[Peers] Video: Thanks, and requests (fwd)

[Asheesh Laroia]

A nice fellow named Chris did the video recording for the recent Software 
Freedom Day event we organized in Boston: 
http://openhatch.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day_2011_Boston

You can see one of his videos at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjvqWKsndGs

I wrote him a thank-you note, and asked him about CC licensing, and he 
wrote this enthusiastic reply. I wanted to share it with y'all. (-:

(I asked him permission to share it, and he said yes.)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:10:00
From: Christopher Macken <christopher_macken at emerson.edu>
To: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>
Subject: RE: Video: Thanks, and requests

HEY ASHEESH! Yes, ofcourse you can reuse my videos. I will post the 
permission to my Youtube channel and to www.chrismacken.net (as long as I 
am given full credit for the videos ofcourse). Also I am uploading all the 
videos to Youtube in 1080p and I will try to post the files to download on 
www.chrismacken.net . I do not think I have Shauna's talk, I am very 
sorry. It was a pleasure doing the filming for you and anytime you need 
someone to make a video, I'm your man! Sorry the videos sound isn't 
amazing, next time we will plan this out more and I will set up the mics 
to my computer. Just keep me updated with how you use my videos because I 
would love to keep up with them. Great meeting you too!

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From: Asheesh Laroia [asheesh at asheesh.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 10:55 PM
To: Christopher Macken
Cc: Deborah Nicholson
Subject: Video: Thanks, and requests

Hi Chris!

I wanted to reiterate my amazed thanks for the last-minute, awesome videoo
recording you did at the Software Freedom Day event.

Luke pointed me to http://www.youtube.com/user/chrismacken , where it
looks like you've been uploading things. That's awesome -- please keep
doing that. :D

One is about licensing. Since you recorded the videos, you're the
copyright holder. Would you be willing to permit the redistribution of the
videos under licenses that permit remix and commercial use, so long as
people attribute you? If so, I'd love you to say a note on the YouTube
page (and other places where you upload the videos), "Permission to re-use
is granted under the Creative Commons Attribute Share-Alike Generic 3.0
license, or the Free Art License 1.2 or later, or the GNU Free
Documentation 1.2 or later, at your option." A mouthful, but covers the
bases.

The second is about higher-quality videos. Is it possible to leave some
higher-fidelity version of the videos, like MP4s or DV, somewhere on the
'net? It'd be sweet to be able to re-encode or re-mix from those files,
rather than the compressed YouTube versions.

That's it for my requests. From others, I wondered: If you have a video of
Shauna's short morning talk, is it possible for her to see it before you
make it public?

I am still checking with speakers as to if we have permission to share the
videos of them. I think nearly everyone will say "yes", but I don't have
all the sign-offs yet. I would say it's probably fine to post all of them
for now, and you and I can check in with each other a week from now to see
if we should take any down because people haven't said "yes" yet.

Sorry that this is so complicated. Many thanks for doing all that you have
done!

-- Asheesh.