Legalna Kultura among KFF’s partners.
For the third year in a row, Legalna Kultura has become one of the partners of the Krakow Film Festival. Legalna Kultura is a positive campaign aimed to promote the use of legitimate sources of culture. It unites the community of authors and consumers, and it shapes the feeling of responsibility for culture in the digital world.
Legalna Kultura works to raise our awareness about the fact that the way in which we use culture has a huge impact on it. It is not possible to create and develop legal sources without social acceptance. Not only the creators and producers are responsible for the availability – legal sources will be available in the Internet only if we want to reach for them. And the more legitimate sources there are, the cheaper it will be to use them. That is why it is so important for all of us to realize our own role in the circulation of culture.
The Legalna Kultura campaign pursues its objectives through creating The Base of Legitimate Sources, where you can currently find nearly 600 sites offering legal access to movies, books, music, games, photos, galleries and museums, allowing Internet users to navigate in this limitless online world.
The most recent project of Legalna Kultura is Culture on Display (Kultura na Widoku) starting on the 29th of May – a nationwide campaign in the public space promoting access to legal sources. The idea of Culture on Display is to make Poles aware of the way the culture travelled from the times of the underground Solidarity movement to the contemporary era of digital society. Thanks to special stands mounted in urban public space, the digitalised underground works from the times of the Solidarity movement meet the contemporary culture in the digital world and can become available to the audience through mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops. On the virtual shelves, there are books, movies, music and games. In their vicinity we will also find a stand with publications from the underground circulation, including documents from the collection of “Solidarity – the birth of the movement,” registered on the World Heritage List of UNESCO “The Memory of the World.” The project was taken under the auspices of the President of the Republic of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski as part of the 25th anniversary of Freedom.
Culture On Display will be available throughout the summer season, in the public space of Warsaw, Nowa Huta, Cracow, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Łódź, Opole as well as in the public space of other regional cities and of tourist destinations.