Open Media Project

Open Media (soon to be launched open source media project) will attempt to foster grassroots media and spread users' creations to people's desktops through open standards.

Seth Finkelstein is excited about Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica's new Open Media project with good reason:

I can't wait to see what happens when someone contributes their own "amateur" videos (in the Paris Hilton sense of the word ...). Or how they're going to handle all the copyright-infringement claims which are sure to follow (perhaps this is also a data-mining effort for the declaratory fair-use lawsuits which Lawrence Lessig is seeking). It's definitely worth watching for those issues alone.

J.D. also has a post (P2P, licenses, and the future of music and movies) on the "file sharing, collective licenses, and the future of the music-movie industries discussion" taking place at Larry Lessig's blog (and in the comments) being hosted by Rep. Rick Boucher.