Open Culture

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What are the barriers to open culture? Here’s what the CC community has to say

What are the barriers to open culture? What challenges do cultural heritage institutions — such as galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) — face in making their collections openly accessible online? How could Creative Commons support institutions in addressing these challenges and taking part in better sharing of cultural heritage? In search of answers, we …Read More“What are the barriers to open culture? Here’s what the CC community has to say”

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CC Expresses Views on Italian National Cultural Heritage Digitization Plan

A few weeks ago, the Italian Ministry of Culture issued its National Cultural Heritage Digitization Plan 2022-2023 – Guidelines for the acquisition, sharing and reuse of digital cultural heritage reproductions. While the Plan is welcome as an important step towards the digital transformation of cultural heritage institutions (CHIs), it risks nonetheless restricting, rather than increasing, …Read More“CC Expresses Views on Italian National Cultural Heritage Digitization Plan”

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CC Certificate: Alumni interview with Revekka Kefalea

Launched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated over 1000 people from 56 countries. Creative Commons staff are regularly inspired by the community of Certificate alumni, accomplishing incredible things in open knowledge and culture. CC Certificate alumni have used the Certificate course knowledge in a number of ways—read about how alumni …Read More“CC Certificate: Alumni interview with Revekka Kefalea”

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Announcing the winners of CC Open Culture Remix Art Contest 2022 #CCSharesCulture

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Creative Commons licenses, we launched our first ever Open Culture Remix Art Contest #CCSharesCulture in February 2022 to celebrate a better sharing of cultural heritage around the world. Participants were tasked with creating original artworks in line with this year’s theme of “Love Culture? Share Culture!” by remixing …Read More“Announcing the winners of CC Open Culture Remix Art Contest 2022 #CCSharesCulture”

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Virtual Workshop Recap: Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage

Background to the workshop At the start of April 2022, Creative Commons released a policy paper called “Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage — An Agenda for Copyright Reform” developed by members of the Creative Commons (CC) Copyright Platform and CC friends from around the world, which addresses the key high-level policy issues affecting access …Read More“Virtual Workshop Recap: Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage”

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Eight case studies show opportunities, challenges, and needs of low-capacity and non-Western cultural heritage institutions

2021年10月，知识共享协议呼吁卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析对画廊、图书馆、档案馆和博物馆(glam)等文化机构的开放获取进行案例研究，这些机构来自世界各地的低能力、非西方机构，或代表边缘化、代表性不足的社区。The aim of the open call was to help generate a more global, inclusive, and equitable …Read More“Eight case studies show opportunities, challenges, and needs of low-capacity and non-Western cultural heritage institutions”

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‘Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage’ Workshop — Help us develop a CC Open Culture Guide for Policymakers

请加入我们于2022年5月10日星期二下午3时UTC举行的“朝着更好的文化遗产共享”研讨会，我们将启动为决策者制定CC开放文化指南。This digital workshop will continue the work of the newly released paper “Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage — An Agenda for …Read More“‘Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage’ Workshop — Help us develop a CC Open Culture Guide for Policymakers”

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