This isn’t the first we’ve heard of this, but a very public instance: UCLA professors can no longer post videos on their educational media server. Copyright refugees can find a home at Critical Commons, a resource developed by Steve Anderson and Holly Willis from cross-town USC for media-based teaching and research. The site promotes media uploads under fair-use with scholarly examinations of each work.
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RT @nmdnet: Your videos banned? Head to Critical Commons!: http://www.nmdnet.org/2010/02/06/your-vi...
Thanks for the post, Craig! I hadn’t thought about the travesty of UCLA’s no-video policy as an opportunity for Critical Commons to step into the gap, but certainly we would love to host any clips that this recent decision deems unallowable. I don’t know all the details of the ban, but one thing to remember is that Critical Commons primarily hosts clips, rather than complete works. This is imperative for the fair use claim we make when presenting copyrighted media on the open internet. Each clip must be accompanied by a substantive commentary or voice-over that critically contextualizes and transforms the original. That said, you’re right that Critical Commons might very well prove an invaluable resource for our neighbors to the west. The system is already seeded with more than a hundred clips, with more being added every day!
Great to hear Critical Commons riding to the rescue.
So all we need now to achieve Fair Use is a script that randomizes cinema theory jargon into believable chunks of critical text whenever a new video is added. How hard can it be?
@Jon hmm… a problem of “web 2.0″ (ubiquity) vs “web 3.0″ (trust + ontologies)?
First time I’ve heard “trust” and “Web 3.0″ mentioned in the same sentence. I thought the absence of a trust metric was exactly what was going to prevent the Semantic Web from taking off…like what’s to keep me from addingJon Ippolito to my home page?
If you’re identifying Web 3.0 with something more trustworthy, like your Mukurktu Archive, then I’m ready for the upgrade