Active thankfulness
It’s Thanksgiving, and we at FreeCulture.org are taking a minute to give thanks to organizations who advocate for free culture in all its guises. Below are just a few of the many organizations we...
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Interview with Kai Haller
Nelson and I first met Kai at the “Free Culture Phase 2″ event organized at American University in May 2005, where he was one of the organizers working with AU’s Prof. Kathryn Montgomery in the School...
View ArticleWaking up to copyright reform
How do you get more than 1,000 students, faculty, and university visitors to become Free Culture advocates? Easy! Organize a mass serenade. Free Culture’s Franklin & Marshall College chapter did...
View ArticleFree Culture: Who cares?
Like all advocates, we in the free culture movement sometimes struggle with how to talk about our issue so that the broader public can understand it. We also want them to care. We assume that most...
View ArticleFree culture caucus at National Conference on Media Reform
UPDATED: The meeting room is L6 at 6 pm on Saturday. I’m organizing an informal “free culture” caucus at the National Conference on Media Reform this weekend in Memphis, Tenn. Since the conference is...
View ArticleFreeCulture.org signs Philadelphia Consensus Statement
In light of their National Day of Action on April 18, FreeCulture.org has signed Universities Allied for Essential Medicines‘ Philadelphia Consensus Statement. The statement calls on universities to...
View ArticleShare your vision of a free culture future
The movement toward a more free culture has united the strangest assortment of characters. Hip-hop DJs mingle with free software hackers, ivy league lawyers make smalltalk with teenage media activists,...
View ArticleSupporting Free Culture on campus should be a downhill battle
I read a Slashdot article a few moments ago that links to an NYTimes blog post by David Pogue discussing in stark terms a gap in how college students see copyright law when compared to the author. The...
View ArticleA Free Culture Failure: Campus-Based Digital Theft Prevention Passes Congress
Well, crap, guys. How did we let this one slip by? HR 4137, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act just passed Congress and is expected to be signed into law very soon. Inside the bill is the...
View ArticleWhat don't we stand for? And for what do we stand?
This morning, Tim Hwang of Harvard Free Culture posted a provocative critique and vision statement for the future of SFC. Recognizing that “times have changed”, Tim challenges us to consider our role...
View ArticleConference in one week: Travel funding!
WE HAVE LOTS OF MONEY. WE WANT TO FLY YOU TO CALIFORNIA! For our upcoming conference in Berkeley, we’ve been blessed with some sponsors who have given us money to fund students to travel from far away...
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Last.fm: privacy invasion or site of resistance?
Last Friday, TechCrunch posted an article provocatively titled, Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?. Based on a friend-of-a-friend tip, the piece alleged that Last.fm had...
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Free Culture 2008: Post-Mortem
It’s been about six months since the Free Culture 2008 Conference—time flies! Berkeley is happy to report that the conference was a great success. We got some good press, made some great connections,...
View ArticleTim Hwang on the Changing Battlefield for Freedom Online
Tim Hwang has a way of clearly articulating the path forward for Free Culture. Tim, formerly of Harvard Free Culture and now a Berkman Center researcher, recently gave a talk up at the University of...
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Join IssueLab's 'Research Remix' Contest
IssueLab, which seeks to highlight the research that non-profits undertake, is hosting a remix contest. The challenge asks participants to remix one or more of the 300+ Creative Commons licensed...
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Call for Participation: Join the Open University Campaign!
As many of you know, following the Free Culture 2008 Conference, Students for Free Culture began the Open University Campaign – an initiative to increase collaboration, sharing, and openness at the...
View ArticleLet the FCC Hear Your Voice on Student-Led Innovation
On the White House blog Tom Kalil and Aneesh Chopra are drawing attention to the role that students have in creating innovative online services that drive America forward. Noting the technologies and...
View ArticleStop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0
Over the past several years, Creative Commons has increasingly recommended free culture licenses over non-free ones. Now that the drafting process for version 4.0 of their license set is in full gear,...
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