open source video

How many of you have utilized the four million Creative Commons videos on YouTube? Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons, recently shared a guest post on YouTube's blog, reflecting on the first year of YouTube's Creative Commons video library. According to Casserly, this library is larger than any other in the world.

Casserly illustrates exactly why the Creative Commons Attribution license (also known as CC BY) is useful with several examples: » Read more

Most visual artists will use any camera handed to them to make their art, secure in the knowledge that it's not the camera that makes a picture, it's the camera operator. This holds true for post-production tools, as well, and most good video editors will make great art regardless of the video software given to them. » Read more

This past summer at the first annual Open Video Conference, there was a lot of buzz surrounding Kaltura, a software that enables people to edit, host and publish their own videos, as well as make use of re-mixable Creative Commons content. We had an opportunity to sit down with Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura's CEO, at the event and discuss why the web needs an open source video platform so badly. » Read more