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 [...]
I recently did an interview on Hardfire, a Brooklyn Television show about Libertarian politics and talked about free culture and the copyright issues motivating our movement.
It’s about half an hour and you can watch it here:
I was previously on the show last year talking about bagels and trademark.
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 Hosler, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Creatve Commons Salon NYC
Tuesday, 11. 14. 2006 – Category: Events & Recaps, Media, Meetings
I’m very excited to announce the second Creative Commons Salon in New York City:
CC Salon is a free, casual monthly get-together focused on conversation, presentations, and performances from people or groups who are developing projects that relate to open content and/or software. Please invite your friends, colleagues, and anyone you know who might [...]
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 [...]
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