Culture Freedom Day

It aims at educating the worldwide public about the benefits of using and encouraging free culture as well as providing an international day to serve as a platform to promote free culture artists.

[1] Free culture movement is dedicated to creating and making available their art, allowing others to freely use, study, distribute and improve on the work of others.

[1] The free culture movement opposes practices such as copyright extensions and attempts at suppressing the 'fair use rights' by the traditional media industry.

[4] It aims at educating the worldwide public about the benefits of using and encouraging free culture as well as providing an international day to serve as a platform to promote free culture artists.

[2] The first 2012 celebrations took place a week ahead of schedule, on 11–12 May in Lisbon, Portugal.