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[Karthik Nadar <karthikndr AT gmail.com>]

I think it will be better to run some kinda contest out of is related to education or whatever. Then, conduct a CC Film Festival.

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:59 PM, arun vm <arunwebber AT gmail.com> wrote:

we hve a small team u can find our page in fb we are from Banglore. we
can do a  short flm in education.

On 3/23/14, arun vm <arunwebber AT gmail.com> wrote:
> hi my webapplication is using cc licence we like to do a cc short flm.
> my apps name is www.eduladder.com it will deals with education let me
> know u peopels are intrested.
>
> On 3/22/14, Pradeep Mohandas <pradeep.mohandas AT gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Feel free to fwd this mail to that list and let us know if this is
>> something we can work together on, perhaps?
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Pradeep Mohandas
>>
>> On Friday, 21 March 2014, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या
>> *فريدريك
>> نورونيا <fredericknoronha AT gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am admin for a documentary film makers' network, Docuwallahs2
>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/docuwallahs2
>>>
>>> If you suggest it there, it could well work!
>>>
>>> I also believe that more film-makers, authors, puiblishers need to be
>>> convinced about CC.
>>>
>>> Pls see below
>>>
>>> *Shoot, Share and
>>> Create*Edit<http://freespeech.wikia.com/wiki/Lawrence_Liang?action="edit&section=6>
>>>
>>> In an article titled "Shoot, Share and
>>> Create"<http://www.altlawforum.org/PUBLICATIONS/shoot_share>,
>>> Liang argues strongly that it makes sense for "documentary and
>>> alternative
>>> filmmakers in India (to) start licensing their works under an open
>>> content
>>> license".
>>>
>>> Starting with a narrative of his interest in that subject, he
>>> writes<http://www.altlawforum.org/PUBLICATIONS/shoot_share>:
>>> "When I was in law school, I had great aspirations of wanting to be a
>>> filmmaker, and an FTII-type (Film and TV Institute of India, a prominent
>>> school for film-making) friend told me the best place to start was to
>>> watch
>>> a lot of foreign films and documentaries. So I did that rather dutifully
>>> and spent many hours when I should have been reading corporate law,
>>> watching documentaries. My fondest memory of my placement in
>>> Mumbai<http://freespeech.wikia.com/wiki/Mumbai?action="edit&redlink=1>with
>>> a law firm was when we took off to the Tata
>>> Institute of Social
>>> Sciences<http://freespeech.wikia.com/wiki/Tata_Institute_of_Social_Sciences?action="edit&redlink=1>(TISS)
>>> and watched Anjali Monteiro and K P Jayashankar's film on the
>>> Yerawada prison in
>>> Pune<http://freespeech.wikia.com/wiki/Pune?action="edit&redlink=1>."
>>>
>>>
>>> His reasons for suggesting a rethink of licensing policies among
>>> alternative and documental film-makers in India, in this Creative
>>> Commons<http://freespeech.wikia.com/wiki/Creative_Commons>-licensed
>>> article, include:
>>>
>>>    - Distribution, a major headache now: One of the biggest problems
>>>    faced by documentary filmmakers in India has been the question of
>>>    circulation and distribution. This is an issue which has been
>>> discussed
>>> in
>>>    a number of meetings as well as on electronic
>>> mailing-lists<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/docuwallahs2>in cyberspace.
>>>    - If the work were available freely (again note this does not mean
>>>    that you cannot charge for the documentary, but means that a person
>>> who
>>> has
>>>    bought a copy may make a copy and distribute it to others), there
>>> would
>>> be
>>>    far greater circulation of documentaries amongst other filmmakers,
>>>    students, activists, scholars and general public.
>>>    - Filmmakers don’t live off royalty: More important is the fact that
>>>    most documentary filmmakers do not live off royalty in any case.
>>> Their
>>>    films are either commissioned or they earn some money from various
>>> prizes,
>>>    invitations and the like.
>>>    - Another issue, of course, is to recognise the hundreds and
>>> thousands
>>>    of influences and inspirations that have gone into our own films. We
>>> need
>>>    to work beyond the assumed myths of copyright law, and develop
>>> alternative
>>>    practices that recognise the multiplicity that goes into the making
>>> of
>>> a
>>>    film.
>>>
>>> http://freespeech.wikia.com/wiki/Lawrence_Liang
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 March 2014 23:59, Pradeep Mohandas
>>> <pradeep.mohandas AT gmail.com<_javascript_:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','pradeep.mohandas AT gmail.com');>
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone done a CC film festival in India?
>>>>
>>>> Pradeep
>>>>
>>>>
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