What is "Free Culture"?
This is a little video I made mostly for more editing practice, but also to answer the question "What is Free Culture?" and to give a little bit of the context, reasons, and practical economic side of the idea. A lot of people recoil when they hear the words to Nina Paley's "Copying Is Not Theft" song -- which frankly is a little surprising to anyone with any experience with free software or free culture, because it's really a very non-controversial point, and of course, it's fundamental to the idea of Free Culture.
So I decided to pivot on that; include a few words from some free-software and free-culture luminaries; and lead into the question of what this means for artists and how it is that people can still make money making art in a free-culture world -- and finally, to show some of the projects that are have recently been produced or are in production now.
And I think it's valid to address the economics so early, because if there were no way to produce free culture economically, then that would make it unsustainable, and that would be a real showstopper (kind of literally). But it turns out that it's not really so hard, because fans are more supportive than that.
I may make more remixes like this, to expound on the ideas further, but I just wanted to give a small taste of free culture here (and keep it short).
This video is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (v3), and is also available from our Vimeo account (which provides a download link): https://vimeo.com/187689015
Of course, if you find this subject interesting, you may want to look up some of the source videos it's based on:
The Revolution Will Be Animated
https://vimeo.com/8768785
The Digital Tipping Point Archive
http://archive.org/details/digitaltip...
Steal This Film 2 (Interview Footage)
http://footage.stealthisfilm.com/
Neil Gaiman Interview on Orgzine
http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/featu...
(I'm not too clear on what license is on the original video, but as I'm using a small quotation, that should be a non-issue anyway)
Amanda Palmer TED Talk, "The Art of Asking"
http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palme...
(This is under a non-free CC license, but also a small quotation)
Nina Paley's HOPE Talk
https://vimeo.com/14739677
(I've also used a couple of her original slides)
Peter Sunde's 2010 talk at Re:public
• re:publica 2010 - Peter Sunde - Flattr So...
I also heartily encourage you to follow the film projects I reference:
Blender Open Projects
http://www.blender.org/features-galle...
Question Copyright's Minute Memes
http://questioncopyright.org/minute_m...
Morevna Project
http://www.morevnaproject.org
Tube
http://urchn.org
Lunatics Project (Anansi Spaceworks -- That's Us!)
http://lunatics.tv