Against “Orphan Work Proposal” Presentation Using SWFTools (Not Finished)

Introduction

This is a recreation (I don’t think it’s a proper remix) of Lawrence Lessig’s presentation against the orphan work reform proposed in the U.S. some time ago (blog entry and video).

It is a example on a better method for delivering presentations, but it isn’t finished yet.

Flash presentation

• Single click puts presentation in full-screen mode (if supported) and starts downloading the presentation.

• Double click or space starts/stops sound.

• Key f enables/disables full screen (if supported).

• Left goes to previous slide.

• Right goes to next slide.

• Up goes to first slide (and starts again).

• Down goes to last slide.

Features

• It is entirely build using free software (SWFTools, which are released under the GNU GPLv2).

• Thanks to a more efficient audio compression provided by SWFTools, the output file is much smaller (6.8MB instead of 68MB of the original video, hosted once at Google Video).

• Higher resolution than the original file (and much higher than the video hosted at Blip.tv).

Known bugs and desired features

• Audio quality is worse. But this is not a bug, but an intended feature.

  Audio quality is proportional to file size (the more quality you want, the more bytes you get). Audio quality is worse or not as high as the one in the original file, but I think it’s enough because it is recorded voice and not music.

License

Otherwise than the original presentation itself, this Flash presentation is not released under a Creative Commons license that allows redistribution. You might link to this page, but please don’t redistribute the presentation, since it isn’t finished yet.

Once the presentation is finished, it will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.

Disclaimer

This file is provided “as is”. I hope others might find the contents of the presentation interesting.

But consider that I’m not a programmer. This means that I cannot code many features that I have in mind.

It doesn’t matter how deeply I might regret this fact, I cannot write obvious code for skilled programmers (not even for coding newbies). And I have to learn in order to achieve the most basic functionalities.