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Open Minds Podcast: Sam Williams of Arweave

August 11, 2022

Hi Creative Commoners! We are back with a new episode of CC’s Open Minds … from Creative Commons podcast. On this episode, CC’s Chief Operating Officer, Anna Tumadóttir, sits down for an interesting conversation with Sam Williams, the co-founder and CEO of Arweave, the company that created the Arweave protocol, a permanent archive of human …Read More“Open Minds Podcast: Sam Williams of Arweave”

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Sharing Matters: What We’ve Learned at Creative Commons

August 10, 2022

Sharing matters. Thanks to the digital revolution, we share things like never before, from scientific research to family photos, from day-to-day life to college courses — and all instantaneously. The variety and volume of sharing today was unimaginable even just a decade ago. Now social media and publishing platforms, smartphones, cheap data, and expanded internet …Read More“Sharing Matters: What We’ve Learned at Creative Commons”

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CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks: Recordings and Request for Speakers!

August 10, 2022

The Creative Commons Open Education Platform community completed our latest round of Lightning Talks, or seven-minute presentations on specific updates or stories in open education. Learn more about the presentations in the recording links and summaries below. And, we hope you will consider presenting in our next round, coming up in 2023. Sign up here. …Read More“CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks: Recordings and Request for Speakers!”

Education / OER

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“开放文化的障碍是什么?”Here’s what the CC community has to say”

Open Culture

CC still opposes mandatory filtering and so should you

July 15, 2022

As part of Creative Commons’ key strategic goal of Better Sharing, we have taken a firm stance against mandatory content filtering on the internet. In new proposed legislation, the U.S. Congress is now raising mandatory content filtering again as a tool to eliminate infringement of copyrighted works. 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

昨天，电子前沿基金会(EFF)提交了一份动议，要求驳回四家大型出版商对互联网档案馆(IA)提起的诉讼，该诉讼威胁到了IA的受控数字借贷(CDL)项目。卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析知识共享完全支持这一动议。这是为什么。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