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Recording Industry vs. The People
In UMG Recordings v. Lindor, in response to Ms. Lindor's request for (a) an order clarifying that the Court precludes her from making a motion for attorneys fees, or in the alternative (b) a pre-motion conference in connection with a ...
Recording Industry vs. The People
In Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset, the trial has been scheduled for October 4th. This will be the third trial in the matter, the first verdict having been overturned due to an incorrect jury instruction, the second having been ...
Update on the Google Books Settlement & Reader Privacy
A couple weeks ago the Google Books Settlement fairness hearing took place in New York City, where Judge Denny Chin heard dozens of oral arguments discussing the settlement's implications for competition, copyright law, and privacy. ...
Freein' them PCs
This week, I helped install antivirus and free software for students as part of Florida Free Culture's semiannual Free Your PC event. We got an unusual amount of journalistic attention and, despite that, an unusually low turnout. ...
Notes from Free Culture X
If you were unable to attend the recent gathering, Free Culture X, like myself, the P2P Foundation has linked to some excellent notes from the event. I especially am intrigued by the notes on the Charter for Innovation, Creativity and ...
Free Culture X Conference Workshops notes
An update by Israel Saeta Pérez: (the original has links, and there are more extensive notes in this wiki). “The second day of the Conference was named the “Unconference” and consisted on a series of open workshops proposed by the ...
Free Culture X Conference Workshops notes
The second day of the Conference was named the “Unconference” and consisted on a series of open workshops proposed by the Conference attendees. The list is quite long and impressive, but at each time there were four or more workshops ...
El futuro de los derechos de autor en la era digital: Webcast con ...
image Gabriel Pérez, Presidente del Free Culture@ UPRM, invita a la siguiente actividad: Free Culture @ UPRM te invita a la charla por el distinguido Lawrence Lessig donde se va a discutir los temas derechos de autor, el fair use y el ...
Report from the Washington DC Free Culture X Conference
A report by Israel Saeta Pérez (CC-BY), on the recent free culture conference in Washington DC: (the original article has many more links). “The Free Culture X Conference and Unconference took place the past 13th and 14th of February at ...
Free Culture X Conference notes
The Free Culture X Conference and Unconference took place the past 13th and 14th of February at the George Washington University, in Washington, DC. I had the privilege to attend thanks to a travel grant from the generosity of Google, ...
Student Push for Open Education Meets with Faculty Ambivalence
Student Push for Open Education Meets with Faculty Ambivalence. This weekend, Adi Kamdar and Parker Phinney joined campus activists from around the country at the Students for Free Culture conference here. Mr. ...
A capital weekend
In my last post, I talked about how I went to Washington, DC last Friday. It was a big day. I rode in a limo, an airplane, and a train; I saw snow for the first time; and I almost literally rubbed elbows with a presidential appointee. ...
Proposal: OCW at Dartmouth College
I've been working on this proposal for OpenCourseWare at Dartmouth College to help with my advocacy there. I'm hoping to present it to President Kim after I return to campus in the Spring. I also hope that it will be useful for ...
Tenure and Violence
I'm more than a little hesitant to write about the shootings at Alabama. It sounds like an incident that we can use as an occasion to talk about the horrors of the current academic status system, which too often licenses the worst sorts ...
Mr. Kalilich goes to Washington
Last week, I mentioned that I'd be going to Washington, DC for the weekend to attend Free Culture Conference 2010 with other members of my school's chapter of Students for Free Culture. Well, I'm back, and here's how it went. ...
Wired Campus: Students' push for open education
Parry, M. (2010, February 15). Students' push for open education meets faculty ambivalence. Wired Campus. Retrieved February 16, 2010, from http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Students-Push-for-Open/21261/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en ...
This week in Maker Events
Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar. Wish your event was on the list? Add it to the calendar! Coming up this week: ...
This week in Maker Events
Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar. Wish your event was on the list? Add it to the calendar! Coming up this week: ...
Photo woes
Okay, I can't remember everything I've ever done. Kate gently reminded me about one of the more interesting gifts she brought me during her stay. Remember how I said I was on the cover of an Esperanto magazine but I didn't have a copy ...
Festivals! Conferences!
Just flagging some upcoming events I'll be attending at which I hope to see you and give you one of my new cards. Making Your Media Matter- DC, February 11-12 “Cutting-edge practices for making your media matter” ...
This week in Maker Events
Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar. Wish your event was on the list? Add it to the calendar! Coming up this week: ...
Free Culture X conference on Feb 13
Free Culture X, a conference of Students for Free Culture, will be held February 13th at the George Washington University in Washington, DC Keynote addresses will be given by Harvard Berkman Center co-founder Jonathan Zittrain, ...
Free Culture 102: The Issues
Continuing in the vein of my post from last semester, Free Culture 101, I thought I'd post a follow up post attempting to highlight the most significant issues implicit in the free culture movement. I know that by merely writing this ...
Free Culture Conference 2010
Free Culture Conference 2010.
La experiencia chilena de A2K en Free Culture Conference 2010
El conocimiento es esencial para muchos valores y actividades humanas, incluida la libertad, el ejercicio del poder político y económico, el desarrollo social y personal. Por eso, el movimiento A2K (Acceso al Conocimiento) toma como sus ...
Personal JZ Message / FREECulture X in DC
Yes the rumors are true for only a cnote you can get a personal voicemail message from JZ! Free Culture X, a conference of Students for Free Culture, will be held February 13th at the George Washington University in Washington, ...
Free Culture X
Free Culture X, a conference of Students for Free Culture, will be held February 13th at the George Washington University in Washington, DC Keynote addresses will be given by Harvard Berkman Center co-founder Jonathan Zittrain, ...
Free Culture conference, Washington DC, Feb 13/14
Fred sez, "Students for Free Culture has organized another awesome Free Culture conference on February 13th and 14th in Washington DC and registration is open. Public Knowledge's Gigi Sohn and cyberscholar Jonathan Zittrain will be ...
TCLP 2010-01-31 News
This is news cast 205, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, information about a couple of great upcoming events: Free Culture X and the Southern California Linux Expo. 125x125_8x_generic.gif ...
Three Awesome Events: Transmedia/Hollywood, Free Culture X, and ...
Transmedia, Hollywood: S/Telling the Story. roflcon.png. Transmedia, Hollywood: S/Telling the Story is a one-day public symposium exploring the role of transmedia franchises in today's entertainment industries. The event brings together ...
Numberscruncher: Getting Value from Intellectual Property
Sita Sings the Blues is a great, sad movie about a breakup. The creator, Nina Paley, mixes animation styles and narrators, using the story of the Hindu gods Rama and Sita in the Ramayana. It's beloved by reviewers , but it's not always ...
I'm Officially Switching to Cape Peninsula University of Technology
“We make our decisions. And then our decisions turn around and make us.” — PW Bornum. The world has been such an interesting place lately that I've been posting more about it than I have about my own experience as a doctoral student. ...
Remix Your Weekend: Hot Chip, Kevin Rudolf, Hood 'Net + EMI Sucks
One of my many New Year's Resolutions was to find you great new music, and I feel like this week I've gotten closer to my goal. Though I still haven't found a song I could cry over in some time, I'm pretty excited about this week's ...
Housekeeping: Good bye to Gavin Baker
Gavin Baker joined Open Access News as assistant editor in February 2008, two weeks shy of two years ago. When he started, there was already too much news for me to cover alone. His help was indispensable to the blog and to me ...
Proximos eventos en Innovación Social que te pueden interesar
Lucy Bernholz es la fundadora y presidenta de Blueprint Research & Design, Inc., una consultoría estratégica especializada en la investigación y diseño de programas para fundaciones filantrópicas. ...
Conferences I've got my eyes on
I don't have time to do a full round up of conferences that matter before some of them actually happen. So, here's a quick, dirty and terribly incomplete list of conversations I want to be part of virtually or in person. ...
Nichification and Digital Democracy
In Mobile Communication by Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner (a great introduction to mobile phone scholarship), the authors contrast two social movements facilitated by mobile phones: the 2001 protests in the Philippines which ousted ...
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Image from There I Fixed It. Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, professor and writer. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Neural, Rhizome, Art Asia Pacific, ...
When Lessig was in Disneyland…
ex10_03-04 I had a fun idea for a new Free Culture campaign last spring, but I haven't gotten around to blogging about it until now. LET MY CULTURE GO! Walt Disney: Let my cartoons go! Jack Valenti: Let my music go! ...
ફ્રી કલ્ચર રોડ શૉ – અમદાવાદ
* ગઈકાલે સેપ્ટ, અમદાવાદ ખાતે ફ્રી કલ્ચર રોડ શૉનું આયોજન થયું હતું. અમેરિકાથી આવેલા એલિઝાબેથ, ડીન અને બેન – આ ત્રણેય જણાં આખા ભારતમાં ...
Open access roundup
JISC's strategy for 2010-2012 features openness as a theme. ISI Web of Science now includes almost 500 OA journals, or about 5% of its indexed journals. James Love presented his proposal on the global supply of public goods, ...
Free Culture X
Kevin Donovan is announcing Free Culture X, a conference for students in favor of free culture. The conference will be held Feb. 13-14 in Washington DC From the post: The vision is to bring together student activists and free culture ...
Save the Date! Free Culture X | Feb. 13-14th in DC « Free Culture ...
The conference of Students for Free Culture, hosted at the Berkman Center in 2007, will take place in Washington, DC this coming February: Now, a little more than a year later, Students for Free Culture will be convening the ...
Open access roundup
In a blog post for The Hill , Heather Joseph highlights the recent Nobelists' letter supporting FRPAA. A study presented at a recent workshop examines Spain's participation in E-LIS and finds Spanish authors have more deposits than ...
Blogger Profiles: Caribé, an incurable idealist and cyberactivist ...
Global Voices Online is very active when it comes to covering the way freedom of speech is being threatened in Brazil. Of these threats, the Digital Crimes Bill, known as the Azeredo Bill, and the discussions over the Electoral Reform ...
Free culture charter calls for OA
Participants in the Free Culture Forum (Barcelona, October 29-November 1, 2009) developed this Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge: We are in the midst of a revolution in the way that knowledge and culture are ...
Hey, marketeers, look over here!
The Fedora Marketing project is an intentionally open marketing effort. It is getting some stride in showing how a volunteer contributor community can do marketing amongst the most popular Linux distribution family (Fedora, ...
Bike Route Mapping Party at Virginia Tech
Recently we reported on another mapping project in Blacksburg, but now some Virginia Tech students and free culture enthusiasts have a mapping project of their own — putting all the campus bike facilities and bike routes into Open ...
Estudiantes por una universidad abierta
En esta época se prodigan los “rankings” de universidades. Entre los indicadores que se utilizan para determinar qué universidades son “mejores” y “peores” no aparece jamás el grado de apertura y compromiso social de la universidad. ...
Hey, marketeers, look over here!
The Fedora Marketing project is an intentionally open marketing effort. It is getting some stride in showing how a volunteer contributor community can do marketing amongst the most popular Linux distribution family (Fedora, ...
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