Radiohead Open Sources Music Video 120
ruphus13 writes "Following up their 'pay what you like' music album, Radiohead is once again pushing forward with trying to innovate in an industry that has typically innovated with lawsuits alone. Radiohead has now decided to open source a music video. According to the article, 'Its new single "House of Cards" has a video that was created using advanced visualization techniques and various computer-rendered models. The band has teamed up with Google to release the data for the promo as open source using a Creative Commons license.'" The article links a making-of video on YouTube. The music of "House of Cards" was not open sourced, just the visual data. according to a story in the UK Guardian, people are beginning to play around with the data.
3 Radiohead (Score:5, Insightful)
Stunt (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:The moderation is going to hurt on this comment (Score:1, Insightful)
In Rainbows is a great album.
Re:Stunt (Score:2, Insightful)
While I do agree that some bands, such as Nine Inch Nails, are more genuine in their efforts, that doesn't mean you should discount Radiohead. They are not "aging rockers", in the sense that they're not relevant anymore; they have a huge in-built fan base that would buy their records even if they come out on 8-track. It's a bit of a publicity stunt, but it's more progressive than what most major-label bands are doing.
Why "Only" a publicity stunt? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:3 Radiohead (Score:5, Insightful)
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8095 [creativecommons.org]
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Nine_Inch_Nails_The_Slip [creativecommons.org]
Looking for some free music to go to the visuals? (Score:3, Insightful)
this has absolutely nothing to do with open source (Score:4, Insightful)
It's a clear case of using open source as a buzz word to get publicity, and /. has fallen nicely for it.
$1 per CD? (Score:2, Insightful)