Thanks to everyone who came out to our meeting with James Boyle on Wednesday. He really enjoyed our group and loved all of the questions and participation. More speakers and talks are in the works (with bigger rooms and more food).
Here are some Free Culture type events in NYC happening this week that you might [...]
Enter the Down with DRM video contest for a chance to win a Neuros OSD - a portable digital VCR! (Thanks jborn.)
Joining in Oct 3rd - Day Against DRM, Free Culture will select the 5 best anti-DRM video entries and award a Neuros OSD to each creator. DefectiveByDesign.org is also looking to air selected anti-DRM [...]
I hope everyone is enjoying their summer. I figured I’d post here to let everyone know about my upcoming talk in Second Life. As reported on New World Notes, I’m going to be giving a talk in game about FreeCulture.org, Free Culture @ NYU (our real life protests, art show, and film remix contests), [...]
Free Culture @ NYU is happy to announce that it will be bringing Alternative Freedom (click for trailer) to The Pioneer Theater at Two Boots beginning on Thursday, April 27th 2006. Alternative Freedom is a great documentary featuring interviews with Lawrence Lessig, Richard Stallman, and many others from the FLOSS/Free Culture movement. The documentary thoroughly [...]
The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, in association with The Humanities Council at NYU present a weeklong symposium beginning April 28th on Fair Use. Comedies of Fair U$e : A Search for Comity in the Intellectual Property Wars.
Guests and Speakers include : Lawrence Lessig (who’s that again?), Susan Meiselas, Joy Garnett, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Hey all,
I hope everyone is having a great holiday season, whether reveling in the
embraces of your long-missed family members, or carefully avoiding them
until they return your car keys and let you drive back to your “real
home”.
Now let me tell you, Free Culture @ NYU has not spent its winter break
sleeping in until 3pm, eating discounted [...]
Thanks to everyone who came out for our second DRM demonstration! Richard Stallman and his friends from NYFairUse joined us. RMS donned the sacred-sandwich board, we witnessed a domestic disturbance, handed out over 700 flyers, met many interested and shocked consumers and only got a little cold. As Tom mentioned in his earlier post, a [...]
Its official. Our next DRM demonstration is on Wednesday, November 30th 2005 at Tower Records at 7pm on East 4th Street and Broadway in New York City. Check out the wiki that we’ve set up here for our protests for the flyer and more information. Here’s a preview of our new flyer that mentions [...]