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Update July 15, 2007: Henrik took the time to respond to a few questions through Maxime’s blog. Most important to note is the licence, Creative Commons BY-NC v3.

A documentary film from Denmark about the current state of copyright and culture. See Good copy bad copy for more info.

You can download the entire movie with bittorrent, which is what I am about to do. Oh, and you can donate too :)

I took some time to write all the text: Good Copy Bad Copy script. I was going to translate it for subtitles, but it’s getting a bit late and, well, I didn’t take note of the timing. Maybe later.

Douglas Eck, teacher at Université de Montréal and researcher at BRAMS: Brain, Music and Sound, gave a presentation a couple of days ago at Google on music, supervised learning and tagging.

You can also grab the audio only speex version, 8.5 MiB.

Ted Nelson was giving a Google Tech Talks on January 29, 2007. I’m not going to comment, I haven’t sent it yet. But Xanadu, come on! It’s the biggest return since Duke Forever!

Everyone wants to improve on Web structure, but few see how stuck it is– the browser … all » limits what can be seen, and the one-way embedded links limit connectivity. I still want to implement the original hypertext concept from the sixties and seventies. Politics and paradigms, not possibility, have held it back.

Google Video page on Transclusion: Fixing Electronic Literature by Ted Nelson on 2007/01/29

Transclusion: Fixing Electronic Literature by Ted Nelson on 2007/01/29 (audio speex version, 53 min 33, 7.6 MiB)

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Planning a trip in the wilderness in the next year? Take an hour now with
Robert Nielsen to learn all about surviving in case anything should happen.

to download page

Lundi 22 janvier prochain, la Bande-Passante vous accueille à partir de 19h30 à des courts métrages enlevants pour sa première soirée vidéo.

Des films engagés, artistiques et libres, traitants de sujets variés comme la neutralité des réseau, la gestion numérique des droits aussi bien que d’oeuvres ayant remportées des concours comme Esign et Elephant Dream.

Looking at my TechTalks Tagcloud, I just discovered this talk by Mike Linksvayer (CTO of Creative Commons). In it was this unreleased 3 minute video: Wanna work together, CC promotional video to be released in november 2006 [10 MiB], Creative Commons Attribution licence 2.5. I had to extract it, convert it to ogg theora and now you can watch it too downloading only 10 MiB instead of 220 MiB for the whole hour talk.

Update: Mike posted his CC slides online, acknowledging that the text could have been bigger.

Update2: Creative Commons just released the real thing. See their blog for more info.

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In my effort to keep up with the Google TechTalks, I’m keeping a database to index their videos and just made it public after I added this TagCloud view of the Google TechTalks. It’s not much for now, I intend to provide RSS/Atom feeds and let you review and tag the videos. You can already do all this directly from Google Video, but this way I’m concentrating the crowd on a tiny subset of the videos. Not even 200 as I’m posting this, but then again, we’re talking about 200 hours of excellent presentations with top notch speakers and cutting edge topics.
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It’s Satuday (October 21st 2006 in Montreal this time but it could be any Saturday) and the geek inside you is torn over this very important question: BarCamp, Blender or Free Software Workshop? I tell ya, it’s tough to be a geek in Montreal.

P.S.: there was an Installfest scheduled for Saturday too, it’s been postponed until the Quebec Free Software Week (SQIL) mid-November.

À cause des Google Techtalks, j’utilise le service vidéo de Google de plus en plus et il m’est venu cette idée.

Plusieurs sites web permettent de faire parvenir un lien ou une nouvelle à un ami par email , directement à partir du site en question. http://video.google.com/ permet par exemple de faire suivre la description et l’URL d’un vidéo en donnant son email et l’email du destinataire.
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VHS is a command line program to create sub-titles for videos in the SRT format. It uses the Videolan (VLC) through its telnet-rc interface to provide a clean and simple interface to add subtitles and timing information to any video file supported by VLC, picking from where you left off last time.
features

• starts from last saved position (last subtitle)
• simple interface to add subtitles
• integrates with Videolan (VLC thru telnet-rc)
• cross-platform

Pour plus d’info : VHS : Votre humble sous-titreur / Your Humble Sub-titler.

Bientôt disponible, The Copyfight, documentaire d’une heure en anglais de Yaz Santissi expliquant la réforme du droit d’auteur au Canada au grand public. Copyfight sera distribué sous licence Creative Commons BY-NC à partir de 13h le 3 avril 2005.

Update

Le montage n’est pas terminé, le film sera lancé quand il sera prêt.

Si vous ne l’avez pas déjà fais, s’il vous plait consulter, signez et faites signer la pétition sur la réforme du droit d’auteur.
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