Cal Poly Free Culture Club

12/23/2016

Thanks to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for highlighting our Open Locker project on their blog!

Among the ways in which the Electronic Frontier Alliance supports the digital rights movement is amplifying creative grassroots tactics that concerned individuals around the country are using to promote digital civil liberties. By finding ways to demonstrate these principles within their community,…

11/29/2016

Come out this Wednesday at 6pm for a discussion on how we can make textbooks and course materials more affordable for students!

Are you interested in making textbooks and course materials more affordable and accessible for California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) students? Join the Cal Poly Summer Institute this Wednesday at 6pm in the Kennedy Library for a Textbook Affordability Forum!
Please be sure to RSVP at bit.ly/textbook-rsvp – free food is provided for all registered participants!

10/26/2016

The Open Locker is featured in the Kennedy Library this week in celebration of Open Access Week! Come check us out at the top of the second floor staircase next to Julian's!

10/25/2016

We would like to publicly endorse the Electronic Frontier Alliance uniting principles: free expression, security, privacy, creativity, and access to knowledge.

10/24/2016

Interested in making textbooks cheaper for Cal Poly students? Want to help us connect with local musicians and talk to them about open copyright licenses? Message or email us at [email protected] to get involved!

05/16/2016

We added some new content to the Open Locker on Friday, including new music albums, the next Caminandes Llama cartoon, and a couple of podcasts!

04/28/2016

The Open Locker is now live, next to Julian's in the Kennedy Library! Stop by and check out the freely licensed e-books, music, animation, and comics!

03/15/2016

At the SXSW conference, President Obama claimed that we shouldn't take an absolutist view on encryption because the Internet can br used to "spread dangerous messages."

There’s a thread in the Technology section of Reddit right now quoting a part of Obama’s opening speech at SXSW, and in the thread, the discussion makes the point that it sounds when the establishment was afraid of the printing … Continue reading

02/13/2016

A win for free culture.

The Senate voted Thursday to bar permanently state and local governments from taxing access to the Internet, something Congress has prevented repeatedly before but only on a temporary basis.

02/04/2016

Way back in 2011, CGP Grey pointed his brain laser at copyright law. In case you missed it, here is a brief entertainment.
http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/copyright-forever-less-one-day.html

Script The origin of copyright law takes us back to the 1710 and Queen Anne, the Monarch who had just overseen the Unification of England and Scotland into then, brand-new Great Britain. Also on her busy schedule was the Statute of Anne: the very first copyright law. It gave authors control over who…

01/13/2016

Last week's construction of the Open Locker, which will be going up in the Kennedy Library later this quarter!

12/08/2015

This makes me concerned about the accuracy of the evidence introduced in Ross's trial. What do you think?

Shaun W. Bridges, a former U.S. Secret Service agent, was sentenced to nearly six years in prison and agreed to pay $1.1 million for stealing thousands of bitcoin during an investigation into the now-shuttered website Silk Road.