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Creative Commons Moving Images Winners
ArcRiley writes "The winners have been announced for the contest that Creative Commons launched last fall to deliver their ``some rights reserved'' message with a short video. Congratulations to Justin Cone, Sheryl Seibert, and Kuba & Alek Tarkowski for their winning videos!"
Not to be confused with those other awards being handed out right now... By the way, I just love how the techies get their own little Oscar ceremony, complete with Jennifer Garner. It's almost as if they're teasing us nerds with women of such calibre.
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
Grampa: [gasp] The pictures! They're coming... alive!
Too bad it's impossible considering how television is financed and broadcast. It'd be such an irony to see these videos (they're pretty good) broadcast over HDTV, with the no-copy flag on.
Doing the Right Thing should not be preempted by making a buck.
It seems to me that this will only matter when one of two things happens.
1. Heavy promotion of creative commons-licensed material happens somehow.
2. There is a severe crackdown on copyrighted file-sharing to the point that few or none feel comfortable doing it.
I can't see 1 happening ever. 2, on the other hand, may be beginning. Personally, though, I think the better way to address this is just to allow copyrighted file-sharing.
Before I download the files (over a 56k dialup), does anyone know if the .mov files are actually playable with a Free Software player?
.mov files is hit and miss for me. sometimes no sound, or the picture appears in the top right corner of the viewer, or... Anyway: can someone confirm/deny that these are viewable? thanks.
I'd expect Lessig to mandate that this commons content be in a non-proprietary format - or at the very least, a proprietary format that has been widely reverse engineered. Playing
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Make a contest and have somebody ELSE come up with your campaign...
Reminds me of something....what was it...oh yeah - a t-shirt contest.
They work fine for me (Red Hat Fedora kernel with all critical updates installed, ATI video card, Altec-Lansing sound card, etc.).
Too bad you don't have broadband though 'cause they're fairly large.
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Wow, I hadn't heard of Creative Commons before. What do they get their authority from?
And congratulations to slashdot for giving the winners huge, unexpected bills for bandwidth!
A number of the clips use clips from (or at least available in the) Prelinger Archives.
All of these videos require you to attribute their work should you build on it. It would be nice if they would provide credit to their sources as well (although, as public domain, they are not required to).
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I'm a bit disappointed that two out of the three winners chose the "share-alike" attribute on their Creative Commons license.
One of the strongest selling points the CC system has is that they're not the GPL... they offer variants that don't have the "viral clause" that requires those who use CC pieces to require that the whole work be licensed the same way. Since the strongest selling point of the CC system is that there are really sixteen CC licenses that are formed by mixing and matching four binary attributes. It's possible to insert a CC work into something that's under full copyright, and that's something the GPL just can't do. Flexablity is the whole point of CC.
But maybe they took the flexability too far here. I'm a little surprised the contest organizers left the free selection of CC licenses open to the entrants. I would have suggested that all entries be under a CC license with Attribution and No Derivative Works... therefore allowing anybody who wants to spread the word of Creative Commons to republish the essentially PSA ad works without dictating what the publisher has to do with theirs.
Afterall, the winners got some pretty cool stuff. They've been well paid for their work...
worked for me. Unfortunately the 1st place entry crashed both Mplayer and Totem.
It looks like all of the clips have the wrong field order in their interlacing leading to jaggies around moving objects.
Anyway, I really liked the third place entry more than the second. It had a lot more information, if a bit fast paced. I found the second place entry confusing with loud lyrics and text on the screen simultaniously.
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Here's a (hopefully) fast mirror for your enjoyment:
One
Two
Three
(Should finish uploading in a sec, be patient)
Does anyone have 0-day screeners of these movies for download? Oh, wait...
Spend 10 minutes talking to an artist about OSS ideas and you have a OSS supporter. Art wants to be free. Software wants to be free. What a happy combination.
Now, we need to get those converted artists and get them making linux a little easier on the eyes! Although, you'd want to be careful about which artists helped out....
The egovos.org site is powered by Zope. Let's see how she stands up to a Slashdotting. Any bets?
-- Stu
/. ID under 2,000. I feel old now.
It would be nice if they were available with Ogg Theora, but it isn't ready it.
Congratulations, to the winners! Congratulations to Sheryl Seibert for her Mix Tape movie!
You can download the music for her video, for free, from Jim's Big E-Shop.
Hey, thanks it works great now. Ah, the wonderful quirks of OSS. Fortunately there's usually someone who's had the same problem and knows how to fix it.
Did I miss something?
Sorry you don't know what you're talking about. Lost in Translation did not win, Lord of the Rings won (obviously).
I don't think so. Return of the King made a clean sweep at the Oscars, taking eleven honors, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup, and Best Sound Mixing.
You mean annoying shortcomings?
Fuck, man, I just double click the file and it opens.
I watched both of the movies on their website and I thought they were really cool, and explained things very well. I finally "got it" on a lot of points, as far as the effects of a standard copyright, and the flexibility that a Creative Commons License offers.
:)
Best of all, now when I explain this stuff to someone else, their eyes won't have to glaze over as I try to extol the merits of free (as in freedom) -- instead I can just say "Here, watch these cool three-minute videos" and that does all the work.
(you know, the dude behind Lindows)
What better way to try to make yourself look important than by holding your little tiny inconsequential awards ceremony right before the Academy Awards.
I'll give you points for chutzpah though.
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Yes, the Mov came from moving. But, like talkies, the ie is just a familiar kinda thing. Like, Moving Picture needed to be abbreviated, and "moov" was already taken by move, so someone was like "movie", and everyone was like "dude".
Um yeah...
But don't blame Mr. Cone or Creative Commons, blame Xiph for not getting Ogg Theora finished yet.
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Share-Alike is less restrictive than- "dictate[s] what the publisher has to do" less than- No Derivatives does (since it grants the additional right to create cc-sa'd derivative works). ShareAlike is a simple copyleft, not a viral one; you can distribute cc-sa works with proprietary works.
The surprise, as others have pointed out, is that they were under non-commercial licenses. It would seem more natural to say "if people want to sell this video and spread the word, more power to them."
I didn't think it was possible to miss the point by that much. Please go to creativecommons.org and read. And don't just say you did.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
> if you don't believe in copyrights
People can choose to believe in easter bunnies, santa, and god, but copyrights exist - like it or not.
> you can just put it out there with no license at all
All works of an author give the author exclusive rights - if you recieve something without a license, you have no legal right to make a copy for your friend (etc.)
The CC people *do* believe in copyright - they just believe that it's been stretched out of proporation (either in term/years - or in scope/what you can or cannot do with a work).
You mean get the platform on which the clips were made? Why would anyone encode anything in .mov format if it were not coming from a Mac? So "real" means "the only one that easilly plays that weirdo format" because thats what the artist happened to use? I have nothing against Macs but this sort of attitude is laughable. What if some of the Linux based artists started encoding everything in ELF based executables? Should I then go around dispatching snide remarks about all those other people not being able to play them easy? The whole point is to use a format that majority can play with no special codecs or other crap. I have to question the Creative Commons' choice of media formats here for it only produces this sort of assholery from platform supermacists.
...that commercial outfits are starting to crop up that take advantage of the CC licence's flexibility.
I only hope we'll start seeing more places like this, and they'll rise in popularity.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
The winner easily deserved to win, the other 2 were way below the level of quality. I did not not like the third one at all and didn't quite understand the second one.
Have you metaroderated recently?
Seasons describe weather conditions, and differ around the world. Time is described using words like 'Monday' or 'January', and are constant (at least in secular english-speaking contexts). I shouldn't need to know what continent you're on...
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This one .torrent will download all three videos and a README explaining how to view them.
I see patents as a bigger threat. Copyrights are about ownership of something physical you created, and it doesn't harm anyone if you want to decide what can be done with YOUR work.
Patents takes it way too far, claiming ownership of an idea, which of course was derived from another idea.
I find hope in CC, at least it's a great step in the right direction for once (they've been around for a while). There's a reason for them to exist, and a few generations later we'll be even closer, as more people are made aware of them.
The way the law handles things now is wrong. But then again, that's a subjective thing, isn't it.
As for the videos... Yeah, they were good. But I thought the winning entry could do without the American flag, as this is a global issue. The other entries could benefit from de-interlacing.
Why so few comments on this? This is important.
The CreativeCommons GetContent page contains a huge list of media. But what I am looking for is content, which fits to a Linux PDA like the SHARP Zaurus series. Are there eBooks, AudioBooks and movies, especially designed for small computers? BTW: Though there are many sites, which offer free mobile cell phone logos and ringtones, are there any logos and ringtones available under the Creative Common Licenses or the GPL?
Ha, I laugh at your pitiful applications trying to update themselves.
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
Or if those 2 lines are too hard to remember you can always use Synaptic and click 2 buttons. Now, every application on my system is up to date, not just a few where the programmers put the effort into downloading updates.
Catchy song, but I must confess I didn't get the video at all at first. I had to watch it two or three times before I realized the common element in the various scenes was thepair of jeans). So I'm guessing the "message" of the video was something along the lines of "What if music/media was as easy to buy/sell/rip/mix/reuse as old denim"??
Anyway, I think the message would be much more clear if the video was done in black-and-white with the denim the only thing in color. Then it would be easier to follow it through its various lifecycle...worn by girl in the beginning, sold at garage sale, turned into outfit, thrown away, made into paper. (In Schindler's List, few people would have recognized the dead body was the same little girl if Spielburg hadn't used the red color)
If I had any sort of talent with video editing, the temptation would be to do this myself, and well I guess the CC license that it is under would allow me to, wouldn't it?
-JoeShmoe
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-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
Anyone else get the feeling that there weren't many people who entered? I love creative commons, but I do not think that these videos are very impressive.
-Colin
Hmm - are these going to be aired as ads or anything? If so, they should probably fix the fact that they meant "lets", not "let's" in the first one...