A directory of webcasts on peer to peer related topics, with also some general material on do it yourself online video.

If you only want to watch one thing: The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version). (background at The Machine is US)

Some Introductory Material

1. If you're new to webcasting and video blogging, read our Introductory Resources on Webcasting.
2. Valentin Spirik reviews Open Source Film Making at http://indiworks.blogspot.com/2006/11/online-video-getting-paid-open-source.html; EngageMedia has a review of available tools for the creation, playback and embedding of online video
3. A guide to "fair use" for documentary makers
4. Film Forge is a distribution (or profile) of the Free/Libre Open Source SoftWare content management system Drupal, tailored to the needs of videomaking communities. Plumi is a similar tool to create a video-sharing site for your community based on Plone

How To

1. If you want to produce audiovisual content yourself, check our own section on P2P Audiovisual Concepts, maintained by Valentin Spirik. Also: How to make live TV, entirely using free software. The Filmmaker's Toolkit teaches you to make your own movie using Web 2.0 resoureces.
2. Make Internet TV: This guide has step-by-step instructions for shooting, editing, and publishing online videos that can be watched and subscribed to by millions of people.
3. Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video; Study: Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video (legal study for U.S. law)
4. Ten P2P Distribution Platforms for Online Video Makers (newteevee.com)
5. Video Toolbox: 150+ Online Video Tools and Resources (mashable.com)
6. Bypassing filters: video of screencast
7. Robin Good of Master New Media, who has produced his own selection of the best video-editing software has compiled a list of freely available Video Tutorials, mostly of a technical nature, for those wanting to learn production and usage of social media. And here's a listing of similar guides in French. Andy Dickinson has a three part introduction to low-cost video-editing.
8. 12 Screencasting tools to make your own video tutorials

Also from Robin Good:

1. (30.04.07)Online Video Publishing: Create Your Own Streaming Internet TV Channel With Streamcast Player (www.masternewmedia.org)
2. (24.04.07)Broadcast Yourself Live On The Web: Best Tools To Create Your Own Live Web TV - A Mini-Guide (www.masternewmedia.org)
3. (23.04.07)Learn How To Create, Publish And Promote Your Online Video: Make Internet TV (www.masternewmedia.org)
4. (01.03.07)Publish And View Online Video Using Free Software: A Present To Richard Stallman (www.masternewmedia.org)
5. (06.04.06) Video Editing, Publishing And Remixing Online Is Here (www.masternewmedia.org)

Making your video production sustainable

1. Scott Kirsner, author of the Future of Web Video, has compiled an extensive comparative list of Revenue Sharing agreements of the many video sharing sites: see the article Getting Paid
2. Robin Good on How to Monetize your Videos
3. Online Video: Getting Paid, Open-Source Storytelling/Film Making Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (indiworks.blogspot.com)

Other Recommended articles

Compiled by Valentin Spirik:

1. 4 Major Internet TV Apps Compared
2. Who Will Be The YouTube Of Live Video?
3. Open Source: Ready for Its Closeup
4. Online Video Industry Index (video sharing, search, editing etc.)
5. The 17 Most Talked About Online Video Companies and How They Differ
6. Understanding Video-Sharing Sites' Terms of Service
7. Video Search Engines And Online Video Directories: A Mini-Guide
8. Why Ogg Theora Matters for Internet TV

Other Directories

1. Video-sharing sites that accept Creative Commons: this listing includes a sublist for Independent CC Video Productions, a chronological list of Independent CC Movies, Related 'Open License' and Public Domain Video Resources, and much more.
2. The Open Media Directory keeps track of depositories for legal and 'podsafe' content which can be used in webcasts.
3. Check the related E-Democracy Webcasts Directory
4. Don't forget we have a related directory on Podcasts.
5. The Internet Archive has a collection of thousands of Open Source Movies; Legal Torrents: CC-movies distributed through BitTorrent.
6. The Creative Commons Content Curators listing has a directory of open source video material
7. Specialized Directories: Video Creation and Editing‎; Video-sharing Network‎; Video Streaming‎; P2P for Video-sharing‎; Video eCommerce‎; Video Intermediaries for Professionals‎; Video Search
8. 0xdb: massive database collecting metadata on the movies available through filesharing networks
9. Public Domain material: The Public-Domain Movie Database; Wikipedia: Public Domain Films, list of articles about post-1923 theatrical-released films that are in the public domain; Creative Archive Licence Group, material from the BBC, the bfi, Channel 4 and the Open University; Public Domain Torrents, free and legal public domain movies for download via BitTorrent; Video Compilation on Free Digital Culture; Wikimedia Commons Videos, animations and videos distributed under a free license or in the public domain, suitable for educational purposes.

Our Best of Selection

Our Own P2P Presentations

1. Vision Statement
2. Lecture on Peer production, governance, and property. Australia, 2007
3. What is Peer to Peer?. Edited by Valentin Spirik.

Recommended Lectures

1. Eben Moglen on Social Change without Coercion - this is an absolute must see!
2. Mark Pesce on Hyperpolitics, rousing speech on the effects of hyper-empowerment.

Also:

1. Lawrence Lessig on Open Spectrum. Boing Boing calls it a stupendous video.
2. Lawrence Lessig on how Free Culture Needs Free Software: how the two movements are related
3. Karl Fogel on the History of Copyright and Information Ownership is recommended by the Question Copyright site
4. Howard Rheingold on Smart Mobs for Democracy: what happens when the treshold for collective action lowers significantly?
5. François Grey on the Implications of Citizen Cyberscience

Recommended Documentaries

Most recent:

1. Digital Tipping Point, A treasure trove of archival material in preparation of a full open source movie about the impact of free software and open technology on our civilization.

Top recommendations:

1. Good Copy, Bad Copy and Steal This Film: documentaries on copyright
2. Money as Debt: fundamental to understand the inequities inherent in the current monetary system
3. Humanity Lobotomy, excellent open source documentary on the threat against Net Neutrality
4. 24 Hours on Craigslist, on the social aspects of Craigslist

Others:

1. Revolution OS = 2001 documentary on the free sofware / open source software revolution
2. Blogumentary
3. The Next Web Documentary = five interviews on the future of the web
4. Code Breakers
5. Decentralized Energy
6. From Pamphlet to Blog
7. Welcome to the Blogosphere - PBS
8. 60 Minutes on the One Laptop Per Child project
9. Copyright Criminals
10. Luck of Seven, open source journey through the world documenting free culture
11. Makers, on the do it yourself renaissance
12. Second Skin: how lives have been changed by Massive Multiplayer Online Games.
13. The Story of Stuff: the ecologically devastating lifecycle of current products

In progress:

Truth in Numbers, about Wikipedia

Not about 'P2P' but must-see documentaries:

1. The Century of the Self
2. The Corporation: "a brilliant look at how corporations have all of the rights of a citizen with none of the responsibilities and how totally frightening that is"
3. Crude Impact
4. The End of Suburbia
5. The Future of Food

Directories:

1. Many documentaries can be seen online through the Documentary Online Network
2. Best Online Documentaries, by topic
3. Free Documentaries: great collection of documentaries viewable for free online

Recommended Instructional Videos

This is an absolute must see:

1. The Machine is US

Also:

1. RSS in Plain English; Howard Rheingold Introduces RSS
2. Social Bookmarking in Plain English; Howard Rheingold Introduces Social Bookmarking
3. Wikis in Plain English ; 21 Days of Wiki Adoption
4. Social Networking in Plain English
5. Online Photo Sharing in Plain English
6. Blogs in Plain English
7. Twitter in Plain English
8. Howard Rheingold on Making Stuff in Second Life
9. How to Behave on an Internet Forum

Open Source or Collaborative Open Movies

1. Check out the participatory documentary makers of Plug-in TV !!
2. Indymedia Video Distribution Network
3. Open Source Movie list in Wikipedia
4. List of works available under Creative Commons, in the Wikipedia
5. OpenFlix and the Public-Domain Movie Database directories, to identify fiction movies

Individual projects:

Fiction:

1. Star Wreck: the most successfull internet distributed movie of all time (see also: Iron Sky
2. Elephants Dream
3. Route 66
4. Boy Who Never Slept
5. Swarm of Angels
6. Artemis Eternal: community-funded and supported SF movie
7. Unfold, which produced the first Open Source Film Trailer

Animation:

1. Big Buck Bunny: shortfilm made with the Free Software program Blender
2. BloodSpell: Machinima series available under CC

Documentaries:

1. Weblog Project
2. Echo Chamber Project
3. Digital Tipping Point
4. BBS
5. Outfoxed
6. War Tapes
7. Peach
8. Steal This Film
9. CopyCat

To check still:

1. Cactuses

Our Thematic Indexes

1. P2P Videos on Business and Economics
2. P2P Videos on Culture and Media
3. P2P Videos on Internet Technology
4. P2P Videos on Politics and E-Democracy

Miscellaneous

1. The BBC recommends the five best machinima's of 2007.
2. A Vision of Students Today: a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today, created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

Key Resources

Blogs

Compiled by Valentin Spirik:

1. The CamcorderInfo Blog http://www.camcorderinfo.com/d/blog.htm is "All About Shooting, Editing and Polishing Your Videos" and has a notable Ethics Policy.
2. Self-Reliant Filmmaking http://www.selfreliantfilm.com/ "is what makes a filmmaker independent"
3. the Workbook Project http://workbookproject.com/ is "a social open source experiment for content creators"
4. CinemaTech http://www.cinematech.blogspot.com/ is about "Digital cinema, democratization, and other trends remaking the movies"
5. NewTeeVee http://newteevee.com/ focuses on the more mainstream aspects of the online video evolution.
6. HD For Indies http://www.hdforindies.com/ is about "High Definition Video for Independent Filmmakers"
7. BlenderNation http://www.blendernation.com/ brings "Fresh Blender News, Every Day"

WEBCASTS ON PEER TO PEER: DIRECTORY