2005-03-21
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Reitz Union Room 287 21 March 2005
Call to Order
Attendance
Current Projects
- City Commission Questionnaire
Discuss
- SG Runoff elections
- Orphan Works Comment Period
- MGM v. Grokster
- Lessig & Symposium at Emory University
Prioritization of Goals
- Lessig to come talk
- Open forum on ICARUS
- Fighting mandatory Napster
- Norman Hall CIRCA – Archiv.org, Magnatune, and Flickr
- "Free My PC"?
- Advocating open-file formats
- Advocating alternative OS
- Advocating web standards
- Advocating CC licensing
- Public access to University Presses of Florida
- Online acccess to SG, University, City and County documents
- Getting UF Webmail source
- Project Gutenberg
- Radio Station
- Alligator to release itself under CC
- Music Law conference
- Free Culture Day
- Film Screenings
- Tetris Competition
- Karaoke Night
SG Funding
Adjournment
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Florida Free Culture Minutes Reitz Union Room 287 21 March 2005
President Gavin Baker called the meeting to order at 6:10 pm
Attendance: Kenny, Ryan, Christian Ramirez, Clint Harris, Ashley Wills, Jordan Wiens, Pedro Alcocer, Gavin Baker, Greg Haines
Current Projects: The City Commission Questionnaire has been sent out. Responses are to be posted on the Florida Free Culture website.
Discuss: Remember to vote in the SG runoff elections Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
March 22 SG is swearing in the new senators.
Orphan Works Comment period ends this Friday at 5pm. They asked for two things in the responses: personal stories of problems using orphaned works and possible solutions. Lessig’s solution is paying $1/year to retain the copyright, but most of these solutions require legislative action. Even if you do not have a personal story, send a letter to state that it is a problem so that the issue is not dropped. Go to Orphanworks.org to submit a comment and view a link to the notice of inquiry.
MGM v. Grokster is going in front of the Supreme Court on March 29th. It could rule that P2P filesharing is illegal. This could go against the Betamax decision that there is no secondary liability for manufacturers if there are substantial uses that do not infringe on copyrights. Pedro volunteered to make fliers that would refer to the FFC website and Greg agreed to make a short synopsis of the case to be posted there for the public.
The Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium is being held in October at Emory University with Lessig as the main speaker. It’s targeted at academics rather than activism and has a cap of 200 people. Registration is $115/person and could be paid for through SG along with half our travel expenses.
Prioritization of Goals “Free My PC��? planned for during the Weeks of Welcome. Need flyers, power, tent, demonstration. Firefox, Thunderbird, Clam AV, and McAffee all to be put on the computers. Set FFC as the homepage. Main topic of discussion for the next meeting.
Ryan suggested a concert with only CC artists. FFC could collaborate with other organizations to get CC artists into their regular concert series.
North lawn projector of free screenings or music videos to catch passersby. We could show movies like Outfoxed and show blank screen where Fox owns the footage. We could show Night of the Living Dead with an alternative soundtrack, alternative scenes voted on by the audience, or with Theatre Strike Force.
Karaoke Night to discuss the statutory licensing involved which ended up being a compromise between songwriters and recording interests.
Need recruitment for over the summer months to catch incoming freshmen.
Jordan suggested creating a database of CC licensed student papers. This could help prevent plagiarism by having the papers monitored by the Turnitin service.
No focus on city, county, and state affairs for next semester. Issues include access to public records, open file formats, online public television, and compliance to website standards for government sites. Issues can be taken back up as group grows.
SG Funding Need a preliminary report for SG because it takes eight weeks to process.
Meeting adjourned at 7:50 pm.
