Open content news

Radiohead open source music video?

Radiohead are embracing the networked world with their content experiments as part of In Rainbows. They’re also becoming a geek’s fever dream, with the latest video for House of Cards comprised of data visualisations and made available for remixing. The project surely makes them the first band to have a Google code repository. / Read more →

Big Buck Bunny enters the wild

Leaping onto server mirrors for the millions of downloads it will undoubtably receive, Big Buck Bunny is the latest animation from the Blender Foundation. It takes a number of significant steps forward from their initial production, Elephants Dream. / Read more →

Steal This Film 2 footage open sourced

The documentary on the future of intellectual property, copyright, filesharing and distribution has launched a new section of the website comprising source footage from the film to view full interviews. Visitors can search the footage through text transcripts, and download video files to view and remix. / Read more →

In Rainbows animated experiments

A natural extension to Radiohead’s current media experiments, and their Radiohead TV concept—the band have teamed up with Aniboom, the animation/video site, for an In Rainbows animated music video competition. / Read more →