The Open Video Alliance has released a 13 minute vignette on the importance of open video. Featuring interviews with Amy Goodman, Yochai Benkler, Jonathan Zittrain and many more, the video is available for download here.
The video explores the importance of open codecs and platforms that don’t require permissions or royalty payments in order to share content. It also addresses the power of the moving image and user-created media, and how the open video movement promotes free speech and distributed creativity, sometimes against a backdrop of spurious intellectual property claims.
This is a preview of a longer production we’re working on for next year. For now, please share it with your friends and help us grow the open video movement. The video is licensed CC-BY, so you are free to share, modify, and redistribute it in any way you like—just link back to the OVA site.
