Barcamp - The Video
Dorrian Porter has assembled a wonderful video (55MB .mov) capturing the feel of the past weekend at Barcamp, hosted by Laughing Squid . A great job of compressing the idea of the weekend into under 4 minutes, using commodity video and computing tools. It’s still beyond the casual consumer, but this level of production would have been remarkable (and expensive) even a few years ago.
Dorrian’s post discussing the selection and use of the Creative Commons-licensed music (in this case, “One Big Holiday” by My Morning Jacket) is also interesting.
Now, I am a lawyer and I have to say that it wasn’t as easy as the good folks at creative commons made it out to be to figure out my rights.
I am most hopeful that I am living up to at least the spirit of the license. The point is that as video comes scorching to the web, folks with no intention of commercializing their videos need better ways to insert a little jazz singing now and then. I want to encourage music artists to adopt creative commons type licenses that allow for easy access to and use of great tunes for non-commercial films. You will keep your copyright, but you will make this new age of media and distribution a little more fun.
It would be interesting if this particular batch of CC-licensed music helps get some visibility for My Morning Jacket. I’d never heard of them, and never got around to listening through the CD from the Wired issue that it came in, but thanks to their CC-licensing, now I have.
I’m still not sure how this turns into a sustainable economic model for My Morning Jacket, or for CC-licensed content publishers in the end, but part of the premise has to be that the content producer will benefit by wider exposure and finding an audience. I’d like this model to work, so I’m going out of my way to point to these guys. If you like the music, here’s their concert schedule. They’re playing in the Bay Area at the Fillmore on November 11 and 12.
See also: Notes from Barcamp
