- Libre Society
The Libre Society is a radical artistic and cultural movement that is committed to releasing free/libre/open-source art, music and literature. The Libre Society released a
manifesto , called theLibre Manifesto , as its call to action.The Libre Sociey has been inspired by the
copyleft movement, the 1960s Situationists and writers such asAntonio Negri ,Gilles Deleuze ,Michel Foucault ,Karl Marx ,Carl Schmitt andFriedrich Nietzsche . Set up byartist s andintellectual s, it rejects art as merely objects to be bought and sold and instead reaffirms art as liberating, transformatory and emancipatory.Activities
Libre Commons Licenses have been launched which are expressly political in nature and attempt to counter the anodyne Creative Commons licenses which have been criticised for being too friendly to the content industries.
Copy Rip Burn is a touring show of work and art around created and inspired by the Libre Manifesto.
Libre Culture is an international libre publishing collaboration between Pygmalion Books (Canada) and the Libre Society (UK). This book of essays and articles (written by the authors of the "Libre Manifesto") was first published in October 2007 and is available for free directly from the publisher.
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Creative Commons External links
* [http://www.piratgruppen.org/spip.php?article55 Libre Society Manifesto]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/LibreCultureMeditationsOnFreeCulture Berry, D. M & Moss, G. (2008). Libre Culture: Meditations on Free Culture. Canada: Pygmalion Books.]
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