absolutely disagree--students and academia in this country and globally have a long history of great activism and creative output
tj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crosbie Fitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization inparticular'" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 6:52 PM Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] FreeCulture.org is now Students for Free Culture >I would have thought "Artists for Free Culture" would have been better. > > Or even "Free Citizens for Free Culture" > > I would suspect that the popular conception of a student is a passive > receptacles for knowledge, only expected to start doing anything > significantly productive/creative until after they've ceased being a > student. > > The last thing a passive receptacle needs is the freedom to publish copies > or derivatives. People will assume students are just after broader > educational exemptions for using the library photocopier. > > So 'Students for Free Culture' comes across as if it was "Couch Potatoes > for > Free Culture". > > At worst "Students can't afford much, so we should get the world's culture > free of charge. Thanks." > > The best light it can be put in is "Typically militant students having the > luxury of being able to agitate against cultural oppression of the masses" > > What's so special about a student? > > That's what I want to know. > > If you say 'many people showed up who were not aware that we were a > student > organization', perhaps instead of concluding that you need to strengthen > the > student angle, you could have concluded that you should ditch the student > angle (even if students do constitute the key demographic most able to > perceive the corruption in copyright and patent). > > The last thing a body that champions cultural freedom should be is > exclusive. > > If only FreeCulture.org was now 'Everyone for Free Culture' > > "We found people were confused when we said it was a student organisation, > so we've stopped saying that. We now just say it's an open and egalitarian > organisation that welcomes everyone interested in promoting cultural > freedom" > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
