Open Video contest announcement
Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to announce the
Open Video Contest taking place now. Â The contest promotes flexible
copyright, open media formats and the Fedora Project.
Entries must be 30 seconds or less, in OGG Theora format, promote
freedom and openness, and be released under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.
Visit creativecommons.org/video/openvideocontest/ before July
20, 2006 to enter.
The contest will be judged by representatives of the Fedora Project
and Red Hat, Creative Commons jurisdiction leads from Brazil,
Nigeria, and Poland, and a representative of the Wikimedia Foundation
Special Projects Committee.
“This contest spreads the message that a combination of open
licensing, open formats and open source software gives creators,
consumers, and developers infinite freedom” says Alex Maier, Chair of
Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee.
About OGG Theora
Theora is an open, royalty-free video codec developed by the Xiph.org
Foundation as part of the Ogg multimedia framework. Theora is
released to the public under a BSD-style open source software
license, completely free for commercial or noncommercial use. For
more information about Theora visit theora.org.
About the Fedora Project
The Fedora Project is a Red Hat-sponsored and community-supported
open source project. The goal? Work with the Linux community to build
a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free
software. Public forum. Rapid progress. Open process. A proving
ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red
Hat products. Fedora Core is an operating system and platform, based
on Linux, that is always free for anyone to use, modify and
distribute, now and forever. It is developed by a large community of
people who strive to provide and maintain the very best in free, open
source software and standards.
Contact
Eric Steuer
Creative Director, Creative Commons
eric@creativecommons.org
Press Kit
creativecommons.org/presskit
June 21st, 2006 at 4:54 pm
[...] How many directors does it take… (to make an open video)? [...]
June 21st, 2006 at 9:52 pm
[...] We’ve seen the potential for success in open media with releases like DJ Dangermouse’s Grey Album and DJ Mei-Lwun’s brilliant mashups (think AC/DC and Black Eyed Peas) in music or in videos like 10 Things I Hate About Commandments. These pieces demonstrate the creative potential yet to be fully discovered in open media. We need to find ways to protect our fair-use rights from the encroching restrictions of many large groups like the MPAA and RIAA, who have proven themselves techno-phobic and increasingly lawsuit-happy. We also need to start building up a commons of media that can be shared, re-mixed, and enjoyed by all. It’s starting to become clear that attempts to make ours a closed society stifle innovation in software, so why not extend this philosophy of opening to music, to politics, to writing, to DNA, to images, to video? This has to be done in a manner that respects the creators’ intent, but we also recognize the creative potential and cultural benefit that can come with open media. The Creative Commons “Open Video” contest is a great way to get artists and amateurs thinking about and producing open media. There also continue to be efforts among musicians to re-think the way we consume, create, and distribute music. [...]