The Libre Society is a radical artistic and cultural movement that is committed to releasing free/libre/open-source art, music and literature. The Libre Society released a manifesto, called the Libre Manifesto, as its call to action. Radical is derived from the Latin word radix, which means root. In various fields of endeavor, it can mean: Sciences in chemistry, either an atom or molecule with at least one unpaired electron, or a group of atoms, charged or uncharged, that act as a single entity in reaction. ... A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. ... The Libre Manifesto is a manifesto calling for art and culture to recognise and reject the movement towards commodification and capitalism. ...

The Libre Sociey has been inspired by the copyleft movement, the 1960s situationists and writers such as Antonio Negri, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx, Carl Schmitt and Friedrich Nietzsche. Set up by artists and intellectuals, it rejects art as merely objects to be bought and sold and instead reaffirms art as liberating, transformatory and emancipatory. The reversed c is the copyleft symbol. ... The Situationist International (SI), an international political and artistic movement, originated in the Italian village of Cosio dArroscia on 28 July 1957 with the fusion of several extremely small artistic tendencies: the Lettrist International, the International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus, and the London Psychogeographical Association. ... Antonio Negri (1933- ) is a moral and political philosopher from Italy. ... Gilles Deleuze Gilles Deleuze (January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995) was a major French philosopher of the late 20th century. ... Michel Foucault Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984) was a French philosopher and held a chair at the Collège de France, a chair to which he gave the title The History of Systems of Thought. His writings have had an enormous impact on other scholarly work: Foucault... Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883 London, UK) was an influential German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary organizer of the International Workingmens Association, two of whose books in particular, Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto (the latter with Friedrich Engels), laid the... Carl Schmitt Carl Schmitt (July 11, 1888 - April 7, 1985) was a controversial German catholic intellectual and legal theoretician with ties to the Nazi ideology and party. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a profoundly influential German philosopher, psychologist, and philologist. ... Artist is a subjective term which describes a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, their endeavors. ... An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, or speculate on a variety of different ideas. ...

To quote from the Libre Society Manifesto:

"A constellation of interests is now seeking to increase their ownership and control of creativity. They tell us that they require new laws and rights that allow them to control concepts and ideas and protect them from exploitation. They say that this will enrich our lives, create new products and safeguard the possibility of future prosperity. But this is an absolute disaster for creativity, whose health depends on an ongoing, free and open conversation between ideas from the past and the present.

— In response, we wish to defend the idea of a creative sphere of concepts and ideas that are free from ownership."

Activities

Libre Commons Licenses have been launched which are expressly political in nature and attempt to counter the anodyne Creative Commons licenses which have been criticised for being too friendly to the content industries.

Copy Rip Burn is a touring show of work and art around created and inspired by the Libre Manifesto.

See Also

• Creative Commons

Version 2 of Some Rights Reserved logo 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 to legally build upon and share. ...

External links

• The Libre Society