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The NFB's Open Success Story

By Michael Geist

The National Film Board of Canada yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the NFB Screening Room, an online site that opened the NFB to the world.  The NFP has worked hard to make its work openly and freely available - open access to films, open source software underlying its site.  A year later, the statistics tell the story:

• 3,000 film views per day in January 2009; over 20,000 film views per day in January 2010
• 500 films in January 2009; nearly 1,500 films in January 2010
• 3.7 million online film views in the past year
• 363,000 film views on the iPhone in Canada with another 120,000 film views internationally

It's a great achievement and validation of the benefits from openness.  For those that have not visited the site, I've embedded Rip! The Remix Manifesto, the award-winning documentary on copyright, culture, and remix in streaming HD below.

Full post as published by Michael Geist on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).