Free-culture movement

The free-culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify the creative works of others in the form of free content^[1][2] or open content.^[3][4][5] They encourage creators to create such content by using permissive and share-alike licensing, like that used on Wikipedia.

The movement objects to what it considers over-restrictive copyright laws. Many members of the movement argue that over-restrictive laws hinder creativity^[6] and create a "permission culture", which they worry will shrink the public domain^[7] and fair use.^{[citation needed]} They engage in political activism, mostly advocating for specific limits on copyright.^[7]

The free-culture movement, with its ethos of free exchange of ideas, is aligned with the free and open-source-software movement, as well as other movements and philosophies such as open access (OA), the remix culture, the hacker culture, the access to knowledge movement, the copyleft movement and the public domain movement.