Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand. Still from ‘Quicksand,’ 1950, directed by Irving Pichel, starring Mickey Rooney, via The Internet Archive . This film is in the public domain. While many people know about Creative Commons and public domain images, fewer people know about the vast range of high quality Creative Commons videos, available to be shared, remixed and reused. Here are some of the best ways to find clips or movies that are either licensed under Creative Commons or in the public domain.
Youtube Of course, no video list would go far without including Youtube. Vimeo Vimeo has over two million openly licensed videos. Spin Xpress Spin Xpress pulls Creative Commons licensed media from a variety of different websites, including Blip.tv, with simple search filters. The Internet Archive If you’re looking for videos in the public domain, The Internet Archive is the place to go. Films About Creative Commons Creative Commons Wiki. Movie Institute Feels Pain Of IP Address-Only Piracy ‘Evidence’ The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) is in the middle of a crisis after an anti-piracy company revealed that it had tracked several leaked movies on The Pirate Bay back to its servers.
Desperate to deflect the accusations, today the SFI made a long statement. It turned out to be a perfect illustration that allegations of piracy based on an IP address and nothing else, simply must be backed up by something more solid. Early September it came to light that the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) was being sucked into a scandal. While monitoring movies leaked to The Pirate Bay, anti-piracy company DoubleTrace said it had discovered that IP addresses in the BitTorrent swarms belonged to none other than the SFI. The drama only escalated when Sweden’s Ministry of Culture and angry movie-industry figures became involved. Nobody asked for a refrigerator fee. I live in Stockholm, Sweden.
A hundred years ago, one of the largest employers in the city was a company named Stockholm Ice. Their business was as straightforward as it was necessary: help keep perishable food edible for longer by distributing cold in a portable format. They would cut up large blocks of ice from the frozen lakes in the winter, store them on sawdust in huge barns, cut the blocks into smaller chunks and sell it in the streets. People would buy the ice and keep it with food in special cupboards, so the food would be in cold storage.
(This is why some senior citizens still refer to refrigerators as “ice boxes“.) When households in Stockholm were electrified in the first half of the last century, these distributors of cold were made obsolete. This was a fairly rapid process in the cities. STIR. This is the film of their harrowing ordeal. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Fall 2011. Open Culture. CC-licensed music video seeks music, after being orphaned by the band. Brandon sez, "Earlier this year a friend and I produced a self-financed music video for a song we loved, with permission from the band.
After several months work, we posted the video online, where it drew viewers for a week before we unexpectedly received a takedown notice from the band, who were reconsidering the rights usage for that song. Not wanting all of our work to vanish, we decided to turn this setback into a creative opportunity, and created They Call Us /Animals/. We've made the edited visuals of the film, without music, available for download, under Creative Commons license, for musicians, sound designers, and remixers to re-cut, use and share, in the hopes that these collaborations could produce even better works than our original video.
24Symbols on the Cloud-Based Subscription Model for Books. Youtube, Creative Commons And Why It's OK For You To License Your Artwork Any Way You Want. Youtube (finally) introduced a Creative Commons licensing option for uploaders on June 2nd, allowing users to make their original works freely available to others to remix and build upon without worrying about infringement charges down the road.
At this point it's only implemented a CC-BY option, but it expects to introduce others further down the road. The key to this license is that it allows others to use these licensed videos commercially, which has proven to be a sticking point for certain parties with a vested interest in keeping uploaded contributions licensed solely to the creator. Two dissenting opinions appeared nearly immediately. Thoughts on Intellectual Property. - davidmacgregor's posterous.
Orgs encouraging use of CC. Everything is a Remix Part 1. Katipo Communications Ltd. Kete is Open Source Digital Library and Archiving software developed by Katipo Communications and the Horowhenua Library Trust.
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