W10. Free culture movement & Remix culture - Gyongmin Moon, 문경민

Assigning copyright, or license to a work is a very important process. Without it, the creator's will to make new creation might be deterred because no matter how hard and long it took them to make the result, other people might copy it with a single click. But not everyone thinks that these kinds of restrictions are always good. In fact, too strict restrainment of copyright might harm the development of culture instead of assisting it. This is why the movement of free culture has appeared. The basic concept of free content, made by free culture movement, is to let the creators freely contribute to the content that has been already made by others. By doing so, it aims to create a deeper volume of content and a healthy virtuous circle in the content platform. Remix culture is a term inside the free culture, which allows people to freely combine or adjust already existing content and make a new one. Inspirations are very shy, and we will never know what kind of inspiration we might encounter in various factors that exist in the world. So leaving the brilliant content as an ornament could be losing a golden opportunity of another brilliance.

I'm translating the open-content article from English to Korean for this lecture's final assignment. Open content is also part of the free-culture movement. If you are interested, you can read about it here.

For things to think about, what do you think is the difference between a remixed-content and plagiarized content?