“Open Art” is a Creative Commons art show presented by Florida Free Culture. The show will be in the Reitz Union Gallery (second floor) from February 19th til March 2nd. There will be a reception on February 22nd from 7:00-9:00pm with refreshments and music. The art is also be available for downloading and sharing online. For more info, visit uf.freeculture.org/openart.

Culture confined by an increasingly extreme intellectual property regime may appear to be culture in appearance, but it is not culture in spirit. The artists exhibited in Open Art understand that culture is not simply passive appreciation and that any attempt to force society to accept it as such should be rejected.

These artists recognize that culture is not and has never been a zero sum game - that as a society, the wider availability of culture can only enrich us. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” Culture should be “free” in the sense that it at once belongs to no one and to everyone.

All art on display is under a Creative Commons license. You are enabled and encouraged to freely copy, share, and, in some cases, create derivative works. Rip mix burn!

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Shouldn’t the way we share research be as advanced as the Internet?

Florida Free Culture and Universities Allied for Essential Medicine present a panel on access to research. Come hear from students, researchers, and librarians on how open access is changing science — and how you can get involved.

The event will take place on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 7 pm in CSE room E221. (The Computer Science & Engineering building is located near the Hub, on Turlington Plaza between Marston Science Library and Turlington Hall.)

For more information, visit the student resource page from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access.

Funded by Student Government.

UPDATE: Links to Facebook event and press release.

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• Thursday, Feb. 8: The International Law Society presents a talk by John W. Kropf, Director of International Privacy Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The talk will be noon at the law school, in Holland Hall rm. 180.
• Thursday, Feb. 8: The Civic Media Center is showing “Beyond the PATRIOT Act,” an episode of the ACLU Freedom Files TV show. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by the ACLU regional chair. The screening will be at 7 pm at the CMC, 1021 W. University Ave.
• Saturday, Feb. 10: Music Law Conference at the law school, all day.

And next week:

• Wednesday through Friday, Feb. 14-16: The Center for Latin American Studies presents its “Indigenous Peoples in Digital Cultures” conference in the Reitz Union.
• Thursday and Friday, Feb. 15-16: The Public Utility Research Center presents its annual conference in the Reitz Union. There will be several panels on telecommunications regulation.

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Our first meeting of the Spring will be on Monday, Jan. 22. We will meet at 6:30 pm in the Johnson Lounge, Reitz Union room 121. We’ll discuss our events this semester — there are a lot, so you’ll want to hear what’s going on. And yes, there will be free food. Yay!

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We will be showing “The Net at Risk,” a recent episode of Bill Moyers’ PBS series Moyers on America, on Monday, Dec. 4 at 6:30 pm in the Orange & Brew, on the ground floor of the Reitz Union. Come join us!

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Thanks to the extraordinary James ‘J.C.’ Jones, we have this short video about our celebration of Software Freedom Day 2006 from September. Watch the video on blip.tv, or download it from archive.org.

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Update: We have photos of the event on Flickr . Thanks to everyone who helped out!

(Re)Create is happening on Monday the 27th and Tuesday the 28th from 10:00am til 4:00pm at the Reitz Union Colonnade. Participate in creating derivative artwork and engaging in the fair use of the media around you. We’ll have tons of media to mash up and glue and scissors to put it together. Come by to engage in remix culture or just to chat about intellectual property law gone mad.

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