Open Video Alliance

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Episodes of Open Video Alliance

    • Why Open Video

      What makes open video an essential part of an engaged, inclusive media sphere? How does open video promote free speech, diversity, and participation? Camera: Tim Cothren/Editor: Kevin Henson/Music: Yacht (CC BY-NC-SA) Produced By: Intelligent Television

      • Release date
        Dec 14, 2009
      • Runtime
        12:51
    • The Mobile Journalism Collective (MojoCo.Org): H...

      In the face of a more networked world, as the definition of “content provider” evolves beyond monikers like NBC, CBS, ABC - even PBS - and begins to include “unknown” names like “envirogurl-11206,” new players are using video to introduce audiences to broader themes and truer life stories. By virtue of this change we citizens, presented with an unprecedented opportunity, are asked to evolve, be prepared to pick from the bevy of choices, engage with more communities; tell bet- ter stories of ou...

      • Release date
        Sep 4, 2009
      • Runtime
        19:58
    • Lunch Teach-in: Obama, Tech Policy & the Promoti...

      **Please Note: The original tape that this was recorded on was damaged, so the sound is out of sync and was impossible to fix in post. We do apologize for this technical error.**

      • Release date
        Sep 4, 2009
      • Runtime
        59:29
    • Fair Use Battles: Discussion

      Falzone will discuss his experience defending Shephard Fairey in the much-discussed Obama Photo case, and McSherry will talk about her ground-breaking work in Lenz v. Universal, a case fighting for the acknowledgment of fair use in issuing DMCA video takedowns. speaker: Anthony Falzone — Executive Director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School speaker: Corynne McSherry — Staff Lawyer, Electronic Frontier FoundationVideo Courtesy of GChriss

      • Release date
        Sep 4, 2009
      • Runtime
        45:03
    • Mozilla: The Future of Open Video

      Mozilla, a strong supporter of the open web, will present its vision for the future of online video. This presentation will include a live demonstration of new open video technologies in Firefox 3.5 that will empower people to communicate and innovate in new ways. Additionally, a representative from Dailymotion will give a brief over- view of its initiative to offer over 300,000 videos in open formats. speaker: Chris Blizzard — Director of Evangelism, Mozilla Corporation speaker: Mark Surman —...

      • Release date
        Sep 4, 2009
      • Runtime
        40:02
    • Opening Remarks and Yochai Benkler: Keynote

      Welcome by Shay David (Kaltura). Opening Remarks by Elizabeth Stark (Yale ISP/ iCommons) and Dean Jansen (Participatory Culture Foundation).Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Har- vard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He writes about the Internet and the emergence of networked economy and society, as well as the organization of infrastructure, such as wireless communications. His work traverses a wide range of dis...

      • Release date
        Sep 4, 2009
      • Runtime
        34:13
    • Institute for the Future’s People of the Screen ...

      David Evan Harris will present preliminary results of People of the Screen, an Insti- tute for the Future research project on the future of the medium of video and the role it will play in our lives over the next 5 to 10 years. David will also present a progress report on the Global Lives Project, a growing video library of human life experience, which now includes 24-hour video recordings of daily life of individuals from Lebanon, Serbia, India, China, Indonesia, Malawi, Brazil, Japan and the...

      • Release date
        Sep 4, 2009
      • Runtime
        37:08
    • Lizz Winstead: Featured Talk

      Online video can be a powerful tool for satire and commentary, enabling indepen- dent voices to challenge the way the news is presented. Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and co-founder of Air America Radio, will share her vision for a world where connected citizens keep an eye on those who are supposed to be keeping an eye on elected officials. Winstead is currently involved with Shoot The Messenger Productions, an independent comedy group that performs a weekly sa- tirical news sum...

      • Release date
        Sep 3, 2009
      • Runtime
        16:05
    • Mediaspace Potentials and Mapping Open Video

      In the first part of this session Kari-Hans Kommonen will discuss the broader con- text of digital media evolution. As all media is becoming digital, the media environ- ment is changing from media specific devices and rigid, corporate controlled chan- nels into a flexible, software designable open space, the Mediaspace, where anyone can produce and distribute, a shift that is also the fundamental force driving Open Video. What new potentials does the emerging Mediaspace present for society, me...

      • Release date
        Sep 1, 2009
      • Runtime
        45:41
    • Human Rights and Indigenous Media: Dilemmas, Cha...

      The key elements of an open video culture are the capacities and opportunities for participation, fair use of existing media and transparency. However, from a human rights perspective, issues of consent, representation and revictimization emerge in an open and networked online environment of rework- ing, remixing and recirculating video and other imagery. How do we go about “in- corporating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” into the “terms of ser- vice” of both open video culture and ...

      • Release date
        Sep 1, 2009
      • Runtime
        36:51
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