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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 ] They encourage creators to create such content by using permissive and share-alike licensing, like that used on Wikipedia.
Repeatedly, the terms artistic freedom and freedom of artistic expressions are used as synonyms. Their underlying concepts "art", "freedom" and "expression" comprise very vast fields of discussion: "Art is a very 'subtle'—sometimes also symbolic—form of expression, suffering from definition problems more than any other form."
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Freedom (often referred to as the Freedom app) is a computer program designed to keep a computer or smartphone user away from the Internet for up to eight hours at a time. It is described as a way to "free you from distractions, allowing you time to write, analyze, code, or create."
There are a number of different definitions of free content in regular use. Legally, however, free content is very similar to open content.An analogy is a use of the rival terms free software and open-source, which describe ideological differences rather than legal ones.
Some supporters of the free software movement take up public speaking, or host a stall at software-related conferences to raise awareness of software freedom. This is seen as important since people who receive free software, but who are not aware that it is free software, will later accept a non-free replacement or will add software that is not ...
Stallman places great importance on the words and labels people use to talk about the world, including the relationship between software and freedom. He asks people to say free software and GNU/Linux , and to avoid the terms intellectual property and piracy (in relation to copying not approved by the publisher).