Free Culture @ NYU

First Meeting of 2008

Monday, 01. 28. 2008  –  Category: News

Hi There! Just a friendly reminder that Free Culture @ NYU will be meeting tonight. Here’s the info:
Monday, January 28th, 2008
8:30 PM – 10:00 PM
General Meeting in Kimmel Center 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 [...]

Second Students for Free Culture board election debate tomorrow!

Saturday, 12. 1. 2007  –  Category: News

The second Students for Free Culture board member election debate is taking place on IRC tomorrow, Sunday Dec 2, 3PM EST. Specifically the #freeculture channel of irc.freenode.net. (Did I just goof on the nomenclature? I’m a little shaky on the whole IRC thing.)
Missed the first debate? Worry not! It’s available [...]

"Infringement Nation" paper by John Tehranian

Tuesday, 11. 20. 2007  –  Category: Meetings, News

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 [...]

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 and recent net neutrality [...]

Congress Wants to Break NYU's Internet and Kill Your Financial Aid

Monday, 11. 12. 2007  –  Category: News

It’s not often that we have *urgent* news in the Free Culture world, but today we do.Some of you have probably already heard (via news.com / boingboing / slashdot) about the so-called “p2p” bill that House Democrats are trying to push.This bill contains wording that, if passed into law, would jeopardize federal aid [...]

Meeting Monday @ 8:30pm

Sunday, 11. 4. 2007  –  Category: Meetings, News

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 [...]

Free Culture @ NYU Discuss

Tuesday, 10. 2. 2007  –  Category: General, Meetings, News

After the wonderful amount of discussion today we figured it’s time to re-instate a discuss list for Free Culture @ NYU. So click here to join it (apologies for relying on Google, but it’s cheap and easy).
Please sign up and feel free to discuss and post anything related to free culture (@NYU and otherwise) but [...]

Our First Official Meeting in a Room of Our Own

Wednesday, 09. 26. 2007  –  Category: News

Our next meeting will be on:
Tuesday, October 2nd 2007 At 8:30pm at Kimmel, room #909.
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 future plans for the semester. Feel free to come even if we [...]

Room Reservations Oh My

Friday, 09. 21. 2007  –  Category: General, Meetings, News

Through the courageous efforts of Parker, Free Culture @ NYU’s treasurer, we’ve secured room reservations and dates for our general meetings for the entire year. As usual, they’ll be at the Kimmel center, but we’ll have the luxury of our own private space from now on. (No more hassling for chairs in the lounge.) Check [...]

OneWebDay / iCommons 50 Parties ($FREE BEER)

Thursday, 09. 20. 2007  –  Category: News