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Free Culture
Students for Free Culture:
SFFC Swarthmore
The genesis of the Free Culture movement lies in Lawrence Lessig’s book of the same name, which defined intellectual property reform as a social and cultural issue as well as a legal and commercial one. The movement had no real presence in campus activism groups until 2004, when Nelson Pavlosky and Luke Smith created the Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons.
Students for Free Culture
Students for Free Culture is an international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy.
Selected books on Free Culture:
The cartoon guide to federal spectrum policy
Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : New America Foundation, Spectrum Policy Program, c2004.
Explanation of The Citizen's guide to the airwaves
Publisher: Washington, DC : New America Foundation, 2003.
The information commons
Publisher: New York, NY : Free Expression Policy Project : c2004.
This report describes the history of the information commons, presents examples of online commons that provide new ways to store and deliver information, and concludes with policy recommendations.
The progress of science and useful arts
Publisher: New York, NY : Brennan Center for Justice c2003.
This report examines the ongoing debate concerning copyright control and free expression, with an emphasis on the influence that new technologies have had on this issue.