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What is libre culture?

Libre culture is all about empowering people. While the general philosophy stems greatly from the free software movement, libre culture is much broader and encompasses other aspects of culture such as music, movies, food, technology, etc.

Some beliefs include but aren't limited to:

That copyright should expire after a certain period of time.
That knowledge should be available to people, not locked away.
That no entity should have unjust control or possession of others.
That mass surveillance is about mass control, not justice.
That we can all band together to help liberate each other.

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Rules

I've looked into the ways other forums handle rules, and I've distilled their policies down into two simple ideas.

Please show common courtesy: Let's make this community one that people want to be a part of.
Please keep posts generally on topic
No NSFW content
When sharing a Libre project, please include the name of its license in the title. For example: “Project name and summary (GPL-3.0)”

Libre culture is a very very broad topic, and while it's perfectly okay for a conversation to stray, I do ask that we keep things generally on topic.

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Your take on the attribution license (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm an aspiring author, building a novel under CC BY-SA (it's in french). My wish is to make it some kind of framework for others to be allowed to build more stories, or modify mine and redistribute freely, even commercially.

I don't plan on making a living from it, there's no way it could happen (although being paid should not be incompatible with free licenses, but that's another discussion). The thing is, when I think about the attribution part of the license I'm choosing, I often think it's too restrictive and should be public domain instead, if my work is really meant to be an open narrative framework.

What are your takes on the attribution license, regarding free licenses for cultural content, especially written content ?

(I'm french so if there are any french speaking people around here, feel free to answer in another language than english)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The “lore” gets closed in that world since the moment that a propietary copy gets famous and doesn’t contribute back to the original, which, in fact, has no central point of avaiiability but it is almost a just 1-release version that in the moment you stop, it will become difficult to track.

Yeah, you're right. Tracking the original source (and certifiying a timestamp on it) is key in a legal framework. But why would it be more difficult for Public Domain than CC BY-SA for instance, if some reliable source certifies the content ?
I get what you're saying, I'm not trying to be contrarian, and I do agree that the strength of Copyleft is that of the collectives. I'm also against appropriation, and I think it's great to have a strong copyleft framework.
Aren't there collectives fighting for public domain content too ?

By the way thanks for adding to the discussion, I really appreciate that.