Publishing Open Content, Confronting some business decisions - (Ogg Theora)

"Cameron Parkins, September 22nd, 2008
Publishing Open Content is a short documentary by Frances Pinter and David Percy that looks at how Creative Commons licenses can be utilized in a commercial setting. The film features interviews with Tom Reynolds, blogger behind Random Acts of Reality and author of Blood, Sweat, and Tea, Timo Hannay, Publishing Director at nature.com, and John Buckman, founder of netlabel Magnatune.

The interviews provide some key insights into how these three disparate individuals combined CC licenses with a successful business plan, a common thread being that by giving away something for free another commodity can be sold. Filmmaker Pinter also heads a CC-based publishing project in Africa titled Publishing and Alternative Licensing Model of Africa (PALM), of which the information discussed in the documentary has major interest (via Ad Astra).
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/9620 "

### Discussion ###
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### Copyright Notice ###
(c) 2008 Frances Pinter and David Percy (attribute http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com) under the Some Rights Reserved Creative Commons License
Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

Information Links:
http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com
http://randomreality.blogware.com
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Swea[...]294&sr=1-1
http://www.thefridayproject.co.uk
http://network.nature.com/people/timo/profile
http://www.nature.com
http://blogs.magnatune.com
http://www.magnatune.com
http://bookmooch.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buckman
http://craphound.com
http://creativecommons.org

Video Information:
Running Time: 34 mins
Video Format: Ogg Theora OGM
Dimensions: 720x576
Aspect Ration: 5/4
Standard: PAL
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Size: 651 MB
Date: Thursday 26th March, 2009

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Production
Director: Frances Pinter and David Percy
Producer: Frances Pinter and David Percy
Writer: Frances Pinter and David Percy
Cast: Tom Reynolds
Timo Hannay
John Buckman