Creative Commons and Non-violence Documentary Project

[Pachinee Buathong]

A professional filmmaker team recently came back from India to shoot a set of documentaries about non-violent movements in the country. From the 70's to "Janadesh" the largest non-violent struggle (after Gandhi's one) that happened in october 2007, 25,000 landless farmers walked 350km to march against New Delhi.

The movies are currently being edited, but at the same time the team opened a website to free the documentaries copyright. Experimenting the "funding and licensing" model to apply Creative Commons licences.

Because of its youth the website audience is still a bit low, but it gains day by day some more interest from the free culture arena. For example Lawrence Lessig supported the project by being the first online donor.

Also, the illustrated document "Will the World depend on free culture?" tells more about this project and its stakes.