[FC-discuss] SU Law chapter now official with SBA

[Brian Rowe]

 Seattle University Law Student for Free Culture Officially Recognized by
Student Bar Association

The SU Law Student for Free Culture (SFFC) chapter has been actively
pursuing official status for almost a year. We started recruiting last
spring at the incoming 1L student organization fair and continued the
process throughout this fall. We currently have 15 members and 4 active
board members. This last week we received official status as a student
organization.

This official status is important for three reasons:

First it demonstrates the schools involvement on social justice issues that
are unique to the Information Age.

Second the official status allows us a greater opportunity to voice our
concerns on issues of relevance to legal scholarship and open access.

Third the official status will allow us to use the law school to host forums
or educational events around issues like fair use, privacy and ethics, maybe
even a Continuing Legal Education Seminar.

I would like to give strong thanks to the other founding board members who
spent serious time and effort drafting our charter, our mission statement,
and navigating the politics of the Student Bar Association (SBA).
Anne Marie Marra 2L
Jessica Creager <http://www.jessicacreagerphotography.com/> 2L
Shane Robinson <http://therangelife.blogspot.com/> 3L

Our Official Mission Statement:

Seattle University Law Students for Free Culture aim to place the tools of
creation, distribution, communication and collaboration, teaching and
learning into the hands of everyone through the democratizing power of
digital technology and the Internet.

In promoting a culture of participation, accompanied with such technology, a
new paradigm of creation is possible, where anyone can succeed on their
merit.

Our goals are to:

   - seek a balance of intellectual property rights, where other rights
   of the individual and social policy are not encroached by trends to
   over-expand intellectual property rights.


   - bring attention to how the digital industry ironically clings to
   obsolete modes of distribution through bad legislation, and call out
   repressive legislation that stifles innovation.


   - oppose monitoring technology that prevents users from exercising
   dominion and control over their privately owned hardware, and their own
   intellectual property.


   - seize opportunities presented by the Internet and digital technology
   before such opportunities become irretrievable.

The future is in our hands; we choose to promote a technological and
cultural movement to defend the digital commons.

-- 
Brian Rowe
Brian at freedomforip.org
(206) 335-8577 (Cell)

Access To Justice Technology Principles
www.ATJWeb.org

Freedom for IP
www.FreedomforIP.org
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