Check this out: one of the frequent contributors to FeAutor has uploaded a short video that explains (and demonstrates) how to upload something to the site.

Thanks to Anita for pointing me to this new document which outlines a set of best practices for fair use of online video.

Great news — we’ve now got flash streaming of uploaded videos working. So people can start to use the site to watch things that have been uploaded, as well as to download them locally.

Take a moment to read the Cape Town Open Education declaration, and determine if perhaps you can sign on to it and participate. I hope that www.feautor.org — the resource many of us have been working to create — might become a concrete platform or resource within which religious communities can participate in sharing open religious education resources. For more on open education resources more generally, this list is also useful.

First Monday has an interesting article reflecting on libraries in an “open access” age.

The Center for Social Media has released a report entitled “Recut, reframe, recycle: Quoting copyrighted material in user-generated video” that helps to support such practices. Good for them — and for all of us who want to support creative cultural productions!

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies has issued a statement of best practices for fair use in teaching in film and media studies.

Check out where we are these days! You can now search for contributions via tags, reviews, and keywords. You can subscribe to a specific search using RSS. You can share contributions you like with friends, either via various email routes or through a variety of social bookmarking tools. We have three active groups contributing materials, and a whole HOST of pieces that the ELCA has put up, and you can navigate the site in English, Spanish or German (French, Portuguese and Korean are on the way.) Check it out!

At some point down the road, Feautor may grow enough that we will want to think about its institutional freedom. I don’t want to lose this set of principles, that the Creative Commons folk are using as they considering spinning off ccMixter.

Here’s a fun site, just for the joy of it: the Open Source Shakespeare project.