Happy Christmas from Total Recut!
2008-12-24 08:37:39 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
We just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - here's hoping 2009 will bring good things to all of us!
Well, it's been a very eventful year for us here at Total Recut. We started off in January by relocating to the USA from our base in Ireland.
The first 6 months of 2008 were spent travelling all over the U.S.A., spreading the word about Total Recut, making contacts, networking, drumming up interest in the project, developing business strategies and coming up with LOADS of new ideas!
We went on a Stateside tour travelling to Boston, San Francisco, Kansas City, Dallas, Reno, Lake Tahoe, Chicago, L.A., Oklahoma, St. Louis, Iowa, Omaha, South Dakota, Wyoming and Denver, Colorado to name a few! The main aim was to develop Total Recut and make as many contacts as possible.
I had the true honour and privilege to meet Professor Lawrence Lessig and discuss the project with him at the Creative Commons headquarters in San Francisco. In Iowa, Professor Kembrew McLeod was kind enough to give me an audience and in Boston, I met with Professor Henry Jenkins at MIT where we hatched a plan to run a video remix challenge in the summer.
The idea was simple...a video remix challenge with an open brief to create a short video remix/mash-up using the theme 'What is Remix Culture?' The remainder of our time in the U.S. was spend organising the competition, acquiring sponsorship, assembling a judging panel and acquiring the prizes. We managed to assemble an incredible line-up of judges - it read like a who's who of respected personalities in the remix space.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in the Total Recut Video Remix Challenge 2008. Without all of your help, it would not have happened!
The judges, who were kind enough to donate their time and interest in the project were Lawrence Lessig, Professor at Stanford University and co-founder of Creative Commons and author of many influential books including Free Culture and his latest 'Remix:Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.' Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparitive Media Studies Program at MIT and author of many books including 'Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.' Kembrew McLeod, Independent filmmaker, Associate Professor at the University of Iowa and author of a number of books including 'Freedom of Expression: Resistence and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property.'
Pat Aufderheide, Center for Social Media, who was responsible for the 'Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video.' J.D. Lasica, co-founder of ourmedia.org and author of 'Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation.' Matt Mason, critically acclaimed author of 'The Pirate's Dilemma' and founder of wedia.tv. Mark Hosler, founding member of Negativland and remix mastermind extraordinaire. Luminosity, a prominent and respected remix artist in the vidding community.
We acquired sponsorship from Avid's Pinnacle for some of the prizes and in the end we were able to offer a laptop, a digital camcorder and a digital media for the top three prizes.
We had an open submission round where anyone who wanted to could enter their video which was followed by a public voting round. The ten best videos were put forward into the final to be critiqued and voted on by our panel of expert judges. The final 10 were truly a global group hailing from over 6 different countries and the final winners were DJ Le Clown with his masterpiece, 'Xmas in New York City, Jata Haan with her 'Composition' and Ricardo Carrion with 'Remix Culture II.'
Following the success of the Total Recut Video Remix Challenge 2008, we were nominated for an award at the Europrix Multimedia Awards. We came out with a Europrix Quality Seal and a published entry in the Europrix Annual 2009.
SPECIAL THANKS to iKat381 for his invaluable contributions throughout 2008!
Thank you all so much for your continuing support and participation in the Total Recut project over the last year and we look forward to seeing you in 2009!
Please take a moment to take our QUICK survey and be in with a chance to win a FREE Digital Media Player! It will only take a minute and will help to improve Total Recut!
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2008-12-20 23:57:24 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Other
Totalrecut.com has created a Facebook group. Feel free to join and add things to it. UPDATE |
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2009-01-10 16:44:01 Posted
by: aoife Category: Copyright
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2008-12-09 23:26:02 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Copyright
Lawrence Lessig has just released a new book entitled: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. I'm currently in the midst of reading it and so far I can't put it down. Compelling reading indeed. An important book.
From the book's website: "For more than a decade, we’ve been waging a war on our kids in the name of the 20th Century’s model of “copyright law.” In this, the last of his books about copyright, Lawrence Lessig maps both a way back to the 19th century, and to the promise of the 21st. Our past teaches us about the value in “remix.” We need to relearn the lesson. The present teaches us about the potential in a new “hybrid economy” — one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. That future will benefit both commerce and community. If the lawyers could get out of the way, it could be a future we could celebrate." LINK VIDEO UPDATE |
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2008-12-07 23:22:49 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Technology
Facebook is turning into a legitimate video hosting and sharing platform with two important developments that are captured in this Robert Scoble video interview:
• It now supports hi-definition videos. I believe they are supported only at modest sizes (in the 400 pixels wide range), while regular videos can go up to 720 pixels wide.
• Facebook is now enabling video embeds on regular websites and blogs. This is a huge step toward Facebook "opening up," as Robert points out. And, yes, it means that you can upload a video to Facebook, embed the video on your outside blog, and your readers will be able to see and play the video without having to sign into Facebook.
Facebook is now getting 100,000 uploads a day, and these moves should make it a much more formidable player in the video hosting space.
Chris Putnam, software engineer at Facebook who runs the video team, points out the technical limitations:
• Your HD video must be no larger than 1 gigabyte
• Your video must be no longer than 20 minutes (for verified members) and 2 minutes (for unverified members). [from SocialMedia.biz
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2008-11-14 13:41:50 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Just as news organizations and rock bands sue to keep their good names out of political mudfights, one might think Budweiser would seek to quash that clever pro-Barack Obama remake of its annoying 'Whassup' ads from 2000. But it turns out the beermaker has no choice: Budweiser only licensed the concept from Charles Stone III after the filmmaker created it as a non-commercial short. The expired five-year license cost just $37,000, but Stone told BusinessWeek he's now happy about how things worked out:
Back then, people gave him a hard time about the low price. Now Stone, a diehard Obama supporter, says it’s more than paid off. “That I’m able to use an idea distributed by a huge company, who made a lot of money off it, so that now when I put out what I want to say, it’s recognizable, and it sparks — that’s worth $1 million to me.”
In this case, the idealistic position could also be the smart money move: "Whassup" suddenly looks like an iconic part of American culture rather than a cheesy flash-in-the-pan ad campaign. With another advertising deal, Stone can take that cachet to the bank, should he ever feel the need to do so. {by Ryan Tate, Gawker.com]
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2008-11-10 23:19:45 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Technology
Long after other media joined the digital revolution, book publishers clung to the reassuringly low-tech tools of printing press, paper and ink.
European libraries have joined to produce Europeana, an online database of two million books and other cultural items.
But now the world of books is starting to go digital, too.
Late last month, American authors and publishers reached an agreement with Google to settle lawsuits over Google’s Book Search program, which scans millions of books and makes their contents available on the Internet. The deal lets Google sell electronic versions of copyrighted works that have gone out of print.
“Almost overnight, not only has the largest publishing deal been struck, but the largest bookshop in the world has been built, even if it is not quite open for business yet,” wrote Neill Denny, editor of The Bookseller, a trade publication based in London, on his blog.
The settlement remains subject to court approval, and the bookshop would operate only in the United States for now. But the agreement is only one of many initiatives under which books are making what may be the biggest technological leap since Gutenberg invented moveable type.
This month, a group of European national libraries and archives plans to open Europeana, an online database of two million books and other cultural and historical items, including films, paintings, newspapers and sound recordings. Letters from Mozart to his friends, from the Austrian National Library in Vienna are there, along with early printings of his work, from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. MORE
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2008-10-20 00:41:57 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Pat Aufderheide, one of the original judges of the Total Recut Video Remix Challenge 2008 offers her congratulations to our winners, DJ Le Clown, Jata Haan and Ricardo Carrion for their videos, Xmas in New York City, Composition and Remix Culture II. Thank you Pat and well done guys! WATCH THE WINNING VIDEOS Pat Aufderheide is Director of the Center for Social Media at the American University in Washington D.C. Pat and her associates are responsible for the research, devlopment and publication of the 'Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video' and the study, 'Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video.' Here is an introduction to the Code of Best Pratices:
'This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.
This is a guide to current acceptable practices, drawing on the actual activities of creators, as discussed among other places in the study Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video and backed by the judgment of a national panel of experts. It also draws, by way of analogy, upon the professional judgment and experience of documentary filmmakers, whose own code of best practices has been recognized throughout the film and television businesses.
This code of best practices does not tell you the limits of fair use rights.
It’s not a guide to using material people give permission to use, such as works using Creative Commons licenses. Anyone can use those works the way the owners say that you can.
It’s not a guide to material that is already free to use without considering copyright. For instance, all federal government works are in the public domain, as are many older works. In most cases, trademarks are not an issue. For more information on “free use,” consult the document “Yes, You Can!” and copyright.cornell.edu.
It’s not a guide to using material that someone wants to license but cannot trace back to an owner—the so-called “orphan works” problem.
A distinguished panel of experts, drawn from cultural scholarship, legal scholarship, and legal practice, developed this code of best practices, informed by research into current personal and nonprofessional video practices (“user-generated video”) and on fair use.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE
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2008-10-02 00:34:06 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
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2008-12-24 08:40:26 Posted
by: ragaman7 Category: Remix Culture
Congratulations to all of our winners! After a gruelling public vote and an even more intense celebrity judging round, the winners of the 2008 Total Recut Video Remix Challenge have finally been determined. The competition was tight, but there was one clear winner that our judges felt managed to capture the true essence of remix culture in the most inspiring way. So, without further ado, here are the winners!
First Place - Xmas in New York City by DJ Le Clown, France
Second Place - Composition by Jata Haan, The Netherlands
Third Place - Remix Culture II by Ricardo Carrion, Switzerland
Our winners will receive a brand new laptop computer, a digital handheld camcorder and a digital media player for first, second and third place, respectively, sponsored by Total Recut. Avid's Pinnacle have very generously provided us with a copy of their video editing package, Pinnacle Studio Ultimate v12, for three of our runners up - fourth, fifth and sixth place. Pinnacle also offer all of our participants a complimentary download of their video editing software, Videospin. The remaining finalists will each receive Total Recut merchandise and a copy of one of our esteemed judge's books. All of our contestants will receive a free copy of Videomaker magazine, compliments of Videomaker.
I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our judges, Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, JD Lasica, Kembrew McLeod, Matt Mason, Alison Hanold (on behalf of Pat Aufderheide), Luminosity and Mark Hosler for so generously offering their time, interest and support on this project. And of course, thank you to everyone who participated by creating and submitting videos or by watching and voting for them - without your ongoing involvement, this competition would not have been possible, and this community of remixers would not exist. And for those of you who didn't make it into the final this time, don't worry - we will be hosting more remix challenges in the near future, so watch this space...
Congratulations to DJ Le Clown, Jata Haan and Ricardo Carrion - it's great to see that remix culture has truly become a global phenomenon. We had entrants from all over the world, and 6 different countries were represented in the final! Remix is now within the grasp of anyone with a computer and an internet connection - take advantage of this unique opportunity - remix everything, encourage freedom of expression, have fun and most of all, make a difference. MORE
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