W7. Why Free Culture matters? - Clément Chevallier

What is free culture? Free culture is related to copyright. The goal is to promote the freedom to distribute and modify creative works using free content on the Internet and other media. Wikipedia is a good example of what is free culture. The notion of culture is sometimes blurry, because culture includes a lot of things: knowledge, arts, entertainments…

I think culture should be available for everyone. Culture is paramount because it is a part of the personal but also the national identity. That’s why you can’t really integrate a society without culture. The access to culture is sometimes difficult, because some cultural activities are expensive, like the theater or the museums for example...  Some governments try to implement a free or cheap culture policy accessible to everyone. For example, in France, some museums are free for people under 26 years old.

Collective intelligence is a new form of free culture. For example, people contribute to Wikipedia because they think free culture matters and sharing their knowledge is useful for the others in the present but also for the future, for the legacy of next generations.

If free culture matters, does it mean that the notion of copyright will disappear one day ?

Clément Chevallier.

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  1. Helena FronczakApril 21, 2018 at 5:29 PM

    Dear Clement, i think copyright is essential to « production of piece of work ». If an author does not have copyrights ... then no money for him. It will lead to the defection of litterary and artistic field which are of capital importance to society.
    My opinion is that copyright will have less strict policy but will still protect authors and artists.

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