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Via Brett Gaylor of www.opensourcecinema.org Basement Tapes, examines the fascinating debate over copyright and intellectual property in the 21st-Century, a subject matter that encompasses musicians like the sample-heavy Girl Talk and thinkers like Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig. But what may be the most interesting subject of Gaylor’s film is the making of Basement Tapes itself. Gaylor’s “Open Source Cinema” project allows anyone to remix or re-edit his footage, upload their own, and generally opens up filmmaking in much the same way that the open-source software movement opened up programming.
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