Brett Gaylor is the Director of Mozilla’s Popcorn project, an open video laboratory researching the intersection of video and the World Wide Web. Before working with Mozilla, Brett directed the award wining documentary Rip! A Remix Manifesto, created Open Source Cinema.org, helped found homelessnation.org, and was a key creative at the Montreal-based production house EyeSteelFilm. Brett lives on an island with his family.
Session Title: Documentary: a new layer for the web
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.