Free Culture Summit 2006
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The FreeCulture.org National Summit 2006 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, was held from Friday, April 21, to Sunday, April 28. Florida Free Culture secretary Elisabeth Strawser-Booth attended.
[edit] Free Culture Documentary
Free Culture promotes alternative artistic licensing for the digital age. Where do you get your music? Often through "piracy" - downloading music off the internet. The internet creates and mobilizes its own space for activism. In New York City, the local Free Culture chapter of NYU held a street demonstration against DRM (digital rights management) at the Virgin Records store.
- To do: find and link documentary video
Copyright law openly caters to the interests of big media. One of the things that needs done is the language needs changed. Instead of "stealing" and "taking" the music, we're "building a richer depository". We own the internet; the internet is its own society. Another thing that needs done is stepping out of the binary, polarized debate so that creators and consumers can meet in the middle to mutual benefit.
The World of Warcraft game was used to deliver dissonant information to China, as a way of bypassing the Great Firewall.
[edit] Speeches and workshops
- Nelson Pavlosky summit speech
- Peter Decherney
- Lawrence Lessig Speech
- Alex Curtis Public Knowledge Speech
- Derek Slater EFF Speech
- Holmes Wilson Downhill Battle Speech
- Hannah Sassaman Prometheus Radio Speech
- Karen Rustad Rob Matthews
- Fred Benenson Creative Commons Art Show
- Elizabeth Stark International Free Culture Movement
- State Of Free Culture
