Open Source Cinema - An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright

The voyage of Open Source Cinema / Basement Tapes (or Pirate Movie?) is nearing the end of its first stage - the movie is almost done! We've incorporated remixes, original videoblogs, music and photos drawn from this site (and the culture that surrounds us). But there is a final step we need open source cinema to take - the end of the movie!

Join Graffiti Research Lab Montreal and Fair Copyright for Canada Montreal for a fun filled evening of video art, street art and music, to protest Copyright Bill C-61: a draconian piece of federal government legislation which, if passed into law this fall, would fundamentally change the digital media landscape for the worst, making Canadians into copyright criminals by slapping hefty fines on anyone who trades music, makes backup copies of DVDs or even uploads a YouTube mashup.

The current copyright climate makes us all copyright criminals. From trading music between friends, making backup copies of DVDs, an iPod party, a youtube mashup - its all copyright infringment, and it's all against the law.

So - are you a copyright criminal? We'll edit together these photo mug shots into the movie.

After much aniticipation, a preliminary edit of the video is available. I'll be posting info soon about co-ordinating remix efforts, in the meantime, check out the vid (dont forget the full screen option!)
http://www.opensourcecinema.org/lessigfinal

Just in transit to AIDC - the Australia International Documentary Conference, held in Perth. Going to meet some other doc makers and give a talk about Open Source CInema. If anyone is going, let me know!
http://www.aidc.com.au/

The final shoot for the film is scheduled for January 31st - Lawrence Lessig is giving his final Free Culture presentation and we're recording it for the film and for posterity. If you're in San Fransisco, come join the crowd! Find out more!

Open Source Cinema and The Green Code Project are teaming up to make promo videos for this sustainability for documentary film movement. Find out more!

I'm happy to announce that we've partnered up with EyeSpot to offer web based editing right from the browser at Open Source Cinema. This is very cool and I'm hoping this will allow more folks to take part. It will be integrated more tightly with their upcoming re-launch on December 13th. Stay tuned! Meanwhile...Check out the eyespot page!

Brazil footage is coming online - so far we've got Sany Pitbull, a baile funk DJ, and Hermano Vianna, a musical anthropologist. Also check for some amazing slow mo capoeira footage. Gilberto Gil coming up!

Some interesting submission from Lixin, a colleague that worked as an associate producer on Yung Chang's Up The Yangtze, also produced through EyeSteelFilm. Lixin has been doing some filming of the DVD markets of China, both the legitimate and illegitimate kind.

When I originally visited China last year, I was narrowing in on another narrative line - Lessig was travelling through and I was a bit obsessed with the culture differences. Interestingly, China only created a copyright law in '98, after joining the WTO.