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Mark Pesce: Open Source Television
alexburnsdisinfo writes "Mark Pesce has given a riveting talk to Australia's Smart Internet CRC on Open Source Television. Rights for reuse granted under the Creative Commons Attribution License." (The talk is here transcribed as text, and it's good reading.)
no no no, and finally, NO. I think you are just wrong, Open Source tv programming would be GREAT, maybe it has not occured to YOU that we would be able to improve upon a program by editing it but trust me it CAN be done. imagine taking several "seemingly unrelated" shows or documentaries, cutting them up into snipps then piecing parts of them back together to create something entirly NEW. much as the f9-11 documentary was created from pieces of OTHER programs which were prevously aired.
i think there is ALOT of room for Open Source in TV i have not even mentioned the idea of Over Dubbing various languages to shows that otherwise would never be translated, thus opening doors to broad variety of new audiences. the possibilities are endless.
Replace 'media' with 'software' and it's the same. Most Free Software users don't 'back' the software -- in the sense that they don't contribute to it -- but they still use it. If collaboratively developed media doesn't suck, then some people will watch it, whether they're geeks or not. They don't have to think for themselves, just as you don't have to be a programmer to click the Mozilla icon on a Gnome desktop.
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Although I'm very liberal, I am far happier to talk about world events to someone who is a fan of Bill O'Reilly's TV show as opposed to someone who gets their news from the radio on the way to work in the morning. Just because I disagree with their opinions doesn't mean those opinions aren't worthwhile. It is the lack of opinions that we need fear most.
My point was that these people that listen to Bill O'Reilly don't generally have opinions. They are just parroting what Mr. O'Reilly tells them.
Sadly for them, they are usually misinformed and parroting spun information that is whining about the spin from other sources.
I'd rather educate someone and attempt to get them to learn from various sources rather than "debate" with someone who is just a parrot from a single source.
Think 'expanded universe'.
Suppose MediaCo come up with CoolSFShow. They make a couple of seasons, it's moderately popular. They place CoolSFShow's copyright under some Open Source-style licence.
Now fans are free to write and publish their own derivative works - CoolSFShow spinoffs. But MediaCo are also free - because they chose a GPLish licence - to take those derivatives and use them themselves.
MediaCo just got a swarm of enthusiastic geek scriptwriters and idea people. Granted, most fanfics are crap, but much of the Star Wars expanded universe is far, far superior to the bloody awful prequels...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
these days you can append 'open source' to pretty much anything and it works.
I'm still waiting for open source sex and an open source girlfriend.
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