Geeks vs. Artists
One of the criticisms of the free culture movement in general has been that there are far too many academics and geeks talking about the potential perils of overreaching control over information, and...
View Article“You Have to Know Who Has Your Stuff”
I am Andy Scudder, a rising sophomore at the Unversity of Evansville, where I have been working to organize a FreeCulture.org chapter. One of my friends at school got a shiny, brand-new Nikon D70 as a...
View ArticleA child of free culture
You could say that I grew up with free culture, or that free culture grew up along with me. Free culture as a coherent movement is young, although you could say that its roots go back to the beginning...
View ArticleThe spirit of public libraries in free culture
I love public libraries. As a kid, I spent most of my lazy Saturday afternoons inside one of the various branches of our library system, delighted at the idea that, wherever I looked, there would be...
View ArticleOffical FreeCulture.org T-shirts Now on Sale
If you’ll excuse the blatant self-promotion, we’d like to let you know that you can support FreeCulture.org by buying one of our snazzy new t-shirts for only $20 shipped in the US and Canada, or $27...
View ArticleAu revoir
Elizabeth may get a chance to sneak in one last post from Defcon — if she doesn’t get hacked — but I’ll go ahead and wind things down. Thanks to Larry for having us, and thanks to you readers for...
View ArticleFree the Encyclopedia!
As I work through the list of ten things that will be free, the order that I go in has no special meaning. Even so, it should not be surprising that the first thing I’ll discuss is the encyclopedia,...
View ArticleFree the Curriculum!
The second thing that will be free is a complete curriculum (in all languages) from Kindergarten through the University level. There are several projects underway to make this a reality, including our...
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Where to start?
Hi. Larry has graciously asked me to guest post for him for the next week. We actually didn’t talk on the phone. We did what I most often do with Larry which was e-mail. Given how long I have known him...
View Articleso……..
a few thoughts vis a vis some of the comments. I don’t believe we live in a world now in which it is either the corporate investment in artistic works that then get distributed versus the individual or...
View Articleaugust
The comments have been reallly interesting. I love the Warhol Campbell Soup example. I wonder if Campbell’s would sue him today. doubt it. in fact that is what is always so fascinating. the amount of...
View ArticleBack to Blog – Who Controls the Internet?
Most happy to be here. Mostly, but not entirely, I’ll talk this week about Who Controls the Internet. If you’ve already read the book, I’d love to hear any comments or feedback. The book can be...
View ArticleIs ICANN a Hobbit? On “unregulation.”
Jack at I were at the Markle Foundation in New York today to speak about the book, and as is so often the case, ICANN and domain name governance came up. Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, until recently the United...
View ArticleWhat does China Want?
Today I’m scheduled to meet with Dr. Xiong Chengyu, who is one of the personal advisors to Chinese President Hu Jintao for internet & media issues. He is in town to meet with the National Committee...
View ArticleOne Internet or Many?
One theme in the book is that an evolving balkanization of the internet is often driven by consumer preference. A good example is the suprising decline in the use of the English language on the Web....
View ArticleChatrooms from the 1980s
My first experience using a chatroom was in 1988. Some group in Toronto, Canada, set up something called the “Free Access Network,” or FAN. It wasn’t really the internet: it was all dialup, with...
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On Piracy
When I was in my teens my brother David and I ran what was then called a pirate bulletin board. We had at the time three computers, an Apple IIgs, a IBM 286, and a Mac we borrowed from school, and we...
View ArticleThe dot-xxx debacle
The dot xxx debate has been back in the news recently, and what I find unendingly puzzling is the sides taken. From first principles, you’d except groups who want it to be harder to get pornography on...
View ArticleNetwork Neutrality redux.
So I’ve been in a debate with Christopher Yoo over at legal affairs on the topic of Network Neutrality – Here’s a Snippet: A lot of the difference in Chris and my own views stems from how we think the...
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