January 19th 2007 @ 5pm : Cory Doctorow
January 3, 2007 by Fred
photo by Bart Nagel
On January 19th at 5pm Free Culture @ NYU and NYU ACM are hosting a talk by Cory Doctorow. The event will be at the Courant Institute in Room 109 at 5pm-7pm.
Cory will be speaking on “State of the Copyfight 2007: Looking up, not out of the woods yet.”
Cory co-edits the massively popular blog BoingBoing.net, writes sci-fi novels that are released under Creative Commons licenses, and is a dedicated copyfighter who serves on the board of numerous organizations. Read his bio here or his Wikipedia entry.
The event will be free and open to the public.
January 6th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Awesome! Sad that I didn’t know about this, as I’ve been MIA since Halloween, but still awesome!
January 14th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
[...] FreeCulture NYU, January 19, 5PM: I’m speaking at this public event co-sponsored by FreeCulture NYU and the NYU Association for Computing Machinery, on “State of the Copyfight 2007: Looking up, not out of the woods yet.” No free food at the this one, I think, but probably a better crowd if you need some help configuring Ubuntu. [...]
January 14th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
[...] FreeCulture NYU, January 19, 5PM: I’m speaking at this public event co-sponsored by FreeCulture NYU and the NYU Association for Computing Machinery, on “State of the Copyfight 2007: Looking up, not out of the woods yet.” No free food at the this one, I think, but probably a better crowd if you need some help configuring Ubuntu. [...]
January 15th, 2007 at 1:06 am
[...] FreeCulture NYU, January 19, 5PM: I’m speaking at this public event co-sponsored by FreeCulture NYU and the NYU Association for Computing Machinery, on “State of the Copyfight 2007: Looking up, not out of the woods yet.” No free food at the this one, I think, but probably a better crowd if you need some help configuring Ubuntu. [...]
January 18th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
[...] Here’s the details if you’re interested in attending too. Shoot me an email (top right of my blog) if you’re going. [...]
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
[...] Following up Cory Doctorow, next Wednesday we’ll be hosting Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. [...]
January 31st, 2007 at 10:33 pm
[...] I’ve had the chance to meet Cory at the Google Unbound event, and again at NYU’s Free Culture series. He’s been accurately described as a “walking, talking Wikipedia of digital rights” (as I witnessed at NYU), and he’s a self-described ‘nethead’ (meaning he’s been online for as long as he can remember, and has actually written his books online…for years). [...]
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:56 pm
[...] Through my club, Free Culture @ NYU and my friend Evan Korth’s class Computers And Society at the NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences, I’ve been organizing a series of featuring speakers from the tech world. On January 19th Cory Doctorow (of BoingBoing.net) came and gave a talk on the current state of the copyfight. On Wednesday night, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia spoke about his current projects and search. [...]