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Commoner Letter #4 – Richard Bookman + Jesse Dylan's newly released "Science Commons" video
by melissa Copyright postThe fourth Commoner Letter comes from Richard Bookman, the Vice Provost for Research and Executive Dean for Research and Research Training at the University of Miami. In the letter of support below, Prof. Bookman champions open science and the innovation made possible through the sharing of scientific research. Because this edition of the Commoner Letter…
Guide to Creative Commons Media for Videographers
by cameron Open Culture postEugenia Loli-Queru recently published a Guide to Creative Commons Media for Videographers, providing a great overview of what videographers should look for in CC-licensed media. Lol-Queru gives background on our license conditions (explaining what each one means for videographers in particular), discusses sources for CC-licensed music, and touches on some general practices and marking standards…
ESO CC-Licensed Photo and Video
by cameron Open Culture postThe Carina nebula by ESO | CC BY The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO) is a group that “builds and operates a suite of the world’s most advanced ground-based astronomical telescopes.” With those telescopes they produce some absolutely amazing photographs and videos, all of which are released under a CC…
Kaltura: Open-Source Video Platform
by cameron Open Culture postKaltura, an “open-source platform for video creation, management, interaction, and collaboration”, boasts a robust platform uncommon among web-apps that includes the ability to annotate, remix, edit, and share video collaboratively over the web. Of particular interest to the CC-community is Kaltura’s decision to require that all user-submitted media be licensed under a CC BY-SA license,…
UNU Media Studio Launches Our World 2.0 VideoBriefs
by Jane Park Uncategorized postSome of you might remember Cameron’s post back in June regarding the United Nations University (UNU) Media Studio‘s decision to license their Media Studio and Online Learning sites under CC BY-NC-SA. Well one month later they launched “Our World 2.0“, the English version, also licensed under the same (with the Japanese version taking off just…
Jesse Dylan's “A Shared Culture” Video Released to Celebrate Creative Commons 2008 Fundraising Campaign
by Eric Steuer About CC postCreative Commons, a nonprofit organization focused on building a body of openly shareable and reusable creative work, today announced the launch of its 2008 fundraising campaign. Information about how to support Creative Commons is available at http://support.creativecommons.org/. To celebrate the campaign, Creative Commons today released “A Shared Culture,” a short video by renowned filmmaker Jesse…
Jesse Dylan's “A Shared Culture†Video Released to Celebrate Creative Commons 2008 Fundraising Campaign
by Eric Steuer About CC postCreative Commons, a nonprofit organization focused on building a body of openly shareable and reusable creative work, today announced the launch of its 2008 fundraising campaign. Information about how to support Creative Commons is available at http://support.creativecommons.org/. To celebrate the campaign, Creative Commons today released “A Shared Culture,†a short video by renowned filmmaker Jesse…
Cool open video news from Wikimedia
by mike Open Culture postThe most frequently used audio and video formats on the web are not open (they’re software patent encumbered), which has hindered the development of free and open source media tools. Open audio and video formats face a tough chicken and egg problem: not interesting to publishers if not supported in software, and not interesting to…
Ghostss: Nine Inch Nails CC-Licensed Video Remix App
by cameron Open Culture postMarco Hinic, ‘visualist engineer’ and founder of VJ application ArKaos, recentlly decided to experiment with the Nine Inch Nails Ghosts Film Festival, eventually creating Ghostss, a C++ powered online generative art project that creates infinite visual remixes by pooling over 1GB worth of video and select tracks from Ghosts: I-IV. The result might be one…
Radiohead's "House of Cards" video data published under Creative Commons license
by Eric Steuer Uncategorized postToday, Radiohead released a video for its song “House of Cards.” Directed by James Frost, it’s a beautiful, eerie clip, made with – wait for it – lasers (!), instead of cameras or lights. [T]wo technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to…