her music via the net, Kristin Hersh is throwing her muses at us in unconventional ways. In this small manifesto she writes: I think I need to engage in a grassroots kind of capitalism, choosing principles over profits, values over image, ideals over marketing. I have to create a permeable membrane between […]

Copyrights and licenses, Media archives

Then you win

thenyouwin.yooook.org A sympathetic documentary project in the making: Then you win is an open content project by France based organisations Loin de l’Œil and Yooook. Check the FAQ for more concrete info. Ekta Parishad is a mass movement based on Gandhian principle – organized in October 2007 the “Janadesh”, the largest non-violent gathering in India […]

Collaborative filming, Copyrights and licenses

0xdb

The 0xdb is a film database which collects metadata, provides citations, analyzes and contextualizes different types of media, and makes both the information it gathers and the tools it employs available for personal, non-commercial use. It uses a variety of publicly accessible resources, like search engines and file-sharing networks, to automatically collect information about, and […]

Annotation tools, Copyrights and licenses, Media archives

Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5

In a previous post, we were enthusiastic about the new developments of html5 that would include the video tag and its implementation in the royalty-free format ogg/vorbis. But: “As some of you may be aware, the WHATWG has dropped the recommendation for Theora and Vorbis in the video/audio section of the HTML 5 specification. Many […]

News, Patents

video object in html

Today, you need to use plugins and proprietary formats to view videos in browsers. There is great demand for a better solution to serve video content to users. A native video format in browsers without all the licensing and patent issues that plague other format could be beneficial to all parties (perhaps except those who […]

FLOSS editing, archiving, sharing