The 18-month long collaborative project between South Africa and Brazil, which gave birth to the Cultura Livre website, and aimed to build southern dialogue around culture, media and intellectual property in the 21st century, came to a fitting end with representatives from both countries coming together to exchange ideas and perform music together on a single platform.

This project has been about a number of important issues that have been researched, highlighted and put into practice over the year, looking at the roles of the media in the IPR debate, how creators and creative industries have adapted to transformations in the approach to IPR and involved in building a community of active stakeholders in the environment.  Over this time the South Africans and Brazilians have learnt how to work together in a global platform,  exchanging ideas and concretising principles around culture, media and the IPR debate.
 
South Africa concluded the project as partners in the SA Free Culture Tour, which brought  Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig, both leaders and inspirers of open-content movements to the country to speak at UWC's Digital Freedom Exposition and the ccSalon:  Bring n Braai cultural event.  The event was also part of the SAfro-Brazil Remix competition wherein two representatives from both countries were chosen to showcase their unique, cc-licensed electronic music created by remixing Brazilian and South African local sounds into their tracks to create a new sound. 

 

The cc Salon:   Bring n Braai event also encouraged people to upload and share their own digital media to add to the pool of creative works licensed under cc.  A freedom toaster was situated at the venue which allowed people to download material as well.  

 

This event was about bringing together the community of open-content supporters and trail-blazers from creative and technical industries, to listen to and learn from the speakers, as well as to simply connect and recognise that the open-content movement is alive and well in South Africa.