Steal This Footage and Community Remix Documentaries

June 3rd, 2008

Steel this film I and II have helped shape the debate on copyright policy. The first film focused on the raid against the pirate bay and file sharing culture. Part II took on the broader copyright debate.

Now they are making their interview footage from Steel This Film II available for remixing. Their site features ogg video with time segment requests (similar to what we do here on metavid) and synced transcripts for search. Footage is made available in ogg theora & high quality HDV via bittorrent. They encurge people to download and reuse the footage.

This exiting new area of community based audio video production is nearing actualization. Early projects like the digital tipping point and the echo chamber project did early experimenters with the concept. Now many web video startups are enabling communities to “remix” eachothers videos right in the browser. Projects such as Steel this Footage are pushing forward in existing ways as well. In the not to distant future hopefully MetaVidWiki will be among the strong enablers of community video production. By tying together temporal semantic audio/video metadata authoring and searching with a full featured video editor it should connect the dots of peer production with audio/video media assets. More on that in the near future

Also see coverage of steal this film from miro blog

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