Open source movie
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Open source movie is a neologism that has been used to describe several distinct, but related concepts:
- the production of films using open source software such as GNU/Linux, CinePaint, and Blender
- the production of films using publicly-released free reusable media to allow for other parties to create fan fiction in the same medium
- the release of movies under free content licenses
- the release of movies under licenses which are more permissive than traditional copyright, but which would not satisfy common definitions of free content or open source (such as licenses prohibiting commercial use or the creation of derivative works)
- the production of films through open, collaborative processes, such as the editing of a script using a wiki.
There is no commonly accepted definition of the term, and as such, it needs to be qualified to be precise in its meaning.
Examples of films which meet at least one of these definitions include:
- A Swarm of Angels, a movie to be released under the Creative Commons CC-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) license
- God's Companion, a full length 3D movie made using open source software
- Elephants Dream, a 3D short film made using open source software, and released under the Creative Commons CC-BY license
- Boy Who Never Slept, a full length dramatic comedy released under the CC-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) 2.5 license
- Stray Cinema, an online competition that requires people to remix a 2 minute film using the source footage from a film shot in London. Footage released under the CC-NC-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) 2.0 license.
