Free C ulture Free C ulture Forum

March 23, 2006 11:30 am - 2:30 pm 450 Dodge Hall, Northeastern University

PROGRAM

Welcome Dani Capalbo NU Student, Class of 2010

Edward A. Warro Dean of Libraries

Introduction of Panelists Marcus Breen Communication Studies

Panelists Derek Slater Nelson Pavlosky Will Wakeling Bios Additional Resources

Lawrence Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's The World Wide Web holds many examples of projects whose intent is to facilitate Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman the sharing of ideas, scholarly research and creative works. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Professor Lessig represented web site operator (http://creativecommons.org/) is a nonprofit organization that Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny offers flexible licenses for original works; creators may choose from a range Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. He has won numerous awards, including the Free of protections and freedoms. Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and Creative Commons Education (http://creativecommons.org/education/) helps with online discourse online." Professor Lessig is the author of Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas publishing of educational materials. Links to sites dedicated to the sharing of education- (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He chairs the Creative Commons related materials include MIT Open Courseware (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html), which project and serves on the board of the Foundation, the Electronic Frontier incorporates “selected course notes, assignments, and syllabi from MIT courses,” and Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. Professor Lessig earned Berklee Shares (http://www.berkleeshares.com/), a collection of free music lessons from a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Berklee College of Music. philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale. Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace. Connexions (http://cnx.org/) offers a collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of free software tools while providing an environment for “collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web.” Derek Derek Slater is an Activist. He helps craft and communicate the Electronic Frontier Another source of software is the Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org/), Foundation (EFF) message through its newsletter and website. Having interned for EFF which is dedicated to “promoting computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and twice before, Derek joined the staff after graduating from Harvard College in January 2006. redistribute computer programs.” He was the first undergraduate to be named a student fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School where he co-authored several papers about Textbook Revolution (http://textbookrevolution.org/), the brainchild of Northeastern University digital media and copyright law. Derek has also interned for Creative Commons and the student Jason Turgeon, is a collection of free online textbooks and educational tools licensed Samuelson Clinic for Law, Technology, and Public Policy. Along with writing for EFF's blog, for use under Creative Commons licenses. he tracks developments in digital media at his blog, A Copyfighter's Musings. Major efforts to promote the sharing of scholarly material are represented by Public Library of Science (http://www.plos.org,) “a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians Nelson committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource,” and the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org/), whose Nelson Pavlosky is an undergraduate at Swarthmore College, where he is majoring in mission is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly philosophy. As a founder of both the student organization FreeCulture.org and its first journals, “thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.” It aims to systematically campus chapter, Free Culture Swarthmore, Nelson has been involved in the "free culture" provide journal level information, article level information, access to full text of articles, and movement since shortly after the term was coined. He made international headlines in 2003 simplified integration with other services. as a plaintiff in OPG v. Diebold, a case which set an important precedent protecting freedom of speech from abuse of copyright law. When he is not engaged in activism, he likes to play SPARC (http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.html), the Scholarly Publishing and Academic guitar, ride his bike, and eat fruit, but not simultaneously. Resources Coalition, is an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations. Concerned about market dysfunctions in the scholarly communication system, SPARC focuses on “enhancing broad and cost-effective access to peer-reviewed scholarship.” Will SPARC is a co-sponsor of Create Change (http://www.createchange.org/home.html), an Will Wakeling is the Associate Dean of Collections and Technical Services at Northeastern alliance of faculty and librarians that encourages the academic community to involve University. He is an academic librarian with 30 years of experience in the UK and the US itself in efforts to reclaim scholarly communication for scholars and researchers. building library collections and negotiating with publishers. He is currently organizing an American Library Association forum on Publisher-Vendor-Library Relations and is actively involved in the development of Northeastern's Institutional Repository.

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The free culture movement has generated a number of nonprofit organizations, many of them founded by students. A forum exploring freedom of information, copyright reform, artistic freedom and open access issues. Free Culture (http://freeculture.org/), named after the book Free Culture by Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig, was launched at Swarthmore College in 2004, with the goal of getting peers involved in the free culture movement. It currently includes dozens of chapters at colleges and universities worldwide.

Public Knowledge (http://www.publicknowledge.org/) is a Washington, DC based advocacy group dedicated to “fortifying and defending a vibrant information commons.” PROGRAM COMMITTEE

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is a nonprofit group of lawyers, technologists, and others dedicated to confronting “cutting-edge issues defending free Dani Capalbo Julie Jersyk speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today.” Christopher Budnick Marisa Hudspeth

The online conversation about issues related to free culture is ongoing in such venues as Maria Carpenter Patricia Murphy Open Source Radio (http://www.radioopensource.org/index.php), Christopher Lydon’s Jessie Goldbas Rosemary Krol program which leverages radio and the web to “extend open-source ideas, … deeper into politics, culture, media and the rebuilding of civil society,” and Derek Slater’s blog, A Louvans Charlot Matt Trimarchi Copyfighter’s Musings (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cmusings/), which he describes as Debbie Pennino “a place to discuss current copyright/internet law issues.” Theresa Parise

SPONSORS Intellectual Property Society Department of Communication Studies WRBB Radio Music Entertainment and Industry Students Association (MEISA)

SPECIAL THANKS Jason Sho Green Louvans Charlot Ryan Sciaino Dustin Boyer