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Meeting Notes from 10/20

Aditi — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:44:44 +0000

can be found here:
http://www.evernote.com/pub/aditi/fc#1ba5f0c0-58b7-4827-85d5-325589b56e48

Also, if you look through the rest of the notes there, I have really sketchy notes from the Free Culture conference! Thanks for coming out this past Monday guys, and hopefully we’ll see you again soon.

Thanks for coming out last night

Aditi — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:06:30 +0000

To everyone who came out to the meeting last night – thanks! We’re really excited for this upcoming year, and we’re always looking for ideas, links, etc. Just a handful of the things we talked about last night:

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.

Meeting Tonight (Sept 22)

Aditi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:39:24 +0000

There’s a meeting tonight – Monday, September 22, at 8pm in Kimmel 908. See you guys there!

Meeting Tonight

Aditi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:21:18 +0000

Join us tonight in Kimmel 908 at 8pm for our first Free Culture meeting! As mentioned before, pizza will be served. We’re going to start off with a short introduction to Free Culture, discuss how to stay updated with FC even if you can’t attend all the meetings, talk about our plans for this term, and wrap up with some current events.

For those interested, there’s a Free Culture conference this upcoming Columbus Day weekend. It’s going to be held October 11-12, at UC Berkeley. For more details check out http://conference.freeculture.org.

Also, if you missed Clubfest, pictures below! Hope to see you guys tonight!

For more pictures, check out our flickr here.

Clubfest 08!

Aditi — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:54:36 +0000

Hey guys,

Thanks to everyone for coming out to Clubfest! We hope to see you all this Monday, 8pm in Kimmel 908 – pizza will be served. Welcome to all of our new members!

OLPC Jam Session

Fred — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:19:04 +0000

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 for adults — you’ll be able to learn how to hack your OLPC and install XFCE (a lightweight GUI), Ubuntu, and take advantage of its unique hardware configurations.

This session will also be for those people who are interested in learning more about the OLPC in general, and what they can expect if they’re expecting a special delivery. Come with a jump drive, and of course if you have one — your OLPC.

Here’s the info for those of you who can’t be bothered to read non bolded sentences:

NYU OLPC Jam Session
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
12pm-5pm
721 Broadway, 4th Floor
Room 442

Please RSVP here (registration required) here. If you are not NYU and have not registered by Saturday AM, we will not be able to accommodate you.

Having an OLPC is not a requirement but please come prepared to do work and learn.

"Infringement Nation" paper by John Tehranian

Fred — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:25:38 +0000

As we discussed in our meeting tonight, the recent symposium “Infringement Nation” by John Tehranian brings up a lot of great copyright issues. Among them, and this is certainly much broader than just copyright, is the distance between our societal norms and the relevant laws. He estimates that if he were held liable to the fullest extent for all of his various and harmless infringements, his bill at the end of a year would be in the 10 figure range. (Incidentally, Tim Wu explored the same topic, separation of norms and laws, in an excellent series called American Lawbreaking on Slate last month.)

Tehranian’s piece also goes into some questionable copyright legislation and the march towards Panopticonian technologies (his word!) in the hands of media holders. It’s a good, short read.

Ars Technica has a good article summarizing the piece, but for the real meat, download the PDF of the paper itself.

I might start posting the “minutes” of the meetings here, because a lot of things come up that it’d be nice to have the links to. Anybody care to sound off on that idea?

Meeting Tomorrow @ 8:30pm

Fred — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:58:20 +0000

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 and recent net neutrality flare ups and our plans to Table Tisch about a Creative Commons film contest we’ll be running in the spring.
Feel free to come even if we haven�t seen you in a while, or if you�ve never been before!

Remember, you can find information about our meetings for the rest of the year here, or subscribe to our Google calendar here:

See you on tomorrow at 8:30!

Meeting Monday @ 8:30pm

Fred — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:33:43 +0000

Just a friendly reminder that our next meeting will be on:

Monday, November 5th 2007
At 8:30pm at Kimmel, room #907.
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 our university hit list, recent media exposure, our plans for an iPhone hacking session.

Feel free to come even if we haven’t seen you in a while, or if you’ve never been before!

Remember, you can find information about our meetings for the rest of the year here, or subscribe to our Google calendar here:

See you on tomorrow at 8:30!

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

Fred — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:46:16 +0000

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 Dan Glickman.

We’re especially excited to announce that immediately following the screening, we’ll be hosting a question and answer session with the film’s award-winning Danish co-director, Henrik Moltke and Fritz Attaway, the MPAA’s Executive VP and Special Policy Advisor. If you’re at all interested in these issues, or want to meet a director working in free culture, or even just want to meet someone from the MPAA, you should absolutely come! The film is a wonderful introduction to the topics that Free Culture @ NYU deals in and this screening will be a fantastic opportunity to learn more about what we’re working towards.

Good Copy Bad Copy Screening
Followed by Q&A with Co-Director Henrik Moltke and Fritz Attaway, MPAA
Tuesday, October 16th 2007
9:15pm – 11:15pm
NYU’s Courant Institute
251 Mercer Street b/w Bleecker and W. 4th
Room #109
Free and Open to the Public (bring ID if non-NYU)