If you aren’t down with the Open Video Alliance and do anything related to video, you’re missing out on the major struggle of content to creators to use video as a free and open platform for creation, distribution, and fair use/remixing of existing video. Learn more about it here, but long story short, the issue spans video editing technology, digital distribution, and free culture copyright.

Sound good? Then check this out– the Open Video Alliance wants you to explain what Open Video means to you in a 60 second video, for the chance to win a free trip and pass to SXSW Interactive this year. Get the details here, and let us know if you enter– we’ll post your entry on Urgensia.