Free Culture Swarthmore

Blizzard tries to stop someone from selling an unofficial game guide.

Is this a legitimate derivative work?
Or is it infringing upon copyright?

(and why is Blizzard suing under the DMCA?)

We will be screening Star Wars Revelations at 10pm on Friday, March 24th, in Science Center 101. Why? Because it’s a fan-produced film that is arguably better than George Lucas’s last three attempts, despite only having a budget of $20,000. Its special effects were produced in an open-source collaborative model, by a “scattered group of artists around the world, working on different platforms and pieced together in post-production.” It was distributed entirely through the internet.

Perhaps most importantly, we can show it to as many people as we want without getting a nasty-gram from the MPAA, unlike many mainstream movies on this campus. How cool is that?

Since Star Wars: Revelations itself is only 47 minutes long, we may also show other Star Wars videos, including some Star Wars Kid remixes (apologies to the poor kid), “Troops” - a Cops parody, the “trailer” for “American Jedi,” and perhaps Pizza Delivery Jedi, a film produced by Florida Free Culture member J.C. Jones. Long live fanfic!