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FOSsil Bank Update (26 May 2012)

Chris Sakkas — 2012-05-26T08:37:10

Another week, another update! As always, let me know if there are other
resources I can list on the FOSsil Bank—or you can add them to the wiki
itself!

(I got a bit swamped with work, but I'll publish the Libre wikipedia page
soon)

Libre Resources

   - Juanitos <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:juanitos> are a band
   that produces retro boogy music. It's good fun and you can listen to and
   download it gratis from Jamendo. CC BY or CC BY-SA.
   - Open Library <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:open-library> is a
   metadata project to create a webpage for every book that ever existed. It
   doesn't assert copyright itself, but contributors may have some residual
   rights.
   - NASA Images <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:nasa-images> is a
   collection of public domain images (mostly of space, of course) curated by
   the Internet Archive.
   - The US Government
<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:us-government>is the source of a
tremendous amount of public domain resources, because of
   a great federal law that works produced by an employee of the US Government
   in the course of their duties are in the public domain.
   - The White House
<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:white-house>website has some
photographs, press releases and so on that might be
   useful. To avoid ambiguity about the application of the public domain, it
   is also under CC BY.
   - The CIA World
Factbook<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:cia-world-factbook>is a
detailed description of every country in the world. The Factbook is in
   the public domain.
   - Talis <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:talis> is a private
   company in the innovation business. CC BY.
   - Free Gamer <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:free-gamer> is a blog
   that discusses and reviews FLOSS games. The reviews themselves are CC
   BY-SA.
   - The Comical Ecology of Political
Economy<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:the-comical-ecology-of-political-economy>has
a list of libre games under various licences. The website itself
   appears to be all rights reserved.
   - Libregamewiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:libregamewiki> is
   an impressive database of libre electronic games. The site itself is
   dual-licensed CC BY and GNU FDL.

Proprietary Shareable Resources

   - Catching the
Waves<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/community:catching-the-waves>reviews
gratis and Creative Commons–licensed music. The reviews are under
   CC BY-NC-ND.
   - Repository 66 <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:repository-66> is a
   mashup of the locations of open access repositories with Google Maps. CC
   BY-NC-SA.
   - The Emergency 2.0
Wiki<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:emergency-2-0-wiki>is an
Australian disaster awareness site under CC BY-NC-SA.
   - The unfortunately-named Free Culture
Game<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:the-free-culture-game>is a
simple web game where you attempt to block commercial media from
   brainwashing individuals. CC BY-NC-SA

That's all for this week, folks!

Chris
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Last chance to look over Libre Wikipedia entry beforeI publish

Chris Sakkas — 2012-05-23T21:55:23

Hi folks,

A couple of months ago I was drafting a Wikipedia page for 'libre', and I
finally returned to incorporate the remaining feedback I'd received. I'll
publish it in the next couple of days, but I thought I should give you a
chance to look over it before I do so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sanglorian/sandbox

Feel free to make any edits you like to the article itself, or leave a
comment on the talk page and I'll incorporate it.

Cheers,

Chris

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PETITION: Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research

Timothy Vollmer — 2012-05-21T21:22:13

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/require-free-access-over-internet-scientific-journal-articles-arising-taxpayer-funded-research/wDX82FLQ?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Almost 4000 signatures from just today. Please consider signing if you
haven't already done so.


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Require free access over the Internet to scientific journal articles
arising from taxpayer-funded research.

We believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and
education. Requiring the published results of taxpayer-funded research to
be posted on the Internet in human and machine readable form would provide
access to patients and caregivers, students and their teachers,
researchers, entrepreneurs, and other taxpayers who paid for the research.
Expanding access would speed the research process and increase the return
on our investment in scientific research.

The highly successful Public Access Policy of the National Institutes of
Health proves that this can be done without disrupting the research
process, and we urge President Obama to act now to implement open access
policies for all federal agencies that fund scientific research.
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FOSsil Bank Update for 19 May 2012

Chris Sakkas — 2012-05-19T17:43:44

Hi folks,

Another Saturday, another update. Quite a few entries this time.

If you missed it earlier, there is an RSS feed of new pages on the wiki. You
can get it here.<http://www.feedrinse.com/services/rinse/?rinsedurl=dbefeb94b675595652981093a42324c9>There's
no way to separate new libre entries from new proprietary entries,
unfortunately Wikidot doesn't give us that option.

The FOSsil Bank is a wiki that catalogues libre and proprietary shareable
works (free culture, Creative Commons, open content, open source, free
software, open knowledge, open hardware, etc.). This week, several entries
have been added to the wiki:
New Entries on FOSsil Bank Libre

   - Old Book Art, <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:old-book-art> a
   site that collects scanned images. A number of entities are claiming
   copyright or physical rights holder rights over the images, but the images
   themselves are public domain.
   - Feedback Loops in Game
Design,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:feedback-loops-in-game-design>an
infographic by full-time game designer Daniel Solis. Gratis JPG under
CC
   BY.
   - The Australian Budget
2012-2013,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:australian-budget-2012-2013>along
with commentary. Gratis PDF under CC BY.
   - Wanton Role-Playing
System,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:wanton-role-playing-system>a
version of the respected roleplaying game
   *Over the Edge. *Gratis PDF under the Open Game License.*
   - Art Passions, <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:art-passions> a
   collection of scanned public domain images.
   - WPClipart, <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:wpclipart> a
   collection of public domain clipart, including some scanned images.
   - Karen’s Whimsy,
<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:karen-s-whimsy>a collection of
scanned public domain images.
   - Old Book Illustrations,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:old-book-illustrations>a
collection of scanned public domain images. The site requests that
users
   abide by certain terms of service.
   - Surlalune Fairy
Tales,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:surlalune-fairy-tales>a
collection of scanned public domain images.
   - The Shrouded
Lands,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:the-shrouded-lands>a
collaborative fantasy world being developed by me and some others.
Gratis
   PDF under CC BY-SA.

* The Open Game License isn’t recognised as a free culture licence by
Freedom Defined nor as an open knowledge licence by the Open Knowledge
Foundation.

*Nick Wedig’s Libre Games*

   - Wide Stance <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:wide-stance>, a game
   about repressed homosexuality. Available as a gratis PDF under CC BY.
   - Cardenio’s
Daughter,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:cardenio-s-daughter>a
game about a protagonist switching between stories. Available as a
gratis
   PDF under CC BY-SA.
   - Shakespeare 2985,
<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:shakespeare-2985>perhaps best
described by its author: ‘a science fiction espionage murder
   mystery do-it-yourself alternate reality game about interpreting poetry and
   failing thermal dampeners.’
   - Return to Maniac
Mansion,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:return-to-maniac-mansion>a
horror game based on the LucasArts
   *Maniac Mansion*. Gratis PDF under CC BY.
   - Scrabblenauts, <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:scrabblenauts> a
   game where you control the story by making words out of Scrabble tiles.
   Gratis PDF under CC BY-SA.
   - Crash!/Lanterns of the
Dead,<http://nickwedig.libraryofhighmoon.com/2012/04/game-chef-2012-crash-lanterns-of-the-dead/>a
game described by the author as: “two game[s] in one: a game about a
   crashed astronaut, and a game about an alien culture.” Gratis PDF under CC
   BY.

Proprietary Shareable Works

   - Adapt, <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:adapt> a collection of
   Australian open educational resources for Adaptation Studies. Gratis
   resources under CC BY-NC-SA.
   - Gundam Blackbird,
<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:gundam-blackbird>a hack of story
game darling
   *Lady Blackbird *for the Gundam universe. Gratis PDF under CC BY-NC-SA.
   - Age of Fable, <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:age-of-fable> an
   online choose-your-own-adventure game. Gratis HTML under CC BY-NC (source
   code available).

*Nick Wedig’s Proprietary Shareable Games*

   - Once I Was a
Warrior,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:once-i-was-a-warrior>a
game designed for the author’s brother’s 30th birthday. It’s about
   changing and growing old, and it’s available as a gratis PDF under CC
   BY-NC-SA.
   - Rosalind Wells, Ambassador to
Space,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:rosalind-wells-ambassador-to-space>a
game about a 5-year-old girl who has to solve the problems of alien
   visitors. Gratis PDF under CC BY-NC-SA.

Enjoy!

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In fight over fair use,Georgia State wins over publishers.

Alex Leavitt — 2012-05-14T01:45:59

http://chronicle.com/article/Long-Awaited-Ruling-in/131859/

A federal judge in Atlanta has handed down a long-awaited ruling in a
lawsuit brought by three scholarly publishers against Georgia State
University over its use of copyrighted material in electronic reserves. The
ruling, delivered on Friday, looks mostly like a victory for the
university, finding that only five of 99 alleged copyright infringements
did in fact violate the plaintiffs' copyrights.

Alex

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USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
http://alexleavitt.com
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FOSsil Bank Update for 12 May

Chris Sakkas — 2012-05-12T10:10:38

 Hi folks,

As I mentioned last week, I'll share the works added to the FOSsil Bank
each week on this mailing list. Let me know if this bothers you.

The FOSsil Bank is a wiki that catalogues libre and proprietary shareable
works (free culture, Creative Commons, open content, open source, free
software, open knowledge, open hardware, etc.). This week, several entries
have been added to the wiki:

 New Entries on FOSsil Bank Libre

   -

   The results of the One Page Dungeon Contest
2012<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:one-page-dungeon-contest-2012>are
available for download. They’re dungeons designed for tabletop
   roleplaying games (many are in the style of Dungeons & Dragons, but they’re
   rules-free). Gratis PDFs under CC BY-SA.
   -

   Maki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:maki> is a collection of
   symbols made for the OpenStreetMap project. Each 'thing' has three
   different vector maps based on what resolution it's meant to be displayed
   at (so the most basic 'bike' icon is blocky and simple, while the most
   complicated looks good at a large scale). There are over 70 symbols (in
   three different varieties, for over 220 icons). The licensing is a bit
   confusing - it looks like they're under BSD on one site and CC0 at The Noun
   Project. In any case, they're gratis SVGs.
   -

   You All Meet in a
Tavern<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:you-all-meet-in-a-tavern>is
an adventure for the gratis and libre tabletop RPG
   *Critical! Go Westerly*. Gratis PDF under CC BY-SA.

Non-libre shareable works

   - Tale of Navri <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:tale-of-navri> is an
   adventure game set on a skyship. Gratis PDF under CC BY-NC-SA.
   - The creatively-named website
training.gov.au<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:training-gov-au>is
a cooperative project between federal, state and territory governments
   in Australia. It's a database on vocational education and training. Gratis
   under CC BY-ND.

That's it for another week. Any questions or comments, or anything you'd
like added to the wiki, let me know!


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organizing Free Culture repositories

Jan-Christoph Borchardt — 2012-05-08T09:37:12

We have https://github.com/freeculture
Let me know your usernames so I can add you.


Patrick: regarding Stallman, that's exactly why I work on
http://unhosted.org - whereas many free software people hate on
Javascript, it's actually the solution for free software on the web
because it all runs on your own computer. Hosted "free software" on
the other hand still gives more power to servers - we have to unhost
web apps so the power & logic is at the client, and servers are only
used as stupid, encrypted commodity storage.
Google can not be compared to Github because on Github we don't have
any personal data - everything is open (except the Issues) and
accessible through an open protocol, git. In addition to not covering
any costs, we also don't need to do the work that is maintaining a git
server.


On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius< at >gmail.com> wrote:
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FOSsil Bank weekly update

Chris Sakkas — 2012-05-05T08:08:52

 Hi folks,

I thought a useful thing I could do to raise the profile of the FOSsil Bank
is make weekly updates of what new entries have been added to the wiki. If
these are inappropriate for this mailing list, let me know and I'll stop
making them. I've also made this update on my
blog,<https://livinglibre1.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/fossil-bank-update-for-5-may/>and
have committed to doing it every week (so there'll be new content on
my
blog every week - I promise!)

Anyway, I hope you find this useful!

New Entries on FOSsil Bank *Libre*

   - *In the Shade of the Commons,
*<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:in-the-shade-of-the-commons>a
   collection of articles about bridging the gap between information
   societies. (CC BY-SA; free PDF download)
   - Two works from artist Bill
Brown<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:bill-brown>:
   a hundred pixelated images of New Orleans homes and a hundred pixelated
   images of cameras. (CC BY; free EPS/AI/PNG download)
   - ‘Sharing is
Caring’,<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:sharing-is-caring>a rap
song by Dan Bull that he remixed multiple times, was released this
   week and hit #9 in the UK Independent chart. (CC0; free torrent download or
   for fee download from major music sites)
   - *Lunatics * <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/work:lunatics>is a science
   fiction TV show that’s been in the works for a few years, but some assets
   have been created and are available for people to use. (CC BY-SA; free
   download)

*It’s complicated*

   - David Bollier
<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:david-bollier>produces a website
under CC BY and has written a number of books, at least
   one of which is under a proprietary shareable resource licence. (CC BY, CC
   BY-NC; a mix of free and for fee downloads, hardcopies, etc.)
   - ‘Alphonse Maria Mucha – The Complete
Works’<http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/source:alfonse-maria-mucha-the-complete-works>is
a website with many images from Alfons Mucha’s corpus. It purports to
be
   under CC BY-NC-ND, but in practice most (perhaps all) of the images will
   now be in the public domain (I believe; this is not legal advice). (free
   downloads)


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open position at Creative Commons: Project Coordinator for Science and Data

Timothy Vollmer — 2012-05-02T17:48:34

FYI - thought might be of interest to some on this list.

Full description - http://creativecommons.org/opportunities#scienceanddata


Creative Commons is seeking a Project Coordinator for Science and Data! The
Project Coordinator will organize, coordinate and manage projects related
to data policy and governance and perform research and analysis on data
governance topics across relevant sectors — particularly for science — and
communicate results and recommendations from the project via writing and
related outreach.

We are looking for someone who is experienced in policy analysis,
development and processes, in addition to Open Source Software, Open
Access/Open Data and other Open content projects. A science and/or legal
background with international experience is highly desirable — especially
as the position will be representing Creative Commons at global events in
the Open Data and Open Science communities! See the job posting and apply
at our opportunities
page<http://creativecommons.org/opportunities#scienceanddata>
.

We will stop accepting applications after 11:59 p.m. PDT, May 25, 2012.
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Moving my wiki of shareable and libre content up anotch

Chris Sakkas — 2012-05-02T17:13:17

Hi folks,

For the last two years or so I've been cataloguing libre and shareable
content that I come across on my wiki, the FOSsil Bank (
http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/)

It currently contains almost 500 shareable works, of which almost 300 are
libre (my definition of shareable work is basically: 'under CC BY-NC-ND or
a more liberal licence, or in the public domain' and my definition of libre
is basically: 'under an open knowledge, open source, free culture or free
software licence, or in the public domain'). I might be biased, but I think
it's a great little resource.

But I'm also not sure what to do with it. I'm basically the only person who
contributes to it, and it's gotten to the size where I've added all the
libre content that I (so far) know or care about it. What I'm wondering is
whether you have any ideas of where we could take it from here: how to
raise its profile, how to build up a community around it, and so on.

I think one of the first steps would be to set up a mailing list for people
who are interested in finding more libre and shareable works. I would like
the mailing list to use FLOSS, but I can't host it myself. Is there any
cloud-based FLOSS mailing list service I could use?

Thanks in advance for your feedback, folks,

Chris

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Únete a mi red en LinkedIn

Andrea Fassina a través de LinkedIn — 2012-04-27T07:17:44

LinkedIn
------------




    Andrea Fassina ha solicitado añadirte como contacto en LinkedIn:
  

------------------------------------------

Me gustaría añadirte a mi red profesional en LinkedIn.

Aceptar invitación de Andrea Fassina
http://www.linkedin.com/e/-p95jmw-h1iwt0d1-v/m83X_IYJkSGqprbvms3AecfKk5wUGrWb3t1F/blk/I201505015_130/6lColZJrmZznQNdhjRQnOpBtn9QfmhBt71BoSd1p65Lr6lOfP0PclYRcj0Rc3kNc399bR0Ul5x7pABlbPgSc3kQe3cVejkLrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/?hs=false&tok=2AmZuxv2ZlERc1

Ver invitación de Andrea Fassina
http://www.linkedin.com/e/-p95jmw-h1iwt0d1-v/m83X_IYJkSGqprbvms3AecfKk5wUGrWb3t1F/blk/I201505015_130/c3cNnPkNc3kMdj4McAALqnpPbOYWrSlI/svi/?hs=false&tok=2lhz23pPllERc1

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¿Por qué puede ser una buena idea conectar con Andrea Fassina?

Los contactos de Andrea Fassina podrían serte útiles:

Tras aceptar la invitación de Andrea Fassina, revisa los contactos de Andrea Fassina para ver a quién más conoces y a quién te gustaría que te presentaran. Forjar contactos puede crear oportunidades futuras.

Fight For the Future (behind lots of SOPA blackout stuff) is awesome and wants you to work for them.

Parker Phinney — 2012-04-25T22:41:48

They need a developer and also a campaign coordinator and an executive director.

http://fightforthefuture.org/jobs

These guys seriously rule. Do it. Just do it (tm).

May 4th -- Day Against DRM

Joshua Gay — 2012-04-24T21:10:19

Hi,

May 4th is the Day Against DRM. So far things are looking like they are
going to be pretty awesome. But, we need help in spreading the word and
we want to encourage more people to host an event (of any kind) on the
Day =]  (I know dpic is hosting an event at Hampshire College and Mike
Pagnotti is hosting one at UCF -- thanks!)
 
If you are going to run an event, please let us know
at<mailto:campaigns< at >fsf.org> info< at >defectivebydesign.org
<mailto:info< at >defectivebydesign.org> and also please update our wiki
<http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:DefectiveByDesign/Day_Against_DRM_2012#Events>.
Also, feel free to email us if you have any questions or whatnot.

Some other things you could do to help: 

  * Ask people to Pledge to take action on May 4th
    <https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?gid=28&reset=1>-- and
    give us their location info so we can contact them about local events
  * Put up a banner or widget for Day Against DRM
    <http://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm/banners/> (or make
    your own!)


Josh Gay
Campaigns Manager
Free Software Foundation, FSF.org
Defective By Design, DefectiveByDesign.org
Day Against DRM large banner <http://dayagainstdrm.org/>

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Awesome job (x2)

Ali Sternburg — 2012-04-23T14:53:24

This subject means two things:

(1) Awesome job with the FC summit, and I'm sad I missed out on most of it.
 I skimmed the pad/wiki thing and it looks like a lot got accomplished.  I
look forward to hearing about it!  It was great to meet so many of you.

(2) Awesome job opportunity with Demand Progress that Lessig tweeted (which
might mean it's already been circulated, but I wanted to share just in
case!):

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/leadwriter

http://www.smartrecruiters.com/DemandProgress/721077-lead-writer

Incredible opportunity: looking for a writer

It’s been an incredible year at Demand Progress. When we started telling
folks we needed to stop the Internet censorship bill, they looked at us
like we were crazy. Now the bill is dead forever and SOPA is practically a
household name.

It’s been an exciting run, but now it’s time to take things to an entirely
new level, which is why we’re kicking off an exciting new project to find
the campaigns that our over 1 million members want to work on next. And
we’re looking for someone to lead it.

It’s a pretty incredible job: you’ll be leading a new lab to try to pioneer
innovative ways of thinking about what works in online campaigning. And
because it’s so experimental, it doesn’t require a whole lot of
experience—in fact, not having any preconceptions might be a plus. It’d be
perfect, for example, for a smart kid straight out of college.

Here’s what you do need:

   - excellent and flexible writing skills
   - an eagerness to learn from data
   - lots of energy
   - a commitment to helping everyday people take on the rich and powerful
   - an innovative and creative mind
   - to be a voracious reader, especially of news and tweets

It’d be even better if:

   - you’re willing to live in NYC
   - you’re good at managing volunteers

but those aren’t required.

This is an incredible opportunity for anyone looking to make a splash in
the world of activism—it’s the kind of job I wish I’d had starting out.

If you’re interested, fill out our application
form<http://www.smartrecruiters.com/DemandProgress/721077-lead-writer>.
If it seems too long, don’t worry — almost all the fields are optional. The
really important thing is just the writing assignment toward the end (under
“Additional Information”). Thanks!
 Plus: interns!

Even if you’re not looking for a job, we’re looking for some interns to
help us with this project, especially over the summer. It can be part-time
and located from anywhere, and again, it’ll be an amazing opportunity:
you’ll get to launch entirely new campaigns that we’ll ask our over 1
million members to take action on. If you’re interested, just signup
here<http://www.smartrecruiters.com/DemandProgress/721119-intern>.
Again, most of the questions aren’t required.

Free Culture Summit Logistics

Parker Phinney — 2012-04-21T23:14:26

We just sent an email with summit logistics to registered attendees.
If you didn't get that email, you're not registered! Head over here
and register:
http://freeculturesummit.org/registration/

Then let me know and i'll forward you the logistics.

Remix Without Romance

Ethan — 2012-04-21T15:34:41

I mean article (not book) ...

On Saturday, April 21, 2012, Ethan wrote:

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Ethan — 2012-04-21T15:30:18

I'm curious what y'all think of the argument in this book:

Remix Without Romance: What Free Culture Gets Wrong

"In *Remix Without
Romance<http://connecticutlawreview.org/files/2012/04/3.Joo_.pdf>
*, UC Davis professor of law Thomas W. Joo provides a comprehensive and
convincing critique of free culture scholarship. First, many of the factual
claims made by free culture advocates are incorrect. This is important.
Amongst copyright skeptics, many question statistics about the economic
benefits of copyright or effects of piracy and calls for more empirical
evidence in copyright policy are common. Yet, as Joo demonstrates, many
free culture arguments *lack *such empirical evidence. They may sound
attractive, and they are repeated often, but do not hold up under closer
scrutiny."
more:
http://www.copyhype.com/2012/04/remix-without-romance-what-free-culture-gets-wrong/

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Press the Press: Announcing the FRPAA Day of Action on April 25th! (Right to Research Coalition)

Parker Phinney — 2012-04-21T03:42:50

http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/press-the-press-announcing-the-frpaa-day-of-action.shtml
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I/A note

Parker Phinney — 2012-04-20T21:00:40

from chris Wong: a couple ways SFC people can help out:

* there are audio and video recorders in each room. When you enter a new
session, just check and make sure they are running
* keep an eye on the clock and remind speakers when sessions are coming to
a close. Help keep stuff on schedule.

Wooo!
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Innovate/Activate Today!

Parker Phinney — 2012-04-20T17:49:12

People!

Hello from Sunny Berkeley!

I'm super excited to hang out with everyone.

As a reminder, students attending Innovate/Activate are invited to
attend a pre-conference lunch organized by boalt.org and Students for
Free Culture.  The lunch will take place in Boalt Hall's Goldberg Room
at noon today (in just over an hour).  It might be cutting a it a bit
close to RSVP, but the address is anaenriquez[at]berkeley.edu.

Innovate/Activate gets started with a Keynote by Alexis Ohanian at 2pm
on 2nd floor of Sutardja Dai Hall. Registration starts at 1pm. We're
hoping to have some students around to help out with odds and ends
(running the live stream, etc), so arriving early and volunteering to
lend a hand would be much appreciated. I'll be wearing a white free
culture shirt with a colorful copyleft sign on it. Say hi!

And our summit is Sunday! We'll send out the start time as it gets
closer. We have a solid arsenal of legal pads, markers, post-its, etc
to brainstorm and plan out the next year of Students for Free Culture.
I'm ridiculously excited!

Lunch in an hour and a half!

Danny Piccirillo — 2012-04-20T17:34:20

Who's excited? See y'all soon!