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 […]

Educating the next generation

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Here is your chance to watch a lecture by Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law Professor, Free Culture Author, and Creative Commons CEO.

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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), […]

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 […]

The debate about the status of Google’s BookSearch Project (fair use or infringement?) is still raging.
Lessig’s blog has a great comment string discussing the various positions, both moral and juridical that can be taken on this case.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, who is offering a class this Spring called Copyright, Commerce, and Culture (E59.1405, call # […]

Joe Gratz posts a great criticism of the Property Rights Alliance’s “policy brief” regarding HR 1201, the bill set to reform the DMCA so that consumers can legally circumvent DRM in cases where they are excercising their fair use rights. These Property Rights Alliance people don’t really seem to understand fair-use as they think […]

I’ve cleaned up the wiki a bit, adding some parts to the general article on DRM and adding a lot of things to the DRM Protest page. I uploaded high resolution versions of the flyer file so that people can download and print them out without hopefully too much trouble. I also added a link […]

It’s only been a few hours and we already have some press coverage:
Richard Stallman Protests DRM With NYU Students @ Tower Records
Also, it seems that Sony has published its own list of 52 CD’s it released with the XCP2 software, with a special note that two discs (including the Ricky Martin album we found) are […]

Mark Russinovich, the blogger who first publicly disclosed the Sony Rootkit, has written a new post summarizing the current state of affairs. Even though Sony officially recalled the infected discs two weeks ago, there are reports that Sony hasn’t properly been notifying stores about the recall, and many stores still have the discs on […]