[FC-discuss] [FC-Discuss] Universities and free content

[Fred Benenson]

The only reason I'm currently "attributing" it to FC @ NYU is because I've
brought up the hit list idea many many times on this list before and while
people sounded excited, it didn't really get anywhere.

However, at a recent FC @ NYU meeting I had many people agree to put in a
couple hours to get the project done over the next semester or so, so I
figured we'd just take the reigns and go from there.

So I'm not in this for the attribution -- I just want to get it done, and
now that there's renewed interest on the national level, I'm happy to head
it up. I'm going to create a wiki entry on the FreeCulture.org wiki (FC @
NYU wiki's spam / content ratio was debilitating high so it's dead now) soon
and post the link here.

The big things we want to get clear about are:

1) Student copyright policy
  What rights do students have to their work? Moreover, are they allowed to
freely license it?

2) p2p filesharing policy
   How willing is the university to play ball with RIAA's extortionist
tactics? Do they readily give up student information, or ban the student
from the network? 3 strikes? 1 strike? Do they offer services to students
who are sued? What is the party line about the copious amounts of file
sharing that is obviously going on on their campuses?

3) Privacy / Free Speech stuff
  Is running Tor legal? Can you protest easily?

4) Open Access
  How receptive are the librarians / academics to open access publishing?
This is a hard thing to quantify, but perhaps you guys have some better
ideas.


Ok, will get this up soon.


F


On 10/1/07, Conor Schaefer <conor.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Interesting: such a move would shift the focus of the citation aspect of
> most free licenses away from FC at NYU and more onto FC.org in general, no?
> I'm neither disapproving of this myself, nor implying that Fred might do
> so... I just find it an intriguing issue, given the content of this
> listserv!
>
> Of course it could be hosted on FC.org and still credited to FC at NYU, but
> wikiship means authorship would be a tricky business.
>
> Just enjoying the game, my friends....
>
> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Fred Benenson wrote:
>
>    Indeed, but couching it with enough context is what makes an even bigger
> splash.
>
> It's also a matter of timing on our side -- we have a lot of events this
> semester so we have to use our time wisely together.
>
> We'll probably be picking universities in the next week or two ...
>
>  In the time before it's "released", I urge you to work on it in some
> collaborative medium like a wiki.  I would think it's okay if that work
> happens in public, since you can "publish" a version independent of the
> wiki and call that the first published version.
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
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