Open-source film

Open-source film
Open-source films (also known as open-content films and free-content films) are films which are produced and distributed by using free and open-source software methodologies. Their sources are freely available and the licenses used meet the demands of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) in terms of freedom.

Definition
A definition of an open-source film is based on the OSI's open-source software definition[1] and the definition of free cultural licenses[2]. This definition can be applied to films where: 1. The license of the movie is approved for free cultural works. Specifically this is true for the Creative Commons licenses by and by-sa. 2. The materials used in the movie (sources) are also available under a license which is approved for free cultural works. 3. The movie and its sources are made publicly available via an online download or by other means that are either free or with a cost that covers reasonable reproduction expenses only. 4. The sources should be viewable and editable with free/open-source software. If this is not the case, they must be convertible into such a format by using free/open-source software. The same applies to the movie itself. 5. It should be possible to re-create or re-assemble the movie using the source materials. Films or film projects which do not meet these criteria are either not open source or partially open source.

List of open-source films

Some movies below do *not* have licenses approved for free cultural works.
Name Type Released 2002 CC License by 2.5 AU Sources link [4] Comment Collaborative production. Vital Focus 2002.

Documentary Dancing to Architecture a motion picture [3] about TINA Route 66 [5] road movie / gonzo-documentary

12/2004

by-sa 3.0

streaming [6] torrent [7] link [8]

Became popular as Germany's first open-source film. The license changed to CC by-sa in July 2009.

Elephants Dream Boy Who Never Slept

animated short

04/2006

by 2.5

Created with the Blender open-source software.

Feature Length Film

07/2006

by 3.0

Created with Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut and [9] Boy Who Never various others. Slept [10] [11] Collaborative project

Stray Cinema

Short Film/ Remix project contemporary art project

2006

by 3.0

.re_potemkin [11]

2007

none/copyleft [12]

link

A remake of Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" using crowndsourcing / peer production method.

Oceania

[13]

Feature-length independent film from the San Francisco Bay Area animated short

2008

by-nc-sa 3.0

homepage Self-distribution via BitTorrent and Archive.org [13] torrent (25,000+ downloads) [14]

Big Buck Bunny

08/2008

by 3.0

link

[15]

Created with the Blender Open Source Software.

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[17]

2
short film 02/2009 by-sa 3.0 Sources only consist of the movie without music score.

Jathia's Wager [16] Sita Sings the Blues

link

animated musical of the 2009 Indian epic the Ramayana full feature 01/2010

CC0 1.0

link

[18]

Valkaama

[19]

by-sa 3.0

homepage Collaborative project. HD download available (720p [20] torrent and 1080p) [21] link [23] Collaborative project.

The Digital Tipping Point [22] The Last Drug

documentary

in production

by-sa

full feature

not yet

by-sa 3.0

in production link [24] Created with the Blender Open Source Software. Created with the Kdenlive Open Source Software.

Sintel La Chute d'une plume (pse plus que ta pudeur) Project Code Rush original source footage of Tears of Steel

animated short animated short

10/2010 10/2010

by 3.0 by-sa 3.0

homepage [25] link [26]

documentary

06/2009

[27]

by-nc-sa 3.0

link

[28]

Code Rush originally aired in 2000 as a TV [29] documentary. This is a first time addressing of the huge lack in available free high quality footage for motion tracking, keying and cleaning testing. The material was recorded with the Sony F65 camera (4k native sensor, see also Ultra HD) and is formed by roughly 80,000 frames, each in OpenEXR half float files, in 4096 x 2160 pixels. This is 5 times more footage than used in the film. For the movie production the format encoding Rec709 scene linear was used in the processing pipeline.

reference material for easing technical development of movie technology

2013-03-15

[30] CC-by (no usage of actor footage for commercials)

Xiph.org [31]

Further reading
Cassarino, I.; Richter, W. (2008). "Swarm creativity: The legal and organizational challenges of open content film production (DIME Working Paper No. 45)" [32] (PDF). In Andersen, B. DIME Working Papers on Intellectual Property Rights. London: Birkbeck College.

External links
Revolution of Open Source and Film Making Towards Open Film Making (M.A. thesis) [33]

References
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] http:/ / www. opensource. org/ docs/ osd http:/ / freedomdefined. org/ Definition http:/ / www. minskimedia. com/ projects/ dta. html http:/ / www. minskimedia. com/ projects/ dta-archive. html http:/ / route66. vebfilm. net/ free/ en http:/ / route66. vebfilm. net/ free/ en/ free-open-source-film-download-streaming http:/ / www. clearbits. net/ torrents/ 52-route-66-documentary http:/ / orange. blender. org/ download

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[9] http:/ / moviepals. org/ solomons-corner/ boywhoneverslept/ watch-and-download-free-movie-bwns/ [10] http:/ / straycinema. com/ footage-2009/ [11] http:/ / re-potemkin. httpdot. net/ [12] http:/ / www. httpdot. net/ copyleft_ [13] http:/ / www. hdehal. com/ oceania [14] http:/ / www. clearbits. net/ torrents/ 179-oceania-an-independent-film-from-the-san-francisco-bay-area---high-quality [15] http:/ / www. bigbuckbunny. org/ index. php/ download [16] http:/ / moviepals. org/ premium/ moviepals-open-cinema-everyone/ spark/ jathias-wager-%E2%80%93-open-source-sci-fi-movie/ [17] http:/ / moviepals. org/ solomons-corner/ jathias-wager/ watch-and-download [18] http:/ / www. sitasingstheblues. com/ [19] http:/ / www. valkaama. com/ [20] http:/ / www. valkaama. com/ index. php?page=sources& l=en [21] http:/ / www. clearbits. net/ torrents/ 979-valkaama---music-michael-georgi [22] http:/ / www. digitaltippingpoint. com [23] http:/ / archive. org/ details/ digitaltippingpoint [24] http:/ / www. sintel. org/ [25] http:/ / lachuteduneplume. free. fr/ ?-English[26] http:/ / lachuteduneplume. free. fr/ les_fichiers/ sources/ [27] Code Rush release announcement. (http:/ / waxy. org/ 2009/ 07/ code_rush_in_the_creative_commons/ ) [28] http:/ / clickmovement. org/ coderush [29] Code Rush IMDb page (http:/ / www. imdb. com/ title/ tt0499004/ ) [30] 4 TB original 4k footage available as CC-by (http:/ / mango. blender. org/ production/ 4-tb-original-4k-footage-available-as-cc-by/ ) [31] http:/ / media. xiph. org/ tearsofsteel/ tearsofsteel-footage-exr/ [32] http:/ / www. dime-eu. org/ files/ active/ 0/ Cassarino-Richter-AB. pdf [33] http:/ / www. radiobrecht. org/ files/ open_source_filmmaking_loker. pdf

Article Sources and Contributors

Article Sources and Contributors

Open-source film Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=545007376 Contributors: Agentlame, Alexander.stohr, Arenlor, AuroraMae, Avr.thecreator, Black Kite, Cool Hand Luke, Droidy, Edward, G8w, Gallaecio, Guido Montana, Icedog, Jafeluv, Jarble, Jayday21, Kotentie, Pnm, Raphael Frey, TarzanASG, Tony1, Topbanana, Uncle G, Zuckerberg, 45 anonymous edits

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