Dear all,

Last weeks were full with working, in the office as well as out on the streets and my preparations for my application meeting tomorrow. My busy period at the municipality Zeist comes to an end, so I am ready to take on something new. So my long expected application meeting at the university is hopefully my moment of glory, so that needed some preparations. In the meantime I came across an interesting documentary…. twice…This documentary is very important at the moment, especially because the lovely Stichting Brein terrorizes blogs, as they do not want us to upload parts of songs and movies anymore. The “copyright” is more important then the freedom of us as bloggers and the artistic freedom of many artists as musicians, designers, etc., but it also contains the problem of the copyright on medicines and the problems that causes….

The documentary is called RIP! A Remix Manifesto and goes into detail in this problem that ruins our society. We ruin the possibility to create more and to use each others knowledges. We shut the door and want money for that and we are afraid that others steal our ideas. Or are we not? Radiohead launched their album for free over internet and people could pay them what they wanted. An artist remixed these songs and got charged by the record company of Radiohead… ok, the former record company. Radiohead called the record company back, as they launched this album themselves, and the remixer got away with it….

This is just one part of this interesting documentary that won the Public Award at IDFA. You can watch the trailer down here, just like the want to give all their tapes away for free. Maybe even more interesting is that this documentary is part of an open source project called Open Source Cinema. You can join them to edit the documentaries, but you can watch them all for free on their website. You can find RIP! A Remix Manifesto here. For me is one of their other documentaries even more interesting, this one.

I did a small run today as well, as you can see on my Nike+ widget. I had a nice busy week and I will have an important day tomorrow, that is why I will stop here.

Steven

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