Archive for January, 2006

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

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 January 31, 2006Inga

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 […]

ccArt Show 2006

Saturday, January 28th, 2006 January 28, 2006Fred

Just a reminder… We’re still accepting submissions for our Creative Commons art show on March 1st. Please check out our working wiki for more specific information, or just e-mail us (FreeCultureNYU at gmail dot com) to get in contact or to submit your work — we’d love to have your work (of any kind, photography, […]

DCMA Exemptions - Request for Comments

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 January 25, 2006rafi

The US Copyright Office is publicly soliciting comments to help them understand how DCMA interferes with fair use. They are accepting comments through Feb. 2, although they state that they are looking for comments that provide additional facts beyond the ones already accepted.
There may still be an opportunity to have professors, librarians, and administrators […]

Site Updates…

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 Fred

I’ve been fiddling with this blog (and kind of hacking it into a CMS really) and have added a couple of things. First, there are now Pages on the upper left, where you’ll see links to our executive board,media coverage, and upcoming events.
I’ve also added a forum for our humble blog. This will hopefully be […]

Free Culture @ NYU’s First Meeting of Spring ‘06

Monday, January 23rd, 2006 January 23, 2006Fred

We’ll be meeting at 7pm at Kimmel (Wash Sq. South) on the 7th floor on Tuesday Jan 24th.
At 8 we’ll be migrating to Swifts (E. 4th Street b/w Bowery and Lafayette) for some CopyNight action.

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Village Voice writes about Free Culture @ NYU

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 January 11, 2006Fred

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 […]

I will Pledge not to buy DRM CDs..

Monday, January 9th, 2006 January 9, 2006Fred

Elizabeth Stark and I have started a pledge not to buy DRM CDs. It got picked up by BoingBoing and totally exploded with signatures. We were only shooting for 500 signatures, but now we’re well over 1700 and still going strong. As far as I can tell, we have the most successful pledge […]

Art Show Planning…

Monday, January 2nd, 2006 January 2, 2006Fred

Inga mentioned this in our “Spring Agenda” post, but I figured it deserved its own post and a link to the wiki I’m working on. Free Culture @ NYU is hosting a Creative Commons licensed Art Show on March 1st. Please send submissions to our e-mail address (freecultureNYU [at] gmail [dot] com) and we’ll get […]


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