Speaking of copyright! This week I put my entire documentary feature film online. It's called "Blogumentary" and it documents the rise of political and personal blogs, from the early days up through the Iraq War and Dan Rather's downfall - not to mention a bloggy love story or two. Think of it as a collection of vlog videos woven together into a 65-minute film.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8920472176280937346 or: http://tinyurl.com/yv47ar People have often asked me if they could watch the film online. Up until now, no. There's a fair amount of copyrighted material in the film, particularly music. This is what's prevented me from putting it online, trying to sell DVDs, or even promoting it all that much. Now, in the YouTube era, I'm not as worried. So I'm taking a chance and putting the whole thing online, with the disclaimer that it's intended for non-profit educational use only. I'm sincere about that; I do hope this will make it easy for educators to show new media and journalism students. That's probably the most likely audience. If you're linking it on your blogs, feel free to link to blogumentary.org which is the official site and has a bit more info. I've always intended to make that site into a videoblog from the huge archive of interviews I have, but there's no demand for that so I spend my time on my other projects + client work. Someday, someday. cheers, chuck mnstories.com
