Free-culture movement

1. Summary

 Free culture movement is a social movement that promotes freedom to distribute and modify other people's creations in the form of free or open content using the Internet and other forms of media. The Free Culture Movement embraces the ideals of the free and open software movement and expands it to all cultural and creative works in the software field. In the late 1960s, Stewart Brand established a global catalog and claimed that technology could be liberated rather than suppressed. In 1998, the U.S. Congress passed the Sony Bono Copyright Period Extension Act, which extended copyright protection by another 20 years to 70 years after the creator's death. The bill is also called the Mickey Mouse Protection Act because it has been heavily lobbied by music and film companies like Disney. Lesig argued that copyright is an obstacle to cultural production, knowledge sharing and technological innovation, and that private interests, unlike the public interest, determine the law. The term "free culture" was originally used to present free licenses for art creation on a large scale from 2003 during the World Information Society Summit, which was originally initiated by France's Copilphep Attitude Team. On the other hand, some view the free culture movement as critical. Voices of criticism about the free culture movement come from copyright supporters. Lanier, a renowned technologist and musician, criticized the free cultural movement, citing the depersonality of crowd-sourcing anonymous media and the economic dignity of middle-class creative artists.

2. Interesting

 I think copyright is the wall that protects the creator's rights. However, in modern society, secondary creations such as various parodies and omaju have become more active and the boundaries of copyright have begun to blur. In order to protect copyright holders' rights and use copyrights wisely, I think we should first be familiar with and abide by copyright laws.

3. Discussion

Can we think of copyright law violations and free cultural movements as separate issues?

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