http://uf.freeculture.org The Free Culture student group at the University of Florida Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:35:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The suit filed by Faulkner Press against a local note-taking company gained national attention when it was picked up by Wired and subsequently linked to by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing. The day after the Alligator covered the issue they were kind enough to include the short version of a ... http://uf.freeculture.org/2008/04/05/responses-to-faulknereinsteins-lawsuit/ The main topic in UF's campus newspaper today was a suit from the software/textbook publisher Faulkner Press against the note-taking service Einstein's Notes. Their article details the situation and highlights that a previous suits was unsuccessful. This issue had been raised in the Fall of 2005 by some professors who felt ... http://uf.freeculture.org/2008/04/02/local-note-taking-company-sued-again/ Slashdot reported today that the 44 claims made in Blackboard's patents have been rejected after reexamintion by the US Patent Office. There is still a period for comment by both Blackboard and the corporation they are suing, called Desire2Learn, which is why this decision is labeled as non-final. The patents granted ... http://uf.freeculture.org/2008/03/29/backboard-patents-close-to-being-revoked/ UF's campus newspaper the Independent Florida Alligator has an interesting Editorial on privacy violations in Tuesday's issue. They chastise the mainstream press for highlighting the privacy breach concerning the Democratic candidates' passport snoopings while ignoring the plentiful and massive security breaches of Joe Gator personal information. They point out that ... http://uf.freeculture.org/2008/03/26/alligator-editorial-on-privacy-protection/ This Tuesday it's time again to meet for CopyNight! Join us for this fun social gathering co-hosted by Florida Free Culture about copyright, art, technology and much more. Tentative topics include the new Adobe DRM, who is trying to sue TurnItIn and all the tangents we can think of. You'll ... http://uf.freeculture.org/2008/03/25/tonight-copynight/ Tomorrow night is our February general meeting. At 6pm we'll be showing the documentary Steal This Film, Part II. It covers the technological and cultural aspects of the copyright wars, and the implications of the internet for copying. Come out to Little Hall and participate in freely ... http://uf.freeculture.org/2008/02/10/february-general-meeting/ It's once again time for Free Your PC and we would like to invite students, staff, faculty and also everybody who doesn't fit into any of those categories to come by next week and have their computers “freed”. If you stop by we will tell you what great software is ... http://uf.freeculture.org/2008/01/30/upcoming-free-your-pc-2/ At our general meeting this Monday at 6.30pm we will be showing the documentary Good Copy Bad Copy which talks about the "the current state of copyright and culture." It is a series of interviews, an hour in total, that shows you what these subjects are to the various parties ... http://uf.freeculture.org/2007/11/18/monday-documentary-good-copy-bad-copy/ This Wednesday it's time again to meet for CopyNight! Join us for this fun social gathering about copyright, art, technology and much more. Not just for students only! What: CopyNight Gainesville When: Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 at 7pm Where: Tim and Terry's (1417 NW 1st Ave.) http://uf.freeculture.org/2007/10/23/wednesday-time-for-copynight/ The head of the Federal Communications Commission has submitted a plan to relax the 1974 media ownership rules, including repealing a rule that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city. Proponents of the deregulation claim that the rules ... http://uf.freeculture.org/2007/10/21/fcc-plans-to-relax-regulations-on-media-ownership/