David Aragon, an editorialist at the Washington Square News, has written an Op/Ed on our Boycott of Regal Cinemas:
The Washington Post pounced on the story. Sejas was cast as the wide-eyed victim, a whimpering child who offered in her defense, “I’ve never been in trouble before.” The police, unsatisfied, reportedly informed Sejas that the penalty [...]
Free Culture 101
Saturday, 09. 8. 2007 – Category: General, Links, Meetings, Meta
Have no idea what we are or what we’re doing? Here are some links for you to get started and read up about who we are and what we do:
FreeCulture.org : This is the “National Organization” as we refer to it. It’s basically a good place to see who is doing what else in the [...]
In what is as close to a blog post as you’re going to get from Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO outlines what will certainly become the company’s official stance on DRM: “Don’t blame us, blame the music industry.” The letter is a worthwhile read, but I’ve excerpted some of the juiciest bits below:
However, a key provision [...]
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 [...]
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 material [...]
In what some are calling an “early Christmas present” the US Copyright Office and Library of Congress have issued 6 new exemptions to the DMCA. Below is a list of the exemptions with my thoughts and attempted explanations underneath each one. Note that I am certainly not a lawyer and this is my opinion as [...]
Newsweek Covers our iTunes Protest
Monday, 11. 20. 2006 – Category: Events & Recaps, Links, Media, News
Brian Braiker at Newsweek covers our recent DRM protest at the Apple store:
Fred Benenson spent a recent drizzly Saturday afternoon with friends in Manhattan wearing yellow hazmat suits. They were in front of the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue, distributing flyers and explaining to passersby why iTunes, Apple’s online music store, “sucks.” The target [...]
Public Library of Science comes to NYU
Monday, 11. 6. 2006 – Category: Events & Recaps, Links
I’m happy to announce our next event: Gavin Yamey from the Public Library of Science will be joining us next week on the 15th at 6:30pm to give a presentation. We’ve co-sponsored the evening with the Information Law Institute Student Association, who will be providing us a luxurious room at the law school:
Gavin Yamey, Senior [...]
Help Creative Commons raise money for their annual fundraiser by checking out the above video. Lawrence Lessig, CC’s CEO writes:
So we’ve launched a hack of the advertising system to try to raise funds for CC a bit differently. This is a new CC video (3 minutes). It’s been Revverized — meaning at the end is [...]
This Week In Tech, one of the most popular podcasts with over 2.5 million downloads a month, recently did a show on IPac, an information-policy action comittee. Jake Fisher, IPac’s executive director has been to a couple of Free Culture @ NYU meetings and talks a lot about IPac’s goals and scope on TWiT 49A. [...]
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