Free Culture is about removing barriers to creativity and empowering people to be more creative. Our campaigns, shown in the box on the right of the page, reflect some of the key issues of the day that we can all affect.

But to achieve change we need to understand the issues. To that end we present some suggested further reading:

Introductory texts

• Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig (a long book)

• Free Culture and Remix Commons (a short essay)

• Key concepts explained by On The Commons

• Free Software and Free Society (a long book relevant to free culture)

• Case studies in excessive regulation of art (many links to other web pages)

Legal analysis

• The Public Domain, a selection of essays edited by James Boyle (part of a series on law and contemporary problems)

Economic analysis

• Key economic concepts used when discussing free culture (many links to Wikipedia pages)

Radical politics

• The Libre Culture Manifesto ("we wish to defend the idea of a creative field of concepts and ideas that are free from ownership")

• Project Oekonux (a collection of Marxist interpretations of free software, applicable to free culture generally)