Yr usin' my license! #copyright #freeculture
Language service providers are called to transform a clients content language not the original content, except when trans-creation is needed when encountering new phrases and in multimedia content new audio and video. When creating new content to augment a clients translation, for multimedia localization projects accompanying audio and video file might be needed. Getting audio and video from commercial sources has hefty price associated with it, an alternative is Creative Commons license.
Technology progress and the free market have created distributed network of media production and manipulation. Creative Commons (CC) is a modern movement breaking away from copyright prohibition first issued in 1557, the license provides files you can use in creation of media, free of charge. There are different degrees of license ranging from private use only to requesting attribution for the media creator. There is a healthy use across all industries with President Barack Obama using CC on his change.gov and whitehouse.gov websites.
JBI Studios has gathered 7 best resources online for video and audio for finding the suiting Creative Commons licensed media item for use in your next localization project. The selection is made based on our experience localizing media in Pro Tools, Soundforge, Final Cut Studio, Motion and Flash. With 30 years of experience sourcing foreign audio and video for 5 of 10 World's Largest Translation and Language Service Providers (LSPs).
3 Creative Commons Video Resources
- blip.tv
- Is a video sharing website focused with episodic videos provided with various types of licenses. It allows you to search for content across different languages and license types allowing Language Service Providers to work within one language or license type.
- ourmedia.org
- Run by Internet Archive, ourmedia is a media resource for Language Service Providers to look at content uploaded by people with various creative commons licenses.
- revver.com
- Search platform for serving and sharing media, while the content creators are creating a common community funded through advertising structure.
- 90 creative commons video case studies from 60 countries at creativecommons.org
Audio clips and sounds play crucial role as background sound for eLearning opening theme, podcast, audio book, video or as simple sounds when a user clicks on a button. Creative Commons licensed sounds and music have potential for language service providers.
4 Creative Commons Audio Resources
- artistserver.com
- With over 8,000 artists and 10,000 music downloads, it features a well categorized easy to navigate website. It also has a social networking feature allowing you to setup camp and make connections if you handle a lot of audio localization.
- ccmixter.org
- A community music site with thousands of creative commons licensed remixed songs in all genre are available. You can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
- freeloops.com
- Thousands sound effects, vocal and drum loops examples range from table saw sound to elevator sounds. It also features VST plugins that Cubase, Audacity and other audio softwares.
- freesound.org
- No music here, simply thousands of various sound samples suitable for sampling.
- 112 creative commons audio case studies from 60 countries at creativecommons.org
Studio To Translators & Interpreters
Working with small and large LSPs, JBI Studios has been handling multimedia localization for Language Service Providers client from simple audio files, to video files, DVDs, screen activity captures, Flash tutorials, full video re-shoot, in any language. We take the burden off your vendor manager and project managers and give you final, high-quality, on-time product, that you can just pass on to your client with your eyes closed, thus minmizing your internal costs and focusing your resources on your core business of translation.
Lawrence Lessig Explains How CC Works On The Colbert Report
Largest Creative Commons Video Resource? YouTube
 The Colbert Report video above showing Stephen Colbert explaining how Creative Commons works is a itself a CC video shared via YouTube. The creative commons license here allows us to post this video here on the JBI Studios website, we also have shared this helpful video featuring expert Lawrence Lessig via @JBIstudios and Facebook.com/JBIstudios a fair use according to creative commons. .
For more on Creative Commons visit creativecommons.org and find relevant CC conversation on twitter with the following hashtags #cc #copyright #creativecommons #freeculture #nonprofit #opencontent #publicdomain #semweb.
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