Thomas Levine <[email protected]> writes: > A free culture party would be awesome. Having it at the law school > atrium would be more awesome except that it's probably too late to > rent it and that it doesn't seem that you can rent it > (http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Sched/roomres.html#TL).
One event at your celebration should be to draw attention to the enclosure of culture by proprietary interests <URL:http://www.unhappybirthday.com/>. Perhaps switch to temporarily taking the copyright ownership of that song seriously, and follow the logic as far as encouraging everyone to take down the details of anyone who attempts or enables others in unauthorised public performance of the work to report them to the copyright authorities. It's very easy to see what's wrong with copyright when it restricts something that's so clearly part of our shared culture. Whenever I've seen Benjamin Mako Hill engage an audience with that, it's always both entertained and opened some eyes to the need for reforming the copyright regime. -- \ “It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of | `\ certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.” | _o__) —Bertrand Russell, _Free Thought and Official Propaganda_, 1928 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
