Q&A on OpenMedia
So it begins…..
JD Lasica did a Q&A with Sheila Lennon - here it is below along with my answers (in italic):
• Can I put my home movies up there and send the link to my family?
Yep. But we’re not yet sure if there will be private spaces or if everything “up there” will be part of the public archive, accessible to all.
The idea of this site is for public content. Everything up there is for everyone. This site and project is NOT about private content. They’ll be plenty of places to put that stuff - but not here.
HOWEVER if you want us all to see your child’s ballet performance or sports competition - we’d be delighted to give you some space. Or maybe it’s a little pony ride or a birthday party. We love kids, families, vacations, art, grandparents, country scenes, water polo, music and musical performances - everything - but we’re about PUBLIC, accessible, shared content. Not private content.
• I want to create an archive of every Bush/Kerry/Cheney/Edwards campaign speech, enlisting volunteers who live along their routes. Can you help me organize that?
You mean the text of the speeches instead of the video?
• No, I’d like to see vblogging by people who go to campaign appearances, or by the campaigns themselves. Primary sources. Like this little clip:
Yeah, this is the sort of thing that could be stored on the open-media.org site we’re building (what’s nice for users is there’s no bandwidth costs). Then all you have to do is create a website with whatever branding and text you’d like, and have a little screen for video footage, point it to our servers to deliver the video stream or download, and you’re all set.
What a coincidence - in the case of poltiical candidates, debates, news conferences, etc. there’s an Internet Archievs project that’s doing that right now!@
So yes - we store all sorts of stuff like that and then YOU get to buyild the site around it. We’re just the hard drives. We give you URLs of the storage location fo your open media.
• Do you own what I put there, as TextAmerica does?
No. Anyone who uploads anything will be required to fill out a form stating which Creative Commons license she chooses, which typically means the work may be freely shared and viewed by others but must be attributed to the content creator. Or, full copyright can be retained.
Open Media for all - some rights reserved. Time to mash it up now.
• Can I upload video from my phonecam?
Don’t know. I’ll ask around.
Ab-so-fucking-lutely! We don’t care where the media comes from. That’s where the Open APIs come in. We’ll have calls like: upload, download, attach meta data, search for ______, etc.
• Is this like public-access cable, where I can do a “Wayne’s World” in my basement and upload it?
If you’d like! Hopefully people will create works with a bit more meaning, but it will run the gamut from deeply felt digital stories to satirical bits of entertainment.
Hey! What’s wrong with Wayne’s World? I’d rather watch them than a 1,000 ‘meaningful student dramas’. Just cause they’re high-school grads with no college degree and with no high falooting agenda - does not make them non-meaningful. I mean I pay homage to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ - too!
• Am I gonna be able to search for other people’s cat videos? By breed?
Yes. We’ll have keyword searches and a rich metadata library.
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• Can I put porn videos there?
No. We’ll have terms of service and porn is one of the no-nos.
OK - well I’m some whacko Tribester Burner who’s into foot fetishes. Or tearing down pyramids - made of bras - with dancing Druids circling chanting “Mashed Potatoes”. Is that porno? Oh! did I forget to say that the Druids are naked?
Better said than I did!
Better said than I did!
Better said than I did!
I’m calling post-level access control as the killer app of 2005. Share with the anyone, share with nobody, share with exactly Bob and Carol and the current members of the SF Mime Troup. Licensing is only half of the feature set that let people be comfortable.
LiveJournal’s showing the way here.
I’m calling post-level access control as the killer app of 2005. Share with the anyone, share with nobody, share with exactly Bob and Carol and the current members of the SF Mime Troup. Licensing is only half of the feature set that let people be comfortable.
LiveJournal’s showing the way here.
I’m calling post-level access control as the killer app of 2005. Share with the anyone, share with nobody, share with exactly Bob and Carol and the current members of the SF Mime Troup. Licensing is only half of the feature set that let people be comfortable.
LiveJournal’s showing the way here.
Regarding access restriction of stored media, I tend to feel that maybe it would be beneficial to allow for this if the media is part of a project that may exist, as long as the final production is made available to the public using a CC license.
So, my initial feelings are that OpenMedia, or a companion site, should consider this as a way to fascilitate creative works within the framework and inevitable public availability of the final media. This will spark more community interaction and collaboration and hence more creative works for the archive.
I suggest a ‘Project’ element be part of the underlying API to be utilized by some aspect of OpenMedia, such as an affiliated effort that ties in to the archive.
Regarding access restriction of stored media, I tend to feel that maybe it would be beneficial to allow for this if the media is part of a project that may exist, as long as the final production is made available to the public using a CC license.
So, my initial feelings are that OpenMedia, or a companion site, should consider this as a way to fascilitate creative works within the framework and inevitable public availability of the final media. This will spark more community interaction and collaboration and hence more creative works for the archive.
I suggest a ‘Project’ element be part of the underlying API to be utilized by some aspect of OpenMedia, such as an affiliated effort that ties in to the archive.
Regarding access restriction of stored media, I tend to feel that maybe it would be beneficial to allow for this if the media is part of a project that may exist, as long as the final production is made available to the public using a CC license.
So, my initial feelings are that OpenMedia, or a companion site, should consider this as a way to fascilitate creative works within the framework and inevitable public availability of the final media. This will spark more community interaction and collaboration and hence more creative works for the archive.
I suggest a ‘Project’ element be part of the underlying API to be utilized by some aspect of OpenMedia, such as an affiliated effort that ties in to the archive.