My Morning Jacket v. Porter

I finished the Barcamp video and had my first real run-in with creative commons.  Since Barcamp was so popular, I thought the video might get a viewing and I didn't want to use unlicensed music.  I went searching for something I could freely distribute and there wasn't much.  At one point, I was debating between America the Beautiful and Joy to the World. 

But then I came across the Wired CD and started listening.  I found One Big Holiday by My Morning Jacket and I was set.  The song simply rocks (concert schedule here - at the Fillmore November 11/12). 

Now, I am a lawyer and I have to say that it wasn’t as easy as the good folks at creative commons made it out to be to figure out my rights.   How confident am I that I am meeting the terms of the license?  Very.  The bad news is that I left the practice of law over five years ago after dwelling for three years on the words of one my first mentors: you don’t worry enough about your answers.   I welcome thoughts from those who do.  My legal analysis is here.

I am most hopeful that I am living up to at least the spirit of the license.  The point is that as video comes scorching to the web, folks with no intention of commercializing their videos need better ways to insert a little jazz singing now and then.  I want to encourage music artists to adopt creative commons type licenses that allow for easy access to and use of great tunes for non-commercial films.   You will keep your copyright, but you will make this new age of media and distribution a little more fun.

Comments

[Ted Rheingold]

Beautiful! Leaving barcamp I felt that it would be easiet to describe it like a WebDork’s Burning Man (A wonderful compliement in my dook =) I’ll treasure this video as much as I do footage from my first burn.

Thank you everyone! How can I help now?

[Kevin Marks]

Dorrian, email me and we can get it better compressed- you're using a 6-year-old video codec and uncompressed audio, so your bitrate is a megabit - with modern codecs we can make it look better than TV at that rate

kmarks@mac.com

[Ping]

Nice work on the video. Thanks!

[Jeff Clavier]

Great job on the video Dorrian, congrulations.

[Zooko]

Hi! I'm sure this marks me out as some kind of anachronism, but I can't figure out how to view your video. When I go to the page, there is a blank space that says "plug-in" needed. I allowed firefox to search for plug-ins and it reported no matching plug-in found.

I really detest the idea of installing a plug-in and viewing a video in a little space on a web page. Instead, what I would really like is to download the file onto my own hard drive. Could you give me a link to do that?

Thanks!

Zooko

zooko@zooko.com

P.S. I gave you some interview minutes for your video at barcamp, although I would be somewhat surprised if any of my comments made it into the final cut. ;-)

[Zooko]

So it occurred to me to read the HTML source and find out how to actually
download the video. Thanks! But it is worth noting that the way it is
currently hosted puts up barriers for certain people.

Regards,

Zooko

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