My videos are very amateurish, starting out with my cell phone, and then just video mode on my digital camera. Now I have Vista and Windows Movie Maker, but I don’t have time to do more videos of the translations.

Anyone want to take the ball and run with it?

Not to brag, but do a Youtube search for “Free urdu book” or “free bengali book” or “free swahili book” and see these rudimentary videos’ high ranking.

What this illustrates is that there is an opportunity for high placement for the Book of Mormon, to catch the eyes of anyone in the world seeking free (bilingual) reading material.

Any takers

If the Church adopted Creative Commons licensing tailored to still protect its IP from malicious changes and redistribution, more people would jump into it.

But one other issue nags me…how do you keep the doctrine pure with widgets? I used to be a fan of Bomtoons until they started releasing questionable content that, IMHO, trivializes sacred concepts as taught in the scriptures. I’m all for humor, but some of it crosses lines I’d rather not have crossed or can give a false impression that we actually believe the punch line rather than giving accurate information on the topic.

Sometimes it takes weeks just to get a response from Intellectual Reserve and the answers that people I know have always received have been:

“No” or “We’re still evaluating this”

As far as I know, most sites using church-owned materials such as online scripture sites, you tube videos of conference or other talks not uploaded by the church, handheld applications, etc.., are all doing so contrary to the copyright policy.

If the copyright policy were to ever change to be more liberal in regards to public, non-commercial use, then I suspect you would see the flood of Gospel content in new media that you’re asking for. Until then our hands as developers are tied.