Free culture
The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content[1][2] by using the Internet and other forms of media.
The movement objects to over-restrictive copyright laws. Many members of the movement argue that such laws hinder creativity. They call this system "permission culture."[3]
Creative Commons is an organization started by Lawrence Lessig which provides licenses that permit sharing under various conditions, and also offers an online search of various Creative Commons-licensed works.
The free culture movement, with its ethos of free exchange of ideas, is aligned with the free software movement. Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU project, and free software activist, advocates free sharing of information.[4] He famously stated that free software means free as in "free speech," not "free beer".[5]
Today, the term stands for many other movements, including Open access (OA), the hacker culture, the access to knowledge movement, the Open Source Learning and the copyleft movement.[citation needed]
The term “free culture” was originally used since 2003 during the World Summit on Information Society[6] to present the first free license for artistic creation at large, initiated by the Copyleft attitude team in France since 2001 (named free art license). It was then developed in a 2004 book by Lawrence Lessig.[7]
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