The Libre Culture Manifesto: A manifesto for free/libre culture

David M. Berry Giles Moss, Free Software Magazine n. 2, March 2005

A constellation of interests is now seeking to increase its
ownership and control of creativity. We are told that these
interests require new laws and rights that will allow them to
control concepts and ideas and protect them from exploita-
tion. They say that this will enrich our lives, create new
products and safeguard the possibility of future prosperity.
But this is a disaster for creativity, whose health depends on
an ongoing, free and open conversation between ideas from
the past and the present.

In response, we wish to defend the idea of a creative field of
concepts and ideas that are free from ownership.