May 29th, 2007 by mattl
Something I’ve been thinking about lately - what role should Free Software play in Free Culture?
Who am I? I’m Matt Lee - a comedian, comic book artist and author. I’m also a free software hacker.
Is Free Culture the combination of Free Art and Free Software and some other things? FreeCulture.org and the students of the United States have a golden opportunity to set an example here, by switching to using only Free Software.
A potentially controversial statement, and it should be clear that my views might not represent those of FreeCulture.org.
Some notes came out of the National Conference about Free Software and it was great to see the Free Software Foundation and Defective By Design represented.
Anyway, I thank Nelson and the FreeCulture.org gang for giving me the opportunity to post this. Give me your feedback by email - mattl at gnu dot org or find me on IRC - mattl.
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October 13th, 2006 by Elizabeth Stark
Freeculture.org is pleased to announce the contest winners for our Down With DRM video contest. We had a lot of great entries, and want to thank *all* of the participants for their submissions. They’ve all contributed greatly to raising awareness in the fight against DRM.
And the winners are (in no particular order):
The winners will all receive a Neuros OSD digital video recorder. Thanks again to Neuros for providing our wonderful prize and to Defective By Design for the support!
So check out the videos, rate them, and send them to your friends to help put an end to DRM.
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September 15th, 2006 by Elizabeth Stark
Enter the Down with DRM video contest for a chance to win a Neuros OSD - a portable digital VCR! (Thanks jborn.)
Joining in Oct 3rd - Day Against DRM, Free Culture will select the 5 best anti-DRM video entries and award a Neuros OSD to each creator. DefectiveByDesign.org is also looking to air selected anti-DRM videos on their website during the week of October 3rd, and we want to give them a hand.
Here are the official rules to enter Free Culture’s Down with DRM Video Contest:
- Deadline for submissions: Sunday, October 1 at 11:59pm EDT
- Criteria for video:
- Anti-DRM themed
- Short
- Video, animation, or remix
- Make it catchy — we want these videos to be viral
- Please submit your video to the online video sharing network(s) that you prefer. Here are some examples:
- Please tag your video with “downwithdrm” and “dbdoct3″so that people can search for it.
- Preference will be given to submissions under free content licenses such as Creative Commons BY-SA, BY, PD, or the Free Art license.
- E-mail downwithdrm@freeculture.org with a link to your video by October 1 at 11:59pm EDT.
- Free Culture will select the top 5 entries and award the winners with a Neuros OSD (one per video).
UPDATE: We have announced the winners of the contest!
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