[okfn-discuss] Radiohead Release Data For Video (CC-NC)

[Rufus Pollock]

On 15/07/08 21:11, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> On 15/07/08 11:57, Rob Myers wrote:
>>> http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/
>>>
>>> Releasing the data is great, but is it copyrightable and NC-able?
>> Probably not -- though it would depend. Obviously they would have been
>> better off using a data-oriented license here.
> 
> I can't say I've looked closely, but I'm not sure it is useful to
> think of this as 'data' unless you also consider a digital video
> recording to be 'data' -- this is just more sparse.  Of course
> everything is data, but that's not particularly useful for
> licensing/access discussions.

I think this was an unusual case in that they were *not* releasing 
(AFAICT) a normal video but underlying data (3-D scan of Thom Yorke) 
used to make a video via rendering technologies.

>>> Either way, NC on data isn't good. It would have been nice for
>>> Radiohead to be the first Open Knowledge performers. ;-)
>> Exactly.
> 
> Noooooooo!  Please, let's give credit to artists who have been
> effectively releasing art as OK for years, even if they aren't as
> famous as Radiohead.

Of course. I don't think Rob was suggesting there weren't many other 
performers who have been releasing open *content* for years (including 
Rob himself!). I think the point here was more about the data side of 
things. Though of course I may have misunderstood Rob's meaning :)

~rufus