Seth Johnson | 7 Aug 00:04

Steal This Film's raw footage available and excellent


> http://kenzoid.com/blog/archive/849/

> Steal This Film's raw footage available and excellent
> 
> I heard about Steal This Film II when it was originally released, and I meant to watch it early on...but never
> got around to it. Shame on me...I recently finished it, and it was outstanding.
> 
> And I'm even more excited now, b/c I'm in the middle of exploring the raw footage that the film was based on. 
> 
> Wow...this is truly awesome!! The film was great, but as in the case of every documentary, there's far more raw
> footage than made it into the finished work. All this footage is now available for viewing, and it's an deep,
>  engaging dive into the concepts and questions brought up by the film (copyright, intellectual property,
> creativity, and the future of distribution, for starters). It gets better...the footage is all under Creative
> Commons, and most of it is under the Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA) license, which allows for
derivative reuse.
> It's mind-boggling, really.
> 
> Some of my favorite thinkers in this space are represented, including Eben Moglen, Yochai Benkler, and
Fred von
> Lohmann (though not limited to them by any means). Regardless of your
> knowledge level on these topics, there's probably more than one interview you'll enjoy and learn from here.
> 
> posted by Ken Kennedy at Aug 6th 2008 1:01 a.m.

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