Free Culture @ NYU

It behooves you to stop by the FC meeting on Tuesday, March 21st at 5:30pm (the details, as usual: 7th floor, Kimmel center).
We launched the Film REmix Contest right at the outset of spring break, and since we didn’t meet during that week of revelry, we now have a ton to catch up about.
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Free Culture @ NYU is happy to announce its first film remix contest. We’re inviting the public to remix, The Matrix, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter into short parodies. We’ll then screen the parodies at an event at the end of April, as well as host them online. The due date […]

In an article by Chad Smith at the Villager, a community newspaper in New York, I’m quoted a couple of times regarding Free Culture’s position on file sharing. In the article, Free Culture is described as
a group at the university that champions the rights of musicians and those who are pro-file sharing, rallies against big-industry […]

Diebold, the company who threatened to sue Nelson and Luke at Swarthmore in 2003 for posting leaked memos regarding the disfunctionality of Diebold’s voting machines in the 2000 election, is making news again. Nelson, Luke and Lawrence Lessig eventually and sucessfully sued Diebold for attempting to use copyright law to silence free speech and […]

Professor Pete Decherny at the University of Pennsylvania is working on getting a DMCA exemption. Maggie writes on 2nd-Law:

My Professor Peter Decherney is currently assembling his case against the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). Concisely, the DMCA makes it illegal to create digital clips from legally purchased DVDs, because doing so involves circumventing encryption software.
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All of the art from Free Culture @ NYU’s Creative Commons Art show is now online. Check out our page for more info or our brand new flickr.com account. Add us as your friend and see when we upload new photos. I’ll be working on getting the old DRM protest photos on there as well.

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