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Free Culture Forum

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The Free Culture Forum (FCForum) is an international encounter of civic society actors on free culture, digital rights and access to knowledge. [1]

73 relations: Álex de la Iglesia, Barcelona, Bits of Freedom, Centre for Investigative Journalism, Communia, Consumers International, Copyright, Courage Foundation, Creative Commons, Crowdfunding, David Bollier, David Bravo Bueno, David Hammerstein Mintz, Digital rights, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Enric Duran, European Digital Rights, European Economic Community, Federal government of Brazil, Flattr, FLOSS Manuals, Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Free Knowledge Institute, Free software, Free-culture movement, Freemium, Guifi.net, Hackathon, Hilary Wainwright, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Information Age, James Love (NGO director), Jérémie Zimmermann, Jeremy Rifkin, John Howkins, John Perry Barlow, Kickstarter, Knowledge Ecology International, La Quadrature du Net, Linus Olsson, Mayo Fuster Morell, Michel Bauwens, Micropayment, Miro (software), Nagarjuna G., Net neutrality, Open Knowledge International, Open standard, Open-source license, Oxcars, ..., P2P Foundation, Participatory Culture Foundation, Peer-to-peer file sharing, Peter Sunde, Piratbyrån, Pirate Party (Sweden), Private copying levy, Public domain, Richard Stallman, Safe Creative, Simona Levi, Spain, Telecomix, Telecoms Package, The Influencers, The Pirate Bay, Tor (anonymity network), Web We Want, Whistleblower, WikiLeaks, Wikimedia Foundation, X Party, Xnet. Expand index (23 more) »

Álex de la Iglesia

Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza (born 4 December 1965) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former comic book artist.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city in Spain.

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Bits of Freedom

Bits Of Freedom is an independent Dutch digital rights foundation, which focuses on privacy and communications freedom in the digital age.

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Centre for Investigative Journalism

The Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) is a British non-profit organisation providing training to journalists, researchers, producers and students in the practice and methodology of investigative journalism.

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Communia

COMMUNIA is a thematic project funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus framework addressing theoretical analysis and strategic policy discussion of existing and emerging issues concerning the public domain in the digital environment - as well as related topics, including, but not limited to, alternative forms of licensing for creative material; open access to scientific publications and research results; management of works whose authors are unknown (i.e. orphan works).

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Consumers International

Consumers International is the membership organisation for consumer groups around the world.

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Copyright

Copyright is a legal right, existing globally in many countries, that basically grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to determine and decide whether, and under what conditions, this original work may be used by others.

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Courage Foundation

The Courage Foundation is a trust for fundraising the legal defence of individuals such as whistleblowers and journalists.

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Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

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Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.

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David Bollier

David Bollier is an American activist, writer, and policy strategist.

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David Bravo Bueno

David Bravo Bueno (born February 20, 1978) is a Spanish lawyer specialized in intellectual property rights.

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David Hammerstein Mintz

David Hammerstein Mintz (born 23 September 1955) is a Spanish politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Los Verdes, part of the European Greens.

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Digital rights

The term digital rights describes the human rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, or communications networks.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.

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Enric Duran

Enric Duran Giralt (born 23 April 1976, in Vilanova i la Geltrú) also known as Robin Banks or the Robin Hood of the Banks is a Catalan anticapitalist activist and a founding member of the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC - Cooperativa Integral Catalana) and Faircoop.

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European Digital Rights

European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an international advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

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European Economic Community

The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation which aimed to bring about economic integration among its member states.

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Federal government of Brazil

The federal government of Brazil is the national government of the Federative Republic of Brazil, a republic in South America divided in 26 states and a federal district.

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Flattr

Flattr is a Swedish-based microdonation subscription service where subscribers opt-in to pay a monthly patronage to help fund their favourite websites and creators.

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FLOSS Manuals

The FLOSS Manuals (FM) is a non-profit foundation founded in 2006 by Adam Hyde and based in the Netherlands.

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Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure

The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is a non-profit organisation based in Munich, Germany, dedicated to establishing a free market in information technology, by the removal of barriers to competition.

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Free Knowledge Institute

The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2006 in the Netherlands.

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Free software

Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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Free-culture movement

The free-culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content or open content by using the Internet and other forms of media.

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Freemium

Freemium is a pricing strategy by which a product or service (typically a digital offering or an application such as software, media, games or web services) is provided free of charge, but money (premium) is charged for additional features, services, or virtual goods.

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Guifi.net

Guifi.net is a free, open and neutral, mostly wireless telecommunications community network, with over 33,000 active nodes and about 46,000 km of wireless links (as of April 2017).

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Hackathon

A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and others, often including subject-matter-experts, collaborate intensively on software projects.

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Hilary Wainwright

Hilary Wainwright (born 1949) is a British sociologist, political activist and socialist feminist, best known for being editor of Red Pepper magazine.

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Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a National Centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India.

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Information Age

The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a 21st century period in human history characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology.

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James Love (NGO director)

James Packard "Jamie" Love (born 1950) is the director of Knowledge Ecology International, formerly known as the Consumer Project on Technology, a non-governmental organization with offices in Washington, D.C. and Geneva, that works mainly on matters concerning knowledge management and governance, including intellectual property policy and practice and innovation policy, particularly as they relate to health care and access to knowledge.

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Jérémie Zimmermann

Jérémie Zimmermann (born 1978) is a French computer science engineer co-founder of the Paris-based La Quadrature du Net, a citizen advocacy group defending fundamental freedoms online and co-founder of Hacking With Care, a "collective composed of hackers-activists, caregivers, artists, sociologist, growing quite literally by contact and affinity".

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Jeremy Rifkin

Jeremy Rifkin (born January 26, 1945) is an American economic and social theorist, writer, public speaker, political advisor, and activist.

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John Howkins

John Anthony Howkins (born 3 August 1945) is a British author and speaker on Creative Industries, particularly the development of this economic sector in China.

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John Perry Barlow

John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947 – February 7, 2018) was an American poet and essayist, a cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties.

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Kickstarter

Kickstarter is an American public-benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity and merchandising.

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Knowledge Ecology International

Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) is a non-governmental organization.

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La Quadrature du Net

La Quadrature du Net (Squaring of the Net in French) is a French advocacy group that promotes digital rights and freedoms of citizens.

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Linus Olsson

Linus Olsson (born 11 November 1991) is a Swedish professional footballer who most recently played for Fjölnir.

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Mayo Fuster Morell

Mayo Fuster Morell (born 1975, Oliva (Valencia)) is a social researcher.

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Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens (born 21 March 1958) is a Belgian Peer-to-Peer theorist and an active writer, researcher and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation.

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Micropayment

A micropayment is a financial transaction involving a very small sum of money and usually one that occurs online.

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Miro (software)

Miro (formerly named Democracy Player or DTV) is an audio, video player and Internet television application developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation.

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Nagarjuna G.

Nagarjuna G. (Nagarjuna Gadiraju) works in the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India.

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Net neutrality

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers treat all data on the Internet equally, and not discriminate or charge differently by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or method of communication.

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Open Knowledge International

Open Knowledge International (OKI) (known as the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) until April 2014, then Open Knowledge until May 2016) is a global non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data.

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Open standard

An open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed (e.g. open process).

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Open-source license

An open-source license is a type of license for computer software and other products that allows the source code, blueprint or design to be used, modified and/or shared under defined terms and conditions.

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Oxcars

The Oxcars (stylized as OXcars or oXcars) are a non-competitive awards ceremony held at Sala Apolo in Barcelona, Spain, in October each year.

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P2P Foundation

P2P Foundation: The Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives is an organization with the aim of studying the impact of peer to peer technology and thought on society.

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Participatory Culture Foundation

The Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to “enable and support independent, non-corporate creativity and political engagement.” Its primary project is a free and open-source software Internet television platform called Miro, formerly named Democracy Player.

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Peer-to-peer file sharing

Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology.

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Peter Sunde

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (born 13 September 1978), alias brokep, is a Swedish entrepreneur and politician.

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Piratbyrån

Piratbyrån ("The Pirate Bureau") was a Swedish organization (or think tank) established to support the free sharing of information, culture, and intellectual property.

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Pirate Party (Sweden)

The Pirate Party (Piratpartiet) is a political party in Sweden founded in 2006.

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Private copying levy

A private copying levy (also known as blank media tax or levy) is a government-mandated scheme in which a special tax or levy (additional to any general sales tax) is charged on purchases of recordable media.

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Public domain

The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, rms—is an American free software movement activist and programmer.

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Safe Creative

Safe Creative is a digital copyright registration service to show evidence of copyright registration for the owners of the creative material in the case of plagiarism or misuse of copyrighted materials.

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Simona Levi

This article contains material translated from the Spanish Wikipedia's version of this page. Simona Levi is a theatre director, playwright, activist, technopolitical strategist, cultural manager and curator, multidisciplinary artist, researcher, reporter, teacher and lecturer.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Telecomix

Telecomix is a decentralized cluster of net activists, committed to the freedom of expression and is a name used by both WeRebuild and Telecomix.

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Telecoms Package

The Telecoms Package was the review of the European Union Telecommunications Framework from 2007 – 2009.

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The Influencers

The Influencers is a festival that mixes art, guerrilla communication and radical entertainment.

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The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay (sometimes abbreviated to TPB) is an online index of digital content of entertainment media and software.

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Tor (anonymity network)

Tor is free software for enabling anonymous communication.

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Web We Want

Web We Want is a campaign started by the World Wide Web Foundation to promote discussion on Internet rights.

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Whistleblower

A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public.

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WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organisation that publishes secret information, news leaks, and classified media provided by anonymous sources.

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Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, or simply Wikimedia) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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X Party

The X Party (Spanish: Partido X) is a political party officially registered with the Spanish Ministry of Interior towards the end of 2012, which appeared publicly at the beginning of 2013.

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Xnet

Xnet (former eXgae) is a non-profit activist platform that develops and promotes alternative models for cultural dissemination and royalty management and work in different fields related to digital rights, networked democracy and freedom of expression.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_Forum

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