Free Culture @ NYU

Copyright Criminals screening Friday Mar 5

Wednesday, 03. 3. 2010  –  Category: Events & Recaps

This is just a reminder (or a notice) that this Friday, March 5, we will be screening the new documentary “Copyright Criminals” in room 109 of Warren Weaver Hall. This screening is free and open to the public, and – according to FC @ NYU’s president Parker – “the movie is really great. You may [...]

Eben Moglen on freedom in the cloud – Friday, Feb 5

Thursday, 02. 4. 2010  –  Category: Events & Recaps

Eben Moglen will be making the trek downtown from Columbia Law and the Software Freedom Law Center to present a talk called “Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing.” It’s a super interesting topic, and Moglen is a great speaker, so if you can make it, this [...]

Free Culture X!

Wednesday, 02. 3. 2010  –  Category: Events & Recaps

The second Free Culture conference, named Free Culture X (for 2010), is coming up! Details below. If anyone NYC-area is interested in attending, let us know! Free Culture X Conference in Washington D.C., Feb 13-14. Pay what you want: http://bit.ly/fcconf #fcx Free Culture X, a conference of Students for Free Culture, will be held February [...]

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 [...]

Thanks for coming out last night

Tuesday, 09. 23. 2008  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Meetings

To everyone who came out to the meeting last night – thanks! We’re really excited for this upcoming year, and we’re always looking for ideas, links, etc. Just a handful of the things we talked about last night: Introduction (again) to Free Culture – we’re also working on a Free Culture 101 document, so keep [...]

Exciting Things Happening Around NYC

Monday, 09. 22. 2008  –  Category: Events & Recaps

Today is the main event of OneWeb Day! Anyone interested should check it out…especially NYU’ers, since it’s right on campus! Where: Washington Square Park, Teen Plaza (SE part of the park) When: Monday, 9/22/2008, 11:45am to 2pm Who: Moderator Sree Sreenivasan (Columbia Journalism & WNBC-TV), plus Tim Westergren (Pandora), Prof. Lawrence Lessig (Stanford), Craig Newmark [...]

Wikipedia Takes Manhattan!

Thursday, 04. 3. 2008  –  Category: Events & Recaps

On Friday, April 4th, rain or shine, join Free Culture @ NYU and Free Culture @ Columbia on a quest to get the best shots of NYC. Bring your camera and a way to get around town for the biggest scavenger hunt in Free Culture’s history.Each member of the winning team will receive an iPod [...]