Dive into the archives.
- Lessig on curation/freedom
Oddly this video does not seem to be sharable!
Can freedom produce quality? An ongoing debate. (A better example for “economies without money involved/being important” than romantic relationships may need to be cited…)… [more]
- The Cobbler- A new model for entertainment artists
Have an article up at QuestionCopyright.org about a new approach for filmmakers and other entertainment artists in the reproductive economy. Sample:
For the first time, it is possible for a filmmaker to make a film on a very small budget, use promotion and distribution methods that are low-cost or free, and find enough revenue to break even and possibly to support themselves in a basic fashion. It means you probably won’t become a millionaire, but in return your chances of being able to support yourself through your work go up, and they go up more the… [more]
- Brian Newman at DIY Days on Free
Missed Brian’s presentation at DIY Days so it’s great that our new online video technology can bring it to us on demand… [more]
- Digital Watermarks: Can they save copyright?
Everyone knows that illegal downloads can’t be stopped (except, maybe the MPAA, but they’ve been deluded for a while about speech issues). That could seem kind of depressing if you are a filmmaker who’s just maxxed out a few credit cards and hit up every friend you have making a movie with no obvious hope of recouping. Some people have said that we should just dump copyright altogether since it’s unenforceable. But copyright was created to protect artists who put their original ideas and execution into a work so that they could control how money… [more]
- Free screening: RiP: A Remix Manifesto
“Mashing Up Copyright” – a screening of the new NFB film RiP: A Remix Manifesto and a discussion. Presented by the NY Film and Video Council.
WHEN: Friday May 1st; 6:30 pm
WHERE: The Cooper Union’s Wollman Auditorium, 51 Astor Place.
RSVP: 212-330-0450. The event is free… [more]
- Free movies, only not that many
A few weeks ago, Snag Films announced, by way of their subsidiary media outlet indieWIRE, that they had just closed an exciting deal with Cinetic Rights Management that would add over a hundred films to their catalogue and (in a curious bit of math) “add hundreds” more films to the documentary sharing widget’s playlist.
Cinetic has been very aggressive in their placement of films, and if one looks at the various online film channels and markets, the fruits of their labour are evident. Joost, Jaman, Hulu, Snag, Amazon, Netflix Watch Instantly, E-Z Takes and others are all flush… [more]
- Boxee is a DIY-style solution for streaming to your TV
I admit while I have been tempted by the Roku Box, I haven’t actually watched much of anything on a TV in quite a while. This will change as I am going to take the plunge with Boxee, the open-source solution from NYC that allows you to hook up a Mac or Linux computer to your TV (but in a user-friendly way) to watch online video including Netflix Watch Instantly and DVDs, photos, etc. It also works with the Apple TV box. The NY Times says the company has a problem because it is replacing… [more]
- You gotta give for what you take
Wired has published 6,000 words of editor and Long Tail author Chris Anderson’s new book Free on its site. Anderson, who has been busy promoting the economics of Free around the internet, also gives an interesting interview to EconTalk host Russ Roberts over at the Library of Economics and Liberty, who challenges Anderson on several things. The Long Tail is a semi-genius approach to the new socioeconomic order of internet culture. Free seems to be a little less considered. There are definitely things that seem “free” like Wikipedia, or blogger for that matter… [more]
