| sean finney on 31 Oct 2004 15:39:02 -0000 |
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should be pretty interesting. unfortunately i'll be out of the country, but i figured other plug members might be interested. if you need directions to swarthmore, i can provide them off list. sean ----- Forwarded message from Nelson Pavlosky <npavlos1@swarthmore.edu> ----- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:13:52 -0500 From: Nelson Pavlosky <npavlos1@swarthmore.edu> To: slug@sccs.swarthmore.edu Subject: OT: Free Culture Fest, Nov 8-12 Hey folks, For those of you who don't know, we are having a Free Culture awareness week Nov 8-12, during which we are having some truly amazing speakers and an awesome party! Of the most interest to this list is probably Eben Moglen (Swarthmore '80), lead counsel for the FSF and co-author of the GPL, who is speaking on Monday, but we will also have Mark Hosler of Negativland on Wednesday and Jessica Litman, author of "Digital Copyright", on Friday. I desubcribed from PLUG, could someone forward this to the Philly LUG list? Thanks in advance! The press release for "free culture fest" is included below... --- October 30, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nelson Pavlosky Land: 610.690.5287 Cell: 973.580.7510 npavlos1@swarthmore.edu <mailto:npavlos1@swarthmore.edu> http://swarthmore.freeculture.org ----- *CELEBRATING THE CULTURAL COMMONS */Student group hosts week-long Free Culture Fest to raise awareness of copyright and digital media issues / Swarthmore, PA - Swarthmore College, a liberal-arts institution in suburban Philadelphia, has been/ alma mater/ to countless idealists and activists in its 140-year history. In keeping with this tradition, a loose, non-hierarchical organization of Swarthmore students has formed what it calls "the first new student movement of the twenty-first century." Their organization, Free Culture Swarthmore, is the first club in a growing national organization called FreeCulture.org. According to its charter, FCS is "dedicated to promoting a bottom-up, participatory structure to society and culture" by taking advantage of the democratizing power of the internet and digital technology. This is not just talk. The group's founders, Nelson Pavlosky and Luke Smith, made national headlines when they successfully sued Diebold Corp. in a case that helped protect freedom of speech from excesses of copyright law. More locally, FCS has promoted the open-source Linux operating system, encouraged student artists to place their work under relaxed licenses, held remixing contests to illustrate how old art can engender new, and campaigned against legislation that expands the proprietary-information regime. >From Monday, November 8 to Saturday, November 13, Free Culture Swarthmore will host a series of events to spark discussion of relevant issues on campus and in the wider community. The schedule for this week-long Free Culture Fest follows: ---- _Monday 11/8, 7:30 - 9:00 pm, Science Center 183_ Eben Moglen (Swarthmore '80), professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, will return to Swarthmore as a speaker and veteran of the free culture movement. Prof. Moglen is general counsel to the Free Software Foundation and co-author of the GNU General Public License, a legal document widely used to promote open-source, community-based software development. For more information: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/ _ Tuesday 11/9, 9:30 pm - 12:00 am, Science Center 199 _An evening of movie showings will feature submissions to undeadart.org, a FreeCulture.org project challenging students across the country to remix content from Freely licensed or public domain horror movies. / Night of the Living Dead,/ one of the public domain source movies for the UndeadArt competition, will also be shown. For more information: http://undeadart.org/, http://freeculture.org _Wednesday 11/10, 5:00 - 9:00 pm, Science Center 101_ Mark Hosler, a founding member of the band Negativland, will give a talk entitled "Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance and Negativland." He will be talking about Negativland's history and art, as well as showing short films made by the band. Negativland, in its own words, practices the "art of collage": its work dissects and reassembles the sights and sounds of mass culture to create social commentary. / Rolling Stone/ credits them for "twisted genius...compelling.....parody and satire as a grass roots weapon of consumer resistance." For more information: http://negativland.com/ _Thursday 11/11, 8:00 - 10:00 pm, Science Center 256 _ Experts from Free Culture Swarthmore will hold a workshop on the technical side of remixing, using Swarthmore's state-of-the-art PowerMac G5 computing cluster. Attendees will learn how to create their own work of UndeadArt and submit it to the undeadart.org contest. _Friday 11/12, 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Science Center 183 _Jessica Litman, professor of intellectual property law at Wayne State University and author of/ Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet/, will speak. Prof. Litman co-wrote/ amici curiae/ briefs in the landmark/ Eldred vs. Ashcroft/ and/ A&M vs. Napster/ cases; as the/ New York Law Journal/ puts it, she "...is known in the copyright community as a scholar on the fringe...brilliant and challenging..." For more information: http://www.law.wayne.edu/litman/ _Friday 11/12, 8:00 - 9:00 pm, Science Center 183_ _ _Following Prof. Litman's talk, representatives of Free Culture chapters from various colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area will have a brief meeting. This will afford an opportunity to establish inter-college ties, discuss the week's events, and plan for the future. _ Friday 11/12, 9:00 pm - 1:00 am, Mary Lyon Breakfast Room_ After their meeting, Free Culture Swarthmore will host a party for both Swarthmore students and visitors from other Free Culture chapters. In the spirit of Free Culture, the music will be chosen by the people. Bring your iPod or other MP3 player and help DJ! ---- All the Free Culture Fest events will be open to the public and free of charge. For more information about Swarthmore College: http://swarthmore.edu/ For directions to and maps of campus: http://www.swarthmore.edu/visitors/directions_maps.html /This press release was written by David German on October 24, 2004 and incorporates revisions contributed by the membership of Free Culture Swarthmore. The authors license this release for redistribution, duplication, and reuse for any purpose, including the creation of derivative works, provided only that Free Culture Swarthmore is acknowledged and that the acknowledgment includes the URL/ swarthmore.freeculture.org. #### __ swarthmore linux users' group mailing list [slug@sccs.swarthmore.edu] archives: https://secure.sccs.swarthmore.edu/pipermail/slug info: https://secure.sccs.swarthmore.edu/mailman/listinfo/slug ----- End forwarded message ----- Attachment:
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