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Open-source film
Open-source films (also known as open-content films and free-content films) are films which are produced and distributed by using free and open-source software methodologies. Their sources are freely available and the licenses used meet the demands of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in terms of freedom.
Definition
A definition of an open-source film is based on the OSI's open-source software definition[1] and the definition of free cultural licenses[2]. This definition can be applied to films where: 1. The license of the movie is approved for free cultural works. Specifically this is true for the Creative Commons licenses by and by-sa. 2. The materials used in the movie (sources) are also available under a license which is approved for free cultural works. 3. The movie and its sources are made publicly available via an online download or by other means that are either free or with a cost that covers reasonable reproduction expenses only. 4. The sources should be viewable and editable with free/open-source software. If this is not the case, they must be convertible into such a format by using free/open-source software. The same applies to the movie itself. 5. It should be possible to re-create or re-assemble the movie using the source materials. Films or film projects which do not meet these criteria are either not open source or partially open source.
Documentary Dancing to Architecture a motion picture [3] about TINA Route 66 [5] road movie / gonzo-documentary
12/2004
by-sa 3.0
Became popular as Germany's first open-source film. The license changed to CC by-sa in July 2009.
animated short
04/2006
by 2.5
07/2006
by 3.0
Created with Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut and [9] Boy Who Never various others. Slept [10] [11] Collaborative project
Stray Cinema
2006
by 3.0
.re_potemkin [11]
2007
none/copyleft [12]
link
A remake of Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" using crowndsourcing / peer production method.
Oceania
[13]
Feature-length independent film from the San Francisco Bay Area animated short
2008
by-nc-sa 3.0
homepage Self-distribution via BitTorrent and Archive.org [13] torrent (25,000+ downloads) [14]
08/2008
by 3.0
link
[15]
Open-source film
[17]
2
short film 02/2009 by-sa 3.0 Sources only consist of the movie without music score.
link
animated musical of the 2009 Indian epic the Ramayana full feature 01/2010
CC0 1.0
link
[18]
Valkaama
[19]
by-sa 3.0
homepage Collaborative project. HD download available (720p [20] torrent and 1080p) [21] link [23] Collaborative project.
documentary
in production
by-sa
full feature
not yet
by-sa 3.0
in production link [24] Created with the Blender Open Source Software. Created with the Kdenlive Open Source Software.
Sintel La Chute d'une plume (pse plus que ta pudeur) Project Code Rush original source footage of Tears of Steel
10/2010 10/2010
documentary
06/2009
[27]
by-nc-sa 3.0
link
[28]
Code Rush originally aired in 2000 as a TV [29] documentary. This is a first time addressing of the huge lack in available free high quality footage for motion tracking, keying and cleaning testing. The material was recorded with the Sony F65 camera (4k native sensor, see also Ultra HD) and is formed by roughly 80,000 frames, each in OpenEXR half float files, in 4096 x 2160 pixels. This is 5 times more footage than used in the film. For the movie production the format encoding Rec709 scene linear was used in the processing pipeline.
2013-03-15
Xiph.org [31]
Further reading
Cassarino, I.; Richter, W. (2008). "Swarm creativity: The legal and organizational challenges of open content film production (DIME Working Paper No. 45)" [32] (PDF). In Andersen, B. DIME Working Papers on Intellectual Property Rights. London: Birkbeck College.
External links
Revolution of Open Source and Film Making Towards Open Film Making (M.A. thesis) [33]
References
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] http:/ / www. opensource. org/ docs/ osd http:/ / freedomdefined. org/ Definition http:/ / www. minskimedia. com/ projects/ dta. html http:/ / www. minskimedia. com/ projects/ dta-archive. html http:/ / route66. vebfilm. net/ free/ en http:/ / route66. vebfilm. net/ free/ en/ free-open-source-film-download-streaming http:/ / www. clearbits. net/ torrents/ 52-route-66-documentary http:/ / orange. blender. org/ download
Open-source film
[9] http:/ / moviepals. org/ solomons-corner/ boywhoneverslept/ watch-and-download-free-movie-bwns/ [10] http:/ / straycinema. com/ footage-2009/ [11] http:/ / re-potemkin. httpdot. net/ [12] http:/ / www. httpdot. net/ copyleft_ [13] http:/ / www. hdehal. com/ oceania [14] http:/ / www. clearbits. net/ torrents/ 179-oceania-an-independent-film-from-the-san-francisco-bay-area---high-quality [15] http:/ / www. bigbuckbunny. org/ index. php/ download [16] http:/ / moviepals. org/ premium/ moviepals-open-cinema-everyone/ spark/ jathias-wager-%E2%80%93-open-source-sci-fi-movie/ [17] http:/ / moviepals. org/ solomons-corner/ jathias-wager/ watch-and-download [18] http:/ / www. sitasingstheblues. com/ [19] http:/ / www. valkaama. com/ [20] http:/ / www. valkaama. com/ index. php?page=sources& l=en [21] http:/ / www. clearbits. net/ torrents/ 979-valkaama---music-michael-georgi [22] http:/ / www. digitaltippingpoint. com [23] http:/ / archive. org/ details/ digitaltippingpoint [24] http:/ / www. sintel. org/ [25] http:/ / lachuteduneplume. free. fr/ ?-English[26] http:/ / lachuteduneplume. free. fr/ les_fichiers/ sources/ [27] Code Rush release announcement. (http:/ / waxy. org/ 2009/ 07/ code_rush_in_the_creative_commons/ ) [28] http:/ / clickmovement. org/ coderush [29] Code Rush IMDb page (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0499004/ ) [30] 4 TB original 4k footage available as CC-by (http:/ / mango. blender. org/ production/ 4-tb-original-4k-footage-available-as-cc-by/ ) [31] http:/ / media. xiph. org/ tearsofsteel/ tearsofsteel-footage-exr/ [32] http:/ / www. dime-eu. org/ files/ active/ 0/ Cassarino-Richter-AB. pdf [33] http:/ / www. radiobrecht. org/ files/ open_source_filmmaking_loker. pdf
License
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported //creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/