FREE CULTURE MOVEMENT

The 'free culture movement' is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works, using the Internet as well as other media.
The movement objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, which many members of the movement also argue hinder creativity. They call this system "permission culture".

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Organizations

Free software and free culture

Wikimedia

See Also

References

External links

Organizations

The organization commonly associated with free culture is Creative Commons (CC), founded by Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is a law professor at Stanford University and a prominent figure in the free software movement. He wrote a book called ''Free Culture'', which provides many arguments in favor of the free culture movement.
The student organization FreeCulture.org is sometimes confusingly called "the Free Culture Movement," but that is not its official name. The organization is a subset of the greater movement.

Free software and free culture

Free culture movement takes the ideals of free software movement and extends them from the software field alone to the whole culture.
At the beginning Richard Stallman (founder of the Free Software Foundation and the free software movement, author of the "Free Software" term) supported the Creative Commons actions, but at some point he finally rejected CC completely: "''I no longer endorse Creative Commons. I cannot endorse Creative Commons as a whole, because some of its licenses are unacceptable. It would be self-delusion to try to endorse just some of the Creative Commons licenses, because people lump them together; they will misconstrue any endorsement of some as a blanket endorsement of all. I therefore find myself constrained to reject Creative Commons entirely.''"^[1].

Wikimedia

Wikimedia's projects, which are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and different Creative Commons licences arguably constitute the largest single free culture project. Wikimedia was founded by Jimmy Wales. Based on ideas of the free culture movement, Jimmy Wales also has announced ten challenges for the movement in general with at the Wikimania 2005.
According to Jimmy Wales, those 10 things that should be free within the next decade are:
# Encyclopedia – in all languages; Wikipedia
# Dictionary – in and for all languages; Wiktionary
# Curriculum – in every language and for every grade; Wikibooks, Wikiversity
# Music - Wikimedia Commons
# Art - Wikimedia Commons
# Free file formats
# Maps - Wikimedia Commons
# Product identifiers
# TV listings
# Communities

See Also

★ Copyleft

★ Cultural environmentalism

★ FreeCulture.org

★ Open educational resources

★ Gratis versus Libre (free as in beer)

References

1. interview for LinuxP2P (6 february 2006)

External links

;Resources:

★ Berry, David M. and Giles Moss. 2006. The Politics of the Libre Commons. First Monday. Volume 11 (September)

★ Videoblog: Free Culture, Free Software, Free Infrastructures! Openness and Freedom in every Layer of the Network (Interviews with Kloschi (Freifunk), Kurt Jansson (Wikimedia), Jürgen Neumann (Freifunk), Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (United Nations University), Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons) and Allison and Benoit (Montréal Wireless))
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★ Libervis.com is a project of building and promoting a free culture community online.