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David Bollier - “The Struggle to Build a Digital Republic” - NYU 5/18

ISOC-NY welcomes David Bollier to speak at NYU on May 18 2009. David will talk about the themes of his new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press). The book is the first comprehensive history of the “free culture” movement and “sharing economy” that is empowering ordinary people, disrupting markets and changing politics and culture. Bollier will talk about the rise of free and open source software, Creative Commons licenses, the new forms of non-market creativity (Wikipedia, blogs, remix music, videos) as well as fascinating innovations in open science, open education and “open business models.”

• More about the book can be found at the website http://www.viralspiral.cc
• More about Bollier can be found at http://www.bollier.org

Bio

David Bollier is a leading American activist, author, blogger and proponent of “free culture” on the Internet and the commons. He is an editor of Onthecommons.org and Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Bollier is also co-founder of Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C., organization that advocates for the public’s stake in the Internet and copyright law, and the author of Silent Theft, Brand Name Bullies, and four other books. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

• Date: Monday 18 May 2009 - 7pm
• Time 7pm 7
• Location: Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street NYC (SW corner of West 4th) (See note below)

• Note: Use the entrance on the west side since construction blocks the Mercer Street entrance. Must bring ID.

Past meetings

• Webcasts of earlier ISOC-NY events can be found here

• Minutes of the Feb 19 member meeting are yet to be transcribed. Previous minutes are here.