Free Culture @ NYU

OLPC Jam Session

Friday, 02. 15. 2008  –  Category: Events & Recaps, General, Media, Meetings

A number of us have purchased OLPCs in the give one get one program and are interesting in building on it. So we’ve booked a room at ITP and are going to bring our laptops and have fun. We’re also going to talk about making the laptop more manageable as a machine to use everyday [...]

Kicking Off 2008: Freedom of Expression Screening

Monday, 01. 21. 2008  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Media

In cooperation with the Media Education Foundation and La Lutta, Free Culture @ NYU is screening Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property at 9pm on Thursday, January 31. Narrated by Naomi Klein, the film features interviews with Stanford Law’s Lawrence Lessig, Illegal Art Show curator Carrie McLaren, Negativland’s Mark [...]

Meeting Tomorrow @ 8:30pm

Monday, 11. 19. 2007  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Meetings, News

Just a friendly reminder that our next meeting will be Tomorrow at 8:30pm! Monday, November 19th 2007 At 8:30pm at Kimmel, room #903. There will be food. We’ll be discussing the latest and greatest happenings in the world of free culture, creative commons, and free software. We’ll also be discussing HR 4137 , RCRD LBL [...]

Screening of Good Copy Bad Copy with Co-Director + MPAA Q&A Session

Monday, 10. 8. 2007  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Media, Meetings

Good Copy Bad Copy, 2007 In cooperation with Digital Freedom, NYU ACM, Free Culture @ NYU will be hosting the first American screening of the 2007 film Good Copy Bad Copy. The documentary highlights the current state of copyright and culture, and features prominent copyright players such as Girl Talk, Lawrence Lessig, Renaldo Lemos, and [...]

Boycott Regal Cinemas

Wednesday, 08. 8. 2007  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Media, News

Free Culture @ NYU is joining the call for a chain wide boycott of Regal Cinemas over their draconian punishment of a 19 year-old girl caught taping 20 seconds of the Transformers film. We demand that Regal Cinemas drop all charges against Jhannet Sejas, and that the entertainment group issue a full apology to the [...]

Jimmy Wales & Cory Doctorow Media Online @ NowPublic.com

Friday, 02. 2. 2007  –  Category: Events & Recaps, General, Links, Media, News

For any of you Free Culture @ NYU fans who missed the last two talks we sponsored: don’t despair, there is hope. First you should sign up for our e-mail list so you don’t miss any future presentations, and then you should watch the media that has been diligently recorded for us by the kind [...]

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 [...]

Free Culture @ NYU Hosts FreeCulture.org's Open Access Day

Wednesday, 12. 20. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, General, News

From the FreeCulture.org blog: Freeculture.org will be holding an organization-wide Open Access event in NYC on Jan. 13, 2007 from 12-5pm at NYU, exact location TBA. All chapters are invited and encouraged to attend. The event will be free and is open to anyone interested in advocating for Open Access and Free Culture on university [...]

Creative Commons Turns 4! Celebrate at Eyebeam in NYC next Friday!

Friday, 12. 8. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps

Creative Commons Turns Four! Please join us on Friday, December 15, 2006, from 6:30pm until 9:30pm, to celebrate Creative Commons’ birthday! Raise a glass and toast the four years that CC has worked to promote and enable a participatory culture. CC’s big day is being hosted by our good friends at Eyebeam.org. Eyebeam is located [...]