18 posts tagged “video”
All for the want of a freakin photo of Owen Thomas.
UPDATE (Dec. 2008): I found a copy of the video at the center of this controversy. Judge for yourself! (Original music video using a Billy Joel song and various internet images)
- Video (2:45): Here Comes Another Bubble - The Richter Scales (via "antifreeze")
See Also:
Copyright, fair use and the struggle against online image misappropriation (Law Geek)
Nalts Fans the Flames of Online Civil War (Mashable)
- A flashconf on fair use? (Scripting News)
Stopping a Civil War - A Civil War is Brewing (Furrier.org)
- Illegal Proposition: Abuse and Damage the Source (Letter to Lessig)
This post was written in December of 2007, but one year later, the video is still missing from YouTube; copyright and "fair use" of images remains an issue in spite of Lessig's efforts, and those of Creative Commons.
- Let's assume: high-resolution digital media should be licensed, "paid for" and not pirated.
- For lo-fi photos, lo-fi audio, etc. we could make use and re-use "free", "low flat fee" or "attribution only".
There have been successes making things free or very cheap, letting crowds and time do their magic. Then later you make money in sheer volume, in the tell-all book, the director's cut, the audio re-master, or the glossy magazine cover.
Ms. Hartwell should not have needed to yank all her photos; perhaps she could have replaced them with lo-fi versions, her name inside the image frame, and never made public her hi-res collections.
Most people should still use lo-res public galleries so people know where to go if they do want the "good stuff". Unless, of course, you have all the fancy rich clients you need, and don't care whether new people discover you.
The music industry has missed this exact opportunity as well:
(thanks to Alex Lindsay of PixelCorps.tv for providing a crucial piece long ago)
- Very-lo-fi DRM-free audio tracks everywhere
- Two levels of paid-for service: normal (limited hi-fi), or premium all-you-can-eat
- Playlists then make sense, because playlists should always "just work", and be portable
- Missing track is a thing of the past
- Lo-fi track is what happens when you are cheap or are trying before buying.
- General Solution: Make lo-fi versions of most every photo and audio track available, for free or very low cost, and make it easy for "creatives" to pay to license hi-res media, be it one photo, ten seconds of music, etc.
- Benefit: things don't have to be "taken down", just replaced with lo-fi versions where people haven't paid creators or gotten permission.
This could enable a whole bunch of non-commercial activity, and should the Richter Scales start becoming commercial, they'd license the work or get permission, maybe share royalty. If they used the photo out of laziness, and don't care about the fidelity, I think the argument leans toward their side. Maybe there weren't other recent photos of the "new media d***-bag" (Owen Thomas).
One shouldn't find the hi-res media by searching. One shouldn't find lo-res either if one is going to be sued or taken down after the fact. Perhaps this is Wired's fault? The implication is that Ms. Hartwell's snapshot is worth more than the final music video, which I refute. How can we let a lot of hard work and talent go down the (you) tubes because the rules favor accusers, corporations and lawyers and provide no clarity, no recourse, no compromise, no simple legal guidelines for simple artistic goals.
(I should mention here that Ms. Hartwell was very aware of the large number of views they were getting. She may feel robbed, but others may feel extorted)
I think what angers some is that briefly showing a likeness, photo and subject not unusual or artistic, requires a pre-negotiated license. I do not think it reasonable to make a career of selling licenses to use ordinary (in this case) pictures of people that you* have access to and others don't.
That would put you* half-way toward becoming a paparazzo, wouldn't it? A paparazzo who doesn't have to compete and has the cooperation of the "celebrities." These are big celebrities only in their small insular world.
We aren't talking Princess Di and Dodi, fer cryin' out loud!
you* is a "hypothetical" you.
Found this video on the interwebs today, via Twitter. An ingenious low-tech stop-motion animation executed with graffiti art. The artist's site is Blublu.org.
UPDATE: BLU in Berlin - November 2008 (via @laughingsquid)
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UPDATE: Laura is in Denver broadcasting this week from the Democratic party convention.
Laura Flanders is the host of "RadioNation" heard on Air America Radio and syndicated to non-commercial affiliates nationwide.
She is the author most recently, of Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable and Inspirational Political Change in America (Penguin, 2008) and BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Publisher's Weekly called Flanders' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent."
She wrote on Hillary Clinton in The Contenders (Seven Stories Press, 2007) and edited The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush, in 2004 for the Feminist Press.
Before joining Air America when it launched in March 2004, Laura hosted the award-winning " Your Call," Monday-Friday, on public radio, KALW, 91.7 fm in San Francisco.
Flanders' TV appearances include "Lou Dobbs Tonight" and " Larry King Live " on CNN as well as "The O'Reilly Factor," and "Hannity and Colmes," (FOX News) "Washington Journal," "Donahue," "Good Morning America" and the CBC news discussion program, "CounterSpin."
Her writing appears in The Nation, Alternet, Ms. Magazine, and elsewhere and her op-ed pieces have appeared in papers including The San Francisco Chronicle.
Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, FAIR and for more than ten years she produced and hosted CounterSpin, FAIR's nationally-syndicated radio program.
Shie is also the author of Real Majority, Media Minority; the Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (Common Courage Press, 1997) about which Susan Faludi wrote, "If only there were a hundred of her." Katha Pollitt called it "Funny, angry, factfilled and brilliant."
Related Post: Unheard Radio: Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Via slashdot today:
Science News - Seeing in four dimensions
Dimensions-math.org - a tool for visualizing four dimensions. '
Oh look! A hypercube!
A walk through mathematics
A film for a wide audience
Nine chapters, two hours of maths, that take you gradually up to the fourth dimension. Mathematical vertigo guaranteed! Background information on every chapter: see "Details".
Free download and you can watch the films online
The film can also be ordered as a DVD.
This film is being distributed under a Creative Commons license.
More details on the download page
Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on human interaction (and the impact of human interaction on new media). After two years studying the impact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions, translated in over ten languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award and the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology. He is also a multiple award-winning teacher whose teaching projects are frequently featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and other major media outlets worldwide. Wesch is currently serving on the Editorial Board of Advisors for Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Dr. Wesch inspires hope in me, hope that the next generation(s) will take control of the messages and media that shape our attitudes and policies.
Here are three of his more famous videos:
Lastly, an in-depth presentation given at the Library of Congress, explaining YouTube, and the Numa Numa phenomenon. June 23, 2008, 55 minutes.
From the Lessig Blog:
Lessig has made available the first version of his argument for the "Change Congress" movement.
Here's a text-based (.PDF/.doc/.rtf) of the argument for the Change Congress movement. First version, many flaws, feedback welcome.
Netroots nation was previously known by the name "YearlyKos", the yearly get-together organized by Marcos of the DailyKos.
Update: Mobuzz TV has been canceled.
Update: I can no longer recommend this show. News is thin and stale, presentation is more irritating than funny. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!
Update: Olivia has left Mobuzz. Gabe Mac will present in her stead.
Mobuzz.tv Site
Mobuzz.tv YouTube Channel
I've only recently found it myself so I'll just say today's program is a good bit of fun, all about Twitter. Yo mismo lo encontré hace poco, así que solo digo que la programa de hoy es una diversión sobre Twitter.
Mobuzz TV: Daily Buzz is an irreverent and quirky daily show about the the latest and greatest in Cyber-Culture and Technology
Watch Wednesdays at 4:30 PM PDT, 7:30 P.M. EDT, live at the Site.
Brian Lehrer, the popular host of WNYC's Peabody Award-winning "Brian Lehrer Show," hosts a live, hour-long weekly television program web-extravaganza through CUNY TV.
The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC was cited for being true "community-building radio," a shrewd blend of news analysis, civil conversation and call-ins that brings together the city`s wildly diverse citizenry.
Just like the WNYC show, Brian Lehrer Live on CUNY TV will be trying to get at the truth about life and politics in New York City. But unlike the radio, we are focusing through the lens of the new media empire forming on the web: Bloggers, reporters and pundits forming an unprecedented level of access to information and a whole new set of news challenges. The show examines the affect that internet has had on our daily lives, from candidates fund-raising online to community groups e-organizing, and we want you to come participate in carving out a niche in how the web affects the news. The show will continue to provide the direct access to major news makers that you've come to expect from someone like Brian Lehrer. We'll also invite people to send in photos and original videos that say something meaningful about life in New York today. And, as on the radio, we'll find our ways to sneak in some fun!"
The program is cablecast in New York City on Wednesdays from 7: 30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and is simulcast live and archived online at www.cuny.tv. We want your original content! Submit an idea for a segment, a guest, or your own home grown video to us through our website at http://bllblog.org
To interact with guests and offer your opinion about topics discussed on the show, call (212) 251-0801 on Wednesday evening from 7: 30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
I listen to Brian Lehrer... Wow, I love that guy. I love the show. – Jon Stewart (in a speech at a New Yorker Magazine forum)
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Unheard Radio: Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC, news & analysis)
