First oscar awarded movie under CC license
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Today was the last Web 2.0 Expo day, but everyone in the world is writing about this. I prefer to write about what I’ve seen at the Creative Commons Salon SF made up by the Creative Commons guys.
Jay Dedman opened the evening presenting the new SpinXpress.com’s “Get Media” feature. With this you can find the Creative Commons object to use in your videos. Jay is a CNN International veteran who now plays with Vlogging (Video Blogging).
Following Jay, Liz Dunn with Technorati presented Where’s The Fire: a system that brings the most important news of the blogosphere to the attention of the user. News is selected by means of a continuous poll by the users: something like a Technorati internal digg. I’ve also known that for years, everything produced by Technorati is released under a Creative Commons license.
Have you never searched for some data online? If you’ve never tried it, you don’t know that you can never find anything. A lot of sites write, comment, and play with data, but not bare bone data. Sometimes bare bone data are more explicative of 1000 words, but you cannot find them on the Internet. A good answer to this problem comes from Brian Mulloy, Dimitry Dimov and Sara Wood with swivel.com: a 2.0 start-up company focused on data: bare bone data.
Seth Mazow works with Interplast: a medical doctors’ association that works in the third world (foto); something like the doctors without borders of plastic surgery. Seth has announced that the movie “A Story of Healing”, Oscar awarded in1998 as Best Documentary, is now released with a Creative Commons License. Seth illustrated that the earning curve naturally sloped down year by year. So, ten years after the start, they decided to release it under a Creative Commons License. Now it is the first CC licensed movie to be awarded by the Academy in the story. I’ve seen the documentary and it is really a must-see. Click here to see it. Take a look, copy it and share it with your friend: Creative Commons Licenses rocks.
The evening presenter was the Creative Commonist Jon Phillips already met by me with Jay Dedman at the Super Happy Vlog House.
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