Definition of a free work

Definition of a free work

Posted Sep 21, 2006 4:04 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40)
Parent article: WOS4: Lawrence Lessig on read/write culture

> The artistic community still has not really had the discussion of what
> rights it needs to be truly free. There is no artistic equivalent to the
> "four freedoms" for software.

It's true that cohesive discussion about what "freedom" should mean has been far less than the equivalent for software. The good news is there is work in place to address that:

http://freedomdefined.org/

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