I’ve been friends with filmmakers Jason and Leigh Morfoot (aka Kinobserver) since before Dtek was a twinkle in my eye

Recently, I helped them publish their latest documentary film project, Citizen 3.0, to the Kinobserver web site. As described on the site, “CITIZEN 3.0 explores the relationship between media, technology, culture and democracy through the lens of copyright law.” In addition to effecting our society and culture at large, these issues are at the very heart of Dtek’s business.

It’s fascinating stuff, and the film features some provocative and authoritative voices who approach these topics from many different angles.

You can stream the entire film from the Kinobserver web site:
http://kinobserver.com/

Enjoy!

Many of the folks we work with want to display video on their web sites. Hosting video on their own web servers has some obvious advantages in terms of control, but is often too resource-intensive and expensive. That’s when existing video hosting providers come into play.

Unfortunately, this is a great example of where it’s easy to follow the trends without considering some of the bigger implications, like the way our content is licensed, whether we want X company to profit off of our content, and generally what type of network we want to build as a community.

A friend recently pointed us to a post on wordpress.com entitled: Owned? Legal terms of video hosting services compared. It’s a great starting point for considering the privacy/licensing, ownership, and legal complaint recourse terms of the various big name video hosts out there.

Kudos to the article author, and here’s to all of us raising our collective awareness of these issues.