2004 - The Libre Culture Manifesto - David Berry & Giles Moss
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We have written this manifesto always wishing to unfold the concept and practice of free/libre and open-source. We wanted it to stretch out so that it might take us in new directions. To start off with, we were sure that the practice of non-proprietary software code production was not a narrowly technical or economic affair, but something that was always also socio-political. Employing a critical political economy framework, we wanted to draw out the socio-political aspects of free/libre and open-source in an age of “creative capitalism” and “creative industries”, where the exploitation of concepts and ideas through intellectual property (supported by new prescriptive technologies) has become so important to profit.
A constellation of interests is now seeking to increase its ownership and control of creativity... But this is a disaster for creativity, whose health depends on an ongoing, free and open conversation between ideas from the past and the present
At the same time, the copyleft ethos was already stretching out before us in myriad ways. In those places where creativity was being divided up and exploited by private interests for profit (viz., not just software, but also art, music, writing, science, design and so on), an ethos of sharing concepts and ideas was widening in response. It is stirring for us that the concept and practice of collective creativity continues to deepen in this way. We just hope it does not fold up into itself, as some members of the movement may wish, but that it continues to recognize its current socio-political significance, and that it stretches itself out in new creative alliances that simultaneously confront and transform the present...
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URL: https: http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/libre_manifesto/
Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20180930080737/http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/libre_manifesto/