October 4, 2006
Free film screening: “Alternative Freedom,” Oct. 16
Free film screening - free snacks!
Alternative Freedom
Monday, October 16 at 8 pm
Civic Media Center (1021 W. University Ave.)
Alternative Freedom (2006) is a documentary film that explores copyright and intellectual property laws in digital media.
Includes interviews with:
- DJ Danger Mouse, Grey Album mashup maestro
- Professor Lawrence Lessig, author of Free Culture
- Andrew “Bunnie” Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox
- Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation president
- Jason Schultz, Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney
- Adam “Doseone” Drucker, underground rapper
The screening is free and open to the public. Free snacks and drinks will be provided; feel free to BYOB. Donations will be accepted to support the Civic Media Center.
The CMC is located at 1021 W. University Ave., just three blocks east of campus.
Presented by Florida Free Culture and the Civic Media Center. Sponsored by UF Student Government.
[…] If you happen to find yourself in the Gainsville, Florida area and want to attend a free screening of Alternative Freedom, you’re in luck! Thanks to the University of Florida Free Culture student group president Gavin Baker and his band of merry pranksters, anybody can to check out the documentary that made Lawrence Lessig famous on October 16. Alright, it may not have been the thing that made Larry famous, but it’s still worth your pretty sweet. […]