2005-01-30
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Minutes for a Sunday conference call on January 30, 2005 by Andy Scudder
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Free Culture Tour
- The tour will take place daily from March 10 through April 15, and then on weekends afterwards.
- The performance will be 45 minute-1 hour performance that's topical, entertaining, and to the point
- Booking other performance groups / speakers are the responsibility of the hosting group
- Good to have a list of speakers, performers, etc. that could be booked for the events that day
- FreeCulture.org should help each other find artists to help out
- Press release from Colin available by the end of next week
- Internally, we need talking points/ways to pitch the tour to get buy-ins from the other organizations on campus, see Colin's Why Bring Tour to Campus pdf.
Concerns about the actual performance
- Updates on the performance
- A template of activities surrounding the performance will be appearing on the e-mail list, website or wiki...
- People/resources to contact
- Overall Structure
- Live spoken word/music sampling remix
- General introduction/context
- "Idioteque", "Durham Cops" - examples of free speech/political applications of remixing
- Followed by Remix Future, with a remix of CC license piece mixed with music, etc.
- Samples with local voices/pictures
- "More Than Two Sides" song about FC.org issues
- "Language of My Reality" spoken word with images
- End with leading people to FC.org, DHB, etc.
- A template of activities surrounding the performance will be appearing on the e-mail list, website or wiki...
- Main concerns: not topical enough, slightly too political, not participatory
- Incorporating a loop machine to demonstrate live sampling
- Idioteque, Durham Cops will be contextualized so the politicalness is de-emphasized, lead by a more apolitical piece using sampling and spoken word, etc. and then followed up with a more general introduction
- How will someone with no background on these issues react to it?
- Comes form the perspective of someone who doesn't know much about these issues
- People should leave interested and excited with the desire to learn more
- We don't need a salesman for our cause, but we don't want people to walk away with nothing to do
- Colin will distribute pamphlets, Free Culture video
- We don't need a salesman for our cause, but we don't want people to walk away with nothing to do
- People should leave interested and excited with the desire to learn more
- Comes form the perspective of someone who doesn't know much about these issues
Summer Tour?
- Idea: to take it to more commercial venues, get more broad exposure
- Problems: Colin not as available, money/financial support
- We should first find out how to book all of the artists/speakers, etc.
- We need time to work out the logistics
- Overall, a school-/college-centric tour is more appropriate and within our scope
- This tour is more of a way for us to get experience with organizing performances, etc. and may help lead to future tours in the coming semesters
- Look into piggybacking on other tours
- This tour is more of a way for us to get experience with organizing performances, etc. and may help lead to future tours in the coming semesters
Video project
- Recap:
- 30-45 second video explaining what local campuses do, what makes their campus group unique, to demonstrate the
- 5-10 minutes of source material to be cut down to the essential bits
- 30-45 second video explaining what local campuses do, what makes their campus group unique, to demonstrate the
- We have someone who has access to post production tools (who?)
- Could re-use other footage for other purposes in the future, for individual orgs to introduce themselves
Eyes on the Screen
- link
- Try to find a copy locally to show
- We have a member who can digitize a tape for us...
- Distributor said they would go after unauthorized distribution
- EMI still isn't giving them rights to use to some footage even with proper funding
- Our use should be educational in the sense of being part of a discussion on civil rights/liberties and our history
- This is the tip of the iceberg: this is one well-known, important documentary that has been hit with financial issues
- There are many examples of other documentaries that didn't make it because of the prohibitive cost of the problems
IPAC
- Guest Blogging - Post updates to their blog when we start campaigns and have updates on issues
- Ben Li will work with them on this
Next Meeting
Wednesday, February 2, 10 PM EST conference call
- Updates from campuses on Open access
- More on orphaned works: developing text on website for contacting the copyright office