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How to Understand the Hacker and Lulz battle against the C0$

Wednesday, 11. 12. 2008  –  Category: Events & Recaps

Old and New Net Wars over Free Speech, Freedom and Secrecy or…. How to Understand the Hacker and Lulz battle against the C0$ NYU’s very own Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor, New York University, will be speaking at Columbia this Thursday at noon. Gabriella is a talented scholar and friend. This is a great opportunity to [...]

Steal This Film! Screening w/creator Alan Toner

Tuesday, 11. 11. 2008  –  Category: Events & Recaps

FC NYU is proud to be sponsoring this screening with Computers and Society: Released in December 2007 by the League of Noble Peers (Alan Toner, J.J. King, Jan Gerber, Sebastian Luetgert, Luca Lucarini, and others), Steal This Film 2 tries to go beyond the current discussions around file-sharing to look at what kinds of social [...]

Free Culture 2008 Conference Summary

Friday, 11. 7. 2008  –  Category: Events & Recaps

We haven’t had a chance to blog the Free Culture 2008 conference yet, but Kevin Donovan of FC Georgetown just posted his summary.

Lawrence Lessig @ NYU this Sunday

Thursday, 11. 6. 2008  –  Category: Events & Recaps

FreeCulture NYU is a co-sponsor of Evan Korth’s Computers & Society speaker series at NYU this fall. The next talk is this Sunday. It will feature Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University. His topic is “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.” The content industry has convinced industry in general that extremism [...]

Remixed

Monday, 11. 3. 2008  –  Category: News

This is pretty cool.  Our video tribute to Lawrence Lessig was remixed by Brave New Films along with video from Jonathan Zittrain, Craig Newmark, Davis Guggenheim and people at Creative Commons).  Check it out!