We will bundle our South America footage from "The Last Drug" and release it under the name "VEB Tapes South America" this fall. It's 40 hours of footage in documentary style, gonzo style till experimental shots. This should be more than enough for professionals or students, especially since we will release it under the Creative Commons BY license, which allows even commercial usage. Until then we still have to find a good system to categorize and tag the clips. With the help of the RWTH Aachen University the 400 GB of footage will be downloadable via the SunSite project.
While I'm sorting the footage I realize once again how sick the copyright can be: we got shots from a remote village in Paraguay, where you hear an old Camouflage song in the background from a little ghetto blaster, essentially affecting the mood of the situation. Of course I have to remove the audio track from this clip or we could not release it under the CC license. That is one example of hunderts. It hurts most, if you loose intersting conversation in the audiotrack, because of a background music, that has to be removed. It's about time for a change, we hope more upcoming artists will relaese their stuff under more liberal licenses, so that future filmmakers can concentrate on the art instead of clearing the rights.
