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[adnan hadzi <a.hadzi AT gold.ac.uk>]

the workshop at goldsmiths college on the first of june initiates a 
society "liquidculture" at goldsmiths college see 
http://www.liquidculture.info and as such aims to participate in the 
freeculture.org movement. so yes, liquidculture.info is a "chapter"...

adnan

Edward Griffith-Jones wrote:

> If any Free Culture groups did start up, we could give them the code 
> to Remix Reading, so they could start up their own local remixing 
> projects. At the moment, we are planning Remix Brighton. When we roll 
> that out, it will be very easy for other people to do the same in 
> their own areas. However, remix projects need local people to maintain 
> it/do events - Maybe we could tie in Free Culture Groups (if any form) 
> with local remix projects in the UK?
>
> Edward
>
> Rufus Pollock wrote:
>
> > As many on the list may know a grassroots group called Free Culture
> > started up in the US a year ago (http://www.freeculture.org/). They're
> > student run and have been very successful at organizing activism around
> > copyright issues and in doing interesting projects at the intersection
> > of culture, art and the law.
> >
> > Activity has also been growing here in the UK (for example
> > remixreading,the recent musiccommons event, another upcoming event at
> > Goldsmiths, as well all the interest around the Creative Archive). This
> > has led several people (many of them on this list) to suggest the
> > setting up of a Free Culture group here in the UK (an idea, in fact
> > first mooted a year ago but never acted upon). This group would, I
> > assume, be linked back to the Free Culture group in the US (which is now
> > international) but autonomous in most major respects. It would also
> > follow the US model of having a limited central organization with
> > individual 'chapters' based say at Universities, linked back that.
> >
> > Is there anyone who would be interested in helping start such a group
> > here in the UK? What other comments are there on this idea? All feedback
> > would be welcome.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rufus
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