R.E.M. released 11 videos for the first song from their forthcoming album Accelerate, all in MP4 format in HD and under an open source license. In the song, Michael Stipe sings about celebration, humiliation and seances ... everybody here comes from somewhere... and Mike Mill's backup vocals are totally great.
One of the really cool things is that everyone is encouraged to remix the videos and share them on the song's YouTube page - from Risa Dickens of the blog Indyish:
REM's open source video is "a taste of open source in the much more potentially disruptive way of open sourcing advanced by Linux, then the pay-what-you-can but still copy-written version tried on [Radiohead's] In Rainbows."
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