The future of free content

Posted by Angela Beesley on August 29, 2006 (Wiki)

Free content is any work or expression which can be freely studied, applied, copied and/or modified, by anyone, for any purpose. See FreeContentDefinition.org for the full definition.

But what’s the future of it? I’m giving a talk about this in Melbourne in a couple of days, so if you want to contribute to that, feel free to share your ideas on this topic in the comments below, or on my wiki.

Mike Linksvayer points to two related talks at Wikimania on the Creative Commons blog;  “if you want an inside track on the future of free content licenses you could hardly do better than watch or listen to recordings of two Wikimania sessions — Lawrence Lessig on The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement (particularly the last twenty minutes) and Eben Moglen on Document Licenses and the Future of Free Culture, which also features Q&A with both Moglen and Lessig.”

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  1. WikiAngela » End of 2006 said,

    December 31, 2006 at 12:27

    […] My third trip to the US this year was for Wikimania (blog post), Wikimedia’s second annual conference, which was held at Harvard. Tim and I stopped in New York for a few days before it and I rushed back after it for the X|Media|Lab event in Melbourne - it was last year’s event in November which led to me staying in Australia so it was great to be there again. I fitted in a second trip to Brisbane this month, for an Open Innovation Round Table discussion. Next in August, I made a very long trip to Denmark for WikiSym where I gave a keynote on how and why Wikipedia works. Then it was back to Melbourne to talk about Future Directions for Free Content at the Churchill Club (blog post). Mindspillage and Solensean left Wikia this month and Splarka joined as a permanent staff member. […]