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We have some exciting new upgrades to icommons.org to report! The latest updates to the site include:
- The ability to upload vertical pictures along with horizontal pictures to the site. We've also set the minimum picture size from 600 to 420 pixels, and you can upload both jpgs and pngs.
- Additions to our list of embedded videos that can be supported on the site - now video... more

 
Professional Open Documentaries Project
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mammique (France) · Mar 03rd, 2008 4:40 pm · 24 votes · 3 comments
 
Janadesh 2007, Loin de l'Œil, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
Janadesh 2007, by Loin de l'Œil
by Loin de l'Œil

A professional team of filmmakers recently came back from India to shoot a set of documentaries about non-violent movements in the country. From the 70's to "Janadesh," the largest non-violent struggle (after Gandhi's) that took place in October 2007, when 25,000 landless farmers walked 350km to march against New Delhi.

The movies are currently being edited, but at the same time the team opened a website to free the documentary's copyright, and to experiment with "funding and licensing" models to apply Creative Commons licences. The idea is that the more people donate to the project, the more freedom the movies achieve, moving along a scale with the CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 and the CC BY-SA 3.0 licences at the two extremes. Look at this freedom gauge to track the progress of donations.

Because the website has recently been launched, the audience is still small, but it grows day-by-day, with some more interest from the Free Culture arena. For example Lawrence Lessig supported the project by being the first online donor.

Also take a look at the illustrated document "Will the World depend on Free Culture?", which tells more about this project and its stakes.

If you are interested in supporting this project, make a donation here.

tags: india culture free documentary filmmaker film


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fredericknoronha Please check this documentary filmmakers' network in India, Docuwallahs2: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/docuwallahs2
fredericknoronha (India) · Feb 29th, 2008 7:21 am
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame

fredericknoronha Oops, forgot to add my name to the above comment. -- Frederick Noronha (a journalist in Goa, India and act as moderator for the above list) fred at bytesforall dot org
fredericknoronha (India) · Feb 29th, 2008 7:22 am
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your take: useful lame

mammique Wow Frederick this group looks very worthwhile! How do i become a member to be able to post?
mammique (France) · Feb 29th, 2008 9:11 pm
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