Free Culture News is a project of Students for Free Culture and is a blog devoted to happenings in the world of free culture.

There are many sites dedicated to free software, a few to free content, a few to open educational resources, a few to patent law, etc, but there does not seem to be any one definitive resource to go to for general free culture news.  We aim to be that resource.

Keeping our posts minimal and frequent, and pointing to other sources, we try to bring the news as efficiently as possible.  If you would like to help contribute, please check out our contribute page.

A brief history: FCNews sprung out of Free Culture at Virginia Tech, the SFC chapter at Virginia Tech .  It initially existed as the FC@VT meeting wiki.  The members would post links to news, and because they were not required to write their own analysis, or go through quality control loops they would post a lot of links. It was a wonderful resource because nothing like it really existed, only blogs pertaining to specific areas of free culture.  For someone who read 50+ feeds devoted to free video games, legal battles with the RIAA, etc. it was really nice to have our wiki as an alternative to that.  Not only could someone get all news pertaining to free culture in one place, but they could avoid getting an excess of articles not related to free culture.  FC@VT decided that even though it would require a little more work, they wanted to share that resource with the rest of the world in a nice format.  Thus FCNews was born.

FCNews vs The SFC blog: FCNews calls itself “a project of Students for Free Culture” so it’s often confusing why there is not just one blog.  Please see this post on the SFC blog for the differences.