All Creative Work Is Derivative
Category: Free Culture
WNYC today at 2pm, 93.9 fm
Smackdown: Open Source or Closed Doors? (click here to listen)
The director of Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley, had to pay $50,000 to use old songs in her animation movie. She then put the movie online for free and turned herself into a free-culture activist. Composer Jaron Lanier was a digital pioneer in the ’90s, but in his new book he claims that open-source is destroying creativity and fostering vicious behavior. They join us to debate the pros and cons of free love in art-making.
Sita Sings the Blues site
More about Jaron Lanier [NY Times]
“The Revolution Will Be Animated”
An excellent new 16-minute documentary by Marine Lormant Sebag about Free Culture, Sita Sings the Blues, and me. Please watch it – it’s good and it explains a lot!
The Revolution Will Be Animated from Marine Lormant Sebag on Vimeo.
Frunch: The Free Culture Lunch #7
This Friday, January 15, 2 pm, Soy & Sake @ 47 7th Ave S (at Commerce St) in New York’s West Village. Open to anyone who is into Free Culture, Free Software, Free Speech, Intellectual Freedom, anti-censorship, etc.
We do this every week now! And it’s more fun than the other kind of “frunch” which is so last year.
Frunch – the Free Culture Lunch #6 (Yes it Really Is 2010 Edition)
This Friday, January 8, 2 pm, Soy & Sake @ 47 7th Ave S (at Commerce St) in New York’s West Village. Open to anyone who is into Free Culture, Free Software, Free Speech, Intellectual Freedom, anti-censorship, etc.
We do this every week now! And it’s more fun than the other kind of “frunch” which is so last year.
Frunch – the Free Culture Lunch #5 (Blue Moon Edition)
This Friday, January 1, 2 pm, Soy & Sake @ 47 7th Ave S (at Commerce St) in New York’s West Village. Open to anyone who is into Free Culture, Free Software, Free Speech, Intellectual Freedom, anti-censorship, etc.
We do this every week now! And it’s more fun than the other kind of “frunch” which is so last year.
And I just realized “Blue Moon” also doesn’t apply, since that would have to be December still, and this is January 1. Oh well. I didn’t want to call it New Year’s Day Edition for some reason – that’s so next year!