Free Culture @ NYU

Educating the next generation

Apologies for the short notice (not so short if you’re on our e-mail list) but we’ll be meeting tomorrow at 7pm at the 7th floor of Kimmel, which is on Washington Square South between La Guardia and Thompson street.
See you then!
Fred

I’m very excited to announce the first ever Creative Commons Salon in New York City. I’ve been working for the last couple of months to get this organized, and happy to invite you to it.
CC Salon is a free, casual monthly get-together focused on conversation, presentations, and performances from people or groups [...]

On Saturday, at 3pm Free Culture @ NYU in collaboration with DefectiveByDesign.org will be protesting DRM and the iTunes Music Store at the Apple Store in Midtown Manhattan, which is at 59th St. and 5th Ave.
We’ll be meeting at 2:30 at the fountain across the store, near the North West corner of 58th Street and [...]

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 [...]

We’d like to thank everyone who stopped by our table to check us out and write down their e-mail on Thursday! The club fair was a huge sucess for us, and we ended up giving away mostly everything we had on the table. Here’s a photo of myself and Olga manning it early on:

We’ll be [...]

We’re going to be talking about copyright, technology, and the state of the current digital revolution. We’ll also be talking about campaigns and events we can plan for this year. Last year we had real successes, USA Today and Village voice wrote features about our protests and events, we held an art show, and presented [...]

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.
There are [...]

We didn’t have a meeting last week, so I know that you all are likely in a state of pretty intense withdrawal. Luckliy, there is going to be one this upcoming Tuesday, Feb 21st at 5pm on the 7th floor of Kimmel–but you knew that.
A few teasers for what we’ll be discussing Tuesday:
1. Our [...]

Two announcements. First is that Free Culture @ NYU will be meeting Tuesday February 7th at 5pm on the 7th floor of Kimmel. Note that our meeting times have previously been at 7, we are now holding them at 5pm. We’ll be discussing the submissions for our ccArt Show and current news updates. See [...]