Lots being mentioned todayabout how Robert Greenwald has released the raw material of his interviews that form his controversial film Outfoxed. He's basically offering them up for other people to use for their own journalistic purposes (downloadable here on archive.org), under the ubiquitous Creative Commons license. [btw, Creative Commons also released a Developing Nations License today]
Some are calling this an instance of "open source journalism", as Greenwald is, in some sense, making the 'source code' of his films available for others to use. Whether this serves to further publicise his film, spread his message, or result in some masterpieces of film editing remains to be seen, but it's certainly an interesting experiment, to place alongside other Open Source Journalism projects. Personally, I'd like to see an 'Open Source Evaluation Unit' that measures whether these projects actually result in anything tangible or usable (or that improve on the original in some way)...and I'm prepared to release the idea, unlicensed, into the ether....
[via Smart Mobs, Lessig Blog and lots of others ;0) ]
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