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General Meeting Tonight @ 8pm

Tuesday, 01. 30. 2007  –  Category: Meetings

Just a quick reminder that we’ll be having a general meeting tonight at 8pm. It’s our first meeting of the semester so please come if you’re interested in participating in Free Culture @ NYU. We have some really exciting events planned for this semester, and we’d love to see some new faces. We’ll also be [...]

Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia on January 31st

Tuesday, 01. 23. 2007  –  Category: News

Following up Cory Doctorow, next Wednesday we’ll be hosting Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. The lecture will be held during a class of Evan Korth’s Computer’s and Society course and is also co-sponsored by NYU’s ACM and NYU’s WinC chapters. Jimmy will be giving a talk entitled “Free culture, transparency, and search.” Read more about [...]

When Being A DJ Becomes Illegal

Monday, 01. 22. 2007  –  Category: News

First there was the breathless and incompetent FOX news report; facts were sketchy, but it seemed like a DJ was arrested for producing “illegal” CDs. Then the NYTimes clarified, the CDs weren’t counterfeit, or pirated, but they were mixtapes: The [RIAA] makes no distinction between counterfeit CDs and unlicensed compilations like those that DJ Drama [...]

Jonathan Lethem Launches "The Promiscuous Materials Project"

Friday, 01. 19. 2007  –  Category: General, Links, Media, News

Free Culture @ NYU friend and critically acclaimed American writer Jonathan Lethem (Wikipedia bio here) has just launched “The Promiscuous Materials Project” that invites authors and remixers to use short works he’s created: These stories are for filmmakers or dramatists to adapt. They’re available non-exclusively — meaning other people may be working from the same [...]

Zyprexa Updates

Tuesday, 01. 16. 2007  –  Category: News

The Zyprexa scandal has had some interesting developments in the last week or two. The NYTimes covers the EFF filing on behalf of a John Doe for the rights to publish information related to the case to a wiki anonymously. The EFF has also setup its own Zyprexa case site where you can find copies [...]

More Open Access at NYU

Monday, 01. 15. 2007  –  Category: News

Thanks to everyone who stopped by for our Taking Action on Open Access Conference and special thanks to Heather, Gavin and John for providing such fantastic presentations. Gavin Yamey will be speaking twice more at NYU later this week and we figured you might be interested in attending. Here is the information: Restricted Access to [...]

The Foundations of Open Access

Tuesday, 01. 9. 2007  –  Category: Events & Recaps, General, News

So, this weekend is the Open Access summit and I wanted to share some thoughts on how to help bring this on a widespread basis. Closely tied to open access is encouraging funding organizations to include language in their grant proposals which promotes open access, for code and content. This is in the foundation’s best [...]

January 19th 2007 @ 5pm : Cory Doctorow

Wednesday, 01. 3. 2007  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Meetings, News

photo by Bart Nagel On January 19th at 5pm Free Culture @ NYU and NYU ACM are hosting a talk by Cory Doctorow. The event will be at the Courant Institute in Room 109 at 5pm-7pm. Cory will be speaking on “State of the Copyfight 2007: Looking up, not out of the woods yet.” Cory [...]