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 will continue to [...]
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?” Download link: [OGG] [MP4]
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
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