R.E.M. Releases New Videos Under Open Source License

Published: February 14, 2008, 2:44 am

Tags: music

R.E.M. today released 11 videos for the first song from their forthcoming album, all in MP4 format in HD and under an open source license. "Supernatural Serious," is the first single from the band's next album, "Accelerate," due to be released April 1st. Viewers are encouraged to remix the videos and share them on the song's YouTube page. The band will not be doing a Radiohead and offering the album for free, but this is an interesting twist somewhere in between that approach and the standard industry practice. The HD format will allow remixers to pan and scan within the video, but it also makes for a monster file size to work with. R.E.M. is big-time stuff though, so presumably there's a healthy number of production artists just waiting to work their magic on the file. R.E.M.'s primary site is here, where you can - as they say - "Hear the Song/Buy the Ringtone." The license selected for the project seems a bit unclear. It's from the Open Source Initiative,

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