Schedule

Free Culture X will be held on February 13th and 14th in Washington, D.C.

The schedule below is tentative; speakers and timings are subject to change. We also have a few more speaker announcements to make, so stay tuned.

February 13th

8:00—9:00am
Registration and welcome
Coffee served

9:15am
Introduction
Students for Free Culture

9:30—10:45am (1hr15min)
The Politics of Open Networks
Neutral, open, competitive—which characteristics should we promote in our networks? Is regulation the appropriate course? How do university networks fit in, and what’s happening on the Hill?

Moderator: Michael Nelson, Visiting Professor / Georgetown Communication, Culture and Technology

Panelists
Steve Worona, Director of Policy and Networking Programs / EDUCAUSE
Chris Riley, Policy Counsel / Free Press
Timothy B. Lee, Member / Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University
Zachary Katz, Deputy Chief, Office of Strategic Policy & Planning Analysis / Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

10:50—11:20pm (30 min)
The Floating Public Domain: Fair Use and How to Use It
Copyright law contains a remarkably flexible and adaptable escape hatch from ownership rights, designed specifically for creators of new culture. It creates a “floating” public domain for currently copyrighted material, and it permits remixes, mashups, sampling, critique and parody. Dormant for decades and disparaged by large content companies, it’s back and college students are in the vanguard of reviving it.  Pat Aufderheide, a fair use expert, walks us through the basics of fair use and shows how it affects academic integrity (no-cheating) codes, homework assignments, and what gets posted and doesn’t on Blackboard and other electronic course platforms. Finally she shows how you can stand up for fair use in classes, on campus, on Facebook and YouTube.

Pat Aufderheide, Director / American University Center for Social Media

11:30—12:45pm (1hr15min)
Open Access and Access to Knowledge
Knowledge is essential for so many human activities and values, including freedom, the exercise of political power, and economic, social and personal development. The A2K (Access to Knowledge) movement takes concerns with copyright law and other regulations that affect knowledge and places them within an understandable social need and policy platform: access to knowledge goods.

Moderator: Heather Joseph, Executive Director / SPARC

Panelists
Nick Shockey, Director of Student Advocay / SPARC
Claudio Ruiz, President / Derechos Digitales Derechos Digitales
Sherwin Sly, Deputy Legal Director / Public Knowledge

12:45—1:45pm (1hr)
Lunch (BYOB—bring your own burrito)

1:45—2:15pm (45 min)
Keynote: Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge
Gigi Sohn is president and co-founder of the public interest and technology group Public Knowledge. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center, and a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Faculty of Law. She has been an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.

2:30—3:45pm (1hr15min)
Open Educational Resources
Educational paradigms are changing. The Internet has profoundly altered the ways in which information is accessed and shared. One of the most exciting new trends is the growth of open educational resources (OER): free, authoritative educational resources that can be easily accessed, shared, and modified by anyone at any time.

Moderator: Kevin Donovan, Board of Directors / Students for Free Culture

Panelists
Eric Frank, Founder / Flat World Knowledge
Garin Fons, Open Education Specialist / Open.Michigan, University of Michigan
Timothy Vollmer, Open Policy Fellow / ccLearn
Steve Anderson, Director, Media Arts & Practice / USC

4:00–4:15pm (15 min)
Notes on unconference and workshops

4:15–5:15pm (1hr)
Keynote: Jonathan Zittrain, Berkman Center
Jonathan Zittrain is Professor of Law at Harvard and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is the author of The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It and co-editor of Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education.

8:00pm
Party TBA
Music and kicking it

February 14th

Unconference and workshops

To see last year’s schedule, click here.

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