Free Culture Swarthmore

Apparently the smiley face is copyrighted. And that makes Wal-Mart feel unhappy. Or perhaps .

The University of Pennsylvania is getting a free culture chapter! Rebekah Baglini from Bryn Mawr and myself attended Penn Free Culture’s first meeting yesterday, to show regional support. They have a lot of exciting plans for the next year, including opposing the university’s proposed adoption of Ruckus, a DRM-crippled Windows-only music service, and supporting open access publishing. I also have hopes that they will get a Copynight going in Philadelphia… it’s truly a travesty that Pittsburgh has a Copynight but Philadelphia doesn’t This is one of many exciting developments to come out of the national summit that we had a couple weeks ago… I have every expectation that they will have a thriving chapter come fall!

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