Free Culture groups popping up on college campuses

College students are forming Free Culture groups to educate their peers on the dangers of IICA and other overbroad copyright law. Wired has it covered here:

Students at a dozen colleges around the country are organizing to teach their peers about the consequences of overly broad copyright law, hoping to prevent creative freedom from being stifled.

They are forming Free Culture groups on campuses to explain copyright law to fellow students. Stressing its importance for culture and society, the group says copyright law is being abused. To illustrate their point, the groups hold remixing contests, promote open-source software and rally against legislation like the Induce Act, which would hold technology companies liable for encouraging people to infringe copyrights.
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Large copyright holders -- namely Hollywood studios and record companies -- are gaining veto power over technology at a time when digital technology and the internet allow more people than ever to film, record, edit and distribute their own movies and music, among other forms of expression.
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"The danger we face is being labeled rich white kids who want free music," he said. [Too late]
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"It's not just about some abstract copyright law," said Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock, a student at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. "It's about free speech and the ability to express yourself."

Free Culture was co-founded by Nelson Pavlovsky, who was involved in a copyright tussle with Diebold Election Systems after students posted copies and links to internal Diebold memos indicating that Diebold was not confident in the accuracy of their electronic voting machines.

In other news about college students - there's a new study out, "Piracy on the High Cs," in which researchers found that record sales in the US have fallen because of people using the internet to download albums. The study involved analyzing the music consuming habits of 412 college students. The leading study up to this point (and perhaps still) is one conducted by Harvard researchers in which they determined that P2P did not have any effects on music consumption. For more check out this post.