Competition for BY-SA video clips in an open format!
- Rob.
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From: Eric Steuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 June 2006 23:50:08 BDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Cc-icommons] PRESS RELEASE: CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES
OPEN VIDEO CONTEST WITH THE FEDORA PROJECT
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CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES OPEN VIDEO CONTEST WITH THE FEDORA PROJECT
San Francisco, USA - June 20, 2006
Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to announce the
Open Video Contest taking place now. The contest promotes flexible
copyright, open media formats and the Fedora Project.
Entries must be 30 seconds or less, in OGG Theora format, promote
freedom and openness, and be released under the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.
Visit http://creativecommons.org/video/openvideocontest/ before
July 20, 2006 to enter.
The contest will be judged by representatives of the Fedora Project
and Red Hat, Creative Commons jurisdiction leads from Brazil,
Nigeria, and Poland, and a representative of the Wikimedia
Foundation Special Projects Committee.
"This contest spreads the message that a combination of open
licensing, open formats and open source software gives creators,
consumers, and developers infinite freedom" says Alex Maier, Chair
of Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee.
About OGG Theora
Theora is an open, royalty-free video codec developed by the
Xiph.org Foundation as part of the Ogg multimedia framework. Theora
is released to the public under a BSD-style open source software
license, completely free for commercial or noncommercial use. For
more information about Theora visit http://theora.org.
About the Fedora Project
The Fedora Project is a Red Hat-sponsored and community-supported
open source project. The goal? Work with the Linux community to
build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from
free software. Public forum. Rapid progress. Open process. A
proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way
into Red Hat products. Fedora Core is an operating system and
platform, based on Linux, that is always free for anyone to use,
modify and distribute, now and forever. It is developed by a large
community of people who strive to provide and maintain the very
best in free, open source software and standards.
About Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that promotes the
creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works – whether owned
or in the public domain. Creative Commons licenses provide a
flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the "all
rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a
voluntary "some rights reserved" approach. Creative Commons is
sustained by the generous support of various foundations including
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Omidyar
Network Fund, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller
Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information
about Creative Commons, visit the organization’s Web site (http://
creativecommons.org/).
Contact
Eric Steuer
Creative Director, Creative Commons
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Press Kit
http://creativecommons.org/presskit
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