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The free-culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify the creative works of others in the form of free content [1] [2] or open content [3] [4] [5] without compensation to, or the consent of, the work's original creators, by using the Internet and other forms of media.
What’s at stake is our freedom—freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine. "FREE CULTURE is an entertaining and important look at the past and future of the cold war between the media industry and new technologies." -- Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape.
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (published in paperback as Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity) is a 2004 book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license on March 25, 2004.
- Lawrence Lessig
- 2004
Jan 14, 2013 · Swartz was a computer prodigy and activist who committed suicide on Friday. He was only 26, but he had long ago become a leader of the Free Culture movement, which believed online information ...
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (Penguin Press 2004). Abstract: Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative ...
When you apply these licenses to material you create, it meets the Freedom Defined definition of a “Free Cultural Work.”. Free cultural works are the ones that can be most readily used, shared, and remixed by others, and go furthest toward creating a commons of freely reusable materials.
Jan 1, 2004 · PDF | On Jan 1, 2004, Lawrence Lessig published Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.
