I recently dropped by a meeting put on by NYU's Free Culture chapter — they're the folks who've been staging anti-DRM street demonstrations in front of New York music stores — and was blown away by their energy and creativity. Some of the students involved in the project have produced a great, nine-minute documentary on the Free Culture movement in New York.
A nine minute student documentary of the Free Culture New York Summit held at Columbia University, January 2006. The film explores a new form of student activism, based primarily on and about the Internet. Beginning with the Free Culture demonstration at the Times Square Virgin Megastore, the documentary covers Free Culture members out to educate consumers on alternative forms of music distribution online (archive.org, ccmixter.org, blogs, etc). It continues the discussion with interviews featuring conference participants (Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons, Free Culture students activists). Finally, using cc licenses for distribution and production, the film acts as an example for other young student filmmakers who are interested in alternative copyright licensing.
(Thanks, Fred!)
