The USC film school, or more formally, the “school of cinematic arts,” which sounds very new-media friendly, has yet to formally respond to the school’s Free Culture student movement, which has been petitioning the administration to let them, um, use the internet (!). The group put up a website (Promoting a campus where ideas are culture, not property) and one of them made this kinda funny slapdash YouTube “film,” for which university lawyers even now may be suing for the rights. Watch it here, on its limited run, before the men with briefcases cart it off the web and into a “Raiders of the Lost Ark”-style enormous sealed air-conditioned warehouse archive room where it will sleep undisturbed forever with all the rest of the copyrighted material made by the students over the past five decades.

The Free Culture website has links to a student petition and a paper written by USC film student Cameron Parkins that sets out some of the (obvious) reasons why the policy is wack.

Hat tip to Cory at Boing Boing for keeping us informed about our own backyard!