Open Source Sita
In what might be one of the most awesome moves ever, cartoonist Nina Paley has decided to make the source files for her film Sita Sings the Blues freely available:
I hereby give Sita Sings the Blues to you. Like all culture, it belongs to you already, but I am making it explicit with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. Please distribute, copy, share, archive, and show Sita Sings the Blues. From the shared culture it came, and back into the shared culture it goes.
Pretty awesome if you’re an aspiring animator as it will allow you to essentially “pop the hood” of this film and look at how it was all put together. Paley notes that because of the new license you do not need her permission to “copy, share, publish, archive, show, sell, broadcast, or remix Sita Sings the Blues.” Pretty awesome idea, it will be interesting to see what evolves from this.
