I went to a screening of the documentary ‘Rip: A Remix Manifesto‘ last night which included a public panel discussion afterwards.
From the cinema website:
Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and [...]
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
From the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies and the book review section where authors reply to reviews.
Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Author: Tarleton Gillespie
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007
From a recent Leonardo Books review, October 2008.
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
by Christopher M. Kelty
Duke University Press, Durham and London, [...]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
oil21.org
The “War Against Piracy” – a preventive, permanent and increasingly panic-driven battle that defies the traditional logic of warfare – is only one of the many strange and contradictory crusades that currently take place at the new frontier of Intellectual Property. Under the banner of the “Information Society”, a cartel of corporate knowledge distributors struggle [...]
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
0xdb About
The 0xdb is a rather unique kind of movie database. It uses a variety of publicly accessible resources, like search engines and file-sharing networks, to automatically collect information about, and actual images and sounds from, a rapidly growing number of movies. What the 0xdb provides is, essentially, full text search within movies, and instant [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
What type of associations does my research have with the principles of ‘community media’?
With my project, which examines in a broad context online video practice, I did not intend to make a direct link with the notion of community media. Unlike, Leo and Bruce I do not make a reference to ‘community media’ in my [...]
Monday, September 10, 2007
I meet Elliot the Australia creative commons project office at still/open and he put me onto some new features for applying CC licenses. He advised that it is a good idea as an Australian resident to utilise the Australian licences. These licenses have been adapted to suit people living here and provide more support legally. [...]
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Lawrence Lessig provides in the presentation ‘Free Culture: What we need from you’ an excellent insight into his concept of “free culture.” He argues that audio and video offer in the digital realm and within the Internet environment a new platform of “speech”: (21.00-22.00)
This is read-write culture. This is digital creativity. It’s the creativity these [...]
Following up from my earlier rights online forum post, I found Andrew Garton’s introduction presentation. Which as he describes is influenced by the APC Internet Rights Charter , the Association for Progressive Communications: Internet and ICTs for Social Justice in Development. Andrew also provides on his blog an interesting report on the iCommons Summit 2006 [...]
I have to confess I missed the video slam here in Melbourne. Anyway, Keith who I am working on a video database project with went along and slammed some video. More specific notes on the video slam blog. They had five groups of five people working on five 2-minute video sections. The AV content for [...]
view share mix
ViewShareRemix is a project to support open movies, by creating standard identifying marks and supporting visuals.
Our initial aim is to create a pro-sharing equivalent for filmmakers to the anti-piracy notices and videos seen on traditional video content. We see it as a complement to the Creative Commons-licenses
