Open Source Cinema - An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright

The voyage of Open Source Cinema / Basement Tapes (or Pirate Movie?) is nearing the end of its first stage - the movie is almost done! We've incorporated remixes, original videoblogs, music and photos drawn from this site (and the culture that surrounds us). But there is a final step we need open source cinema to take - the end of the movie!

Much of the remix work that appears in RiP: A remix manifesto was done simply by watching footage uploaded to the site, downloading it, remixing, and uploading back. A simple call and response process that led to amazing results.

To take part, simply find footage in the uploads section, and download it to your computer. Each piece of footage is a "node" with a link to download the media.

When you have done editing, submit footage back in the submit content section.

If you were present at the Avant-Premiere of the "beta" version of our film at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal, we're looking for your feedback, comments and critiques to help evolve the film to the next version!! Please submit your feedback as a comment in this blog - you'll need to register for the site first.

If you weren't able to attend, please stay tuned for our plans to present the film in different parts of the world and to release it online! SUBMIT YOUR FEEDBACK!

Attention remixers: Creative Commons and OpenSourceCinema are co-hosting a Call for Soundtracks for “RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto”

Remixers everywhere are invited to create music using Creative Commons licensed samples. The movie producers will select the best of those for use in the final version of the movie.

For more info, rules and how to take part, visit ccmixter.org, Creative Commons music remix community.

The current copyright climate makes us all copyright criminals. From trading music between friends, making backup copies of DVDs, an iPod party, a youtube mashup - its all copyright infringment, and it's all against the law.

So - are you a copyright criminal? We'll edit together these photo mug shots into the movie.