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Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users. 24 Apr 2013 | 03:54 am
A handful of myths have become common defenses of the W3C’s plan for “Encrypted Media Extensions” (EME), a Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) scheme for HTML5, the next version of the markup langua...
After 9 Years of free culture advocacy, Students for Free Culture is now the Free Culture Foundation 23 Apr 2013 | 02:10 am
We are excited to announce the Free Culture Foundation — the new name of the organization formerly known as Students for Free Culture. This change reflects the evolution of the organization over the f...
New Free Culture T-Shirts! Unknown pleasures//Unknown Freedom! 13 Apr 2013 | 03:57 am
Check out the new Free Culture T-Shirts designed by Kirby Bukowski: CC-BY-SA 3.0 CC-BY-SA 3.0 We’re ordering a small batch of t-shirts for the Free Culture X 2013 conference at New York Law Scho...
Register for FCX2013! 6 Mar 2013 | 05:04 am
Students for Free Culture will be having its annual conference at New York Law School on April 20-21st! The Students for Free Culture Conference is an annual gathering of student and non-student activ...
What you can do to promote Open Access 2 Feb 2013 | 01:48 am
. SFC alum and EFF activist, Adi Kamdar, has written a guide for what students can do to promote open access. Adi will be moderating a panel discussion on the future of open access advocacy at thi...
Announcing the Empowermentors Collective: a group for women of color and queer people of color 31 Jan 2013 | 08:51 pm
This has been cross-posted at the Free Software Foundation blog here. The Empowermentors Collective is a new space by and for women of color and queer people of color within free software and free cul...
How to honor Aaron Swartz 27 Jan 2013 | 05:08 am
Rarely does the name of one person, lacking political office or seat of power, echo across the internet so thoroughly as it did in the wake of Aaron Swartz’s death. How was the work of one person reve...
Happy Ada Lovelace Day 17 Oct 2012 | 08:50 am
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a holiday celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. The Free Software Foundation has a fantastic post up by their new campaigns ma...
The Future of Creative Commons: Examining defenses of the NC and ND clauses 20 Sep 2012 | 02:41 am
There's been a lot of geek hype about Mark Tilden's robot toy that came out earlier this year. Wow Wee toys is trying to market Robosapien as hard as they can to make it the next Tickle-Me Elmo, but I...
Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 27 Aug 2012 | 12:02 pm
Over the past several years, Creative Commons has increasingly recommended free culture licenses over non-free ones. Now that the drafting process for version 4.0 of their license set is in full gear,...
