# Free culture I want to support either free culture or independent creators. So trying to do it in a way that means easy access to culture for those that can't afford it, but also in a way that artists and creators get fairly compensated for their work. Cutting out the big corporations that skim off the hard work of others. I have a [[Music listening strategy]]. > In part as a response to the increasingly aggressive assertion of copyright by the cultural industries suing customers for performing everyday acts online, and in part drawing inspiration from the [[free software]] movement, the free culture (or open content) movement began to take shape (Boyle, 1997; Lessig, 2001). > > – [[dulongderosnay2020: Digital commons]] > The largest free culture project is [[Wikipedia]], an encyclopedia that is cooperatively written and financed by donations from the readers who are part of the community (Dobusch & Kapeller, 2018). > > – [[dulongderosnay2020: Digital commons]]