W7. Why Free Culture matters? - Solène Huille


First, what is free culture? Free culture promotes the freedom to distribute and modify works of the mind in the form of free works using the Internet or sometimes other forms of media

Nowadays, there are less and less things you don’t have to pay to have it. Indeed, you need to pay for different kinds of things, even on the Web: when you want to listen music, to watch movie, to read a book or an article. It is normal because you consider the copyright. But, having free culture permits to give access to all to the culture. For example, in France, we have some museums free for young people, under 26 years old, and I think it is very important to encourage young people to be more curious and have more knowledge.
On the Web, I think it is quite similar. If there is no free culture, there will be some issues, such as illegal downloading and disinterest for some topics.
Wikipedia offers a free content, moreover people who contribute are not paid. This is very interesting to notice in our world today, especially on the web.

This is great for the collective intelligence to have free content. For example, I created a page about the Korean folk village in Yongin, and I could use images that were already on WikiCommons, thanks to the free license. It can be useful to save time as a user, and allows to have a real contribution with many Wikipedia users. But, of course, there are cases where copyright must be respected, especially in other websites.
How to explain in some cases, the copyright is not respected?

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  1. Clément ChevallierApril 20, 2018 at 1:19 AM

    In my opinion, the copyright is not respected in some cases because the law doesn't protect cultural works enough. I think also that the education of young people about respect of copyright must be more important.

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