It may have been almost exactly two months ago, but better late than never. Harvard Free Culture was featured on WHRB, where I gave a short commentary about our group and the organization behind it. Here’s a (slightly edited) version of the text, or if you’d prefer, you can listen yourself. (And for those that speak German, they might want to check out this interview I did for the Austrian equivalent of NPR.)

Freeculture is an international student movement with two primary objectives: (1) fostering cultural participation, especially in the digital age and (2) promoting access to information, knowledge, and culture through less restrictive copyright policy. While some may conflate our usage of the term free with that of “free as in beer” or “everything for free,” the type of freedom we support is like that of freedom of speech. We believe that with the free flow of information and ideas, we can build upon the past to create a more vibrant culture of the future. The “culture” aspect of the organization spans many fronts: everything from public domain archived films to free software to electronic music remixes to art shows to wikis, blogs, and other collaborative technologies. In a truly free culture, much of the information must be shared and freely interchanged, thus entering into the “information commons.”