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Topic: Creative Stimulus

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

Organizations: Free Live Music Archive, Brewster Kahle @ Archive.org

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 02:47 PM

"Open and free access to literature and other writings has long been considered essential to education and to the maintenance of an open society. Public and philanthropic enterprises have supported it through the ages." The Live Music Archive has received more than 10,000+ concert recordings!

Organizations: Launch of International Movement for Free Culture

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 03:50 PM

On April 23, students at Swarthmore College will launch a new international student organization, the International Movement for Free Culture, dedicated to what it calls a "bottom-up, participatory structure to society and culture." The new group will leverage the power of students at colleges and universities around to the world and promises to be a leading voice for copyright reform, online rights, free and open-source software, and threats to the free flow of information.

Blogs: Movie: "What The BLEEP Do We Know!?" Updated

Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 04:53 PM

Without placing judgement on the merits or issues that this film invokes, we present the film's synopsis. Combined with a host of links that will hopefully help broaden and focus the topics and concepts that this film is tackling. The power of the mind is enormous and to quote Margaret Mead (1935), "If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."

News: What is "FREE CULTURE" [Part I]

Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 07:17 PM

Here's a great article written in the NY Times The Tyranny of Copyright, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's page on free culture.
1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.
3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.
4. Ours is less and less a free society. --Lawrence Lessig, 2002.