Free Culture @ NYU

Creatve Commons Salon NYC

Saturday, 10. 7. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, General, Media, Meetings

I’m very excited to announce the first ever Creative Commons Salon in New York City. I’ve been working for the last couple of months to get this organized, and happy to invite you to it. CC Salon is a free, casual monthly get-together focused on conversation, presentations, and performances from people or groups who are [...]

Free Culture @ NYU protests DRM at the Apple Store Midtown

Saturday, 09. 30. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Media, News, Photos

Thanks to everyone who came out to our DRM protest at the Apple store today! Defective by Design provided the catchy yellow Hazmat suits and we handed out hundreds of flyers, made lots of friends and spread the word against DRM. Click here for the whole photo set Click here to download the flyer we [...]

Free Culture presents: Down with DRM Video Contest

Saturday, 09. 16. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Media, News

Enter the Down with DRM video contest for a chance to win a Neuros OSD – a portable digital VCR! (Thanks jborn.) Joining in Oct 3rd – Day Against DRM, Free Culture will select the 5 best anti-DRM video entries and award a Neuros OSD to each creator. DefectiveByDesign.org is also looking to air selected [...]

Fred's Talk in Second Life

Tuesday, 05. 16. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Media, Meta, News

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer. I figured I’d post here to let everyone know about my upcoming talk in Second Life. As reported on New World Notes, I’m going to be giving a talk in game about FreeCulture.org, Free Culture @ NYU (our real life protests, art show, and film remix contests), and [...]

Free Culture @ NYU Presents Alternative Freedom at the Pioneer Theater

Monday, 04. 24. 2006  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Media, News

Free Culture @ NYU is happy to announce that it will be bringing Alternative Freedom (click for trailer) to The Pioneer Theater at Two Boots beginning on Thursday, April 27th 2006. Alternative Freedom is a great documentary featuring interviews with Lawrence Lessig, Richard Stallman, and many others from the FLOSS/Free Culture movement. The documentary thoroughly [...]

IPac on TWiT

Tuesday, 04. 18. 2006  –  Category: Links, Media, News

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. [...]

The Columbia Journalist covers our film remix contest

Saturday, 04. 8. 2006  –  Category: Links, Media, News

Inga and I recently sat down with Doree Shafrir, a reporter from Columbia’s Journalism School to discuss our upcoming film remix contest. Doree talked to some lawyers (including Mia @ CC) about our contest and wrote about it in her article: [A]ccording to intellectual property expert Jane Ginsburg, a professor at Columbia Law School, Free [...]

Take a stand against DRM? Get fired from your day job.

Tuesday, 01. 31. 2006  –  Category: Media, News

On January 10th 2006, the Village Voice ran an article called Code Warriors, detailing the efforts of the Free Culture movement, and those of the NYU chapter in particular. The reporter, Carla Blumenkranz, quoted FC co-founder Fred Benenson explaining that our efforts are about “harm reduction”; she noted, quite aptly, that our mission is to [...]

Village Voice writes about Free Culture @ NYU

Wednesday, 01. 11. 2006  –  Category: Links, Media, News, Photos

In case you didn’t hear, Carla Blumenkranz from the Village Voice interviewed Inga and I last month about our club. Check out her excellent article here, and make sure to pick up a copy of the Voice this week. The only correction is that my name isn’t really “Brian” (as the caption of Brian Kennedy’s [...]

Photos from our second demonstration

Thursday, 12. 1. 2005  –  Category: Events & Recaps, Links, Media, News, Photos

Thanks to everyone who came out for our second DRM demonstration! Richard Stallman and his friends from NYFairUse joined us. RMS donned the sacred-sandwich board, we witnessed a domestic disturbance, handed out over 700 flyers, met many interested and shocked consumers and only got a little cold. As Tom mentioned in his earlier post, a [...]