Archive:2005-01-30

Minutes for a Sunday conference call on January 30, 2005 by Andy Scudder

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.


 * 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

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

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
 * 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
 * Orphan works RFC