There will be a Q&A session after the screening with Mr. McCleod and the legendary remixer Steve “Steinski” Stein.

Once more with the details:
Free public screening of Copyright Criminals by Kembrew McCleod, with Q&A with McCleod and Steinski
7pm, Friday, March 5
Warren Weaver Hall, rm 109
251 Mercer Street (at 4th)

And for more information about the film: http://www.copyrightcriminals.com/

Hope to see you all there!

Eben Moglen

It’s taking place this Friday, February 5, from 7-9pm in room 109 of Warren Weaver Hall (251 Mercer Street, on the eastern side of Gould Plaza). In case you DO have to miss it, the whole thing will be streamed live on LiveStream.

Thanks to ISOC-NY for putting together this whole shebang and bringing Eben to NYU!

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 13/14th at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Keynote addresses will be given by Harvard Berkman Center co-founder Jonathan Zittrain, the co-founder of the public interest group Public Knowledge, Gigi Sohn, and the director of American University’s Center for Social Media, Pat Aufderheide.

The conference is focused on developing greater openness among institutions of higher education by specifically investigating:

• The politics of open networks
• Global access to knowledge
• Free software
• Open education

Registration is pay-what-you-want, whether that’s $1 or $100. All proceeds will go directly to help projects of Students for Free Culture. The average registration is currently about $25. Gifts (such as signed copies of books by Lawrence Lessig and Henry Jenkins or custom voicemail recordings by Jonathan Zittrain) are awarded for bigger donations. Register now: http://conference.freeculture.org/register/

Hope to see you guys there!

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 see her speak. Details below.

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Thursday November 13: noon – 2:00pm
Columbia University Communications Colloquium
270B IAB (International Affairs Building:
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/tour/11.html
http://www.iserp.columbia.edu/calendar/

In this talk I present a cultural history and political analysis of one of the oldest Internet wars, often referred to as ?Internet vs Scientology,? which in recent times has witnessed a different incarnation in the form of ?Project Chanology,? which is orchestrated by a group called Anonymous who has led a series of online attacks and real world protests against the Church of Scientology. I argue that to understand the significance of these battles and protests, we must examine the culturally antipodal relationship between Scientology and hacker/geek culture. In so doing I will demonstrate how long-standing liberal ideals take cultural root in unexpected ways in the context of these battles and I will use these two cases to reveal important political transformations in Internet/hacker culture between the mid 1990s and today.

Technorati Tags: anon, hackers, GabriellaColeman, Scientology

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 change are precipitated by massive changes in our capacity to communicate. The film argues that the changes wrought by networked, peer distribution are historical on the scale of the printing press and tries to explain why.

For many of you these argument will be familiar. These are strange times, in which to many of us the battle already seems to have been won. Yet governments continue to enact harsh laws expanding the scope of copyright protection and increasing sanctions for its infringement, lawsuits are levied against filesharers, fines imposed and arrests made – all intended to destroy or delay what is an inevitable change in how we look at creative work.

At the same time there has developed a burgeoning area of cultural production outside of both the institution of copyright and the historical channels of distribution, be they television, cinema or music stores. Deep beneath the sand the playing field of culture is shifting, in no small part due to the combined actions of millions of peer produsers.

Alan Toner, one of the peers responsible for the film’s production, will be present for a discussion afterwards, during which there will
also be a demonstration of STF’s footage archive.

http://stealthisfilm.com/Part2/
http://footage.stealthisfilm.com/
http://knowfuture.wordpress.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Film

Sunday, November 16, 2008
7:00pm – 9:00pm

Room 109 Warren Weaver Hall
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY

RSVP on Facebook

Technorati Tags: copyfight, screening, StealThisFilm

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 in copyright regulation is good for business and economic growth. In this talk, Professor Lessig describes the creative and profitable future that culture and industry could realize, if only we gave up IP extremism.

Date: Sun November 9 2008
Time: 6pm – 7pm
Location:
Warren Weaver Hall NYU
251 Mercer Street
Rm 109 New York, NY 10012

Members and public welcome. Enter via W. 4th St. Photo ID required.

• Introduction (again) to Free Culture – we’re also working on a Free Culture 101 document, so keep your eyes peeled for that.
• Sarah Palin’s email account hacked
• Tor and being anonymous on the internet
• History of Copyright
• QuestionCopyright.org asked us for help – if anyone is interested, check out the website!
• Upcoming ideas for the term
• fcnyu delicious.com tag – delicious.com is a social bookmarking site, and if you see anything vaguely related to Free Culture, either ‘tag’ it with ‘fcnyu‘ (without quotes) or email it to maxwell [at] nyu [dot] edu and he’ll post it.

Lastly, just a reminder to check out Wikis Take Manhattan this Saturday, and attend next week’s Creative Commons salon (Tuesday, 9/30 at The Open Planning Project, 7-10) if you’re interested.

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 (craigslist), Dharma Dailey (Ethos Group), City Councilwoman Hon. Gale A. Brewer, John Perry Barlow, Andrew Baron (Rocketboom), SJ Klein (OLPC), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard), others.

What: FREE event

Who should attend: Anyone who likes the internet and its transformative effect on human lives

Purpose of this event: To initiate an environmental movement for the internet. The theme this year: online participation in democracy. The internet is under pressure around the world – inadequate connectivity, censorship, huge digital divides threaten its future. This rally is designed to raise awareness of these issues and to help us focus on how the internet has changed democratic involvement in America.

Also, we have another event upcoming, “Wikis Take Manhattan.” It’s a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City. The event is based on last year’s Wikipedia Takes Manhattan, and has evolved to include StreetsWiki this year as well. For more information, check out http://www.livablestreets.com/projects/wikis_take_manhattan/project-home.

All photos will be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons for inclusion into Wikipedia articles about NYC that need photos. We’ve got hundreds of locations, sites, and things to document for Wikipedia and it should be a really fun day.

YOU MUST REGISTER HERE AND SHOW UP:
NYU
Friday, April 4th
12pm until 7pm
Union Square Whole Foods, Café on the 2nd Floor, Northeast corner.
SUBMIT PHOTOS: 10:30pm-11pm

OR

Columbia
Friday, April 4th
11:30am
The Sundial
(free bagels)

Rules for Participation:

1. Please use one memory card per team.
2. Please start with an empty memory card.
3. Index Cards:
   1. You will be given a handful of index cards
   2. Bring a pen or marker to write with
   3. Please take a “context shot” before every target location
      1. Context shot: photo of you holding the index card (with the location number written on it) in front of the target location
4. List of locations visited:
   1. Please put a check next to each location on the target sheet as you photograph it
5. Helpful tips:
   1. Keep photos in focus and avoid shadows
   2. Show the whole subject in one shot, if possible; avoid cutting off tops of buildings.
   3. Avoid having yourself or your friend in your photos
6. Finished taking pictures?
   1. Columbia Campus:
      1. Please bring your memory card and this handout to the lobby of Lerner Hall to submit your photos.
      2. Lerner is located at Broadway and 115th St. (Note: you should enter from campus, not from Broadway.)
   2. NYU Campus:
      1. Please submit your photos between 10:30pm-11pm at the Union Square Whole Foods, Café on the 2nd Floor, Northeast corner.

Code of conduct:

• Respecting personality rights: You should not make persons on the street the focus of your photographs, without their permission. If someone is in the background, or part of a crowd, or happens to be standing in front of a building in an inconspicuous way, it’s OK. But, you shouldn’t focus on an individual.
• Respecting the rights of artists: Artists have the right to restrict photography of their artwork, such as public statues (this does not apply to architecture, for which there exists a “freedom of panorama” exception under US law). Don’t photograph copyrighted public art (created after 1923). If it is necessary to include public art in the frame to photograph something else, the public art should not be the focus of the photograph.
• Respecting the rights of property owners: Property owners have the right to restrict you from taking a photograph while standing on their property. But, you can take any photograph as long as you are standing on public property. If someone asks you to stop, stop.
• Respecting the police: If the police ask you to stop, stop.

Ending party and prizes:

The ending party will be held in the J.D. Satow Room (5th Floor, Lerner Hall at Columbia) at 11:30 PM. If you do not have a Columbia ID and are not on the list of registered participants, please contact Nick or Boris (phone numbers below) Each member of the first place team will get an iPod Shuffle packed with Creative Commons licensed music. Other prizes include copies of the newly-published Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, generously donated by O’Reilly Media, barnstars and frisbees. Questions? Call: Nick at (610) 348-7428 or Boris at (732) 476-784