Through the democratizing power of digital technology and the Internet, we can place the tools of creation and distribution, communication and collaboration, teaching and learning into the hands of the common person -- and with a truly active, connected, informed citizenry, injustice and oppression will slowly but surely vanish from the earth.
With pro bono legal representation from EFF and the Stanford Cyberlaw Clinic, they sued Diebold for abusing copyright law to suppress freedom of speech online.
[11] FreeCulture.org began by launching a number of internet campaigns, in an attempt to raise its profile and bring itself to the attention of college students.
These have covered issues ranging from defending artistic freedom (Barbie in a Blender Archived February 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine) to fighting the Induce Act (Save The iPod), from celebrating Creative Commons licenses and the public domain (Undead Art) to opposing business method patents (Cereal Solidarity Archived August 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine).
While these one-shot websites succeeded in attracting attention from the press and encouraged students to get involved, they didn't directly help the local chapters, and the organization now concentrates less on web campaigns than it did in the past.
[13] In 2008, the MIT chapter developed and released YouTomb, a website to track videos removed by DMCA takedown from YouTube.
With the passage of official bylaws, Students for Free Culture now has a clear governance structure which makes it accountable to its chapters.
Practical everyday decisions will be made by the Core team, composed of any students who are members of chapters and meet the attendance requirements.