Comments on: Al Jazeera Offers Creative Commons Video, Lessig Lends Backing http://paidcontent.org/2009/01/14/419-al-jazeera-offers-creative-commons-video-lessig-lends-backing/ The economics of digital content Mon, 20 May 2013 23:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kevin k http://paidcontent.org/2009/01/14/419-al-jazeera-offers-creative-commons-video-lessig-lends-backing/#comment-65899 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:50:06 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/01/14/419-al-jazeera-offers-creative-commons-video-lessig-lends-backing/#comment-65899 Al Jazeera has accomplished what Al Gore apparently wasn't able to. Today if you want to watch Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth," you have to purchase that from Paramount Pictures, owned by Viacom. The fact that Youtube users had downloaded pirate versions of this movie … 1.5 billion times !!!… was cited as a factor in the lawsuit that Viacom brought against Youtube's owner Google.

Clearly Al Jazeera has understood the power of Creative Commons for getting their message and point of view out in the world. Hopefully other media producers will follow suite. High quality broadcast video is the next frontier of Creative Commons.

Btw, as of January 20th, Creative Commons has come to the Whitehouse as well. Check out

http://monkeytea.org/2009/01/21/creative-commons-goes-to-washington/

-k

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