“Book bonanza,” editorial, Independent Florida Alligator, August 31, 2006.
Hopefully, we won’t have to run a story someday about students facing humongous fines, prison time or a firing squad for illegally downloading a book. But who knows? The music industry has turned plenty of Napster fiends into horrifying cautionary tales. There’s no reason Barnes & Noble couldn’t do the same thing.
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, a UF student group that examines intellectual property and health policy, is holding a teach-in this Thursday, August 31 at 6:30 pm in Hume Hall rm. 119.
“Ruling tells companies hands off orange and blue,” by Kim Fulscher, Gainesville Sun, August 29, 2006.
In a landmark decision, the United States District Court Eastern District for Louisiana ruled last month that universities can protect their school color schemes as trademarks against unlicensed use by companies.
… the new ruling outlines that the simple use of a college’s colors on items, even when the name of the institution is not displayed, violates a trademark, said said Bruce Siegal, senior vice president for Collegiate Licensing Company.
Free Culture meetings for Fall 2006 will be every other Monday at 6:30 pm in the Reitz Union. The first meeting is in room 288/291 (the same room, two numbers); every other meeting is in room 276.
9/25, 6:30 pm, Reitz Union rm. 288/291
10/9, 6:30 pm, Reitz Union rm. 276
10/23, 6:30 pm, Reitz Union rm. 276
11/6, 6:30 pm, Reitz Union rm. 276
11/20, 6:30 pm, Reitz Union rm. 276
12/4, 6:30 pm, Reitz Union rm. 276
(The last date may be cancelled since it’s the last week of classes.)
Come out and join us!
Free Culture had a table at the graduate student orientation on August 14 in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom. We handed out around 115 “Open Access” brochures to new grad students. Hopefully this will help build awareness of open access among future researchers.
Florida Free Culture staff advisor Jordan Wiens, a UF security engineer, was part of a winning team of hackers at Defcon 14 in Las Vegas on August 4-6. Team 1@stplace took first in the Capture the Flag contest. See press release, articles in the Alligator and Gainesville Sun, and this post on Jordan’s blog.
For his victory, Jordan received a black badge that grants free entry to all future Defcon conferences, a leather jacket, and a whole bunch of geek cred. Congratulations!
A front-page story in this Sunday’s Gainesville Sun says Gainesville is considering a city-wide wireless network. Wireless access would be provided from a network based on the city’s traffic lights, and would also serve as a way to synchronize those lights without installing fiber. Currently, public wifi is provided downtown by the Digital Downtown project, which is managed by Alachua County and funded by donations.
“Is wireless Net access citywide on horizon?,” by Jeff Adelson, Gainesville Sun, August 6, 2006.
Ubiquitous wireless Internet access will be “the fundamental infrastructure of the 21st century,” Commissioner Ed Braddy said. Braddy compared the impact publicly accessible wireless Internet will have on future commerce to the changes brought by the federal highway system 50 years ago.
“The question is why - in a university town - we don’t yet have a Wi-Fi cloud that covers the entire community,” he said. “That’s where we need to go.”
Florida Free Culture is a student group at the University of Florida. Our mission is:
We are named for Lawrence Lessig's book, Free Culture, and are a chapter of FreeCulture.org.
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