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Free Culture
06/06/2012 @ 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
What? Why? And where?…
What is “free culture”?
The major labels are not the only source of books, music and film. Beyond even the independents, there are artists who are releasing there works in ways akin to software and the GPL.
Why?
Well, why not? And given the increasing reach that the major labels want to have over our lives (by forcing through various pieces of legislation) isn’t the time ripe for a response?
Where?
Where is free culture available? Because you sure as heck are not going to see it in the local shops.
Due to some unexpected events the scope of this talk has been cut drastically you’ll be pleased to hear. I’ll go through my thoughts and opinions on the matters at hand (feel free to be wrong disagree) and show you the various ways you can obtain this media and even help support it.
There will be a feature presentation, so bring yer popcorn!
Key-signing
If you wish for your GPG key to be signed:
- Create a key (well…duh)
- Print out a few copies of your public key’s “fingerprint”
- Bring some primary, government-issued ID (driving license, passport, national ID card)
- Introduce yourself and get signed
(I realise the above is a bit information light, I hope to get a proper listing of the steps done soon)
All for your fun enlightenment and entertainment, all at our usual real-world venue:
Fellows Morton and Clayton54 Canal Street
Nottingham, NG1 7EH
Telephone: 0115 9506795
latitude = 52.948615
longitude = -1.148431
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Food is also served up until 8pm.
Normally we’re up the back, but we may be sat in the (warm) lower bar area. Just look for the Linux mags and gadgets (or ask the friendly bar staff where to find us 🙂 )
Wednesday 06/06/2012:
- 7:30pm: Meet
- 8:00pm: Talks/Questions
All welcome!
Jason
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On this occasion, we got drowned out at the Fellows by some rather noisy and pretentiously poshly dressed revellers. Hence, after a few bites/bytes to eat there, we wandered over to Ye Olde Trip for the much quieter snug area there. We passed by our old haunt The Navigation to find it very LOUDLY haunted and no longer suitable for our meetings…
Thanks to Jason for a very good and informative and thoughtful show. I’d never realized just what has happened to Copyright. A sample of three others in the Trip hadn’t a clue either.
Have we all been subjugated by the popcorn (media) industry out to enslave and “monetized” our very own culture?… Seems that’s very much in progress…
Are people aware enough to refuse to be so stifled? Are we aware enough to forge our own new ‘marketplace’ and promote and support a culture of freedom?
See: Wikipedia Copyright Term How long is that?! For real?!! For fair play? For everything ??!
Very select grouping. Good talk. (And some good beer 🙂 )
Cheers,
Martin
See also: Wikipedia: Copyright
An apt blog comment that I recently stumbled across that is well worth a thoughtful read:
Why games matter to free software and free culture
Some good examples to look up is for the 64k intro from the demoscene world.