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Free Culture @ NYU protests DRM at the Apple Store Midtown

Saturday, 09. 30. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Media, News, Photos

Thanks to everyone who came out to our DRM protest at the Apple store today! Defective by Design provided the catchy yellow Hazmat suits and we handed out hundreds of flyers, made lots of friends and spread the word against DRM. Click here for the whole photo set Click here to download the flyer we [...]

DRM Protest at Apple Store Midtown on Saturday at 3pm

Thursday, 09. 28. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Meetings

On Saturday, at 3pm Free Culture @ NYU in collaboration with DefectiveByDesign.org will be protesting DRM and the iTunes Music Store at the Apple Store in Midtown Manhattan, which is at 59th St. and 5th Ave. We’ll be meeting at 2:30 at the fountain across the store, near the North West corner of 58th Street [...]

Free Culture @ NYU and in New York

Monday, 09. 25. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, General, Meetings, News

Thanks to everyone who came out to our meeting with James Boyle on Wednesday. He really enjoyed our group and loved all of the questions and participation. More speakers and talks are in the works (with bigger rooms and more food). Here are some Free Culture type events in NYC happening this week that you [...]

Wednesday : James Boyle with FC @ NYU

Saturday, 09. 16. 2006  –  Category: News

On Wednesday at 7pm we’ll be fortunate to be co-sponsoring an event with the ACM to have James Boyle from Duke Law School sitting down with Free Culture @ NYU to discuss the DMCA. We’ll be serving light refreshments and selling copies of James’ recent comic book on Fair Use. Check out the poster below: [...]

Free Culture presents: Down with DRM Video Contest

Saturday, 09. 16. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Media, News

Enter the Down with DRM video contest for a chance to win a Neuros OSD – a portable digital VCR! (Thanks jborn.) Joining in Oct 3rd – Day Against DRM, Free Culture will select the 5 best anti-DRM video entries and award a Neuros OSD to each creator. DefectiveByDesign.org is also looking to air selected [...]

Popular Science and Creative Commons host concert in Second Life

Friday, 09. 8. 2006  –  Category: News

From the Creative Commons blog… Mark your calenders: On Thursday, September 14 at 5PM (SL/Pacific), PopSci.com and Creative Commons will be hosting a special concert in Second Life featuring Jonathan Coulton as well as popular Second Life musicians Melvin Took, Kourosh Eusebio, Etherian Kamaboko, and Slim Warrior. From Jonathan Coulton’s blog: I will be playing [...]

Club Fair Sucess!

Friday, 09. 8. 2006  –  Category: Meetings, News, Photos

We’d like to thank everyone who stopped by our table to check us out and write down their e-mail on Thursday! The club fair was a huge sucess for us, and we ended up giving away mostly everything we had on the table. Here’s a photo of myself and Olga manning it early on: We’ll [...]

Free Culture @ NYU's First Meeting of The Year

Tuesday, 09. 5. 2006  –  Category: Meetings, News

We’re going to be talking about copyright, technology, and the state of the current digital revolution. We’ll also be talking about campaigns and events we can plan for this year. Last year we had real successes, USA Today and Village voice wrote features about our protests and events, we held an art show, and presented [...]