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Free Culture is a movement advocating for the freedom to share and modify creative works, emphasizing the importance of open access to knowledge and cultural resources. It promotes the idea that culture should be freely available to all, challenging traditional copyright laws and encouraging collaborative creativity.
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Free Culture is a movement advocating for the freedom to share and modify creative works, emphasizing the importance of open access to knowledge and cultural resources. It promotes the idea that culture should be freely available to all, challenging traditional copyright laws and encouraging collaborative creativity.

Key research themes

1. How does free culture activism function as a social movement and what are its unique characteristics?

This theme investigates free cultural activism as a modern, global, and networked social movement characterized by a heterogeneous range of actors tied together by shared identities and values. It focuses on understanding how free culture activism stretches traditional notions of activism by incorporating everyday cultural production and reuse practices, and how it fits as a New Social Movement emphasizing cultural and regulatory transformation rather than material stakes.

Key finding: The paper posits that free cultural activism constitutes a New Social Movement focused on broad cultural change through regulatory and production models in knowledge-based societies, uniquely combining traditional political... Read more
Key finding: This paper demonstrates Wikipedia’s editors as a politically engaged activist core within the free culture movement, organizing a coordinated global blackout protest against SOPA legislation which mobilized international... Read more
Key finding: Confirming previous findings, this article underscores the transformative political capacity of a free culture activist community within Wikipedia that combined global collaboration and democratic decision-making leading to a... Read more
Key finding: Offers a theoretical framework that indirectly informs understanding of free culture activism by explicating four distinct conceptual approaches to culture—culture as pattern, boundary, authorship, and critical dialog—each... Read more

2. What role does open source culture play as a common heritage and in promoting a wellbeing economy?

This theme explores open source culture not only as a technological and social movement but as a vital cultural heritage underpinning democratic participation, social innovation, and systemic transformation towards sustainable wellbeing-centered economic models. Research focuses on the historical development of the open source movement, its institutional and international recognition, and its critical role in enabling cultural flourishing necessary for social dialogue and coordinated action in global crises.

Key finding: Provides an extensive historiography documenting the open source cultural movement as a masterwork of human creative genius and an essential global heritage that fulfills UNESCO's safeguarding criteria. It argues for the... Read more
Key finding: Applies second-order cybernetics and semantic web ontologies to conceptualize culture as a dynamic cultural ecosystem mediated through technological standards and cultural regulation. It highlights the systemic complexity of... Read more
Key finding: Examines how activists creatively appropriate, remix, and disseminate cultural symbols to contest dominant narratives and power structures, illustrating open source and free culture principles in action. It documents digital... Read more

3. How do educational and institutional approaches to culture influence free culture and multicultural understanding?

This theme investigates foundational theoretical and practical relationships between culture and education, highlighting how institutional frameworks, cultural rights, and multicultural education debates shape cultural identity, social justice, and freedom. It considers tensions between essentialism and fluid cultural identities, the politics of cultural rights, and educational strategies aimed at fostering dialogic creativity and multicultural participation underpinning free culture values.

Key finding: Argues that education must balance affirming diverse cultural identities and freeing individuals from cultural encapsulations to empower civic participation and democratic engagement. It critiques polarized debates over the... Read more
Key finding: Analyzes cultural rights within liberal democratic contexts to reveal how protection of minority cultures requires careful assessment to avoid essentialism and distortion, especially concerning indigenous peoples. It... Read more
Key finding: Provides a critical examination of how culture is mobilized in political and legal discourses, revealing tendencies towards cultural essentialism driven by international human rights frameworks. It highlights how indigenous... Read more
Key finding: Presents four conceptual approaches to culture—pattern, boundary, authorship, and critical dialog—each with distinct educational implications. Particularly, the 'culture as authorship' and 'critical dialog' perspectives... Read more

All papers in Free Culture

A hipótese que orienta este texto parte da observação de que o pós-fordismo, enquanto nova configuração biopolítica do capitalismo global dos anos 1970, não foi uma simples reestruturação produtiva, mas a recomposição de um novo sistema... more
Capitalismo informacional: el retroceso de la democracia bajo la racionalidad neoliberal Resumen Comprender al neoliberalismo como un tipo de razón que economiza las distintas esferas de la vida revela los dispositivos que tiene a su... more
Capitalismo informacional: el retroceso de la democracia bajo la racionalidad neoliberal Resumen Comprender al neoliberalismo como un tipo de razón que economiza las distintas esferas de la vida revela los dispositivos que tiene a su... more
Revelando conteúdo livre no Brasil, pesquisa sa OKN por meio de Félix Stalder para o livro The State of Open Content in Non-Western Countries
This study explores how engineering can support productive collectives transitioning into platform cooperatives, focusing on Brazil's solidarity economy. Through a case study with the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), we analyse platform... more
Tragedia deis comunals i Tragedia dels tancaments, dilema del presoner i cooperació no altruista. Un estat de la qüestió sobre la propietat comunal per Pere Sala Introducció El regim comunal d' explotació dels recursos naturals, allunyat... more
This article examines the relationship between the digital solidarity economy and free culture in Latin America, based on case studies using semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis. The cases are three emblematic initiatives:... more
El capítulo analiza la interacción entre el sistema de patentes y la protección de derechos humanos, con énfasis en la figura de declaración de utilidad pública como vía jurídica para atender problemas sociales mediante el acceso a... more
Sin rodeos: caben dos argumentos ineludibles para defender nuestro acervo cultural como un procomun que hay que proteger y desarrollar, y para comprender nuestra cultura como un espacio que nos pertenece a todas las personas. No cabe mas... more
Una comparación estructurada entre las libertades que promueve el Software Libre y sus relaciones con la experiencia estética puede facilitar una mejor comprensión de probables soluciones ante el problema irresoluto que ya planteó Richard... more
La cultura es un procomún. Esta idea es una premisa para el desarrollo educativo. Aunque como proposición inicial debe ser justificada para que, en consecuencia, podamos asumir una defensa, recreación y difusión de la propia cultura de... more
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El artículo analiza un fenómeno emergente en el ámbito del derecho de autor contemporáneo: la reutilización de obras derivadas por parte de los propios autores de la obra original sin otorgar crédito ni compensación a quienes realizaron... more
Traduzimos um texto que nos convida a refletir sobre um tema sempre importante por aqui: a cultura livre. Foi publicado em maio de 2024 por Mariana Fossati, socióloga uruguaia e ativista da cultura livre, parte do Ártica Online, parceiro... more
This roundtable discussion draws together researchers with an interest of overcoming purely juridical treatment of piracy in their work. Christopher Kelty and Gabriella Coleman consider the aspects of cyberculture, which conflictually... more
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