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Free Culture covers the themes of piracy and property. Lessig writes at the end of the preface, "... the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control. A free culture, like a free market, is filled with property. It is filled with rules of property and contract that get enforced by the state.
In 2005/2006 within the free-culture movement, Creative Commons was criticized by Erik Möller [16] and Benjamin Mako Hill for lacking minimum standards for freedom. [17] Following this, the "Definition of Free Cultural Works" was created as collaborative work of many, including Erik Möller, Lawrence Lessig, Benjamin Mako Hill and Richard ...
He proposed the concept of "free culture". [35] He also supports free and open-source software and open spectrum. [36] At his free culture keynote speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2002, a few minutes of his speech was about software patents, [37] which he views as a rising threat to free software, open source software, and innovation.
An example Lessig cites in his book, Free Culture, is photography. In this example, if the legal environment surrounding the early stages of photography had been stricter with what constituted ownership and leaned more towards permission culture, photography would have developed in a drastically different manner and would be limited. [3]
Students for Free Culture is sometimes referred to as "FreeCulture", "the Free Culture Movement", and other variations on the "free culture" theme, but none of those are its official name. It is officially Students for Free Culture, as set for in the new bylaws that were ratified by its chapters on October 1, 2007, which changed its name from ...
Free Culture may refer to: Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig; Free-culture movement, a social movement for free culture (inspired partly by the book)
Therefore, Creative Commons' Erik Möller [4] in collaboration with Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Benjamin Mako Hill, [4] Angela Beesley, [4] and others started in 2006 the Free Cultural Works project for defining free content. The first draft of the Definition of Free Cultural Works was published 2 April 2006. [5]
The term "free culture" was originally the title of a 2004 book by Lawrence Lessig, considered a founding father of the free culture movement. [1] Free culture movement is dedicated to creating and making available their art, allowing others to freely use, study, distribute and improve on the work of others. [1]