Open Source Cinema - An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright

Hi Pondus! Thanks for returning.

>As an avid open source developer, I'm sometimes puzzled about how the Open Source concept is >bantered around, without any real understanding of how it works in the real world.

The concept of Open Source is expanding beyond software. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content

>Opens Source software projects are often very restrictive in nature, and have very few people who are >actually allowed to contribute to the source tree; this usually happens only after many months or even >years of proving that they can cut it as a core developer.

This isn't a project like that ;) . Ultimately, the film Basement Tapes will be assembled by me, but this space (the website) should be about Creative anarchy. It isn't owned by anyone and should be fluid. This is the difference between art and software - art needs a LOT of influence.

>Sadly, we live in a world short on modesty, where millions of talentless people suffer from the delusion >that they have something to offer the world.

damn! Luckily, we live in a world where increasingly, millions of people REALIZE they have something to offer the world!

>Just watch the American Idol, or worse, go to an independent film festival where 16 mm camera >wielding film makers pretentiously snub their noses at digital video, yet have no original ideas and >nothing important to say.

I love going to independent film festivals! Filmmakers snub their noses at conventional forms and have a lot of important things to say.

:)