What is Free Culture?
When I am talking about free culture, I am talking about a) cultural production — producing the elements that help define and articulate and spread culture; and b) cultural production that is "free" for anyone to use, build upon, etc. This is free as in freedom culture.
The history of cultural works is building upon, remixing, copying, reusing, repurposing… it is cultural stuff that everyone owns... (Do I need to cite something here? reference something? is my conjecture fine?)
In our present we find ourselves increasingly constrained. Both from how we are allowed to use other's outputs, as well as in the tools and delivery mechanisms themselves — increasingly all of this is less free, more closed, more proprietary, more controlled.
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Reference searches:
- http://www.thevariationlab.com/cultural-production#:~:text=In%20this%20sense%2C%20cultural%20production%20can%20be%20understood,means%20as%20a%20form%20of%20redefinition%20and%20research.
- https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095652897
- https://www.p-art-icipate.net/cultural-production-in-theory-and-practice/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
- https://carla.umn.edu/culture/definitions.html
- http://people.tamu.edu/~i-choudhury/culture.html
- https://www.peacecorps.gov/educators/resources/defining-culture/
- https://courses.lumenlearning.com/culturalanthropology/chapter/what-is-culture/