The Free Culture Movement is a student led movement that supports freedom of speech on the Internet and objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, which, members of the movement argue, hinders creativity. The group is similar to other organizations in the free software movement such as Creative Commons and the EFF. The group was inspired by Larry Lessig's book Free Culture. Lessig is a law professor at Stanford University and a prominent figure in the free software movement as well as the open source movement. There are Free Culture chapters on college campuses across the United States, as well as other countries. A public demonstration Freedom of speech is often regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracies, where it is understood to outlaw censorship. ... Copyright symbol. ... The free software movement began in 1983 when Richard Stallman announced the GNU project. ... Version 2 of Some Rights Reserved logo No Rights reserved logo The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. ... The EFF uses the blue ribbon as symbolism for their Free Speech defense. ... Lawrence Lessig Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. ... The book cover Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (2004) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license (by-nc 1. ... The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university in Stanford, California, USA. It is incorporated as The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. ... The free software movement began in 1983 when Richard Stallman announced the GNU project. ... The open source movement is an offshoot of the free software movement that advocates open-source software as an alternative label for free software, primarily on pragmatic rather than philosophical grounds. ...

Wikipedia & Co.

Following a similar concept, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and its sister projects came into existence thanks to its founder Jimmy Wales. By sharing the ideas of the Free Culture Movement, Jimmy Wales also has announced ten challenges for the movement in general with A Free Culture Manifesto at the Wikimania 2005. Wikipedia (IPA: [] or []) is a multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia. ... The Wikimedia Foundation Inc. ... Jimmy Wales (November 2004) Jimmy Donal Jimbo Wales (born August 7, 1966) is the founder and President of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit corporation which operates Wikipedia and several other wiki projects. ... Wikimania is a conference for users of the wiki projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. ...

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

1. Encyclopedia – in all languages; Wikipedia
2. Dictionary – in and for all languages; Wiktionary
3. Curriculum – in every language and for every grade; Wikibooks
4. Music
5. Art – using the Free Art license e.g.
6. File formats
7. Maps
8. Product identifiers
9. TV listings
10. Communities

Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon, 1902 An encyclopedia or encyclopaedia, also (rarely) encyclopædia,[1] is a written compendium of knowledge. ... Wikipedia (IPA: [] or []) is a multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia. ... A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in almost every language. ... In education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their contents offered by an institution such as a school or university. ... Wikibooks logo Wikibooks, previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks, is a sister project to Wikipedia and is part of the Wikimedia Foundation, begun on July 10, 2003. ... Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves structured and audible sound, though definitions vary. ... Venus de Milo exhibited in the Louvre museum, France. ... The Free Art License is an attempt to craft a Free license in the spirit of the GNU General Public License adapted for work of art. ... A file format is a particular way to encode information for storage in a computer file. ... Bold text For other uses, see Map (disambiguation). ... Identifiers (IDs) are lexical tokens that name entities. ... TV listings are the lists of programmes that are going to appear on television over the next few days. ... This article needs a complete rewrite for the reasons listed on the talk page. ...

External links

• Freeculture's homepage
• Freeculture's MySpace Page
• Wu Ming Foundation (Copyleft-utilising novelists)