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Open Video Tech

February 14, 2022
February 14, 2022
November 25, 2021
September 7, 2021

Open Video Tech was set up to explore the toolsets, potential and problems with decentralised video online. It is inspired by the largely decoupled structure of independent film finance, sales, distribution, and exhibition/release pre-Internet. It was initially funded by Grant for the Web to explore open web subscriptions using Web Monetization for indie film and video.

Independent film funding & distribution online

October 1, 1999
December 31, 1999
July 1, 2001
May 10, 2003
May 1, 2005
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August 12, 2006
September 4, 2006
May 10, 2007
April 1, 2009
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February 1, 2012
December 20, 2012
December 4, 2013
December 11, 2013
January 27, 2014
May 15, 2014
May 1, 2015

Indie films were once to Hollywood what Open Source is to Microsoft..

Now indie film sits in a grey zone between 'user-generated content' (which earns nothing unless it's hugely popular), and streaming and studio media (which pays well, but demands all rights, in all territories, forever). The distribution and revenue-generating spaces for film are not interoperable, and are heavily monopolised from production to platform. It's as if the birth of TV had led to a Disney TV set, only showing Disney films and ABC; a Warner Bros TV set, only showing Warners Bros & HBO and so on. This centralization has happened once before in the history of cinema, and the response was the birth of Hollywood.

Open Source and Civic Tech

September 1, 2013
February 15, 2015
September 9, 2015
January 1, 2016
Opinion
September 19, 2019
August 23, 2020
August 4, 2022

"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."

— Professor Stephen Hawking

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