As usual. it really depends on what you think the spirit of Free Culture is. A few things to throw out there:
- CASH Music is indeed a very cool project. You all should get involved somehow. - I'm continuing to see steady progress in open education, open science, and open data to some extent. - Academics are finally starting to gather empirical data about the copyright debate. Some examples: DiCola<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2199058>, Karaganis <http://piracy.americanassembly.org/the-report/> and Karaganis<http://americanassembly.org/project/copy-culture-us-and-germany> et al, Lauinger<http://seclab.ccs.neu.edu/publications/ndss2013clickonomics.pdf> et al, Lerner<http://www.analysisgroup.com/uploadedFiles/Publishing/Articles/Lerner_Fall2011_Copyright_Policy_VC_Investments.pdf> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]>wrote: > Great post, Aditi! > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Aditi Rajaram <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > 1. What are some cool, free culture esque projects going on right now? > > CASH Music hits a sweet spot for me at the intersection of music and > tech: "CASH Music is a nonprofit organization that builds open source > tools for musicians." > http://cashmusic.org/ > > I really like their "Tweet-for-Track" tool. The basic premise is that > fans can download a song for the social cost of tweeting a link to > their followers. > https://github.com/cashmusic/Tweet-for-Track > > I'm also really excited that both Mozilla/Firefox and Canonical/Ubuntu > are working on building free/open mobile software. This has been an > area of considerable frustration for me, particularly after Nokia > abandoned the MeeGo operating system. > > > 2. Who do you guys think are some cool people working on FC stuff? I'm > > looking less for the Lessig type answer and more for cutting > > edge/up-and-comers. > > Lately, I've been most excited by the work of archivists, librarians, > and some of the scholars affiliated with the "digital humanities." > While these folks might not be embedded in the same > copyfighter/freeculture discourses that we're familiar with, they are > dedicated to preserving and growing a public commons. > > This is pretty broad, but on the more activist side, you might look at > the Archive Team website. They are a loose network of DIY archivists > with big harddrives and lots of bandwidth who try to mirror entire > commercial sites (like Geocities or Yahoo! Video) before their parent > companies take them off-line. > http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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