W10. Free culture movement and Remix culture - Youngryun Chun

1. Summary


The Free Culture Movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify other people's creations in the form of open content without compensation. This movement regards copyright law as undermining creativity. The organization associated with the Free Culture Movement is the Creative Commons (CC), founded by Lawrence Lesig. CC promotes the creation of cultural atmosphere, scientific progress and business innovation by sharing creative works and spreading ideas. This includes Amazon and student cultural activities. The Free Culture Movement embraces the ideals of the free and open-source software movement and extends it to all cultural and creative works in the software field.
The remix culture, a read-write culture, is to allow new derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to create new creations. The remix culture basically allows efforts to improve, change and integrate copyright holders' work. Unlike the general reading culture, this culture is interrelated between producers and consumers. Remix culture is used in Folklore, vocal trends, Graphic arts, books, software, digital goods, music and movies. On the other hand, this culture is also criticized as plagiarism.



2. What interesting


Reading about these cultures, I learned the positive side of open source. Of course, copyright is important, but I also felt that there are advantages that encourage creativity. Obviously, if open source exists, more content will be created.



3. Discussion


I would like to talk about whether this culture can be free of copyright and plagiarism.

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