Free culture

Free culture refers to a social movement and way of living which typically values, for example, the use of freely licensed software over proprietary licensed software.
Free culture is a grassroots culture which has had many 'champions', including Richard Stallman (founder of the Free Software Foundation) and Lawrence Lessig whose book Free culture 2004 helped to catalyse and taxonomise free culture as a conceptual phenomena.
Free culture appears to be becoming an increasingly widely-recognised cultural, political, legal, and psychosocial phenomenon.
Free culture is contrasted with commercialism.

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