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<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |importance=Medium<br /> |quality=C-Class<br /> |Description=www.TV-Tom.Com and www.Radio-Tom.Com are internet stations offering free music for download and sharing. Dr Tom has done the first recording in living memory of some of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=http://www.e-chautauqua.com<br /> |Author=http://www.tom.com.au<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music, tv, video, playlist, mp3, download, free, public_domain<br /> |License_short_name=PD<br /> |Format=Sound<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> '''Dr Tom Benjamin''' is a researcher in Sydney, Australia, with TV and radio stations: www.tv-tom.com [http://tvtom.wordpress.com/], www.radio-tom.com [http://radiotom.wordpress.com/], and a movie studio www.movie-tom.com [http://movietom.wordpress.com/] and blog [http://www.tom-benjamin.com/] . Most recently, he has developed a new approach to music education made available at www.oz-rock.com [http://www.oz-rock.com/]. <br /> <br /> These, in turn, are part of the Expression Tent of www.e-chautauqua.com [http://e-chautauqua.wordpress.com/] and are offered under Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Dr Tom is a researcher and psychologist. The tom tv, tom radio, tom movie and e-chautauqua projects are byproducts of his investigation of educational applications of games, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and new media. They are purely privately-funded out of pocket with no link to government or corporate sponsors.<br /> <br /> One of their key purposes is to demonstrate multimedia techniques that teachers and students can use in their own presentations. This includes 3D animation, blue screen, puppetry, and music creation.<br /> <br /> '''How are songs rated as &quot;the most famous songs of all time&quot;.''' There are countless 'fake books' of 'standards' and anthologies of popular music. The songs that appear consistently in all of these can be regarded as famous. Tunes sung to children that everyone recognises are by definition famous. The greatest of these is no doubt ''Happy Birthday''. The longest-lived well-known songs would include ''Greensleeves''. 'Famous' does not equal 'popular' or even 'good'. The ''Funeral March'' is one such example of 'unpopular but famous'. <br /> <br /> Other songs have historical significance. ''Home Sweet Home'' was the first song of the modern 'pop' variety because it was secular (non-religious), available as sheet music, known on both sides of the Atlantic, and could be sung and played in the home parlour. ''After the Ball'' was the next pop milestone as it had over a million sales. <br /> <br /> Yet you will find few renditions of many of these influential songs beyond the occasional scratchy pre-1900 Edison cylinder rendition. Even when clear the versions are often incomplete or flowery. Thus, the claim to &quot;the best versions of the most famous songs of all time&quot; in many cases only requires a decent, clear recording. The 'best' need not equal 'great' or even 'good' - it may only need to be a 'listenable', 'complete', or even 'bearable' version to qualify as 'best'.<br /> <br /> Originally from Detroit, Dr Tom has had a long experience with music. One of his first paid jobs was as a 'weddings and anything' rock &amp; roll singer playing frat parties. The history of this era is well documented on garage band websites [http://www.60sgaragebands.com] [http://www.myfirstband.com] and Tom's band bio [http://www.60sgaragebands.com/wetpaint.html]. <br /> <br /> The version of ''House of the Rising Sun'' listed in the Music section below is typical of those days, but back then it was real bands with real instruments, not virtual ones. Since then he has remained musically active through music therapy, karaoke [http://www.kara-oke.com]www.kara-oke.com, and in his current role developing quick and simple multimedia techniques that can be used in the classroom. <br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Overview|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> These songs cost Dr Tom next to nothing (but time) to record and hosting is now free. The video footage used in tv-tom.com is free and from the public domain. This lack of costs is passed on to his listeners.<br /> <br /> The Creative Commons link boosted search engine placement immediately and dramatically.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|License Usage|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> The immediate goal is to build a web platform to develop, test, and showcase new media and Web 2.0 technologies. To be worth doing, a site needs some link popularity and 'hits'. Music was a logical choice because it is a popular search topic. Public domain music is actually useful to anyone needing royalty-free tunes for podcasts, public occasions and so on. But with hundreds of thousands of musicians online competing for the ear there was a need to highlight the 'famous' aspect of these songs.<br /> <br /> The ultimate test will be to see if people like what we do with these ancient out-of-copyright tunes. They may well want to hear what we can do with more modern 'famous' songs as well. But the latter cannot be done for free as there are up-front costs of permissions, licenses, and fees. Oh, and did we mention the not-so-minor detail that you can buy recordings of the later songs done by the most famous artists in history? Any claim to the 'best versions' of later songs comes up against much stiffer competition. But then if one has to pay, hence charge, money it might be enough to fund a conventional recording studio deal. In the meantime, there are enough public domain songs to keep Dr Tom busy feeding the radio and TV stations.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Motivations|formedit}}<br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> Music example</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=User:Tom_Benjamin&diff=62337 2012-12-19T05:05:08Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: Dr Tom Benjamin [http://www.tom-benjamin.com] is a public speaker and researcher in Sydney, Australia.</p> <hr /> <div>[[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]<br /> <br /> Dr Tom Benjamin [http://www.tom-benjamin.com] is a public speaker and researcher in Sydney, Australia. He has studied ''the Psychology of the Internet'' since its beginnings. He shows teachers, organisations, community groups and individuals how to gain a profile on the internet with free and affordable resources such as video and podcasts.<br /> <br /> Creative Commons public domain material plays a big role in tom's multimedia applications. Using such resources he has been able to set up an international media network consisting of web-based movie, TV, and radio shows. He shares these techniques with others in workshops, webinars and seminars.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=55543 2012-02-29T03:27:24Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> The songs on radio tom [http://www.radio-tom.com] are free to use Creative Commons resources. Most have chords specially re-written for the 'instant play' music system at www.oz-rock.com [http://www.oz-rock.com]. This means a beginner using the special one-finger chords can instantly jam along with the song by ear without needing chord charts or even practise. <br /> <br /> This is in line with the origins of Chautauqua. Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional Chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down a 'critical mass' of musical material. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has over 70 songs - enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only full version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast was for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope, accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;'&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'''' <br /> <br /> Ours has the superficially more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see with a telescope, instead of sci-fi images. However, the actual views are in many ways more astounding if one can grasp what it is we are '''not''' seeing -ie- we live inside a galaxy yet it is so vast we can barely see it except on a cloudless moonless country night. Time-exposed Hubble Space Telescope images give a totally artificial view. <br /> <br /> That typifies our whole e-chautauqua do-it-yourself approach: what can '''you''' see? (not Hubble), what can '''you''' sing? (not hear on radio ga ga), what can '''you''' create, play, research, interpret ...?<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> Don't many people dream of hearing their hit songs played on radio? Don't vast numbers ring talk shows to have their 5 minutes of say? <br /> <br /> The Web has now made it possible to set up not just one's own radio show but an entire station. What takes their station beyond even nationally-syndicated traditional radio is the potential to broadcast to the entire planet, combine print and images, and harness for free the resources of the greatest public relations advertising network the world has ever known - the search engines.<br /> <br /> '''Education'''<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> '''Music'''<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> '''Is there a role for internet radio journalism?'''<br /> <br /> The Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. In the 20th Century these were largely replaced by radio talk shows. These were interactive in that callers queued up to express their views. But Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life and know many sides of stories that never made it to air. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet radio journalism? <br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected journalists there is a huge hole in the mainstream crying out for something independent: <br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said ''&quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage..&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Academic Liz Gould noted ''&quot;As a platform for the discussion of contemporary social issues, talkback has thrived by courting controversy and debate. The commercial talkback radio format has supported the rise of a small, but highly prominent, group of men and continues to be strongly guided by economic imperatives, as witnessed in recent developments such as the ‘cash for comment’ affair. (Gould, Liz (2007) Cash and controversy : a short history of commercial talkback radio Related Media international Australia, Issue 122, p.81-95 University of Queensland Press)''<br /> <br /> Award-winning Dr Norman Swan of the ABC Radio Science Show has dropped out of investigative science journalism precisely because there has been no such reform: ''“I will never do a case of scientific fraud ever again. I’ve said this publicly and I’ve said it a couple of times before - I am never going to do another one ever again. And the reason for that is just the failure of institutional responses. If the University .. can get away with something like this – what is the point? Somebody else can do it, some young buck can come along and do them but, you know, I’m not going to do another one because I just don’t think that the institutions in this country have responded seriously to this.”'' What happens to the Whistleblowers? The Science Show. Saturday 3 September 2005 <br /> <br /> All of this suggests a powerful future for internet radio, not least because its global reach can bypass local power-brokers who would otherwise overwhelm the small whistleblower or broadcaster with counter-views posed as 'balanced journalism' -ie '''you've heard the allegation from Mr X, now let's hear from eminent scientists Dr Y and Professor Z as well as calls from a family hurt by Mr X's allegations ... blahdey blah'' We've all heard this. It's been parodied numerous times yet people still fall for it. As ABC’s Quentin Dempster put it: ''“ ... the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.&quot; (Honest Cops)” '' <br /> <br /> We couldn't have put it better. Maybe internet radio can help break this cycle.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=55542 2012-02-29T03:25:54Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> The songs on radio tom [http://www.radio-tom.com] are free to use Creative Commons resources. Most have chords specially re-written for the 'instant play' music system at www.oz-rock.com [http://www.oz-rock.com]. This means a beginner using the special one-finger chords can instantly jam along with the song by ear without needing chord charts or even practice. <br /> <br /> This is in line with the origins of Chautauqua. Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional Chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down a 'critical mass' of musical material. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has over 70 songs - enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only full version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast was for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope, accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;'&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'''' <br /> <br /> Ours has the superficially more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see with a telescope, instead of sci-fi images. However, the actual views are in many ways more astounding if one can grasp what it is we are '''not''' seeing -ie- we live inside a galaxy yet it is so vast we can barely see it except on a cloudless moonless country night. Time-exposed Hubble Space Telescope images give a totally artificial view. <br /> <br /> That typifies our whole e-chautauqua do-it-yourself approach: what can '''you''' see? (not Hubble), what can '''you''' sing? (not hear on radio ga ga), what can '''you''' create, play, research, interpret ...?<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> Don't many people dream of hearing their hit songs played on radio? Don't vast numbers ring talk shows to have their 5 minutes of say? <br /> <br /> The Web has now made it possible to set up not just one's own radio show but an entire station. What takes their station beyond even nationally-syndicated traditional radio is the potential to broadcast to the entire planet, combine print and images, and harness for free the resources of the greatest public relations advertising network the world has ever known - the search engines.<br /> <br /> '''Education'''<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> '''Music'''<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> '''Is there a role for internet radio journalism?'''<br /> <br /> The Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. In the 20th Century these were largely replaced by radio talk shows. These were interactive in that callers queued up to express their views. But Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life and know many sides of stories that never made it to air. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet radio journalism? <br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected journalists there is a huge hole in the mainstream crying out for something independent: <br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said ''&quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage..&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Academic Liz Gould noted ''&quot;As a platform for the discussion of contemporary social issues, talkback has thrived by courting controversy and debate. The commercial talkback radio format has supported the rise of a small, but highly prominent, group of men and continues to be strongly guided by economic imperatives, as witnessed in recent developments such as the ‘cash for comment’ affair. (Gould, Liz (2007) Cash and controversy : a short history of commercial talkback radio Related Media international Australia, Issue 122, p.81-95 University of Queensland Press)''<br /> <br /> Award-winning Dr Norman Swan of the ABC Radio Science Show has dropped out of investigative science journalism precisely because there has been no such reform: ''“I will never do a case of scientific fraud ever again. I’ve said this publicly and I’ve said it a couple of times before - I am never going to do another one ever again. And the reason for that is just the failure of institutional responses. If the University .. can get away with something like this – what is the point? Somebody else can do it, some young buck can come along and do them but, you know, I’m not going to do another one because I just don’t think that the institutions in this country have responded seriously to this.”'' What happens to the Whistleblowers? The Science Show. Saturday 3 September 2005 <br /> <br /> All of this suggests a powerful future for internet radio, not least because its global reach can bypass local power-brokers who would otherwise overwhelm the small whistleblower or broadcaster with counter-views posed as 'balanced journalism' -ie '''you've heard the allegation from Mr X, now let's hear from eminent scientists Dr Y and Professor Z as well as calls from a family hurt by Mr X's allegations ... blahdey blah'' We've all heard this. It's been parodied numerous times yet people still fall for it. As ABC’s Quentin Dempster put it: ''“ ... the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.&quot; (Honest Cops)” '' <br /> <br /> We couldn't have put it better. Maybe internet radio can help break this cycle.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=55541 2012-02-29T03:25:13Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> The songs on [http://www.radio-tom.com] are free to use Creative Commons resources. Most have chords specially re-written for the 'instant play' music system at [http://www.oz-rock.com]. This means a beginner using the special one-finger chords can instantly jam along with the song by ear without needing chord charts or even practice. <br /> <br /> This is in line with the origins of Chautauqua. Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional Chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down a 'critical mass' of musical material. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has over 70 songs - enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only full version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast was for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope, accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;'&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'''' <br /> <br /> Ours has the superficially more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see with a telescope, instead of sci-fi images. However, the actual views are in many ways more astounding if one can grasp what it is we are '''not''' seeing -ie- we live inside a galaxy yet it is so vast we can barely see it except on a cloudless moonless country night. Time-exposed Hubble Space Telescope images give a totally artificial view. <br /> <br /> That typifies our whole e-chautauqua do-it-yourself approach: what can '''you''' see? (not Hubble), what can '''you''' sing? (not hear on radio ga ga), what can '''you''' create, play, research, interpret ...?<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> Don't many people dream of hearing their hit songs played on radio? Don't vast numbers ring talk shows to have their 5 minutes of say? <br /> <br /> The Web has now made it possible to set up not just one's own radio show but an entire station. What takes their station beyond even nationally-syndicated traditional radio is the potential to broadcast to the entire planet, combine print and images, and harness for free the resources of the greatest public relations advertising network the world has ever known - the search engines.<br /> <br /> '''Education'''<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> '''Music'''<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> '''Is there a role for internet radio journalism?'''<br /> <br /> The Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. In the 20th Century these were largely replaced by radio talk shows. These were interactive in that callers queued up to express their views. But Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life and know many sides of stories that never made it to air. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet radio journalism? <br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected journalists there is a huge hole in the mainstream crying out for something independent: <br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said ''&quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage..&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Academic Liz Gould noted ''&quot;As a platform for the discussion of contemporary social issues, talkback has thrived by courting controversy and debate. The commercial talkback radio format has supported the rise of a small, but highly prominent, group of men and continues to be strongly guided by economic imperatives, as witnessed in recent developments such as the ‘cash for comment’ affair. (Gould, Liz (2007) Cash and controversy : a short history of commercial talkback radio Related Media international Australia, Issue 122, p.81-95 University of Queensland Press)''<br /> <br /> Award-winning Dr Norman Swan of the ABC Radio Science Show has dropped out of investigative science journalism precisely because there has been no such reform: ''“I will never do a case of scientific fraud ever again. I’ve said this publicly and I’ve said it a couple of times before - I am never going to do another one ever again. And the reason for that is just the failure of institutional responses. If the University .. can get away with something like this – what is the point? Somebody else can do it, some young buck can come along and do them but, you know, I’m not going to do another one because I just don’t think that the institutions in this country have responded seriously to this.”'' What happens to the Whistleblowers? The Science Show. Saturday 3 September 2005 <br /> <br /> All of this suggests a powerful future for internet radio, not least because its global reach can bypass local power-brokers who would otherwise overwhelm the small whistleblower or broadcaster with counter-views posed as 'balanced journalism' -ie '''you've heard the allegation from Mr X, now let's hear from eminent scientists Dr Y and Professor Z as well as calls from a family hurt by Mr X's allegations ... blahdey blah'' We've all heard this. It's been parodied numerous times yet people still fall for it. As ABC’s Quentin Dempster put it: ''“ ... the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.&quot; (Honest Cops)” '' <br /> <br /> We couldn't have put it better. Maybe internet radio can help break this cycle.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=55540 2012-02-29T03:23:00Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> The songs on radio tom are free to use Creative Commons resources. Most have chords specially re-written for the 'instant play' music system at www.oz-rock.com. This means a beginner using the special one-finger chords can instantly jam along with the song by ear without needing chord charts or even practice. <br /> <br /> This is in line with the origins of Chautauqua. Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional Chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down a 'critical mass' of musical material. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has over 70 songs - enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only full version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast was for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope, accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;'&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'''' <br /> <br /> Ours has the superficially more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see with a telescope, instead of sci-fi images. However, the actual views are in many ways more astounding if one can grasp what it is we are '''not''' seeing -ie- we live inside a galaxy yet it is so vast we can barely see it except on a cloudless moonless country night. Time-exposed Hubble Space Telescope images give a totally artificial view. <br /> <br /> That typifies our whole e-chautauqua do-it-yourself approach: what can '''you''' see? (not Hubble), what can '''you''' sing? (not hear on radio ga ga), what can '''you''' create, play, research, interpret ...?<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> Don't many people dream of hearing their hit songs played on radio? Don't vast numbers ring talk shows to have their 5 minutes of say? <br /> <br /> The Web has now made it possible to set up not just one's own radio show but an entire station. What takes their station beyond even nationally-syndicated traditional radio is the potential to broadcast to the entire planet, combine print and images, and harness for free the resources of the greatest public relations advertising network the world has ever known - the search engines.<br /> <br /> '''Education'''<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> '''Music'''<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> '''Is there a role for internet radio journalism?'''<br /> <br /> The Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. In the 20th Century these were largely replaced by radio talk shows. These were interactive in that callers queued up to express their views. But Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life and know many sides of stories that never made it to air. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet radio journalism? <br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected journalists there is a huge hole in the mainstream crying out for something independent: <br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said ''&quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage..&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Academic Liz Gould noted ''&quot;As a platform for the discussion of contemporary social issues, talkback has thrived by courting controversy and debate. The commercial talkback radio format has supported the rise of a small, but highly prominent, group of men and continues to be strongly guided by economic imperatives, as witnessed in recent developments such as the ‘cash for comment’ affair. (Gould, Liz (2007) Cash and controversy : a short history of commercial talkback radio Related Media international Australia, Issue 122, p.81-95 University of Queensland Press)''<br /> <br /> Award-winning Dr Norman Swan of the ABC Radio Science Show has dropped out of investigative science journalism precisely because there has been no such reform: ''“I will never do a case of scientific fraud ever again. I’ve said this publicly and I’ve said it a couple of times before - I am never going to do another one ever again. And the reason for that is just the failure of institutional responses. If the University .. can get away with something like this – what is the point? Somebody else can do it, some young buck can come along and do them but, you know, I’m not going to do another one because I just don’t think that the institutions in this country have responded seriously to this.”'' What happens to the Whistleblowers? The Science Show. Saturday 3 September 2005 <br /> <br /> All of this suggests a powerful future for internet radio, not least because its global reach can bypass local power-brokers who would otherwise overwhelm the small whistleblower or broadcaster with counter-views posed as 'balanced journalism' -ie '''you've heard the allegation from Mr X, now let's hear from eminent scientists Dr Y and Professor Z as well as calls from a family hurt by Mr X's allegations ... blahdey blah'' We've all heard this. It's been parodied numerous times yet people still fall for it. As ABC’s Quentin Dempster put it: ''“ ... the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.&quot; (Honest Cops)” '' <br /> <br /> We couldn't have put it better. Maybe internet radio can help break this cycle.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Tom_Benjamin&diff=45855 2011-01-10T01:49:25Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |importance=Medium<br /> |quality=C-Class<br /> |Description=www.TV-Tom.Com and www.Radio-Tom.Com are internet stations offering free music for download and sharing. Dr Tom has done the first recording in living memory of some of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=http://www.e-chautauqua.com<br /> |Author=http://www.tom.com.au<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music, tv, video, playlist, mp3, download, free, public_domain<br /> |License_short_name=PD<br /> |Format=Sound<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> '''Dr Tom Benjamin''' is a researcher in Sydney, Australia, with TV and radio stations: www.tv-tom.com [http://tvtom.wordpress.com/], www.radio-tom.com [http://radiotom.wordpress.com/], and a movie studio www.movie-tom.com [http://movietom.wordpress.com/]. Most recently, he has developed a new approach to music education made available at www.oz-rock.com [http://www.oz-rock.com/]. <br /> <br /> These, in turn, are part of the Expression Tent of www.e-chautauqua.com [http://e-chautauqua.wordpress.com/] and are offerred under Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Dr Tom is a researcher and psychologist. The tom tv, tom radio, tom movie and e-chautauqua projects are byproducts of his investigation of educational applications of games, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and new media. They are purely privately-funded out of pocket with no link to government or corporate sponsors.<br /> <br /> One of their key purposes is to demonstrate multimedia techniques that teachers and students can use in their own presentations. This includes 3D animation, blue screen, puppetry, and music creation.<br /> <br /> '''How are songs rated as &quot;the most famous songs of all time&quot;.''' There are countless 'fake books' of 'standards' and anthologies of popular music. The songs that appear consistently in all of these can be regarded as famous. Tunes sung to children that everyone recognises are by definition famous. The greatest of these is no doubt ''Happy Birthday''. The longest-lived well-known songs would include ''Greensleeves''. 'Famous' does not equal 'popular' or even 'good'. The ''Funeral March'' is one such example of 'unpopular but famous'. <br /> <br /> Other songs have historical significance. ''Home Sweet Home'' was the first song of the modern 'pop' variety because it was secular (non-religious), available as sheet music, known on both sides of the Atlantic, and could be sung and played in the home parlour. ''After the Ball'' was the next pop milestone as it had over a million sales. <br /> <br /> Yet you will find few renditions of many of these influential songs beyond the occasional scratchy pre-1900 Edison cylinder rendition. Even when clear the versions are often incomplete or flowery. Thus, the claim to &quot;the best versions of the most famous songs of all time&quot; in many cases only requires a decent, clear recording. The 'best' need not equal 'great' or even 'good' - it may only need to be a 'listenable', 'complete', or even 'bearable' version to qualify as 'best'.<br /> <br /> Originally from Detroit, Dr Tom has had a long experience with music. One of his first paid jobs was as a 'weddings and anything' rock &amp; roll singer playing frat parties. The history of this era is well documented on garage band websites [http://www.60sgaragebands.com] [http://www.myfirstband.com] and Tom's band bio [http://www.60sgaragebands.com/wetpaint.html]. <br /> <br /> The version of ''House of the Rising Sun'' listed in the Music section below is typical of those days, but back then it was real bands with real instruments, not virtual ones. Since then he has remained musically active through music therapy, karaoke [http://www.kara-oke.com]www.kara-oke.com, and in his current role developing quick and simple multimedia techniques that can be used in the classroom. <br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Overview|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> These songs cost Dr Tom next to nothing (but time) to record and hosting is now free. The video footage used in tv-tom.com is free and from the public domain. This lack of costs is passed on to his listeners.<br /> <br /> The Creative Commons link boosted search engine placement immediately and dramatically.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|License Usage|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> The immediate goal is to build a web platform to develop, test, and showcase new media and Web 2.0 technologies. To be worth doing, a site needs some link popularity and 'hits'. Music was a logical choice because it is a popular search topic. Public domain music is actually useful to anyone needing royalty-free tunes for podcasts, public occasions and so on. But with hundreds of thousands of musicians online competing for the ear there was a need to highlight the 'famous' aspect of these songs.<br /> <br /> The ultimate test will be to see if people like what we do with these ancient out-of-copyright tunes. They may well want to hear what we can do with more modern 'famous' songs as well. But the latter cannot be done for free as there are up-front costs of permissions, licenses, and fees. Oh, and did we mention the not-so-minor detail that you can buy recordings of the later songs done by the most famous artists in history? Any claim to the 'best versions' of later songs comes up against much stiffer competition. But then if one has to pay, hence charge, money it might be enough to fund a conventional recording studio deal. In the meantime, there are enough public domain songs to keep Dr Tom busy feeding the radio and TV stations.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Motivations|formedit}}<br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> Music example</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Tom_Benjamin&diff=38260 2010-07-26T04:11:24Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.TV-Tom.Com and www.Radio-Tom.Com are internet stations offering free music for download and sharing. Dr Tom has done the first recording in living memory of some of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=http://www.e-chautauqua.com<br /> |Author=http://www.tom.com.au<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music, tv, video, playlist, mp3, download, free, public_domain<br /> |License short name=PD<br /> |Format=Sound<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> '''Dr Tom Benjamin''' is Senior Researcher, Centre for Learning Innovation, Sydney, Australia, with TV and radio stations: www.tv-tom.com [http://tvtom.wordpress.com/], www.radio-tom.com [http://radiotom.wordpress.com/], and a movie studio www.movie-tom.com [http://movietom.wordpress.com/]. <br /> <br /> These, in turn, are part of the Expression Tent of www.e-chautauqua.com [http://e-chautauqua.wordpress.com/] and are offerred under Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Dr Tom is a researcher and psychologist. The tom tv, tom radio, tom movie and e-chautauqua projects are byproducts of his investigation of educational applications of games, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and new media. They are purely privately-funded out of pocket with no link to government or corporate sponsors.<br /> <br /> One of their key purposes is to demonstrate multimedia techniques that teachers and students can use in their own presentations. This includes 3D animation, blue screen, puppetry, and music creation.<br /> <br /> '''How are songs rated as &quot;the most famous songs of all time&quot;.''' There are countless 'fake books' of 'standards' and anthologies of popular music. The songs that appear consistently in all of these can be regarded as famous. Tunes sung to children that everyone recognises are by definition famous. The greatest of these is no doubt ''Happy Birthday''. The longest-lived well-known songs would include ''Greensleeves''. 'Famous' does not equal 'popular' or even 'good'. The ''Funeral March'' is one such example of 'unpopular but famous'. <br /> <br /> Other songs have historical significance. ''Home Sweet Home'' was the first song of the modern 'pop' variety because it was secular (non-religious), available as sheet music, known on both sides of the Atlantic, and could be sung and played in the home parlour. ''After the Ball'' was the next pop milestone as it had over a million sales. <br /> <br /> Yet you will find few renditions of many of these influential songs beyond the occasional scratchy pre-1900 Edison cylinder rendition. Even when clear the versions are often incomplete or flowery. Thus, the claim to &quot;the best versions of the most famous songs of all time&quot; in many cases only requires a decent, clear recording. The 'best' need not equal 'great' or even 'good' - it may only need to be a 'listenable', 'complete', or even 'bearable' version to qualify as 'best'.<br /> <br /> Originally from Detroit, Dr Tom has had a long experience with music. One of his first paid jobs was as a 'weddings and anything' rock &amp; roll singer playing frat parties. The history of this era is well documented on garage band websites [http://www.60sgaragebands.com] [http://www.myfirstband.com] and Tom's band bio [http://www.60sgaragebands.com/wetpaint.html]. <br /> <br /> The version of ''House of the Rising Sun'' listed in the Music section below is typical of those days, but back then it was real bands with real instruments, not virtual ones. Since then he has remained musically active through music therapy, karaoke [http://www.kara-oke.com]www.kara-oke.com, and in his current role developing quick and simple multimedia techniques that can be used in the classroom. <br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Overview|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> These songs cost Dr Tom next to nothing (but time) to record and hosting is now free. The video footage used in tv-tom.com is free and from the public domain. This lack of costs is passed on to his listeners.<br /> <br /> The Creative Commons link boosted search engine placement immediately and dramatically.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|License Usage|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> The immediate goal is to build a web platform to develop, test, and showcase new media and Web 2.0 technologies. To be worth doing, a site needs some link popularity and 'hits'. Music was a logical choice because it is a popular search topic. Public domain music is actually useful to anyone needing royalty-free tunes for podcasts, public occasions and so on. But with hundreds of thousands of musicians online competing for the ear there was a need to highlight the 'famous' aspect of these songs.<br /> <br /> The ultimate test will be to see if people like what we do with these ancient out-of-copyright tunes. They may well want to hear what we can do with more modern 'famous' songs as well. But the latter cannot be done for free as there are up-front costs of permissions, licenses, and fees. Oh, and did we mention the not-so-minor detail that you can buy recordings of the later songs done by the most famous artists in history? Any claim to the 'best versions' of later songs comes up against much stiffer competition. But then if one has to pay, hence charge, money it might be enough to fund a conventional recording studio deal. In the meantime, there are enough public domain songs to keep Dr Tom busy feeding the radio and TV stations.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Motivations|formedit}}<br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> Music example</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Tom_Benjamin&diff=31764 2010-03-02T00:56:18Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.TV-Tom.Com and www.Radio-Tom.Com are internet stations offering free music for download and sharing. Dr Tom has done the first recording in living memory of some of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=http://www.e-chautauqua.com<br /> |Author=http://www.tom.com.au<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music, tv, video, playlist, mp3, download, free, public_domain<br /> |License short name=PD<br /> |Format=Sound<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> '''Dr Tom Benjamin''' is Senior Researcher, Centre for Learning Innovation, Sydney, Australia, with TV and radio stations: www.tv-tom.com [http://tvtom.wordpress.com/], www.radio-tom.com [http://radiotom.wordpress.com/], and a movie studio www.movie-tom.com [http://movietom.wordpress.com/]. <br /> <br /> These, in turn, are part of the Expression Tent of www.e-chautauqua.com [http://e-chautauqua.wordpress.com/] and are offerred under Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Dr Tom is a researcher and forensic psychologist. The tom tv, tom radio, tom movie and e-chautauqua projects are byproducts of his investigation of educational applications of games, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and new media. They are purely privately-funded out of pocket with no link to government or corporate sponsors.<br /> <br /> One of their key purposes is to demonstrate multimedia techniques that teachers and students can use in their own presentations. This includes 3D animation, blue screen, puppetry, and music creation.<br /> <br /> '''How are songs rated as &quot;the most famous songs of all time&quot;.''' There are countless 'fake books' of 'standards' and anthologies of popular music. The songs that appear consistently in all of these can be regarded as famous. Tunes sung to children that everyone recognises are by definition famous. The greatest of these is no doubt ''Happy Birthday''. The longest-lived well-known songs would include ''Greensleeves''. 'Famous' does not equal 'popular' or even 'good'. The ''Funeral March'' is one such example of 'unpopular but famous'. <br /> <br /> Other songs have historical significance. ''Home Sweet Home'' was the first song of the modern 'pop' variety because it was secular (non-religious), available as sheet music, known on both sides of the Atlantic, and could be sung and played in the home parlour. ''After the Ball'' was the next pop milestone as it had over a million sales. <br /> <br /> Yet you will find few renditions of many of these influential songs beyond the occasional scratchy pre-1900 Edison cylinder rendition. Even when clear the versions are often incomplete or flowery. Thus, the claim to &quot;the best versions of the most famous songs of all time&quot; in many cases only requires a decent, clear recording. The 'best' need not equal 'great' or even 'good' - it may only need to be a 'listenable', 'complete', or even 'bearable' version to qualify as 'best'.<br /> <br /> Originally from Detroit, Dr Tom has had a long experience with music. One of his first paid jobs was as a 'weddings and anything' rock &amp; roll singer playing frat parties. The history of this era is well documented on garage band websites [http://www.60sgaragebands.com] [http://www.myfirstband.com] and Tom's band bio [http://www.60sgaragebands.com/wetpaint.html]. <br /> <br /> The version of ''House of the Rising Sun'' listed in the Music section below is typical of those days, but back then it was real bands with real instruments, not virtual ones. Since then he has remained musically active through music therapy, karaoke [http://www.kara-oke.com]www.kara-oke.com, and in his current role developing quick and simple multimedia techniques that can be used in the classroom. <br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Overview|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> These songs cost Dr Tom next to nothing (but time) to record and hosting is now free. The video footage used in tv-tom.com is free and from the public domain. This lack of costs is passed on to his listeners.<br /> <br /> The Creative Commons link boosted search engine placement immediately and dramatically.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|License Usage|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> The immediate goal is to build a web platform to develop, test, and showcase new media and Web 2.0 technologies. To be worth doing, a site needs some link popularity and 'hits'. Music was a logical choice because it is a popular search topic. Public domain music is actually useful to anyone needing royalty-free tunes for podcasts, public occasions and so on. But with hundreds of thousands of musicians online competing for the ear there was a need to highlight the 'famous' aspect of these songs.<br /> <br /> The ultimate test will be to see if people like what we do with these ancient out-of-copyright tunes. They may well want to hear what we can do with more modern 'famous' songs as well. But the latter cannot be done for free as there are up-front costs of permissions, licenses, and fees. Oh, and did we mention the not-so-minor detail that you can buy recordings of the later songs done by the most famous artists in history? Any claim to the 'best versions' of later songs comes up against much stiffer competition. But then if one has to pay, hence charge, money it might be enough to fund a conventional recording studio deal. In the meantime, there are enough public domain songs to keep Dr Tom busy feeding the radio and TV stations.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Motivations|formedit}}<br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> Music example</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Tom_Benjamin&diff=31762 2010-03-02T00:51:55Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.TV-Tom.Com and www.Radio-Tom.Com are internet stations offering free music for download and sharing. Dr Tom has done the first recording in living memory of some of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=http://www.e-chautauqua.com<br /> |Author=http://www.tom.com.au<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music, tv, video, playlist, mp3, download, free, public_domain<br /> |License short name=PD<br /> |Format=Sound<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> '''Dr Tom Benjamin''' is Senior Researcher, Centre for Learning Innovation, Sydney, Australia, with TV and radio stations: www.tv-tom.com [http://tvtom.wordpress.com/], www.radio-tom.com [http://radiotom.wordpress.com/], and a movie studio www.movie-tom.com [http://movietom.wordpress.com/]. <br /> <br /> These, in turn, are part of the Expression Tent of www.e-chautauqua.com [http://e-chautauqua.wordpress.com/] and are offerred under Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Dr Tom is a researcher and forensic psychologist. The tom tv, tom radio, tom movie and e-chautauqua projects are byproducts of his investigation of educational applications of games, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and new media. They are purely privately-funded out of pocket with no link to government or corporate sponsors.<br /> <br /> One of their key purposes is to demonstrate multimedia techniques that teachers and students can use in their own presentations. This includes 3D animation, blue screen, puppetry, and music creation.<br /> <br /> '''How are songs rated as &quot;the most famous songs of all time&quot;.''' There are countless 'fake books' of 'standards' and anthologies of popular music. The songs that appear consistently in all of these can be regarded as famous. Tunes sung to children that everyone recognises are by definition famous. The greatest of these is no doubt ''Happy Birthday''. The longest-lived well-known songs would include ''Greensleeves''. 'Famous' does not equal 'popular' or even 'good'. The ''Funeral March'' is one such example of 'unpopular but famous'. <br /> <br /> Other songs have historical significance. ''Home Sweet Home'' was the first song of the modern 'pop' variety because it was secular (non-religious), available as sheet music, known on both sides of the Atlantic, and could be sung and played in the home parlour. ''After the Ball'' was the next pop milestone as it had over a million sales. <br /> <br /> Yet you will find few renditions of many of these influential songs beyond the occasional scratchy pre-1900 Edison cylinder rendition. Even when clear the versions are often incomplete or flowery. Thus, the claim to &quot;the best versions of the most famous songs of all time&quot; in many cases only requires a decent, clear recording. The 'best' need not equal 'great' or even 'good' - it may only need to be a 'listenable', 'complete', or even 'bearable' version to qualify as 'best'.<br /> <br /> Originally from Detroit, Dr Tom has had a long experience with music. One of his first paid jobs was as a 'weddings and anything' rock &amp; roll singer playing frat parties. The history of this era is well documented at [http://www.60sgaragebands.com/wetpaint.html]. <br /> <br /> The version of ''House of the Rising Sun'' listed in the Music section below is typical of those days, but back then it was real bands with real instruments, not virtual ones. Since then he has remained musically active through music therapy, karaoke [http://www.kara-oke.com]www.kara-oke.com, and in his current role developing quick and simple multimedia techniques that can be used in the classroom. <br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Overview|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> These songs cost Dr Tom next to nothing (but time) to record and hosting is now free. The video footage used in tv-tom.com is free and from the public domain. This lack of costs is passed on to his listeners.<br /> <br /> The Creative Commons link boosted search engine placement immediately and dramatically.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|License Usage|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> The immediate goal is to build a web platform to develop, test, and showcase new media and Web 2.0 technologies. To be worth doing, a site needs some link popularity and 'hits'. Music was a logical choice because it is a popular search topic. Public domain music is actually useful to anyone needing royalty-free tunes for podcasts, public occasions and so on. But with hundreds of thousands of musicians online competing for the ear there was a need to highlight the 'famous' aspect of these songs.<br /> <br /> The ultimate test will be to see if people like what we do with these ancient out-of-copyright tunes. They may well want to hear what we can do with more modern 'famous' songs as well. But the latter cannot be done for free as there are up-front costs of permissions, licenses, and fees. Oh, and did we mention the not-so-minor detail that you can buy recordings of the later songs done by the most famous artists in history? Any claim to the 'best versions' of later songs comes up against much stiffer competition. But then if one has to pay, hence charge, money it might be enough to fund a conventional recording studio deal. In the meantime, there are enough public domain songs to keep Dr Tom busy feeding the radio and TV stations.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Motivations|formedit}}<br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> Music example</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Tom_Benjamin&diff=28253 2009-12-18T01:50:07Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.TV-Tom.Com and www.Radio-Tom.Com are internet stations offering free music for download and sharing. Dr Tom has done the first recording in living memory of some of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=http://www.e-chautauqua.com<br /> |Author=http://www.tom.com.au<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music, tv, video, playlist, mp3, download, free, public_domain<br /> |License short name=PD<br /> |Format=Sound<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> '''Dr Tom Benjamin''' is Senior Researcher, Centre for Learning Innovation, Sydney, Australia, with TV and radio stations: www.tv-tom.com [http://tvtom.wordpress.com/], www.radio-tom.com [http://radiotom.wordpress.com/], and a movie studio www.movie-tom.com [http://movietom.wordpress.com/]. <br /> <br /> These, in turn, are part of the Expression Tent of www.e-chautauqua.com [http://e-chautauqua.wordpress.com/] and are offerred under Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Dr Tom is a researcher and forensic psychologist. The tom tv, tom radio, tom movie and e-chautauqua projects are byproducts of his investigation of educational applications of games, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and new media. They are purely privately-funded out of pocket with no link to government or corporate sponsors.<br /> <br /> One of their key purposes is to demonstrate multimedia techniques that teachers and students can use in their own presentations. This includes 3D animation, blue screen, puppetry, and music creation.<br /> <br /> '''How are songs rated as &quot;the most famous songs of all time&quot;.''' There are countless 'fake books' of 'standards' and anthologies of popular music. The songs that appear consistently in all of these can be regarded as famous. Tunes sung to children that everyone recognises are by definition famous. The greatest of these is no doubt ''Happy Birthday''. The longest-lived well-known songs would include ''Greensleeves''. 'Famous' does not equal 'popular' or even 'good'. The ''Funeral March'' is one such example of 'unpopular but famous'. <br /> <br /> Other songs have historical significance. ''Home Sweet Home'' was the first song of the modern 'pop' variety because it was secular (non-religious), available as sheet music, known on both sides of the Atlantic, and could be sung and played in the home parlour. ''After the Ball'' was the next pop milestone as it had over a million sales. <br /> <br /> Yet you will find few renditions of many of these influential songs beyond the occasional scratchy pre-1900 Edison cylinder rendition. Even when clear the versions are often incomplete or flowery. Thus, the claim to &quot;the best versions of the most famous songs of all time&quot; in many cases only requires a decent, clear recording. The 'best' need not equal 'great' or even 'good' - it may only need to be a 'listenable', 'complete', or even 'bearable' version to qualify as 'best'.<br /> <br /> Originally from Detroit, Dr Tom has had a long experience with music. One of his first paid jobs was as a 'weddings and anything' rock &amp; roll singer playing frat parties. The version of ''House of the Rising Sun'' listed in the Music section below is typical of those days, but back then it was real bands with real instruments, not virtual ones. Since then he has remained musically active through music therapy, karaoke [http://www.kara-oke.com]www.kara-oke.com, and in his current role developing quick and simple multimedia techniques that can be used in the classroom. <br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Overview|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> These songs cost Dr Tom next to nothing (but time) to record and hosting is now free. The video footage used in tv-tom.com is free and from the public domain. This lack of costs is passed on to his listeners.<br /> <br /> The Creative Commons link boosted search engine placement immediately and dramatically.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|License Usage|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> The immediate goal is to build a web platform to develop, test, and showcase new media and Web 2.0 technologies. To be worth doing, a site needs some link popularity and 'hits'. Music was a logical choice because it is a popular search topic. Public domain music is actually useful to anyone needing royalty-free tunes for podcasts, public occasions and so on. But with hundreds of thousands of musicians online competing for the ear there was a need to highlight the 'famous' aspect of these songs.<br /> <br /> The ultimate test will be to see if people like what we do with these ancient out-of-copyright tunes. They may well want to hear what we can do with more modern 'famous' songs as well. But the latter cannot be done for free as there are up-front costs of permissions, licenses, and fees. Oh, and did we mention the not-so-minor detail that you can buy recordings of the later songs done by the most famous artists in history? Any claim to the 'best versions' of later songs comes up against much stiffer competition. But then if one has to pay, hence charge, money it might be enough to fund a conventional recording studio deal. In the meantime, there are enough public domain songs to keep Dr Tom busy feeding the radio and TV stations.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Motivations|formedit}}<br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> Music example</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Movie-Tom.Com&diff=28242 2009-12-15T23:30:36Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: This site is about movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques.</p> <hr /> <div>'''Movie-tom.Com'''<br /> <br /> <br /> &quot;I have deliberately chosen challenging special effects blockbuster themes to show what can now be done quickly with a movie studio on a card table. <br /> &quot; — Dr Tom <br /> <br /> www.movie-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools. <br /> <br /> URL: [http://www.movie-tom.com] www.movie-tom.com<br /> <br /> Author/Organisation: Dr Tom Benjamin [http://www.tom.com.au]<br /> <br /> User Status: Creator <br /> <br /> Tags: music, video, tv, chautauqua, e-chautauqua <br /> <br /> License short name: CC BY <br /> <br /> <br /> Media: Sound, MovingImage <br /> <br /> Country: Australia <br /> <br /> '''Overview''' <br /> <br /> This site is about movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques. I have deliberately chosen challenging special effects blockbuster themes like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jurassic Park, Titanic, and Space Odyssey to show what can now be done quickly with a movie studio on a card table. <br /> <br /> Making movies as a new variant on ‘the school play’ is certainly possible -ie– a full digital multimedia studio can be set up on a card table at less than the cost of a single tuba for the high school marching band. Whether this is desirable is another question.<br /> <br /> Teachers are under ever more pressure to provide multimedia-rich materials for the classroom. Methods and materials are particularly demanded for digital stories, Interactive White Boards, netbooks, and mobile devices. At the same time, despite implementing new, untried, and time-consuming technologies, teachers are expected to deliver better results in basic skills. My role is to help by making things simple.<br /> <br /> The intended use of this site is to demonstrate short customisable scenario-setting introductions to games and quests that can then be played out in text documents, digital stories, spreadsheets, web searches, and even live actions like puppetry and paper &amp; pen exercises. <br /> <br /> Movie-Tom.Com is definitely NOT a web resource promoting ‘student film-making’. Nothing would be more dangerously distracting to a classroom than a full motion picture studio. Running around the room in front of a blue screen pretending to be Superman, then seeing the image superimposed on a flying backdrop is great fun – but it may have no educational value whatsoever to most KLAs. The blue screen is just one of the many dazzling techniques only just very recently available on the personal computer. Countless hours could be wasted in frivolous uses of such powerful technology. Some effects like claymation have come back into vogue with digital methods of photography. Again, it could become an extremely time-consuming distraction to use claymation to produce a 30 second video clip. It is true that traditional ‘project’ assignments often involved building something (I built many a ship model for my school projects) but it is up to the teacher to determine how much weight and time to give such tasks. My role is to offer alternatives to cut the production time down.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''What do we mean by “a movie studio?”'''<br /> <br /> The term is used here in a restricted sense to mean the facilities to do full audio-visual capture, editing, and broadcast. In practice in a school environment, the facility would not be used to capacity to create a full length motion picture but, rather, would create ‘animated short films’ as part of ‘digital story-telling’ or posting to a sharing site like YouTube. Much hosting is now free so the limitation has become your time and labour. A 1950s Hollywood team would have very likely drooled over the technologies now available on a current desktop computer, but they had creative teams, writers, professional actors, sound engineers, and a host of camera and light-grippers. A school has a very small team compared to this and a lot fewer hours to devote.<br /> <br /> So the first point is that the movies discussed in this web resource have a modest aim – the purpose is to create short movie sequences, say 30 seconds to 5 minutes long, that quickly set the scene for a ‘Hero’s Journey’. The recommended ‘all-purpose’ sequences are news broadcasts. In real life, most adventures today begin with some sort of brief newscast –ie- “a scientist believes that the cure to Cancer lies in the …”, “police are seeking help from the public in identifying a …”, “We want your calls on the open line as to whether you support …”. By using text-to-speech artificial adult voices, the game creator can quickly re-use, edit, and customize these broadcasts to suit nearly any subject. Characters and scenes to flesh out the newscast’s ‘live report’ can be animated from the humblest materials. Large scale scenes can be created with plastic soldiers, animated ‘virtual crowds’, or even hordes such as the armies in The Lord of the Rings. Animation programmes such as The Movies provide full 3D sets that can be montaged with miniature and live sets. <br /> <br /> www.movie-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua –ie- speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, old public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. The Movie-tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. Archival public domain movie footage is given new life when populated with digital avatars and puppets.<br /> <br /> '''License Usage''' <br /> <br /> Copyright is central to movie-making. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. Toys and some products may be classed as ‘art works’ and subject to copyright provisions. Many jurisdictions such as Australia exempt use of copyright materials if used in the classroom. Clearly posting to the world at large via the Web, even under Creative Commons, is not exempt. However, use of props, clip art, and the like greatly speeds production time. For educational purposes the only justification for doing things the labour-intensive way is when that is the subject matter –ie- a tedious claymation may be perfectly sensible in an art class in which the moulding and positioning of the clay figure is the subject of the lesson. It makes less sense in a History or Maths class if it is only used to enliven a lesson. Short cuts are more suitable for the latter.<br /> <br /> Live action remains hard to do, hence the value of archival and purchased materials. Live action with child actors playing famous adults, no matter how many audio-visual effects are used, will not be in the least convincing. Movies can now be based on home camera footage and animation, backed by recorded live audio effects and music either bought for the purpose or carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the resulting arrangements and performances have to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> A student, avatar or puppet can don costume and appear in a live scene or in front of a blue screen. This can then be dubbed over with an adult text-to-speech voice, the child could talk through a $10 voice-changer device, or be pitch-shifted downward with Audacity software. A face can be lifted from still shots and pasted on as a ‘skin’ to an animated character with the adult voice. In this way a child can appear side by side with an animated miniature, or appear in an old public domain movie.<br /> <br /> Digital cameras have at least removed the earlier problems of lighting that bedevilled live filming –ie- watch a film crew on location. Even on bright sunny days they use huge reflector panels and floodlights. They bring truckloads of gear and personnel. The food alone requires a truck!<br /> A small digital camera now takes decent shots in all levels of lighting. What this makes easy is hybrid ‘montage’ filming. Digital editing allows live action footage to be combined with animations, miniatures and puppets backed by archival footage or stills. For quick rough results a video camera can even take a shot of the computer screen. Modern screens don’t flicker. <br /> <br /> Thus, a whole range of realistic scenes can be assembled to draw on the best attributes of each. What I term’hybrid claymation’ and ‘integrated media’ refers to taking a prop or character across different media. For example a 2D clip art face can be turned 3D with an animation programme like iClone. This in turn can become a still shot of the face and animated in CrazyTalk. The character can be printed out on paper and made into a puppet or a virtual puppet can be created in the computer. All this footage can be mixed to show the character in different scenes and in close-ups. <br /> <br /> Live footage excels with sensory material –ie- the live footage might show the Roman emperor eating something, which could be hard to animate, while the animation could show the emperor addressing a multitude in the Coliseum, which would be hard to do live. Similarly, an animated Roman sandal doesn’t give the feel for the dust and pain of walking miles on a thin piece of leather. A child’s foot with a real sandal filmed walking on gravel toward a blue screen, however, can become a scene of a soldier crunching toward Rome.<br /> <br /> The resulting combination of images, from live footage, purchased materials and public domain archives is ideally suited to a Creative Commons distribution. There is no commercial intent. Nor is there any intent to trick viewers into thinking the student created the entire movie. Old black &amp; white footage, for example is very distinctive as are old soundtracks. They can be blended into a new movie but few would be so naïve as to have difficulty distinguishing the old and new elements. If students succeed in making their ‘new’ look like and blend with the ‘old’ (with sepia colouring for example) the old footage loses nothing from this sincerest form of flattery.<br /> <br /> '''Motivations''' <br /> <br /> Creative Commons non-commercial was chosen as commercial re-use of third party material in movies (archive footage etc) is problematic. Educators have fewer restrictions in most jurisdictions.<br /> <br /> As a researcher, I have had the luxury of time to test out hardware, software, techniques, props, and special effects. This web resource is intended to structure the introduction of the technology so that it serves educational ends. My hours of experimentation will save the viewer from many dead ends and wasted effort. Your time is far more costly and valuable than the hardware involved.<br /> <br /> I have looked past claims by vendors and evangelists that multimedia miracles are ‘easily created by very young children in mere minutes’. Even if you assumed such claims were true or even believable, when you accumulate those minutes on each software programme together they can stretch out to weeks and months. This is especially so in this era of ‘online forums‘ in place of printed manuals. Teachers are public speakers who can’t go fishing around for some obscure drop-down, button, or right-click menu when in front of a class. <br /> <br /> The purpose of this web resource is to provide a set of tools that teachers can use selectively to enhance whatever subject or exercise they think might benefit from a game or virtual world version. The purpose is NOT to add to their pressures with yet more high cost, time-draining distractions but quite the opposite – to give short cuts into the world of motion pictures that has only very recently been opened up to amateurs with minimal budgets.<br /> <br /> I have installed software, developed simple animation techniques, converted files, filmed different materials under different lighting, scoured shops for cheap props, in other words done many of the things teachers would have had to learn the hard way and would likely never have the time to try. From this I have assembled a set of very affordable materials and short cuts that will allow short films using many special effects we have come to associate with Hollywood and Pinewood.<br /> <br /> I’m posting them ‘as is’ –ie- rough. If I spent time editing and refining them I’d be lying to you if I said it took ‘minutes’ if it actually took days. <br /> <br /> '''Could an 'important' movie ever be created using these simple tools?'''<br /> <br /> Answer: Of course. The importance of a movie is not just its entertainment value. There are many well-known stories that need constant re-telling as the public has a short memory. There are others that have been suppressed or otherwise ignored by mainstream media. In many countries even the most primitive movie could have major consequences.<br /> <br /> '''Our Links'''<br /> <br /> Movie-making fits well with the Expression Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com [http://www.e-chautauqua.com]and complements www.radio-tom [http://www.radio-tom] and www.tv-tom.com [http://www.tv-tom.com] . Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> <br /> ''Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License''</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Movie-Tom.Com&diff=28239 2009-12-15T06:22:33Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: This site is about movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques.</p> <hr /> <div>'''Movie-tom.Com'''<br /> <br /> <br /> &quot;I have deliberately chosen challenging special effects blockbuster themes to show what can now be done quickly with a movie studio on a card table. <br /> &quot; — Dr Tom <br /> <br /> www.movie-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools. <br /> <br /> URL: [http://www.movie-tom.com] www.movie-tom.com<br /> <br /> Author/Organisation: Dr Tom Benjamin <br /> <br /> User Status: Creator <br /> <br /> Tags: music, video, tv, chautauqua, e-chautauqua <br /> <br /> License short name: CC BY <br /> <br /> <br /> Media: Sound, MovingImage <br /> <br /> Country: Australia <br /> <br /> '''Overview''' <br /> <br /> This site is about movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques. I have deliberately chosen challenging special effects blockbuster themes like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jurassic Park, Titanic, and Space Odyssey to show what can now be done quickly with a movie studio on a card table. <br /> <br /> Making movies as a new variant on ‘the school play’ is certainly possible -ie– a full digital multimedia studio can be set up on a card table at less than the cost of a single tuba for the high school marching band. Whether this is desirable is another question.<br /> <br /> Teachers are under ever more pressure to provide multimedia-rich materials for the classroom. Methods and materials are particularly demanded for digital stories, Interactive White Boards, netbooks, and mobile devices. At the same time, despite implementing new, untried, and time-consuming technologies, teachers are expected to deliver better results in basic skills. My role is to help by making things simple.<br /> <br /> The intended use of this site is to demonstrate short customisable scenario-setting introductions to games and quests that can then be played out in text documents, digital stories, spreadsheets, web searches, and even live actions like puppetry and paper &amp; pen exercises. <br /> <br /> Movie-Tom.Com is definitely NOT a web resource promoting ‘student film-making’. Nothing would be more dangerously distracting to a classroom than a full motion picture studio. Running around the room in front of a blue screen pretending to be Superman, then seeing the image superimposed on a flying backdrop is great fun – but it may have no educational value whatsoever to most KLAs. The blue screen is just one of the many dazzling techniques only just very recently available on the personal computer. Countless hours could be wasted in frivolous uses of such powerful technology. Some effects like claymation have come back into vogue with digital methods of photography. Again, it could become an extremely time-consuming distraction to use claymation to produce a 30 second video clip. It is true that traditional ‘project’ assignments often involved building something (I built many a ship model for my school projects) but it is up to the teacher to determine how much weight and time to give such tasks. My role is to offer alternatives to cut the production time down.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''What do we mean by “a movie studio?”'''<br /> <br /> The term is used here in a restricted sense to mean the facilities to do full audio-visual capture, editing, and broadcast. In practice in a school environment, the facility would not be used to capacity to create a full length motion picture but, rather, would create ‘animated short films’ as part of ‘digital story-telling’ or posting to a sharing site like YouTube. Much hosting is now free so the limitation has become your time and labour. A 1950s Hollywood team would have very likely drooled over the technologies now available on a current desktop computer, but they had creative teams, writers, professional actors, sound engineers, and a host of camera and light-grippers. A school has a very small team compared to this and a lot fewer hours to devote.<br /> <br /> So the first point is that the movies discussed in this web resource have a modest aim – the purpose is to create short movie sequences, say 30 seconds to 5 minutes long, that quickly set the scene for a ‘Hero’s Journey’. The recommended ‘all-purpose’ sequences are news broadcasts. In real life, most adventures today begin with some sort of brief newscast –ie- “a scientist believes that the cure to Cancer lies in the …”, “police are seeking help from the public in identifying a …”, “We want your calls on the open line as to whether you support …”. By using text-to-speech artificial adult voices, the game creator can quickly re-use, edit, and customize these broadcasts to suit nearly any subject. Characters and scenes to flesh out the newscast’s ‘live report’ can be animated from the humblest materials. Large scale scenes can be created with plastic soldiers, animated ‘virtual crowds’, or even hordes such as the armies in The Lord of the Rings. Animation programmes such as The Movies provide full 3D sets that can be montaged with miniature and live sets. <br /> <br /> www.movie-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua –ie- speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, old public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. The Movie-tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. Archival public domain movie footage is given new life when populated with digital avatars and puppets.<br /> <br /> '''License Usage''' <br /> <br /> Copyright is central to movie-making. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. Toys and some products may be classed as ‘art works’ and subject to copyright provisions. Many jurisdictions such as Australia exempt use of copyright materials if used in the classroom. Clearly posting to the world at large via the Web, even under Creative Commons, is not exempt. However, use of props, clip art, and the like greatly speeds production time. For educational purposes the only justification for doing things the labour-intensive way is when that is the subject matter –ie- a tedious claymation may be perfectly sensible in an art class in which the moulding and positioning of the clay figure is the subject of the lesson. It makes less sense in a History or Maths class if it is only used to enliven a lesson. Short cuts are more suitable for the latter.<br /> <br /> Live action remains hard to do, hence the value of archival and purchased materials. Live action with child actors playing famous adults, no matter how many audio-visual effects are used, will not be in the least convincing. Movies can now be based on home camera footage and animation, backed by recorded live audio effects and music either bought for the purpose or carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the resulting arrangements and performances have to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> A student, avatar or puppet can don costume and appear in a live scene or in front of a blue screen. This can then be dubbed over with an adult text-to-speech voice, the child could talk through a $10 voice-changer device, or be pitch-shifted downward with Audacity software. A face can be lifted from still shots and pasted on as a ‘skin’ to an animated character with the adult voice. In this way a child can appear side by side with an animated miniature, or appear in an old public domain movie.<br /> <br /> Digital cameras have at least removed the earlier problems of lighting that bedevilled live filming –ie- watch a film crew on location. Even on bright sunny days they use huge reflector panels and floodlights. They bring truckloads of gear and personnel. The food alone requires a truck!<br /> A small digital camera now takes decent shots in all levels of lighting. What this makes easy is hybrid ‘montage’ filming. Digital editing allows live action footage to be combined with animations, miniatures and puppets backed by archival footage or stills. For quick rough results a video camera can even take a shot of the computer screen. Modern screens don’t flicker. <br /> <br /> Thus, a whole range of realistic scenes can be assembled to draw on the best attributes of each. What I term’hybrid claymation’ and ‘integrated media’ refers to taking a prop or character across different media. For example a 2D clip art face can be turned 3D with an animation programme like iClone. This in turn can become a still shot of the face and animated in CrazyTalk. The character can be printed out on paper and made into a puppet or a virtual puppet can be created in the computer. All this footage can be mixed to show the character in different scenes and in close-ups. <br /> <br /> Live footage excels with sensory material –ie- the live footage might show the Roman emperor eating something, which could be hard to animate, while the animation could show the emperor addressing a multitude in the Coliseum, which would be hard to do live. Similarly, an animated Roman sandal doesn’t give the feel for the dust and pain of walking miles on a thin piece of leather. A child’s foot with a real sandal filmed walking on gravel toward a blue screen, however, can become a scene of a soldier crunching toward Rome.<br /> <br /> The resulting combination of images, from live footage, purchased materials and public domain archives is ideally suited to a Creative Commons distribution. There is no commercial intent. Nor is there any intent to trick viewers into thinking the student created the entire movie. Old black &amp; white footage, for example is very distinctive as are old soundtracks. They can be blended into a new movie but few would be so naïve as to have difficulty distinguishing the old and new elements. If students succeed in making their ‘new’ look like and blend with the ‘old’ (with sepia colouring for example) the old footage loses nothing from this sincerest form of flattery.<br /> <br /> '''Motivations''' <br /> <br /> As a researcher, I have had the luxury of time to test out hardware, software, techniques, props, and special effects. This web resource is intended to structure the introduction of the technology so that it serves educational ends. My hours of experimentation will save the viewer from many dead ends and wasted effort. Your time is far more costly and valuable than the hardware involved.<br /> <br /> I have looked past claims by vendors and evangelists that multimedia miracles are ‘easily created by very young children in mere minutes’. Even if you assumed such claims were true or even believable, when you accumulate those minutes on each software programme together they can stretch out to weeks and months. This is especially so in this era of ‘online forums‘ in place of printed manuals. Teachers are public speakers who can’t go fishing around for some obscure drop-down, button, or right-click menu when in front of a class. <br /> <br /> The purpose of this web resource is to provide a set of tools that teachers can use selectively to enhance whatever subject or exercise they think might benefit from a game or virtual world version. The purpose is NOT to add to their pressures with yet more high cost, time-draining distractions but quite the opposite – to give short cuts into the world of motion pictures that has only very recently been opened up to amateurs with minimal budgets.<br /> <br /> I have installed software, developed simple animation techniques, converted files, filmed different materials under different lighting, scoured shops for cheap props, in other words done many of the things teachers would have had to learn the hard way and would likely never have the time to try. From this I have assembled a set of very affordable materials and short cuts that will allow short films using many special effects we have come to associate with Hollywood and Pinewood.<br /> <br /> I’m posting them ‘as is’ –ie- rough. If I spent time editing and refining them I’d be lying to you if I said it took ‘minutes’ if it actually took days. <br /> <br /> '''Music and education were central to Chautauqua'''<br /> <br /> Movie-making fits well with the Expression Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com and complements www.radio-tom and www.tv-tom.com . Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is<br /> licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Movie-Tom.Com&diff=28238 2009-12-15T06:20:39Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: This site is about movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques.</p> <hr /> <div>'''Movie-tom.Com'''<br /> <br /> <br /> &quot;I have deliberately chosen challenging blockbuster themes like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jurassic Park, Titanic, and Space Odyssey to show what can now be done quickly with a movie studio on a card table. <br /> &quot; — Dr Tom <br /> <br /> www.movie-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools. <br /> <br /> URL: [http://www.movie-tom.com] <br /> <br /> Author/Organisation: Dr Tom Benjamin <br /> <br /> User Status: Creator <br /> <br /> Tags: music, video, tv, chautauqua, e-chautauqua <br /> <br /> License short name: CC BY <br /> <br /> <br /> Media: Sound, MovingImage <br /> <br /> Country: Australia <br /> <br /> '''Overview''' <br /> <br /> This site is about movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques. I have deliberately chosen challenging blockbuster themes like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jurassic Park, Titanic, and Space Odyssey to show what can now be done quickly with a movie studio on a card table. <br /> <br /> Making movies as a new variant on ‘the school play’ is certainly possible -ie– a full digital multimedia studio can be set up on a card table at less than the cost of a single tuba for the high school marching band. Whether this is desirable is another question.<br /> <br /> Teachers are under ever more pressure to provide multimedia-rich materials for the classroom. Methods and materials are particularly demanded for digital stories, Interactive White Boards, netbooks, and mobile devices. At the same time, despite implementing new, untried, and time-consuming technologies, teachers are expected to deliver better results in basic skills. My role is to help by making things simple.<br /> <br /> The intended use of this site is to demonstrate short customisable scenario-setting introductions to games and quests that can then be played out in text documents, digital stories, spreadsheets, web searches, and even live actions like puppetry and paper &amp; pen exercises. <br /> <br /> Movie-Tom.Com is definitely NOT a web resource promoting ‘student film-making’. Nothing would be more dangerously distracting to a classroom than a full motion picture studio. Running around the room in front of a blue screen pretending to be Superman, then seeing the image superimposed on a flying backdrop is great fun – but it may have no educational value whatsoever to most KLAs. The blue screen is just one of the many dazzling techniques only just very recently available on the personal computer. Countless hours could be wasted in frivolous uses of such powerful technology. Some effects like claymation have come back into vogue with digital methods of photography. Again, it could become an extremely time-consuming distraction to use claymation to produce a 30 second video clip. It is true that traditional ‘project’ assignments often involved building something (I built many a ship model for my school projects) but it is up to the teacher to determine how much weight and time to give such tasks. My role is to offer alternatives to cut the production time down.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''What do we mean by “a movie studio?”'''<br /> <br /> The term is used here in a restricted sense to mean the facilities to do full audio-visual capture, editing, and broadcast. In practice in a school environment, the facility would not be used to capacity to create a full length motion picture but, rather, would create ‘animated short films’ as part of ‘digital story-telling’ or posting to a sharing site like YouTube. Much hosting is now free so the limitation has become your time and labour. A 1950s Hollywood team would have very likely drooled over the technologies now available on a current desktop computer, but they had creative teams, writers, professional actors, sound engineers, and a host of camera and light-grippers. A school has a very small team compared to this and a lot fewer hours to devote.<br /> <br /> So the first point is that the movies discussed in this web resource have a modest aim – the purpose is to create short movie sequences, say 30 seconds to 5 minutes long, that quickly set the scene for a ‘Hero’s Journey’. The recommended ‘all-purpose’ sequences are news broadcasts. In real life, most adventures today begin with some sort of brief newscast –ie- “a scientist believes that the cure to Cancer lies in the …”, “police are seeking help from the public in identifying a …”, “We want your calls on the open line as to whether you support …”. By using text-to-speech artificial adult voices, the game creator can quickly re-use, edit, and customize these broadcasts to suit nearly any subject. Characters and scenes to flesh out the newscast’s ‘live report’ can be animated from the humblest materials. Large scale scenes can be created with plastic soldiers, animated ‘virtual crowds’, or even hordes such as the armies in The Lord of the Rings. Animation programmes such as The Movies provide full 3D sets that can be montaged with miniature and live sets. <br /> <br /> www.movie-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua –ie- speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, old public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. The Movie-tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. Archival public domain movie footage is given new life when populated with digital avatars and puppets.<br /> <br /> '''License Usage''' <br /> <br /> Copyright is central to movie-making. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. Toys and some products may be classed as ‘art works’ and subject to copyright provisions. Many jurisdictions such as Australia exempt use of copyright materials if used in the classroom. Clearly posting to the world at large via the Web, even under Creative Commons, is not exempt. However, use of props, clip art, and the like greatly speeds production time. For educational purposes the only justification for doing things the labour-intensive way is when that is the subject matter –ie- a tedious claymation may be perfectly sensible in an art class in which the moulding and positioning of the clay figure is the subject of the lesson. It makes less sense in a History or Maths class if it is only used to enliven a lesson. Short cuts are more suitable for the latter.<br /> <br /> Live action remains hard to do, hence the value of archival and purchased materials. Live action with child actors playing famous adults, no matter how many audio-visual effects are used, will not be in the least convincing. Movies can now be based on home camera footage and animation, backed by recorded live audio effects and music either bought for the purpose or carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the resulting arrangements and performances have to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> A student, avatar or puppet can don costume and appear in a live scene or in front of a blue screen. This can then be dubbed over with an adult text-to-speech voice, the child could talk through a $10 voice-changer device, or be pitch-shifted downward with Audacity software. A face can be lifted from still shots and pasted on as a ‘skin’ to an animated character with the adult voice. In this way a child can appear side by side with an animated miniature, or appear in an old public domain movie.<br /> <br /> Digital cameras have at least removed the earlier problems of lighting that bedevilled live filming –ie- watch a film crew on location. Even on bright sunny days they use huge reflector panels and floodlights. They bring truckloads of gear and personnel. The food alone requires a truck!<br /> A small digital camera now takes decent shots in all levels of lighting. What this makes easy is hybrid ‘montage’ filming. Digital editing allows live action footage to be combined with animations, miniatures and puppets backed by archival footage or stills. For quick rough results a video camera can even take a shot of the computer screen. Modern screens don’t flicker. <br /> <br /> Thus, a whole range of realistic scenes can be assembled to draw on the best attributes of each. What I term’hybrid claymation’ and ‘integrated media’ refers to taking a prop or character across different media. For example a 2D clip art face can be turned 3D with an animation programme like iClone. This in turn can become a still shot of the face and animated in CrazyTalk. The character can be printed out on paper and made into a puppet or a virtual puppet can be created in the computer. All this footage can be mixed to show the character in different scenes and in close-ups. <br /> <br /> Live footage excels with sensory material –ie- the live footage might show the Roman emperor eating something, which could be hard to animate, while the animation could show the emperor addressing a multitude in the Coliseum, which would be hard to do live. Similarly, an animated Roman sandal doesn’t give the feel for the dust and pain of walking miles on a thin piece of leather. A child’s foot with a real sandal filmed walking on gravel toward a blue screen, however, can become a scene of a soldier crunching toward Rome.<br /> <br /> The resulting combination of images, from live footage, purchased materials and public domain archives is ideally suited to a Creative Commons distribution. There is no commercial intent. Nor is there any intent to trick viewers into thinking the student created the entire movie. Old black &amp; white footage, for example is very distinctive as are old soundtracks. They can be blended into a new movie but few would be so naïve as to have difficulty distinguishing the old and new elements. If students succeed in making their ‘new’ look like and blend with the ‘old’ (with sepia colouring for example) the old footage loses nothing from this sincerest form of flattery.<br /> <br /> '''Motivations''' <br /> <br /> As a researcher, I have had the luxury of time to test out hardware, software, techniques, props, and special effects. This web resource is intended to structure the introduction of the technology so that it serves educational ends. My hours of experimentation will save the viewer from many dead ends and wasted effort. Your time is far more costly and valuable than the hardware involved.<br /> <br /> I have looked past claims by vendors and evangelists that multimedia miracles are ‘easily created by very young children in mere minutes’. Even if you assumed such claims were true or even believable, when you accumulate those minutes on each software programme together they can stretch out to weeks and months. This is especially so in this era of ‘online forums‘ in place of printed manuals. Teachers are public speakers who can’t go fishing around for some obscure drop-down, button, or right-click menu when in front of a class. <br /> <br /> The purpose of this web resource is to provide a set of tools that teachers can use selectively to enhance whatever subject or exercise they think might benefit from a game or virtual world version. The purpose is NOT to add to their pressures with yet more high cost, time-draining distractions but quite the opposite – to give short cuts into the world of motion pictures that has only very recently been opened up to amateurs with minimal budgets.<br /> <br /> I have installed software, developed simple animation techniques, converted files, filmed different materials under different lighting, scoured shops for cheap props, in other words done many of the things teachers would have had to learn the hard way and would likely never have the time to try. From this I have assembled a set of very affordable materials and short cuts that will allow short films using many special effects we have come to associate with Hollywood and Pinewood.<br /> <br /> I’m posting them ‘as is’ –ie- rough. If I spent time editing and refining them I’d be lying to you if I said it took ‘minutes’ if it actually took days. <br /> <br /> '''Music and education were central to Chautauqua'''<br /> <br /> Movie-making fits well with the Expression Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com and complements www.radio-tom and www.tv-tom.com . Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is<br /> licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Movie-Tom.Com&diff=28237 2009-12-15T06:18:12Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: This site is about movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques.</p> <hr /> <div>'''Movie-tom.Com'''<br /> <br /> <br /> &quot;I have deliberately chosen challenging blockbuster themes like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jurassic Park, Titanic, and Space Odyssey to show what can now be done quickly with a movie studio on a card table. <br /> &quot; — Dr Tom <br /> <br /> www.movie-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools. <br /> <br /> URL: [http://www.movie-tom.com] <br /> <br /> Author/Organisation: Dr Tom Benjamin <br /> <br /> User Status: Creator <br /> <br /> Tags: music, video, tv, chautauqua, e-chautauqua <br /> <br /> License short name: CC BY <br /> <br /> <br /> Media: Sound, MovingImage <br /> <br /> Country: Australia <br /> <br /> '''Overview''' <br /> <br /> This site is about movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques. I have deliberately chosen challenging blockbuster themes like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jurassic Park, Titanic, and Space Odyssey to show what can now be done quickly with a movie studio on a card table. <br /> <br /> Making movies as a new variant on ‘the school play’ is certainly possible -ie– a full digital multimedia studio can be set up on a card table at less than the cost of a single tuba for the high school marching band. Whether this is desirable is another question.<br /> <br /> Teachers are under ever more pressure to provide multimedia-rich materials for the classroom. Methods and materials are particularly demanded for digital stories, Interactive White Boards, netbooks, and mobile devices. At the same time, despite implementing new, untried, and time-consuming technologies, teachers are expected to deliver better results in basic skills. My role is to help by making things simple.<br /> <br /> The intended use of this site is to demonstrate short customisable scenario-setting introductions to games and quests that can then be played out in text documents, digital stories, spreadsheets, web searches, and even live actions like puppetry and paper &amp; pen exercises. <br /> <br /> Movie-Tom.Com is definitely NOT a web resource promoting ‘student film-making’. Nothing would be more dangerously distracting to a classroom than a full motion picture studio. Running around the room in front of a blue screen pretending to be Superman, then seeing the image superimposed on a flying backdrop is great fun – but it may have no educational value whatsoever to most KLAs. The blue screen is just one of the many dazzling techniques only just very recently available on the personal computer. Countless hours could be wasted in frivolous uses of such powerful technology. Some effects like claymation have come back into vogue with digital methods of photography. Again, it could become an extremely time-consuming distraction to use claymation to produce a 30 second video clip. It is true that traditional ‘project’ assignments often involved building something (I built many a ship model for my school projects) but it is up to the teacher to determine how much weight and time to give such tasks. My role is to offer alternatives to cut the production time down.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''What do we mean by “a movie studio?”'''<br /> <br /> The term is used here in a restricted sense to mean the facilities to do full audio-visual capture, editing, and broadcast. In practice in a school environment, the facility would not be used to capacity to create a full length motion picture but, rather, would create ‘animated short films’ as part of ‘digital story-telling’ or posting to a sharing site like YouTube. Much hosting is now free so the limitation has become your time and labour. A 1950s Hollywood team would have very likely drooled over the technologies now available on a current desktop computer, but they had creative teams, writers, professional actors, sound engineers, and a host of camera and light-grippers. A school has a very small team compared to this and a lot fewer hours to devote.<br /> <br /> So the first point is that the movies discussed in this web resource have a modest aim – the purpose is to create short movie sequences, say 30 seconds to 5 minutes long, that quickly set the scene for a ‘Hero’s Journey’. The recommended ‘all-purpose’ sequences are news broadcasts. In real life, most adventures today begin with some sort of brief newscast –ie- “a scientist believes that the cure to Cancer lies in the …”, “police are seeking help from the public in identifying a …”, “We want your calls on the open line as to whether you support …”. By using text-to-speech artificial adult voices, the game creator can quickly re-use, edit, and customize these broadcasts to suit nearly any subject. Characters and scenes to flesh out the newscast’s ‘live report’ can be animated from the humblest materials. Large scale scenes can be created with plastic soldiers, animated ‘virtual crowds’, or even hordes such as the armies in The Lord of the Rings. Animation programmes such as The Movies provide full 3D sets that can be montaged with miniature and live sets. <br /> <br /> www.movie-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua –ie- speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, old public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. The Movie-tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. Archival public domain movie footage is given new life when populated with digital avatars and puppets.<br /> <br /> '''License Usage''' <br /> <br /> Copyright is central to movie-making. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. Toys and some products may be classed as ‘art works’ and subject to copyright provisions. Many jurisdictions such as Australia exempt use of copyright materials if used in the classroom. Clearly posting to the world at large via the Web, even under Creative Commons, is not exempt. However, use of props, clip art, and the like greatly speeds production time. For educational purposes the only justification for doing things the labour-intensive way is when that is the subject matter –ie- a tedious claymation may be perfectly sensible in an art class in which the moulding and positioning of the clay figure is the subject of the lesson. It makes less sense in a History or Maths class if it is only used to enliven a lesson. Short cuts are more suitable for the latter.<br /> <br /> Live action remains hard to do, hence the value of archival and purchased materials. Live action with child actors playing famous adults, no matter how many audio-visual effects are used, will not be in the least convincing. Movies can now be based on home camera footage and animation, backed by recorded live audio effects and music either bought for the purpose or carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the resulting arrangements and performances have to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> A student, avatar or puppet can don costume and appear in a live scene or in front of a blue screen. This can then be dubbed over with an adult text-to-speech voice, the child could talk through a $10 voice-changer device, or be pitch-shifted downward with Audacity software. A face can be lifted from still shots and pasted on as a ‘skin’ to an animated character with the adult voice. In this way a child can appear side by side with an animated miniature, or appear in an old public domain movie.<br /> <br /> Digital cameras have at least removed the earlier problems of lighting that bedevilled live filming –ie- watch a film crew on location. Even on bright sunny days they use huge reflector panels and floodlights. They bring truckloads of gear and personnel. The food alone requires a truck!<br /> A small digital camera now takes decent shots in all levels of lighting. What this makes easy is hybrid ‘montage’ filming. Digital editing allows live action footage to be combined with animations, miniatures and puppets backed by archival footage or stills. For quick rough results a video camera can even take a shot of the computer screen. Modern screens don’t flicker. <br /> <br /> Thus, a whole range of realistic scenes can be assembled to draw on the best attributes of each. What I term’hybrid claymation’ and ‘integrated media’ refers to taking a prop or character across different media. For example a 2D clip art face can be turned 3D with an animation programme like iClone. This in turn can become a still shot of the face and animated in CrazyTalk. The character can be printed out on paper and made into a puppet or a virtual puppet can be created in the computer. All this footage can be mixed to show the character in different scenes and in close-ups. <br /> <br /> Live footage excels with sensory material –ie- the live footage might show the Roman emperor eating something, which could be hard to animate, while the animation could show the emperor addressing a multitude in the Coliseum, which would be hard to do live. Similarly, an animated Roman sandal doesn’t give the feel for the dust and pain of walking miles on a thin piece of leather. A child’s foot with a real sandal filmed walking on gravel toward a blue screen, however, can become a scene of a soldier crunching toward Rome.<br /> <br /> The resulting combination of images, from live footage, purchased materials and public domain archives is ideally suited to a Creative Commons distribution. There is no commercial intent. Nor is there any intent to trick viewers into thinking the student created the entire movie. Old black &amp; white footage, for example is very distinctive as are old soundtracks. They can be blended into a new movie but few would be so naïve as to have difficulty distinguishing the old and new elements. If students succeed in making their ‘new’ look like and blend with the ‘old’ (with sepia colouring for example) the old footage loses nothing from this sincerest form of flattery.<br /> <br /> '''Motivations''' <br /> <br /> As a researcher, I have had the luxury of time to test out hardware, software, techniques, props, and special effects. This web resource is intended to structure the introduction of the technology so that it serves educational ends. My hours of experimentation will save the viewer from many dead ends and wasted effort. Your time is far more costly and valuable than the hardware involved.<br /> <br /> I have looked past claims by vendors and evangelists that multimedia miracles are ‘easily created by very young children in mere minutes’. Even if you assumed such claims were true or even believable, when you accumulate those minutes on each software programme together they can stretch out to weeks and months. This is especially so in this era of ‘online forums‘ in place of printed manuals. Teachers are public speakers who can’t go fishing around for some obscure drop-down, button, or right-click menu when in front of a class. <br /> <br /> The purpose of this web resource is to provide a set of tools that teachers can use selectively to enhance whatever subject or exercise they think might benefit from a game or virtual world version. The purpose is NOT to add to their pressures with yet more high cost, time-draining distractions but quite the opposite – to give short cuts into the world of motion pictures that has only very recently been opened up to amateurs with minimal budgets.<br /> <br /> I have installed software, developed simple animation techniques, converted files, filmed different materials under different lighting, scoured shops for cheap props, in other words done many of the things teachers would have had to learn the hard way and would likely never have the time to try. From this I have assembled a set of very affordable materials and short cuts that will allow short films using many special effects we have come to associate with Hollywood and Pinewood.<br /> <br /> I’m posting them ‘as is’ –ie- rough. If I spent time editing and refining them I’d be lying to you if I said it took ‘minutes’ if it actually took days. <br /> <br /> '''Music and education were central to Chautauqua''' ''Italic text''<br /> <br /> Movie-making fits well with the Expression Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com and complements www.radio-tom and www.tv-tom.com . Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> '''Media''' <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ''Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is<br /> licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License''</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Movie-Tom.Com&diff=28236 2009-12-15T06:15:16Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: This site is about movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques.</p> <hr /> <div>'''Movie-tom.Com'''<br /> <br /> Please Participate! Help us by expanding content in this section, Image Header. <br /> <br /> &quot;I have deliberately chosen challenging blockbuster themes like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jurassic Park, Titanic, and Space Odyssey to show what can now be done quickly with a movie studio on a card table. <br /> &quot; — Dr Tom <br /> <br /> www.movie-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools. <br /> <br /> URL: <br /> [http://www.movie-tom.com] <br /> <br /> Author/Organisation: <br /> Dr Tom Benjamin <br /> <br /> User Status: <br /> Creator <br /> <br /> Tags: <br /> music, video, tv, chautauqua, e-chautauqua <br /> <br /> License short name: CC BY <br /> License URL: <br /> <br /> Media: Sound, MovingImage <br /> <br /> Country: Australia <br /> <br /> '''Overview''' <br /> <br /> This site is about movie-making. Although the sample movies are offered freely as Creative Commons items their purpose is to demonstrate techniques. I have deliberately chosen challenging blockbuster themes like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jurassic Park, Titanic, and Space Odyssey to show what can now be done quickly with a movie studio on a card table. <br /> <br /> Making movies as a new variant on ‘the school play’ is certainly possible -ie– a full digital multimedia studio can be set up on a card table at less than the cost of a single tuba for the high school marching band. Whether this is desirable is another question.<br /> <br /> Teachers are under ever more pressure to provide multimedia-rich materials for the classroom. Methods and materials are particularly demanded for digital stories, Interactive White Boards, netbooks, and mobile devices. At the same time, despite implementing new, untried, and time-consuming technologies, teachers are expected to deliver better results in basic skills. My role is to help by making things simple.<br /> <br /> The intended use of this site is to demonstrate short customisable scenario-setting introductions to games and quests that can then be played out in text documents, digital stories, spreadsheets, web searches, and even live actions like puppetry and paper &amp; pen exercises. <br /> <br /> Movie-Tom.Com is definitely NOT a web resource promoting ‘student film-making’. Nothing would be more dangerously distracting to a classroom than a full motion picture studio. Running around the room in front of a blue screen pretending to be Superman, then seeing the image superimposed on a flying backdrop is great fun – but it may have no educational value whatsoever to most KLAs. The blue screen is just one of the many dazzling techniques only just very recently available on the personal computer. Countless hours could be wasted in frivolous uses of such powerful technology. Some effects like claymation have come back into vogue with digital methods of photography. Again, it could become an extremely time-consuming <br /> distraction to use claymation to produce a 30 second video clip. It is true that traditional ‘project’ assignments often involved building something (I built many a ship model for my school projects) but it is up to the teacher to determine how much weight and time to give such tasks. My role is to offer alternatives to cut the production time down.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''What do we mean by “a movie studio?”'''''Italic text''<br /> <br /> The term is used here in a restricted sense to mean the facilities to do full audio-visual capture, editing, and broadcast. In practice in a school environment, the facility would not be used to capacity to create a full length motion picture but, rather, would create ‘animated short films’ as part of ‘digital story-telling’ or posting to a sharing site like YouTube. Much hosting is now free so the limitation has become your time and labour. A 1950s Hollywood team would have very likely drooled over the technologies now available on a current desktop computer, but they had creative teams, writers, professional actors, sound engineers, and a host of camera and light-grippers. A school has a very small team compared to this and a lot fewer hours to devote.<br /> <br /> So the first point is that the movies discussed in this web resource have a modest aim – the purpose is to create short movie sequences, say 30 seconds to 5 minutes long, that quickly set the scene for a ‘Hero’s Journey’. The recommended ‘all-purpose’ sequences are news broadcasts. In real life, most adventures today begin with some sort of brief newscast –ie- “a scientist believes that the cure to Cancer lies in the …”, “police are seeking help from the public in identifying a …”, “We want your calls on the open line as to whether you support …”. By using text-to-speech artificial adult voices, the game creator can quickly re-use, edit, and customize these broadcasts to suit nearly any subject. Characters and scenes to flesh out the newscast’s ‘live report’ can be animated from the humblest materials. Large scale scenes can be created with plastic soldiers, animated ‘virtual crowds’, or even hordes such as the armies in The Lord of the Rings. Animation programmes such as The Movies provide full 3D sets that can be montaged with miniature and live sets. <br /> <br /> www.movie-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua –ie- speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, old public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. The Movie-tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. Archival public domain movie footage is given new life when populated with digital avatars and puppets.<br /> <br /> '''License Usage''' <br /> <br /> Copyright is central to movie-making. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. Toys and some products may be classed as ‘art works’ and subject to copyright provisions. Many jurisdictions such as Australia exempt use of copyright materials if used in the classroom. Clearly posting to the world at large via the Web, even under Creative Commons, is not exempt. However, use of props, clip art, and the like greatly speeds production time. For educational purposes the only justification for doing things the labour-intensive way is when that is the subject matter –ie- a tedious claymation may be perfectly sensible in an art class in which the moulding and positioning of the clay figure is the subject of the lesson. It makes less sense in a History or Maths class if it is only used to enliven a lesson. Short cuts are more suitable for the latter.<br /> Live action remains hard to do, hence the value of archival and purchased materials. Live action with child actors playing famous adults, no matter how many audio-visual effects are used, will not be in the least convincing. Movies can now be based on home camera footage and animation, backed by recorded live audio effects and music either bought for the purpose or carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the resulting arrangements and performances have to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> A student, avatar or puppet can don costume and appear in a live scene or in front of a blue screen. This can then be dubbed over with an adult text-to-speech voice, the child could talk through a $10 voice-changer device, or be pitch-shifted downward with Audacity software. A face can be lifted from still shots and pasted on as a ‘skin’ to an animated character with the adult voice. In this way a child can appear side by side with an animated miniature, or appear in an old public domain movie.<br /> <br /> Digital cameras have at least removed the earlier problems of lighting that bedevilled live filming –ie- watch a film crew on location. Even on bright sunny days they use huge reflector panels and floodlights. They bring truckloads of gear and personnel. The food alone requires a truck!<br /> A small digital camera now takes decent shots in all levels of lighting. What this makes easy is hybrid ‘montage’ filming. Digital editing allows live action footage to be combined with animations, miniatures and puppets backed by archival footage or stills. For quick rough results a video camera can even take a shot of the computer screen. Modern screens don’t flicker. <br /> <br /> Thus, a whole range of realistic scenes can be assembled to draw on the best attributes of each. What I term’hybrid claymation’ and ‘integrated media’ refers to taking a prop or character across different media. For example a 2D clip art face can be turned 3D with an animation programme like iClone. This in turn can become a still shot of the face and animated in CrazyTalk. The character can be printed out on paper and made into a puppet or a virtual puppet can be created in the computer. All this footage can be mixed to show the character in different scenes and in close-ups. <br /> <br /> Live footage excels with sensory material –ie- the live footage might show the Roman emperor eating something, which could be hard to animate, while the animation could show the emperor addressing a multitude in the Coliseum, which would be hard to do live. Similarly, an animated Roman sandal doesn’t give the feel for the dust and pain of walking miles on a thin piece of leather. A child’s foot with a real sandal filmed walking on gravel toward a blue screen, however, can become a scene of a soldier crunching toward Rome.<br /> <br /> The resulting combination of images, from live footage, purchased materials and public domain archives is ideally suited to a Creative Commons distribution. There is no commercial intent. Nor is there any intent to trick viewers into thinking the student created the entire movie. Old black &amp; white footage, for example is very distinctive as are old soundtracks. They can be blended into a new movie but few would be so naïve as to have difficulty distinguishing the old and new elements. If students succeed in making their ‘new’ look like and blend with the ‘old’ (with sepia colouring for example) the old footage loses nothing from this sincerest form of flattery.<br /> <br /> '''Motivations''' <br /> <br /> As a researcher, I have had the luxury of time to test out hardware, software, techniques, props, and special effects. This web resource is intended to structure the introduction of the technology so that it serves educational ends. My hours of experimentation will save the viewer from many dead ends and wasted effort. Your time is far more costly and valuable than the hardware involved.<br /> <br /> I have looked past claims by vendors and evangelists that multimedia miracles are ‘easily created by very young children in mere minutes’. Even if you assumed such claims were true or even believable, when you accumulate those minutes on each software programme together they can stretch out to weeks and months. This is especially so in this era of ‘online forums‘ in place of printed manuals. Teachers are public speakers who can’t go fishing around for some obscure drop-down, button, or right-click menu when in front of a class. <br /> <br /> The purpose of this web resource is to provide a set of tools that teachers can use selectively to enhance whatever subject or exercise they think might benefit from a game or virtual world version. The purpose is NOT to add to their pressures with yet more high cost, time-draining distractions but quite the opposite – to give short cuts into the world of motion pictures that has only very recently been opened up to amateurs with minimal budgets.<br /> <br /> I have installed software, developed simple animation techniques, converted files, filmed different materials under different lighting, scoured shops for cheap props, in other words done many of the things teachers would have had to learn the hard way and would likely never have the time to try. From this I have assembled a set of very affordable materials and short cuts that will allow short films using many special effects we have come to associate with Hollywood and Pinewood.<br /> <br /> I’m posting them ‘as is’ –ie- rough. If I spent time editing and refining them I’d be lying to you if I said it took ‘minutes’ if it actually took days. <br /> <br /> '''Music and education were central to Chautauqua''' ''Italic text''<br /> <br /> Movie-making fits well with the Expression Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com and complements www.radio-tom and www.tv-tom.com . Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> '''Media''' <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is<br /> licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27975 2009-11-19T03:02:57Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Ours has the superficially more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see with a telescope, instead of sci-fi images. However, the actual views are in many ways more astounding if one can grasp what it is we are '''not''' seeing -ie- we live inside a galaxy yet it is so vast we can barely see it except on a cloudless moonless country night. Time-exposed Hubble Space Telescope images give a totally artificial view. <br /> <br /> That typifies our whole e-chautauqua do-it-yourself approach: what can '''you''' see? (not Hubble), what can '''you''' sing? (not hear on radio ga ga), what can '''you''' create, research, interpret ...?<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> Don't many people dream of hearing their hit songs played on radio? Don't vast numbers ring talk shows to have their 5 minutes of say? <br /> <br /> The Web has now made it possible to set up not just one's own radio show but an entire station. What takes their station beyond even nationally-syndicated traditional radio is the potential to broadcast to the entire planet, combine print and images, and harness for free the resources of the greatest public relations advertising network the world has ever known - the search engines.<br /> <br /> '''Education'''<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> '''Music'''<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> '''Is there a role for internet radio journalism?'''<br /> <br /> The Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. In the 20th Century these were largely replaced by radio talk shows. These were interactive in that callers queued up to express their views. But Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life and know many sides of stories that never made it to air. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet radio journalism? <br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected journalists there is a huge hole in the mainstream crying out for something independent: <br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said ''&quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage..&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Academic Liz Gould noted ''&quot;As a platform for the discussion of contemporary social issues, talkback has thrived by courting controversy and debate. The commercial talkback radio format has supported the rise of a small, but highly prominent, group of men and continues to be strongly guided by economic imperatives, as witnessed in recent developments such as the ‘cash for comment’ affair. (Gould, Liz (2007) Cash and controversy : a short history of commercial talkback radio Related Media international Australia, Issue 122, p.81-95 University of Queensland Press)''<br /> <br /> Award-winning Dr Norman Swan of the ABC Radio Science Show has dropped out of investigative science journalism precisely because there has been no such reform: ''“I will never do a case of scientific fraud ever again. I’ve said this publicly and I’ve said it a couple of times before - I am never going to do another one ever again. And the reason for that is just the failure of institutional responses. If the University .. can get away with something like this – what is the point? Somebody else can do it, some young buck can come along and do them but, you know, I’m not going to do another one because I just don’t think that the institutions in this country have responded seriously to this.”'' What happens to the Whistleblowers? The Science Show. Saturday 3 September 2005 <br /> <br /> All of this suggests a powerful future for internet radio, not least because its global reach can bypass local power-brokers who would otherwise overwhelm the small whistleblower or broadcaster with counter-views posed as 'balanced journalism' -ie '''you've heard the allegation from Mr X, now let's hear from eminent scientists Dr Y and Professor Z as well as calls from a family hurt by Mr X's allegations ... blahdey blah'' We've all heard this. It's been parodied numerous times yet people still fall for it. As ABC’s Quentin Dempster put it: ''“ ... the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.&quot; (Honest Cops)” '' <br /> <br /> We couldn't have put it better. Maybe internet radio can help break this cycle.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27974 2009-11-19T02:19:10Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Ours has the superficially more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see with a telescope, instead of sci-fi images. However, the actual views are in many ways more astounding if one can grasp what it is we are '''not''' seeing -ie- we live inside a galaxy yet it is so vast we can barely see it except on a cloudless moonless country night. Time-exposed Hubble Space Telescope images give a totally artificial view. <br /> <br /> That typifies our whole e-chautauqua do-it-yourself approach: what can '''you''' see? (not Hubble), what can '''you''' sing? (not hear on radio ga ga), what can '''you''' create, research, interpret ...?<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> Don't many people dream of hearing their hit songs played on radio? Don't vast numbers ring talk shows to have their 5 minutes of say? <br /> <br /> The Web has now made it possible to set up not just one's own radio show but an entire station. What takes their station beyond even nationally-syndicated traditional radio is the potential to broadcast to the entire planet, combine print and images, and harness for free the resources of the greatest public relations advertising network the world has ever known - the search engines.<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27973 2009-11-19T02:10:15Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Ours has the superficially more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see with a telescope, instead of sci-fi images. However, the actual views are in many ways more astounding if one can grasp what it is we are '''not''' seeing -ie- we live inside a galaxy yet it is so vast we can barely see it except on a cloudless moonless country night. Time-exposed Hubble Space Telescope images give a totally artificial view. <br /> <br /> That typifies our whole e-chautauqua do-it-yourself approach: what can '''you''' see? (not Hubble), what can '''you''' sing? (not hear on radio ga ga), what can '''you''' create, research, interpret ...?<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27972 2009-11-19T02:09:41Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Ours has the superficially more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see with a telescope, instead of sci-fi images. However, the actual views are in many ways more astounding if one can grasp what it is we are '''not''' seeing -ie- we live inside a galaxy yet it is so vast we can barely see it except on a cloudless moonless country night. Time=exposed Hubble Space Telescope images give a totally artificial view. <br /> <br /> That typifies our whole e-chautauqua do-it-yourself approach: what can '''you''' see? (not Hubble), what can '''you''' sing? (not hear on radio ga ga), what can '''you''' create, research, interpret ...?<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27971 2009-11-19T02:08:49Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Ours has the superficially more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see with a telescope, instead of sci-fi images. However, the actual views are in many ways more astounding if one can grasp what it is we are '''not'''''Italic text'' seeing -ie- we live inside a galaxy yet it is so vast we can barely see it except on a cloudless moonless country night. Time=exposed Hubble Space Telescope images give a totally artificial view. <br /> <br /> That typifies our whole e-chautauqua do-it-yourself approach: what can '''you''' see? (not Hubble), what can '''you''' sing? (not hear on radio ga ga), what can '''you''' create, research, interpret ...?<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27970 2009-11-19T02:06:54Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' <br /> <br /> Ours has the superficially more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see with a telescope, instead of sci-fi images. However, the actual views are in many ways more astounding if one can grasp what it is we are '''not'''''Italic text'' seeing -ie- we live inside a galaxy yet it is so vast we can barely see it except on a cloudless moonless country night. Time=exposed Hubble Space Telescope images give a totally artificial view. <br /> <br /> That typifies our whole -e-chautauqua do-it-yourself approach: what can '''you'''''Italic text'' see? (not Hubble), what can '''you'''''Italic text'' sing? (not hear on radio ga ga), what can '''you'''''Italic text'' create, research, interpret ...?<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27969 2009-11-19T01:17:54Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Media */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' Ours has the more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see, instead of sci-fi images.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com] radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] e-chautauqua.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27968 2009-11-19T01:17:09Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Media */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' Ours has the more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see, instead of sci-fi images.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.radio-tom.com]<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com]<br /> <br /> [http://www.e-chautauqua.com]</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27967 2009-11-19T01:11:50Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' Ours has the more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see, instead of sci-fi images.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. However, the Web has provided vast amounts of public domain material that can enhance a podcast.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.radio-tom.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27966 2009-11-19T01:09:10Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* License Usage */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' Ours has the more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see, instead of sci-fi images.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> Any sound effects used were from purchased sources or from archive.org.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.radio-tom.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27965 2009-11-19T01:03:36Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* License Usage */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' Ours has the more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see, instead of sci-fi images.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> The spoken podcasts of radio-tom.com are our own work and are offered free for all. They are intended as public services and there is no intention for later sale. Opinions are our own. Where they incorporate sound clips from for example medical consumers these have been people who approached us in our voluntary community service roles (not our own patients) for the express purpose of making their story public. Our e-chautauqua hosts and promotes such files as a service to the Medical Consumers Association. Tom is Vice-President of MCA and this is one of his roles.<br /> <br /> Music is even more tightly regulated. Songs chosen for performance have been carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. It would be possible to copyright the arrangements and performances but we have chosen to offer these as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.radio-tom.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=27964 2009-11-19T00:55:43Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom.com fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available.<br /> <br /> Our first non-musical podcast is for the International Year of Astronomy 2009: tips on how to use the IYA Galileoscope. It will be accompanied by TV-tom.com videos on the general topic of astronomy. The traditional Chautauqua shows using mere lantern projectors were able to stir audiences with astronomical topics ''&quot;... a journey far more wonderful than that of Aladdin on the enchanted carpet. .. carried not only to the remotest star, billions of miles away, but that in the ways of science he had been permitted to navigate the universe and had been brought safely back to the Earth...&quot;'' Ours has the more modest goal of helping people appreciate what they can actually expect to see, instead of sci-fi images.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Although the songs were carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.radio-tom.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Tom_Benjamin&diff=26893 2009-10-02T00:14:31Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.TV-Tom.Com and www.Radio-Tom.Com are internet stations offering free music for download and sharing. Dr Tom has done the first recording in living memory of some of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=http://www.e-chautauqua.com<br /> |Author=http://www.tom.com.au<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music, tv, video, playlist, mp3, download, free, public_domain<br /> |License short name=PD<br /> |Format=Sound<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> '''Dr Tom Benjamin''' is Senior Researcher, Centre for Learning Innovation, Sydney, Australia, with TV and radio stations: www.tv-tom.com [http://tvtom.wordpress.com/] and www.radio-tom.com [http://radiotom.wordpress.com/]. <br /> <br /> '''How are songs rated as &quot;the most famous songs of all time&quot;.''' There are countless 'fake books' of 'standards' and anthologies of popular music. The songs that appear consistently in all of these can be regarded as famous. Tunes sung to children that everyone recognises are by definition famous. The greatest of these is no doubt ''Happy Birthday''. The longest-lived well-known songs would include ''Greensleeves''. 'Famous' does not equal 'popular' or even 'good'. The ''Funeral March'' is one such example of 'unpopular but famous'. <br /> <br /> Other songs have historical significance. ''Home Sweet Home'' was the first song of the modern 'pop' variety because it was secular (non-religious), available as sheet music, known on both sides of the Atlantic, and could be sung and played in the home parlour. ''After the Ball'' was the next pop milestone as it had over a million sales. <br /> <br /> Yet you will find few renditions of these influential songs beyond the occasional scratchy pre-1900 Edison cylinder rendition. Even when clear the versions are often incomplete or flowery. Thus, the claim to &quot;the best versions of the most famous songs of all time&quot; in many cases only requires a decent, clear recording. The 'best' need not equal 'great' or even 'good' - it may only need to be a 'listenable' or even 'bearable' version to qualify as 'best'.<br /> <br /> Dr Tom is a researcher and forensic psychologist. The tv-tom, radio-tom and e-chautauqua[http://www.e-chautauqua.com] projects are byproducts of his investigation of educational applications of games, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and new media. They are purely privately-funded out of pocket with no link to government or corporate sponsors.<br /> <br /> Originally from Detroit, Dr Tom's music career was as a 'weddings and anything' rock &amp; roll singer playing frat parties. The version of ''House of the Rising Sun'' listed in the Music section below is typical of those days, but back then it was real bands with real instruments, not virtual ones.[[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Overview|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> These songs cost Dr Tom next to nothing (but time) to record and hosting is now free. The video footage used in tv-tom.com is free and from the public domain. This lack of costs is passed on to his listeners.<br /> <br /> The Creative Commons link boosted search engine placement immediately and dramatically.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|License Usage|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> The immediate goal is to build a web platform to develop, test, and showcase new media and Web 2.0 technologies. To be worth doing, a site needs some link popularity and 'hits'. Music was a logical choice because it is a popular search topic. Public domain music is actually useful to anyone needing royalty-free tunes for podcasts, public occasions and so on. But with hundreds of thousands of musicians online competing for the ear there was a need to highlight the 'famous' aspect of these songs.<br /> <br /> The ultimate test will be to see if people like what we do with these ancient out-of-copyright tunes. They may well want to hear what we can do with more modern 'famous' songs as well. But the latter cannot be done for free as there are up-front costs of permissions, licenses, and fees. Oh, and did we mention the not-so-minor detail that you can buy recordings of the later songs done by the most famous artists in history? Any claim to the 'best versions' of later songs comes up against much stiffer competition. But then if one has to pay, hence charge, money it might be enough to fund a conventional recording studio deal. In the meantime, there are enough public domain songs to keep Dr Tom busy feeding the radio and TV stations.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Motivations|formedit}}<br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> Music example</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/TV-Tom.Com&diff=26868 2009-09-30T03:44:25Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.tv-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools.<br /> |Quote=Who would have thought you could host your own TV station?<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.tv-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,video,tv,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, MovingImage<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua - speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. Video can convey complex messages quickly. The TV-Tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. <br /> <br /> Archival public domain movie footage (black &amp; white)is given new life when set as the video image to more modern beats from the www.radio-tom.com versions of public domain songs. <br /> <br /> Free unlimited bandwidth hosting now allows an individual to set up an international TV station. All this would have been prohibitively expensive only a few years ago.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Music videos are based on songs carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> The documentary material is based on material made available to the author for the purpose of public attention and/or drawn from public knowledge.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. <br /> <br /> '''Music and education were central to Chautauqua'''<br /> <br /> As mentioned in www.radio-tom.com, 100 year old public domain songs can be brought to life with new beats and music videos make them even more like contemporary tunes. This fits well with the Expression Tent of our chautauqua.<br /> <br /> '''A role for reform documentaries?'''<br /> <br /> But the Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. Internet TV can fill this niche. Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life. Tom is Vice-President of the Medical Consumers Association. Over the years persons have brought their stories to our attention. We have material obtained under Freedom of Information and have, in turn, submitted these to authorities, inquiries, and the media, sometimes to be buried without even a 'thank you'.. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet TV journalism?<br /> <br /> Internet TV has one absolutely critical advantage over broadcast TV - it is international. International broadcast TV news can only cover the very broadest issues. Local items are broadcast within a city, state, or range of transmitter. By contrast, internet TV can take the most highly specific specialised or local issue immediately to the world at large. This is potentially a tremendous power in millions of individual hands. Is this a good thing?<br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected TV journalists there is a huge hole in mainstream journalism crying out for something independent:<br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said ''&quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage .. The perversion of commercial television news and current affairs is due largely, I think, to the increased accuracy with which the viewing pulse of a select group of people around the country can now be monitored. … Never mind the news value, feel those ratings points. .. the commercial media juggernaut is at odds with basic democratic principles. It only listens if you are part of the pack, if you behave like the herd and in the case of the tabloids' front page lynchings, if you are prepared to cheer at executions. .. Silenced by what the journalist, Michael Ignatieff called, a 'sullen populism' that is a mindset which according to Ignatieff, 'holds most forms of genuine intellectual authority in contempt'. does any of this matter? Well, I would contend that it matters a great deal because put simply, journalists are the people on whom we rely to tell us about the world. To tell us about how we are being governed - to give us the base materials - that is facts - without which we cannot make intelligent judgments about our own lives.&quot;''<br /> <br /> The ABC’s Quentin Dempster had made similar observations in his 1990 book Honest Cops: ''“.. this society had a stroke of luck in the exposure of corruption which was impossible to predict given the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. ... The journalism practised was of the old school variety. Those journalists who could successfully gain the confidence and the 'scoops' of the powerful were seen to be masters of their profession. … It is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.”''<br /> <br /> So the need is there. Filling it is a different story. A TV station is a media-hungry monster that needs to be fed regularly. TV-Tom.Com has started cautiously with music and purely educational videos but hopefully can progress to a more socially-important role as part of the Reform Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com. Singing paper clips and corkscrews are just the start. <br /> <br /> Internet TV journalism should be all about public interest. Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] and [http://www.radio-tom.com]</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/TV-Tom.Com&diff=26867 2009-09-30T03:39:43Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.tv-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools.<br /> |Quote=Who would have thought you could host your own TV station?<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.tv-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,video,tv,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, MovingImage<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua - speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. Video can convey complex messages quickly. The TV-Tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. <br /> <br /> Archival public domain movie footage (black &amp; white)is given new life when set as the video image to more modern beats from the www.radio-tom.com versions of public domain songs. <br /> <br /> Free unlimited bandwidth hosting now makes TV show hosting a practical reality. All this would have been prohibitively expensive only a few years ago.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Music videos are based on songs carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> The documentary material is based on material made available to the author for the purpose of public attention and/or drawn from public knowledge.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. <br /> <br /> '''Music and education were central to Chautauqua'''<br /> <br /> As mentioned in www.radio-tom.com, 100 year old public domain songs can be brought to life with new beats and music videos make them even more like contemporary tunes. This fits well with the Expression Tent of our chautauqua.<br /> <br /> '''A role for reform documentaries?'''<br /> <br /> But the Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. Internet TV can fill this niche. Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life. Tom is Vice-President of the Medical Consumers Association. Over the years persons have brought their stories to our attention. We have material obtained under Freedom of Information and have, in turn, submitted these to authorities, inquiries, and the media, sometimes to be buried without even a 'thank you'.. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet TV journalism?<br /> <br /> Internet TV has one absolutely critical advantage over broadcast TV - it is international. International broadcast TV news can only cover the very broadest issues. Local items are broadcast within a city, state, or range of transmitter. By contrast, internet TV can take the most highly specific specialised or local issue immediately to the world at large. This is potentially a tremendous power in millions of individual hands. Is this a good thing?<br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected TV journalists there is a huge hole in mainstream journalism crying out for something independent:<br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said ''&quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage .. The perversion of commercial television news and current affairs is due largely, I think, to the increased accuracy with which the viewing pulse of a select group of people around the country can now be monitored. … Never mind the news value, feel those ratings points. .. the commercial media juggernaut is at odds with basic democratic principles. It only listens if you are part of the pack, if you behave like the herd and in the case of the tabloids' front page lynchings, if you are prepared to cheer at executions. .. Silenced by what the journalist, Michael Ignatieff called, a 'sullen populism' that is a mindset which according to Ignatieff, 'holds most forms of genuine intellectual authority in contempt'. does any of this matter? Well, I would contend that it matters a great deal because put simply, journalists are the people on whom we rely to tell us about the world. To tell us about how we are being governed - to give us the base materials - that is facts - without which we cannot make intelligent judgments about our own lives.&quot;''<br /> <br /> The ABC’s Quentin Dempster had made similar observations in his 1990 book Honest Cops: ''“.. this society had a stroke of luck in the exposure of corruption which was impossible to predict given the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. ... The journalism practised was of the old school variety. Those journalists who could successfully gain the confidence and the 'scoops' of the powerful were seen to be masters of their profession. … It is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.”''<br /> <br /> So the need is there. Filling it is a different story. A TV station is a media-hungry monster that needs to be fed regularly. TV-Tom.Com has started cautiously with music and purely educational videos but hopefully can progress to a more socially-important role as part of the Reform Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com. Singing paper clips and corkscrews are just the start. <br /> <br /> Internet TV journalism should be all about public interest. Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] and [http://www.radio-tom.com]</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/e-Chautauqua&diff=26810 2009-09-23T04:04:27Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=A virtual chautauqua embraces philosophy, reform, and expression.<br /> |Quote=What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua — that´s the only name that I can think of for it — like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America .. an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer (Pirsig)<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values<br /> |Mainurl=www.e-chautauqua.com<br /> |Author=Tom Benjamin and Margaret Penhall-Jones<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=chautauqua,e-chautauqua,music,dreams,psychology<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, InteractiveResource<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Who would have thought it possible to set up one's own radio and TV station? Contrast Web TV which is international with multimillion dollar limited range broadcast radio and TV to see the mind-boggling change underway.<br /> <br /> But such stations need a theme. An e-chautauqua was the most logical way for us to combine our myriad interests and the resources we'd built up over decades into some sort of over-arching theme. The e-chautauqua follows the original tradition by presenting materials in a set of &quot;Tents&quot;.<br /> <br /> It's quite uncanny how the topics we happened to have available like astronomy and judicial procedure reform are so similar to this list from the early 1900s Redpath Chautauquas:<br /> <br /> ''&quot;Graft and Political Corruption, Judicial Procedure Reform, Prison Reform, Juvenile Delinquency and Reformation, Labor Relations, Economic Social Policies, Ecology and Animal Rights, Space and Heavenly Bodies, Tales of the Sea, Neighborhood Cooperation, Heart of Africa, Celestial Empire (China), Public Affairs and Public Policy, Poverty in the Slums, Pure Food and Drug Administration&quot;'' <br /> <br /> <br /> A chautauqua is an informal educational offering, as distinct from online tertiary educational institutions which confer examinations and certification. The chautauquan model welcomes divergent and even opposing viewpoints. It is the reverse of the adage &quot;never discuss religion or politics&quot; as these were its staple fare. Attendance is voluntary and speakers expected questions and argument with what were daring views in their day.<br /> <br /> Only in recent years has e-chautauqua been possible for a truly non-profit family-funded web venture. Low cost and free bandwidth sources have taken audio-visual materials out of the elite corporate basket and into the hands of school students with their own international web radio and TV shows. The e-chautauqua model is very suitable for schools and community groups who have a diverse set of materials that can be put up as chautauqua tents. We hope others will follow.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> The main materials for which we used a Creative Commons license are those in the Expression Tent -ie- music and videos. We use 'attribution only' as ours are in general public domain in origin so it is only our arrangement and performance that needs to be acknowledged if for no other reason than to avoid confusion with other performers. Indeed, the music and videos are intended to inspire copying of the methods and designed to illustrate particular methods such as music multi-tracking, video chroma-key etc.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Tom is an educational researcher in Sydney, Australia. Copyright is now an important aspect of our local educational curricula and we are obliged to model best practice. While educators and students have legislated exemptions from many copyright provisions these are seen as a last resort and best practice taught to students from an early age is to acknowledge sources and, where possible, create original ones. However, not everyone can create good original music. If it were that easy, there'd be no pop stars! We're no exeption, claiming only to be a singer, not a songwriter or instrumental musician. So considerable research went into song selection to make sure the Expression Tent of the e-chautauqua was populated with songs that were unequivically in the public domain. <br /> <br /> Our videos are similarly researched. Their educational purpose is to demonstrate use of non-copyright media such as household objects and public domain archive footage to enhance the song. Tom corresponded with software vendors who confirmed that the songs and videos created using their tools could be distributed publicly and without separate license or acknowledgment. <br /> <br /> The Creative Commons license is intended to encourage listeners, viewers and readers to use these materials for any public performances and to have no hesitation to use bits of them in their own videos and mash-ups.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> www.radio-tom.com is the e-chautauqua musical expression. Music videos that use these tunes as a base are also provided mainly to demonstrate multimedia techniques such as rear projection, chroma-key, virtual puppetry, 3D face animation etc.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/e-Chautauqua&diff=26809 2009-09-23T03:56:38Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=A virtual chautauqua embraces philosophy, reform, and expression.<br /> |Quote=What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua — that´s the only name that I can think of for it — like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America .. an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer (Pirsig)<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values<br /> |Mainurl=www.e-chautauqua.com<br /> |Author=Tom Benjamin and Margaret Penhall-Jones<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=chautauqua,e-chautauqua,music,dreams,psychology<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, InteractiveResource<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> An e-chautauqua was the most logical way for us to combine our myriad interests and the resources we'd built up over decades into some sort of over-arching theme. The e-chautauqua follows the original tradition by presenting materials in a set of &quot;Tents&quot;.<br /> <br /> A chautauqua is an informal educational offering, as distinct from online tertiary educational institutions which confer examinations and certification. The chautauquan model welcomes divergent and even opposing viewpoints. It is the reverse of the adage &quot;never discuss religion or politics&quot; as these were its staple fare. Attendance is voluntary and speakers expected questions and argument with what were daring views in their day.<br /> <br /> Only in recent years has e-chautauqua been possible for a truly non-profit family-funded web venture. Low cost and free bandwidth sources have taken audio-visual materials out of the elite corporate basket and into the hands of school students. The e-chautauqua model is very suitable for schools and community groups who have a diverse set of materials that can be put up as chautauqua tents. We hope others will follow.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> The main materials for which we used a Creative Commons license are those in the Expression Tent -ie- music and videos. We use 'attribution only' as ours are in general public domain in origin so it is only our arrangement and performance that needs to be acknowledged if for no other reason than to avoid confusion with other performers. Indeed, the music and videos are intended to inspire copying of the methods and designed to illustrate particular methods such as music multi-tracking, video chroma-key etc.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Tom is an educational researcher in Sydney, Australia. Copyright is now an important aspect of our local educational curricula and we are obliged to model best practice. While educators and students have legislated exemptions from many copyright provisions these are seen as a last resort and best practice taught to students from an early age is to acknowledge sources and, where possible, create original ones. However, not everyone can create good original music. If it were that easy, there'd be no pop stars! We're no exeption, claiming only to be a singer, not a songwriter or instrumental musician. So considerable research went into song selection to make sure the Expression Tent of the e-chautauqua was populated with songs that were unequivically in the public domain. <br /> <br /> Our videos are similarly researched. Their educational purpose is to demonstrate use of non-copyright media such as household objects and public domain archive footage to enhance the song. Tom corresponded with software vendors who confirmed that the songs and videos created using their tools could be distributed publicly and without separate license or acknowledgment. <br /> <br /> The Creative Commons license is intended to encourage listeners, viewers and readers to use these materials for any public performances and to have no hesitation to use bits of them in their own videos and mash-ups.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> www.radio-tom.com is the e-chautauqua musical expression. Music videos that use these tunes as a base are also provided mainly to demonstrate multimedia techniques such as rear projection, chroma-key, virtual puppetry, 3D face animation etc.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Radio-Tom.Com&diff=25942 2009-09-04T03:13:28Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: </p> <hr /> <div>{{ContentDirectory<br /> |mainurl=http://www.radio-tom.com<br /> |format=Sound<br /> }}<br /> {{Press widget}}<br /> <br /> {{ContentDirectory|<br /> mainurl= http://www.radio-tom.com|<br /> format=Sound<br /> size= 30)|<br /> }}</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/TV-Tom.Com&diff=25938 2009-09-04T01:50:09Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.tv-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools.<br /> |Quote=Who would have thought you could host your own TV station?<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.tv-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,video,tv,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, MovingImage<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua - speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. Video can convey complex messages quickly. The TV-Tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. <br /> <br /> Archival public domain movie footage (black &amp; white)is given new life when set as the video image to more modern beats from the www.radio-tom.com versions of public domain songs. <br /> <br /> Free unlimited bandwidth hosting now makes TV show hosting a practical reality. All this would have been prohibitively expensive only a few years ago.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Music videos are based on songs carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> The documentary material is based on material made available to the author for the purpose of public attention and/or drawn from public knowledge.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. <br /> <br /> '''Music and education were central to Chautauqua'''<br /> <br /> As mentioned in www.radio-tom.com, 100 year old public domain songs can be brought to life with new beats and music videos make them even more like contemporary tunes. This fits well with the Expression Tent of our chautauqua.<br /> <br /> '''A role for reform documentaries?'''<br /> <br /> But the Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. Internet TV can fill this niche. Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life. Tom is Vice-President of the Medical Consumers Association. Over the years persons have brought their stories to our attention. We have, in turn, submitted these to authorities, inquiries, and the media. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet TV journalism?<br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected TV journalists there is a huge hole in mainstream journalism crying out for independent web TV:<br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said ''&quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage .. The perversion of commercial television news and current affairs is due largely, I think, to the increased accuracy with which the viewing pulse of a select group of people around the country can now be monitored. … Never mind the news value, feel those ratings points. .. the commercial media juggernaut is at odds with basic democratic principles. It only listens if you are part of the pack, if you behave like the herd and in the case of the tabloids' front page lynchings, if you are prepared to cheer at executions. .. Silenced by what the journalist, Michael Ignatieff called, a 'sullen populism' that is a mindset which according to Ignatieff, 'holds most forms of genuine intellectual authority in contempt'. does any of this matter? Well, I would contend that it matters a great deal because put simply, journalists are the people on whom we rely to tell us about the world. To tell us about how we are being governed - to give us the base materials - that is facts - without which we cannot make intelligent judgments about our own lives.&quot;''<br /> <br /> The ABC’s Quentin Dempster had made similar observationss in his 1990 book Honest Cops: ''“.. this society had a stroke of luck in the exposure of corruption which was impossible to predict given the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. ... The journalism practised was of the old school variety. Those journalists who could successfully gain the confidence and the 'scoops' of the powerful were seen to be masters of their profession. … It is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.”''<br /> <br /> So the need is there. Filling it is a different story. TV-Tom.Com will start cautiously with music and purely educational videos but hopefully can progress to a more socially-important role as part of the Reform Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com. Singing paper clips and corkscrews are just the start.<br /> <br /> Internet TV journalism should be all about public interest. Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] and [http://www.radio-tom.com]</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/TV-Tom.Com&diff=25937 2009-09-04T01:34:46Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Media */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.tv-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools.<br /> |Quote=Who would have thought you could host your own TV station?<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.tv-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,video,tv,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, MovingImage<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua - speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. Video can convey complex messages quickly. The TV-Tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. <br /> <br /> Archival public domain movie footage (black &amp; white)is given new life when set as the video image to more modern beats from the www.radio-tom.com versions of public domain songs. <br /> <br /> Free unlimited bandwidth hosting now makes TV show hosting a practical reality. All this would have been prohibitively expensive only a few years ago.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Music videos are based on songs carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> The documentary material is based on material made available to the author for the purpose of public attention and/or drawn from public knowledge.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. <br /> <br /> '''Music and education were central to Chautauqua'''<br /> <br /> As mentioned in www.radio-tom.com, 100 year old public domain songs can be brought to life with new beats and music videos make them even more like contemporary tunes. This fits well with the Expression Tent of our chautauqua.<br /> <br /> '''A role for reform documentaries?'''<br /> <br /> But the Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. Internet TV can fill this niche. Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life. Tom is Vice-President of the Medical Consumers Association. Over the years persons have brought their stories to our attention. We have, in turn, submitted these to authorities, inquiries, and the media. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet TV journalism?<br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected TV journalists there is a huge hole in mainstream journalism crying out for independent web TV:<br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said ''&quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage .. The perversion of commercial television news and current affairs is due largely, I think, to the increased accuracy with which the viewing pulse of a select group of people around the country can now be monitored. … Never mind the news value, feel those ratings points. .. the commercial media juggernaut is at odds with basic democratic principles. It only listens if you are part of the pack, if you behave like the herd and in the case of the tabloids' front page lynchings, if you are prepared to cheer at executions. .. Silenced by what the journalist, Michael Ignatieff called, a 'sullen populism' that is a mindset which according to Ignatieff, 'holds most forms of genuine intellectual authority in contempt'. does any of this matter? Well, I would contend that it matters a great deal because put simply, journalists are the people on whom we rely to tell us about the world. To tell us about how we are being governed - to give us the base materials - that is facts - without which we cannot make intelligent judgments about our own lives.&quot;''<br /> <br /> The ABC’s Quentin Dempster had made similar observationss in his 1990 book Honest Cops: ''“.. this society had a stroke of luck in the exposure of corruption which was impossible to predict given the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … It is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.”''<br /> <br /> So the need is there. Filling it is a different story. TV-Tom.Com will start cautiously with music and purely educational videos but hopefully can progress to a more socially-important role as part of the Reform Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com. Singing paper clips and corkscrews are just the start.<br /> <br /> Internet TV journalism should be all about public interest. Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> [http://www.tv-tom.com] and [http://www.radio-tom.com]</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/TV-Tom.Com&diff=25936 2009-09-04T01:31:57Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.tv-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools.<br /> |Quote=Who would have thought you could host your own TV station?<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.tv-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,video,tv,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, MovingImage<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua - speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. Video can convey complex messages quickly. The TV-Tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. <br /> <br /> Archival public domain movie footage (black &amp; white)is given new life when set as the video image to more modern beats from the www.radio-tom.com versions of public domain songs. <br /> <br /> Free unlimited bandwidth hosting now makes TV show hosting a practical reality. All this would have been prohibitively expensive only a few years ago.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Music videos are based on songs carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> The documentary material is based on material made available to the author for the purpose of public attention and/or drawn from public knowledge.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. <br /> <br /> '''Music and education were central to Chautauqua'''<br /> <br /> As mentioned in www.radio-tom.com, 100 year old public domain songs can be brought to life with new beats and music videos make them even more like contemporary tunes. This fits well with the Expression Tent of our chautauqua.<br /> <br /> '''A role for reform documentaries?'''<br /> <br /> But the Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. Internet TV can fill this niche. Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life. Tom is Vice-President of the Medical Consumers Association. Over the years persons have brought their stories to our attention. We have, in turn, submitted these to authorities, inquiries, and the media. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet TV journalism?<br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected TV journalists there is a huge hole in mainstream journalism crying out for independent web TV:<br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said ''&quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage .. The perversion of commercial television news and current affairs is due largely, I think, to the increased accuracy with which the viewing pulse of a select group of people around the country can now be monitored. … Never mind the news value, feel those ratings points. .. the commercial media juggernaut is at odds with basic democratic principles. It only listens if you are part of the pack, if you behave like the herd and in the case of the tabloids' front page lynchings, if you are prepared to cheer at executions. .. Silenced by what the journalist, Michael Ignatieff called, a 'sullen populism' that is a mindset which according to Ignatieff, 'holds most forms of genuine intellectual authority in contempt'. does any of this matter? Well, I would contend that it matters a great deal because put simply, journalists are the people on whom we rely to tell us about the world. To tell us about how we are being governed - to give us the base materials - that is facts - without which we cannot make intelligent judgments about our own lives.&quot;''<br /> <br /> The ABC’s Quentin Dempster had made similar observationss in his 1990 book Honest Cops: ''“.. this society had a stroke of luck in the exposure of corruption which was impossible to predict given the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … It is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.”''<br /> <br /> So the need is there. Filling it is a different story. TV-Tom.Com will start cautiously with music and purely educational videos but hopefully can progress to a more socially-important role as part of the Reform Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com. Singing paper clips and corkscrews are just the start.<br /> <br /> Internet TV journalism should be all about public interest. Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> Delete the above questions and add text here.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/TV-Tom.Com&diff=25935 2009-09-04T01:23:31Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.tv-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools.<br /> |Quote=Who would have thought you could host your own TV station?<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.tv-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,video,tv,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, MovingImage<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua - speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. Video can convey complex messages quickly. The TV-Tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. <br /> <br /> Archival public domain movie footage (black &amp; white)is given new life when set as the video image to more modern beats from the www.radio-tom.com versions of public domain songs. <br /> <br /> Free unlimited bandwidth hosting now makes TV show hosting a practical reality. All this would have been prohibitively expensive only a few years ago.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Music videos are based on songs carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> The documentary material is based on material made available to the author for the purpose of public attention and/or drawn from public knowledge.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. <br /> <br /> As mentioned in www.radio-tom.com, 100 year old public domain songs can be brought to life with new beats and music videos make them even more like contemporary tunes. This fits well with the Expression Tent of our chautauqua.<br /> <br /> But the Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. Internet TV can fill this niche. Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life. Tom is Vice-President of the Medical Consumers Association. Over the years persons have brought their stories to our attention. We have, in turn, submitted these to authorities, inquiries, and the media. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet TV journalism?<br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected TV journalists there is a huge hole in mainstream journalism crying out for independent web TV:<br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said &quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage .. The perversion of commercial television news and current affairs is due largely, I think, to the increased accuracy with which the viewing pulse of a select group of people around the country can now be monitored. … Never mind the news value, feel those ratings points. .. the commercial media juggernaut is at odds with basic democratic principles. It only listens if you are part of the pack, if you behave like the herd and in the case of the tabloids' front page lynchings, if you are prepared to cheer at executions. .. Silenced by what the journalist, Michael Ignatieff called, a 'sullen populism' that is a mindset which according to Ignatieff, 'holds most forms of genuine intellectual authority in contempt'. does any of this matter? Well, I would contend that it matters a great deal because put simply, journalists are the people on whom we rely to tell us about the world. To tell us about how we are being governed - to give us the base materials - that is facts - without which we cannot make intelligent judgments about our own lives<br /> <br /> The ABC’s Quentin Dempster had made similar observationss in his 1990 book Honest Cops: “It must be noted that this society had a stroke of luck in the exposure of corruption which was impossible to predict given the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … It is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.”<br /> <br /> So the need is there. Filling it is a different story. TV-Tom.Com will start cautiously with music and purely educational videos but hopefully can progress to a more socially-important role as part of the Reform Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com. Singing paper clips and corkscrews are just the start.<br /> <br /> Internet TV journalism should be all about public interest. Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> Delete the above questions and add text here.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/TV-Tom.Com&diff=25934 2009-09-04T01:20:36Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.tv-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools.<br /> |Quote=Who would have thought you could host your own TV station?<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.tv-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,video,tv,chautauqua,e-chautauqua <br /> |License=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, MovingImage<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua - speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. Video can convey complex messages quickly. The TV-Tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. <br /> <br /> Archival public domain movie footage (black &amp; white)is given new life when set as the video image to more modern beats from the www.radio-tom.com versions of public domain songs. <br /> <br /> Free unlimited bandwidth hosting now makes TV show hosting a practical reality. All this would have been prohibitively expensive only a few years ago.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Music videos are based on songs carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> The documentary material is based on material made available to the author for the purpose of public attention and/or drawn from public knowledge.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. <br /> <br /> As mentioned in www.radio-tom.com, 100 year old public domain songs can be brought to life with new beats and music videos make them even more like contemporary tunes. This fits well with the Expression Tent of our chautauqua.<br /> <br /> But the Reform Tent cries out for a medium to replace the old orators. Internet TV can fill this niche. Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life. Tom is Vice-President of the Medical Consumers Association. Over the years persons have brought their stories to our attention. We have, in turn, submitted these to authorities, inquiries, and the media. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet TV journalism?<br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected TV journalists there is a huge hole in mainstream journalism crying out for independent web TV:<br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said &quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage .. The perversion of commercial television news and current affairs is due largely, I think, to the increased accuracy with which the viewing pulse of a select group of people around the country can now be monitored. … Never mind the news value, feel those ratings points. .. the commercial media juggernaut is at odds with basic democratic principles. It only listens if you are part of the pack, if you behave like the herd and in the case of the tabloids' front page lynchings, if you are prepared to cheer at executions. .. Silenced by what the journalist, Michael Ignatieff called, a 'sullen populism' that is a mindset which according to Ignatieff, 'holds most forms of genuine intellectual authority in contempt'. does any of this matter? Well, I would contend that it matters a great deal because put simply, journalists are the people on whom we rely to tell us about the world. To tell us about how we are being governed - to give us the base materials - that is facts - without which we cannot make intelligent judgments about our own lives<br /> <br /> The ABC’s Quentin Dempster had made similar observationss in his 1990 book Honest Cops: “It must be noted that this society had a stroke of luck in the exposure of corruption which was impossible to predict given the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … It is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.”<br /> <br /> So the need is there. Filling it is a different story. TV-Tom.Com will start cautiously with music and purely educational videos but hopefully can progress to a more socially-important role as part of the Reform Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com. Singing paper clips and corkscrews are just the start.<br /> <br /> Internet TV journalism should be all about public interest. Therefore it is well-suited to Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> Delete the above questions and add text here.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/TV-Tom.Com&diff=25933 2009-09-04T01:11:57Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.tv-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools.<br /> |Quote=Who would have thought you could host your own TV station?<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.tv-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,video,tv,chautauqua,e-chautauqua <br /> |License=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, MovingImage<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua - speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events, public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. Video can convey complex messages quickly. The TV-Tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. <br /> <br /> Archival public domain movie footage (black &amp; white)is given new life when set as the video image to more modern beats from the www.radio-tom.com versions of public domain songs. <br /> <br /> Free unlimited bandwidth hosting now makes TV show hosting a practical reality. All this would have been prohibitively expensive only a few years ago.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Music videos are based on songs carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> The documentary material is based on material made available to the author for the purpose of public attention and/or drawn from public knowledge.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. <br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life. Tom is Vice-President of the Medical Consumers Association. Over the years persons have approached the media and brought their stories to our attention. We have, in turn, submitted these to authorities and inquiries. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet TV journalism?<br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected TV journalists there is a huge hole in mainstream journalism crying out for independent web TV:<br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said &quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage .. The perversion of commercial television news and current affairs is due largely, I think, to the increased accuracy with which the viewing pulse of a select group of people around the country can now be monitored. … Never mind the news value, feel those ratings points. .. the commercial media juggernaut is at odds with basic democratic principles. It only listens if you are part of the pack, if you behave like the herd and in the case of the tabloids' front page lynchings, if you are prepared to cheer at executions. .. Silenced by what the journalist, Michael Ignatieff called, a 'sullen populism' that is a mindset which according to Ignatieff, 'holds most forms of genuine intellectual authority in contempt'. does any of this matter? Well, I would contend that it matters a great deal because put simply, journalists are the people on whom we rely to tell us about the world. To tell us about how we are being governed - to give us the base materials - that is facts - without which we cannot make intelligent judgments about our own lives<br /> <br /> The ABC’s Quentin Dempster had made similar observationss in his 1990 book Honest Cops: “It must be noted that this society had a stroke of luck in the exposure of corruption which was impossible to predict given the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … It is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.”<br /> <br /> So the need is there. Filling it is a different story. TV-Tom.Com will start cautiously with music and purely educational videos but hopefully can progress to a more socially-important role as part of the Reform Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com. Singing paper clips and corkscrews are just the start.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> Delete the above questions and add text here.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/TV-Tom.Com&diff=25932 2009-09-04T00:49:01Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: www.tv-tom.com demonstrates techniques of movie-making..</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.tv-tom.com is the video &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, demonstrating techniques of movie-making with readily-available software and tools.<br /> |Quote=Who would have thought you could host your own TV station?<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.tv-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,video,tv,chautauqua,e-chautauqua <br /> |License=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, MovingImage<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com combines the traditional halves of a traditional chautauqua - speakers and music. Movies using animation and rear projection techniques can bring to life historical events public domain songs, and powerful documentaries. Video can convey complex messages quickly. The TV-Tom.Com movies at the same time demonstrate to educators some of the techniques now available for quick, powerful custom movie-making such as 3D animation, voice synchronisation, multitracking, pitch-shifting, puppetry, rear projection, and chroma-key - just to name a few. <br /> <br /> Archival public domain movie footage (black &amp; white)is given new life when set as the video image to more modern beats from the www.radio-tom.com versions of public domain songs. <br /> <br /> Free unlimited bandwidth hosting now makes TV show hosting a practical reality. All this would have been prohibitively expensive only a few years ago.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Music videos are based on songs carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain. Only the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons. <br /> <br /> The documentary material is based on material made available to the author for the purpose of public attention and/or drawn from public knowledge.<br /> <br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright. <br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been active in Sydney public life. Tom is Vice-President of the Medical Consumers Association. Over the years persons have approached the media and brought their stories to our attention. We have, in turn, submitted these to authorities and inquiries. So do we have any role or obligation to do anything further with the material? Is there any role for independent internet TV journalism?<br /> <br /> According to some of Australia's most respected journalists there is:<br /> <br /> Jana Wendt in her 1997 Andrew Olle Media Lecture, ABC said &quot;… Stories trumpeted as 'in-depth' reports are often little more than a ninety second videotape pastiche, incorporating a series of fleeting faces, making half-statements. … At rock bottom , it is no better than the small-time conmen it often smites with phoney outrage .. The perversion of commercial television news and current affairs is due largely, I think, to the increased accuracy with which the viewing pulse of a select group of people around the country can now be monitored. … Never mind the news value, feel those ratings points. .. the commercial media juggernaut is at odds with basic democratic principles. It only listens if you are part of the pack, if you behave like the herd and in the case of the tabloids' front page lynchings, if you are prepared to cheer at executions. .. Silenced by what the journalist, Michael Ignatieff called, a 'sullen populism' that is a mindset which according to Ignatieff, 'holds most forms of genuine intellectual authority in contempt'. does any of this matter? Well, I would contend that it matters a great deal because put simply, journalists are the people on whom we rely to tell us about the world. To tell us about how we are being governed - to give us the base materials - that is facts - without which we cannot make intelligent judgments about our own lives<br /> <br /> The ABC’s Quentin Dempster had made similar observationss in his 1990 book Honest Cops: “It must be noted that this society had a stroke of luck in the exposure of corruption which was impossible to predict given the entrenched nature of the police, legal, judicial, political and media cultures operating in a web of self-deception. … It is far deadlier than the simple expediencies and lies of politicians in their lust for power: far more degenerate than then mere character assassination, insider dealings and bribery of rival corporations; far more insidious than the disinformation run as sensation by ignorant media. … At the bottom of it is a contempt for the law far lower and more cunningly applied than the usual contempt displayed by orthodox criminals.”<br /> <br /> TV-Tom.Com will start cautiously with music video but hopefully progress to more socially-important material to take a role in the Reform Tent of our www.e-chautauqua.com. Singing paper clips and corkscrews are just the start.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.tv-tom.com<br /> <br /> Delete the above questions and add text here.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Tom_Benjamin&diff=25843 2009-08-28T07:20:07Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.Radio-Tom.com is an mp3 playlist of free music with lyrics for download and sharing. Dr Tom has done the first recording in living memory of some of the most famous and greatest songs of all time.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=http://www.tom.com.au<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music, playlist, mp3, download, free, public domain<br /> |License short name=PD<br /> |Format=Sound<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> '''Dr Tom Benjamin''' is Senior Researcher, Centre for Learning Innovation, Sydney, Australia. www.radio-tom.com [http://radiotom.wordpress.com/] is his home-spun free mp3 music podcast of his versions of &quot;the most famous songs of all time&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''How are songs rated as &quot;famous&quot;?''' There are countless 'fake books' of 'standards' and anthologies of popular music. The songs that appear consistently in all of these can be regarded as famous. Tunes sung to children that everyone recognises are by definition famous. The greatest of these is no doubt ''Happy Birthday''. The longest-lived well-known songs would include ''Greensleeves''. 'Famous' does not equal 'popular' or even 'good'. The ''Funeral March'' is one such example of 'unpopular but famous'. <br /> <br /> Other songs have historical significance. ''Home Sweet Home'' was the first song of the modern 'pop' variety because it was secular (non-religious), available as sheet music, known on both sides of the Atlantic, and could be sung and played in the home parlour. ''After the Ball'' was the next pop milestone as it had over a million sales. <br /> <br /> Yet you will find few renditions of these influential songs beyond the occasional scratchy pre-1900 Edison cylinder rendition. Even when clear the versions are often incomplete or flowery. Thus, the claim to &quot;the best versions of the most famous songs of all time&quot; in many cases only requires a decent, clear recording. The 'best' need not equal 'great' or even 'good' - it may only need to be a 'listenable' or even 'bearable' version to qualify as 'best'.<br /> <br /> Dr Tom is a researcher and forensic psychologist. The radio-tom and e-chautauqua[http://www.e-chautauqua.com] projects are byproducts of his investigation of educational applications of games, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and multimedia. They are purely privately-funded out of pocket with no link to government or corporate sponsors.<br /> <br /> Originally from Detroit, Dr Tom's music career was as a 'weddings and anything' rock &amp; roll singer playing rough house frat parties. The version of ''House of the Rising Sun'' listed in the Music section below is typical of those days, but back then it was real bands with real instruments, not virtual ones.[[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Overview|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> These songs cost Dr Tom next to nothing (but time) to record and hosting is now free. This lack of costs is passed on to his listeners.<br /> <br /> The Creative Commons link boosted search engine placement immediately and dramatically.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|License Usage|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> The immediate goal is to build a web platform to develop, test, and showcase multimedia and Web 2.0 technologies. To be worth doing, a site needs some link popularity and 'hits'. Music was a logical choice because it is a popular search topic. Public domain music is actually useful to anyone needing royalty-free tunes for podcasts, public occasions and so on. But with hundreds of thousands of musicians online there was a need to highlight the 'famous' aspect of these songs.<br /> <br /> The ultimate test will be to see if people like what Dr Tom does with these ancient out-of-copyright tunes. They may well want to hear what he can do with more modern 'famous' songs as well. But the latter cannot be done for free as there are up-front costs of permissions, licenses, and fees. Oh, and did we mention the not-so-minor detail that you can buy recordings of the later songs done by the most famous artists in history? Any claim to the 'best versions' of later songs comes up against much stiffer competition. But then if one has to pay, hence charge, money it might be enough to fund a conventional recording studio deal. In the meantime, there are enough public domain songs to keep Dr Tom busy feeding Radio-Tom.Com.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Motivations|formedit}}<br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> Music example</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Tom_Benjamin&diff=25842 2009-08-28T07:04:34Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.Radio-Tom.com is an mp3 playlist of free music with lyrics for download and sharing. Dr Tom has done the first recording in living memory of some of the most famous and greatest songs of all time.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=http://www.tom.com.au<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music, playlist, mp3, download, free, public domain<br /> |License short name=PD<br /> |Format=Sound<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> '''Dr Tom Benjamin''' is Senior Researcher, Centre for Learning Innovation, Sydney, Australia. www.radio-tom.com [http://radiotom.wordpress.com/] is his home-spun free mp3 music podcast of his versions of &quot;the most famous songs of all time&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''How are songs rated as &quot;famous&quot;?''' There are countless 'fake books' of 'standards' and anthologies of popular music. The songs that appear consistently in all of these can be regarded as famous. Tunes sung to children that everyone recognises are by definition famous. The greatest of these is no doubt ''Happy Birthday''. The longest-lived well-known songs would include ''Greensleeves''. 'Famous' does not equal 'popular' or even 'good'. The ''Funeral March'' is one such example of 'unpopular but famous'. <br /> <br /> Other songs have historical significance. ''Home Sweet Home'' was the first song of the modern 'pop' variety because it was secular (non-religious), available as sheet music, known on both sides of the Atlantic, and could be sung and played in the home parlour. ''After the Ball'' was the next pop milestone as it had over a million sales. <br /> <br /> Yet you will find few renditions of these influential songs beyond the occasional scratchy pre-1900 Edison cylinder rendition. Even when clear the versions are often incomplete or flowery. Thus, the claim to &quot;the best versions of the most famous songs of all time&quot; in many cases only requires a decent, clear recording. The 'best' need not equal 'great' or even 'good' - it may only need to be a 'listenable' or even 'bearable' version to qualify as 'best'.<br /> <br /> Dr Tom is a researcher and forensic psychologist. The radio-tom and e-chautauqua[http://www.e-chautauqua.com] projects are byproducts of his investigation of educational applications of games, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and multimedia. They are purely privately-funded out of pocket with no link to government or corporate sponsors.<br /> <br /> Originally from Detroit, Dr Tom's music career was as a 'weddings and anything' rock &amp; roll singer playing rough house frat parties. The version of ''House of the Rising Sun'' listed in the Music section below is typical of those days, but back then it was real bands with real instruments, not virtual ones.[[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Overview|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> These songs cost Dr Tom next to nothing (but time) to record and hosting is now free. This lack of costs is passed on to his listeners.<br /> <br /> The Creative Commons link boosted search engine placement immediately and dramatically.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|License Usage|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> The goal is to generate interest. If people like what Dr Tom does with these ancient tunes they may well want to hear what he can do with more modern songs as well. The latter cannot be done for free as there are permissions, licenses, and fees. Oh, and did we mention the not-so-minor detail that you can buy recordings of the later songs done by the most famous artists in history? So this would clearly call for a conventional recording deal so that these could be done to everyone's satisfaction. In the meantime, there are enough public domain songs to keep Dr Tom busy feeding Radio-Tom.Com.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Motivations|formedit}}<br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> Music example</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/Tom_Benjamin&diff=25841 2009-08-28T07:00:26Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Overview */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.Radio-Tom.com is an mp3 playlist of free music with lyrics for download and sharing. Dr Tom has done the first recording in living memory of some of the most famous and greatest songs of all time.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=http://www.tom.com.au<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music, playlist, mp3, download, free, public domain<br /> |License short name=PD<br /> |Format=Sound<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> '''Dr Tom Benjamin''' is Senior Researcher, Centre for Learning Innovation, Sydney, Australia. [http://www.Radio-Tom.Com] is his home-spun free mp3 music podcast of his versions of &quot;the most famous songs of all time&quot;.<br /> <br /> '''How are songs rated as &quot;famous&quot;?''' There are countless 'fake books' of 'standards' and anthologies of popular music. The songs that appear consistently in all of these can be regarded as famous. Tunes sung to children that everyone recognises are by definition famous. The greatest of these is no doubt ''Happy Birthday''. The longest-lived well-known songs would include ''Greensleeves''. 'Famous' does not equal 'popular' or even 'good'. The ''Funeral March'' is one such example of 'unpopular but famous'. <br /> <br /> Other songs have historical significance. ''Home Sweet Home'' was the first song of the modern 'pop' variety because it was secular (non-religious), available as sheet music, known on both sides of the Atlantic, and could be sung and played in the home parlour. ''After the Ball'' was the next pop milestone as it had over a million sales. <br /> <br /> Yet you will find few renditions of these influential songs beyond the occasional scratchy pre-1900 Edison cylinder rendition. Even when clear the versions are often incomplete or flowery. Thus, the claim to &quot;the best versions of the most famous songs of all time&quot; in many cases only requires a decent, clear recording. The 'best' need not equal 'great' or even 'good' - it may only need to be a 'listenable' or even 'bearable' version to qualify as 'best'.<br /> <br /> Dr Tom is a researcher and forensic psychologist. The radio-tom and [http://www.e-chautauqua.com] projects are byproducts of his investigation of educational applications of games, virtual worlds, Web 2.0 and multimedia. They are purely privately-funded out of pocket with no link to government or corporate sponsors.<br /> <br /> Originally from Detroit, Dr Tom's music career was as a 'weddings and anything' rock &amp; roll singer playing rough house frat parties. The version of ''House of the Rising Sun'' listed in the Music section below is typical of those days, but back then it was real bands with real instruments, not virtual ones.[[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Overview|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> These songs cost Dr Tom next to nothing (but time) to record and hosting is now free. This lack of costs is passed on to his listeners.<br /> <br /> The Creative Commons link boosted search engine placement immediately and dramatically.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|License Usage|formedit}}<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> The goal is to generate interest. If people like what Dr Tom does with these ancient tunes they may well want to hear what he can do with more modern songs as well. The latter cannot be done for free as there are permissions, licenses, and fees. Oh, and did we mention the not-so-minor detail that you can buy recordings of the later songs done by the most famous artists in history? So this would clearly call for a conventional recording deal so that these could be done to everyone's satisfaction. In the meantime, there are enough public domain songs to keep Dr Tom busy feeding Radio-Tom.Com.<br /> <br /> {{Incomplete|Motivations|formedit}}<br /> <br /> [[Media:House of the Rising Sun.ogg]]== Media ==<br /> <br /> Music example</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=25577 2009-08-10T03:31:48Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available. <br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Although the songs were carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright.<br /> <br /> Tom and Margaret have been quite active in Sydney karaoke. Some of the e-chautauqua links are to our www.kara-oke.com site. Many karaoke enthusiasts think mistakenly that they can put their performances up on the web, only to get a rude shock letter from a copyright holder or authority. Our use of public domain songs demonstrates an alternate route. Sure, the songs are 100 years old but to a real karaoke enthusiast that's part of the challenge and fun - to breathe new life into an old dead tune.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.radio-tom.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=25576 2009-08-10T03:25:58Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Media */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available. <br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Although the songs were carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.radio-tom.com</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/radio-tom.com&diff=25575 2009-08-10T03:25:31Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: www.radio-tom.com is the musical</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=www.radio-tom.com, the musical &quot;Tent&quot; of www.e-chautauqua.com, consists of free versions of public domain songs.<br /> |Quote=My aim is to do the best versions of the most famous songs of all time.<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Dr Tom<br /> |Mainurl=www.radio-tom.com<br /> |Author=Dr Tom Benjamin<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=music,chautauqua,e-chautauqua<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Sound, Text<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> Although speakers were regarded as its &quot;backbone&quot;, half of a traditional chautauqua was musical performance. For us to fill the e-chautauqua shoes we needed to lay down sufficient musical material to be worth a visit. radio-tom fills that role in the e-chautauqua and now has enough material to be termed an internet radio resource. For some of the songs ours is the only version readily-available. <br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> Although the songs were carefully researched and confirmed to be from the international public domain the arrangements and performances had to be specified as Creative Commons.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Creative Commons is well-known in education circles. Students are taught from an early age to respect copyright.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> <br /> www.radio-tom.com<br /> <br /> Delete the above questions and add text here.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/e-Chautauqua&diff=25574 2009-08-10T03:10:00Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: An e-chautauqua embraces philosophy, reform, and expression.</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=A virtual chautauqua embraces philosophy, reform, and expression.<br /> |Quote=What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua — that´s the only name that I can think of for it — like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America .. an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer (Pirsig)<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values<br /> |Mainurl=www.e-chautauqua.com<br /> |Author=Tom Benjamin and Margaret Penhall-Jones<br /> |User_Status=Creator<br /> |Tag=chautauqua,e-chautauqua,music,dreams,psychology<br /> |License short name=CC BY<br /> |Format=Image, Sound, Text, MovingImage, InteractiveResource<br /> |Country=Australia<br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> An e-chautauqua was the most logical way for us to combine our myriad interests and the resources we'd built up over decades into some sort of over-arching theme. The e-chautauqua follows the original tradition by presenting materials in a set of &quot;Tents&quot;.<br /> <br /> A chautauqua is an informal educational offering, as distinct from online tertiary educational institutions which confer examinations and certification. The chautauquan model welcomes divergent and even opposing viewpoints. It is the reverse of the adage &quot;never discuss religion or politics&quot; as these were its staple fare. Attendance is voluntary and speakers expected questions and argument with what were daring views in their day.<br /> <br /> Only in recent years has e-chautauqua been possible for a truly non-profit family-funded web venture. Low cost and free bandwidth sources have taken audio-visual materials out of the elite corporate basket and into the hands of school students. The e-chautauqua model is very suitable for schools and community groups who have a diverse set of materials that can be put up as chautauqua tents. We hope others will follow.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> The main materials for which we used a Creative Commons license are those in the Expression Tent -ie- music and videos. We use 'attribution only' as ours are in general public domain in origin so it is only our arrangement and performance that needs to be acknowledged if for no other reason than to avoid confusion with other performers. Indeed, the music and videos are intended to inspire copying of the methods and designed to illustrate particular methods such as music multi-tracking, video chroma-key etc.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Tom is an educational researcher in Sydney, Australia. Copyright is now an important aspect of our local educational curricula and we are obliged to model best practice. While educators and students have legislated exemptions from many copyright provisions these are seen as a last resort and best practice taught to students from an early age is to acknowledge sources and, where possible, create original ones. However, not everyone can create good original music. If it were that easy, there'd be no pop stars! Tom is no exeption, claiming only to be a singer, not a songwriter or instrumental musician. So considerable research went into song selection to make sure the Expression Tent of the e-chautauqua was populated with songs that were unequivically in the public domain. <br /> <br /> Our videos are similarly researched. Their educational purpose is to demonstrate use of non-copyright media such as household objects and public domain archive footage to enhance the song. Tom corresponded with software vendors who confirmed that the songs and videos created using their tools could be distributed publicly and without separate license or acknowledgment. <br /> <br /> The Creative Commons license is intended to encourage listeners, viewers and readers to use these materials for any public performances and to have no hesitation to use bits of them in their own videos and mash-ups.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> www.radio-tom.com is the e-chautauqua musical expression. Music videos that use these tunes as a base are also provided mainly to demonstrate multimedia techniques such as rear projection, chroma-key, virtual puppetry, 3D face animation etc.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/e-Chautauqua&diff=25573 2009-08-10T03:02:41Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Media */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=A virtual chautauqua embraces philosophy, reform, and expression.<br /> |Quote=What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua — that´s the only name that I can think of for it — like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America .. an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer (Pirsig)<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values <br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> An e-chautauqua was the most logical way for us to combine our myriad interests and the resources we'd built up over decades into some sort of over-arching theme. The e-chautauqua follows the original tradition by presenting materials in a set of &quot;Tents&quot;.<br /> <br /> A chautauqua is an informal educational offering, as distinct from online tertiary educational institutions which confer examinations and certification. The chautauquan model welcomes divergent and even opposing viewpoints. It is the reverse of the adage &quot;never discuss religion or politics&quot; as these were its staple fare. Attendance is voluntary and speakers expected questions and argument with what were daring views in their day.<br /> <br /> Only in recent years has e-chautauqua been possible for a truly non-profit family-funded web venture. Low cost and free bandwidth sources have taken audio-visual materials out of the elite corporate basket and into the hands of school students. The e-chautauqua model is very suitable for schools and community groups who have a diverse set of materials that can be put up as chautauqua tents. We hope others will follow.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> The main materials for which we used a Creative Commons license are those in the Expression Tent -ie- music and videos. We use 'attribution only' as ours are in general public domain in origin so it is only our arrangement and performance that needs to be acknowledged if for no other reason than to avoid confusion with other performers. Indeed, the music and videos are intended to inspire copying of the methods and designed to illustrate particular methods such as music multi-tracking, video chroma-key etc.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Tom is an educational researcher in Sydney, Australia. Copyright is now an important aspect of our local educational curricula and we are obliged to model best practice. While educators and students have legislated exemptions from many copyright provisions these are seen as a last resort and best practice taught to students from an early age is to acknowledge sources and, where possible, create original ones. However, not everyone can create good original music. If it were that easy, there'd be no pop stars! Tom is no exeption, claiming only to be a singer, not a songwriter or instrumental musician. So considerable research went into song selection to make sure the Expression Tent of the e-chautauqua was populated with songs that were unequivically in the public domain. <br /> <br /> Our videos are similarly researched. Their educational purpose is to demonstrate use of non-copyright media such as household objects and public domain archive footage to enhance the song. Tom corresponded with software vendors who confirmed that the songs and videos created using their tools could be distributed publicly and without separate license or acknowledgment. <br /> <br /> The Creative Commons license is intended to encourage listeners, viewers and readers to use these materials for any public performances and to have no hesitation to use bits of them in their own videos and mash-ups.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> www.radio-tom.com is the e-chautauqua musical expression. Music videos that use these tunes as a base are also provided mainly to demonstrate multimedia techniques such as rear projection, chroma-key, virtual puppetry, 3D face animation etc.</div>

Tom Benjamin https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php?title=Case_Studies/e-Chautauqua&diff=25572 2009-08-10T03:01:22Z

<p>Tom Benjamin: /* Motivations */</p> <hr /> <div>{{Case Study<br /> |Description=A virtual chautauqua embraces philosophy, reform, and expression.<br /> |Quote=What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua — that´s the only name that I can think of for it — like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America .. an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer (Pirsig)<br /> |Quote_Attribution=Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values <br /> }}<br /> == Overview ==<br /> <br /> An e-chautauqua was the most logical way for us to combine our myriad interests and the resources we'd built up over decades into some sort of over-arching theme. The e-chautauqua follows the original tradition by presenting materials in a set of &quot;Tents&quot;.<br /> <br /> A chautauqua is an informal educational offering, as distinct from online tertiary educational institutions which confer examinations and certification. The chautauquan model welcomes divergent and even opposing viewpoints. It is the reverse of the adage &quot;never discuss religion or politics&quot; as these were its staple fare. Attendance is voluntary and speakers expected questions and argument with what were daring views in their day.<br /> <br /> Only in recent years has e-chautauqua been possible for a truly non-profit family-funded web venture. Low cost and free bandwidth sources have taken audio-visual materials out of the elite corporate basket and into the hands of school students. The e-chautauqua model is very suitable for schools and community groups who have a diverse set of materials that can be put up as chautauqua tents. We hope others will follow.<br /> <br /> == License Usage ==<br /> <br /> The main materials for which we used a Creative Commons license are those in the Expression Tent -ie- music and videos. We use 'attribution only' as ours are in general public domain in origin so it is only our arrangement and performance that needs to be acknowledged if for no other reason than to avoid confusion with other performers. Indeed, the music and videos are intended to inspire copying of the methods and designed to illustrate particular methods such as music multi-tracking, video chroma-key etc.<br /> <br /> == Motivations ==<br /> <br /> Tom is an educational researcher in Sydney, Australia. Copyright is now an important aspect of our local educational curricula and we are obliged to model best practice. While educators and students have legislated exemptions from many copyright provisions these are seen as a last resort and best practice taught to students from an early age is to acknowledge sources and, where possible, create original ones. However, not everyone can create good original music. If it were that easy, there'd be no pop stars! Tom is no exeption, claiming only to be a singer, not a songwriter or instrumental musician. So considerable research went into song selection to make sure the Expression Tent of the e-chautauqua was populated with songs that were unequivically in the public domain. <br /> <br /> Our videos are similarly researched. Their educational purpose is to demonstrate use of non-copyright media such as household objects and public domain archive footage to enhance the song. Tom corresponded with software vendors who confirmed that the songs and videos created using their tools could be distributed publicly and without separate license or acknowledgment. <br /> <br /> The Creative Commons license is intended to encourage listeners, viewers and readers to use these materials for any public performances and to have no hesitation to use bits of them in their own videos and mash-ups.<br /> <br /> == Media ==<br /> www.radio-tom. is the e-chautauqua musical expression. Music videos that use these tunes as a base are also provided mainly to demonstrate multimedia techniques such as rear projection, chroma-key, virtual puppetry, 3D face animation etc.</div>

Tom Benjamin