Hi Creative Commoners! We’re back with a new episode of CC’s podcast, Open Minds … from Creative Commons. In this episode, CC’s Ony Anukem sits down for a conversation with award-winning author, historian and art critic, Tyler Green. Tyler is also the producer/host of The Modern Art Notes podcast, described by The Washington Post as …Read More“Open Minds Podcast: Tyler Green of The Modern Art Notes Podcast”
Like many people on the internet, we here at Creative Commons have been thinking about NFTs, and the possibilities that unique digital assets might bring for artists and creators. (By the way, did you know that Beeple, the artist who famously sold an NFT for $69 million, has been using CC licenses for years?) Most …Read More“At the Intersection of NFTs and Creative Commons Licenses”
February is usually the time to share virtual hugs, chocolates, and witty cards with family and friends for Valentine’s Day ❤️. (Or “Friend’s Day” in Finland!) This past Valentine’s Day, we wanted you to share something a little different: your creative work. In our Open Sharing is Caring challenge, we asked you to openly share …Read More“Thank You for Participating in Open Sharing Is Caring!”
There is a quiet, familiar beauty found in still life, a type of art that depicts primarily inanimate objects, like animals, food, or flowers. These comforting images offer a sense of certainty and simplicity in uncertain and complex times. This could explain why over six million Instagram users have fallen in love with still life …Read More“Still Life: Art That Brings Comfort in Uncertain Times”
February is the time to share virtual hugs, chocolates, and witty cards with family and friends for Valentine’s Day ♥️ (or “Friend’s Day” in Finland!) This Valentine’s Day, we want you to share something a little different: your creative work. In our Open Sharing is Caring challenge, we’re asking you to openly share an image, song, artwork, research paper, poem, GIF…whatever it …Read More“Open Sharing Is Caring: A Valentine’s Day Challenge”
一年一度的CC全球峰会的闭幕派对总是令人难以置信，当地的艺术家和音乐家为我们举行了别开生面的欢送会。Of course, things are a little different this year as we’ve transformed our in-person event to an entirely virtual one—but that doesn’t mean we can’t find a way to party together like …Read More“Your Chance to Perform for the CC Global Summit!”
In the second part of our series on artificial intelligence (AI) and creativity, we get immersed in the fascinating universe of AI in an attempt to determine whether it is capable of creating works eligible for copyright protection. Below, we present two examples of an AI system generating arguably novel content through two different methods: …Read More“Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Can Machines Write Like Jane Austen?”
Creative Commons is pleased to be a part of the second annual Public Domain Day (PDD) celebration held in Washington D.C. on January 30, in collaboration with the Internet Archive, the Institute for Intellectual Property & Social Justice, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, and SPARC. In order to celebrate the public domain …Read More“Meet the Artists Commissioned for the Public Domain Day Celebration”
The Paris Musées’ recently released more than 100,000 works under Creative Commons Zero (CCØ), putting the works into the public domain. They also released their collections’ Application Programming Interface (API), allowing users to “recover, in high definition, several royalty-free images and their records from cross-searches on the works.” Users can scroll through the collection via …Read More“Paris Musées Releases 100,000+ Works Into the Public Domain”
Today, we are announcing a release of 30,000 high quality, free and open digital images from the museum’s collection under CC0 and available via their API.
