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"If anything deserves a reward, it is social contribution; Creativity can be a 
social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. 
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the 
same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these 
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 Folkstreams
 
The mission of Folkstreams.net is to build a national preserve of documentary 
films about American folk or roots culture. Produced by independent filmmakers, 
these hard-to-find films give voice to the arts and experience of diverse 
American groups. Folkstreams.net makes these films easy to find and to see by 
video-streaming them on the Internet, and also provides in-depth and reliable 
contextual materials about the subjects and the filmmaking.  
Recently, Folkstreams was awarded a 
                       grant by the Institute for Museum and Library 
Services to digitize documentary films on American folk culture and provide global 
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The members of the Etree.org community are united by a belief among its members 
that music that bands permit to be traded should be freely traded. The biggest 
difference between Etree.org and other online music sites is that Etree.org 
deals exclusively with legally tradeable music. They only deal with live 
recordings by artists that allow taping and/or free trading of their 
performances. The list of TradeFriendly bands grows daily. Trading music by 
artists who don't permit it could shut etree.org down faster than you can say 
Napster. For that reason, and more importantly out of respect to those who 
create the music, they prohibit people from using this community to exchange 
music unless the artist gives permission to do so. The community was formed as 
an offshoot of two highly regarded online trading communities: [Sugarmegs Audio] 
and [People for a Clearer Phish]. Starting with 10 people, etree.org has enjoyed 
ever-increasing growth and popularity. As of early 2004, there were over 12,000 
users and almost 300 independently-operated file (FTP) servers. 
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 Project Gutenberg
  
Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest (and still the best) producer of free 
electronic books (often called eBooks). Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of 
Michael Hart, who in 1971 decided that it would be a really good idea if lots of 
famous and important texts were freely available to everyone in the world. Since 
then, he has been joined by hundreds of volunteers who share his vision. Now, 
more than thirty years later, Project Gutenberg houses over 6000 complete 
electronic versions important literature and scientific texts. Project Gutenberg 
features materials in over 20 languages and in dozens of formats, and has a goal 
of making one million free eBooks available online by early in the next decade. 
From 1991 to today, Project Gutenberg had managed to double its production of 
free eBooks every 18 months. 
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 Henriette's Herbal Homepage
 
Remember when the web was lynx, mosaic, gopher and veronica? When there was no 
spam, and newsgroups were useful, and blogs weren't even a glimmer in the eye of 
their inventor? Henriette's Herbal Homepage was there and flourishing, back in 
the internet stoneage. Widely regarded as the definitive web resource for all 
things herbal, it's non-commercial, chock-full of information, searchable and 
cross-indexed, with herbal FAQs, herbal archives, old herbal texts, and 
thousands of photos. It's one of the best places to go on the Web if you're 
interested in herbs and their uses.   
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 WebMuseum
 
A collection of works from the great masters of Western Art, put together into a 
virtual art museum. We're not allowed to call it The Louvre anymore, but it's still got paintings from that 
big museum and other French stuff.  Started by Nicholas Pioch, the 
Webmuseum was created because he felt more art materials was needed on the 
Internet. The contributor run web art gallery has been around for almost 10 
years, and is home to some of the webs most creative art.
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