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The Definition of Free Cultural Works is a definition of free content put forth by Erik Möller[1] and published on the website freedomdefined.org.

The first draft of the Definition of Free Cultural Works was published 3 April 2006 [2]. Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Angela Beesley[3] and others helped the project. The 1.0 and 1.1 versions were published in English and translated into some languages [4].

The Definition of Free Cultural Works is used by the Wikimedia Foundation.[5] In 2008, the Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons licenses were marked as "Approved for Free Cultural Works" [6]. Afterward, Wikipedia migrated to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

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Notes

  1. ^ http://freedomdefined.org/History
  2. ^ http://freedomdefined.org/index.php?title=Definition&action=history
  3. ^ http://freedomdefined.org/History
  4. ^ http://freedomdefined.org/Definition
  5. ^ http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy
  6. ^ http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8051

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