W.5.1 Free-culture movement

 

Free-culture 

1) Summarize 


The free Culture Movement is a social movement that advocates using the Internet or other media to spread and modify all kinds of free content works. The movement opposes current overly restrictive copyright laws, which many campaigners say have stifled creativity, and calls the system a "culture of licensing". The article tells how the liberal culture movement took shape from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.


2) Interesting point


Today, the term Free Culture Movement is closely associated with many other movements, such as Hacker Culture, Knowledge Without Boundaries, and empowerment. The term "free culture" comes from the 2003 World Information Society Summit. The World Summit on Information Society used the term to present the first public license for artists, the "free art license" drafted and developed by the French advocacy group for Rights in 2001. The term was further developed in Lawrence Reziger's 2004 book The Culture of Freedom. In 1998, the United States Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act and President Clinton signed it. The bill extends copyright coverage by 20 years, bringing the author's bill to 70 years. The legislation is sometimes nicknamed the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" because it was heavily lobbied by businesses like Disney. Copyright law is an impediment to cultural development, knowledge sharing and technological innovation, and is based on private interests (not public interests), says Lawrence Reisiger. He gave birth to the Free Culture Movement in 1998, when he spoke on campuses across the United States and formed the foundation for Students for Free Culture at Swarthmore College. In 1999, Mr Reisiger challenged the Sonny Bono Act to the US Supreme Court. Despite his conviction that he would prevail, he received only two dissenting votes, one from Justices Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens, citing the "limited" copyright words in the US Constitution. In 2001, Reisiger launched Creative Commons, a "reserved some rights" licensing system to replace the default "reserved all rights" copyright system. In the liberal culture movement, creative CC was accused of lacking liberal standards. Therefore, some people argue that only part of the creative Commons agreement meets the Definition of Free Cultural Works. In February 2008, Creative CC added a free cultural Works certification logo to its attribution and Attribution - Same Way sharing protocols. Commercial use or derivative works do not require special marking.


3) Discussion point

What do you think fits the definition of a free cultural work?

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