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UNCENSORED INTERVIEW AND CREATIVE COMMONS TEAM UP TO GIVE FREE ACCESS
TO ARTIST INTERVIEWS

Thousands of Videos Featuring Musician Interviews Now Available Under
CC’s Permissive Attribution License

New York, NY, USA and San Francisco, CA, USA — 03/09/2009

Today, Uncensored Interview, a video producer and licensor of musician
interviews, announced a collaboration with Creative Commons, a
nonprofit organization focused on building a body of openly shareable
and reusable creative work, by releasing thousands of videos from its
interview footage archive under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
(CC-BY) license.  Previously, Uncensored Interview’s library consisted
of premium content available for commercial licensing, but now
includes videos available via download in Ogg Theora, a free and open
video compression format.  Under CC-BY, users of the content are only
required to give attribution to Uncensored Interview as the content
source.

"This is a visionary move on the part of Uncensored Interview," said
Eric Steuer, creative director of Creative Commons. "By offering this
vast and amazing body of work to the public under our most permissive
license, the people behind Uncensored Interview are making a clear
statement that allowing the sharing and creative reuse of material -
even for commercial purposes - can enhance the value of that material
for its creators. In promoting a "some rights reserved" approach to
distribution, Uncensored Interview is opening up a wide variety of
possibilities, and we're very excited to see the kinds of projects
that result from this pioneering effort."

By working with Creative Commons, Uncensored Interview opens a direct
line for fans to download, share, remix and promote select interview
videos of their favorite artists. Uncensored Interview’s videos will
be clearly marked as available via the CC license, while
simultaneously providing a mechanism via the CC+ protocol for partners
to seek out licensing permissions beyond those already granted.

“Consumers are not just consumers any more. They are creators and
collaborators in their own right. By licensing our premium content
under Creative Commons in Ogg Theora, we immediately enable use of our
content as source material for online users while simultaneously
promoting the artists and their points of view,” said Sander van
Zoest, Chief Technology Officer for Uncensored Interview.

Many of the artists interviewed by Uncensored Interview are supporters
of Creative Commons.

Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk said, "I think many people are starting to
see the artistic and financial benefits of allowing their art and
music to be appropriated and recontextualized.  Creative Commons are
making that whole process much easier."

"Creativity is so often restricted by bureaucracy and financial
matters. I think, CC can be a healthy solution for creative
collaborations. It can help bridge the gap between the artist and fan,
which I think would be a positive change", said UK singer-songwriter
Findlay Brown.

Uncensored Interview will release select interview videos under the
Creative Commons license (CC-BY) on an ongoing basis. To download
Uncensored Interview content, go to
http://www.uncensoredinterview.com/topics/cc.


About Uncensored Interview

Uncensored Interview (http://www.uncensoredinterview.com), a
subsidiary of ZenCat Productions, LLC, is a video production and
licensing company focusing on the community of music artists and their
fans. UI’s primary business is to produce interviews in a free-format
style with musicians of all genres and license high-definition quality
footage to partner companies. UI beta launched in November 2007 and
has created distribution relationships with all areas of the music and
digital industry, including broadcast networks, digital retail hubs,
the music blogosphere, leading major and indie music labels and
prominent music festivals and tours. Uncensored Interview has been
recognized for many awards including the SXSW Interactive Web Awards
and the Webby Awards. UI has interviewed hundreds of acclaimed acts
including Stereolab, Hercules and Love Affair, The Kooks, Vivian
Girls, The New Pornographers, Dizzee Rascal, Lykke Li and many more.


About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001,
that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works,
whether owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright
licenses, Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
educators the choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms
that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional
copyright to enable a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous
support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain,
Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation,
as well as members of the public. For more information about Creative
Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.


Contact

Melinda Lee
Chief Content Officer, Uncensored Interview
mlee AT uncensoredinterview.com

Eric Steuer
Creative Director, Creative Commons
eric AT creativecommons.org

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