What if YouTube suddenly decides to reserve the right to say what is art and what it's not art? What if YouTube decides that films and television shows may contain full nudity but  videos  from the user community are blocked if they also contain full nudity? What if??? It's already happening.

For YouTube:

- video art with nudity isn't allowed,

- commercial entertainment with nudity is allowed.

This is a short documentary about Nina Paley and Sita Sings The Blues. Free Culture, Copyleft, Copyright issues and (the art of) Animation are the main themes of this great short doc.

The band's name is Neon Choir. And this EP artwork and cd cover were created with Blender.

Interested in learning more or starting explore the world of video editing with GNU/Linux? 4 articles you should check

YouTube Videos With Linux: Part 1

YouTube Videos With Linux: Part 2

Just a few minutes ago, I was exploring the delicious list of Neural, a great online magazine about new media art and hacktivism, and came across this:

Kenji Kojima / RGB MusicLab: "RGB MusicLab converts RGB (Red, Green and Blue) value of an image and surface points (X, Y, Z) of 3D object to chromatic scale sounds"

Copyright Criminals is another documentary about sampling and the copyright problems we face.

From the website:

This is a small list of text about making money or making a living with free content. I guess there are a lot of artists (i.e. musicians, painters, animators, etc.) trying to find a way to make it work. Well, you can find here a lot of suggestions, hope you can find your way to "make it work".