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There is a new kind of movie industry. An industry that does not rely on studios, nor does it need much money. A local industry pointing out local issues and capable of being financially successful. Made by the people and for the people. A new industry that doesn’t even rely on movie screens.
So where can you find it? Start first in: Nigeria. The last map of world movies made by the prestigious magazine Cahiers du Cinema includes Nigeria amongst the biggest producers of film in the world (more than 1200 per year). Somewhat curious for a country that simply does not have movie theaters. The miracle is a result of a sprouting new market of film to be released only on DVD. Even more interesting: it’s meant to be sold by peddlers - all films are sold on the streets, for less than three dollars.
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by Heather Ford, 5
August, 2005
Version 2.0
The Commons-sense
project at the LINK Centre, Wits University
This
article is licensed by Heather Ford under a Creative Commons
Attribution Share-Alike South Africa 2.0 licence. It first appeared in
OpenFlow's Global Scan on Open
(Collaborative) Content Projects (available at
http://oc.openflows.org/Africa).
Trying to find
open content projects in Africa may seem frustrating. There seems to be
very little on the Internet written by Africans about Africa. But if
you look at the number of Africans that are actually Internet users
then the picture looks a little more realistic.
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Heather
Ford, December, 05
Version
1.0
The
Commons-sense project at the LINK Centre,
WitsUniversity
This
article is licensed by Heather Ford under a Creative
Commons
Attribution
Share-Alike South Africa 2.0 licence. It will appear in
Osisa's new
journal
entitled, ‘Open Space'.
Why
should donors fund projects such as Creative Commons? What is the link
between CreativeCommonsand
development? How do
Creative Commons projects fit into broader, long-terms strategies
around
funding ICTs for development? What types of projects need to be funded
in order
to achieve maximum impact?
The
following article is aimed at funding agencies and organisations in
developing
countries who are either already engaged in Creative Commons-related
projects
and have questions about the impact of such projects, or at those who
are thinking
about setting up IPR programmes and need to understand why, who and
what
projects will generate the most impact. The article is based on the
experience
of the Creative Commons South Africa (http://za.creativecommons.org)
and Commons-sense (www.commons-sense.org)
programmes.
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One of the tasks of Cultura Livre is to further investigate estrategies, policies
or practices that foster or hinder access to culture and knowledge.
Every six months Cultura Livre will make available online a new paper
that is being developed by the project's researchers.
The first paper will be on movie distribution. Professors Luiz Schuartz
and Jorge Fagundes will analyse the Brazilian sector of movie
production and distribution under the point of view of the antitrust
legislation.
Besides these papers Cultura Livre will also publish other articles and
papers developed by researchers from other institutions which share the
same approach to access to culture and knowledge. |
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