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Open source goes to the movies
by Corina Ciubotaru

From now on, open source will mean more than free programs under the GNU license, developed by many passionate programmers. Open source goes global with the advent of fanfiction and open source movies. “Fan fiction is a broadly-defined term for fiction about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creators,” according to a Wikipedia definition. This means that there are web sites where people can come up with their own versions of continuing a story, sometimes even a very well-known one, such as Robin Hood. Some of these stories even get published, as is the case with Eric Flint’s novel 1634: The Ram Rebellion. There’s even news of an open source movie coming up, called Jathia’s Wager, directed by Solomon Rothman, a man who has previously released a free full size movie over the Internet. This time, he wanted to write a story that was both serious and easy to modify. For Jathia’s Wager, he has written a script about a young man who lives in an isolated community and must make life-changing decisions and the author is now encouraging people to make their own contributions to the story. In the end, Rothman will shoot his own and then five more versions of the story and will release them on the Net for free download, reuse and re-edit for everyone interested. The director hopes the online community will become very involved in this type of projects in the future as the influence of Web 2.0 on their lives will drive them to shape everything to suit their needs, including art.

related story: http://www.solomonrothman.com/solomons-corner/jathias-wager/

by Corina Ciubotaru for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

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