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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Free (as in freedom) culture is a movement aiming for the relaxation of [intelle
The promoters of free culture want to relax intellectual property laws ([copyright](copyright.md), [patents](patent.md), [trademarks](tm.md) etc.) but also promote an ethic of sharing and remixing being good (as opposed to the demonizing anti-"[piracy](piracy.md)" propaganda of today), they sometimes mark their works with words **"some rights reserved"** or even "no rights reserved", as opposed to the traditional "all rights reserved".
Free culture is kind of a younger sister movement to the **[free software](free_software.md)** movement, in fact it has been inspired by it (we could call it its [fork](fork.md)). While free software movement, established in 1983, was only concerned with freedoms relating to computer program source code, free culture later (around 2000) took its ideas and extended them to all information including e.g. artworks and scientific data. There are **clearly defined criteria** for a work to be considered free (as in freedom) work, i.e. part of the body of free cultural works. The criteria are very similar to those of free software (the definition is at https://freedomdefined.org/Definition) and can be summed up as follows:
Free culture is kind of a younger sister movement to **[free software](free_software.md)**, in fact it has been inspired by it (we could call it its [fork](fork.md)). While free software movement, commenced in 1983, was only concerned with freedoms related to computer program source code, free culture subsequently (circa 2000) extended the concept to all information, including e.g. artworks and scientific data. There are **clearly defined criteria** for a work to be considered free (as in freedom) work, i.e. part of the body of free cultural works. The criteria are very similar to those of free software (the definition is at https://freedomdefined.org/Definition) and can be summed up as follows:
A free cultural work must allow anyone to (legally and practically):
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**BEWARE of fake free culture**: there are many resources that look like or even call themselves "free culture" despite not adhering to its rules. This may be by intention or not, some people just don't know too much about the topic -- a common mistake is to think that all Creative Commons licenses are free culture -- again, this is NOT the case (the NC and ND ones are not). Some think that "free" just means "gratis" -- this is not the case (free means freedom, i.e. respecting the above mentioned criteria of free cultural works). Many people don't know the rules of copyright and think that they can e.g. create a remix of some non-free pop song and license it under CC-BY-SA -- they CANNOT, they are making a derivative work of a non-free work and so cannot license it. Some people use licenses without knowing what they mean, e.g. many use CC0 and then ask for their work to not be used commercially -- this can't be done, CC0 specifically allows any commercial use. Some try to make their own "licenses" by e.g. stating "do whatever you want with my work" instead of using a proper waiver like CC0 -- this is with high probability legally unsafe and invalid, it is unfortunately not so easy to waive one's copyright -- DO use the existing licenses. Educate yourself and if you're unsure, ask away in the community, people are glad to give advice.
{ Example of a SUS "free culture" video in one of the most reliable repositories, Wikimedia Commons, is for example [this](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MultiVersus_%E2%80%93_Official_Cinematic_Trailer_-_%22You%27re_with_Me!%22.webm). The video contains many multimillion dollar cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Batman, Superman and many more. Apparently these were released as "CC BY" on YouTube, so they just allowed everyone to freely use these characters anywhere, even commercially. Not sure if it's legit but I'd never touch it. ~drummyfish }
## See Also
- [free software](free_software.md)