Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Video of the FSUK talk from the 19th February

[Andy Halsall]

> > Finally, it's a shame that none of the videos are under free software
> > licences.  Very very sorry for mentioning that ;-)
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by a "free software license". Certainly the
> Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike license used gives you the
> following freedoms:
I'm rather glad this came up... You will notice that in the email to the 
group I made an offer of the Raw DV files, And that all the logo's we 
were looking at recently were provided as SVG's as well as PNG's 
(although Inkscape appears to have mangled something...).  That is the 
closest anyone is going to get to offering the source of a film.

Software licenses are probably not suitable for film releases, primarily 
because they are not geared toward film, there is no concept of source 
code that can easily be said to apply (unless its all CGI I guess).

Copyright, the reason we need to license at all (or rather the reason we 
can, without copyright I would hold no rights at all over the video and 
anyone could do what they wished, including wrapping it in DRM) is an 
interesting field, but I personally don't think that software, art, 
media, books, music and widgets should all be dealt with in the same 
manner, or have the same types or lengths of protection.  In short, I am 
not sure that the freedoms I believe are important for software are the 
same or even appropriate in other areas.

Andy