Our second "Minute Meme," illustrating how all creative work builds on what came before. Photographed and animated by Nina Paley. Music by Todd Michaelsen ("Sita's String Theory," a Bonus Track on the soon-to-be-released Sita Sings the Blues soundtrack CD!). Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. More information at questioncopyright.org High-res and Ogg versions at www.archive.org
My feature film, Sita Sings the Blues, was removed from German Youtube. I'm aware of no standard protocol for Americans to contest fraudulent takedowns in Germany, so I made this video. Hopefully German Youtube will put Sita Sings the Blues back up. Or maybe GEMA's censor-bots will take this video down, because I intentionally used the same music/movie clips in it! Germans: Can you see this? www.youtube.com
Extended music track available for free at willbe.bandcamp.com ------- I've made this remix for fun and for appreciation of Nina's way of sharing art. I don't completely agree with the message, but it's true that copy definitely can't be considered as theft, but as copy. The world changes, internet comes in every home, let the economic models and the laws evolve accordingly. ------- Copying is not theft Song & Animation by Nina Paley Music & arrangement by Willbe www.questioncopyright.org
Highlights of interview with animator Nina Paley about her award-winning feature-length film "Sita Sings The Blues" and how copyright restrictions block it from being distributed. See questioncopyright.org for more.
NINA PALEY, Independent Filmmaker and Artist-In-Residence at QuestionCopyright.org Nina Paley's 2009 feature film Sita Sings the Blues combines the ancient Indian epic Ramayana with 1920's American jazz and contemporary animation. Focusing her talk around the film's production, licensing struggles and eventual "copyleft" release, Paley discusses artistic liberty in an era of copyright wars, censorship, and religious extremism on March 9, 2011 -- Library Gallery -- 4:00 pm
Nina Paley keynote at Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic (BLIP) Legal Hackathon at Brooklyn Law School on April 15 2012. isoc-ny.org
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A FREE DISTRIBUTION CASE STUDY: SITA SINGS THE BLUES If its free, how do you make money? Seven months after the Copyleft release of her animated musical feature Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley presents the second round of hard data from the project. The more the audience freely shares the film, the more they purchase DVDs, theatre admissions and merchandise. See the ££ numbers that prove it.
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An extract from Nina Paley's amazing animated film 'Sita Sings The Blues'
July 10, 2010, marks EFF's 20th anniversary! To thank you for your support over these two decades, please enjoy this new animation created especially for us by celebrated cartoonist and free culture activist Nina Paley. This short cartoon highlights some of the reasons why EFF is here. w2.eff.org Animated, directed, written, produced, etc. by Nina Paley Starring Mimi (of Mimi & Eunice) Sound Design by Greg Sextro Produced with assistance from QuestionCopyright.org
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About Nina: Nina Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which has screened in over 150 film festivals and won over 30 international awards including the Annecy Grand Crystal, The IFFLA Grand Jury Prize, and a Gotham Award. Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to Copyleft her film, and join QuestionCopyright.org as Artist-in-Residence. She teaches at Parsons School of Design and is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow. www.sitasingstheblues.com blog.ninapaley.com
Dear Nina Paley, this is a letter to inform you, that I do not agree with your current assault on intellectual property rights. One of the biggest problems when it comes to intellectual property rights is, that the USA has very little protection for the actual creators of works. You can actually sell your work and it will belong to someone else as if they had created it. In Germany, this is not possible. You can only give someone the license to work with your creation. That's a huge difference and something that is worth fighting for, as it gives the individual protection against overly powerful corporations and entities. It eludes me, how you don't see how you're playing into Googles hands. Google not exactly being the charity organization that a lot of people may think it is. In the future, I would like you to have more consideration of your colleagues and focus less on your personal agenda when it comes to the issue of intellectual property. Thank you for listening.
Excerpts from my talk "Sita Sings the Blues: a Free Culture Success Story" at The Next HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference, July 16 2010 in New York City. Includes: why I insisted on authentic songs, what is and is not property, software is culture, the difference between Share Alike (copyleft) and other Creative Commons licenses, why I paid to legally license the old songs, how noncommercial copyright infringement is still illegal, legal costs, benefits of audience sharing & decentralized distribution, the Sita Sings the Blues Merchandise Empire (sitasingstheblues.com/store), open-licensed merch, audience goodwill, how fans support artists, rivalrous vs. non-rivalrous goods, the Creator Endorsed Mark, migrating Flash files to open formats, gift income, commerce without monopolies, why I encourage legal sharing, and more! Learn about the movie: sitasingstheblues.com Donate: questioncopyright.org Store: sitasingstheblues.com HOPE: thenexthope.org Full, unedited source video of the hour-long talk: vimeo.com
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Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by American artist Nina Paley Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told." Sita Sings the Blues was released under a creative commons license and is available for free at www.sitasingstheblues.com
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More videos on intellectual property: vforvoluntary.com Sita Sings the Blues www.sitasingstheblues.com Mimi and Eunice mimiandeunice.com QuestionCopyright.org - A clearinghouse for new ideas about copyright. questioncopyright.org Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom - Pro-Commerce & Anti-Monopoly c4sif.org Video taken from: www.youtube.com March 25, 2011 Agora I/O - The Agorist Unconference agora.io AGORA I/O - CREATIVE COMMONS PUBLIC DOMAIN DEDICATION - ZERO 1.0
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Sources : www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.laquadrature.net www.sitasingstheblues.com "Paris, July 14th, 2011 - The illegal censorship in Germany of Nina Paley's multi-awarded movie "Sita Sings the Blues" by YouTube shows how corporate enforcement of an obsolete copyright regime is bound to harm culture and freedom of expression. German collecting society GEMA's copyright claim is illegal, since Nina Paley had cleared the rights for all the music included in her movie. GEMA's claim is an obvious abuse of power, and shows how today's culture and copyright policies are locked by the entertainment industries and dysfunctional collective societies' doubtful practices. The present blatant abuse perfectly illustrates the risks of the "co-operation" in copyright enforcement between rights holders and Internet companies. Such measures are being pushed by the copyright lobbies, for instance through the ACTA agreement and must be opposed. "For one well-known artist like Nina who stands for her rights, how many unknown authors, artists, remixers fall, intimidated by the automatized, privatized enforcement of an unfair copyright regime? We must urgently denounce this privatization of police and justice on the Internet by rejecting the ACTA agreement, and impose a positive reform of copyright fit for the digital age and new practices." declared Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson of citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net. Viva Nina!"
Nina Paley speaks briefly on "Occupy Umeå" at October 15th.
visuals edited & mixed by Flo for www.nidra.tv . Some animated hindu images are from the movie "Sita Sings The Blues" by Nina Paley. Music track "Jaia Ganesha" by Dum Dum Project.
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Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by American artist Nina Paley (with the exception of some fight animation by Jake Friedman in the "Battle of Lanka" scene),[4] primarily using 2D computer graphics and Flash Animation. It intersperses events from the Ramayana, light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets, musical interludes voiced with tracks by Annette Hanshaw and scenes from the artist's own life. The ancient mythological and modern biographical plot are parallel tales, sharing numerous themes. The Ramayana The film uses a pared-down adaptation of the legend that retains many of its finer details while adopting a perspective sympathetic towards Sita; in the director's words, the film is "a tale of truth, justice and a woman's cry for equal treatment."[5] The plot joins the legend at the exile of prince Rama from his father's court, at the behest of his father's favorite queen, Kaikeyi. Having earned the right to any single favor by saving the king's life, Kaikeyi attempts to secure her own son's inheritance over the eldest and favorite, Rama, by ordering him banished from the court. Sita determines to accompany her beloved husband, although the woods are dangerous and over-run with demons and evil spirits. The demon king Ravana, encouraged by his spiteful ogress sister, hears of Sita's beauty and determines to kidnap her. He sends a golden hind <b>...</b>
In 2009, I was nominated for a "Someone To Watch" Spirit Award. www.ifc.com Through this cinéma vérité documentary, you too can experience what it's like to be a nobody on the red (actually blue) carpet, navigate ridiculous security theater, shake the hands of countless strangers, smile nervously, and above all, lose. Featuring Nina Paley, Alistair Milne, Steven Beer, and dozens of celebrities and/or nobodies whose names I forget and whose permission I don't have, so sue me. Camera: Nina Paley, with Steven Beer. Edited by Nina Paley in 2011. blog.ninapaley.com
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Donate to the filmmaker here: questioncopyright.org Buy DVDs, etc, here: questioncopyright.com "Sita Sings the Blues" is based on the Hindu epic "The Ramayana". Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina Paley is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of torch singer Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told." It is written, directed, produced and animated by American artist Nina Paley. "Sita Sings the Blues" was released in 2008 only after long negotiations with the copyright holders of the 80-year-old songs recorded by Annette Hanshaw. Following the experience of almost having her film blocked from distribution, Nina Paley released it freely under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, and now devotes a significant portion of her time to free culture activism. She is Artist in Residence at the non-profit QuestionCopyright.org. If you'd like to help pay off the $50000.00 loan she took out to pay the music monopoly fee, you can donate to the Sita Distribution Project (tax-deductible in the US) at questioncopyright.org . Donations to that project go exclusively to that purpose and other expenses Nina incurred in releasing the film. You can also purchase DVDs, prints, shirts, and <b>...</b>
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The fourth "Minute Meme" from QuestionCopyright.org - more at questioncopyright.org Movie and song by Nina Paley Performed by Evanescent (Vocals & Ukele: Bliss Blood, Guitar: Al Street) www.blissblood.com Sound effects design by Greg Sextro LYRICS: Always give credit where credit is due if you didn't write it, don't say it's by you just copy the credit along with the work or else you'll come off as an arrogant jerk Always give credit where credit belongs we know that you didn't write Beethoven's songs pretending you did makes you look like a fool unless you're Beethoven -- in that case, it's cool A transparent system makes cheating unwise the simplest web search exposes your lies no one wants their reputation besmirched which happens to liars when they are web-searched Proper citation will make you a star it shows that you know that we know who you are Plagiarization will only harm you so always give credit where credit is due!
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In the first episode of "We Are Creators Too," Public Knowledge's Art Brodsky interviews filmmaker Nina Paley, who discusses the difficulties that she faced in creating her animated film "Sita Sings the Blues".
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Complete video at: fora.tv Nina Paley discusses why she chose to make her movie available for free online through a Creative Commons license. While she does not benefit economically from sharing content, Paley reports that many people still want to buy copies from her because it creates a "social bond." ----- Contemporary filmmakers tell their stories using the latest tools, including everything from digital cameras to computer animation. The way they tell their stories has been shaped by the rise of short-form and user-generated content, video games, and virtual worlds that invite audience participation. At the same time, audiences are expanding their role by making films that are just one piece of a larger project. Come hear a panel discussion exploring storytelling in film today. - New School Nina Paley is an American cartoonist, animator and free culture activist. She directed the animated feature film Sita Sings the Blues. She was the artist and often the writer of comic strips Nina's Adventures and Fluff, but most of her recent work has been in animation. Her early short films include Fetch!, The Stork, and The Wit & Wisdom of Cancer.
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Sita Sings the Blues, by Nina Paley www.sitasingstheblues.com For a playlist containing all 10 parts, try here www.youtube.com The movie is available for FREE download in 1080p, 720p, and 480p! For an updated list of download or torrent links, go to: sitasingstheblues.com DVD version(s) will be coming soon!
Sita Sings the Blues, by Nina Paley www.sitasingstheblues.com For a playlist containing all 10 parts, try here www.youtube.com The movie is available for FREE download in 1080p, 720p, and 480p! For an updated list of download or torrent links, go to: sitasingstheblues.com DVD version(s) will be coming soon!
Video by Nina Paley, genius creator of "Sita Sings The Blues" (on YT). I have replaced the original soundtrack with Lulu Rouge, Bless You.
Wonderful short video about a cat. The interesting thing about this short is that the video has been amazingly post-processed and the result, IMO, is awesome! Lexi is the name of the starring cat. This video is not suitable for non viewtiful stuff lovers, too random for them ;)
