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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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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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I'm trying to license under CC0 some parts of my novel, which is under CC BY-SA. Am I doing it right ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As part of a project to create a library of libre literary artifacts and narrative schemes, I'm choosing to waive my rights over little parts of my CC BY-SA writings. To me it makes no sense to claim rights on inventions that may be too common to be strictly mine. But I want to open my inventions as libre culture, or libre lore.

So inside the chapters of this novel I am writing, there are ideas of plots, names, objects, phenomena, specific stories of the characters, and I want these little parts of my work to be public domain, even though the whole writings will probably stay CC BY-SA.

For instance, I wrote about a memory enhancement sleep chamber.
Here is the form I created on Internet Archive :

https://archive.org/details/caisson-de-sommeil-amplification-des-souvenirs-memory-enhancement-sleep-chamber/

Also :

Here the Lemmy post (Libre Lore sub) about it.
The original work from which it comes from (it is in french language)

Does it look OK to you, or are there confusing aspects ?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I guess licensing the lore differently from the actual story makes sense if you are doing world building that spans multiple novels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a draft fedi tech news magazine (that soon I am going to make part of Social Coding Movement) (also in draft). Look at the licensing in the footer for how I've set this up. The sub-pages get the licensing info in their schema.org JSON-LD metadata in <head>. Dunno if it is the right or best way, but it may help you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the input. I'm having a look. I see the default is CC0, can you link a page or article which is under another license so that I can see the differences in header ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think ultimately most articles will be CC-BY-SA for their respective authors. Currently I have CC-BY-SA on profile pages as example. And I see a bug that the license property is not filled there. Here the issue showing an example of licensing metadata.