Open Video, WebM, and Patents
Google (with support from Mozilla, Opera, and others) announced today that they’ll be freely—as in beer & as in speech—licensing their VP8 video compression technology, as part of developing “a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.” Seems like excellent news insofar as this royalty-free format [...]
ISP Fellows featured in “Why Open Video?”
On the same weekend as the ISP’s conference, A2K4: Access to Knowledge and Human Rights, the Free Culture X conference was taking place in Washington DC. As part of that event, they released Tim Kothran’s great ten-minute educational movie entitled “Why Open Video?”
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Open Video: The Rough Cut
Professionally produced video of all the speeches from the Open Video conference will go live at http://openvideoconference.org within a few days. In the meantime, amateur footage is already floating around the internet.
Yochai Benkler: Friday Keynote Address
Highlights from the Open Video Conference
Congratulations to Open Video Conference organizers Elizabeth Stark, Leah Belsky, and Shay David for producing an extraordinary gathering this weekend in New York to explore the future of online video and new media.
This conference explored business models, legal systems, and technical architectures for open Internet video that promotes democratic freedoms, free culture, open innovation, and [...]
Lea Shaver: Open Video and Human Rights
ISP Resident Fellow Lea Shaver spoke at the Open Video Conference today on a panel addressing “Human Rights and Indigenous Media: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities.”
In her presentation, Shaver suggested that open video promotes human rights in two ways, strengthening freedom of expression and cultural participation.
Using examples from the recent mass demonstrations in Iran, Shaver highlighted [...]
Open Video Conference coming June 19-20
The future of online video will be explored at a two-day event taking place June 19-20 at the NYU School of Law in Manhattan.
The “Open Video Conference” is sponsored by Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Kaltura, in partnership with Mozilla, Creative Commons, and the Berkman Center for Internet [...]
Announcing the Open Video Conference
Open Video Conference June 19-20 in New York City
The future of online video will be explored at a two-day event taking place June 19-20 at the NYU School of Law in Manhattan. The “Open Video Conference” is sponsored by Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Kaltura, in partnership with [...]
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