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Well then, arguably the biggest free cultureish news to hit the mainstream since Radiohead released their massively popular pay-what-you-like album In Rainbows last January has been, er, Radiohead’s release of their “House of Cards” video yesterday, with the video animation released under a Creative Commons license. Admittedly, the whole thing was shot with freakin’ laser beams instead of a camera and it looks pretty rad, which it should because it was issued from the high holy of holy bands. But, you ask, the video animation carries a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, does that mean the whole thing is free to share and remix so long as I tell who made it and don’t make money off of it? As ever with Radiohead these days: Kinda-sorta. It means that you are free to have your way with the video data, so long as you keep within the bounds of the CC license, but the song and this particular video do not carry a CC license. Chew on that one a while….

And while you do, check out the pretty great video itself.