Miscellaneous

I wouldn?t steal

By Mike Linksvayer

I wouldn’t steal is a new and cute one minute video making the case that sharing is fair and people who would never steal a handbag, car, or television nevertheless download film and music. Whatever you think of that, there’s no ambiguity around downloading and remixing I wouldn’t steal — it is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial.

Here’s a still of the video bumper. Is the car in a circle-slash an inside joke for CC fans (in the style of CC license icons, which are also used in the bumper), Greens (skeptical of the automobile), merely a literal iconic representation of the video’s content, or some combination thereof?

If you’re really cutting edge (running an experimental build of Firefox 3 or Opera), you can watch an Ogg Theora encoding of the video inline below via the HTML5 <video> tag:

Full post as published by Creative Commons.org on January 26, 2008 (boomark / email).