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FAQ
How do I get a BitPass account?
Click.
May I make my own movie out of this footage and sell it?
Yes.
Do I have to give you any royalties?
No. The point of a Creative Commons license is to make it easy to
make new art out of existing art. Freedom from royalty obligations (and
the attendant accounting and legal hassle) is part of the deal. All we
ask is that you credit "Nothing So Strange" as the source of the
footage.
Why are you doing this?
Because there was no good answer to the question, "Why not?"
Aren't you worried about pirates stealing your movie?
Nothing So Strange
itself is still protected by an "all rights reserved" copyright. We
haven't given up any rights to our cut of the movie. Only the clips
that make up the film are "open source" in the form of raw footage.
May I have an exclusive copyright on work I create from these clips?
Yes. While Creative Commons offers many kinds of licenses--including one called a "Share Alike" license that requires the user to share derivative works--the Nothing So Strange
raw footage uses a license that requires only attribution. You may mark
your new creative work "all rights reserved" if you want to.
Do I have to buy the clips here in order to get the license to use them?
No. The fee we charge through BitPass is for the service of
delivering the clips to you. The license applies no matter how you get
the footage. If a friend sent you some clips, you can use them. We'd
prefer that you come here to get them, however, because the BitPass
"micropayments" we charge help make this open-source experiment
possible.
What about all of the characters, the story, the whole mythology of the Nothing So Strange world--isn't all of that "copyrighted"?
No. The world of Nothing So Strange is open. Whether you want to tell a story about Citizens for Truth, or analyze the Garcetti Report, or maybe even write this (currently nonexistent) book, it's all yours. You don't even have to buy a single clip here, technically.
Why did you bother doing this?
Copyright reform is one of the most urgent matters facing our
culture. When the United States was founded, a copyright term lasted 14
years. Now, due
to pressure by big media companies on Congress, a copyright term
lasts until 70 years after the author's death,
or 95 years total for a corporate-owned work. The stated goal of the
big media companies is to keep extending copyright into perpetuity--meaning that
they will have an exclusive hold on significant contributions to our
culture...forever. Most people don't understand how dangerous this
copyright extremism is, and it can be very difficult to communicate to
someone the value of a healthy public domain. So the makers of Nothing So Strange
feel it is important for artists to demonstrate
how work would be created in a free culture.
What do you expect people to do with this stuff?
Some people may simply watch the clips and collect them and pass them on to
friends. As we release new clips on a regular basis, new aspects of the
Nothing So Strange story will unfold. Because the movie was shot like a
real documentary, there are many scenes that didn't make it into
the 80-minute feature. So merely
watching and sharing the clips is one way to use them.
But our hope is that people take the clips here and do things with them
that we could never have imagined, and that would never have happened if
we had gone the usual route that conventional wisdom recommends for
holders of "intellectual property"--i.e., locked up every aspect of
this film and licensed it only to those who could hire a lawyer and
negotiate a license agreement with us. We think it may be interesting
to see what happens when someone else's imagination meets ours. We're
hoping to be surprised.
How do I learn more about how copyright extremism threatens our culture?
Electronic Freedom Foundation
Center for the Public Domain
Digital Consumer
Is there one book in particular I should read?
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
How do I see the original movie Nothing So Strange?
Go to the official website.
What if I have other questions?
Email us.
MORE INFORMATION:
Director Brian Flemming's production diary entry:
The Film Goes Open Source
Press Release:
Nothing So Strange Goes Open Source |
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