Intellectual Property Law

Interview with Nicholas Reville About Miro and Open Media, by Sean Daly

By Pamela Jones et al.

Interview with Nicholas Reville About Miro and Open Media,
by Sean Daly [Ogg]

Q: This is Sean Daly reporting for Groklaw. I'm on the wire with Nicholas Reville of the Participatory Culture Foundation. Did I get that right?

Nicholas Reville: Yes, absolutely.

Q: OK. Thank you very much for being with us today.

Nicholas Reville: My pleasure.

Q: All right. I wanted to talk to you today about Miro. Perhaps you could briefly describe Miro? How is it different from other players? Well, actually, it's more than a player; maybe you can explain that a little bit. And has that difference contributed to its success?

Nicholas Reville: Sure. Miro is software that you download into your computer that turns it into something like a TV for the Internet. It's free; it's open source; it's made by a nonprofit which is the organization that I work for. And the idea behind Miro is to give you a comprehensive TV-like experience on your computer. And we're trying to do that not just because we want to have a great experience for our users, which we do, but also because we've built the software in a very open, very democratic, very accessible way. The goal is to open up video online, to not have the same kind of gatekeepers and restrictions that creators face in traditional broadcasting, to not have those as television moves online.

Full post as published by Groklaw on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).