Main Senator

kjm340@nyu.edu

Alternate Senator

Dhvani Parikh

dhvani.parikh@nyu.edu

Conference recap

     - first day: whole bunch of panelists - examples of people using CC, etc

     - 2nd day: unconference/bar camp

     Next 12 months:

          - moving FC forward

          - open university campaign - ex. Harvard

          - open access policy

          - try to get Chapters to raise open access to courseware

Wheeler Declaration

     An open university is one in which

     1. The research the university produces is open access.
     2. The course materials are open educational resources.
     3. The university embraces free software and open standards.
     4. If the university holds patents, it readily licenses them for free software, essential medicines, and the public good.
     5. The university network reflects the open nature of the internet.
          - where "university" includes all parts of the community: students, faculty, administration. 

PIZZA!!! and delicous feed

Free Culture - national organization - by-laws are on wiki

FC is becoming a 401 c 3

     - cohesive look

     - to use to advocate general issues

     - pdfs to pull down

Asheesh

     - web team: document on how to use chapter webspace, improve webteam etc

     - who to talk to at what points

Fred

     - FreeCulture timeline on semantic wiki

     - anybody can add to this

     - Semantic media wiki

Noel Hidalgo (no-neck)

     - what is this movement about?

          - message campaigns

          - staff

          - infrastructure

     - two themes - free & access

     - how do we make a seal of approval? that can be passed along to other campaigns or designs

- access to medicine, IP censorship, moar access 

Consensus - global org not national

Stark's one sentence pitch - ?

John's idea - Provide PDFs, webkits in a box, etc

Structure idea - 

     high level principles, and then how it affects students

     name of free culture - useless name

     people need examples of how it applies in their lives

we need more than one elevator pitch

film major vs comp sci person etc

standing group of people - FC Principles?

consensus needed

bumper stickers and flyers

Form

     - illiterate "medium" (video music metrics)

Content

     - high level vs. practical app

     - on the experience level (ext)

     - principles (int)

Function

     - draw people in ; hooked

Try to get it working internet 2

Safe Harbor DMCA

exit node - academic settings - analyze exite nodes and break the anonymity of tor

could SFFC fund exit nodes? - funnel it through an amazon node

small servers - have a few dedicated exit nodes

     - don't need a whole lot of processing power

     - tor foundation has money now

Suspect Bot

     - media defender

     - make surveillance more costly

Connect by region

     - all campuses in NYC, for example

Server

     - engineered to scrape logs

Tim Hwang:

     2. Fair use

     3. Open Access

     4. Data Portability - who owns the data, and who's not letting you move it?

Asheesh - data portability is not that interesting/we have to control software

two other people that i'm too lazy to type out

Rich Jones - BU FC - lot of legislation coming up (political reaction team) to keep on top of politics

     - technological solutions to p2p - cryptography

Max Salzberg - FC NYU - peers at university

     - disconnect btwn minds in this room - and broader university

     - we overestimate fellow college students technical apritude

     - always be considerate to make this very applicable to more people - this is an important issue

Zachary McCune

     - a lot of students write up notes for classes

     - selling notes - further puts in class divisions in education

     - course assistance - data software to overcome boundaries that are in place

Missed name - punishmyviolation - people document their violations of copyright - collect information in a meaningful and useful way

     - people abuse copyright

     - talk to policymakers, etc

Noel Hidalgo - ah

Missed name - Seattle University- speed geeking

Elizabeth Stark - doesn't agree with TIm - think we are already doing a lot - pick good fights

John Randall - FC@NYU - national org should coral things, even if its pdfs for recruitment events, build awareness in a cohesive way

Luis Height(?) - USC FC - important to give ourselves credit for success done; 

Maio from barcelona - international coordination

- linux was gaining momentum

- little group inside netscape tried it

- lot of tension btwn mozilla/netscape

- netscape got bought by AOL, AOL got more confused than they were before

- ejected mozilla - 2003 - with 3 million dollars

- "mofo" - mozilla foundation

- 2004 - released firefox

- 2005 - had a good enough relationship with google/aol

     - created mozilla corp

     - differentiation is esotric - has to do with us tax law

     - 200 people in mozilla

     - 20 diff countries

     - european arm, japanese, china, etc - different affiliation

     - us 501c3 tax exempt vs tax

UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

     - open source archive of digital art

     - images/paintings of new media

     - Ouija 2000 - internet controlled, robotic, oujia board

rhizome.org - greatest net-art community

     - devloping hybrid taxonomy system for describing works of art

why doesn't a museum acting as an agent in the public interest compensate the artist early on, and shorten the time span that the art needs to be under exclusive control?

     - artist is compensated and work is put out for public use much much sooner

     - museum acting as a broker to the public, acquiring works, giving them away

     - museum earn its renown via collection

     - pilot project in open museum: rip mix burn

          - exhibition of digital art curated at berkeley museum - all digital in some sense

          - two digital artworks from permanent collection, artists were invited to remix

John Phillips

     - applying this to more traditional art forms?

     - open source documentation of street artist in nyc swoon

rhizome.org associated with new Museum

     - Humor

     - Homage

     - Ridicule

     - Virtuosic display

     - Aesthetic ("improvement")

     - Religious

Campbell v. Acuff-Rose (1994) - focused on what the creator actually did with the copyrighted work - transformative

     creative, new meaning, new expression?

     prioitize expression/creativity

sampling = infringment? where did this myth come from?

     -biz markie - let me see u bounce

     - biz markie's version of a song called "alone again"

     - fair use? fair use was nowhere to be found in the discussion about this

next big sampling case - beastie boys / james newton (choir)

     - amount of choir they used was too small to matter

     - fair use was nowhere to be found

sampling case - Notorious B.I.G.

     - title track from "Ready to Die" - Ohio players "singing in the morning"

     - owners of the song sued sean combs

     - no one argued fair use

     - okay to use a few seconds of horns to make a new song?

     - combs dropped the ball/didn't pick up the fight

Jeff Koons - Niagra

     - borrowed Andrea Blanche - gucci sandals

     - blanche sued - federal appeals in ny - focused on transformation

     - allowed to use it becuase he made something "new and different"

Global Lives Project