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Rebecca MacKinnon: iSummit '08 Keynote Address
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Daniela Faris · Johannesburg (South Africa) · 15/9/2008 17:49 · 22 votes · no comments made
 
Rebecca MacKinnon at the iSummit '08 in Sapporo, masahiko on flickr.com (http://flickr.com/photos/masahiko/2719484942/), CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)


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Free Culture and Free Speech: Why strong and vibrant free culture communities are important for freedom of expression

In the democracies of today freedom of expression is often taken for granted when it is particularly fragile. It is a right that needs to be continually exercised, because if it isn't, the space that society provides for it shrinks until the next time someone exercises that right. The communities that subscribe to the ethos of the Commons are important actors in the creation of the space for free.

See the slides from this presentation, here.

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iSummit staff: Anna Berthold and Debbie Luke


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date   Sep 15th, 2008
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