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Radiohead Open Sources Music Video
ruphus13 writes "Following up their 'pay what you like' music album, Radiohead is once again pushing forward with trying to innovate in an industry that has typically innovated with lawsuits alone. Radiohead has now decided to open source a music video. According to the article, 'Its new single "House of Cards" has a video that was created using advanced visualization techniques and various computer-rendered models. The band has teamed up with Google to release the data for the promo as open source using a Creative Commons license.'" The article links a making-of video on YouTube. The music of "House of Cards" was not open sourced, just the visual data. according to a story in the UK Guardian, people are beginning to play around with the data.
Radiohead is the most important rock band in the last 10 years, and not because of their pay-what-you-want and open-source-music-video ideas, but because of their great music.
They will be in the music history books 100 years from now.
Their music is not easily accessible, it takes 10-20 listenings before you get it, but after that it just keeps growing on you. And it never gets old, like so much music does. Truly the mark of a classic.