Go Open - Episode 4

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Go Open' is a South African-created TV series that aired in late 2004, and is dedicated to open-source software. The creators of 'Go Open' have very kindly permitted the show to be shared freely with a Creative Commons license.

[EPISODE 4]

Lead Story: Intellectual Property in the 21st century Built within current Copyright law, Creative Commons is a new system that allows you to share your creations with others and use music, movies, images, and text online, marked with a Creative Commons licence. It’s been gaining prominence steadily since its inception a few years ago. Creative Commons provides the space for artists to control their future, using the Internet.

Big Gun: Lawrence Lessig Lawrence (Larry) Lessig, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons, is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the School's Centre for Internet and Society. Prior to joining Stanford he taught at Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School. In 2002, he was named one of 50 top innovators by Scientific American. Lessig acquired a B.A. in economics and a B.S. in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in philosophy from Cambridge, and a J.D. from Yale. Although considered a liberal, he clerked for strongly-conservative Judge Richard Posner and Justice Antonin Scalia. A well-known critic of extended copyright terms, Lessig has been engaged in several notable cases.

Doing it:Gimp GIMP – is a free image manipulation package. It has forked out into a separate film package “cinepaint” in use by many studios today. It's a powerful package with an efficient plugin architecture. Get it from their homepage

Open Source Means Business: MWEB and SPAM Spam is an increasingly-common e-mail Inbox offender. This unsolicited and invasive form of communication has grown rapidly and vigorously, and is becoming a major problem. The growth can be attributed to a greater number of spammers, availability of easy-to-use spamming tools and a reduction in the response rates of e-mail users around the globe. Spam, per se, is not illegal in South Africa, but it is dealt with in section 45 of the Electronic C ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OztJXEPc3cc