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Free Culture UK launches today with the aim of building a grassroots movement to promote an open, participatory culture. We will lobby politicians about threats to free culture; create new and promote existing spaces in which free culture can thrive; and work to engage the public in the future of our cultural domain.
Our first campaigns concern the length of copyright protection, which we argue is currently too long; the loss of the public domain, which we will reinvigorate with an open database of public domain works; and the promotion of Creative Commons, a positive alternative to "all rights reserved" copyright. Working both nationally, locally and on the internet we will build a broad movement to reassert the freedoms and rights of the public, and halt the advance of monopolies.
Free Culture is launched by a group of people including Rufus Pollock (Open Knowledge Foundation and Friends of the Creative Domain), Tom Chance (Remix Reading), Ed Griffiths-Jones (Remix Brighton), and David Berry (Music Commons). It is part of the Open Knowledge Foundation Network and affiliated with Remix Reading, Remix Brighton, Friends of the Creative Domain and LiquidCulture. We are committed to working with similar organisations, and avoiding the splintering that has marred free culture activism in the past.