Join us on Wednesday, 23 February for an online panel discussion, as we explore how open access to cultural heritage materials encourages artists to discover, share, and remix such materials. 

In advance of the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development — Mondiacult 2022, Creative Commons is pleased to participate in the ResiliArt x Mondiacult initiative to celebrate better access to culture and allow artists and creators to participate in a generative creative cycle. 

Our upcoming ResiliArt x Mondiacult webinar will explore how open access to cultural heritage materials encourages artists to discover, share, and remix such materials. We will hear from artists and heritage professionals firsthand as they share their vision for better sharing of cultural heritage to support contemporary creativity in the digital space. They will also consider how better sharing can act as an engine for sustainable cultural development, through fair remuneration and open business models. Our panelists will examine the power of open licensing and the importance of Creative Commons’ infrastructure as a catalyst for the dissemination and revitalization of culture.

Panelists include: 

• Brigitte Vézina | Director of Policy, Open Culture, and GLAM at Creative Commons (Moderator)
• Hessel van Oorshot | Founder & “Chief of Noise” at Tribe of Noise
• Eddie Grey | Los Angeles-based composer, arranger, songwriter, and sound designer 
• Eline de Graaf | Curator of Collections at Het Nieuwe Instituut
• Iván Martínez | Free knowledge activist and human rights defender at R3D 
• Jesica Pullo | Founding Director at BIOTICO

Date: Wednesday 23 February 2022
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 UTC / 11:00 – 12:30 EST / 8:00 – 9:30 PST | View your local time zone
Location: Join us from wherever you are based! We’ll be using Zoom to host the event.

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Calling all artists! Participate in #CCSharesCulture, our new Open Culture Remix Art Contest! The theme this year is “Love Culture? Share Culture!”

In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Creative Commons licenses, we are excited to announce the launch of our brand new Open Culture Remix Art Contest #CCSharesCulture to celebrate better sharing of cultural heritage throughout the world. 

Better sharing of cultural heritage can unlock tremendous creative potential, as people remix content in new and inventive ways. Our goal for #CCSharesCulture is to showcase the astonishing creativity that open access to cultural heritage can trigger. Together, we can show how open access positively impacts contemporary culture and creativity outside institutional contexts, and how it is a true engine for cultural and social development. 

Participants can reuse public domain or CC BY-licensed images, paintings, photographs, drawings, etc. digitized in open collections from anywhere in the world to create, submit, and share original artworks.  Here is a list of institutions with public domain/openly licensed collections to get you started.  

Submission deadline: April 30, 2022

Submissions

Entry is free of charge. Create an original artwork on the theme of “Love Culture? Share Culture!” supported by a brief description telling the story behind the artwork, including how the artwork conveys your emotions and relates to the theme. Add a title and share a personal profile of yourself. Submit your art work here >>

By submitting an entry to the contest, you agree to the Creative Commons Open Culture Remix Art Contest Rules. 

What can you win?

1st place: cash award of US$1000
2nd place: cash award of US$500
3rd place: cash award of US$250
4th-7th: “honorable mention” – a copy of “Made with Creative Commons” signed by Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons
8th-10th place: “honorable mention” – a copy of “Made with Creative Commons”
Public choice award: Creative Commons merchandise

Term and timeline

The Contest begins on 14 February, 2022, and ends on 30 April, 2022, at 11:59 PM UTC. 

• Submissions open: February 14, 2022
• Submissions close: April 30, 2022 
• Shortlisted entries and winners announced: May 2022
• Live event with winners: June 2022

How will the winners be selected?

A panel of five judges, open culture and/or open creativity experts, will judge the entries based on their conformity with the theme, expression of theme, originality, creativity, quality, artistic expression, personal expression, visual appeal, and overall impact. The brief descriptions accompanying the artworks will also be taken into account. 

Public choice award: The public will be invited to vote for the Public’s Choice award. 

How will the artworks be used?

Accepted artworks, along with the participants’ full name and description, will be published on the Creative Commons website, promoted via Creative Commons’ online media channels, and adapted for other possible promotional and editorial purposes, at Creative Commons’ discretion. 

Note that the CC BY license or CC0 Public Domain Dedication applied to the submitted artwork gives the public permission to use the artwork for any purpose, including for commercial purposes. Please familiarize yourself with the terms of the applicable legal tool before you enter the contest, and apply it to your artwork. 

Questions?

If you have any questions about the contest, please contact us at communications@creativecommons.org.

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Episodes will be released twice a week until June 2022. Missed episode four of our Open Culture VOICES series? Catch up here >>

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We are back with a new episode 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 bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online. In this episode, we hear from Douglas McCarthy, Collections Engagement Manager at the Europeana Foundation in the Netherlands. Douglas is a passionate advocate for making cultural heritage openly accessible to promote the exchange of ideas and contribute to a thriving knowledge economy. As Collections Engagement Manager at Europeana, Douglas supports Europeana’s mission by working with partner institutions to showcase their collections to online audiences.

Douglas responds to the following questions: 

1. What are the main benefits of open GLAM?
2. What are the barriers?
3. Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?
4. Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?

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Episodes will be released twice a week until June 2022. Missed episode three of our Open Culture VOICES series? Catch up here >>

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Recently, there has been an increase in threatened and actual lawsuits involving CC licensed works, and in some cases, license enforcement has even become a business model. We have now learned that even long-time friend and contributor to Creative Commons, Cory Doctorow, has been targeted.

Put simply, “license-enforcement-as-business model” is a perversion of the founding ideals of Creative Commons. We condemn this behavior. These aggressive enforcement actions lessen trust in open licensing, and they erode the good faith ecosystem that is the basis of the commons.

At CC, we have prioritized work on issues of license enforcement in order to combat this problem. In 2021, we engaged in a public consultation to create and vet a set of principles around when and how CC licenses should be enforced. We also continue to actively promote adoption of the most recent version of CC licenses, the version 4.0 suite, which contains terms that make explicit what for most of CC’s history was implied and upheld by licensors around the world—that errors in license compliance made in good faith should be correctable.

Together with our community, we will continue to take action to deter those who leverage CC licenses in bad faith. The health of the commons depends upon it.

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