Free Culture @ NYU

Have no idea what we are or what we’re doing? Here are some links for you to get started and read up about who we are and what we do:

• FreeCulture.org : This is the “National Organization” as we refer to it. It’s basically a good place to see who is doing what else in the Free Culture world. I’m on the board, but it’s just a title — local chapters are really where the action is at.
• Free Culture Chapters Around the World : See all the other schools where chapters are located.
• FreeCulture.org has a discussion e-mail list, and an announcements list.If you’re looking to debate and talk about Free Culture and these issues on campus, the discussion list is probably the best place in the world for that. Sign up for the announcements list as it’s a good place to learn about Free Culture news before it hits the media.
• Creative Commons, EFF, The Free Software Foundation, and Public Knowledge are the big institutional players in our world, and many people working in the free culture movement either work with them, for them, or around them. Check out their sites for more information about what they do.

More readings, and blogs after the Jump!
Some Readings:

These are all short articles that you should be familiar with if you’re getting into this world (they’re all free to download and share):

(in vague chronological order)

• John Perry Barlow. The Economy of Ideas. 2.03 WIRED 84 (March 1994)
• Samuelson, Pam “The Copyright Grab”
• Boyle, Jamie “The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain”
• Moglen, Eben “Dotcommunist Manifesto”
  
• Docotorw, Cory “DRM Talk @ Micrsoft”
  
• Stallman, Richard “Free Software, Free Society”
  

Things happen quick in this world (though, as a lawyer I once knew likes to say, “There’s never an emergency in copyright.”) so the best place to read about news is usually blogs.

• Slashdot
• BoingBoing
• Lessig Blog
• IPac Blog
• EFF DeepLinks
• Against Monopoly
• Creative Commons Blog
• The William Patry Copyright Blog
• Tech Dirt

The best way to read all of these blogs is to use a RSS reader. I recommend Google’s Reader, but you can also use Bloglines, or the reader in Safari.

This list is in now ways complete, so please add your suggestions in the comments. Thanks!

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