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

July 22, 2022

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”

Open Culture

CC still opposes mandatory filtering and so should you

July 15, 2022

作为知识共享的关键战略卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析目标“更好的共享”的一部分，我们已经采取了坚定的立场，反对在互联网上强制过滤内容。在新提出的立法中，美国国会再次提出强制内容过滤，作为消除侵犯版权作品的一种工具。For those who are new to the discussion, …Read More“CC still opposes mandatory filtering and so should you”

Policy / advocacy / copyright reform

CC Supports Internet Archive’s Efforts to Ensure Public Access to Books

July 8, 2022

Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a motion for summary judgment calling to reject the lawsuit against the Internet Archive (IA) brought by four big publishers that threatens IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) program. Creative Commons fully supports this motion. Here’s why. The Internet Archive is an American non-profit library preserving and giving access …Read More“CC Supports Internet Archive’s Efforts to Ensure Public Access to Books”

Policy / advocacy / copyright reform

Join us for our next round of CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks!

July 6, 2022

The Creative Commons Open Education Platform community will offer our next round of Lightning Talks, or seven-minute presentations on specific updates or stories in open education. Join the sessions on Tuesday 12 July at 6:00pm UTC. We can’t wait to learn with you! Location: Join us from wherever you are based! We’ll be using Zoom to …Read More“Join us for our next round of CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks!”

Education / OER

CC Expresses Views on Italian National Cultural Heritage Digitization Plan

July 4, 2022

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”

Open Culture

Here are four key takeaways from evaluating the CC Certificate

June 22, 2022

The CC Certificate program helps Creative Commons build professionals’ capacity in open licensing and open practices. The program offers global courses for academic librarians, educators, and cultural heritage advocates; but courses are open to everyone. Through global discussions, course participants work through what it means to engage in an online commons of shared knowledge and …Read More“Here are four key takeaways from evaluating the CC Certificate”

Education / OER

Open Minds Podcast: *Special Episode* CC Roundtable on EU DATA ACT

June 22, 2022

嗨,创造性的平民!我们将带着全新一集CC的开放思想回来，来自知识共享播客。卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析In this episode, we switch things up from our typical interview style and play back the recording of Creative Commons’ hybrid roundtable on the EU Data Act, which took place in Brussels on 14 June …Read More“Open Minds Podcast: *Special Episode* CC Roundtable on EU DATA ACT”

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CC Certificate: Alumni interview with Revekka Kefalea

June 3, 2022

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”

Education / OER

Episode 35: Open Culture VOICES – Josée Plamondon

June 2, 2022

Welcome to episode 35 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to …Read More“Episode 35: Open Culture VOICES – Josée Plamondon”

Open Culture VOICES