[cc-community] How can I find cc BY and BY-SA video, Flash, avi, animation?

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Tue Jan 27 16:43:51 EST 2009


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Angus McIntyre <angus at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for this information, or any information on BY and BY-SA video,
>> animation, cartoons, software, ect..  Where can I find such things and
>> resources?
>
> A number of video-hosting services support CC licenses.
...

But none are *great*.  blip.tv is petty close.  Some others worth mentioning:

* Flickr (<90 second videos), can search for only CC BY/BY-SA licensed
videos by clicking appropriate options at
http://flickr.com/search/advanced

* archive.org which can be searched via
http://www.spinxpress.com/getmedia or with wonky URLs like
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=licenseurl%3A%5B%22http%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby-sa%2F%22%20TO%20%22http%3A%2F%2Fcreativecommons.org%2Flicenses%2Fby-sa%2FZ%2F%22%5D
 or http://ur1.ca/16ug if that gets mangled

* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video


Obviously it would be great if more video repositories could be
upgraded to support CC licensed works.  Here are some simple steps, if
anyone wants to lobby particular repositories:

* Keep track of license info for individual videos
* Offer license-based browse and filter a la
http://flickr.com/creativecommons and their advanced search above
* Include license info in feeds and markup -- see
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Syndication and
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RDFa -- so that it is easy for third
party tools to discover licensed videos

Another approach obviating the above that might work for certain sites
would be to require that all videos be under a single license, eg
BY-SA in the context of this thread.


Then there are a bunch of stuff that is not required to support CC but
definitely complementary and worth pushing for if you care (you
should! :))

* Support for open video formats -- btw some recent good news at
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/01/26/mozilla-and-wikimedia-join-forces-to-support-open-video/
* Support for making available not just final cuts but all source
material and for tracking reuse
* Repositories that are free/open in all respects, from the code to
the content, see http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/
and http://opendefinition.org/ossd for more on this concept


Please report back on successes. :)


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