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Freeing Culture:
Ending Information
Classism



Brian Rowe J.D.
Adjunct Professor
University of Washington Information School
Seattle University Law
DigitalRightsNorthwest.org
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Information is power. But like all
power, there are those who want
to keep it for themselves.

- Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, Aaron Swartz
Background
The Issue
/=
Art By Margaret Organ-Kean ARR
Art By SimonP Wikimedia CC BY SA
$150,000 * 10 =

   $1.5 Million
The Solutions
Take Action:
Sign a Pledge to Open Access
CapetownDeclaration.org
2007
Create / Remix Art and Culture
and Free the Works
Support Artist & Authors
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience

We need to take information, wherever it is
stored, make our copies and share them
with the world. ...We need to download
scientific journals and upload them to file
sharing networks. We need to fight for
Guerilla Open Access.

- Aaron Swartz
s.
Civil Disobedience
Join Us:

DigitalRightsNW.org

    facebook.com/groups/451899028175529/



Brian@BrianRowe.org

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