356 || Week 3 || Free Culture Concept

So I suppose what I wasn't understanding was where the "Free" was in Free Culture, but I think I have a grasp on it when I imagine that a free culture is not that it's a culture that is free (like free food), but a freed culture. A culture that is free. In this instance, one of the key phrases was "A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid" (page xvi) and I realize here that he isn't talking about the subject of unpaid artists, I think maybe he's talking about the priviledge of being an unpaid artist, like this is a contribution to the greater society and your pay is really only what you get out of that. I think it's listening to critiques and and understanding that what you've given has made an addition to the world, like the stories that we developed around pieces in the art gallery in Week 2.

**The property part of this is probably what has me stuck. What does he mean by a culture with property?

Edit: He means that (page xiv) a free culture supports creators and innovators and lends intellectual property rights (similar to artistic licenses?), to a certain degree, to a point that the next creators and innovators following these creations and innovations don't get caught up in outright permissions from concentrations of power (page xv) - "political, corporate, media, cultural" concentrations of power" (William Safire, 1999).

**What people that aren't online is he worried about?  How do I begin to think about this?