... 's rare to find them literally coming together like this, in the Free Culture Forum: Across the planet, people are recognizing ... space to build and coordinate a common agenda for issues surrounding free culture and access to knowledge. ... access to knowledge, on the creation and distribution of art and culture, and other areas. The list of participants is impressive, and includes well-known names ...

The next Bulldog Book Club Meeting will be held Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 3:35 pm, in the Miller Learning Center Jittery Joe’s. We will be reading Free Culture. From Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig (Code; The Future of Ideas) comes Free Culture, an expertly argued, alarming and surprisingly entertaining look at the current copyright wars and the Internet.

... -colonial countries. As time went on they increasingly focused their efforts less on democratizing culture, however, and more on promoting just a few cultural superstars to attract international attention and compete on ... policy formulation to all Brazilians who wish to participate. Here he is describing the process at the recent Free Culture Forum in Barcelona: Over the past few months I have been ...

... of problematic bias in a social scientist. However, a person who believes that software should be free is welcome to recognize that it both fails and succeeds and to ask why. A principled idealist can argue in favor of ... convenience for freedom. My goal, as a social scientist, is to understand why some FLOSS and free culture projects succeed and why many fail. I never take FLOSS's success for ...

... and brings together many interesting speakers involved in Free Software, Free Culture and beyond. After the conference, a number of the people who ... with Lego bricks, is what motivates me and many others to participate in the development of Free/Open source Software, and many other similar activities and ... was completed and version 1.0 of "Free Beer" was published. (The name makes sense ...

... been up nearly two days and travelled for 17 hours. But. I only had one free afternoon and I was determined to use it. Luckily, E was prepared to play host to ... afternoon in Addis my main impression was of a city overflowing with so many people and so much going on. Because this was my only free afternoon I was also determined to do some shopping - which is where E's patience and ability ...