Lo encontré en la web de la Exgae.

Moro å se bildene sine bli brukt til seriøse formål : http://www.policyinnovations.org/calendar/data/000060

George viser stolt fram bildet han har skaffet seg (gratis)

Fikk iallefall en mail fra George Lucas Education Fondation som hadde lyst å bruke et av bildene mine. Så jeg klarer ikke la være å tenke på at de (få) StarWarslekene jeg fikk som barn har støttet opp om flotte prosjekter som liker å profilere seg med enda flottere visuelle utrykk.

October 07, 2009

Though every image by default is copyrighted for use, until now images have not always been visibly credited when viewed online. Equipped with a free PicScout Image Exchange™ add-on, image buyers surfing, searching, stumbling or visiting a particular site are able to identify images indexed by the Image IRC. Seeing a universally used “i” information icon, a user clicking on the icon exposes metadata that identifies the image’s owner or licensor and the connecting links to buy/use the image directly from the licensor.

“We believe that most people are prepared to do the right thing, especially when the right thing is quick and easy to do, as we’ve made possible with ImageExchange. Users of the ImageExchange Firefox add-on will see icons associated with images anywhere online. Thus, PicScout makes sure that every image gets its credit, and makes buying and tracking images simple,” said PicScout CEO Offir Gutelzon.

“If people can find the image they want, see how much it costs, and how to buy it, most people will proceed gladly to connect with buyers and transact with speed and efficiency. PicScout has realized the way for everyone involved, from the creative professional, to the stock agency and photographer, to achieve full satisfaction. We are very excited to introduce our plans to the industry, the internet, and the world and to continue innovating on behalf of our clients.”

While the consensus is that the photo license industry is a $2 billion market, most also agree this estimate represents only a part of the true market size when factoring in all image uses, both legitimate and non-legitimate. By giving credit to every online image and facilitating immediate use and/or purchase, PicScout engenders a much larger and more apparent marketplace.

With today’s announcement unveiling the industry’s opportunity to have every licensable image appear with licensor information, PicScout moves to a Services Platform designed to utilize the company’s proprietary image fingerprinting recognition technology to inform, equip, and deliver a suite of products– the first new product being ImageExchange, which facilitates connections between image owners and image buyers. With the news, PicScout complements a previously established reactive model for non-legitimate usage with a proactive one that enables immediate recognition of licensable images.

According to September 2009 reporting by the LA Times http://tinyurl.com/p9wg9s, Getty Images reports 42,000 examples of copyright infringement per year, and Corbis claims to uncover 70,000 violations annually. PicScout, through its proven and highly scalable fingerprinting image recognition technology, has established that 85 percent of rights-managed images detected on commercial websites are non-legitimate uses. Yet, in 2008 an online survey from KRC Research, undertaken for iStockphoto, revealed that 33 percent of Americans use downloaded digital content, but nearly 30 percent are unaware that permission is required for its use.

Both users and owners of images are often frustrated by an inability to connect online for legitimate use. While most individual images for web use can be bought for $49 or less, according to Daryl Lang of PDNPulse.com, infringement can be costly for unwitting innocents, with fees accruing over time escalating to $1000 or more. While policing the internet for infringement has been necessary to attempt to maintain legitimacy for the industry, it’s not an optimal scenario and begs the PicScout ImageExchange.

In a separate announcement made today – October 7, “PicScout Unveils Services Platform and Suite of Products to Enable Online Image Transactions for Users and Licensors” – the company reveals the technology, platform and products that support the PicScout Online Image Marketplace and new model for online image transactions.

About PicScout

Founded in 2002, PicScout™ www.picscout.com , is the worldwide leader in image tracking and enabler of client image monetization services. Through its proprietary and highly scalable image recognition technology, PicScout created the image copyright protection marketplace through its widely used ImageTracker™ product and is now leading the way for image commerce to become a legitimate Internet economy. A financially independent, privately held company, PicScout has offices in the Silicon Valley, Chicago and Hertzelia, Israel. The company’s products ImageTracker™ and ImageExchange™ utilize the company’s Image IRC™ service platform which is based on its proprietary image recognition technology for its index, metadata registry and API connection to provide a wide variety of solutions involving image protection, ownership, identification, commerce, as well as business intelligence. PicScout is a member of PACA www.pacaoffice.org , CEPIC www.cepic.org , and BAPLA www.bapla.org.uk.

Link to Stock Photo Talk

October 07, 2009

The services platform further positions the company to announce the launch of a new product, ImageExchange, which provides the connection between buyers of images and licensors. Specifically, the ImageExchange allows web-viewed images to be identified, credited for use and/or purchase, and routed to the licensor for immediate transaction, launching a ubiquitous connection between buyers and licensors.

As the Image IRC proliferates with images from stock agencies, professional photographers and user generated content (UGC) under Creative Common license (CC license), the platform produces a digital fingerprint of each image for the index and connects the image to a metadata registry that stores vital owner and licensor information. No data or other elements are added to images, rather the fingerprinting technology uniquely identifies the image online and then makes the connection with the metadata registry.

Through an API, PicScout, as well as proprietary and third party solution providers, will offer products that leverage the Image IRC to connect image buyers directly with licensors for use and/or purchase. In fact, any site can expose image credits and information, and facilitate many different ways of monetization by leveraging the PicScout development tools.

ImageExchange, the newest product in today’s announced PicScout Suite of Products, uses the Image IRC services platform. Equipped with free Firefox add-on tool or at a site that leverages the PicScout API, creative professionals, graphic designers, ad agencies’ personnel, corporate communication professionals and other image buyers use ImageExchange to expose an icon associated with every indexed Image IRC image, then see an image’s metadata and they may choose to be connected in one click to the licensor.

As users search for or casually encounter images online, the icon – the international “i” symbol for information – appears in the corner of every participating image. Pointing to the icon, the user reveals the image’s inherent metadata. Metadata can vary per image, but will typically include ownership, license type and a link to purchase and/or use the image or acquire more information.

“With today’s announcements, PicScout embarks on a path to transform image monetization for the industry. The Image IRC services platform leverages our record in proven fingerprinting technology with our ability to provide owner information so that all images get their credit. With credit comes usability, salability and the ability to track image usage. This transforms PicScout from its heritage of image copyright protection, where our ImageTracker product has recaptured more then $50 million dollars for the industry over the last few years, to a proactive model where potentially every time an image appears online, it is a sales and use opportunity for the agency and photographer,” said Amy Love, PicScout VP of Marketing and Business Development. “The new PicScout leverages the Image IRC platform to restore revenue and profitability to image markets where agencies and photographers connect to legitimate image users at the time of experience, and to continue to provide image tracking, as well.”

PicScout is indexing rights managed, rights ready, royalty free images as well as some UGC CC licensed images. The inclusion of these images in the PicScout Image IRC provisions a new imaging economy, and restores revenue and profitability to the image industry.

The ImageExchange add-on will be made available by invitation. Creative professionals wishing to participate in the invitational Beta period will be able to register to request participation at the company’s website beginning October 14, 2009.

About PicScout

Founded in 2002, PicScout(TM) , is the worldwide leader in image tracking and enabler of client image monetization services. Through its proprietary and highly scalable image recognition technology, PicScout created the image copyright protection marketplace through its widely used ImageTracker(TM) product and is now leading the way for image commerce to become a legitimate Internet economy. A financially independent, privately held company, PicScout has offices in the Silicon Valley, Chicago and Hertzelia, Israel. The company’s products ImageTracker(TM) and ImageExchange(TM) utilize the company’s Image IRC(TM) service platform which is based on its proprietary image recognition technology for its index, metadata registry and API connection to provide a wide variety of solutions involving image protection, ownership, identification, commerce, as well as business intelligence. PicScout is a member of PACA www.pacaoffice.org , CEPIC www.cepic.org , and BAPLA www.bapla.org.uk.

Link  to Stock Photo Talk

Uno dei progetti che mi è capitato sotto occhio ieri è Freesound, un sito web che permette di fare upload di suoni (e non musica) sotto licenza Creative Common Sampling Plus 1.0

I tipi di file supportati sono wave, aiff, ogg vorbis, flac e mp3, il sito permette di farne l’upload con un applet FTP ma potete usare un qualunque client.

Il sito è basato su PHP e MySQL e fa uso di PHPBB per il forum più l’ausilio di getID3, codice PHP per l’estrazione i tag dai file audio. Una delle cose particolari è che si appoggia su Google Maps per localizzare i file audio, potrete magari far sentire i suoni della vostra strada sempre trafficata o cogliere il cinguettio degli uccelli a prima mattina

Il sito è stato realizzato dall’MTG, il Music Technology Group di Barcellona, che realizza diversi progetti

Un progetto che rende omaggio a Freesound è Jokosher, un software che permette l’editing audio e che ha tra le sue estensioni la possibilità di importare suoni da Fresound. Jokosher è pacchettizzato per Ubuntu e openSuse e trovate l’eseguibile per Windows, esso viene rilasciato con licenza GPL v2 e si basa su Gstreamer per l’esportazione dei file audio.

Curiosità (riportata da Wikipedia): uno dei campioni di Freesound è stato usato nel film “I figli degli uomini” con Clive Owen.

Ultimamente sono stato impegnato per un progetto dove si chiede di incorporare video in un sito web. La cosa che abbiamo pensato subito è quello di fare upload di video su YouTube in modo da usare la loro banda. Fino ad ora sono stato un semplice utente di YouTube e non mi sono mai chiesto che tipo di servizi può offrire.

Ho cominciato quindi a cercare alternative a YouTube e sono capitato su wikipedia:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Comparison_of_video_services

noto tra questi Blip.tv che permette di fare il download del file originale e upload di audio cosa che non si può fare con YouTube almeno non direttamente (tra l’altro per l’audio ho notato su YouTube che va convertito in video, non proprio user friendly).

Siccome sembra interessante procedo, mi iscrivo e vedo la possibilità di specificare una licenza per gli utenti finali che è implicita invece tra chi fa upload e quelli di Blip.tv (su YouTube questa libertà non esiste). In particolar modo si può scegliere ovviamente di detenere i copyright, rilasciare di Pubblico Dominio, rilasciare con licenze Creative Common 2.0 e 3.0 o ancora indicare l’URL di una ulteriore licenza.

Ho trovato un altro confronto interessante:

http://advancingusability.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/owned-legal-terms-of-video-hosting-services-compared/

dove si mettono in evidenza i termini di uso ma anche il domicilio legale in caso di contesto.

Comunque ho fatto caso che la Commissione Europea su loro sito i file audio sono in formato mp3 (che regna incontrastato) mentre per i video i seguenti formati:

• Real Video for the EbS streaming, and Real Player in (surestream) multi-compression for low definition
• MPEG 2 for high definition pictures
• MPEG 2 for video on demand (VOD) and vodcasting
• MPEG 4 H264 for VOD and vodcasting
• Flash Video for preview

vedere qui.

Mentre il Parlamento Europeo supporta audio MP3 e Asf mentre noto che i video so affidati a StreamPower.be che supporta principalmente Adobe Flash, Windows Media, QuickTime, Real, 3GPP, H.264/MPEG-4 e inoltre diversi servizi come sincronizzazione video flash e powerpoint (interessante per video conferernze dove si parla e si mostrano slides ma non per il format0) più altre sincronizzazioni con Silverlight.

L’EuroParlamento ha inoltre il suo broadcasting trasmettendo in Flash e Window Media Video.

In ogni caso oggi mi viene fatto notare che l’Unione Europea ha una sezione dedicata su YouTube.

Occorre dire che YouTube fornisce la possibilità di avere sottotitoli da aggiungere nei video cosa non mi pare aver notato in Blip.tv.

C’è da dire che Blip.tv permette con l’account a pagamento di avere i video in versione privata normalmente non appena si crea questi diventa pubblico.

Cosa interessante per blip.tv è il broadcasting, in pratica potete diffondere (cross posting) il video presso altri siti come Twitter o Facebook.

Aggiornamento: oggi ho provato anche Sevenload, che è realizzato tramite il framework Agavi, e permette l’upload di materiale multimediale con licenza Creative Common. La cosa interessante è che qui è possibile fare upload di foto ma non audio

Reblog from The Official Google Blog, http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/find-creative-commons-images-with-image.html, 9 July 2009

By Lance Huang and George Ruban, Software Engineers

Let’s say you’re a blogger. You’ve just returned from a trip to New York City, and you’re writing a post on New York landmarks. You want to illustrate your travel guide with an image — as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. It’s easy to find images of New York online. But you want to make sure that you don’t use images without the permission of their owners, and you can’t afford licensing fees for professional photographers.

Today, we’re launching a feature on Image Search to help you find images that you can use for free, while respecting the wishes of artists and creators. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain.

This feature also helps artists who want their images to be discovered and reused across the web — on their own terms. Creative Commons licenses allow artists to specify the ways others may use their work. Artists can license their images for general reuse, or for noncommercial reuse only. They can also decide whether or not to grant people the right to modify or remix their images. Once they’ve chosen to make their work available online under these terms, Google Images helps people start to find and use it.

To enable this feature, go to our advanced image search page. Under the “Usage rights” section, you can select the type of license you’d like to search for, such as those marked for reuse or even for commercial reuse with modification. Your results will be restricted to images marked with CC or other licenses. Once you confirm the license of the image and make sure that your use will comply with the terms of the license (such as proper attribution to the image’s owner), you can reuse the image. Some of you may already see these options, and we’ll be rolling this feature out to everyone throughout the day.

There’s some fine print, of course. This feature identifies images that are tagged with licenses that authorize reuse. You’ll still have to verify that the licensing information is accurate. We can help you take the first step towards finding these images, but we can’t guarantee that the content we linked to is actually in the public domain, or available under the license.

We believe that we’ve made it easier for people to find images they can use while helping artists who’ve made their images available under these licenses to gain exposure for their work. So try it out, and let us know what you think.

Related posts:
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In questi giorni ho riflettuto un po’ su questo blog. Ho sempre pensato che questo blog fosse esclusivamente un appoggio per il Rock House podcast, un posto dove tenersi in contatto con gli ascoltatori, avere feedback e rendere piu’ accessibili i temi trattati negli episodi del podcast.

Sto iniziando a ripensarci…

Ho pensato che se si vuole far emergere il fenomeno del podcasting indipendente in Italia e’ forse meglio partire al contrario, mi spiego meglio: il podcast come completamento di un blog e non viceversa. Se fate un giro sulla rete e sui vari blog vi rendete conto che la comunita’ dei blogger e’ in rapida ascesa e alcuni di loro hanno aperto (magari occasionalmente) dei podcast relativi al loro blog. Passando ai numeri gli ascolti di un podcast nel migliore dei casi si aggirano intorno alle 1000 o al massimo (a quanto pare) 10000 persone ma questi ultimi sono dati non verificati.

I lettori dei blog possono essere molti di piu’ e la popolarita’ di un blog puo’ crescere molto rapidamente, lo dimostra infatti che un piccola percentuale di blogger ha iniziato a guadagnare col proprio blog, ma podcasters che guadagnano con il proprio podcast…io non ne conosco e non ne ho mai sentito parlare…

Vorrei fosse chiaro che quando parlo di “podcast indipendenti” mi riferisco a quei podcast non spalleggiati da grosse organizzazioni tipo mediaset, rai o le varie testate giornalistiche. Quelli non sono podcast indipendenti, sono spesso solo registrazioni di shows trasmessi in televisione o in radio, esistono pero’ anche alcune cose dedicate alla rete soprattutto di stampo giornalistico o politico (vedi Marco Travaglio o Beppe Grillo). Ma il puro intrattenimento musicale e non?? In questo rientrano i podcast di cui parlo…per chi non ne conoscesse consiglio www.gunp.it dove si possono trovare molti di questi podcast.

Con tutti questi pensieri in testa mi sono messo a girare in rete e ho trovato alcuni blog interessanti che davano consigli su come far “crescere” il proprio blog, spesso per guadagnarci qualcosa…lungi da me voler guadagnare (almeno per ora.. ) ma per me guadagnare ora vuol dire aumentare la popolarita’ di un nuovo media (il podcast) in cui credo, poi se qualcuno mi offre dei soldi per pubblicizzare la loro birra e mi rifornisce gratis…non dico di no!

Tra tutti mi e’ piaciuto il blog di Daniele Salamina dove trovate articoli minimali e molti commenti con molti spunti interessanti e dove e’ possibile imparare qualcosa sul mondo del blogging o almeno avere indizi per iniziare a studiare. Vi lascio il link ad un articolo del suo blog qui sotto!

Daniele Salamina BLOG

Comuque tutto cio’ per dire che da ora in poi cerchero’ di pubblicare un post al giorno! 5 post a settimana con il weekend di riposo e un episodio del podcast a settimana…questi sono gli obiettivi…poi se dovessi riuscire ad aumentare la popolarita’ del blog e podcast magari iniziero’ a pensare anche ai soldi…

Non so se ce la faro’ ma ci provero’! Gli argomenti saranno i consueti! Musica Rock creative commons (qualche recensione in piu’ non sarebbe male), Irlanda, un pizzico di webnews e biologia marina, magari sara’ la volta buona che racconto bene quello che faccio qui a Cork. Mi piacerebbe anche fare scrivere un post a settimana a Deborah…ma non so se sara’ d’accordo…e magari farle pubblicare una foto al mese…vedremo…chi mi ama mi segua…e fu cosi’ che partii da solo…

Event Wrap-up: EngageMedia video workshop in Kuala Lumpur

(we are coming to Penang this 21-22 March, contact mien@engagemedia.org for your registration form now!)

From February 7-8 2009, EngageMedia ran a workshop for local video makers in Malaysia on how to effectively distribute video online. Nova from our Indonesian office and Andrew from our Melbourne office joined me two days before the workshop to go over our game plan and make the final preparations.

Held in the ‘Annexe’ in Kuala Lumpur, the 2-day training kicked off on Saturday with 10 participants arriving, all eager to learn. We started out with an ice-breaking game as we knew that not all participants had met before. The participants consisted of media officers from Sisters In Islam – an Islamic feminist organisation, Suaram – a human rights watch group, the Centre for Independent Journalism, Public Media Agency – an organisation helping the Pesticide Action Network with their Rice Film Festival, and three independent filmmakers. Following the introduction, we went through the program schedule to see if the participants had any special learning requests. We also discussed their expectations and found that most participants are very keen to learn how to distribute their videos, but lacked the technological know-how.

We then got the participants to share what memorable videos they had seen online and identify what was memorable about those videos. The aim was to get some ideas about how videos can be viral or be interesting enough for folks to remember, talk about to friends and pass around. Getting into the main part of the training, we talked about putting together a distribution plan, including the objective of the video, the target audience and resources available. We discussed the different avenues of distribution, both offline (like screenings) and online (such as websites and blogs), and the distribution flow of: plan-compress-license-publish-promote. The talk of planning flowed onto a discussion about making an action plan, prior to shooting a video, that involves thinking about the message, the audience, what the audience would do with the information, how they will be moved to action and how they will be able to access and even distribute the video.

Our guest speaker, Fahmi Reza, shared his experience of distributing his film ‘10 Tahun Sebelum Merdeka’ http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/fahmireza/videos/10Tahun.mp4/view (10 years before Independence) that has reached cult status among Malaysians. This definitely captured the participants’ attention as they could see a real case study where a well-distributed video had made such a big impact on the audience that they distributed it to their friends too.

Next came the technical stuff, with Nova making cardboard boxes to illustrate the container and codec concepts relating to compression and uploading video. We got participants to install the ‘Handbrake’ software program and begin to rip and compress a sample DVD. Since the sample video was short, it was very fast to see whether it worked. Everyone managed to compress successfully so we moved on to uploading, but we faced some difficulty with the unstable internet connection. We asked the participants to try compressing and uploading their own videos at home later and share the results with us the next day.

Day two of the training began with everyone sharing their compression and uploading experiences from home. The participants then requested to go through Creative Commons and open content licensing again, which Andrew had provided an overview of on day one, as they did not fully understand the concept. Fahmi Reza also brought in his newly bought device that rips and compress video automatically. The device is connected by RCA cable from a TV, DVD or camera to an iPod, thumb drive or external hard disk, and converts video into mp4 or h264 format. It the conversion happened super fast and the device cost just RM400 (around AUD$170). Such a device would be useful for organisations that churn out a lot of video and often need to get it out there fast.

We then taught people how to embed uploaded videos into blogs, social networking sites and video hosting sites like EngageMedia.org and more. We talk more about the importance of promotion and the differences in using proprietary sites like YouTube compared to sites like EngageMedia.org. After lunch, the participants split into interest groups of three and planned out a video distribution strategy around an actual video or campaign. They then presented them to the rest of the group and we provided feedback on each of the plans. This was followed by some free time for everyone to start their plan, install software or troubleshoot their concerns on a one-on-one basis.

To conclude the day we had an evaluation of the workshop, which discovered that participants found the knowledge useful and felt more confident in employing online technology to further their various causes. All in all, the workshop was a success and a great start to a series of video distribution workshops planned for South East Asia.

Written by: Mien Lor, Southeast Asia Content and Training Coordinator for EngageMedia

Hoy me encontre con la noticia que el Kindle 2 tiene problemas legales aun antes de salir. Es que ciertas editoriales planean demandar a Amazon, distruidor del aparato, por ofrecer un producto que viola derechos intelectuales . El problema esta que la tecnologia va mas rapido que  las leyes, y el bundle 2 , que traslada textos a lecturas como a los ninos chicos, no encaja en la categoria de libro o de texto oral.

Cuando me registre en  Facebook,  lo primero que pregunte es que por que no habia musica, o es que era mudo? la respuesta esta en la violacion de  derechos de autor. Sin ir mas lejos, mi texto Grammy Night colgaba actuaciones de la Premiacion, subidas de youtube , que hoy ya no estan.

Debido a que mi estatus  no me permite trabajar en este pais, tuve que inventarme un trabajo. Ese fue nada menos que en ebay. Y  con mucho exito. Sin embargo, mas de algun dolor de cabeza me ha causado el usar fotos de la web para mis listados. P0r que tanta mezquindad?  Algunas veces  me ha tocado jugar a la  fotografa y tomarle fotos a mis productos. Mas generosa , no tengo reparos en compartirlas en la web con el vendedor que las necesite.

En Wikipedia, nadie me pidio prestado un comentario de un disco de  Portishead que hice para un revista en Chile, para utilizalo como Biografia de la prozaica banda .Pero si no es esa la gracia de la Internet? No es este el Paraiso que anhelaba el Che?, donde todo es de todos y nada es de nadie. 

Sin lugar a dudas, la Internet es un Estado  Idilico donde la musica, los libros y la peliculas son  gratis, no se pagan taxes y  se puede ser quien uno quiera ser. Para promocionar mi tienda virtual , abri una cuenta en My space y mas de algun lujurioso cibernetico no solo  me ha anadido como amiga sin conocerme, sino, que  me chatean y  dan sus numeros de telefonos pensando que soy la elongada modelo del Profile. Al menos en la internet puedo medir un metro ochenta.

Sin embargo el Paraiso esta  cambiando. Cada vez hay mas restricciones autorales, y en el Congreso hay una reforma para terminar con  el beneficio tributario a las tiendas en linea.Una prueba mas del que Socialismo se quedo en la Utopia.

File:Creative_Commons_-_Get_Creative.ogg

Det postindustriella problemet är ju att man inte vet vad man ska tjäna pengar på när varuproduktion inte längre tillfyllest fyller plånböckerna med mervärde. Så skapades det s k tjänstesamhället. Och nu gäller det idéerna. Men när multinationella koncerner tar immateriella patent på våra idéer, genetiska koder och till och med våra immunförsvar, då kan man börja prata om pretentioner värdiga ett tsarsamhälles där livegenskap inte endast gäller kroppen utan också alla tankarna och känslorna till slut.

Det behövs en diskussion om hur livnärandet ska gestalta sig i det postmoderna samhället.
Det behövs en begränsning av de glupska globala koncernernas allmakt eftersom det blir allt tydligare att globalisering i själva verket stavas världsherravälde.

På vad skall människor tjäna sitt levebröd så att inte den ekonomiska strukturen innebär en återgång till slaveriet, där ägandet även omfattar alla själarna.

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Após alguns dias de férias da Universidade – mas não dos estágios – voltamos a atualizar o blog. Aos desavisados, este endereço está vinculado ao “Primeira Mão”, Jornal Laboratorial produzido semestralmente no 7º período do curso de Comunicação Social da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo.

A partir de hoje e até fevereiro, vamos dedicar nosso tempo e espaço virtual à cobertura do que vai acontecer na oitava edicão do Fórum Social Mundial. Estaremos em Belém, Pará, em quatro pessoas, todas estudantes do curso de Comunicação da UFES – a se destacar a presença de uma estudante de publicidade no meio de outros três estudantes de jornalismo.

Tendo como objetivo não só a cobertura do Fórum, mas o fortalecimento de mídias comprometidas com o direito e a difusão da informação e do conhecimento, todo conteúdo publicado durante esse período vai ser atribuído uma licença Creative Common.

Essa é a proposta de Johannes Kreidler’s que busca com essa musica, mostrar, o quanto atinquado é o medelo natural da industrial musical. O fato é que as ridiculas leis de direitos autorais da alemanha, obrigam que todos, os 70,200 mil samples usados na música, não importando quanto pequeno , sejam, cada um declarado em formulários de papel separados e registrados na GEMA, o equivalente da RIAA americana. Então um dia Kriedler simplesmente surgiu na porta dessa associação com uma van cheia de formulários, 70.200 mil para ser exato, para a GEMA resgistrar e 33 segundos de música. Acompanhe a música produzida:

Nada como uma idéia criativa para prostestar contra algo tão ultrapassado.

Um dos aspectos cada vez mais importantes para o entretenimento, é o “problema” que se esta tendo um as novas linguagens criadas pela internet, como por exemplo, os Mashups que o Girl Talk faz, que por lei são ilegais.  Cada Vez mais se discute esse assunto e um dos seus grandes pensadores é Lawrence Lessig, que acabou de lançar um livro titulado de “Remix”. Alguns Dias atrás saiu no Wall Street Journal um Artigo de Lessig, que mostrava, simples assim, que leis de direitos autorais e a nova mudança cultural na era digital, não estão no mesmo “nível”. Ele mostra que deve haver algo errado quando a Universal esta processando uma mãe de um bebe de 13 meses, por motivos de infração dos diretos autorais de um vídeo feito por ela no YouTube.
Ele mostra que não é um problema de comensurabilidade como no caso acima, mas também um grande problema para a cultura criativa.
“Nós estamos no meio de uma guerra – que alguns chamam de “a guerra dos direitos autorais”; O que Jack Valentine chamava de sua própria “guerra terrorista”, onde os terroristas aparentemente são nossas crianças. (…) O compartilhamento de Arquivos através de Peer-to-Peer é o inimigo na guerra dos direitos autorais. Crianças “roubando” coisas com o computador são o alvo. A guerra não é sobre novas formas de criatividade, não é sobre artistas fazendo novas artes.
Ainda toda guerra tem seu efeito colateral. Esses criadores são os efeitos colaterais dessa guerra. A extrema de regulamentação que as leis de direitos autorais tornou-se, faz com que se torne difícil, as vezes impossível, para que um longo alcance de criatividade que qualquer sociedade livre – se for pensado por só por um segundo – permitiria existir, legalmente”

Esse era o problema que ele tentava resolver quando fundou o Creative Commons…
As leis de diretos autorais devem ser mudadas. No artigo, Lawrence faz 5 boas sugestões para mudanças que fariam um mundo de diferença. Leia elas em detalhe no artigo do WSJ.
Se quiser ver um resumo do livro, assista a sua palestra no TED:

Um documentario esta sendo produzido no assunto acompanhe o trailer:

Nie tak dawno jak wczoraj podałem listę wszystkich licencji wolnościowych, a już dzisiaj na stronie głównej serwisu Wykop znalazła się informacja, że prawa autorskie zostały ukradzione. Niestety nie doczytałem które ale mam nadzieję, że taki los nie spotka licencji Creative Common ani GPL. Ich kradzież byłaby wielkim ciosem dla całego środowiska informatycznego. Świat chyli się ku parterowi!

So, ich hab jetzt wegen der diversen Internetprobleme lang nichts geschrieben. Das Problem ist behoben, keiner weiß was es war – ich hoffe nur, dass diese ISP-Erkältung nie mehr wieder kommt (hatschi – in der Verbindung)

Gut, dass ich mich also wieder den schönen und guten Dingen des Internets widmen kann. Heute will ich ne Webpage vorstellen, die mir in Gauting gezeigt worden ist: http://eyespot.com/

Dort kann man nach der Registrierung ganz easy Filme und Filmschnipsel hochladen. Aber nein: es ist kein Youtube Cover, danach stehen viele Möglichkeiten zur Auswahl. Die Filme können geschnitten werden, mit verschiedensten Filtern versehen und damit neu abgemischt werden. Hervorzuheben ist wohl, dass das ganze unter Creative Common läuft, so dass es möglich ist die freigegebenen Filme der Community mitzuverwenden und reinzumixen.

Ich habs ausprobiert – es ist ziemlich spaßig! Und das schönste: Man muss so gut wie war nichts von Videoschnitt verstehen, weil alles ziemlich intuitiv und auf Klick funktioniert.

In diesem Sinne: Gut Schnitt!