Free Culture Movement

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The Free Culture movement is a social movement that promotes the free distribution of creative works on the Internet as well as other mediums, and objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, which members of the movement argue, hinder creativity. Closely associated with the free culture movement are organizations in the free software movement, such as the Free Software Foundation.

Another organization commonly associated with Free Culture is Creative Commons, founded by Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is a law professor at Stanford University and a prominent figure in the free software movement. He wrote a book called Free Culture, which provides many arguments in favour of the free culture movement.

Wikimedia

Wikimedia's projects are arguably the largest free culture project. Wikimedia was founded by Jimmy Wales. Based on ideas of the Free Culture Movement, Jimmy Wales also has announced ten challenges for the movement in general with [meta] at the Wikimania 2005.

Those 10 things that should be free within the next decade are:

Encyclopedia – in all languages; Wikipedia
Dictionary – in and for all languages; Wiktionary
Curriculum – in every language and for every grade; Wikibooks
Music
Art
Free file formats
Maps
Product identifiers
TV listings
Communities

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