The photo above is a slide from Mara Hancock’s (UC Berkeley) presentation during the “Next Steps I - New Structures and Efficiences” session at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference. See more pics from Mara’s presentation and from the conference on Flickr.
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Here are my notes from Brian Newman’s (ReNew Media) talk at at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
ReNew Media is founded by Rockefeller Foundation to help media artists with funding their projects. ReNew offers Media Arts Scholarships and in this process they hear a lot about what filmmakers and media artists do not [...]

Here are my notes from Richard Lucier’s (Scholarly Communication Institute) talk at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
Scholarly Communications Institute (SCI) is a 6 year Project, funded by the Mellon Institute and “housed” at the University of Virginia. The Institute is involved with:

Research and Discovery
Analysis
Presentation
Presentation
Dissemination
Access and Use

SCI is involved mainly with Humanities scholars (interest [...]

Here my notes from some of Josh Nathan’s (Thirteen/WNET) talk during the “Video, Education and the Law” session at Day Two of CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
Traditionally the way that we negotiate rights are in terms of manner of media and terms of use. As well as exclusivity. The bottom line [...]

Here are my notes from Rick Prelinger’s (Prelinger Archives and Internet Archive) keynote at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
Title: “Remarks from a recovered archivist” - The promise of educational media.
There have been 1/4 million of (audio/visual) works produced for educators.

What can we do?

1. Leverage existing resources - we need to free educational materials [...]

Notes from Peter Gerhardt’s (BBC Creative Archive) talk at CCNMTL’s Video, Education, and Open Content conference:
They determined a portion of the BBC archive to release for re-use by the people who pay for the BBC in the UK. But before setting out on the project they had to prove that it would have an impact [...]

Here are some (brief) notes from Murray Weston’s (British Universities Film and Video Council) presentation at CCNMTL’s Video, Education and Open Content conference:
Metadata is king (not always content).
There is something giving in the rights clearance process:

Greater collaboration with owners
Growing understanding of education’s needs
Formal reviews are working to clarify exception
New licensing arrangements to be offered within [...]

Peter Brantley’s (Digital Library Federation) presentation at CCNMTL’s Video, Education and Open Content conference was titled “The Library interface”. He began by showing “A Fair(y) Use Tale” a video mashup by Eric Faden. Here are some notes from Peter’s talk:

What does a library actually do?

There are not many books on music in the [...]

Notes from Peter B. Kaufman’s (Intelligent Television, CCNMTL) talk at CCNMTL’s Video, Education and Open Content conference:
The demand for online video has exploded. 100+ million videos watched on YouTube everyday. Fox interactive, Yahoo, Google/YouTube, Viacom, etc. now stream 7 million videos a month. Opportunities to produce video have exploded. FT (Financial Times) has [...]

Here are my notes from some of Cathy Casserly’s (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation) opening remarks here at CCNMTL’s Video, Education and Open Content conference:
How do we integrate new media technologies with new methods for teaching and learning? Right now they seem like two separate tracks. How do we make that much more pervasive? [...]