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Free Culture and the Factors that Led to its Move to Regain the Commons

Moody, David W. (2008) Free Culture and the Factors that Led to its Move to Regain the Commons.

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Abstract

A brief explanation of what the free culture movement is and the various factors that led to its fighting to preserve the commons, including corporations and special interests trying to restrict the commons to protect their interests, the development of the open source community, technological developments, such as the Internet and digital copying of media, the development of web 2.0 and its philosophies, current state of copyright law and youth culture.

EPrint Type:Preprint
Keywords:free culture movement, lessig, open source movement, creative commons, cultural commons, technological commons, web 2.0, copyright law, wikinomics, crowdsourcing
Subjects:Information Science
Interdisciplinarity
Information Ethics
History
ID Code:2487
Deposited On:09 November 2008
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