Picture by Pixabay free image (https://pixabay.com/images/id-2053281/) 1. Summary The Free Culture Movement was initiated by Stewart Brand, who founded Whole Earth Catalog. He opposes restrictions on access to information by the government and has put forward the slogan "Information wants to be free." There's a joke that if a survivor of a desert island makes Mickey Mouse shape by pebble on the beach, Disney will rescue him to sue. The Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act , which protects the copyright period of 70 years after the death of a producer, also known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act , become one of the cause for launching a free cultural movement. Many organization related to free culture say that monopolizing copyrights suppress society and is unjustified . Richard Stallman, a founder of the Free Software Foundation, is also engaged in a free software movement, a kind of free culture. His influence in the field of free software is i...
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