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Mia Garlick gives a basic explanation of what Creative Commons is all about and how it relates to re-mixing and videoblogging. This is an MP3 recording of a 23 minute presentation that was delivered at the Ex'pression College of Digital Arts during the Outhink sponsored XpressionVlog event on Friday, November 18th, 2005.
We're putting on a videoblogging presentation and event at the Ex'pression College of Digital Art on Friday. Here's the first post to the new vlog.
I just found this banner in the sidebar of a site that Raymond had mentioned in a recent post to the Yahoo Videoblogging Group. Interesting site.
Today, the rights of individuals are being eroded: by government, by
corporations, by society itself. This icon — the Individual-i —
represents the rights of the individual...
I like this alternate image too: 
"What is The Law? The Law says:"
Artists' Rights and Theft Prevention Act of 2005 or ART Act - (Sec.
102) Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the unauthorized,
knowing use or attempted use of a video camera or similar device...
...
Sets forth penalties for such violations, which may include
imprisonment for not more than three years for a first offense.
Considers the possession of a recording device in a movie theater as
evidence in any proceeding to determine whether that person committed
such an offense, but shall not, by itself, be sufficient to support a
conviction for such offense.
...Authorizes, with reasonable cause, the owner, lessee, authorized agent,
or employee of a movie theater to detain, in a reasonable manner and
for a reasonable time, any person suspected of committing such an
offense for the purpose of questioning that person or summoning a law
enforcement officer...
(Sec. 103) Establishes criminal penalties for willful copyright
infringement by the distribution of a computer program, musical work,
motion picture or other audiovisual work, or sound recording being
prepared for commercial distribution by making it available on a
computer network accessible to members of the public, if the person
knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial
distribution.
Link: Bill Summary & Status.
So now theatre ushers are cops? That should be good training for when they grow up and become Homeland Security agents. What's next? Camera registration?
I moved from Outlook Express to Thunderbird recently. So far, so good. While not quite as feature rich in some areas, it excels in others (no pun intended). I really like that it runs on both the Mac and the PC and, even better, that it includes an integrated RSS aggregator. So I hooked in my news feeds (less than a 100, but look out Scoble) and now I have more "messages" to keep up with than than ever, but this is definitely an improvement over using bookmarks and the older style newsreaders.
Some of the feeds are from the Internet Archive and keep me informed of the latest submissions to the IA. Based on a relatively small sample so far, it seems that most of the contributions are from young people experimenting with music and videos. But there are lots of other interesting movies, images, texts and audio there too. There are a lot of live performances. I love this place.
I was curious to see how licensing was working out, knowing that the IA supports a Creative Commons interface. So I just tallied some rough stats from a small feed update. There were 73 items and, licensing wise, they broke down as follows:
36 Nothing (copyright or 
?)
15 
9 
8
3
1
1
Key:
- work is in the public domain
- must give attribution
- can't use commercially
- can't make derivatives
- must sharealike (use same license)
- sampling license
- sampling+ license
Aside: Makes me want an application to query the feeds and look up the licenses from the IA page (seems like an easy URL pattern to pick off). Does anyone know the easiest way to do this using Java or something simpler? (I confess that I am an old fogey who has yet to learn the in's and out's of Python, Zope or whatever the latest hot new language I should learn when there's time - ha!).
As I said, this is just a small sample and hardly random. However, it makes me think that people are a little reluctant to allow others to modify their work. No surprise. It would be interesting to look at these numbers broken down by media type, genre, etc.
Hmmm. Suppose my mother took a photo of me as a child and my sister takes the only copy and sends it to me. If I scan it and put it here, can my mother sue me for copyright infringement? Can she have my sister arrested for theft? Could I be considered in possession of stolen property?
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