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Disclaimer

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Putting the following video into perspective:

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Time was tight and the environment was semi-hostile.

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My talk was right after a govern representative.

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And the government is my enemy.

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Sorry about the rush and for being nervous :)

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Well, good afternoon.

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You guys must be tired already.

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Nope?

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Ok then, we finally arrived

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on the last part of our open video marathon

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I want to introduce myself, my name is Fabricio Zuardi

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I am a developer

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I am involved with some open content projects

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I have an open source music player (musicplayer.sf.net)

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A website for Creative Commons licensed music called cchits.org

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Up until past February I was working at a social networking company

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called Ning.com, founded by Marc Andreesen

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and now I have another project that I can show it later

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for anyone that wants to stay after the panel

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and it is related with open video.

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But the theme here, I think it is… or at least what is in the schedule

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is: “Building…” what is the title? “Building a…”

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— Open Video Community…

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Yes!

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— in Brazil…

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…in Brazil. And I particularly have a view, I think that

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when I read that title, I thought: “this is not quite right”

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you can’t build communities like that, overnight, right?

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Communities build themselves, from gorund up. Specially considering

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that the background and profile of each person are very mixed

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I for one do not agree with some of the things that had been said here

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and I think that the intense arguing between the two fellows at the audience shows that a little bit.

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So trying to unite people that are so different is complex.

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And something that Elizabeth stated that I found it interesting…

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what they do is amazing, and it's the conferences they organize

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they put people together to do cross-polini…zation? 

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I can't recall the correct term she used

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Anyways, I will show up some slides and try to build up an argument.

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Let's see if I can make it under ten minutes…

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…I already have just seven, nice.

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So, first thing:

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I completed 30 years old this year, I am in my middle-age-crisis

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I am old, I am crabbed, I… I don't get the Internet.

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Here is a nice comic, people asking the guy from the future

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“Is it true that people upload pictures of their breakfast to a Facebook?”

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“And other people will look at the breakfasts and make comments?”

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And the guy: “Yes, that's the future.”

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“No offense, future man, but is everyone in your time retarded?”

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And I feel a little bit like this

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I come from a different period

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and today kids play Guitar Hero, and

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people wear Crocs… I don't get it.

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And what's on TV is this: Maísa, American Idol and things like that

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About my TV? I don't get one. I am a dude that lives without a TV for a couple of years now

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and I get my content mostly from Youtube, Vimeo and other similar sites

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And something worries me. Something about the period we live in

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and I that has been at New York last weekend too (Open Video Conference)

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but paied with my own money, not taxpayers money or any help from .gov

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— how unfortunate…

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and something I saw there…

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— how unfortunate…

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was that… hehe… was that there are a lot of business model dying

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Record Industry, Movie Industry.

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This is a tape from when people felt intimidated by

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home taping, and here is… Dead Kennedys stating:

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…Record Industry…

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…Home Taping is killing…

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well, you guys can read yourselves.

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“We left this side blank so you can help”

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And if you look at what we have today, that has been commented here already

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there is a fight going on between this two sides:

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those who are used to get lots of money from copyright and with…

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control, to a certain extent

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they are creating things like content.id on Youtube

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that criminalizes videos of babies and similar things.

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However, they are fighting the wrong crowd, because

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they are fighting Internet people, and Internet people…

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they are so innocent, and so delusional enthusiastic

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that they really believe they can win this fight.

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I am not sure if I agree with them, but anyways…

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they believe that “This Is The Internets!”.

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this is a website from a guy, and you should check it later

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called Sean Tevis, he got signatures and money to run for office

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I am not really sure which position. From the Internet people, that was cool.

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So, i am not here to teach anyone what the strategy is

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to beat them, and maybe we will discuss this at the end.

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I am just a litle worried about what it gonna be of culture from now on.

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Will we still have: Fenomenal Directors?

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Geniuses? And such.

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Fantastic writers and screenwriters?

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Or even the great Toys that the hollywood franchises brought us?

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I don't know.

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I am not sure if this will going to be a huge fail…

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…or if we will be able to achieve our goal.

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But one thing I know: in order for culture to exists, we need referrences.

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Pop culture referrences

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and what will it be for this new kind of art?

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Like what VJ Pixel do, that relies on lots of referrences

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If the ones in control of those referrences are locking up everything, right?

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So, Creative Commons is one solution.

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This is an illustration by Marcelo Braga, a great friend of mine.

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I think it is great, it shows that what matters is copyrighted, while

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the rest you can have it Creative Commons

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— oh, I think it was of bad taste…

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— me too

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What? well…

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— …I think it was of bad taste…

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Well, ok. Sorry then.

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And some of the ways in which they lock up ourselves…

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…three minutes…

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Ok, I will talk about the importance of standards then

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I was just having a problem before this talk

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I couldn't connect this shitty Mac

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because of a DVI conector that is not really DVI, anyways…

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so part of what Mozilla, and the folks of Ogg Theora

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and other projects: Gstreamer, VLC… they are contributing a lot

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with the technical aspect. Part of the goals is to show

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the advantages of having a format that is patent-free, open, free.

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To prove by A + B that something is better than other, right?

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Like this guy proving it here.

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But another aspect, and this is the one I am personally more interested with

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is not the technical.

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I believe very much in leadership by example,

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and I think that when you have artists making:

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good art, good movies, good music, that…

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is also, by the way, free. People will get the message

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and will see that there is an advantage over the old way.

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This is a movie that I watched at the conference.

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Did someone watched Sita Sings the Blues already?

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Just one.

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That's ok, I can show it on my laptop later and

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you can go to sitasingstheblues.com, it's a wonderful movie…

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35mm, full featured film, winner of a bunch of awards and it is all

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Creative Commons, you are free to do whatever you like with it.

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So, this was not a movie about copyright,

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it was not a documentary speaking about the problems with intelectual property

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it is just a movie. A kick-ass animation, very good!

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Works like this inspire people to follow.

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She (Nina Paley), and I can show some videos of it also,

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argues that this model benefits independent film-makers

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that has to compete with people that has money.

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We brazilians are known by our way to handle under difficult conditions.

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So this is also an argument for you to do stuff under a tight budget too

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and use the power of open-source, open formats and everything else.

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Well, that's what I had to say, I will pass the mic to Pixel

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he is the real artist, I am just a guest here.

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And later we can open for comments.

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Bruno wants to say something quick before.

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Thank You.

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— Thanks Fabricio.

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— You have 30 seconds

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I still have 30 seconds…

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Thanks to: Bruno Magrani and Mozilla folks for the invitation. Marcio Galli for the video and audio captureing. PUC-RS for the amazing infrastructure.

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The slides came from my “shared items” feed from Google Reader and are of property of their owners. I haven’t asked permission to nobody. Please don’t sue me :)