Lessig Gives Final CC Talk
2008-02-04 07:15:09 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Lawrence Lessig famously battled Mickey Mouse before the Supreme Court. And lost.
But the fight illustrates how the Stanford law professor has played a pivotal role in shaping Internet law and in building a new approach to copyright rules in the digital era, whose spirit, after all, is the freedom of information.
For some 10 years, Lessig, 46, has spread the message that corporations such as Walt Disney Co. need to loosen their hold on popular culture. Crisscrossing the globe, he has delivered his lecture, called Free Culture, to students, high-tech executives, filmmakers and world leaders. The unassuming professor has become one of the most widely known evangelists on the subject, particularly in Silicon Valley.
But under the bright lights of Stanford's Memorial Auditorium on Thursday, Lessig gave his last lecture on the subject. He is leaving the copyright fight to target another thorny issue: corruption in politics.
[by Ellen Lee, San Francisco Chronicle]
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2008-02-02 22:24:22 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
What do a commercial for Toyota, TV programs such as CSI: New York and The Office, film festivals, and an organization that works with urban youth all have in common? They are at the forefront of machinima, a filmmaking genre that is helping to shape video for the 21st century. Machinima, a contraction of the words machine and cinema, is a genre of filmmaking that was originally created by gamers in the 1990s. Over the past decade, machinima has gone more mainstream, and creativity has entered a whole new dimension.
What is machinima?
Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah) is filmmaking within a real-time, 3-D virtual environment, including video games such as Halo (used to create 100 episodes of “Red versus Blue” machinima series) and Neverwinter Nights (used to create the machinima series “Neverending Nights), and platforms such as Second Life. It combines the technologies of filmmaking, animation, and 3-D video games. Essentially, machinima applies real-world filmmaking techniques within an interactive virtual environment where characters and events can be controlled by humans, scripts, or artificial intelligence.
Video games most often provide the settings, props, costumes, and characters (which can be modified) needed to tell an original story. Some platforms, such as MTV Central and video games like Sims 2, have in-game recording options enabling filmmakers to capture footage; a screen capture software program is needed to import game environments where there are no built-in machinima tools. Remixing audio and video content is also popular among budding machinimists.
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2008-02-01 20:27:33 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Business
The world's top software company could boost its online presence dramatically if Yahoo accepts a
$44.6 billion bid to be purchased.
Microsoft has offered Yahoo shareholders a 62 percent premium on their shares to sell the company.
Yahoo's latest disappointing earnings announcement helped to depress the stock price, making it a
renewed target for a takeover.
"We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions
for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online
services market," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement.
With online advertising projected to grow to $80 billion by 2010, Microsoft can grab a larger slice of
that pie if it can pull in Yahoo, which ranks as the world's heaviest trafficked web property.
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2008-01-31 04:46:32 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Whenever you rent a movie, the multinational media industry forces you to watch their propaganda. They claim that [downloading movies is the same as snatching bags, stealing cars or shoplifting]. That’s simply not true – making a copy is fundamentally different from stealing.
The media industry has failed to offer viable legal alternatives and they will fail to convince consumers that sharing equals stealing. Unfortunately, they have succeeded in another area – lobbying to adapt laws to criminalize sharing, turning consumers into criminals. They argue that their laws are necessary to [support artists], but in reality all they’re protecting is their own profits. [from iwouldntsteal.net]
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2008-01-29 00:01:08 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
The University of Pennsylvania is running their Video Mash-Up contest for the second year in a row for current students or graduates of the prestegious educational institution.
'mashup video. A video that remixes or repurposes material from existing video. Addition of original footage is acceptable.'
Prizes
1st prize: Digital Video Camera
2nd and 3rd prizes: iPod Shuffle
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2008-01-29 00:01:23 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Duran Duran wants to see your video mash-up of their new single "Falling Down!"
Clips from Duran Duran's official video are posted on this page for you to download. You can download these files and then make your own video mash-up. Use all of your own footage, use some of the official video, then it's all up to you, just use your imagination. UPDATE |
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2008-01-25 22:49:00 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
The folks behind the new Rambo movie () have decided to make available some clips from the film for fans to mash up into remixed video trailers. Go crazy! Here's the Link and a link to the movie site. UPDATE |
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2008-01-24 09:42:56 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Movies/TV
The Beeb has decided to partner with MySpaceTV to offer many short form clips of their most popular shows to users of the Rupert Murdoch owned social networking site. Following recent deals with YouTube, the BBC have decided to court the second most popular video sharing network in the world and provide their content online to potential users... UPDATE |
2008-01-22 01:10:05 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Wikimedia and Kaltura are teaming up for a program that aims to bring rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites. This speaks specifically to collaboratively created video, audio, animations, slide shows, text and images, and looks to be an extension of the Open Source remixing program that Wikipedia announced about a month ago. Collaborative is key, seeing as this is a program through Wikimedia, and all. And Kaltura is all about collaborative creation as well.
Wikimedia is demoing the program through WikiEducator, an educational wiki that’s hosted by the Commonwealth of Learning. And while WikiEducator isn’t a part of the Wikimedia organization, it is taking advantage of the new program being announced by Wikimedia and Kaltura. You can find more information about the WikiEducator demo here. Wikimedia’s focus on text wikis has been shaping up for some time know, and has become a standard practice to look at when considering the current manifestation of web 2.0 and overall Internet culture. What we’ve seen more recently is a push towards collaborative media–something that took shape in the creative business world and has been applied to larger social networking trends.
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2008-01-27 02:24:40 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Technology
From the World Future Society:
Forecast #1: The world will have a billion millionaires by 2025. Globalization and technological innovation are driving this increased prosperity. But challenges to prosperity will also become more acute, such as water shortages that will affect two-thirds of world population by 2025.
Forecast #2: Fashion will go wired as technologies and tastes converge to revolutionize the textile industry. Researchers in smart fabrics and intelligent textiles (SFIT) are working with the fashion industry to bring us color-changing or perfume-emitting jeans, wristwatches that work as digital wallets, and running shoes like the Nike +iPod that watch where you're going (possibly allowing others to do the same). Powering these gizmos remains a key obstacle. But industry watchers estimate that a $400 million market for SFIT is already in place and predict that smart fabrics could revitalize the U.S. and European textile industry.
Forecast #3: The threat of another cold war with China, Russia, or both could replace terrorism as the chief foreign-policy concern of the United States. Scenarios for what a war with China or Russia would look like make the clashes and wars in which the United States is now involved seem insignificant. The power of radical jihadists is trivial compared with Soviet missile capabilities, for instance. The focus of U.S. foreign policy should thus be on preventing an engagement among Great Powers.
Forecast #4: Counterfeiting of currency will proliferate, driving the move toward a cashless society. Sophisticated new optical scanning technologies could, in the next five years, be a boon for currency counterfeiters, so societies are increasingly putting aside their privacy fears about going cashless. Meanwhile, cashless technologies are improving, making them far easier and safer to use.
Forecast #5: The earth is on the verge of a significant extinction event. The twenty-first century could witness a biodiversity collapse 100 to 1,000 times greater than any previous extinction since the dawn of humanity, according to the World Resources Institute. Protecting biodiversity in a time of increased resource consumption, overpopulation, and environmental degradation will require continued sacrifice on the part of local, often impoverished communities. Experts contend that incorporating local communities' economic interests into conservation plans will be essential to species protection in the next century.
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