In what some are calling an “early Christmas present” the US Copyright Office and Library of Congress have issued 6 new exemptions to the DMCA. Below is a list of the exemptions with my thoughts and attempted explanations underneath each one. Note that I am certainly not a lawyer and this is my opinion as [...]
Newsweek Covers our iTunes Protest
Monday, 11. 20. 2006 – Category: Events & Recaps, Links, Media, News
Brian Braiker at Newsweek covers our recent DRM protest at the Apple store:
Fred Benenson spent a recent drizzly Saturday afternoon with friends in Manhattan wearing yellow hazmat suits. They were in front of the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue, distributing flyers and explaining to passersby why iTunes, Apple’s online music store, “sucks.” The target [...]
Creatve Commons Salon NYC
Tuesday, 11. 14. 2006 – Category: Events & Recaps, Media, Meetings
I’m very excited to announce the second Creative Commons Salon in New York City:
CC Salon is a free, casual monthly get-together focused on conversation, presentations, and performances from people or groups who are developing projects that relate to open content and/or software. Please invite your friends, colleagues, and anyone you know who might [...]
Public Library of Science comes to NYU
Monday, 11. 6. 2006 – Category: Events & Recaps, Links
I’m happy to announce our next event: Gavin Yamey from the Public Library of Science will be joining us next week on the 15th at 6:30pm to give a presentation. We’ve co-sponsored the evening with the Information Law Institute Student Association, who will be providing us a luxurious room at the law school:
Gavin Yamey, Senior [...]
Meeting on Tuesday at 8pm
Monday, 11. 6. 2006 – Category: Meetings
We’ll be having a general meeting Tuesday the 7th at 8pm on the 7th floor of Kimmel. Come for some free Public Library of Science t-shirts and buttons. As usual, old members are new are welcome.
See you then!
Help Creative Commons raise money for their annual fundraiser by checking out the above video. Lawrence Lessig, CC’s CEO writes:
So we’ve launched a hack of the advertising system to try to raise funds for CC a bit differently. This is a new CC video (3 minutes). It’s been Revverized — meaning at the end is [...]
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