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#freefilm is a project designed to prompt discussion of the Digital Economy Act 2010 [#deact] and politics in general
Members of the public are invited to join the project by editing their own campaign videos using the following as kit pieces (should you not have the time/resources to make your own material):
Music: This moneyed mix comes to us from (and is available via) Alastair Cameron:
Download the music here
The choice of music is quite deliberate, and could be defended any number of ways as fair use, if the system didn’t favour the moneyed studios to such an absurd degree. But that’s kind of the point.
Video: You can access all sorts of public domain footage at the Prelinger archives. My video features footage from Yesterday’s Over Your Shoulder (1940) and Master Hands: Part I (1936), and I’m really liking the look of Despotism (1946) for a possible follow-up.
All of this video footage is in the public domain, but you interpret fair use on the music at your own risk. I advise against trying it with YouTube, who fold faster than Superman on laundry day… but if you wish to assert your rights there, I can’t stop you. Rupert Murdoch could squash you like a bug with no grounds for doing so, but again we stray toward the point.
So that’s it, really. Use the materials and play with the formula as you please.
I’ve made the following film to kick things off. It tells the story of little grey men who just don’t get the web, but tinker on regardless with expert guidance from the good people in the showbusiness. I hope you like it.
The Minister for the Internets :: a #freefilm about #deact from Tim Ireland on Vimeo.
By David Boothroyd April 23, 2010 - 11:59 pm
That was Ernie Bevin at the end, newly appointed Minister of Labour. Difficult to say how he would have looked at the Digital Economy Act though as a firm trade unionist he would have wanted the workers by brain to be properly paid for their copyrighted work.