Today at the Open Video Conference

The Open Video Conference has had a great start. In the morning I had the chance to listen to the Chris Blizzard — Director of Evangelism at Mozilla Corporation and Mark Surman — Executive Director at Mozilla Foundation. They talked about how they are helping make the technology to take video off the little flash box where it lives right now when in our browsers, and making it work as any other element in the web, thinking web 2.0, where elements are integrated and connected. The technology is being developed openly under an open source free license, so everyone can have access and we can all make and share videos.

Check out the people that are in the same boat with Mozilla, they are called Kaltura and they seem to be big player of the future or open video

We also had a Fair Use Discussion, by Anthony Falzone — Executive Director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School, and Corynne McSherry — Staff Lawyer at Electronic Frontier Foundation. That was very interesting too, and I will blog more about it latter today, when I check back on my notes. They gave the audience tips on how to respect fair use, and how not to push the boundaries of copyrights so we don’t get in trouble, and still be able to remix, re post, redo, or remake what.

There was also a shorter but as good chance, to meet with Lizz Winstead — co-creator of the Daily Show, how made some fun comments about politics, but more important, made the important remarks of what drives real influential viral videos. She said that the videos that talk about current issues, are the ones that actually influence the audience and have an impact in society. And now, we all have the means to do it. A great example she showed on the conference is this Storm Gathering Spoof they did on Gay Marriage.



Let’s see what is the best that we get tomorrow on the Open Video Conference. Come back to check it out.