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title: Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Can Machines Write Like Jane Austen?
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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: Markov Chains and Artificial Neural Network. We then apply the copyright eligibility criteria explained in “</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/no-copyright-protection-for-ai-generated-output/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Why We&#8217;re Against Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Output</a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” to each example. </span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>Here&#8217;s the gist: </strong>Through<strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the Jane Austen examples below, it&#8217;s clear that the seemingly “creative” choices made by the AI system are not attributable to any causal link between a human and the result, nor is it a human that defines the final form or expression of the work.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The randomness elements incorporated in an AI program is what gives the illusion of creativity—and the closer one gets to a semblance of a creative work created by a human, the higher the similarity, thus the lower the originality. All this leads us to conclude that the copyright protection requirements of authorship and originality are not satisfied.</span></strong></p>
<h3><strong>Method 1 &#8211; Markov Chains</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Suppose you wanted to develop an AI system that could write like English novelist </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jane Austen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (1775-1817). To do this, one might model writing a sentence as a Markov chain. First discovered by Andrey Markov, a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Markov chain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a stochastic model describing a sequence of events where the distribution of possibilities for the next event is dependent only on the current state of the sequence up to that point. These models were first applied to language by Claude Shannon in his groundbreaking paper, </span><em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematical_Theory_of_Communication" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Mathematical Theory of Communication</span></a></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_62064" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62064" style="width: 183px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-62064 size-medium" src="media/9eec2c44.1024px-SenseAndSensibilityTitlePage-183x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1024px-SenseAndSensibilityTitlePage-183x300.jpg" alt="Sense and Sensibility original cover page" width="183" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1024px-SenseAndSensibilityTitlePage-183x300.jpg 183w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1024px-SenseAndSensibilityTitlePage-625x1024.jpg 625w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1024px-SenseAndSensibilityTitlePage-768x1259.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1024px-SenseAndSensibilityTitlePage-937x1536.jpg 937w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1024px-SenseAndSensibilityTitlePage-24x40.jpg 24w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1024px-SenseAndSensibilityTitlePage-31x50.jpg 31w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1024px-SenseAndSensibilityTitlePage-95x155.jpg 95w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1024px-SenseAndSensibilityTitlePage.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 183px) 85vw, 183px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62064" class="wp-caption-text">An image of the title page from the first edition of Jane Austen&#8217;s &#8220;Sense and Sensibility (1811)&#8221;. This image is in the public domain via the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Access it <a href="media/ebcff087.Jane_Austen" data-original-source="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, the word “Mrs.” (capitalized and with punctuation) occurs 2,157 times in the </span><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31100" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">complete works of Jane Austen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and words following “Mrs.” are “Annesley,” “Gardiner,” “F.”, etc.  The AI system would then randomly select from the list of words that follow “Mrs.” to get a possible continuation of a sentence starting with “Mrs.” By leaving the repeated elements in the list and selecting from it uniformly at random, a preference for selecting words that occur more frequently after the “seed” (or initial) word is ensured. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s say the AI system randomly selects “Annesley” from the list to follow “Mrs.” This process can then be repeated with the list of words that follow “Annesley.” The word “Annesley” is less common (occurring only two times) and is followed by “to” and “is.” This process can be repeated multiple times to create a growing sentence stub and eventually construct something that resembles a sentence, like:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><i>Mrs. Annesley to it, to be mistress as the room for drawing room to be at the best known intimately judge wisely.</i></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This “sentence” uses real words, which are chosen from Austen’s works, but doesn’t make much sense linguistically or grammatically. In order for the AI system to have more context when choosing words, a standard idea is to try to find words that follow multi-word snippets, rather than single words. In this example, you might look at the list of words that follow the two-word snippet “Mrs. Annesley,” which include “to” and “is.” Note: These are the same words that follow the one-word snippet, “Annesley.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you randomly select “to” to follow “Mrs. Annesley,” then you have to find the list of words following the snippet “Annesley to,” and so on. Continuing in this manner, you could construct a sentence like:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><i>Annesley to Miss Thorpe, and then only think! I found that I am sure you would think tall, and on this second interview, such she did not doubt your inclination.</i></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although this sentence is fragmented, it makes more sense than the previous sentence constructed from one-word snippets. Now let’s look at an example constructed using three-word snippets, starting with “Mrs. Annesley to”:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><i>Mrs. Annesley to Miss Darcy had been standing near enough for her to refuse the correspondence; it was impossible for me not to hear it.</i></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At this level of context, we’re starting to see correct grammar. The sentence almost seems like it could have been written by Austen herself (on a bad day). However, this sentence is completely machine-generated. The longest snippet of words in this sentence that also appear consecutively in Austen’s works is:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><i>&#8230;for her to refuse the correspondence; it was impossible for&#8230;</i></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the context around that snippet is different from Austen’s original work and is actually composed of different sections from several of her works. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s an example using four-word snippets, starting with “Mrs. Annesley to Miss”:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><i>Mrs. Annesley to Miss Darcy had been given, to remind her of what anxiety was; but when she saw, on her frequent and minute examination, that every symptom of recovery continued, and saw Marianne at six o&#8217;clock sink into a quiet, steady, and to all appearance comfortable, sleep, she silenced every doubt.</i></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this case, the method is beginning to lose originality. In fact, this sentence is composed of two snippets directly from Austen’s original works:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><i>Mrs. Annesley to Miss Darcy had been given, to remind her of&#8230;</i></strong></li>
<li><strong><i>&#8230;to remind her of what anxiety was; but when she saw, on her frequent and minute examination, that every symptom of recovery continued, and saw Marianne at six o&#8217;clock sink into a quiet, steady, and to all appearance comfortable, sleep, she silenced every doubt.</i></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These snippets are stitched together at “to remind her of.” The first snippet is from Austen&#8217;s novel </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pride and Prejudice</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the second is from </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sense and Sensibility</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From these examples, it’s clear that expanding the “context” (i.e., the snippet length) increases the probability that the AI system will produce something akin to proper English, but it also decreases the originality of the output. To increase originality, the system requires more text from the original author’s works to be given as input. Even with this simple method, a system can produce fairly realistic English prose. In fact, the actual limit on the quality of content generated by this method turns out to be processing power, computation time, and storage. Also, since the goal is to generate prose </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">only</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the style of Jane Austen, the set of possible input text is limited to her works.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Markov chain described above is just one example of a more general concept called a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">language model</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In technical terms,</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> language models </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">are probability distributions over sequences of words in a language. In our case, we are interested in the probability that a word will occur as the next word, given a sequence of words up to some point. In this model, selecting at random from the probability distribution of possible words following the sequence up to the current point allows us to generate “prose.” As of this writing, one of the most <a href="https://www.theverge.com/21346343/gpt-3-explainer-openai-examples-errors-agi-potential" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recent large language models is called GPT-3</a>, and was produced by an organization called </span><a href="https://openai.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OpenAI.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">  </span></p>
<h3><strong>Method 2 &#8211; Artificial Neural Network</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">GPT-3 is a considerably more sophisticated model than the Markov chain. In fact, it’s an example of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Artificial Neural Network</a> (ANN). An ANN model is quite complicated, but here’s the gist: it’s a computational model based on the neural networks of the human brain.<a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn1"><sup>1</sup></a> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Just as our brains are composed of interconnected processing elements (i.e. neurons) to process information, this artificial system also consists of a neural network that works together to solve a specific problem. Further, just as humans learn when given more information and subsequently change their actions to solve a problem, this artificial system also learns based on its inputs and outputs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, to train an ANN model to predict the next word in a sequence, we make many predictions from different snippets of text per second and use a mathematical process to adjust the ANN model after each incorrect prediction. The adjustments are in the form of slightly changing the values of different numerical parameters in the model. Because the same parameters are used for each snippet, we need many of them to make a general enough model so that we can make predictions based on any arbitrary input sequence. (The large version of GPT-3 has around 175,000,000,000 parameters!) After several iterations of the process above to improve the model, we can generate new text by feeding the model existing text, appending whatever word it predicts next, and finally feeding the result back into the model. In reality, this process is a bit more complicated than described above but the general idea is that it allows us to generate a novel output on each run, rather than the same thing over and over.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, Brent (CC&#8217;s data engineer) couldn’t run the large model on his laptop, so he settled for using GPT-3’s predecessor GPT-2, which</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> only</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has 117,000,000 parameters. The model comes “trained” out of the box, meaning it has already gone through many iterations of the process described above on English text. A user can “fine-tune” the model by performing further iterations on a sample of the English text of their choosing. Here is an example of the output after training the model for around 10 minutes on Jane Austen’s work:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><em>&#8220;Yes, I suppose,&#8221; replied Emma, &#8220;but I do not think she does a </em><em>great deal of good, of course, I dare say; but if she could, she might, </em><em>I must say, but she is a great lady at heart, I do not know whether </em><em>we know that Mr. Elliot is his kindest sister.&#8221;</em></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Note that while it’s not making much sense as a story, there are no real grammatical mistakes, and the “voice” does seem to closely echo Jane Austen’s. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In general, every AI method for generating novel content, written or otherwise, involves developing a (potentially quite sophisticated) mathematical model that emulates some intelligent behavior. Then, content can be generated by selecting randomly from a probability space defined by that model.  </span></p>
<h3><strong>Applying copyright theories to our AI-generated Jane Austen sentences</strong></h3>
<figure id="attachment_62063" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62063" style="width: 403px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-62063" src="media/bd3b0d8b.Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage-300x157.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage-300x157.jpg" alt="Jane Austen portrait among wires" width="403" height="211" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage-300x157.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage-768x402.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage-1536x804.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage-76x40.jpg 76w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage-50x26.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage-270x141.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage-1200x628.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jane-Austen-Feature-Collage.jpg 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 403px) 85vw, 403px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62063" class="wp-caption-text">A remix of the 1870 <a href="media/fa1ebc72.FileJane_Austen_coloured_version.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jane_Austen_coloured_version.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">engraving of Jane Austen</a> in the public domain via the University of Texas and the collage titled &#8220;<a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/cd4505f3-8d27-45da-92cc-6b755332475c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Brain Scandal</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/21133841@N03" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kollage Kid</a> licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC-SA</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On a theoretical level, ideas regarding “authorship” and “originality” as we examined them in the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/no-copyright-protection-for-ai-generated-output/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">first post of this series</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> appear to be at odds with any conception of AI (i.e. non-human) creativity. As we’ve seen in our Jane Austen example, the seemingly “creative” choices made by the AI system are not attributable to any causal link between a human and the result, nor is it a human that defines the final form or expression of the work. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where humans (such as AI programmers or users) are indeed involved in the creation of AI-generated output in the models described above, this involvement is solely mechanical, and not authorial or creative. The randomness elements incorporated in an AI program is what gives the illusion of creativity—and the closer one gets to a semblance of a creative work created by a human, the higher the similarity, thus the lower the originality. All this leads us to conclude that the copyright protection requirements of authorship and originality are not satisfied. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All said, as much as AI has advanced in the past few years, there exists no clarity, let alone consensus, over how to define the nascent and uncharted field of AI technology. Any attempt at regulation is premature, especially through an already over-taxed copyright system that has been commandeered for purposes that extend well beyond its original intended purposes. AI needs to be properly explored and understood before copyright or any intellectual property issues can be properly considered. That’s why AI-generated outputs should be in the public domain, at least pending a clearer understanding of this evolving technology.</span></p>
<h4 id="footnote">Notes</h4>
<p>1. <a id="fn1"></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">In more technical terms, an ANN can be defined as a class of functions that take vectors in from some vector space and map those vectors to a different vector space. Transitions between functions within the class are defined via an operator which is itself a mathematical function. The operator is designed to “train” the ANN model by minimizing some cost function associated with the output.  </span></p>
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Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Why We’re Against Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Output

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Should novel output (such as music, artworks, poems, etc.) generated by artificial intelligence</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn1"><sup>1</sup></a> (AI) be protected by copyright? While this question seems straightforward, the answer certainly isn’t. It brings together technical, legal, and philosophical questions regarding “creativity,” and whether machines can be considered “authors” that produce “original” works.</p>
<figure id="attachment_62046" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62046" style="width: 365px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-62046" src="media/61e937cd.Screenshot-of-CC-Twitter-Poll-on-AI-June-2020-300x226.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screenshot-of-CC-Twitter-Poll-on-AI-June-2020-300x226.jpg" alt="Screenshot of CC Twitter Poll on AI (June 2020)" width="365" height="275" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screenshot-of-CC-Twitter-Poll-on-AI-June-2020-300x226.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screenshot-of-CC-Twitter-Poll-on-AI-June-2020-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screenshot-of-CC-Twitter-Poll-on-AI-June-2020-768x580.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screenshot-of-CC-Twitter-Poll-on-AI-June-2020-53x40.jpg 53w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screenshot-of-CC-Twitter-Poll-on-AI-June-2020-50x38.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screenshot-of-CC-Twitter-Poll-on-AI-June-2020-205x155.jpg 205w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Screenshot-of-CC-Twitter-Poll-on-AI-June-2020.jpg 1142w" sizes="(max-width: 365px) 85vw, 365px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62046" class="wp-caption-text">A screenshot of our June 2020 Twitter Poll <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1278027490867494912" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">results</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In search of an answer, we ran an admittedly unscientific </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1278027490867494912" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter poll</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> over five days in June. Interestingly, almost 70% of a total of 338 respondents indicated that novel outputs from an AI system belong in the public domain, while 20% weren’t sure. For example, one commentator said that “since an AI will (given the same inputs and the same model) produce the same output every time, it&#8217;s hard to argue it&#8217;s unique and creative,” another succinctly argued: “system-generated activities = no creative input, therefore, no copyright,” while another respondent noted that it “depends on the nature of the AI, and the source materials used&#8230;I don&#8217;t think you could make a blanket rule for all AI.” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This question was also debated at the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=55309" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Conversation on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence (Second Session)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> held from 7-9 July 2020. To share our general policy views on this topic from a global perspective, Creative Commons submitted a </span><a href="media/7fa7efd8._Commons_final_statement_on_AI_and_copyright_for_publication.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/0/05/Creative_Commons_final_statement_on_AI_and_copyright_for_publication.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">written statement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and made two oral interventions (</span><a href="https://c.connectedviews.com/05/SitePlayer/wipo?session=108501&amp;starttime=6591" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://c.connectedviews.com/05/SitePlayer/wipo?session=108587&amp;starttime=1529" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this blog post, the first in a series on AI and creativity, we explore some of the fundamentals of copyright protection in an attempt to determine whether AI is capable of creating works eligible for copyright protection. In the second blog post, “</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/can-machines-write-like-jane-austen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Can Machines Write Like Jane Austen?</a>&#8220;<span style="font-weight: 400;"> we walk you through two practical examples of an AI system generating arguably novel content and apply copyright eligibility criteria to them. By doing so, we hope to shed light on some of the copyright issues arising around the nascent field of AI technology.</span></p>
<h3><strong>What works can benefit from copyright protection? </strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to determine what constitutes a creative work eligible for copyright protection, most national copyright regimes rely on the concepts of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">authorship</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">originality</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, among others. </span></p>
<p><strong>The concept of authorship</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For a work to be protected by copyright, there needs to be creative involvement on the part of an “author.” At the international level, the Berne Convention stipulates that “protection shall operate for the benefit of the author” (</span><a href="http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/text.jsp?file_id=283698#P85_10661" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">art 2.6</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), but doesn’t define “author.” Likewise, in the European Union (EU) copyright law,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn2"><sup>2</sup></a> there is no definition of “author” but case-law has established that only human creations are protected.<span style="font-weight: 400;"><a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn3"><sup>3</sup></a> This premise is reflected in the national laws of countries of civil law tradition, such as </span><a href="https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/legislation/details/19865" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">France</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/legislation/details/17676" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Germany</a>,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="media/7f3f6d45.es177en.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/es/es177en.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which state that works must bear the imprint of the author’s personality. As AI systems do not have a personality that they could imprint on what they produce, authorship is beyond limits for AI. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_62047" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62047" style="width: 294px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-62047" src="media/16b60bd3.22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain-217x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain-217x300.jpg" alt="Self-portrait by the depicted Macaca nigra female" width="294" height="406" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain-217x300.jpg 217w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain-740x1024.jpg 740w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain-768x1063.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain-1110x1536.jpg 1110w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain-29x40.jpg 29w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain-36x50.jpg 36w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain-112x155.jpg 112w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain-1200x1660.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large22-public-domain.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 294px) 85vw, 294px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62047" class="wp-caption-text">This &#8220;selfie&#8221; taken by a Macaca nigra female in 2011 after picking up photographer David Slater&#8217;s camera in Indonesia. It was at the heart of the monkey selfie copyright dispute. Access it <a href="media/8f9f2293.Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute" data-original-source="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In countries of common law tradition (Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA, etc.), copyright law follows the utilitarian theory, according to which incentives and rewards for the creation of works are provided in exchange for access by the public, as a matter of social welfare. Under this theory, personality is not as central to the notion of authorship, suggesting that a door might be left open for non-human authors. However, the 2016 </span><a href="https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_case?case=202847483155850554&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=6&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholarr&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi5_tan6YbXAhXGLyYKHQVsC-YQgAMIJygAMAA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monkey selfie case</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the US determined that there could be no copyright in pictures taken by a monkey, precisely because the pictures were taken without any human intervention. In that same vein, the US Copyright Office considers that works created by animals are not entitled to registration; thus, a work must be authored by a human to be registrable. Though touted by some as a way around the problem, the US </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">work-for-hire doctrine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> also falls short of providing a solution, for it still requires a human to have been hired to create a work, whose copyright is owned by their employer.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>As AI systems do not have a personality that they could imprint on what they produce, authorship is beyond limits for AI. </strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nevertheless, some countries (e.g. United Kingdom, Ireland, and New Zealand) do grant copyright-</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">like</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> protection to computer-generated works. The </span><a href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, for example, creates a legal fiction for computer-generated works where there is no human author. Section 9(3) states that “the author shall be taken to be the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken.” An important nuance is that this provision assumes some form of creative intervention by a human and not autonomous, human-less generation by a computer program alone.  </span></p>
<p><strong>The originality requirement</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Common law jurisdictions generally have a low threshold for originality, requiring only a minimal level of creativity or intellectual labor and independent creation for a work to be protectable. The word “originality” in that context refers to the author as being the “origin” of a work, rather than to any creativity standard.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn4"><sup>4</sup></a> Some other countries, like </span><a href="https://wipolex.wipo.int/en/legislation/details/17474" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brazil</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, approach originality from the negative, and state that all works of the (human) mind that do not fall within the list of works that are expressly defined as “unprotected works” can be protected. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Under EU law and case-law, a work is original if it reflects the “author’s own intellectual creation,”</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn5"><sup>5</sup></a> i.e. the expression of the author’s personal touch and the result of free and creative choices. In short, both EU and US law establish the need for the work to be the proximate (direct) causal result of human action. This implies that AI, as it is currently understood as intelligence completely implemented via computational means, cannot make free and creative choices on its own and that the concept of creativity is not applicable to machines. </span></p>
<h3><strong>Economics of AI-generated outputs: incentives, markets, and monopolies of exploitation </strong></h3>
<figure id="attachment_62043" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62043" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-62043 size-medium" src="media/eb5413b2.nd-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-300x300.jpg" alt="A blurry portrait of a man" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-300x300.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-1020x1024.jpg 1020w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-150x150.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-768x771.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-1530x1536.jpg 1530w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-350x350.jpg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-154x155.jpg 154w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain-1200x1204.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Portrait-of-Edmond-de-Belamy22-by-Obvious-a-collective-Public-Domain.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62043" class="wp-caption-text">A generative adversarial network portrait painting constructed in 2018 by the collective, Obvious. It was the first artwork created using AI to be auctioned at Christie&#8217;s. Access it <a href="media/df3457bc.Edmond_de_Belamy" data-original-source="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_de_Belamy" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leaving aside theories of copyright protection and the rather abstract concepts of authorship and originality (and the even more hypothetical issue of machines having a personality and owning intellectual property rights), the real question we should ask ourselves relates to the economic environment around AI-generated content. Is there any market for AI-generated content? Do people really want to listen to </span><a href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/youtuber-creates-fake-nirvana-song-using-artificial-intelligence-2690860" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nirvana-esque algorithm-produced music</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or Google’s Deep-mind AI </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8UawLT4it0&amp;feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-weight: 400;">piano prowess</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, get immersed in the writings of a literary robot, or hang a computer-generated </span><a href="https://www.nextrembrandt.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rembrandt</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a </span><a href="https://news.artnet.com/market/google-inceptionism-art-sells-big-439352" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">nightmarish Van Gogh-reminiscent Starry Night</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or a blurry </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_de_Belamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">portrait of a fictional aristocrat</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in their living room, not to mention to have to pay for any of that? And if so, would AI-generated products truly compete with artistic and literary works produced by humans, as substitute goods? Would the billions of AI-generated outputs produced faster than any human could produce or even consume, need any exclusivity (which is artificially inseminated in the market by means of a copyright “monopoly” of exploitation) to avoid market failure? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, AI-technology developers might expect to be incentivized to invest in innovation, research, and development to help solve the world’s problems and to make AI as useful to society as possible. But copyright protection of the “artistic” outputs by an AI system is not the appropriate mechanism to stimulate this development. Unfair competition and patent law (and to a certain extent, existing copyright law protecting software as literary works) are far better suited to stimulate innovation and ensure a return on investment for the development of AI technology. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>AI needs to be properly explored and understood before copyright or any intellectual property issues can be seriously considered.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All said, as much as AI has advanced in the past few years, there exists no clarity, let alone consensus, over how to define the nascent and uncharted field of AI technology. Any attempt at regulation is premature, especially through an already over-taxed copyright system that has been commandeered for purposes that extend well beyond its original intended purposes. AI needs to be properly explored and understood before copyright or any intellectual property issues can be seriously considered. That’s why AI-generated outputs should be in the public domain, at least pending a clearer understanding of this evolving technology.</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>In the second part of this series, “<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/can-machines-write-like-jane-austen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Can Machines Write Like Jane Austen?</a>” we look at two practical examples of an AI system generating &#8220;novel&#8221; content and apply the copyright eligibility criteria explained above.</strong></p>
<h4 id="footnote">Notes</h4>
<p>1. <a id="fn1"></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is as yet no widely accepted definition of “artificial intelligence.” We thus discuss this matter in general terms, and consider, strictly for the sake of discussion, that artificial intelligence is intelligence, or a simulation of intelligence, which is implemented via an automated machine, such as a digital computer. </span><br />
2. <a id="fn2"></a> <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32001L0029:EN:HTML" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Information Society Directive, 2001/29/EC</a>.<br />
3. <a id="fn3"></a> Case C-145/10, Eva-Maria Painer v Standard Verlags GmbH 1 December 2011, Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).<br />
4. <a id="fn4"></a> For US case law on the concept of originality, see Alfred Bell &amp; co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc. 191 F2nd, Baltimore Orioles Inc. v. Major League Baseball Players Association, 805 F2nd 663 (7th Cir. 1986) and Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 US 340 (1991).<br />
5. <a id="fn5"></a> Council Directive <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:111:0016:0022:EN:PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2009/24/EC</a>, Art 1(3), protection of computer programs as “the author&#8217;s own intellectual creation”; Database Directive <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:31996L0009&amp;from=EN" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">96/9/EC</a>, Art 3(1); <a href="http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?oqp=&amp;for=&amp;mat=or&amp;lgrec=fr&amp;jge=&amp;td=%3BALL&amp;jur=C%2CT%2CF&amp;num=C-5%252F08&amp;page=1&amp;dates=&amp;pcs=Oor&amp;lg=&amp;pro=&amp;nat=or&amp;cit=none%252CC%252CCJ%252CR%252C2008E%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252C%252Ctrue%252Cfalse%252Cfalse&amp;language=en&amp;avg=&amp;cid=9706578" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Case C‐5/08, Infopaq, ECLI:EU:C:2009:465</a>; Information Society Directive, <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32001L0029:EN:HTML" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2001/29/EC</a>.</p>
<p><img src="media/ed0a273d.1f4f8.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f4f8.png" alt="📸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />: Featured image is &#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/21133841@N03/7906049512/in/album-72157604541054461/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Love Art Science 95</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/21133841@N03/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kollage Kid</a>, licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</a>.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/no-copyright-protection-for-ai-generated-output/">Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Why We&#8217;re Against Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Output</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62080
title: Your Chance to Perform for the CC Global Summit!
uri: Your-Chance-to-Perform-for-the-CC-Global-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/13/your-chance-to-perform-for-the-cc-global-summit/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The wrap-up party for the annual </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Global Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is always incredible, featuring local artists and musicians who send us off in style. 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 we usually do!  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year, we want to close the CC Global Summit (19-24 October 2020) by celebrating with musical performances showcasing the artistic talent of our global community. We’re looking for </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">musicians, singers, DJs, dancers, or performance artists! Some things to keep in mind:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The performances must be set to CC-licensed music</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We&#8217;re prioritizing diversity in languages and are actively seeking non-English performances</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can perform in any genre but it must be in line with our </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/summit-code-of-conduct/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Code of Conduct</span></a></li>
</ul>
<p><b>The deadline to submit your application is Friday, August 28. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If selected, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">you&#8217;ll work with the CC Summit Production team to record a one-song video performance that will be included in our CC Summit Closing Concert. The concert will be pre-recorded and released at the closing of our virtual event and shared afterward on Youtube. Join us! </span></p>
<h3><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMTyU6KQ4OujY9MFTSdrnrIhUY2O0bRAUUbNoFzn153AxGbA/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>Apply by August 28!</b></a></h3>
<p><img src="media/ed0a273d.1f4f8.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f4f8.png" alt="📸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />: Featured image contains icons &#8220;<a href="https://thenounproject.com/term/modern-dance/788249/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Modern Dance</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=singer&amp;i=643342" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Singer</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://thenounproject.com/leremy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gan Khoon Lay</a> (CC BY) via Noun Project.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/13/your-chance-to-perform-for-the-cc-global-summit/">Your Chance to Perform for the CC Global Summit!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62087
title: Meet CC Netherlands, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!
uri: Meet-CC-Netherlands-Our-Next-Feature-for-CC-Network-Fridays
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/14/meet-cc-netherlands-cc-network-fridays/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last month we introduced the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/10/cc-network-fridays-cc-italy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Chapter in Italy to you</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! This month we’re traveling north to the CC Chapter in </span><a href="https://creativecommons.nl/wie-zijn-we/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Netherlands</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! The</span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Global Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CCGN) consists of 43 CC Country Chapters spread across the globe. They’re the home for a community of advocates, activists, educators, artists, lawyers, and users who share CC’s vision and values. They implement and strengthen open access policies, copyright reform, open education, and open culture in the communities in which they live.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To help showcase their work, we’re excited to continue our blog series and social media initiative: </span><b>CC Network Fridays</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. At least one Friday a month, we’ll travel around the world through our blog and on Twitter (using</span><a href="https://twitter.com/i/events/1281214811687305217?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <b>#CCNetworkFridays</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) to a different CC Chapter, introducing their teams, discussing their work, and celebrating their commitment to open! </span></p>
<h3><b>Next up is CC Netherlands!</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Dutch Chapter was formed in September 2018. Its Chapter Lead is </span><a href="https://mzeinstra.nl" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maarten Zeinstra</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and its representative to the CC Global Network Council is </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisette-kalshoven/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lisette Kalshoven</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Since the beginning, the Chapter has been involved in promoting and supporting openly licensed music, open GLAM, open education but over the last year, in particular, it has enhanced its activities covering almost all</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/24/introducing-the-cc-global-network-platforms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CCGN Platforms</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. To learn more about their work, we reached out to CC Netherlands to ask a few questions. They responded in both English and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dutch</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">! </span></p>
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<p><b>CC: What open movement work is your Chapter actively involved in? What would you like to achieve with your work?</b></p>
<p><b>CC Netherlands:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We like to work together with the whole open sector. Open Licenses are awesome, but even more so when applied to sectors that really benefit knowledge creation and sharing. That’s why we have members from diverse backgrounds. You can see all Open Netherland members </span><a href="https://www.opennederland.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Are you a person living in the Netherlands? </span><a href="https://creativecommons.nl/contact/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC: Op welke open thema’s is jullie chapter actief? Wat zouden jullie graag willen bereiken?</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Nederland: Wij werken graag samen met de hele open sector. Open licenties zijn fantastisch, nog meer als ze daadwerkelijk gebruikt worden door de sectoren die kennis creeëren en delen. Daarom hebben we leden van diverse sectoren. Op onze site </span></i><a href="https://www.opennederland.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">kun je zien wie er allemaal lid is</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> van Open Nederland. Woon je ook </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">in Nederland! </span><a href="https://www.opennederland.nl/word-lid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sluit je dan aan!</span></a></p>
<p><b>CC: What exciting project has your Chapter engaged in recently?</b></p>
<p><b>CC Netherlands:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We are worried about the implementation of the DSM directive in Dutch copyright law. Exceptions and limitations are paramount in a working copyright system, and automatic filtering threatens those. We have been active in working towards a positive implementation of the </span><a href="https://www.opennederland.nl/algemeen/tweede-kamer-onderschrijft-belang-open-licenties-in-nieuwe-auteurswet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">new ‘Copyright Directive’</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (#DSM) &#8211; informing government and parliament on the importance of open knowledge, licenses and broad implementation of exceptions and limitations.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC: Wat is een project waar jullie chapter recent aan gewerkt heeft?</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Nederland: Wij maken ons zorgen over de manier waarop de Europese richtlijn voor auteursrechten in Nederland wordt geïmplementeerd. Uitzonderingen en beperkingen op het auteursrecht zijn belangrijk voor een goed werkend stelsel. Automatische filters zijn hier een bedreiging voor. De afgelopen tijd hebben we ons ingezet om de implementatie </span></i><a href="https://www.opennederland.nl/algemeen/tweede-kamer-onderschrijft-belang-open-licenties-in-nieuwe-auteurswet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">positief te beïnvloeden</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, o.a. door de overheid en het parlement te informeren over het belang van open kennis, licenties en een juiste implementatie van de uitzonderingen en beperkingen.</span></i></p>
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<p><b>CC: What do you find inspiring and rewarding about your work in the open movement?</b></p>
<p><b>CC Netherlands:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The Dutch Chapter and </span><a href="https://www.opennederland.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@OpenNederland</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the association that runs the Chapter, brings people together from all the corners of the open world in NL, open design, healthcare, heritage, education, and more. Thus far this has led to crossovers that did not take place before, like looking at open education from the user experience of a student: what can open education mean for your entire learning path from toddler to adult? </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC: Wat vinden jullie inspirerend en waar halen jullie voldoening uit bij jullie werk in de open beweging?</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Nederland: Het Nederlandse chapter en </span></i><a href="https://www.opennederland.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Nederland</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, de vereniging die het chapter ondersteund, brengen mensen bij elkaar uit alle hoeken van de open beweging. Bijvoorbeeld open design, gezondheidszorg, erfgoed, onderwijs en meer. Dit heeft al geleid tot kruisbestuivingen die niet eerder plaats hebben gevonden, zoals het bekijken van open onderwijs vanuit het perspectief van een leerling. Wat kan open onderwijs betekenen voor iemands onderwijs carrière, van kleuter tot volwassene?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><b>CC: What projects in your country are using CC licenses that you’d like to highlight?</b></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are proud of our open music scene, including </span><a href="https://www.tribeofnoise.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tribe of Noise</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which also purchased the </span><a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free Music Archive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2019. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dutch GLAMs have been active with open licensing for a long time. Beyond our beautiful </span><a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rijksmuseum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, also have a look at the </span><a href="https://revivethis.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Re:VIVE project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which invites artists to remix old archival sounds; </span><a href="https://twitter.com/benglabs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@benglabs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which aims to make audiovisual heritage open and searchable; or the beautiful collection of the city archive of Den Bosch, with these </span><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2021633/AtlantisPubliek_detail_aspx_xmldescid_751431801" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">billiard playing ladies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.kenney.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kenny Vleugels</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a game developer from NL, creates really cool CC0 game assets. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">We like to party when it is Public Domain Day in the Netherlands. We organise a fun and informative day with lectures about the Public Domain, but also about the creators whose work now entered the Public Domain. See full videos and photos from the 2020 edition </span><a href="http://publiekdomeindag.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. International coordination takes place through </span><a href="https://www.pdday.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">pdday.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did you know the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.nl/2010/03/31/rijksoverheid-in-het-publieke-domein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dutch government uses CC0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as their standard on all text and data on websites? They have been doing so since 2010, and were—as far as we know—the first to do so. See the notice </span><a href="https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also have an award for the best re-use of open government data, the </span><a href="https://www.opendata-award.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stuiveling Open Data award</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The </span><a href="https://twitter.com/pointer_kroncrv" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2019 winners</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> researched fraud in healthcare using open data.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sharing government news in the current Corona-crisis is more important than ever, but it can be tough to weed through. The </span><a href="https://twitter.com/OpenStateEU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open State </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has made all local government news accessible through one platform, </span><a href="https://coronalert.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">all openly licensed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC: Wat zijn projecten die CC licenties gebruiken en die je graag onder de aandacht wil brengen?</span></i></p>
<ul>
<li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">We zijn trots op de Nederlandse muziek scène, waaronder </span><a href="https://www.tribeofnoise.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tribe of Noise</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> dat in 2019 </span><a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free Music Archive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> overgenomen heeft.</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nederlandse culturele instellingen delen hun collecties al geruime tijd met open licenties. Naast het welbekende </span><a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rijksmuseum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> zijn er ook initiatieven zoals </span></em></li>
<li><em><a href="https://revivethis.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Re:VIVE</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, een project waarbij kunstenaars en muzikanten uitgenodigd worden om geluiden uit archieven te remixen, </span></em></li>
<li><em><a href="https://twitter.com/benglabs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@benglabs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, dat audiovisuele archieven ontsluit en doorzoekbaar maakt,</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of de fantastische collectie van het archief van Den Bosch, met deze </span><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2021633/AtlantisPubliek_detail_aspx_xmldescid_751431801" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">biljartsters.</span></a></em></li>
<li><em><a href="https://www.kenney.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kenny Vleugels</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> maakt gave CC0 gelicenseerde game componenten,</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">We vieren jaarlijks Publiek Domeindag, een leuke en informatieve dag waarbij we aandacht besteden aan de werken die publiek domein zijn geworden en de makers van deze werken. De foto’s en video’s van Publiek Domeindag 2020 zijn </span><a href="http://publiekdomeindag.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">hier</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> te zien. Internationale coördinatie van publiek Domeindag vieringen ondersteunen we met </span><a href="http://www.pdday.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">pdday.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wist je dat de </span><a href="https://creativecommons.nl/2010/03/31/rijksoverheid-in-het-publieke-domein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nederlandse overheid standaard CC0 gebruikt</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> voor alle  tekst en data op hun websites? Dit doen ze al sinds 2010, voor zover wij weten waren ze de eerste overheid om dit te doen. Zie ook </span><a href="https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">deze pagina.</span></a></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Er is een prijs voor het beste gebruik van open data in Nederland, de </span><a href="https://www.opendata-award.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stuiveling Open Data Award (SODA)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. De </span><a href="https://twitter.com/pointer_kroncrv" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">winnaars van 2019</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> deden, op basis van open data, onderzoek naar fraude in de zorgsector.</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Het delen van nieuws van de overheid is zeer belangrijk in de huidige Corona-crisis, maar het kan lastig zijn om de juiste informatie te vinden. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/OpenStateEU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open State</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> heeft al het nieuws op lokaal niveau </span><a href="https://coronalert.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">op één platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> gebundeld, onder een open licentie.</span></em></li>
</ul>
<p><b>CC: What are your plans for the future? </b></p>
<p><b>CC Netherlands: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope to grow our membership in the coming year, engage more with our community, and do more outward-facing projects.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC: Wat zijn jullie toekomstplannen?</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Nederland: We willen nog meer leden aantrekken, onze huidige leden activeren en meer betrekken bij onze werkzaamheden en meer zichtbare projecten doen.</span></i></p>
<p><b>CC: Anything else you want to share?</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p><b>CC Netherlands</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: The rise of algorithms determining possible copyright infringement can also have a negative impact on open content, because these algorithms do not take open licensing in account enough. That’s why we’ve started working on “Filter me niet” (Filter me not) in which we look for ways to indicate that you’re purposefully CC licensing to let others remix your work. The first results are in Dutch only, </span><a href="https://www.filtermeniet.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC: Wat wil je verder nog delen?</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Nederland: Toenemend gebruik van algoritmes, om </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">potentiële auteursrechtenschendingen te identificeren, heeft negatieve consequenties voor open content. Deze algoritmes houden onvoldoende rekening met open licenties. Daarom zijn we Filter Me Niet begonnen, een project waarin we manieren onderzoeken om actief aan te geven dat je bewust Creative Commons licenties gebruikt om je werk beschikbaar te stellen voor hergebruik. Een eerste resultaat is te zien op </span><a href="http://www.filtermeniet.nl" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.filtermeniet.nl</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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title: From CC’s New CEO: Working Towards Our Shared Future
uri: From-CC-s-New-CEO-Working-Towards-Our-Shared-Future
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/17/working-towards-our-shared-future/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is an honor to be </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/09/announcing-creative-commons-new-ceo-catherine-stihler/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">joining the Creative Commons team</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the eve of its 20</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> anniversary year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For nearly two decades, this organization has worked to make the world a more open and equitable place.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When CC first launched in 2001, I was a recently-elected </span><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4545/CATHERINE_STIHLER/history/8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Member of the European Parliament</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at a time when copyright and access issues were beginning to receive attention.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But throughout my 20 years as a legislator, directly representing over five million people in Scotland and delivering change for over 500 million Europeans, I took on the task of championing digital policy issues including copyright reform, citizen privacy and data protection, and improving public access to digital tools.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As I reflect, we today find ourselves in a very different world. And as I look to the future, I know the work of CC has never been more important.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have the opportunity to play a leading role in the global fight to remove obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This matters because of the pressing challenges facing us, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak human and economic devastation across the globe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inequality is on the rise, and injustices have been exposed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The tragic killing of George Floyd sparked the global Black Lives Matter movement, while there have been pro-democracy protests in several countries, including in Belarus only last week.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/05/a-statement-of-solidarity-and-work-to-be-done/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC stands with those grieving and protesting against injustices</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and with those fighting for justice, representation, and equality around the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The challenges and the crises we have witnessed during this extraordinary year have raised legitimate questions about power and privilege.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who has access to knowledge in our unequal society?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We know that too often it is the hands of the few, not the many, and access is often denied to women, people of color, LGBTQI communities and people from the global South.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have a role to challenge power and privilege, and the solution to that is to open up access and share knowledge.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the coronavirus crisis, we saw some progress being made.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paywalls came down, and research was shared. The race to find a vaccine for COVID-19 demonstrates why </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/creative-commons-response-to-covid-19/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">rapid and unrestricted access to scientific research and educational materials is so vital</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a shame that it took a global pandemic to realize this, but I hope the lesson has now been learned.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet for every step forward there is also a step backwards.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some nations have imposed restrictions on the </span><a href="https://www.rti-rating.org/covid-19-tracker/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">right to information</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and not all have reinstated them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And too much knowledge remains out of reach, with museum and library doors still shut in many countries, and digital access not available for so many.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Breaking down barriers is not easy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take the example of the National Emergency Library, designed by the </span><a href="https://archive.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internet Archive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to make over 1.3 million e-books available for checkout, free of charge during the pandemic.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/12/internet-archive-ends-free-e-book-program-following-publisher-suit/?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMhHMAwPJa9wm7lFrJQF4Djn35mORdS3Me02yPRWLEgoaPC_9sdRRVjI8Si1ej3urh_bA4BC2Gl5pU-E-B8BdQ00_e8wpJE-wzj-qfVyobDUvQRxd1kH08qOOgI6XGce9iytZRXuhQQ0B1PYmKl9BfvDbfRcTGZhjN02msgGlkwQ"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A consortium of four publishers filed suit and the library was forced to close</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This demonstrates the challenges that remain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But there is also hope.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I have been a longstanding champion of the need to unlock digital access to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity for everyone in society.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m excited by the opportunity to make a difference.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The work of CC has already proved crucial during this devastating pandemic. The </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open COVID Pledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has made it easier for universities, companies, and other holders of intellectual property rights to support the development of medicines, test kits, vaccines, and other scientific discoveries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And we have worked to make </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/31/education-in-times-of-crisis-and-beyond-maximizing-copyright-flexibilities/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">publicly funded educational resources openly licensed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to help the public access reliable, practical information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is much more to do.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our world faces an uncertain future and it is vital that open access policies are adopted by organizations and governments.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Technological advances have brought many people closer together, and yet also pushed too many apart.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our mission is to build a shared future for all, and I can’t wait to get started.</span></p>
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title: Why cOAlition S’ Rights Retention Strategy Protects Researchers
uri: Why-cOAlition-S-Rights-Retention-Strategy-Protects-Researchers
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https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/19/why-coalition-s-rights-retention-strategy-protects-researchers/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last month, </span><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">cOAlition S</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> released its </span><a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/coalition-s-develops-rights-retention-strategy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rights Retention Strategy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to safeguard researchers’ intellectual ownership rights and suppress unreasonable embargo periods—Creative Commons (CC) keenly supports this initiative. </span></p>
<h3><b>Modernizing an outdated academic publishing system </b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_62116" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62116" style="width: 429px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62116" src="media/8ee8ef07.Copyright-The-Basics-Infographic-300x140.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copyright-The-Basics-Infographic-300x140.jpg" alt="Plan S Rights Retention Strategy Screenshot" width="429" height="200" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copyright-The-Basics-Infographic-300x140.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copyright-The-Basics-Infographic-1024x477.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copyright-The-Basics-Infographic-768x357.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copyright-The-Basics-Infographic-86x40.jpg 86w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copyright-The-Basics-Infographic-50x23.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copyright-The-Basics-Infographic-270x126.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copyright-The-Basics-Infographic-1200x558.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Copyright-The-Basics-Infographic.jpg 1530w" sizes="(max-width: 429px) 85vw, 429px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62116" class="wp-caption-text">cOAlition S&#8217; Rights Retention Strategy was developed &#8220;to give researchers supported by a cOAlition S Organisation the freedom to publish in their journal of choice, including subscription journals, whilst remaining fully compliant with Plan S.&#8221; <a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/rights-retention-strategy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read more.</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Under a traditional publishing model, researchers who want to publish their articles in a journal typically need to assign or exclusively license their copyright in the article to the journal publisher. Basically, they hand over their rights to the publisher in exchange for the opportunity to be published in the publisher’s journal. While this model may have worked several decades ago, it is currently unsuitable to the ways in which academic research is funded, conducted, and disseminated. It unjustifiably raises legal, technical, and financial barriers around knowledge and perpetuates unbalanced power relationships among the various players in academia and beyond, from researchers and research institutions to publishers, libraries, and the general public. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nowadays, with the help of new technologies and the internet, academic knowledge is produced, shared, and built upon at a pace and through methods that call for a completely different approach to publishing—one that favors access, collaboration, and fairness. Many funders (particularly governments and philanthropic foundations) require that research outputs be published openly to guarantee that the public can access, use, reuse, and build upon the knowledge created. This is where open access (OA) publishing comes into play. </span></p>
<h3><b>Open Access and Creative Commons licenses </b></h3>
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/open-access/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a publishing model aimed at making academic and scientific research outputs (publications, data, and software) openly accessible. We are strong supporters of OA and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/open-science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open science</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and our licenses are the global standard for </span><a href="https://youtu.be/L5rVH1KGBCY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OA publishing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Our efforts are focused on encouraging and guiding public and private institutions and organizations in creating, adopting, and implementing OA policies. For example, we routinely submit </span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Submissions_to_Public_Agencies" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">comments</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to consultations on how to promote better access to publicly funded research, science, and educational content. A few examples include the 2013 </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2013/02/22/white-house-issues-directive-supporting-public-access-to-publicly-funded-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">White House memorandum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on public access to the results of federally funded research, the 2020 US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) consultation on </span><a href="media/b3b703fa.CC-submission-to-Fed-Register-RFI-on-Public-Access.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CC-submission-to-Fed-Register-RFI-on-Public-Access.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Outputs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">UKRI</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">) consultation on its <a href="media/c3ef1ede.UKRI-Open-Access-Review-CC-comments-Sharing-version.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/UKRI-Open-Access-Review-CC-comments-Sharing-version.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OA policy</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC consistently advocates for OA policies on publicly funded research outputs; this has been demonstrated to stimulate knowledge creation and sharing, spur innovation, and provide a better return on investment for funders. Specifically, we advise research funders to require that their grantees publish their research results under the following conditions: </span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zero embargo period, so everyone, everywhere can read the research fully and immediately at the moment of publication; </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> license on article(s), to allow for text and data mining, no-cost access, and </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the research data, to be clear that the data is in the worldwide public domain to the fullest extent allowed by law.</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The COVID-19 crisis has only reinforced the notion that openly </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/19/now-is-the-time-for-open-access-policies-heres-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">sharing research is the best way to do research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. How could anyone justify an embargo period on COVID-19-related research articles? Or impose a NoDerivatives condition, thereby preventing translations and other valuable adaptations of important scientific discoveries? In order to solve this crisis, scientific research must be shared as rapidly and as broadly as possible. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and guided by these  “open” values, we helped develop and are leading the </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open COVID Pledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: a global initiative that works with organizations around the world to make their patents and copyrights freely available in the fight against COVID-19. We are also working with international organizations such as the </span><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/29-05-2020-international-community-rallies-to-support-open-research-and-science-to-fight-covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">World Health Organization</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in operationalizing the desire of many to freely share their intellectual property related to COVID-19 with anyone who needs it.</span></p>
<h3><b>Open access and rights retention: the fundamentals </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s important to remind ourselves that when researchers publish their articles under an OA model using a CC license, they </span><b>retain</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> their copyright. They </span><b>do not give any rights away to anyone</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, whether it be in the form of an assignment to a publisher, as it is the case under most traditional publishing models, or otherwise. Instead, researchers give several broad permissions to anyone to use and reuse the research article, but they continue to hold their rights and can enforce them in the event the reuser fails to adhere to the license. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Further, all CC licenses include multiple </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/21/academic-publications-under-no-derivatives-licenses-is-misguided/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">safeguards against reputational and attribution risks</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. These safeguards, that are in addition to and not in replacement of academic norms and practices, are in place to provide an additional layer of protection for the original researchers’ reputation and to alleviate their concerns over changes to their works that might be wrongly attributed to them. CC licenses are also non-exclusive, which means that researchers publishing their articles under any CC license remain free and legally authorized to enter into different publishing agreements with different parties. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publishing under an OA model and transferring rights over to a publisher are antithetical. The mere suggestion that a researcher would give away their rights to a publisher defeats the whole purpose of what OA aims to achieve. By retaining their rights, as cOAlition S promotes through the aforementioned Rights Retention Strategy, researchers are empowered and keep their freedom to share their research outputs in ways that benefit the academic community and society as a whole. </span></p>
<p><img src="media/2080e09a.1f4f8.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f4f8.png" alt="📸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />: Featured image titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/poptech/4910869765/in/album-72157624769059154/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2010 PopTech Science and Public Leadership Fellows</a>&#8221; sourced from<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/poptech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> PopTech</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>).</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/19/why-coalition-s-rights-retention-strategy-protects-researchers/">Why cOAlition S’ Rights Retention Strategy Protects Researchers</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62131
title: Introducing Our Google Season of Docs 2020 Participants
uri: Introducing-Our-Google-Season-of-Docs-2020-Participants
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/20/google-season-of-docs-2020/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Code is just one part of open source;  good documentation is essential for both users and contributors in order for open source projects to succeed. We’re excited to announce that Creative Commons is participating for the first time in </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google Season of Docs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a program that pairs experienced technical writers with open source projects in need of better documentation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve selected technical writers to work with us from September to December 2020 on three different projects related to the </span><a href="https://api.creativecommons.engineering/v1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Catalog API</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://cc-vocabulary.netlify.app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Vocabulary,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and our </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/wp-theme-base" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">new WordPress base theme</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<h3><b>Meet our technical writers!</b></h3>
<h5><b>Ariessa Norramli</b></h5>
<figure id="attachment_62133" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62133" style="width: 240px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-62133" src="media/fedce5b0.ariessa-240x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-240x300.jpg" alt="Ariessa Norramli" width="240" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-240x300.jpg 240w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-819x1024.jpg 819w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-768x960.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-32x40.jpg 32w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-40x50.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-124x155.jpg 124w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ariessa-scaled.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62133" class="wp-caption-text">Photo Credit: Ariessa Norramli</figcaption></figure>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m Ariessa Norramli, a freelance writer who happens to be a 3rd-year Software Engineering student from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. I have about 5 years of freelance writing experience in different areas, such as content writing, technical writing, and copywriting. I’ve been a self-taught programmer, first teaching myself programming at 15. I love to read, code, and play the piano during my free time. I was also a Google Season of Docs 2019 participant under GNU Mailman.</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ariessa will work on improving the documentation for the </span><a href="https://api.creativecommons.engineering/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Catalog API</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for both developers and contributors. She will be improving the automatically generated documentation as well as writing some narrative sections to add more context. Ariessa will be mentored by CC’s Software Engineer Alden Page. You can follow the progress of this project through the </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog-api" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GitHub repo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">#cc-search</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> channel on our</span><a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Slack community</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<h5><b>Jacqueline Binya</b></h5>
<figure id="attachment_62134" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62134" style="width: 240px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62134 size-medium" src="media/aac8869a.jacqueline-240x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline-240x300.jpg" alt="Jacqueline Binya" width="240" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline-240x300.jpg 240w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline-820x1024.jpg 820w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline-768x959.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline-1230x1536.jpg 1230w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline-1639x2048.jpg 1639w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline-32x40.jpg 32w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline-40x50.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline-124x155.jpg 124w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline-1200x1499.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jacqueline.jpg 1709w" sizes="(max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62134" class="wp-caption-text">Photo Credit: Jacqueline Binya</figcaption></figure>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am a technical writer and front-end developer from Zimbabwe, a country in Southern Africa. I am passionate about the web and fascinated about how it can be harnessed to effectively solve problems within communities and in businesses. I transitioned into tech in 2019 after years of being a full-time carer to my son with special needs. I am an  Andela FullStack  BootCamp (Kigali, Rwanda Cycle 11) graduate and I have a background in Electrical Power Engineering. I am also an avid blogger, and in my personal blog I write tech-related articles documenting my learning,  occasionally I write about life in general or the odd new JavaScript framework. </span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jacqueline will work on documenting usage of our </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/wp-theme-base" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">new WordPress base theme</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which forms the basis of our upcoming redesigns to creativecommons.org, CC Certificates, CC Global Summit, and more. Her work will allow the open source community to contribute to those projects more effectively. Jacqueline will be mentored by CC’s Web Developer Hugo Solar. You can follow the progress of this project through the </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/wp-theme-base" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GitHub repo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">#cc-dev-wordpress </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">channel on our</span><a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Slack community</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<h5><b>Nimish Nikhil Bongale</b></h5>
<figure id="attachment_62135" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62135" style="width: 240px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62135 size-medium" src="media/7467a307.nimish-240x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nimish-240x300.jpeg" alt="Nimish Nikhil Bongale" width="240" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nimish-240x300.jpeg 240w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nimish-820x1024.jpeg 820w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nimish-768x959.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nimish-32x40.jpeg 32w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nimish-40x50.jpeg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nimish-124x155.jpeg 124w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nimish.jpeg 959w" sizes="(max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62135" class="wp-caption-text">Photo Credit: Nimish Nikhil Bongale</figcaption></figure>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hello! I am Nimish Bongale, a final year Information Science Engineering student, pursuing my bachelor&#8217;s degree at Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India. I possess a well-cultivated knowledge of Front End Web Development (ReactJS, VueJS), App Development(React-Native, Native Android), and Data Structures &amp; Algorithms. I finished writing a research paper on &#8220;Spider Monkey Optimization&#8221; and completed a group project on streamlining the interactive medical diagnosis flows. During the past few years, I learned the importance of utilizing my skill sets for the betterment of society. This led me to take part in many technical events promoting social good. My main hobbies are playing chess (which you could most definitely call an addiction), badminton, and my guitar. I&#8217;m also particularly interested in blogging, communicating, and speaking to the masses!</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nimish will work on developing a comprehensive usage guide for </span><a href="https://cc-vocabulary.netlify.app/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Vocabulary</span></a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">our web design system that has just begun to be deployed across CC websites. His work will improve the experience for both CC Vocabulary contributors and CC staff. Nimish will be mentored by CC Vocabulary maintainer Dhruv Bhanushali with assistance from CC’s Web Developer Hugo Solar and Front End Engineer Zack Krida. You can follow the progress of this project through the </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/vocabulary" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GitHub repo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">#cc-dev-vocabulary </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">channel on our</span><a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Slack community</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><strong>We’re very excited to be working with these talented writers and can’t wait to get started! </strong></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>Want more technical updates? Including the latest updates on these projects? Follow the Creative Commons<a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Open Source blog</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/cc_opensource" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@cc_opensource</a> on Twitter! You can also join #cc-developers on our <a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">community Slack</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/20/google-season-of-docs-2020/">Introducing Our Google Season of Docs 2020 Participants</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62146
title: Meet the Program Committee Making the 2020 CC Global Summit a Reality!
uri: Meet-the-Program-Committee-Making-the-2020-CC-Global-Summit-a-Reality
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/26/meet-the-program-committee-making-the-2020-cc-global-summit-a-reality/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Creative Commons, we value sharing, openness, and gratitude. Over the last few months, we’ve had the privilege of working with a group of global volunteers who embody these values. In order to make the </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Global Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a reality each year, we enlist the help of dozens of volunteers, many of whom are members of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Global Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CCGN). </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_62152" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62152" style="width: 354px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62152" src="media/c88c1ea9.astiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017-300x184.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Claudio-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017-300x184.jpg" alt="Claudio Ruiz posing for a photo" width="354" height="217" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Claudio-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017-300x184.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Claudio-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017-1024x627.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Claudio-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017-768x470.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Claudio-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017-1536x940.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Claudio-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017-65x40.jpg 65w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Claudio-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017-50x31.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Claudio-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017-253x155.jpg 253w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Claudio-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017-1200x734.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Claudio-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2017.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 354px) 85vw, 354px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62152" class="wp-caption-text">Photo of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/34189887992/in/album-72157680015540503/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Claudio Ruiz</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sebastiaan ter Burg</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY 2.0</a>) for <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/albums/72157680015540503" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Faces of the Commons 2017</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>This year, we’re pleased to work with an amazing group of volunteers who make up our 2020 CC Global Summit Program Committee. This committee is the backbone of the CC Summit; curating the program, identifying speakers, fielding questions, and exemplifying the open culture. The theme of this year’s CC Summit is “Designing the Commons of the Future: Reflecting on the values that shape the Commons.” This event will be the perfect space for the open community to begin an exercise of internal reflection on how to build a more equitable, inclusive, and accessible world.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As you can imagine, it’s been a particularly challenging year, as we pivot from an in-person event to a virtual event. Therefore, we are so grateful for the hard work, expertise, and vision shown by our Program Committee members this year. </span></p>
<h3><b>Meet the 2020 CC Global Summit Program Committee members below!</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First, we’d like to introduce our Program Committee Chairs, Susanna </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ånäs, and Claudio Ruiz.</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Susanna Ånäs</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—As the CC Global Network Council representative for Finland, Board member of <a href="https://www.okf.fi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open Knowledge Finland</a>, and the GLAM coordinator at Wikimedia Finland, Susanna has worked on Open GLAM initiatives for several years. With Wikimedia Finland, she focuses on serving Saami languages and exploring ways for Indigenous communities to manage their online representations. She also manages other open culture projects like hackathons and tools development for open platforms.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Claudio Ruiz</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—As the Director of Ecosystem Strategy, Claudio works to shift Creative Commons to a more open, global, and inclusive organization led by its community. He has experience in free software licensing, as well as advocating for fundamental digital rights and freedom of expression. He is on the board of </span><a href="https://www.derechosdigitales.org/en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Derechos Digitales</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a nonprofit organization that works to promote, defend, and develop digital rights and civil liberties in Latin America.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Africa</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Kamel Belhamel</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—A professor of chemistry at the University of Bejaia in Algeria, Kamel is the author/co-author of several scientific papers in international scientific journals focused on open access and open science. Kamel is also the chapter lead of <a href="https://dz.creativecommons.net/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Algeria</a> and was a member of the 2018 and 2019 CC Global Summit Program Committee.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Mary Job</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—A Philosopher and Open Source Enthusiast. Mary currently works remotely with Paid Memberships Pro and runs <a href="https://howdoyou.tech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">How Do You Tech</a> on the side. She teaches digital skills through their village Uwani Hub to women and teenagers in underserved communities and she is passionate about tech for empowerment, jobs, entrepreneurship, and community building. She believes we have a lot to learn from each others’ stories, she runs a personal blog and believes everyone should do too! She is an active member of the WordPress Communities in Nigeria, &amp; Africa, and the global team rep for 2020. She also volunteers for the Netsquared communities in her free time.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Asia-Pacific</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Amber Osman</strong>—With over ten years of experience in research and scholarly publishing, Amber is a passionate expert in open science, an award-winning journal editor for advancing the publishing process by adopting innovative research and publishing solutions. She is also serving as a member of renowned scholarly publishing committees, Amber advocates for best practices in open access scholarly content. She currently works for the Law Offices of Osman &amp; Co. in Pakistan.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Prodip Roy</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—Prodip Roy is currently a library officer (Monograph and Digital Collections) at RMIT University, Melbourne. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">He has been serving as Co-Chair (Elect) of the Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG/III) of Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&amp;T) for 2019-2021. Mr. Roy is a member of the <a href="https://creativecommons.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Creative Commons Australia</a> Chapter and the Creative Commons Global Network and leads responsible for Open Ed (Tertiary).</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_62153" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62153" style="width: 485px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62153" src="media/c2ad541d.astiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019-300x200.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Prodip-Roy-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019-300x200.jpg" alt="Prodip Roy posing for a photo" width="485" height="323" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Prodip-Roy-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Prodip-Roy-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Prodip-Roy-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019-768x512.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Prodip-Roy-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Prodip-Roy-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019-60x40.jpg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Prodip-Roy-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019-50x33.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Prodip-Roy-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019-233x155.jpg 233w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Prodip-Roy-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Prodip-Roy-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Faces-of-the-Commons-2019.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 485px) 85vw, 485px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62153" class="wp-caption-text">Photo of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/33949092298/in/album-72157708381101725/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Prodip Roy</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sebastiaan ter Burg</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY 2.0</a>) <a href="Faces of the Commons 2019" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Faces of the Commons 2019</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<h3><b>Europe</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Teresa Cardoso</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—As a member of scientific/editorial committees, a teacher, author, and assistant professor, Teresa focuses on open education, mobile learning, and ICT in educational contexts. By working at <a href="https://portal.uab.pt/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Universidade Aberta</a>, an “open university,” they’ve had the opportunity to teach about open licensing to a wide audience including students, fellow professors, and administration officials. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Louise Hisayasu</b><span>—Louise M. Hisayasu is an independent researcher based between Sāo Paulo and Berlin. Her master&#8217;s research focused on Indigenous protagonism in Brazil, studying the movement through the lens of technology and culture production. Through her work, she is primarily interested in understanding memory, as being both individual and collective, intangible and immortalised in things, as intergenerational and the implications in its institutionalisation, within archives. She currently works at <a href="https://tacticaltech.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tactical Tech</a> and was previously a guest researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Douglas McCarthy</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—As an active member of the <a href="https://openglam.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open GLAM</a> community, Douglas researches, writes about, and promotes open access to digital cultural heritage. He leads a global survey of Open GLAM with Dr. Andrea Wallace and co-edits the Open GLAM Medium publication with Scann. Douglas is the Collections Engagement Manager at <a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Europeana</a> and lives in the Netherlands.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Diogo Morais Oliveira</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—An attorney-at-law based in Poro, Portugal, Diogo works in intellectual property (IP) law for the cultural and creative sector. Currently, he’s the legal advisor of <a href="https://www.dinamo10.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DÍNAMO10</a>, a creative hub based in Viana do Castelo, Portugal,  and the legal co-coordinator of <a href="https://pt.creativecommons.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Portugal Chapter</a>. He is coordinating the project “CC Local Point” that aims to create contact points at creative hubs in order to support the use of CC licensing and the adoption of open business models.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>André Rocha</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—Starting their career in 2003 designing products with a group of artisans in southern Portugal, André became interested in the parallel environments of tech, education, and design. Today they are an adjunct professor at ESELx &#8211; IPL and Fab Manager / Scientific Coordinator at <a href="https://www.fablabs.io/labs/fablabbenfica" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fab Lab Benfica</a> (ESELX-IPL); open design lead for Open Product Design; and maker community lead at Creative Commons Portugal. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Mahmoud Max Wardeh</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—With a background in technology and media, Mahmoud founded the <a href="https://www.openconnective.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open Connective</a>, a platform that helps open projects build diverse communities of contributors. As an adjunct lecturer at Loughborough University London, he has developed OER for online education platforms. He is the founding member of the <a href="https://uk.creativecommons.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC UK Chapter</a> and was a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">member of the 2017 and 2018 CC Global Summit Program Committee</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Brigitte Vézina</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—As the Open Policy Manager at Creative Commons, Brigitte gets a kick out of tackling the fuzzy legal and policy issues that stand in the way of access, use, re-use and remix of culture, information and knowledge. She worked for a decade as a legal officer at <a href="https://www.wipo.int/portal/en/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WIPO</a> and then ran her own consultancy, advising Europeana, SPARC Europe, and others on copyright matters.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Latin America</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Marcela Basch</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—Born and raised in Argentina, Marcela is a journalist, teacher, and activist. Since 2013, she’s focused on collaborative, free, and open systems—and founded El Plan C, the first website in Spanish focused on these issues. She’s also the co-founder of <a href="http://www.encuentrocomunes.com/#/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Encuentro Comunes</a> (Commons Conference) with the goal of spreading awareness about those initiatives.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Scann</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—Accidentally living in Uruguay, Scann is a longtime contributor to CC. Her main work has been around digital cultural heritage, the public domain, and copyright. Fellow at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab (2018) and International Visiting Scholar at the American University (2019). Currently is working on the </span><a href="https://openglam.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> initiative for CC.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Emilio Velis</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—An industrial engineer based in San Salvador, Emilio explores how sharing knowledge and technology can impact communities. He was recently appointed as the executive director of the <a href="https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia_Foundation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Appropedia Foundation</a>, which shares open content to build sustainability.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>North America</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Andrew Lih</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—As one of the world&#8217;s foremost experts on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement, as well as the author of the book, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wikipedia Revolutio</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">n (2009), he has worked with multiple cultural and governmental institutions to advance Wikipedia multimedia content and structured metadata in Wikidata. He currently serves as the Wikimedia Strategist at <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> in New York City.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Jonathan Poritz</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—As a mathematician, Jonathan has worked in various IT firms, from start-ups to multinationals, doing things like AI, cryptography, and consulting on public policy towards technology. He is currently an associate professor of mathematics and OER coordinator at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He’s also written two OER math textbooks and serves on the state OER Council.</span></li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_62155" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62155" style="width: 380px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62155" src="media/1f812d4c.stiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Marcela-Basch-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018-300x169.jpg" alt="Marcela Basch posing for a photo" width="380" height="214" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Marcela-Basch-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018-300x169.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Marcela-Basch-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Marcela-Basch-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018-768x434.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Marcela-Basch-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018-1536x867.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Marcela-Basch-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018-71x40.jpg 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Marcela-Basch-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018-50x28.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Marcela-Basch-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018-270x152.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Marcela-Basch-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018-1200x677.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Marcela-Basch-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0-Humans-of-the-Commons-2018.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 380px) 85vw, 380px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62155" class="wp-caption-text">Photo of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/41405336192/in/album-72157692494629562/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marcela Basch</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sebastiaan ter Burg</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY 2.0</a>) for <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/albums/72157692494629562" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Humans of the Commons 2018</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Again, we’d like to thank each and every one of our 2020 CC Global Summit Program Committee members for their hard work. We can’t wait for October!</span></p>
<p><b>The CC Global Summit will be held online from 19-24 October 2020. See the latest updates, including when to register, at </b><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"><b>summit.creativecommons.org</b></a><b>! </b></p>
<p><em>Interested in becoming a sponsor for the 2020 CC Global Summit? Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities by contacting CC’s Director of Development Jami Vass at <a href="mailto:jami@creativecommons.org">jami@creativecommons.org</a>.</em></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62165
title: Creative Commons Is Now Leading the Open COVID Pledge—Here’s What That Means
uri: Creative-Commons-Is-Now-Leading-the-Open-COVID-Pledge-Here-s-What
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/27/cc-ocp/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-61149 alignleft" src="media/9ff70a31.logo-lightback-jpg-01.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01.jpg" alt="" width="308" height="210" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01.jpg 2500w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01-300x204.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01-768x523.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01-2048x1395.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01-59x40.jpg 59w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01-50x34.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01-228x155.jpg 228w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01-1200x817.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 308px) 85vw, 308px" />We’re pleased to announce today that Creative Commons is taking on leadership and stewardship of the </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open COVID Pledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year, CC </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/07/open-covid-pledge-removing-obstacles-to-sharing-ip-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">joined forces</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with an international group of researchers, scientists, academics, and lawyers seeking to accelerate the development of diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, medical equipment, and software solutions that might be used to assist in the fight against COVID-19. The result was the Open COVID Pledge, a project that offers a simple way for universities, companies, and others to make their patents and copyrights available to the public to be utilized in the current public health crisis.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Users of Creative Commons licenses will be familiar with the Open COVID Pledge’s approach. Like CC licenses, the Open COVID Pledge offers free, standard, public licenses that anyone can use to remove unnecessary obstacles to the dissemination of knowledge.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amazon, Facebook, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NASA JPL, Sandia National Laboratories, and Uber are among the dozens of companies and institutions that have </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/partners/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">used the Open COVID Pledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to make their patents and copyrights open to the public in support of solving the COVID-19 pandemic. As Creative Commons takes on this new leadership role in the project, we’re energized by the potential to expand its international scope, reach, and impact.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll continue working with large companies to unlock their intellectual property (IP) rights in the pursuit of saving lives. But we also aim to team up with smaller startups, universities, and even individual innovators—especially in parts of the world that aren’t well-represented by the project’s current list of pledgors and supporters and that hold patents and other IP critical to the fight against  COVID-19. We’ll achieve this goal by collaborating with members of our worldwide community, including leading organizations in the international arena working on copyright and IP policy, such as the </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/2020/05/30/who-recognizes-the-open-covid-pledge-as-a-means-to-advance-research-and-science-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHO and other UN bodies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We will also leverage the expertise and our deep relationships with the Creative Commons Global Network. Stay tuned for more information on these internationalization efforts, including ways to get involved in expanding the project in your country and region.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe this initiative will have a profound impact beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The common set of values, tools, and principles for the responsible use of IP in the public&#8217;s interest formed during this particular crisis can and should be used as a necessary model for addressing other crises, such as climate change. We hope to carry this conversation and model forward.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As CC takes on leadership and stewardship of the Open COVID Pledge, we are mindful of the many who contributed to its beginnings. In particular, we thank our </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">co-collaborators</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for their expertise and collaboration in forging this project and helping it come to life. They have provided and will continue to provide critical strategic input into the future of this project and its growth. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can support the effort by encouraging your company, university, or research team to make the Open COVID Pledge. Visit </span><a href="http://opencovidpledge.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">opencovidpledge.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or contact us at </span><a href="mailto:ocpinfo@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ocpinfo@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for more information.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62178
title: CC Open Education Platform Activities Fund: Six Winners!
uri: CC-Open-Education-Platform-Activities-Fund-Six-Winners
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/31/cc-open-education-platform-activities-fund-six-winners/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons is proud to announce six winning project proposals from the inaugural round of the CC Open Education Platform Activities Fund!</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_62193" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62193" style="width: 256px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62193 size-medium" src="media/0b960464.penness-and-Collaboration22-by-Paul-Downey-CC-BY-2.0-256x300.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Openness-and-Collaboration22-by-Paul-Downey-CC-BY-2.0-256x300.png" alt="Openness and Collaboration by Paul Downey (CC BY 2.0)" width="256" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Openness-and-Collaboration22-by-Paul-Downey-CC-BY-2.0-256x300.png 256w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Openness-and-Collaboration22-by-Paul-Downey-CC-BY-2.0-34x40.png 34w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Openness-and-Collaboration22-by-Paul-Downey-CC-BY-2.0-43x50.png 43w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Openness-and-Collaboration22-by-Paul-Downey-CC-BY-2.0-132x155.png 132w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/22Openness-and-Collaboration22-by-Paul-Downey-CC-BY-2.0.png 555w" sizes="(max-width: 256px) 85vw, 256px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62193" class="wp-caption-text">Credit: &#8220;<a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/e412a2ba-4a12-4f25-9dd7-ac85ada5d030" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Openness and Collaboration</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Paul Downey</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=rich">CC BY 2.0</a>).</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-open-education-platform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Open Education Platform</a> is a vibrant, international network of over 1120 open education advocates, educators, librarians, lawmakers, graduate students, and more, spanning 79 countries. This year, CC launched an activities fund to support Platform members’ good work to further open education in their countries. The activities fund offered up to $5,000 USD to community members who proposed efforts that: 1) Build and sustain community; 2) Increase educational access and equity; and/or 3) Use policy to open education opportunities for all. Accepted proposals focus on work supporting these goals in Brazil, Chile, Francophone Africa, India, Ireland, and globally. </span></p>
<h1><strong>While we would have liked to fund nearly all of the projects, we are delighted to announce the following proposal winners: </strong></h1>
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<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>“Teaching materials introducing copyright to 9 to 15-year-olds in French-speaking Africa.”</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proposed by Isla Haddow-Flood and Florence Devouard (at </span><a href="http://www.wikiinafrica.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wiki In Africa</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), this project will create and pilot introductory materials and assignment models to support teachers instructing 9-15-year-old students in French-speaking Africa about CC licenses and their use. Across Africa, teachers do not have access to online materials to explain Copyright or CC licenses to their students, and especially not in French. The materials created will begin to fill the gap. The materials will be initially piloted in Benin as part of the WikiChallenge Bénin competition. The project will integrate feedback initial testing before distributing teaching materials among the Wikimedia and CC communities across Francophone Africa. </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>“Inventory and evaluation of existing social-emotional learning resources for the transition to open digital learning.”</b></li>
</ul>
<p>Shivi Chandra proposed this project recognizing that a global mandate for “twenty-first century skills” has pushed social-emotional learning (SEL) materials&#8211;those which promote “well-being, connectedness, and success” (OECD)&#8211;to the forefront of many national educational strategies working to help students make sense of recent global crises, social movements, and COVID-19. These materials could be anything from public health guidance to conversation starters on domestic violence to current events news articles for kids.This project from <a href="https://learningequality.org/">Learning Equality</a> will develop and share a gap analysis and preliminary audit of existing SEL resources either open or accessible on the internet. This work supports any organization looking to improve their general understanding of SEL resources, understand those available, advocate for openness in the SEL community, and develop such resources during and post COVID-19.</p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>“Oficinas Wikimedia &amp; Educação: a educação livre no Brasil e as plataformas Wikimedia (EN: Wikimedia &amp; Education Workshops: free education in Brazil and the Wikimedia platforms). </b></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Giovanna Fontenelle proposed this project to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">help Brazilian educators and institutions searching for new formats and teaching alternatives. The Wiki Movimento Brasil User Group will organize a series of online workshops and develop accompanying resources such as an audio description for an educational brochure, open-licensed videos of the workshops, reference materials for educators, participant lists for networking, and Outreach Dashboard metrics. </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>“Open Reading Lists @UCD: Phase One.” </b></li>
</ul>
<p><span>Proposed by Susan Reilly, this project will offer a training and mobilisation workshop for librarians supporting a shift to OER, an awareness-raising campaign targeted at faculty and course coordinators, and a video tutorial on finding and assessing OER. The rapid shift to online and blended learning necessitated by COVID-19 demonstrated the need for more open and participatory engagement online and more sustainable access to diverse learning materials. This project aims to increase OER as a percentage of material on reading lists in University College Dublin, Ireland. </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>“Offline OER to enhance K-12 math in Chile.” </b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Werner Westermann proposed this project to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">help deliver customized OER content, responsive and aligned to the official Chilean “prioritized” curriculum, a core group of learning outcomes for math, highlighted during school disruption during COVID-19. Ideally, this curriculum will be used to support learners using </span><a href="https://learningequality.org/kolibri/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kolibri</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, meeting the needs of learners with limited or no Internet connectivity during COVID-19 and beyond.</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>“Open Pathology Education Project.” </b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Netha Hussain proposed this project focused on</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> curating and annotating pathology images from Wikimedia Commons. Drawing from India’s Calicut Medical College and Dr. Yale Rosen&#8217;s collections, this project will use </span><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikidata</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a tool to organize and categorize images for medical students to use as educational resources. As Wikidata doesn&#8217;t yet have robust pathology related information, images and descriptions from Wikimedia Commons will be first linked with Wikidata, and then used for the Open Pathology Project. The final resource will serve medical students from around the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are delighted to fund projects that range from work with off-line open math and developing OER for medical education to fueling additional work with sister communities such as Wikimedia. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also want to recognize our decision committee (listed alphabetically), members of the CC Open Education Platform who dedicated hours to application review—difficult job considering they read, scored, and deliberated over 20 amazing proposals from platform members.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cindy Domaika</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Geoff Cain</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">John Okewole</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jonathan Poritz</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mohammed Galib Hasan</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neil Butcher</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paola Corti</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paul West</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rachel Wexelbaum</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shanna Hollich</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To our decision committee, platform colleagues who submitted inspiring proposals, and the fantastic CC Open Education Platform community—thank you! We look forward to seeing project results in December 2020, and we expect these projects to fuel more open education advancements in 2021 and beyond. </span></p>
<h1><strong><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-open-education-platform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Learn more about the CC Open Education Platform and how to get involved! </a></strong></h1>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62201
title: Download Shepard Fairey’s Creative Commons Logo Remix
uri: Download-Shepard-Fairey-s-Creative-Commons-Logo-Remix
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/02/download-shepard-faireys-creative-commons-logo-remix/
content:
<p>Back in 2010, we had the great pleasure of working with world famous artist/graphic designer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey">Shepard Fairey</a> on a project to re-envision the Creative Commons logo in his signature style.</p>
<p>At the time, we released a t-shirt with Fairey&#8217;s remix as part of a fundraising campaign and later put it on a CC tote bag (there are still a few <a href="https://store.creativecommons.org/products/tote-bag">available</a>).</p>
<figure id="attachment_62203" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62203" style="width: 480px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL.eps_.zip"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62203" src="media/d561de9a.SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="480" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL.jpg 1800w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL-300x300.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL-150x150.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL-768x768.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL-350x350.jpg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL-155x155.jpg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL-1200x1200.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62203" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Creative Commons&#8221; by Shepard Fairey (CC BY) // Download the source file by clicking the image</figcaption></figure>
<p>As we prepare for CC&#8217;s 20th anniversary in 2021, we&#8217;re doing a lot of thinking about all of the fun and meaningful collaborations we&#8217;ve been fortunate enough to be a part of over the past two decades. And it occurred to me that we&#8217;d never released the source file for Fairey&#8217;s design online. So, <a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHEPARD-FAIREY-CC-TEE-FNL.eps_.zip">here it is</a>!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</a> and is available for you to use, share, remix, and all that other good stuff. Let us know by <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/contact/">email</a> or on <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">Twitter</a> if you make anything cool with it.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62208
title: Welcome to the New CC Chapter in Perú!
uri: Welcome-to-the-New-CC-Chapter-in-Perú
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/03/welcome-to-the-new-cc-chapter-in-peru/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Saturday August 15, 2020 we met online for the first official meeting of the Creative Commons Peru Chapter. The meeting was attended by 26 people and we had a great time!. Physical distancing was not a limitation for the success of this first encounter. On the contrary, the fact that the meeting took place virtually enabled the participation of people from different cities in the country outside the capital, including Chiclayo, Trujillo, Piura and Arequipa, which in a centralist country like Peru was very good news. This highly anticipated meeting in Peru had been planned for a month by our core group (Calú Correa, María Belén Collao, José Aranda, Abel Revoredo, Clara Cubas, Karen Díaz, Miguel Morachimo and Willy Cruz). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The meeting began with a welcome greetings from Carlos Correa, followed by the presentation that the team had developed to introduce the attendees, by Karen Díaz. The presentation, which you can access </span><a href="media/f13d97e0.reunion_formacion_capitulo.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.pe/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/reunion_formacion_capitulo.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, began with the basic concepts of Creative Commons (What it is, why it exists, what are its work programs, the types of licenses and the content repository). Attendees were very active in the group chat and engaged with the topics through a lively discussion.  We had attendance from a wider range of backgrounds, including copyright and IP lawyers, as well as Wikimedians. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next, we discussed how the Creative Commons Global Network worked, the global strategy and shared a timeline that contextualizes Peru within the framework of the evolution of the Network. It was important to point out what the current objectives of the global strategy arebecause Peru already had a Chapter inaugurated in 2006. This Chapter stopped its operations  after the Singapore Summit, so our mission as the new Chapter was to continue promoting the spirit of collaboration of the global strategy and learn from the previous Chapter (As highlighted by Diego de la Cruz)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, we moved on to the third part: the formation of our new local Chapter. We reviewed the procedure to form a national Chapter, how this Chapter would be structured, how we can encourage our local members to join the global network, what ways we would have to communicate and how the Chapter would work in Peru:</span></p>
<p><b>Communication</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We indicated the #cc-peru channel in the Creative Commons Slack workspace as priority communication channels, explaining how it worked, and we presented the website that the driving team had previously enabled. We are excited to expand our Chapter, if you are interested in joining please </span><a href="https://creativecommons.pe/contacto/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">contact us</span></a></p>
<p><b>Leadership</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miguel Morachimo was proposed for representation in front of the Global Network and Clara Cubas for Chapter leadboth introduced themselves and their roles were approved through enthusiastic comments in the chat. It was proposed that the roles of Chapter Lead and representative to the Global Network have an annual duration and that the main objective of the first year would be to strengthen the nascent chapter.</span></p>
<p><b>Chapter structure</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When registering in the attendance form, we noticed that the topics of academia and education, governance, civil society platforms and GLAM were a local priority. Each topic will depend on the interest and volunteer work of those who promote it. These interest groups and their short-term work plans would be defined at the next meeting, where we are hoping to invite even more people to!  With this, after the final photo, the first Creative Commons Peru meeting closed.</span></p>
<p><strong>Spanish website (English website will be coming soon!):</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.pe/2020/08/asi-fue-la-reunion-de-formacion-del-capitulo-cc-peru/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://creativecommons.pe/2020/08/asi-fue-la-reunion-de-formacion-del-capitulo-cc-peru/</span></a></p>
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<p><b>Creative Commons Perú</b></p>
<p><b>Así fue nuestra reunión de formación de capítulo:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El sábado 15 de agosto del 2020 nos reunimos vía online para la primera Reunión Oficial del Capítulo de Creative Commons en Perú. A la reunión asistieron 26 personas, de las 60 que se registraron en el formulario de asistencia. El distanciamiento físico no fue una limitación para el éxito de este primer encuentro. Por el contrario, que la reunión se haya dado virtualmente posibilitó la participación de personas de distintas ciudades del país fuera de la capital, entre ellos Chiclayo, Trujillo, Piura y Arequipa, lo que en un país centralista como Perú era una muy buena noticia.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Este encuentro, muy esperado en Perú, venía gestándose ya desde hace un mes por un grupo de personas interesadas en promoverlo (Calú Correa, María Belén Collao, José Aranda, Abel Revoredo, Clara Cubas, Karen Díaz, Miguel Morachimo y Willy Cruz). La reunión comenzó con el saludo de bienvenida de Carlos Correa, seguido por la presentación que el equipo había desarrollado para introducir a los asistentes, a cargo de Karen Díaz.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">La presentación, a la que puedes acceder </span><a href="media/9063fd43.reunion_formacion_capitulo.pdf" data-original-source="http://creativecommons.pe/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/reunion_formacion_capitulo.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">aquí</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, inició con los conceptos básicos del Creative Commons, qué es, por qué existe, cuáles son sus programas de trabajo, los tipos de licencias y el repositorio de contenido. Después de esta sección de presentación, se invitó a los asistentes, que habían tenido mucha actividad ya en el chat, a que compartan sus comentarios. Entre quienes asistían a la reunión se presentaron  Aaron Anibal, abogado en temas de propiedad intelectual; Daniel Coíla Llerena, abogado interesado en los derechos de autor desde Arequipa y Melissa Guadalupe, parte del capítulo de Wikimedia. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A continuación, comentamos cómo funcionaba la Red Global de Creative Commons, la estrategia global y una línea de tiempo que contextualiza a Perú en el marco de la evolución de la red. Fue importante señalar cuáles eran los objetivos actuales de la estrategia global porque nuestro país ya había tenido un capítulo inaugurado en el 2006, que se desactualizó tras la Cumbre de Singapur, por lo que nuestra misión como capítulo era continuar promoviendo el espíritu de colaboración de la estrategia global y aprender del capítulo anterior, como resaltó Diego de la Cruz. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finalmente, pasamos a la tercera parte: conformar un capítulo local. Para ellos, repasamos cuál era el procedimiento para formar un capítulo nacional, cómo se estructuraría este capítulo, cómo sumarse a la red global, qué formas tendríamos de comunicarnos y cómo trabajaría el capítulo en Perú.</span></p>
<p><b>Comunicación interna</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Señalamos como canales de comunicación prioritarios el canal #cc-peru en el espacio de trabajo en </span><a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slack</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> de Creative Commons, explicando cómo funcionaba, y presentamos la web </span><a href="http://creativecommons.pe/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">creativecommons.pe</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> que el equipo impulsor ya había habilitado previamente.</span></p>
<p><b>Liderazgos</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miguel Morachimo fue propuesto para la representación frente a la Red Global y Clara Cubas para el liderazgo local, ambos se presentaron y sus roles fueron aprobados mediante entusiastas comentarios en el chat. Se propuso que los roles de Líder Local y de representante ante la Red Global tengan una duración anual y que el objetivo principal del primer año sería fortalecer al capítulo naciente. </span></p>
<p><b>Estructura del capítulo</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Al registrarse en el formulario de asistencia, notamos que eran prioridad local los temas de academia y educación, Gobernanza, Plataformas de sociedad civil y GLAM. Cada tema dependerá del interés y el trabajo voluntario de quienes lo impulsen, articulados en un capítulo nacional. Estos grupos de interés y sus planes de trabajo a corto plazo se definirían en la próxima reunión, tras un tiempo prudencial para socializar este primer encuentro e invitar a más personas. Con esto, tras la foto final, cerró la primera reunión de Creative Commons Perú.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62215
title: Creative Commons Celebrates International Literacy Day
uri: Creative-Commons-Celebrates-International-Literacy-Day
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/08/creative-commons-celebrates-international-literacy-day/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did you know that nearly 800 million adults and young people lack basic literacy skills?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Supporting the worldwide teaching of these vital skills will help build a more equal society, but the COVID-19 crisis has disrupted education in nearly every country.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We, therefore, face even greater inequalities and a more urgent need to deliver quality education for everyone, everywhere.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today we mark </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/literacy-day"><span style="font-weight: 400;">International Literacy Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to reflect on how we can work towards the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/education/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UN’s goal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to achieve this aim.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year’s event is an opportunity to discuss innovative ways to ensure literacy can thrive during the pandemic and beyond.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Creative Commons, we know that the best way to address humanity’s greatest global challenges is through collaboration and the sharing of information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Libraries are a perfect example of this.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a Member of the European Parliament, I founded an all-party group on libraries to help promote literacy across the continent.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a widespread misconception that the services offered by libraries are out of date – a relic of a bygone age before youngsters started carrying smartphones in their pockets with instant access to Wikipedia, and before they started downloading books on their Kindles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But a recent study by the </span><a href="https://www.carnegieuktrust.org.uk/project/future-of-public-libraries/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carnegie UK Trust</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, for example, found that people aged 15-24 in England are the most likely age group to use libraries. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, the most successful libraries have remodeled themselves to become fit for the 21st century, and more can follow suit if they receive the right support and advice, and have the backing of local governments.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the COVID-19 crisis has closed library doors across the world, which makes digital access so important.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And there are barriers which remain in place to this, which people are working to break down.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://openlibrary.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Emergency Library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, designed by the Internet Archive, made over 1.3 million e-books immediately available for checkout, free of charge during the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, a consortium of four publishers filed suit and the library was forced to return to traditional controlled digital lending. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This demonstrates the challenges that remain and will still pose a challenge long after we have defeated COVID-19.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But there are millions of books which can still be found on the internet and are free for anyone to read.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many American books published before 1964 never extended their copyright, and the </span><a href="https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/05/31/us-copyright-history-1923-1964"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Public Library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has ensured that those public domain books are now free online.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over 60,000 free books can also be found online at the </span><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Project Gutenberg</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> site.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My favorite public domain book has to be Jane Austen&#8217;s classic, </span><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pride and Prejudice</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. I read it every year without fail and it never disappoints.</span></p>
<p>We want to hear from you about your favorite public domain book. To mark International Literacy Day, why not take part in <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1303350078954975233" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">our Twitter poll</a> and vote for your favorite!</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC we will continue to campaign to unlock culture and knowledge for everyone, everywhere.</span></p>
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title: We’re Happy to Introduce Our Newest CC Chapter: CC Austria!
uri: We-re-Happy-to-Introduce-Our-Newest-CC-Chapter-CC-Austria
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/09/cc-chapter-cc-austria/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are excited to introduce to you the newest addition to the CC Chapter Network: CC Austria! In July, the CC Austria Chapter was founded (via video conference due to COVID-19). The core group of CC Austria members have been dealing with copyright matters in Austria for years; submitting </span><a href="https://fairkom.net/nextcloud/index.php/s/Jj8bBMDnC3f4THc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">statements</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on reforms of the Austrian copyright law and advising on the use of CC licenses. In 2015, they hosted a German-translation hackathon for the CC 4.0 License Suite in Vienna.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Austria, supported by Chapter Lead </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/alexanderbaratsits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alexander Baratsits</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and Representative to the CC Global Network </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/rolandalton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roland Alton-Scheidl</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, will continue to address core issue areas through a variety of activities. CC Austria has already submitted a </span><a href="https://fairkom.net/nextcloud/index.php/s/q9izDjCFzEpsio5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">statement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as part of the consultation process led by the Austrian Ministry of Justice on the implementation of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. The Ministry of Justice&#8217;s initial draft addresses the issues of text and data mining and offers exceptions for digital uses in teaching and learning. Unsurprisingly, the Ministry of Justice has adopted a rights holder-friendly position. For example, the draft provides remuneration for text and data mining for scientific purposes and the priority of licenses for the educational exception. CC Austria has submitted alternative proposals and intends to intensify the public debate on this issue in the coming months.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Join us!</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are looking forward to branching out further in Austria and </span><b>encourage interested people to join us!</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You can find information on the new </span><a href="https://at.creativecommons.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Austria Chapter website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! Contact us directly at </span><a href="mailto:team@creativecommons.at" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">team@creativecommons.at</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="mailto:legal@creativecommons.at" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">legal@creativecommons.at</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, engage with us on </span><a href="https://twitter.com/AustriaCc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or visit our public </span><a href="https://fairchat.net/channel/cc-at" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fairchat channel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which you can also just subscribe to as a mailing list. Chances are high that you meet one of us in person at the monthly </span><a href="https://netzpolitischerabend.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Netzpolitischer Abend</span></a>!</p>
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title: Meet CC Bangladesh, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!
uri: Meet-CC-Bangladesh-Our-Next-Feature-for-CC-Network-Fridays
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/14/meet-cc-bangladesh-our-next-feature-for-cc-network-fridays/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After introducing the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/10/cc-network-fridays-cc-italy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Italy Chapter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to you in July and the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/14/meet-cc-netherlands-cc-network-fridays/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Netherlands Chapter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in August, we are now traveling to Southeast Asia to introduce the CC Bangladesh Chapter! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The</span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Global Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CCGN) consists of 45 CC Country Chapters spread across the globe. They’re the home for a community of advocates, activists, educators, artists, lawyers, and users who share CC’s vision and values. They implement and strengthen open access policies, copyright reform, open education, and open culture in the communities in which they live.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To help showcase their work, we’re excited to continue our blog series and social media initiative: </span><b>CC Network Fridays</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. At least one Friday a month, we’re traveling around the world through our blog and on Twitter (using</span><a href="https://twitter.com/i/events/1281214811687305217?s=20"> <b>#CCNetworkFridays</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) to a different CC Chapter, introducing their teams, discussing their work, and celebrating their commitment to open! </span></p>
<h3><b>Say hello to CC Bangladesh!</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Bangladesh Chapter was formed in June 2018. Its Chapter Lead is </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/nasirkhan/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nasir Khan</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and its representative to the CC Global Network Council is </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/mostafa_azad/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mostafa Azad Kamal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Since the beginning, the Chapter has been involved in promoting and supporting open education and copyright but over the last year, in particular, it has enhanced its activities covering almost all</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/24/introducing-the-cc-global-network-platforms/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CCGN Platforms</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. For this post, we spoke to CC Bangladesh member </span><a href="https://twitter.com/GalibAbir"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mohammed Galib Hasan Abir</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> who told us a bit more about the Chapter’s work. He responded in both English and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bengali</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">! </span></p>
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<p><b>CC: What open movement work is your Chapter actively involved in? What would you like to achieve with your work?</b></p>
<p><b>CC Bangladesh:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Currently, CC Bangladesh is working on Open Education, Copyright, and Open Data. We have a group of dedicated volunteers working on these individual activities. Though Open Education is not a new term in Bangladesh, we’re currently working on advancing OER policy-level work for future objectives. We are planning to collaborate more with other organizations to achieve this goal. Our representative Mostafa Azad Kamal personally developed two institutional Open Policies policies so far for </span><a href="media/5719f490.DAM_OER_Policy.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.ahsaniamission.org.bd/policy/DAM_OER_Policy.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bangladesh Open University</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the Dhaka Ahsania Mission—both were supported by the Commonwealth of Learning. Besides this he also worked on National OER policy which is with the ministry for final approval.  </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Bangladesh: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">বর্তমানে ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স  বাংলাদেশ চ্যাপ্টার উন্মুক্ত শিক্ষা ,কপিরাইট,উন্মুক্ত তথ্য ইত্যাদি বিষয় নিয়ে কাজ করছে। আমাদের স্বতন্ত্র স্বেচ্ছাসেবীর একটি দল  রয়েছে যারা এই স্বতন্ত্র প্রকল্পগুলোতে  কাজ করছে । যদিও উন্মুক্ত শিক্ষা বাংলাদেশের প্রেক্ষাপটে নতুন কোন ধারণা  নয় তবে বর্তমানে ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স  বাংলাদেশ চ্যাপ্টার ভবিষ্যতের লক্ষ্যে উন্নত নীতিমালা বাস্তবায়নের জন্য কাজ করছে, যার জন্য আমরা অন্যান্য সহযোগী সংস্থার সাথে আরও সহযোগী কাজের জন্য পরিকল্পনা করছি। ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্সে আমাদের দেশের প্রতিনিধি মোস্তফা আজাদ কামাল ব্যক্তিগতভাবে দুটি প্রতিষ্ঠানের নীতিমালা বিকাশ করেছেন একটি হলো বাংলাদেশ উন্মুক্ত বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় এর জন্য উন্মুক্ত শিক্ষা নীতিমালা এবং অন্যটি ঢাকা আহসানিয়া মিশন এর জন্য  এবং উভয়ই কমনওয়েলথ অব লার্নিং দ্বারা সমর্থিত ছিল। এছাড়াও  তিনি বাংলাদেশের জাতীয় উন্মুক্ত শিক্ষা নীতি প্রণয়নে  কাজ করেছেন যা বর্তমানে  চূড়ান্ত অনুমোদনের জন্য মন্ত্রানালয়ে  কাছে অপেক্ষাধীন রয়েছে।</span></p>
<p><b>CC: What exciting project has your Chapter engaged in recently?</b></p>
<p><b>CC Bangladesh: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">We worked on Open Data and related initiatives by conducting a seminar mini conference. In October 2019, we celebrated </span><a href="https://bd.creativecommons.net/event/open-access-week-celebration-2019-bangladesh/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Access Week</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with other open source organizations, such as the Bangladesh Open University who contributed as a co-organizer. Besides this, in 2020 we arranged the </span><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2020/04/04/bringing-the-benefits-of-open-resources-to-bangladesh-open-data-day-2020-report/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Data Day 2020 Program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with the Open Knowledge Foundation, the theme for this year was </span><b>“Bringing the benefits of open resources to Bangladesh.”</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We plan to observe these two events every year as it is also a promotional event for us. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Bangladesh: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স বাংলাদেশ চ্যাপ্টারে আমি ব্যাক্তিগতভাবে উন্মুক্ত তথ্য এবং এর সাথে সম্পর্কিত কিছু কাজের জন্য উদ্যোগ গ্রহন করি এবং কয়েকটা সেমিনার ও ছোটো আকারের সম্মেলন এর আয়োজন করি। ২০১৯ সাল থেকে ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স  বাংলাদেশ চ্যাপ্টার </span><b>ওপেন অ্যাক্সেস সপ্তাহ</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> উদযাপন করছে এবং তারা অন্যান্য ওপেন সোর্স সংস্থাগুলির সাথে একটি যৌথ কর্মসূচির ব্যবস্থা করছে যেখানে বাংলাদেশ উন্মুক্ত বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় একটি সহ-সংগঠক হিসাবে অবদান রাখছে </span><a href="http://openaccessweek.org/events/open-access-week-celebration-2019-bangladesh"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">(কর্মসূচির বিস্তারিত)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="https://bd.creativecommons.net/event/open-access-week-celebration-2019-bangladesh/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(কর্মসূচির বিস্তারিত)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">। ২০২০ সালে ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স  বাংলাদেশ চ্যাপ্টার ওপেন নলেজ ফাউন্ডেশনের সাথে যৌথভাবে </span><b>ওপেন ডেটা ডে ২০২০</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> কর্মসূচির আয়োজন করেছে, এই বছরের প্রতিপাদ্য বিষয় ছিল </span><b>“বাংলাদেশে উন্মুক্ত সংস্থার সুবিধাসমুহ প্রণয়ন” </b><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2020/04/04/bringing-the-benefits-of-open-resources-to-bangladesh-open-data-day-2020-report/"><b>(কর্মসূচির বিস্তারিত)</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">। ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স বাংলাদেশ চ্যাপ্টার বার্ষিক পরিকল্পনা হিসাবে প্রতি বছর এই দুটি কর্মসূচি পালনের পরিকল্পনা করছে যা এই চ্যাপ্টারের প্রচারমূলক কর্মসূচির অন্তর্গত।</span></p>
<p><b>CC: What do you find inspiring and rewarding about your work in the open movement?</b></p>
<p><b>CC Bangladesh:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Working with the open movement is always a pleasure for us. We have been involved with this movement for the last five years and everyday it is a new day to think about how we can do more social good for society. We believe this kind of movement makes the world smaller and more connected with people of every region. This helps in trying to understand different cultures, histories, etc. We’ve already seen how these types of connections work efficiently in the case of a pandemic, when we have the chance to think about the world as a whole. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Bangladesh: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">মুক্ত আন্দোলনের সাথে কাজ করা আমার পক্ষে সর্বদা আনন্দকর । আমি বিগত পাঁচ বছর ধরে এই আন্দোলনের সাথে জড়িত আছি এবং যা আমাকে প্রতিদিন সমাজের নিত্য নতুন সমস্যা এবং সমাধান সম্পর্কে ভাবতে সাহায্য করে </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">। </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">আমি বিশ্বাস করি যে এই ধরণের আন্দোলন এবং এর সাথে আমার সম্পর্ক স্থাপনে এটি বিশ্বকে আমার নিকট আরও ক্ষুদ্র আকারে উপস্থাপন করে তুলেছে যেখানে আমরা কোনোনা কোন ভাবে বিশ্বের প্রতিটি অঞ্চলের মানুষের সাথে সংযুক্ত রয়েছি এবং তাদের সংস্কৃতি, ইতিহাস ইত্যাদি বোঝার চেষ্টা করছি</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">। </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">আমরা ইতিমধ্যে লক্ষ্য করেছি  যে এই ধরণের সংযুক্তি যেকোনও ধরণের মহামারীতে কীভাবে দক্ষতার সাথে কাজ করে, যা আমাদেরকে সুযোগ করে দেয় পুরো বিশ্ব সম্পর্কে চিন্তা করার</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">। </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">  </span></p>
<p><b>CC: What are your plans for the future? </b></p>
<p><b>CC Bangladesh: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">We plan to engage in further initiatives to promote open education and internet literacy in rural settings—especially female participation in open education and internet activities in Bangladesh, which is needed. Statistics show that women’s participation in the open movement and open internet activities is much lower, so we will focus on this issue and look for increasing women’s participation. One of our members has already been advised to work on gender issues in Bangladesh. Besides that, we plan to run an </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internet for All </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">campaign with the support of CC and our local government. Our Country representative Mostafa Azad Kamal is trying to connect with the University Grants Commission, Ministry of Education and ICT Ministry to start a wider open mission. Hope we will see a bigger impact by 2022. We are trying to sync our education system with the open pedagogies under the framework of Digital Bangladesh initiative of the government.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Bangladesh: </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স  বাংলাদেশ উন্মুক্ত শিক্ষা ও ইন্টারনেট শিক্ষা এবং সেগুলা গ্রামীণ স্তরের প্রচারের জন্য কিছু উদ্যোগের পরিকল্পনা করছে</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">। </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">বিশেষ করে বাংলাদেশে উন্মুক্ত শিক্ষা এবং ইন্টারনেট কার্যক্রমের ক্ষেত্রে মেয়েদের অংশগ্রহনের ব্যাপারে । পরিসংখ্যান দেখায় যে উন্মুক্ত আন্দোলনে এবং উন্মুক্ত ইন্টারনেট ক্রিয়াকলাপে মেয়েদের অংশগ্রহণ ছেলেদের তুলনায় বেশ কম, সে কারনেই আমরা ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স  বাংলাদেশ চ্যাপ্টার এই বিষয়ে মনোনিবেশ করবো এবং মেয়েদের  অংশগ্রহণ বৃদ্ধি করার জন্য কিছু কার্যক্রম গ্রহণ করবো। ইতিমধ্যে আমাদের চ্যাপ্টারের একজন সদস্যকে মেয়েদের অংশগ্রহণ বাড়াতে কাজ করার পরামর্শ দেওয়া হয়েছে। ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স  বাংলাদেশ ও স্থানীয় সরকারের সহায়তায় “</span><b>ইন্টারনেটের সবার জন্য”</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> কর্মসূচির পরিকল্পনা করা হয়েছে। এছাড়াও আমাদের চ্যাপ্টার প্রতিনিধি মোস্তফা আজাদ কামাল আরও বৃহত্তর উন্মুক্ত আন্দোলন শুরু করার জন্য বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় মঞ্জুরী কমিশন, শিক্ষা মন্ত্রণালয় এবং আইসিটি মন্ত্রণালয়ের  সাথে সংযোগ স্থাপনের চেষ্টা করছেন। আশা করি আমরা ২০২২ সালের মধ্যে তার একটি বড় প্রভাব দেখতে পাব। আমরা আমাদের শিক্ষাব্যবস্থাকে সরকারের ডিজিটাল বাংলাদেশ কাঠামোর আওতায় বিভিন্ন উদ্যোগের সাথে একীভূত করার চেষ্টা করছি।</span></p>
<p><b>CC: Anything else you want to share?</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span></p>
<p><em>CC Bangladesh</em><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>:</em> We’re keen to promote open activities, open education, and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internet for All </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">activities in Bangladesh. That&#8217;s why our members are developing their working module together. With the support of CC and other organizations, we are confident that we can achieve our goals.</span></p>
<p><em>CC Bangladesh:</em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স  বাংলাদেশ চ্যাপ্টার বাংলাদেশে সকলের জন্য উন্মুক্ত কার্যক্রম, মুক্ত শিক্ষা, সবার জন্য ইন্টারনেট প্রচার করতে আগ্রহী। এ কারণেই চ্যাপ্টারের সদস্যরা পৃথকভাবে ও দলগতভাবে তাদের কার্যক্রম চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে। ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স  এবং অন্যান্য সংস্থার সমর্থন নিয়ে আশা করি ক্রিয়েটিভ কমন্স  বাংলাদেশ চ্যাপ্টার তার লক্ষ্যগুলি অর্জন করতে পারবে।</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><b>Thank you to the</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/cc_bangladesh"><b>CC Bangladesh team</b></a><b>, especially </b><a href="https://twitter.com/GalibAbir"><b>Mohammed Galib Hasan Abir</b></a><b> for contributing to the CC Network Fridays feature, and for all of their work in the open community! To see this conversation on Twitter, </b><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1304418598606106625"><b>click here</b></a><b>. To become a member of the CCGN,</b><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/"> <b>visit our website</b></a><b>!</b></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62247
title: Six Projects Get Funding from the Creative Commons Copyright Platform Activities Fund
uri: Six-Projects-Get-Funding-from-the-Creative-Commons-Copyright-Platform
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/24/six-projects-copyright-platform-activities-fund/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We&#8217;re delighted to announce the six selected projects that will receive funding from the CC Copyright Platform Activities Fund in 2020!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform-activity-fund/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Copyright Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is an active space for copyright advocates and experts to coordinate copyright law and policy-related activities. This year, CC launched an Activities Fund to support copyright-related activities by Platform members. The Fund made available a total of US$20,000 to platform members, who were invited to propose activities in the field of copyright that advance our shared CC mission and in alignment with the goals and principles of the CC Copyright Platform. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this blog post, we present the six winning projects. We also warmly thank all applicants for their proposals and members of the decision committee (Lisette Kalshoven of CC Netherlands; Elliott Bledsoe of CC Australia; Franco Giandana of CC Argentina; Liz Lenjo of CC Kenya; and Sami Mlouhi and John Weitzmann of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Global Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CCGN)) for their dedication and commitment. </span><b></b></p>
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<li><b>How the Paying Public Domain impacts the CC0 and Public Domain Mark tools</b></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maximiliano Marzetti of </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapter/cc-argentina/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Argentina</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> wrote in his proposal that “the public domain is not completely free everywhere.” Argentina and Uruguay are two of the many countries that enforce a paying public domain system. For instance, the Argentinian </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">dominio público pagante</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> requires the payment of a fee to a state agency (the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fondo Nacional de las Artes</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or National Fund for the Arts) for reproduction, publication, performance, communication to the public, and many other acts in relation to any type of work in the public domain. Not that long ago, UNESCO and the World Intellectual Property Organization were busy promoting the internationalization of the paying public domain, including in model laws. In this project, Maximiliano proposes to study how the paying public domain system may affect open culture and CC initiatives and tools such as the Public Domain Dedication Tool (</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) and the Public Domain Mark (</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/pdm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PDM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). To that end, he will contact all relevant CC Chapters and create a map and/or an infographic (using design tools) to show information in a visually friendly way.</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Low-bono DCDSM transposition proposal</b></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Siyanna Lilova, a member of </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapter/cc-bulgaria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Bulgaria</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, proposed a project that engages a legal team to research and draft expert legal opinions on the current Bulgarian copyright legislation and the best way to transpose the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DCDSM). The focus is on promoting user rights and helping public stakeholders such as GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) and educational institutions identify the most beneficial way to implement the new copyright exceptions and limitations set out in the Directive. </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>GLAMS to Fix Copyright: Preparing GLAMs for the Copyright Reform in Bulgaria</b></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a related but distinct project, Ana Lazarova, also a member of CC Bulgaria, proposes a training series for public libraries and national archives in Bulgaria to inform them about the European Copyright Directive implementation into national law, with a particular focus on exceptions (e.g. text and data mining, out-of-commerce works, digitization and preservation). These will have a direct impact on access to knowledge. Digital Republic, which is an institutional member of the CCGN, will lead the project. Digital Republic is traditionally actively engaged in providing legal advice and promoting copyright literacy</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for local GLAMs. </span><b></b></p>
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<li><b>Rebooting copyrightexceptions.eu </b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2016, on the eve of the European Union (EU) copyright reform process, Kennisland (then the host of </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/14/meet-cc-netherlands-cc-network-fridays/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Netherlands</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) build the website </span><a href="http://www.copyrightexceptions.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.copyrightexceptions.eu</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The purpose of this website was simple: show the uneven implementation of copyright exceptions throughout the EU Member States in order to make a case for further harmonisation of users rights in the EU. The simple map-based interface of the </span><a href="http://www.copyrightexceptions.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.copyrightexceptions.eu</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was powered by contributions from researchers from the different EU Member States, many of whom had affiliations to CC-related projects. After its launch, </span><a href="http://copyrightexceptions.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">copyrightexceptions.eu</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> quickly became a reference point for activists and policymakers. But since 2018, the website has not been actively maintained and with the ongoing implementation of the 2019 EU Copyright Directive (which contains five new EU-wide exceptions), it risks becoming out of date. With help from the CC Copyright Platform Activities Fund (and additional support from Wikimedia Italia), Paul Keller of CC Netherlands and his team will rebuild the underlying technical infrastructure of the website and update the information on copyright exceptions in the EU Member States. </span></p>
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<li><b>Building an Open Science Platform in Slovenia</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maja Bogataj Jančič, a member of </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapter/cc-slovenia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Slovenia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, will design a strategy on how to set up and run an Open Science Platform aimed primarily at the scientific sector, but also geared towards the education sector, cultural heritage institutions, and civil society. More than a platform, the Open Science Platform will be a community of stakeholders that will collaboratively carry out several activities, such as the creation of resources, running of workshops as well as the development of a long-term learning program to empower stakeholders into tackling copyright issues on their own. </span></p>
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<li><b>Copyright, copyleft, public domain and policy making —  A transmedial </b><b>initiative to strengthen the commons in Mexico</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proposed by Ivan Martinez, a member of </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapter/cc-mexico/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Mexico</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the project plans to create a research group and the first issue of a transmedial publication devoted to the analysis and diagnosis of copyright law and copyright-related policies, background, risks and opposition against copyleft, in order to strengthen open access and CC licences in Mexico. Several authors and researchers will integrate a multidisciplinary group guided by a lead researcher and project manager. The aim is to build tighter links among key players across regions. Research proceedings will include a print-ready publication, a platform-agnostic ebook, and international online talks. The research group will found the “Proportional Intellectual Property Task Force” to be presented in online/offline events and is intended to be the seed of opposed speech gaining momentum in Mexico.</span></p>
<p><strong>We look forward to seeing project results in December 2020, and we expect these projects to fuel more copyright law and policy activities in 2021 and beyond. </strong></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62262
title: In Support of the Wikimedia Foundation WIPO Application
uri: In-Support-of-the-Wikimedia-Foundation-WIPO-Application
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/25/in-support-of-the-wikimedia-foundation-wipo-application/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of our roles at Creative Commons involves influencing policy making at the international level.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a role we can fulfill notably thanks to our permanent observer status with the</span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/portal/en/index.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the UN agency that shapes international intellectual property (IP) law.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, a few days ago, the</span><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikimedia Foundation’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> application to become a WIPO observer was halted.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the well-known free online encyclopedia</span><a href="https://www.wikipedia.org/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikipedia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, has made remarkable strides in advancing the goal of ensuring universal access to knowledge, a goal that Creative Commons fully shares.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Its voice in the policy arena echoes the legitimate interests of the public and of society as a whole, and this voice must be heard in order to achieve a fair and balanced IP system. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We therefore fully support the organization’s application to join us as a WIPO observer, and hope this situation can be resolved swiftly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Together, we share the goal to unlock knowledge for everyone, everywhere.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/25/in-support-of-the-wikimedia-foundation-wipo-application/">In Support of the Wikimedia Foundation WIPO Application</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62254
title: Registration Is Now Open for the CC Global Summit! Join Us on 19–23 October!
uri: Registration-Is-Now-Open-for-the-CC-Global-Summit-Join-Us-on-19-23
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/25/registration-is-open-cc-global-summit/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Global Summit</a> is back and better than ever! For the first time in its history, we’ve moved the entire event online. This has allowed us to support multiple time zones and languages as well as host two keynote panels and over 150 sessions with more than 200 speakers across 40 countries (with more to be added).</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes, you read that right! Over 150 sessions and more than 200 speakers! </span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s a lot of exciting activities in store, and between now and the 19th of October we’ll feature a few of them on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">our blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and social media. </span>To kick things off, we’re sharing some exciting highlights:</p>
<figure id="attachment_62259" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62259" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62259" src="media/cc5459bb.CC-Summit-Poster-2020-224x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="310" height="415" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-224x300.jpg 224w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-765x1024.jpg 765w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-768x1028.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-1148x1536.jpg 1148w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-1530x2048.jpg 1530w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-30x40.jpg 30w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-37x50.jpg 37w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-116x155.jpg 116w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-1200x1606.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CC-Summit-Poster-2020-scaled.jpg 1913w" sizes="(max-width: 310px) 85vw, 310px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62259" class="wp-caption-text">Art by Marco Villar (CC BY)</figcaption></figure>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>150+ Sessions</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: This year we’re hosting sessions on a range of topics, such as artificial intelligence and creativity, traditional cultural expressions and the public domain, open science and research, ethics of “open,” collaborating across regions and cultures, increasing language diversity, internet censorship, and more!</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>The Playground</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: For years you’ve told us you wanted a space of your own, 2020 is the year we’re giving it to you! The Playground is a community-driven space where you can hold open office hours, create an ideation room, share a virtual “coffee” with a friend, network with experts in your field, or just have a good laugh with an old friend! </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Hack4OpenGlam</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: We&#8217;re co-hosting </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hack4openglam" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@hack4openglam</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a four-day culture hack for all creators and tinkerers to get creative with open access cultural heritage. Register your interest, and submit your project </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/hack4openglam/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>CC Summit Closing Celebration</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: This is a virtual event featuring live DJ sessions, performance art, co-creative experiences, and music to celebrate the artistic side of our global community.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout the 2020 CC Global Summit, there will be sessions for both newcomers to Creative Commons and long-time supporters. We welcome anyone interested in issues related to open education, open science, open source, copyright reform, cultural heritage, and more to join us for discussion and debate, workshops and planning, talks and community building. </span></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/2020-sessions-and-speakers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>View the full program for the 2020 CC Global Summit here!</i></a></strong></p>
<p><span>It’s been a wild ride as we’ve transitioned our annual in-person event to a fully virtual one, and we’re proud of what we’ve created. We’re excited to kick off the event and we can’t wait for you to join us, from wherever you are in the world.</span></p>
<p><b>Questions? Check out our short FAQ below!</b></p>
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<li><b>Is the CC Global Summit free?</b></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes! This event is 100% free to attend. </span></p>
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<li><b>How do I register?</b></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to ensure a safe, engaging, and welcoming space for event attendees, we’re asking you to fill out the </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/creativecommons.org/cc-summit-intent-to-register" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intent to Register</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> form. Once you’ve done so, you’ll receive a welcome email and confirmation of receipt. Closer to the event, we’ll send you more details on how to access our virtual platform. We’ll also email you information on the additional tools we’ll be using during the event, including Slack channels, social media handles, and hashtags to follow. Finally, we’ll share with you tips and tricks, networking opportunities, accessibility considerations, our code of conduct, and more! </span></p>
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<li><b>How do I attend sessions?</b></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The event will be held virtually through our event platform and across multiple time zones. Our event platform is accessible on desktop or mobile and has multiple interface languages available. With 150+ sessions, we know you won&#8217;t be able to attend everything so we’ll try our best to ensure that live content (e.g. keynotes, sessions, performances) is recorded and shared following the end of the event.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll be sending detailed instructions, program information, and more via email. When you fill out the </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/creativecommons.org/cc-summit-intent-to-register" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intent to Register</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> form, the email you provide will be our primary contact. Be sure to check your email regularly for updates!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yes! Our call for volunteers is open until October 1, 2020. We’re looking for Community Liaisons and Summit Website Content Translators. Learn more about these </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/volunteer-opportunities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">volunteer opportunities here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62273
title: Why Universal Access to Information Matters
uri: Why-Universal-Access-to-Information-Matters
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/28/why-universal-access-to-information-matters/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The coronavirus outbreak not only sparked a health pandemic; it triggered an &#8220;infodemic&#8221; of misleading and fabricated news.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the virus spread, trolls and conspiracy theorists began pushing misinformation, and their deplorable tactics continue to this day.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nonsense has been shared about links to </span><a href="https://fullfact.org/online/5g-and-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-came/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">5G phone masts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or that a secret cure already exists, and this month alone there was yet another claim that COVID-19 was made in a lab – which has been </span><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2020/09/why-misinformation-about-covid-19s-origins-keeps-going-viral"><span style="font-weight: 400;">quickly debunked</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An </span><a href="https://blog.okfn.org/2020/05/07/opinion-poll-majority-of-brits-want-government-action-against-online-disinformation/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">opinion poll</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in May found that over half of people (51%) in the United Kingdom said they had seen content about COVID-19 they believed to be false or misleading.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The EU warned in June that a &#8220;massive wave&#8221; of disinformation was harming the health of EU citizens, </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/10/eu-says-china-behind-huge-wave-covid-19-disinformation-campaign"><span style="font-weight: 400;">accusing China and Russia of running fake news campaigns</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> about the coronavirus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In some countries, rumors about food shortages prompted people to stockpile supplies, which inevitably then caused actual shortages.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Iran, </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/coronavirus-iran-deaths-toxic-methanol-alcohol-fake-news-rumours-a9487801.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">hundreds died after drinking methanol alcohol</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> because social media misinformation messages claimed it had cured other people of the coronavirus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Access to official information can therefore be the difference between life and death.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-62274 alignleft" src="media/dfa43d65.poster-IDUAI-2020_final_EN.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poster-IDUAI-2020_final_EN.jpg" alt="" width="443" height="626" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poster-IDUAI-2020_final_EN.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poster-IDUAI-2020_final_EN-212x300.jpg 212w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poster-IDUAI-2020_final_EN-724x1024.jpg 724w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poster-IDUAI-2020_final_EN-768x1086.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poster-IDUAI-2020_final_EN-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poster-IDUAI-2020_final_EN-28x40.jpg 28w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poster-IDUAI-2020_final_EN-35x50.jpg 35w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poster-IDUAI-2020_final_EN-110x155.jpg 110w" sizes="(max-width: 443px) 85vw, 443px" />Today, on September 28, UNESCO marks the </span><a href="https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/accesstoinformationday"><span style="font-weight: 400;">International Day for Universal Access to Information</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year’s theme is naturally dominated by COVID-19, with the slogan &#8220;Access to Information – Saving Lives, Building Trust, Bringing Hope.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The day is an opportunity to call on all UN member states to enact and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">fully implement &#8220;Right to Access to Information&#8221; laws.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These rights are always vital, but even more so during a health emergency.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proactively disclosing information helps build trust among citizens, as well as providing the clarity that people seek amid the infodemic.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By providing factual information to citizens, there is a stronger feeling of belonging.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And, fundamentally, it helps keep people safe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That applies particularly to vulnerable populations who rely on public health information the most.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The right to universal access to information goes much wider than public health though, as it is a key plank of a country’s human rights record.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Laws are not just about guaranteeing access to information, but provide the necessary accountability which should apply to governments, courts, the police, and other authorities which make critical decisions on behalf of people.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, to date, only 127 countries have passed access to information laws.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And amid the coronavirus crisis, some nations imposed restrictions on the right to know from the outset.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.rti-rating.org/covid-19-tracker/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">global right to information</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (RTI) tracker monitors this across the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s perhaps not too surprising to see Brazil on the list, where President Jair Bolsonaro enacted measures to suspend deadlines to answer RTI requests – before the Supreme Court issued an injunction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is more surprising though is to see my home nation of Scotland on the list of countries which restricted RTI.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Scottish Government used emergency powers to extend the deadline for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, before later being forced by opposition parties to withdraw the changes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That was a disappointing episode, which lessons must be learned from.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">UNESCO has been clear that any restrictions can only be justified if authorities of a particular institution are overburdened or to protect public health, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">or if physical processing in lockdown situations is not possible.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year’s International Day for Universal Access to Information is therefore a timely opportunity to demonstrate the value of the right to information during times of crisis.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keeping citizens informed, building trust, and reducing the spread of misinformation is vital.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This approach goes to the heart of the international work we do at Creative Commons.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since 2001, we’ve been removing legal and technical obstacles to unlock nearly 2 billion works around the world by offering free, standard, public licenses that anyone can use.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recently, we launched the </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open COVID Pledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; a global initiative that works with organizations around the world to make their patented inventions and copyrighted materials freely accessible. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The initiative aims to encourage wider, equitable access to designs, research, and data protected by copyright and patents that will be key to developing solutions to the challenges caused by the pandemic.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons has also worked with partners to launch the </span><a href="https://www2.openstax.org/freethetextbook"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#FreeTheTextbook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> campaign, pushing for adoption of openly licensed, free textbooks in colleges and universities. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The campaign also pushes back against big publishers&#8217; &#8220;inclusive access&#8221; contracts at universities, which see students forcibly &#8220;opted in&#8221; to buying textbooks, meaning the cost is wrapped into their tuition without their knowledge. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This unsavory practice started in the US and publishers are now spreading the model to other countries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Removing obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity matters because of the pressing challenges facing us, as COVID-19 continues to wreak devastation across the globe, with an alarming impact on education, health, and economies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So as Creative Commons prepares to celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2021, our work matters more than ever.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The world has changed dramatically since we launched, and while technological advances have brought many people closer together, so too have they pushed some people apart.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve built the infrastructure for the open web, and we want to unlock, share, and preserve more of the world’s knowledge. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s not only freeing the tools to help us get through the coronavirus pandemic, but also to address other major challenges – particularly the climate emergency.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is an urgent need to address humanity’s greatest global challenges through collaboration and accessing information. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s time to unlock knowledge for everyone, everywhere.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62277
uri: Implementing-the-Marrakesh-Treaty-in-Latin-America-A-Look-at-the-Expe
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/30/implementing-of-the-marrakesh-treaty-in-latin-america/
title:
Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in Latin America: A Look at the Experiences of Four CC Community Members

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Four years ago today, the </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/marrakesh/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marrakesh Treaty</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> entered into force. The Treaty is truly special in the international copyright law universe: it has a clear humanitarian and social development dimension and it’s the first international treaty that focuses on the beneficiaries of limitations and exceptions, rather than on the rights of creators or holders of related rights. Adopted at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2013, the Marrakesh Treaty’s main goal is to create a set of mandatory limitations and exceptions for the benefit of the blind, visually impaired, and otherwise print disabled (VIPs).</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><b>Creative Commons and exceptions and limitations—<span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons is </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2013/10/16/supporting-copyright-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">strongly committed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to furthering exceptions and limitations in international copyright law, as we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/16/wipo-leadership-shake-up-global-copyright-policy-making/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recently stated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in relation to our engagement in policy work at WIPO. It’s also worth recalling that, by design, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#do-creative-commons-licenses-affect-exceptions-and-limitations-to-copyright-such-as-fair-dealing-and-fair-use" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC licenses</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> do not reduce, limit, or restrict any rights under exceptions and limitations to copyright. If a use of CC-licensed material would otherwise be allowed because of an applicable exception or limitation (such as those provided in the Marrakesh Treaty, where they apply), one does not need to rely on the CC license or comply with its terms and conditions. This is a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#how-do-cc-licenses-operate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fundamental principle</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of CC licensing. </span><a href="#limitations_and_exceptions">*Learn more.</a></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Marrakesh Treaty is a huge step forward for VIPs around the world, as it facilitates access to works in adapted versions. However, making sure the treaty works on the ground in each country or institution is not necessarily plain sailing. Alongside the formal implementation of the treaty into national law, practical issues arise and pose challenges to those working hard to provide VIPs access to the widest possible range of works in formats that are accessible to them (Braille, full audio, Daisy, etc.). </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_62284" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62284" style="width: 543px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62284" src="media/77b43b0e.2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-300x152.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-300x152.jpg" alt="Countries that have signed and ratified the Marrakesh Treaty" width="543" height="275" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-300x152.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-1024x520.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-768x390.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-1536x780.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-2048x1040.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-79x40.jpg 79w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-50x25.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-270x137.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2880px-Marrakesh_Treaty_Countries_in_force.svg_-1200x609.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 543px) 85vw, 543px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62284" class="wp-caption-text">Countries that have signed and ratified the Marrakesh Treaty and currently have it in force, as of August 2020, based on WIPO&#8217;s website. Created by Scann, licensed CC0.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this blog post, four members of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform-activity-fund/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Global Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Virginia Inés Simón, Carina Patrón, Carolina Botero and Mariana Valente share their successes and challenges in the practical implementation of the provisions of the Marrakesh Treaty in Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Brazil, respectively. In their own words, they present their projects and talk about how they envision the next steps and the road ahead.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Argentina &#8211; Virginia Inés Simón </strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The copyright law of Argentina includes an exception that allows people with visual disabilities to access texts in accessible formats. However, the flexibility provided under this exception falls short of guaranteeing the right of access to information to people with certain disabilities, in particular people with disabilities that cause reading difficulties, and not necessarily visual disabilities. Furthermore, this exception is limited to the territory of Argentina and does not cover the cross-border sharing of accessible works.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In June 2018, Bill No. 1762/18 was introduced to implement the Marrakesh Treaty in Argentina. To date, it has been partially sanctioned but is not yet in force. During the drafting process, the </span><a href="http://redcdpd.net/observatorio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Observatory of the Marrakesh Treaty in Latin America</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, among other organizations, was able to have its suggestions reflected in the text of the bill. Some aspects of the bill are really positive, such as the broad scope of the concept of beneficiaries, which incorporates people with hearing disabilities and consequently extends the scope of accessible formats to include sign language in, for example, video books. Other points are left to subjective interpretation, such as the provision on commercial availability, which is not mandatory. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once the bill will have been enacted, the challenge of effectively implementing the Treaty will remain through regulation. One of the most important issues will be to ensure that the country’s great library institutions—the </span><a href="https://www.bn.gov.ar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><a href="https://www.bcn.gob.ar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Library of Congress of Argentina</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><a href="http://www.bnm.me.gov.ar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Library of Teachers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><a href="https://www.conabip.gob.ar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Commission of Popular Libraries</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—will assume various responsibilities in the process of carrying out collaborative work to reach all beneficiaries. Any type of regulation will also need to define the management of the national repertoire, on which we hope that the use of free software can be promoted to guarantee digital sovereignty, data protection and the right to privacy of people with disabilities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Full implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty in Argentina will allow one of the largest accessible collections in Latin America to be shared through the cross-border exchange of works: the </span><a href="https://www.tiflolibros.tiflonexos.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tiflolibros Library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Observatory of the Marrakesh Treaty in Latin America is currently providing a </span><a href="http://redcdpd.net/tratado-de-marrakech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">certificate course on the Marrakesh Treaty</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with the aim of drafting regional guidelines. This proposal has garnered the interest of key actors across Latin America: national libraries, ministries of education, intellectual property offices, libraries, activists, and beneficiaries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The most important challenge for our region, after almost 20 years of Creative Commons’ existence, is to promote the idea of </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/marrakesh-treaty-the-glam-challenge-to-generate-readable-documents-for-people-with-disabilities-f14186199131?source=collection_home---2------1-----------------------" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>accessible</em> open access</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to encourage our communities to broaden the concept of “open.” The Marrakesh Treaty is a strong reminder that CC licenses and the public domain can act as catalyzers for the enjoyment and exercise of several rights dependent on the fundamental right to read.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Uruguay &#8211; Carina Patrón </strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Uruguay was the first country in Latin America to implement the Marrakesh Treaty, ratifying it in 2015 and approving its regulation in 2017. In this context, the “</span><a href="https://www.bibliotecaaccesible.ei.udelar.edu.uy/author/manuelp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BIDYA Project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” (for “Digital Accessible Library”, in Spanish) was developed in 2016 by the </span><a href="https://www.nucleorea.ei.udelar.edu.uy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Núcleo REAA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Interdisciplinary working group on open educational resources (OER) of the Universidad de la República) and the National Blind Union. </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapter/cc-uruguay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Uruguay</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is part of the OER interdisciplinary working group of the Universidad de la República and took part in the BIDYA Project, particularly in running training activities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The BIDYA project consisted in several stages that covered different aspects that the Marrakesh Treaty and the national law required as part of the regulation, for example, the adaptation of materials in accessible formats, cross-border exchange and the establishment of authorized entities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This project created several tools, such as procedural guidelines for the creation and dissemination of an accessible library and information literacy. Several training courses were delivered for blind people or people with low vision and for librarians, including a hands-on day where the general public was invited to participate in work stations to help create accessible materials. This project also played an active role in the creation of the </span><a href="http://redcdpd.net/observatorio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Observatory for the Marrakesh Treaty in Latin America</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of the outcomes of this project are being used by the libraries of different faculties at the Universidad de la República that have blind or low vision students. The Library of the Legislative Palace of Uruguay also uses these guidelines when designing its publications.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An article on CC Uruguay&#8217;s initiative will be published soon on the </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Global Network Medium Publication</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Colombia &#8211; Carolina Botero</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Colombia is not yet a party to the Marrakesh Treaty. It has signed but not ratified it yet. The ratification project moved between different ministries and offices until it finally reached Congress, which was meant to vote on the issue mid-September. No public notice of the vote result had been issued at the time of drafting. Our overall impression is that the government considers that Law No. 1680 of 2012—which includes the first exception for blind people in the country—covers the scope of flexibilities provided by the Marrakesh Treaty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, this is not the case. Law 1680 is only for blind people and contains several other restrictions. For instance, it doesn&#8217;t allow for cross-border exchanges of works, a very important provision introduced by the Marrakesh Treaty. In short, Law 1680 is incredibly narrow in comparison to what the Marrakesh Treaty offers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An interesting opportunity to discuss the need to broaden exceptions and limitations, including those provided under the Marrakesh Treaty, might present itself next year. After the implementation process of the free-trade agreement between Colombia and the United States of America on issues of copyright, a law that reformed the copyright regime in Colombia established that, every three years, the Copyright Office must open a public hearing to analyze how the public interest is reflected in Colombian copyright law. The first public hearing will take place in 2021. </span><a href="https://co.creativecommons.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Colombia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will seize that opportunity to push forward for the ratification and implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty in Colombia.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Brazil &#8211; Mariana Valente</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brazil ratified the Marrakesh Treaty in 2015, and, although the government had been active in its negotiation, it only got promulgated in October 2018. In 2020, the government’s Special Secretariat for Culture published a </span><a href="http://participa.br/sdapi/consulta-publica-no-012020-minuta-do-decreto-de-regulamentacao-do-tratado-de-marraqueche" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">public consultation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for a decree that will detail the implementation of the treaty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Brazil studied the text and submitted </span><a href="https://br.creativecommons.org/nota-sobre-a-minuta-do-decreto-de-regulamentacao-do-tratado-de-marraqueche/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a proposal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which was also signed by the CC Chapters of Uruguay, Argentina and Colombia. Al Sur, a coalition of 11 Latin-American organizations, also submitted </span><a href="media/0429a017.20implementaciC3B3n20del20tratado20de20Marrakech20en20Brasil.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.alsur.lat/sites/default/files/2020-08/ALSUR_Comentarios%20para%20la%20consulta%20p%C3%BAblica%20sobre%20implementaci%C3%B3n%20del%20tratado%20de%20Marrakech%20en%20Brasil.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">their own comments</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with the help of members of CC Brazil and CC Colombia. In both cases, our concerns were that a few provisions on this text established inadequate burdens upon the “authorized entities” for their use of the exception and that the consultation asked whether the “commercial availability” clause should be implemented. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Drawing from international experience, we argued that such a clause hollows out the potentials of the treaty, because of the hardships it imposes on organizations, and the legal uncertainties it creates. All the public comments posted on the website point to the same direction. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At this stage, the Brazilian government is expected to give feedback on the consultation, and publish its decision on the matter. We hope that the positions of organizations working with VIPs, libraries and the public interest in copyright will be taken on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you would like to support this process, please </span><a href="http://www.creativecommons.org.br/contato" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">get in touch with CC Brazil</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—we will gladly connect you with a larger network of people working on this.</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>Creative Commons’ community is making incredible strides in fighting for the rights of VIPs and making sure they have as easy and hassle-free access to a broad range of creative content as possible. Do you also wish to share your experience with implementing the Marrakesh Treaty? Get in touch: <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org">info@creativecommons.org</a>.  </strong></p>
<h6><a id="limitations_and_exceptions"></a><strong>*Creative Commons and exceptions and limitations (continued):</strong></h6>
<h6><span style="font-weight: 400;">In practice, this means that if the material is licensed under a CC license that doesn’t allow adaptations (NoDerivatives or “ND” condition), the terms of the license cannot prevent sharing an adaptation of the material that would otherwise be allowed under an exception. To the extent that an exception or limitation, articulated in national law through the implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty or otherwise, allows adaptations necessary to make material accessible to VIPs, that activity is exempt from the restrictions of the ND condition. Those adaptations would not violate the terms of the license.</span></h6>
<h6><span style="font-weight: 400;">Furthermore, anyone can </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">make</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> adaptations of ND-licensed materials so long as they don&#8217;t </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#when-is-my-use-considered-an-adaptation"><span style="font-weight: 400;">share</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> those adaptations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. So, for example, were a blind person to feed an ND-licensed work into a program that resulted in either an audio reading or Braille content, that would be permissible under the terms of the license, so long as the person wouldn’t share it, e.g. by posting it on the internet.</span></h6>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/30/implementing-of-the-marrakesh-treaty-in-latin-america/">Implementing the Marrakesh Treaty in Latin America: A Look at the Experiences of Four CC Community Members</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62305
title: Meet CC Tanzania, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!
uri: Meet-CC-Tanzania-Our-Next-Feature-for-CC-Network-Fridays
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/09/cc-tanzania-cc-network-fridays/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After introducing the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/10/cc-network-fridays-cc-italy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Italy Chapter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to you in July, the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/14/meet-cc-netherlands-cc-network-fridays/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Netherlands Chapter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in August and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/14/meet-cc-bangladesh-our-next-feature-for-cc-network-fridays/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Bangladesh Chapter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in September, we are now travelling to Africa to introduce the CC Tanzania Chapter! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The</span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Global Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CCGN) consists of 45 CC Country Chapters spread across the globe. They’re the home for a community of advocates, activists, educators, artists, lawyers, and users who share CC’s vision and values. They implement and strengthen open access policies, copyright reform, open education, and open culture in the communities in which they live.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To help showcase their work, we’re excited to continue our blog series and social media initiative: </span><b>CC Network Fridays</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. At least one Friday a month, we’re travelling around the world through our blog and on Twitter (using</span><a href="https://twitter.com/i/events/1281214811687305217?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <b>#CCNetworkFridays</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) to a different CC Chapter, introducing their teams, discussing their work, and celebrating their commitment to open! </span></p>
<h3><b>Say hello to CC Tanzania!</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Tanzania Chapter was formed in July 2018. Its Chapter Lead is </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/arismaro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aristarik Hubert Maro</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and its representative to the CC Global Network Council is </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/emmanuelmalongo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emmanuel T. Malongo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Since the beginning, the Chapter has been involved in advocating CC licences, promoting and supporting open education and copyright but over the last year, in particular, it has enhanced its activities covering almost all</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/24/introducing-the-cc-global-network-platforms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CCGN Platforms</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. For this post, we spoke to CC Tanzania Chapter Lead Aris who told us a bit more about the Chapter’s work. He responded in both English and Swahili! </span></p>
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<p><b>CC: What open movement work is your Chapter actively involved in? What would you like to achieve with your work?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>CC Tanzania:</strong> We are now actively engaged in advocacy training on CC Licenses and Open Educational Resources (OER) to teachers and educators in Tanzania. We are also currently conducting online training on “ICT Soft Skills to Librarians” in Tanzania. Recently, we participated in the </span><a href="https://web.aflia.net/open-access-to-information-promoting-innovation-in-africa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AfLIA Creative Commons Webinar on Open Access to Information</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. CC Tanzania would like to achieve its mission to connect and engage effectively all key stakeholders in the free knowledge ecosystem to actively participate in </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/24/introducing-the-cc-global-network-platforms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CCGN Platforms</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Tanzania: kwa sasa tunajishughulisha na mafunzo ya leseni za CC na maudhui huru za Elimu kwa Walimu Tanzania. Pia tunaendesha mafunzo kwa njia ya mtandao ya Ujuzi wa TEHAMA kwa Wakutubi Tanzania. Hivi karidbuni CC Tanzania imeshiriki katika Semina kwa njia ya Mtandao ya AfLIA Creative Commons juu ya upatikanaji huru wa taarifa. CC Tanzania  inapenda kufikia dhima yake ya kuwakutanisha na kuwafikia wadau muhimu wa mfumo wa maarifa huru kuweza kushiriki kikamilfu katika majukwaa mbali mbali ya CCGN.</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><b>CC: What exciting project has your Chapter engaged in recently?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>CC Tanzania:</strong> We had three projects funded by the CC Community Activities Fund (CAF), these were:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://tz.creativecommons.net/creative-commons-tanzania-in-collaboration-with-tusome-conducted-an-online-capacity-building-training-on-educational-ict-soft-skills-for-educators-in-tanzania/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">An open Capacity building training on educational ICT soft skills for educators in Tanzania</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">An initiative promoting access to learning materials in Tanzania during Covid-19 school closure and OERs sharing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">A stay home challenge promoting innovation and unearthing creativity talent among children in Tanzania </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These CAF projects gave us great experience advocating for CC in Tanzania and enhanced active participation of stakeholders in CC Tanzania&#8217;s activities. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Tanzania: Tulipata udhamini wa miradi mitatu kupitia Fedha za Kazi ya Kijamii (CAF) ambazo ni:</span></i></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://tz.creativecommons.net/creative-commons-tanzania-in-collaboration-with-tusome-conducted-an-online-capacity-building-training-on-educational-ict-soft-skills-for-educators-in-tanzania/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mafunzo huru ya kuwajengea Ujuzi  wa TEHAMA katika elimu kwa Walimu Tanzania</span></i></a></li>
<li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Upatikanaji wa Maudhui za kujifunzia Tanzania wakati wa virus vya Corona kufungwa kwa shule na kugawana maudhui huru za elimu</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chanagamoto ya kubaki nyumbani: Kukuza uvumbuzi na ubunifu wa vipaji kwa watoto Tanzania. </span></i></li>
</ul>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Miradi hii imeleta uzoefu mkubwa sana kutangaza CC nchini Tanzania na kuimarisha  ushiriki hai wa wadau katika shughuli za CC Tanzania.</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i></p>
<p><b>CC: What do you find inspiring and rewarding about your work in the open movement?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>CC Tanzania:</strong> The willingness of the members to participate in the funded activities and the readiness of key actors like teachers, librarians, students and technologists to get involved with Creative Commons&#8217; ideals.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Tanzania: </span></em><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Uhai wa wanachama kushiriki katika shughuli zilizodhaminiwa na utayari wa watendaji muhimu kama walimu,wakutubi,wanafunzi, na wanateknolojia kujihusisha na mambo bora yanayohusu Creative Commons.</span></i></p>
<p><b>CC: What are your plans for the future? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>CC Tanzania:</strong> We are planning to actively involve more actors, especially those involved in copyright reforms, educators, writers and technologists in the country. Through these actors, we will be able to initiate copyright reforms that accommodate open licences to allow the free sharing of knowledge, as well as advocate for open licences in the education and technology industries.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Tanzania: Tunapanga kuwahusisha kikamilifu watendaji/washiriki zaidi hasa wale wanaohusika na mabadiliko ya sheria, walimu, waandishi na wanateknolojia nchini Tanzania. Kupitia hawa watendaji tunaweza kuanzisha utaratibu wa kufanya mabadiliko ya sheria ya haki miliki kutambua leseni huru ili kuruhusu kugawana maarifa bila gharama yoyote na kuhamasisha matumizi ya leseni hizo katika sekta ya elimu na teknolojia.</span></em></p>
<p><b>CC: What projects in your country are using CC licenses that you’d like to highlight? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>CC Tanzania:</strong> We love the learning materials for children found at </span><a href="https://ubongokids.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UBONGO Kids sites</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and other learning platforms.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Tanzania: Tunapenda maudhui ya kujifunzia ya watoto yanayopatikana katika </span><a href="https://ubongokids.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">tovuti ya UBONGO Kids</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> na majukwaa mengine</span></em></p>
<p><b>CC: Anything else you want to share?</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>CC Tanzania:</strong> Since its inception, CC Tanzania has also been supported by local sister institutions in Tanzania, including:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.out.ac.tz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Open University of Tanzania</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.lst.ac.tz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Law School of Tanzania</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.ija.ac.tz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Institute of Judicial Administration Lushoto</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.udsm.ac.tz/web/index.php/colleges/duce" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dar es Salaam University College of Education</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.costech.or.tz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH)</span></a></li>
<li>Wikimedia Tanzania Group</li>
<li><a href="https://dudumizi.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DUDUMIZI</a></li>
</ul>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Tanzania: Toka kuanzishwa kwa CC Tanzania pia imekuwa ikipata msaada kutoka kwa taasisi za ndani ya nchi ambazo ni </span></em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.out.ac.tz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chuo Kikuu Huria cha Tanzania</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lst.ac.tz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shule ya Mafunzo ya Sheria Tanzania</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ija.ac.tz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chuo cha Uongozi wa Mahakama Lushoto</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.udsm.ac.tz/web/index.php/colleges/duce" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chuo Kikuu Kishiriki Cha Elimu Dar es Salaam</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.costech.or.tz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tume ya Sayansi na Teknolojia Tanzania</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikimedia Tanzania Group</span></li>
<li><a href="https://dudumizi.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DUDUMIZI</span></a></li>
</ul>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><b>Thank you to the</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/cc_tanzania?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>CC Tanzania team</b></a><b>, especially Aris and Emmanuel for contributing to the CC Network Fridays feature, and for all of their work in the open community! To see this conversation on Twitter, </b><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1314564663863107590" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>click here</b></a><b>. To become a member of the CCGN,</b><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <b>visit our website</b></a><b>!</b></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62316
title: Internationalizing the Open COVID Pledge: Translations and Outreach
uri: Internationalizing-the-Open-COVID-Pledge-Translations-and-Outreach
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/14/internationalizing-the-open-covid-pledge-translations-and-outreach/

content:
<p style="font-size: 0.9rem; font-style: italic;"><img style="display: block;" src="media/c2638fcc.3311542781_71fb3f4618.jpg" data-original-source="https://live.staticflickr.com/3552/3311542781_71fb3f4618.jpg" alt="United Nations Headquarters" /><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/35483578@N03/3311542781">&#8220;United Nations Headquarters&#8221;</a><span> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/35483578@N03">United Nations Photo</a></span> is licensed under <a style="margin-right: 5px;" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=html">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</a><a style="display: inline-block; white-space: none; margin-top: 2px; margin-left: 3px; height: 22px !important;" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="height: inherit; margin-right: 3px; display: inline-block;" src="https://search.creativecommons.org/static/img/cc_icon.svg?image_id=5b758f2f-80af-415a-9472-8f2115f5ce89" /><img style="height: inherit; margin-right: 3px; display: inline-block;" src="media/896c1ab3.cc-by_icon.svg" data-original-source="https://search.creativecommons.org/static/img/cc-by_icon.svg" /><img style="height: inherit; margin-right: 3px; display: inline-block;" src="media/495530c8.cc-nc_icon.svg" data-original-source="https://search.creativecommons.org/static/img/cc-nc_icon.svg" /><img style="height: inherit; margin-right: 3px; display: inline-block;" src="media/f6d83627.cc-nd_icon.svg" data-original-source="https://search.creativecommons.org/static/img/cc-nd_icon.svg" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As an important part of our stewardship of the</span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Open COVID Pledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we are pleased to announce that the Pledge is now available in <a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/the-pledge/">all six of the official languages</a> of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. This increases accessibility and usefulness of the Pledge to more than 3.7 billion persons in their first or second languages. We are also excited to be launching a simple translation process through which any member of our community can contribute translations of the Pledge in other languages at our upcoming 2020 CC Global Summit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Understanding and communicating the value of the Pledge is a critical part of encouraging companies, universities, research teams, and others to contribute their valuable IP to help solve COVID-19 quickly. As we begin working with the CC Global Network to increase the Pledge&#8217;s reach and secure additional Pledges, we’ll also be working with our community to translate information and adoption guides as they become increasingly important.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These are the first internationalization efforts that CC is undertaking since we</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/27/cc-ocp/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">announced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> our leadership of the OCP work in August—but they&#8217;re certainly not the last. In addition to launching the simplified translation process, we’ll also be discussing advocacy and outreach techniques at next week&#8217;s <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">CC Global Summit</a>, where we&#8217;ll be gathering our community’s ideas for how they can contribute to this effort. We’ll also be identifying tools that will assist with outreach both to those who hold valuable intellectual property as well as those seeking to use the IP that is pledged at that <a href="https://sched.co/efAB">workshop on Wednesday, October 21</a>. In addition, founders of the OCP will provide an <a href="https://sched.co/efA5">informational overview of the OCP project for newbies on Tuesday, October 20</a>, where companies that have adopted the pledge will share their reasons for joining. Finally, watch for us to announce an expansion of the CC OCP <a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/about/">Advisory Council</a> early next year to ensure better international expertise and diversity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In combination and alongside other collaborations, we expect these efforts will scale the OCP internationally to create critical mass and impact. You can support our international efforts by joining us at the CC Summit and sharing your ideas for effort by encouraging your company, university, or research team to make the Open COVID Pledge. Visit </span><a href="http://opencovidpledge.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">opencovidpledge.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or contact us at </span><a href="mailto:ocpinfo@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ocpinfo@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for more information.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/14/internationalizing-the-open-covid-pledge-translations-and-outreach/">Internationalizing the Open COVID Pledge: Translations and Outreach</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62320
title: Facing 2020 at the CC Global Summit: A Look at This Year’s Keynotes
uri: Facing-2020-at-the-CC-Global-Summit-A-Look-at-This-Year-s-Keynotes
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/15/2020-cc-global-summit-keynotes/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s take a moment and step out of the heavy fog that is 2020 and try to look back at the last few months with a new perspective. Through the challenges and uncertainties, we believe there have been opportunities for personal reflection, social solidarity, and care. Of course, we recognize this is not true for everyone, but we certainly hope it’s true for most. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the unique challenges for this year’s CC Global Summit was to connect events of the past year with our work—and find a path forward in hope and optimism. We asked: How can we best celebrate “open” and continue to foster the culture of gratitude and collaboration that our work and our community brings? How can we link the challenges we’re facing as a planet (e.g. health, human rights, democracy, etc.) with the opportunities for solutions found in creating a more open and free world?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alongside the 100+ sessions hosted at this year’s CC Global Summit, we believe the three keynotes will help answer those questions, as well as reshape our perspectives, conversations, and attitudes as we near the end of 2020 and look forward to 2021. </span></p>
<p><b>The 2020 CC Global Summit keynotes are: </b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2020virtual.sched.com/event/ef9b/keynote-presentation-a-culture-of-peace?iframe=no"><b>A Culture of Peace</b></a>:<b> </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">the first keynote, held on Tuesday (12:00 UTC), will foster a necessary discussion on the role &#8220;open&#8221; plays in advancing peace. Speakers Bushra Ebadi (Canadian Commission for UNESCO), Deepak Ramola (Project FUEL), Leonardo Párraga (Juventudes Por La Paz), and Asha Siad (Memories of Mogadishu) will challenge the audience to critically examine preconceived notions of open access, open culture, and open knowledge, and to understand the role decolonized and democratized conceptions of these terms will serve in building the future we want. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2020virtual.sched.com/event/etQT/keynote-presentation-hacer-feminista-lo-abierto-poniendo-nuevos-engranes-a-la-cultura-libre?iframe=no"><b>Hacer Feminista Lo Abierto: Poniendo Nuevos Engranes a La Cultura Libre</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Making Open Feminist: Putting New Gears in Free Culture</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">): the second keynote, held on Wednesday (15:00 UTC), will give Irene Soria (CC Mexico) the stage for exploring new definitions of &#8220;open.&#8221; Using intersectionality as a framing, Irene will help us navigate the relationships between race, gender, and social class as new ways of seeing the open movement. The session will be in Spanish, but the question and answer period will be in English. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://ccglobalsummit2020virtual.sched.com/event/ef9Q/keynote-presentation-democracy-for-sale?iframe=no"><b>Democracy for Sale</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: the final keynote, on Thursday (15:00 UTC), will have CC’s CEO Catherine Stihler and Board Member Alek Tarkowski speaking with author Peter Geoghegan about his upcoming book, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Democracy for Sale</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In particular, the panel will discuss how rightwing ideology, money, and social media have been used to hollow out modern democracies, particularly in North America and Europe. The links between fighting for our democracies and fighting for “open” and the public interest will be discussed during this conversation. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In one way or another, these keynotes touch on the most compelling questions and challenges we’re facing today and serve as the perfect framing for the entire 2020 CC Global Summit—and for our work as a community moving forward. </span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/15/2020-cc-global-summit-keynotes/">Facing 2020 at the CC Global Summit: A Look at This Year’s Keynotes</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62328
title: Making the CC Global Network Work Better for You
uri: Making-the-CC-Global-Network-Work-Better-for-You
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/21/making-the-cc-network-work-better/
content:
<p><em>This post is written by <span style="font-weight: 400;">Ethan Senack, a member of Creative Commons USA and the Global Network Council Executive Committee.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just over a year ago, the Executive Committee of the CC Global Network Council (GNC) launched an open process to collect feedback from all members on the network structure, with the purpose of understanding what was working and what was not, and to offer recommendations on how to make the structure work better for those on the ground and in local communities. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We were committed to making the process deeply open and transparent— not just in the procedure, but in the discussion and decision-making as well. That often conflicted with our desire to move forward and significantly extended the timeline, but we believed it was necessary to build trust, to encourage compromise, and to ensure that a variety of voices and perspectives were heard. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It wasn’t an easy process, but the result is a series of recommendations grounded in the input from our network, repeatedly reviewed and refined by members and chapter leads, and ultimately voted on by the Global Network Council. </span></p>
<p><b>That’s why I am proud to say, as of this week, the GNC has voted overwhelmingly to accept these recommendations. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From here, we can move forward as a stronger, more community-owned network. The full sets of recommendations are linked below, but here are just a few of the pieces we think will have a big impact: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Local chapters will now have real input into membership decisions that affect their jurisdiction. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Guidelines on chapter fundraising for CC efforts have been streamlined to make it easier for chapters to grow. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We removed barriers and addressed issues around chapter structure that have caused confusion in practice. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are now clearer, more transparent processes for the Community Activities Fund and Certificate Scholarship program, supporting the disbursement of $30,000 (so far) to local organizing efforts and members. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m grateful to the Executive Committee (Lisette Kalshoven &#8211; CC Netherlands; Franco Giandana &#8211; CC Argentina; Alek Tarkowski &#8211; CC Poland; Liz Oyange &#8211; CC Kenya; Jorge Gemetto &#8211; CC Uruguay; as well as Claudio Ruiz, Delia Brown, and Cable Green from CC HQ), and to Julia Brungs, CC Network Manager, who all put in significant effort to get this process across the finish line. I also want to express appreciation for all the network members, chapter leads, and GNC representatives who spent time to submit comments, give feedback, and push for changes to make the Network better. Over the next few months, the ExCom, the GNC, and CC staff will have to work together to implement these changes. </span></p>
<p><strong>You can see the entire process from start to finish in the following links:</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Initial Documents: </span></p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mfKgQ5FbuDP_d42YknRqdFPE9yA__FvjkGWgxw2oP8Q/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Launching a Review of the Network Structure: Call for Feedback</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W6DhrtRGkAxMzsUsLSWhzcPTP6SpPdVOUkEUU5Ew5uo/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Transcript of Submitted Comments</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-4bB3McoIXRuknweylZ1atYh_xxJ5nu7C7ki2JvFVJA/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Analysis of Submitted Comments</span></a></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resulting Recommendations:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JCMCdTRjIwadFwR1HgVAYypC_Keye-mvsTxTc-6S4E8/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Area 1: Membership</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P-_tE3enQRr6OezNUR0lyDZrWtWC5DIWwd-LqZuGiRE/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Area 2: Funding and Volunteerism</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dqoeTtb-lYW6E8BZMqImCfNzBNwidA7BBSy6UFLT6Yc/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Area 3: Chapter and Network Structure</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17_uLLj6AVR-1mz970kPW4ewA99VXnkaDoCl9azluTYs/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Area 4: Miscellaneous</span></a></li>
</ol>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/21/making-the-cc-network-work-better/">Making the CC Global Network Work Better for You</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62340
title: You Can Now Sponsor CC’s Open Source Work on GitHub!
uri: You-Can-Now-Sponsor-CC-s-Open-Source-Work-on-GitHub
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/27/sponsor-cc-open-source-work-github/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons is now accepting sponsorship via </span><a href="https://github.com/sponsors/creativecommons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GitHub Sponsors</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC’s small engineering team builds essential open-source infrastructure for CC-licensed and public domain content. Our tools make it easier for anyone to:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">release original content under an open license.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">find and responsibly reuse openly licensed and public domain content.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">connect to the larger ecosystem of openly licensed content on the internet.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Our projects include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our CC Search set of tools</span>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://search.creativecommons.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Search</span></a>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">our search engine for openly licensed content.</span></li>
<li><a href="https://api.creativecommons.engineering/v1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Catalog API</span></a>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">a free API that allows anyone to integrate CC Search data into their own applications.</span></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Catalog</span></a>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">our index of 500 million+ openly licensed works that power CC Search.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The</span><a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/ccsearch-browser-extension/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Search browser extension</span></a>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">which makes CC Catalog searchable on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Edge.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The new</span><a href="https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CC license chooser</span></a>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">an educational tool that allows users to pick the right license for their needs.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The</span><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/creative-commons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CC WordPress plugin</span></a>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">which allows WordPress users to easily release their content under a CC license or tool.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The (soon to be launched)</span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/caselaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CC legal database</span></a>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">which lists legal precedents and articles related to CC licenses.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The</span><a href="http://dataviz.creativecommons.engineering/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Linked Commons</span></a>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">graph analysis of the impact of CC licenses on the internet.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our new</span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-licenses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CC license infrastructure</span></a>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">which will serve legal code, human-readable deeds, and machine-readable RDFs for all 630+ unique Creative Commons licenses (across all jurisdictions), plus translations.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/vocabulary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Vocabulary</span></a>: <span style="font-weight: 400;">our open web design system.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8230;and many more!</span></p>
<p><strong>You can find more information about our projects and community at <a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Open Source</a>.</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC’s open source products are a public good and provide critical infrastructure for the open internet. They are offered for free to the public and used by millions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Without CC’s open source products, the ecosystem for openly licensed content would suffer considerably. For example:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Discoverability of CC-licensed content would be limited and locked into proprietary platforms.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There would be no APIs that enable open access repositories to easily use CC licenses.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All of CC’s open source projects are maintained by </span><b>a small staff on a limited budget</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and we need your help to keep our projects running.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/sponsors/creativecommons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Please consider sponsoring our work on GitHub Sponsors.</strong></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/27/sponsor-cc-open-source-work-github/">You Can Now Sponsor CC’s Open Source Work on GitHub!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62346
title: Say Hello to Our New CC Open Source Website!
uri: Say-Hello-to-Our-New-CC-Open-Source-Website
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/02/cc-open-source-website/
content:
<p><em>This is part of a series of posts introducing the projects built by open source contributors mentored by Creative Commons during Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020 and Outreachy. This post was written by <a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/blog/authors/dhruvi16/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dhruvi Butti</a>, a 2020 Outreachy intern and a 3rd-year undergrad at IIIT Surat. </em></p>
<hr size="10" />
<p><em>“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” &#8211; Jonathan Lockwood Huie</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Around the last week of August, we bid goodbye to our old CC Open Source website and <a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">welcomed a new version</a> that is classy, contemporary, and consistent. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The months-long process involved redesigning and reimplementing styles for the website, including</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> integrating <a href="https://cc-vocabulary.netlify.app/?path=/story/vocabulary-introduction--page" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vocabulary</a>—a cohesive design library that </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">makes it easier to develop Creative Commons (CC) applications while ensuring a consistently familiar experience.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-62359 aligncenter" src="media/44b240a4.CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-300x146.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-300x146.jpg" alt="CC Open Source Website screenshot" width="466" height="227" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-300x146.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-1024x499.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-768x374.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-1536x749.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-2048x999.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-82x40.jpg 82w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-50x24.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-270x132.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-Website-scaled-e1603828532580-1200x585.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 466px) 85vw, 466px" /></p>
<p><b>Design library! Ah, why?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We aim to have consistency in design and development to create a cohesive brand identity for CC, which will both improve user experience and drive more awareness of CC&#8217;s work to donors. In order to do that, we need a common set of design styles and elements to use across all of the websites that make up CC&#8217;s online presence (e.g. <a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Open Source</a>, <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Global Summit</a>, <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Certificate</a>, etc.). Therefore, we created Vocabulary, which delivers:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Efficiency: </strong><span>Instead of repeatedly building similar components from scratch, design systems (like Vocabulary) enable designers and developers to reuse components and thereby increase efficiency.</span></li>
<li><strong>Consistency: </strong>D<span style="font-weight: 400;">esign systems introduce a shared set of principles and rules to build web components, making it easier to create consistent experiences across different platforms.</span></li>
<li><strong>Scale: </strong>The i<span style="font-weight: 400;">ncreased efficiency and consistency from these systems allow an organization (like Creative Commons) to build faster products at scale.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Vocabulary at your service </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Credit for the new user interface of the CC Open Source website goes to Vocabulary. Our design library is an incredibly useful asset that we have been building for quite some time. All of the design elements are imported from the design library. It is flexible, scalable, and most importantly, well structured and documented so anyone can easily comprehend and make good use out of the available components.</span></p>
<p><b>Key differences </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The level of user experience has been significantly elevated due to the use of Vocabulary. For example, a primary component of the website is guidelines—we have guidelines for contributing, guidelines for how to join a community, guidelines for how to write a blog, and many more. The new website has cleaner and readable guidelines with proper hierarchies. In addition, every piece of information is made accessible using secondary navigation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Below are screenshots of two of the guidelines pages from the new website.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62350 aligncenter" src="media/45807a86.CC-Open-Source-1-841x1024.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-1-841x1024.png" alt="" width="514" height="626" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-1-841x1024.png 841w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-1-246x300.png 246w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-1-768x935.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-1-33x40.png 33w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-1-41x50.png 41w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-1-127x155.png 127w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Open-Source-1.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 514px) 85vw, 514px" /> <img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62351 aligncenter" src="media/91edf424.Open-Source-2-841x1024.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-2-841x1024.png" alt="" width="504" height="613" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-2-841x1024.png 841w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-2-246x300.png 246w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-2-768x935.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-2-33x40.png 33w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-2-41x50.png 41w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-2-127x155.png 127w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-2.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 504px) 85vw, 504px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Below are screenshots of two guidelines pages from the old website. The differences are evident.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62355 aligncenter" src="media/c22fb873.Open-Source-4-856x1024.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-4-856x1024.png" alt="" width="514" height="615" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-4-856x1024.png 856w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-4-251x300.png 251w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-4-768x918.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-4-1284x1536.png 1284w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-4-33x40.png 33w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-4-42x50.png 42w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-4-130x155.png 130w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-4-1200x1435.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-4.png 1338w" sizes="(max-width: 514px) 85vw, 514px" /> <img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62356 aligncenter" src="media/0dae193b.Open-Source-5-1024x698.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-5-1024x698.png" alt="" width="515" height="351" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-5-1024x698.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-5-300x205.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-5-768x524.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-5-1536x1047.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-5-59x40.png 59w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-5-50x34.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-5-227x155.png 227w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-5-1200x818.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Open-Source-5.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 515px) 85vw, 515px" /></p>
<p><b>Help us perfect it. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We believe in the saying ‘The more the merrier.’ You can contribute to the new website by fixing code issues, as well as finding and reporting bugs. All development of the CC Open Source website is documented in this </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io-source"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GitHub repository</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Please remember to read the </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io-source/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md"><span style="font-weight: 400;">contributing section</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the repo’s README. Issues marked with the green “help wanted” tag is open to contributors. We look forward to working with you and hearing your feedback! </span></p>
<p><strong>We are extremely proud and grateful for the work done by Dhruvi Butti throughout her 2020 Outreachy internship. We look forward to her continued contributions to CC Open Source as a <a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/community/community-team/members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">project core committer</a> in the CC Open Source Community! </strong></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><a href="https://github.com/sponsors/creativecommons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Please consider supporting Creative Commons’ open source work on GitHub Sponsors.</strong></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/02/cc-open-source-website/">Say Hello to Our New CC Open Source Website!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62362
title: Important Updates to the Creative Commons Catalog
uri: Important-Updates-to-the-Creative-Commons-Catalog
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/02/updates-to-the-creative-commons-catalog/
content:
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is part of a series of posts introducing the projects built by open source contributors mentored by Creative Commons during Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020 and Outreachy. K. S. Srinidhi Krishna and Charini Nanayakkara were two of those contributors and we are grateful for their work on this project.</span></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons (CC) Catalog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> collects and stores metadata about more than 500 million CC-licensed images scattered across the internet so that they can be made accessible to the general public via the CC Search and CC Catalog API tools. Creative Commons</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> uses two approaches to collect metadata about CC-licensed images:</span></p>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <strong>Gather metadata directly</strong> from the HTML around the image on the webpage where it appears. We source this HTML from an open-source web-crawling project called CommonCrawl (link).  </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Pull metadata about an image from a service</strong> provided by some image hosts called an API (Application Programming Interface).  An API is an interface whereby a computer program can access some hosted data (or metadata) in a consistent and organized manner suitable for developing a pipeline to further process that data.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During our internship, we worked on using the second method described above to expand the number of images indexed in CC Catalog, as well as improve related infrastructure.  We refer to a computer program that implements the second method for a given provider as a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Provider API Script</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The CC Catalog collects and stores metadata about more than 500 million CC-licensed images scattered across the internet so that they can be made accessible. </strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before diving into the specifics of our contributions, it&#8217;s worth clarifying precisely what is meant by a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Provider API script</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">providers</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are essentially the cultural or other organisations (such as museums and image hosting services) which host CC-licensed images. Some of these organisations provide APIs to allow external entities to access data such as image metadata hosted by them. The </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Provider API script</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">s which can be found in the CC Catalog repository are programs which make use of these APIs to automatically retrieve and aggregate metadata about CC-licensed images hosted by different providers.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Integration of new provider API scripts</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Newly implemented Provider API scripts are:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> <strong>Science Museum: </strong> The Science Museum collection has around 60,000 CC-licensed images from the</span><a href="https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/search/museum/science-museum"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Science Museum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/search/museum/museum-of-science-and-industry"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Science and Industry Museum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/search/museum/national-media-museum"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">National Science and Media Museum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/search/museum/national-railway-museum"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">National Railway Museum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and</span><a href="https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/search/museum/locomotion"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Locomotion</span></a>.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Statens Museum: </strong><a href="https://www.smk.dk/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Statens Museum for Kunst</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is Denmark’s leading museum for artwork. This is a new integration and 39115 images have been collected.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Museums Victoria: </strong><a href="https://museumsvictoria.com.au/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museums Victoria</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Australia, features collections of zoology, geology, palaeontology, history, indigenous cultures and technology. It has around 140,000 images.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>NYPL: </strong><a href="https://www.nypl.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Public Library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a new integration. As of now, it has around 1296 images.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Grouping images by their source</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the organisations that host CC-licensed images are referred to as </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">providers</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, there is the possibility that some of these providers obtain those images from third party organisations. We refer to such third party organisations as the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">image source</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, NASA is a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">source</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> organisation that publishes their images through the <em>provider </em></span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flickr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (which is an American image and video hosting service) as well as the <em>provider</em> <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">nasa.gov</a>. Previously, when accessing CC-licensed images through the CC Search tool, users were only able to categorize those images based on the <em>provider</em> but not the <em>source</em>. However, for images made available by certain significant providers such as Flickr and the Smithsonian, the images are now grouped by their <em>source</em> organisations rather than the provider. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After this implementation, all images from a single source—which were previously scattered across different providers—are accessible from one place. The following screenshot shows how the images from the Smithsonian Institution (a provider) are now categorized under multiple <em>source</em> organizations (museums and research centers within the Smithsonian) in the CC Search tool.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-62379 aligncenter" src="media/417e283e.CC-Catalog-Screenshot-300x167.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Catalog-Screenshot-300x167.png" alt="CC Catalog" width="505" height="281" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Catalog-Screenshot-300x167.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Catalog-Screenshot-1024x570.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Catalog-Screenshot-768x427.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Catalog-Screenshot-1536x854.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Catalog-Screenshot-72x40.png 72w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Catalog-Screenshot-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Catalog-Screenshot-270x150.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Catalog-Screenshot-1200x668.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CC-Catalog-Screenshot.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 505px) 85vw, 505px" /></p>
<h3><strong>Scheduled reingestion of Europeana images </strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Europeana</a> is home to over 58 million artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries, and archives. Data is collected from Europeana daily, but we only pull data about artefacts added within the previous day.  This necessitates refreshing the data on a recurring basis. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The idea is that new data should be refreshed more frequently and as the data gets old, refreshing should become less frequent. While developing the strategy, the <em>API key limit</em> (the maximum number of requests that can be made within a given time period) and the maximum collection expected must be kept in mind. Considering these factors, we implemented a strategy that ensures the data in our database is at most six months old while refreshing the most recently uploaded metadata more frequently.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Retaining metadata from an old data source</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons sometimes generates metadata on the images collected from different third-party sources. When a provider is shifted from one data source to another, the metadata generated for an image is not available in the new data source. Therefore, there is a need to associate the new data with tags corresponding to that image from the old data source. A direct URL match is not possible as the data sources have different image URLs for the same image, so our goal is to match it on the number or identifier that is associated with the URL. </span></p>
<h3><strong>Expiration of outdated images</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As explained under a previous section, we update the images obtained from different providers at varying frequencies depending on the magnitude of the image collection of each provider and the age of each image (i.e. newer images are updated more frequently than older images). Even though this update strategy helps to reflect changes to image metadata (such as the number of views per image), information regarding image deletions was not reflected in the database. This resulted in the accumulation of obsolete images in the database and the presenting of broken links to non-existing images through the CC Search and CC Catalog API tools. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, since we are aware of the update frequency for each provider and their corresponding images, it is possible to determine whether an image is obsolete or not by looking at their last date of update. Therefore, to resolve this issue, an image expiration strategy which is dependent on the last date an image was implemented! </span></p>
<h3><strong>Identification of creator types</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Search helps users filter CC-licensed images in numerous ways, including filtering results by the &#8220;creator.&#8221; However, providers often identify &#8220;creators&#8221; by different names, such as ‘author’, ‘designer’, ‘cartoonist,’ and ‘modeler’. The ambiguity of names used to identify creators is accentuated for the </span><a href="https://www.si.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smithsonian</span></a> (a provider)<span style="font-weight: 400;">. Thus, we carefully analysed the image metadata from the Smithsonian and created a collection of various tags that identify the creators. With this implementation, the number of instances where the creator value is missed for Smithsonian images was considerably reduced. We hope this can be done for other providers as well in the future.</span></p>
<p><strong>We are extremely proud and grateful for the work done by K. S. Srinidhi Krishna and Charini Nanayakkara throughout their 2020 Google Summer of Code internship. We look forward to their continued contributions to the CC Catalog as <a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/community/community-team/members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">project core committers</a> in the CC Open Source Community! </strong></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><a href="https://github.com/sponsors/creativecommons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Please consider supporting Creative Commons’ open source work on GitHub Sponsors.</strong></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/02/updates-to-the-creative-commons-catalog/">Important Updates to the Creative Commons Catalog</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62404
title: The Linked Commons 2.0: What’s New?
uri: The-Linked-Commons-2-0-What-s-New
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/04/the-linked-commons-2-0-whats-new/
content:
<p><em><span>This is part of a series of posts introducing the projects built by open source contributors mentored by Creative Commons during Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020 and Outreachy. Subham Sahu was one of those contributors and we are grateful for his work on this project.</span></em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Catalog data visualization—the <a href="http://dataviz.creativecommons.engineering/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Linked Commons 2.0</a>—is a web application which aims to showcase and establish a relationship between the millions of data points of CC-licensed content using graphs. In this blog, I&#8217;ll discuss the motivation for this visualization and explore the latest features of the newest edition of the Linked Commons.</span></p>
<h3><b>Motivation</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The number of websites using CC-licensed content is enormous, and snowballing. The <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/02/updates-to-the-creative-commons-catalog/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Catalog</a> collects and stores these millions of data points, and each <em>node</em> (a <span>unit in a data structure)</span> contains information about the URL of the websites and the licenses used. It&#8217;s possible to do rigorous data analysis in order to understand fully how these are interconnected and to identify trends, but this would be exclusive to those with a technical background. However, by visualizing the data, it becomes easier to identify broad patterns and trends.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For example, by identifying other websites that are linking to your content, you can try to have a specific outreach program or collaborate with them. In this way out of billions of webpages out there on the web, you can very efficiently focus on the webpages where you are more likely to see an increase in growth.</span></p>
<h3><b>Latest Features</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let&#8217;s look at some of the new features in the </span><b><a href="http://dataviz.creativecommons.engineering/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Linked Commons 2.0</a></b>.</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Filtering based on the node name</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Linked Commons 2.0 allows users to search for their favorite node and then explore all of that node&#8217;s neighbors across the thousands present in the database. We have color-coded the links connecting the neighbors to the root node, as well as the neighbors which are connected to the root node differently. This makes it immaculately easy for users to classify the neighbors into two categories.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><b>A sleek and revamped design</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Linked Commons 2.0 has a sleek design, with a clean and refreshing look along with both a light and dark theme.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-62411 aligncenter" src="media/f898fef1.NEW_DESIGN_PIC2-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW_DESIGN_PIC2-300x169.png" alt="The Linked Commons new design" width="433" height="244" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW_DESIGN_PIC2-300x169.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW_DESIGN_PIC2-1024x576.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW_DESIGN_PIC2-768x432.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW_DESIGN_PIC2-1536x864.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW_DESIGN_PIC2-71x40.png 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW_DESIGN_PIC2-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW_DESIGN_PIC2-270x152.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW_DESIGN_PIC2-1200x675.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW_DESIGN_PIC2.png 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 433px) 85vw, 433px" /></p>
<ul>
<li><b>Tools for smooth interaction with the canvas</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Linked Commons 2.0 ships with a few tools that allow the user to <em>z</em></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>oom in</em>, <em>zoom out</em>, and <em>reset zoom</em> with just one tap. It is especially useful to users who are on touch devices or using a trackpad.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-62412 aligncenter" src="media/8680fb7a.toolbox-300x146.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/toolbox-300x146.png" alt="The Linked Commons toolbox" width="463" height="225" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/toolbox-300x146.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/toolbox-1024x498.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/toolbox-768x373.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/toolbox-1536x746.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/toolbox-82x40.png 82w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/toolbox-50x24.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/toolbox-270x131.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/toolbox-1200x583.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/toolbox.png 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 463px) 85vw, 463px" /></p>
<ul>
<li><b>Autocomplete feature</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The current database of the Linked Commons 2.0 contains around 240 thousand nodes and 4.14 million links. Unfortunately, some of the node names are uncommon and lengthy. To prevent users from the exhausting work of typing complete node names, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">this version ships with an <em>autocomplete feature</em>: for every keystroke, node names will appear that correspond with what the user might be looking for.</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-62413 aligncenter" src="media/98c5fb80.autocomplete-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/autocomplete-300x169.png" alt="The Linked Commons autocomplete" width="465" height="262" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/autocomplete-300x169.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/autocomplete-1024x576.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/autocomplete-768x432.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/autocomplete-1536x864.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/autocomplete-71x40.png 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/autocomplete-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/autocomplete-270x152.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/autocomplete-1200x675.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/autocomplete.png 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 465px) 85vw, 465px" /></p>
<h3><b>What&#8217;s next for the Linked Commons?</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the current version, there are some nodes which are very densely connected. For example, the node &#8220;Wikipedia&#8221; has around 89k nodes and 102k links as neighbours. This number is too big for web browsers to render. Therefore, we need to configure a way to reduce this to a more reasonable number.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the preprocessing, we dropped a lot of the nodes and removed more than 3 million nodes which didn&#8217;t have CC license information. In general, the current version shows only those nodes which are soundly linked with other domains and their licenses information is available. However, to provide a more complete picture of the CC Catalog, the Linked Commons needs additional filtering methods and other tools. These potentially include:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">f</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">iltering based on Top-Level domain</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">f</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">iltering based on the number of web links associated with a node </span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Contributing</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We plan to continue working on the Linked Commons. You can follow the project development by visiting our</span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog-dataviz/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">GitHub repo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We encourage you to contribute to the Linked Commons, by reporting bugs, suggesting features or by helping us write code. The new Linked Commons makes it easy for anyone to set up the development environment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The project consists of a dedicated server which powers the filtering by node name and query autocompletion. The frontend is built using ReactJS, for smooth rendering performance. So, it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you&#8217;re a frontend developer, a backend developer, or a designer: there is some part of the Linked Commons that you can work on and improve. We </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">look forward to seeing you on board with sparkling ideas!</span></p>
<p><strong>We are extremely proud and grateful for the work done by Subham Sahu throughout his 2020 Google Summer of Code internship. We look forward to his continued contributions to the Linked Commons as a <a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/community/community-team/members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">project core committer</a> in the CC Open Source Community! </strong></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><a href="https://github.com/sponsors/creativecommons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Please consider supporting Creative Commons’ open source work on GitHub Sponsors.</strong></a></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/04/the-linked-commons-2-0-whats-new/">The Linked Commons 2.0: What&#8217;s New?</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62419
title: Creative Commons 2019 Annual Report
uri: Creative-Commons-2019-Annual-Report
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/05/creative-commons-2019-annual-report/
content:
<p>I am very pleased to share <a href="media/2eaa7651.CC_AnnualReport_2019.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/2/20/CC_AnnualReport_2019.pdf">Creative Commons&#8217; 2019 Annual Report</a>.</p>
<p>This report offers an overview of the important work CC did last year across the many domains and subject areas we work in. (Look for CC&#8217;s 2020 annual report to be released in early 2021, where we will have lots to share about this year&#8217;s accomplishments.)</p>
<p>In 2019, we continued working with major museums to release large collections into the public domain; helped draft the UNESCO OER Recommendation, which facilitates international cooperation around the development and use of freely accessible educational materials; and produced our biggest-ever CC Global Summit community event, which attracted people from all over the world to meet and discuss open access and our digital future. Plus so much more …</p>
<p><a href="media/2eaa7651.CC_AnnualReport_2019.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/2/20/CC_AnnualReport_2019.pdf"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-62420" src="media/b870296f.cc_annual_report2019.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cc_annual_report2019.png" alt="" width="381" height="499" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cc_annual_report2019.png 500w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cc_annual_report2019-229x300.png 229w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cc_annual_report2019-31x40.png 31w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cc_annual_report2019-38x50.png 38w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/cc_annual_report2019-119x155.png 119w" sizes="(max-width: 381px) 85vw, 381px" /></a></p>
<p>Our new and improved report format is designed to better highlight the organization&#8217;s accomplishments and impact. We hope you find it enlightening and enjoyable to read.</p>
<p>As the new CEO of Creative Commons, it is very exciting for me to think about all the ways the CC team will build upon this work going forward. This is especially true as we prepare to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Creative Commons in 2021—a monumental anniversary that we are thrilled to have you join us for.</p>
<p>A very sincere thanks to all of Creative Commons&#8217; supporters, community members, friends, and collaborators. We couldn&#8217;t do this work without you.</p>
<p><em>Help us continue to unlock knowledge and creativity for everyone, everywhere—<a class="c-link" href="https://www.classy.org/give/306414/#!/donation/checkout" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.classy.org/give/306414/#!/donation/checkout" data-sk="tooltip_parent">please consider becoming a donor to Creative Commons</a>.</em></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/05/creative-commons-2019-annual-report/">Creative Commons 2019 Annual Report</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62430
title: A Look Back at the 2020 Virtual CC Global Summit
uri: A-Look-Back-at-the-2020-Virtual-CC-Global-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/12/a-look-back-at-the-2020-virtual-cc-global-summit/
content:
<p><strong>1300+ participants | 200+ presenters | 170+ sessions | 60+ countries</strong></p>
<figure id="attachment_62436" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62436" style="width: 396px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-62436" src="media/181838a2.CC-Global-Summit-Map-300x187.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Map-300x187.png" alt="CC Global Summit Map" width="396" height="247" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Map-300x187.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Map-1024x637.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Map-768x478.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Map-64x40.png 64w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Map-50x31.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Map-249x155.png 249w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Map.png 1032w" sizes="(max-width: 396px) 85vw, 396px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62436" class="wp-caption-text">A map showing where participants to the CC Global Summit attended from! Courtesy of Hopin.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 2020 virtual CC Global Summit exceeded our expectations—over 1300 community members, from Canada and El Salvador to Nigeria and New Zealand, chose to spend a week with us to discuss the future of open, the unknowns of artificial intelligence, the possibilities of open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums), the pressing need for copyright reform, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and much more.  For the first time ever, the CC Summit was free for all to attend. We also adapted the virtual format to accommodate community members worldwide, with sessions taking place across various time zones and languages.</span></p>
<h3><b>Facing 2020 at the CC Global Summit</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When we began the journey to the 2020 CC Summit back in Fall 2019, we couldn’t have imagined the unique challenges and opportunities this year would bring. The patience, passion, and perseverance displayed by our staff, volunteers, and open community members helped create an event which aimed to, in the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/15/2020-cc-global-summit-keynotes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">words</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of CC’s Claudio Ruiz, “find a path forward in hope and optimism.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year, more than ever before, we wanted the CC Global Summit to be a space that brought people together, nurtured relationships, encouraged collaborations, explored new issues, and provided a safe place for difficult questions. The response to Irene Soria Guzmán’s </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ccglobalsummit/status/1318931703671513088" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">keynote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “Hacer feminista lo abierto: poniendo nuevos engranes a la cultura libre!” makes us believe we succeeded in that aim. Irene asked participants to look at the open movement through a feminist lens to find new ways of understanding authorship and power, creating bridges across our differences. It was encouraging to see so many community members accept her challenge with grace and enthusiasm.</span></p>

<a href='https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/12/a-look-back-at-the-2020-virtual-cc-global-summit/global-land-acknowledgement-1/'><img width="1600" height="900" src="media/1d12dfba.Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1.jpg 1600w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1-71x40.jpg 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1-50x28.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1-270x152.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a>
<a href='https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/12/a-look-back-at-the-2020-virtual-cc-global-summit/global-land-acknowledgement-2/'><img width="1600" height="900" src="media/5f0e1a76.Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2.jpg 1600w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2-71x40.jpg 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2-50x28.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2-270x152.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Global-Land-Acknowledgement-2-1200x675.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a>

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also introduced a new session at the 2020 Summit, a global land acknowledgement, where we examined ideas of colonialism, power dynamics, and our own biases as we remixed a version for use in a virtual setting. The end result is a unique visual interpretation of those conversations by artist </span><a href="https://www.sonaksha.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sonaksha Iyengar</span></a> (above). <span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<h3><b>What’s next?</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_62440" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62440" style="width: 351px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-62440" src="media/9be217a2.CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar-300x252.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar-300x252.jpg" alt="CC Global Summit Artwork Maro Villar" width="351" height="295" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar-300x252.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar-1024x860.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar-768x645.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar-1536x1290.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar-48x40.jpg 48w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar-50x42.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar-185x155.jpg 185w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar-1200x1008.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 351px) 85vw, 351px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62440" class="wp-caption-text">Credit: Maco Villar (CC-BY).</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the next week or so, we’ll be publishing all three of the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/15/2020-cc-global-summit-keynotes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Summit keynotes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with transcripts to increase accessibility, so stay tuned! While we recorded all 170+ sessions, we plan to first receive permission from the speakers to publicly release these recordings and then create a catalog on the CC Global Summit website of the approved videos. We ask for your patience and understanding during this process, as it will take some time to ensure we respect the privacy of everyone who appeared on video. If you’re eager for video content in the meantime, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKlqjmSYNeg&amp;ab_channel=CreativeCommons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">check out the concert</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also released a campaign featuring the 2020 CC Global Summit artwork by Chilean artist Marco Villar. You can now </span><a href="https://teespring.com/cc-global-summit-2020?pid=370&amp;cid=6545" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">purchase t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and tote bags</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with this year’s artwork, and support Creative Commons at the same time! Want to make your own CC Summit-inspired pieces? <a href="media/9bbcc8bd.CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Artwork-Maro-Villar.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Download the artwork here.</a> </span></p>
<h3><b>Thank you! </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’d like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who made this event one of our best yet, despite all that’s happened in 2020. This includes the volunteers who wowed us with their energy, responsiveness, and commitment throughout the event, as well as the presenters and performers who made this event a unique and exciting adventure. Each of you gave us the insight and the opportunity to imagine what the open movement could be in the future, and for that, we are incredibly grateful.</span></p>
<p><strong>The 2020 CC Global Summit also wouldn’t have been possible without our generous sponsors:</strong></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-62441 " src="media/9d52d234.CC-Global-Summit-Sponors.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Sponors.jpg" alt="CC Global Summit Sponors" width="624" height="163" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Sponors.jpg 1600w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Sponors-300x78.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Sponors-1024x268.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Sponors-768x201.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Sponors-1536x401.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Sponors-140x37.jpg 140w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Sponors-50x13.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Sponors-270x71.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CC-Global-Summit-Sponors-1200x314.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62460
title: Meet CC India, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!
uri: Meet-CC-India-Our-Next-Feature-for-CC-Network-Fridays
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After introducing the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/10/cc-network-fridays-cc-italy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Italy Chapter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to you in July, the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/14/meet-cc-netherlands-cc-network-fridays/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Netherlands Chapter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in August, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/09/14/meet-cc-bangladesh-our-next-feature-for-cc-network-fridays/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Bangladesh Chapter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in September, and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/10/09/cc-tanzania-cc-network-fridays/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Tanzania Chapter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in October, we are now traveling to Asia again to introduce the CC India Chapter! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The</span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Global Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CCGN) consists of 45 CC Country Chapters spread across the globe. They’re the home for a community of advocates, activists, educators, artists, lawyers, and users who share CC’s vision and values. They implement and strengthen open access policies, copyright reform, open education, and open culture in the communities in which they live.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To help showcase their work, we’re excited to continue our blog series and social media initiative: </span><b>CC Network Fridays</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. At least one Friday a month, we’re traveling around the world through our blog and on Twitter (using</span><a href="https://twitter.com/i/events/1281214811687305217?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <b>#CCNetworkFridays</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) to a different CC Chapter, introducing their teams, discussing their work, and celebrating their commitment to open! </span></p>
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<h3><b>Say hello to CC India!</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC India Chapter was formed in 2018 after previously existing in different collective structures. Its Chapter Lead is </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/savithrisingh/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Savithri Singh</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and its representative to the CC Global Network Council is </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/psubhashish/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subhashish Panigrahi</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Since the beginning, the Chapter has been involved in promoting and supporting open education and copyright. It advocates for open content and promotes the growth of @creativecommons in India (check out the </span><a href="https://github.com/ofdn/CC-India/blob/master/meeting%201/Meeting%20report.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">first meeting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). For this post, we spoke to Subhashish who told us a bit more about the Chapter’s work. He responded in both English, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Odia</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hindi</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">! </span></p>
<p><b>CC: What open movement work is your Chapter actively involved in? What would you like to achieve with your work?</b></p>
<p><b>CC India:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The CC-India Chapter has organised several webinars  (e.g. </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9npH3NXKOF0&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">OER in elementary education</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmCSDLx8AhY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">future of open education</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) particularly during the COVID outbreak on relevant areas like OER. The community also includes many Wikipedians who are involved in growing open content in Indian languages and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/11/12/government-releases-dictionaries-cc-by/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">license migration by public agencies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[HINDI] Creative Commons-भारत चैप्टर ने विशेष रूप से मुक्त शैक्षिक संसाधन (</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9npH3NXKOF0&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Educational Resources</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; OER) जैसे प्रासंगिक क्षेत्रों पर COVID महामारी के दौरान कई वेबिनार (जैसे प्रारंभिक शिक्षा में OER, Open Education यानी </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmCSDLx8AhY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">मुक्त शिक्षा का भविष्य</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) का आयोजन किया है । इस समुदाय में कई विकिपीडिया संपादक भी शामिल हैं जो भारतीय भाषाओं में मुक्त लेखन प्रस्तुत करने और </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/11/12/government-releases-dictionaries-cc-by/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">सरकारी संस्थाओं द्वारा लाइसेंस स्थानांतरित</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> करने में शामिल हैं ।</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[ODIO] Creative Commons-ଭାରତ ଚାପ୍ଟର କୋଭିଡ ମହାମାରୀ ସମୟରେ ଅନେକ ୱେବିନାର ଆୟୋଜନ କରିଛି । ଯଥା: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9npH3NXKOF0&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ପ୍ରାଥମିକ ଶିକ୍ଷାରେ ଓପନ ଏଜୁକେସନାଲ ରିସୋର୍ସ</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; OER ଏବଂ </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmCSDLx8AhY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ଓପନ ଏଜୁକେସନର ଭବିଷ୍ୟତ</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> । ଏହି ସମ୍ପ୍ରଦାୟରେ ଭାରତୀୟ ଭାଷାରେ ଖୋଲାରେ ପାଠ୍ୟ ତିଆରି କରୁଥିବା ଏବଂ </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/11/12/government-releases-dictionaries-cc-by/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ସରକାରୀ ସଂସ୍ଥାମାନଙ୍କଦ୍ୱାରା ଲାଇସେନ୍ସ ବଦଳାଇବାରେ </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">ଜଡ଼ିତ ଥିବା ଅନେକ ଉଇକିଆଳି ମଧ୍ୟ ଯୋଗଦେଇଛନ୍ତି ।</span></p>
<p><b>CC: What exciting project has your Chapter engaged in recently?</b></p>
<p><b>CC India: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are many &#8212; from many community leaders organising and participating in webinars like the ones shared above on topics Open Education, OER, open licensing and open mapping, to ongoing active Telegram group discussions, to the creation of a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_India" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikipedia article</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the Chapter, to the initiation of three projects that were supported by </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/creative-commons-global-network-communities-activity-fund/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Global Network Communities Activity Fund</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[HINDI] कई है &#8212; कई समुदाय के नेताओं ने ओपन एजुकेशन, OER, ओपन लाइसेंसिं और ओपन मैपिंग जैसे विषयों पर वेबिनार का आयोजन किया और भाग लिया; सक्रिय चर्चाओं के लिए एक टेलीग्राम ग्रुप है; CC-भारत चैप्टर पर </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_India" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">विकिपीडिया</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> का एक लेख है । </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/creative-commons-global-network-communities-activity-fund/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons ग्लोबल नेटवर्क कम्युनिटीज एक्टिविटी फंड</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CAF) द्वारा समर्थित तीन परियोजनाओं को शुरू किया गया था।</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[ODIA] ଅନେକ: ଏହି ସମ୍ପ୍ରଦାୟର ନେତୃତ୍ୱ ଓପନ ଏଜୁକେସନ, OER, ଖୋଲା ଲାଇସେନ୍ସ ଏବଂ ଖୋଲା ମାନଚିତ୍ର ଭଳି ବିଷୟ ଉପରେ ୱେବିନାର ଆୟୋଜନ ଏବଂ ଅଂଶଗ୍ରହଣ କରିଥିଲେ; ସକ୍ରିୟ ଆଲୋଚନା ପାଇଁ ଏକ ଟେଲିଗ୍ରାମ ଗୋଷ୍ଠୀ ରହିଛି; ସିସି-ଭାରତ ଅଧ୍ୟାୟ ଉପରେ </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_India" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆରେ</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ଏକ ପ୍ରସଙ୍ଗ ରହିଛି । </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/creative-commons-global-network-communities-activity-fund/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">କ୍ରିଏଟିଭ କମନ୍ସ ଗ୍ଲୋବାଲ ନେଟୱାର୍କ କମ୍ୟୁନିଟିଜ ଆକ୍ଟିଭିଟିଜ ଫଣ୍ଡଦ୍ୱାରା</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (ସିଏଏଫ) ସମର୍ଥିତ ତିନୋଟି ପ୍ରକଳ୍ପ ଆରମ୍ଭ କରାଯାଇଛି ।</span></p>
<p><b>CC: What do you find inspiring and rewarding about your work in the open movement?</b></p>
<p><b>CC India:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> I would say the network effect of the open movement as it helps in distributed, collaborative, diverse and inclusive action for spreading knowledge.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[HINDI] मैं कहूंगा कि ओपन मूवमेंट का नेटवर्क प्रभाव &#8212; यह ज्ञान के प्रसार के लिए वितरित, सहयोगात्मक, विविध और समावेशी कार्रवाई में मदद करता है ।</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[ODIA] ମୋ ମତରେ ଓପନ ଆନ୍ଦୋଳନର ନେଟୱାର୍କ ପ୍ରଭାବ କାରଣ ଏହା ଜ୍ଞାନ ବିସ୍ତାର ପାଇଁ ବିତରଣ, ସହଯୋଗୀ, ବିବିଧ ଏବଂ ଅନ୍ତର୍ଭୁକ୍ତୀ କାର୍ଯ୍ୟରେ ସାହାଯ୍ୟ କରିଥାଏ ।</span></p>
<p><b>CC: What are your plans for the future? </b></p>
<p><b>CC India: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> As we move through uncertain times, CC-India Chapter will focus on engagements and innovations in areas that are hit badly because of COVID: from liberating paywalled resources to online discussions to lobbying with governments for license migration to even creating/translating open content.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[HINDI] जैसा कि हम सब एक अनिश्चित समय में आगे बढ़ रहे हैं, CC-भारत अध्याय ये सारे क्षेत्रों में शामिल होंगे और नवाचारों पर ध्यान केंद्रित करेंगे जो COVID के कारण बुरी तरह से प्रभावित हुए हैं: पेवल संसाधनों को मुक्त करना, ऑनलाइन चर्चा और लाइसेंस का बदलाव के लिये सरकार को समझाना एवं मुक्त विषय का अनुवाद/लेखन ।</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[ODIA] ଆମେ ସମସ୍ତେ ଏକ ଅନିଶ୍ଚିତ କାଳ ଭିତରେ ଆଗକୁ ବଢ଼ୁଥିବାରୁ ସିସି-ଇଣ୍ଡିଆ ଅଧ୍ୟାୟ COVID ହେତୁ କୁପ୍ରଭାବିତ ସମସ୍ତ କ୍ଷେତ୍ରରେ ସକ୍ରିୟ ଅଂଶଗ୍ରହଣ ଓ ଉଦ୍ଭାବନ ଉପରେ ଧ୍ୟାନଦେବ । ଯଥା: ପେ-ୱାଲ ସମ୍ବଳକୁ ମୁକ୍ତ କରିବା, ଅନଲାଇନ ଆଲୋଚନା, ଲାଇସେନ୍ସ ପରିବର୍ତ୍ତନ ପାଇଁ ସରକାରଙ୍କ ସହ ବୁଝାମଣା କରିବା ଏବଂ ଖୋଲା ପାଠ୍ୟର ଅନୁବାଦ/ଲିଖନ ।</span></p>
<p><b>CC: Anything else you want to share?</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though there are the following interesting things that we have seen in the last decade, India has a long way to go with open content:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Textbooks by a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2013/08/14/india-launches-national-repository-of-open-educational-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">national board</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> relicensed under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License,  </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many sites and publications by the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/11/12/government-releases-dictionaries-cc-by/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Odisha state government</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> including OER in 21 indigenous languages and national-level online school education portal </span><a href="https://diksha.gov.in/term-of-use.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DIKSHA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> make active use of Creative Commons Licenses.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">A handful of educational institutions, civil society organisations, public sector entities and publishers like <a href="https://storyweaver.org.in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Story Weaver</a> publish content under CC Licenses.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><b>Thank you to the</b> <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapter/cc-india/"><b>CC India team</b></a><b>, especially Subhashish for contributing to the CC Network Fridays feature, and for all of their work in the open community! To see this conversation on Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1327275886190735360" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">click here</a>. To become a member of the CCGN,</b><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/"> <b>visit our website</b></a><b>!</b></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62448
title: Can Open GLAM Reshape the Fashion Heritage Narrative?
uri: Can-Open-GLAM-Reshape-the-Fashion-Heritage-Narrative
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/16/open-glam-reshape-the-fashion-heritage-narrative/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On November 2 and 3, 2020, Creative Commons (CC), the </span><a href="https://fashionheritage.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">European Fashion Heritage Association</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (EFHA) and the </span><a href="https://www.onassis.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Onassis Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> held the online symposium: </span><a href="https://fashionheritage.eu/efha-symposium-2020-is-sharing-always-caring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Is Sharing Always Caring?</span></i></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bringing together 250 participants from 38 countries on four continents— from museum professionals to fashion design students all the way to big fashion brands—the event was an opportunity to have important </span><a href="https://twitter.com/EurFashion/status/1323236505842814976?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">conversations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> about the benefits of open access and the challenges of bringing equity, diversity and inclusion into the policies and practices of fashion heritage institutions and the fashion universe more generally. The symposium’s </span><a href="media/9ca98ea6.FINAL-EFHA-Symposium-2020-programme.pdf" data-original-source="https://fashionheritage.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/FINAL-EFHA-Symposium-2020-programme.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> spanned two days and comprised presentations, roundtables, and a hands-on workshop. </span></p>
<h3><b>Background: Openly sharing and caring for fashion heritage is central to GLAMs’ mission</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) are dedicated to making their fashion heritage collections available to the public. For them, providing public access and enabling interactions with this heritage is a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/18/copyright-law-must-enable-museums-to-fulfill-their-mission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">core aspect of their mission</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_62456" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62456" style="width: 264px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62456" src="media/eb263b86.l-Museum-of-African-American-History-and-Culture-CC0-200x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Evening-coat-made-by-Louvenia-Price-1870-1900-via-the-National-Museum-of-African-American-History-and-Culture-CC0-200x300.jpg" alt="Evening coat made by Louvenia Price" width="264" height="396" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Evening-coat-made-by-Louvenia-Price-1870-1900-via-the-National-Museum-of-African-American-History-and-Culture-CC0-200x300.jpg 200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Evening-coat-made-by-Louvenia-Price-1870-1900-via-the-National-Museum-of-African-American-History-and-Culture-CC0-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Evening-coat-made-by-Louvenia-Price-1870-1900-via-the-National-Museum-of-African-American-History-and-Culture-CC0-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Evening-coat-made-by-Louvenia-Price-1870-1900-via-the-National-Museum-of-African-American-History-and-Culture-CC0-27x40.jpg 27w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Evening-coat-made-by-Louvenia-Price-1870-1900-via-the-National-Museum-of-African-American-History-and-Culture-CC0-33x50.jpg 33w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Evening-coat-made-by-Louvenia-Price-1870-1900-via-the-National-Museum-of-African-American-History-and-Culture-CC0-103x155.jpg 103w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Evening-coat-made-by-Louvenia-Price-1870-1900-via-the-National-Museum-of-African-American-History-and-Culture-CC0.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 264px) 85vw, 264px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62456" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.si.edu/object/evening-coat-made-louvenia-price:nmaahc_2007.3.2?page=5&amp;edan_q=fashion&amp;edan_fq%5B0%5D=media_usage:CC0&amp;oa=1&amp;destination=/search/collection-images&amp;searchResults=1&amp;id=nmaahc_2007.3.2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Evening coat</a> made by Louvenia Price (1870-1900) and shared by the National Museum of African American History and Culture (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC0</a>).</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Open GLAM movement, of which </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openglam-platform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC is a leader</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, celebrates this mission in the digital environment. This movement is underpinned by the value and responsibility for socially beneficial sharing of cultural heritage and posits that access and reuse of fashion heritage are necessary components of a virtuous creativity cycle. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nevertheless, the possibilities for online access, sharing, use and reuse of fashion heritage shared online can give rise to some tensions with regard to the heritage of marginalized or under-served communities. These tensions arise because those communities are often excluded from the discussions and decision-making processes about their own heritage. One big concern is the appropriation of fashion heritage made available online without any consultation or involvement of the communities who are the custodians of the heritage in question. In fact, much fashion heritage includes elements that are not just aesthetic or ornamental but that are intimately linked to the identity of their holders and their way of life, history and environment. Sharing those elements without care can result in harm for the communities concerned. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Sharing without caring for fashion heritage can have deep implications that distort the fashion narrative. So, what can GLAMs do to participate in reshaping this narrative? </strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Part of the issue is that, by default, many forms of fashion heritage, such as designs, patterns, textiles, jewellery, etc. are deemed to be </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/09/18/traditional-knowledge-and-the-commons-the-open-movement-listening-and-learning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">in the public domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> under copyright law. As a result, it may seem that such heritage is freely available for access, use, and reuse when in reality, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/08/sharing-indigenous-cultural-heritage-online-an-overview-of-glam-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">other considerations come into play</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and govern </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">who</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> can do so and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">how</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Sharing without caring for fashion heritage can have deep implications that distort the fashion narrative. So, what can GLAMs do to participate in reshaping this narrative? </span></p>
<h3><b>Summary: Exploring the shared ground between sharing and caring</b></h3>
<h5><b>Highlights from Day 1</b></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the first day, Evelin Heidel aka Scann (Creative Commons) and Ariadna Matas (Europeana Foundation) presented the many advantages for GLAMs in sharing their collections online and showed how </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/26/cc-licenses-tools-share-and-preserve-cultural-heritage-in-the-face-of-climate-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons’ tools</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://rightsstatements.org/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rights Statements</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> can help foster an engaging culture of use and reuse of cultural heritage. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Andrea Wallace (University of Exeter) got participants to reflect on who gets to decide what “open” is, what heritage can be made open and who gets to take part in those conversations. Brigitte Vézina (Creative Commons) closed the first day’s speaker session with an overview of what GLAMs can do to share </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> care to avoid the fashion cultural appropriation trap. </span></p>
<p><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/476229293" width="640" height="400" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marco Rendina (EFHA) and Prodromos Tsiavos (Onassis Foundation) then moderated a lively roundtable discussion that also gave participants an opportunity to share experiences and resources. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The program continued with a practical workshop designed as</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a conversation about some of the benefits and challenges associated with making fashion heritage collections available online. Scann, Ariadna Matas, Brigitte Vézina, and Marta Fransceschini (EFHA) lead breakout group discussions. By looking at real examples of fashion heritage from the </span><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/55-fashion" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Europeana Fashion</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> collection, participants discussed copyright issues as well as questions related to culturally-sensitive materials. Participants could thus collectively reflect upon the ways in which </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> heritage really equates with </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">caring</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for it. </span></p>
<h5><b>Highlights from Day 2</b></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the second day, Monica Moisin (Cultural Intellectual Property Rights Initiative) offered a legal perspective on decolonising fashion, unfair exploitation, and commodification of cultural identities and helped explore what GLAMs can do about it. Hazel Clark (Parsons School of Design) then revisited how fashion is </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">literally</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the fabric of cultures and looked at fashion identities and how museums can provide mechanisms for cultural production.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Camille Callison (University of Manitoba) gave a poignant account of how “caring” in practice means building relationships to facilitate respectful sharing of Indigenous knowledges. Finally, Janice Deul (Diversity Rules) probed the world of curatorial activism and brought attention to the lack of Black in museum fashion collections. The session concluded with an empowering message about how GLAMs can be catalysts for change and participate in reshaping the fashion narrative by taking a more inclusive and diverse approach in sharing and caring for fashion heritage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The symposium closed with a roundtable discussion chaired by Marco Pecorari (The New School &#8211; Parsons Paris) and Marta Franceschini. In addition to the speakers, it also brought together Filep Motwary (Vogue Greece), Andreea Diana Tanasescu (La blouse roumaine IA Association (Give Credit)), and Eva Losada, fashion photographer. Each speaker brought their own perspective on how to navigate the murky boundaries of cultural appropriation and the need to bring more diversity into the fashion conversation.</span></p>
<p><strong>Video recordings of all of the sessions are available on EFHA’s Vimeo channel: <a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/7764949" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Day 1</a> and <a href="https://vimeo.com/showcase/7764708" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Day 2</a>. For updates, stay tuned via <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@creativecommons</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/EurFashion" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@EurFashion</a> on Twitter (#EFHA2020) or reach out at <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">info@creativecommons.org</a>. </strong></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62469
title: Meet the Winners of the CC Open GLAM Platform Activities Fund!
uri: Meet-the-Winners-of-the-CC-Open-GLAM-Platform-Activities-Fund
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https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/17/meet-the-winners-of-the-cc-open-glam-platform-activities-fund/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the CC Global Summit, we had our “</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19uAxbjvQcOT_Z24bkOb8VoKD5WLrvSkniqHB2wUWYmE/edit#slide=id.g9d54ff2fe1_0_277" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Open GLAM Platform Meeting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">”, where we had the opportunity to present several of the activities that we are running with the Open GLAM Platform Activities Fund. We’re delighted to announce the five winners of the General Projects of the Open GLAM Platform Activities Fund.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openglam-platform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Open GLAM Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a space to help coordinate efforts to aggregate, advertise, connect, and support open access to cultural heritage initiatives and projects. This year, CC launched an Activities Fund to support Open GLAM related activities by Platform members. In my role as Facilitator of the Platform, I presented a </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/2/d/17-gOtMKtDCEUy-PuxsuZhZQTGzKHX94rmZTdibqq2eI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">budget plan</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that received input and feedback from the community. We had three main allocations for the money: </span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM short stories from the Global South and/or underrepresented communities;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">General Projects;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visualization of the “</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WPS-KJptUJ-o8SXtg00llcxq0IKJu8eO6Ege_GrLaNc/edit#gid=1216556120" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Survey of GLAM Open Access policy &amp; practice</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;">” created by Douglas McCarthy and Dr. Andrea Wallace</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can read some of the Open GLAM short stories as they are being published on the </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM Medium publication</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We will be working with </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/majd-al-shihabi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Majd Al-shihabi</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to create the visualization of the “Open GLAM survey”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this blog post, we present the five winning projects in the general category. We also warmly thank all applicants for the quality of their proposals, and to the members of the selection committee: Nicole Ferraiolo, Director of Global Strategic Initiatives, Council on Library and Information Resources; Jorge Gemetto, member of Creative Commons Uruguay and co-director of the online cultural center “Ártica”; Karin Glasemann, Digital Coordinator at the Nationalmuseum Sweden and Chair of the Copyright Community at Europeana; and Satdeep Gill, Program Officer, GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge, Wikimedia Foundation.</span></p>
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<li><b>The AfroCine Project: Months of African Cinema</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Oyeyele is a long time volunteer of the Wikimedia community, where he has been involved with </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The AfroCine Project</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a multi-country and multi-faceted project which aims to improve and expand digital knowledge and content on the historical and contemporary cinema, theatre, and arts sectors of several African countries, the Caribbean and the diaspora, on the Internet. The vision of this project is to bridge the huge content gap and improve on the systemic bias, in respect of the African continent, by getting real African stories and viewpoints into the mainstream. This is being achieved by making: articles, citations, images, videos, and data, about the historical and contemporary African cinema, theatre and arts, to be readily available and easily accessible on online, and in different languages, through Wikipedia and other sister projects. One of their main activities is the “</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_African_Cinema" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Months of African Cinema</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” global Wikipedia contest, happening now between October-November. We’re supporting some of the expenses related to the organization of the “Months of African Cinema” contest.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><b>Heritage GLAM</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rupika Sharma is currently serving as Director of the non for profit organization Open Heritage Foundation. Open Heritage Foundation is an incorporated non-profit thematic organization to support initiatives for bringing underrepresented knowledge on the Internet, and they are an affiliated Network member of Creative Commons Global Network since 2019.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Their project will be working with a GLAM institution in India to digitize and release Punjabi public domain works on Wikimedia Commons.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_62472" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62472" style="width: 556px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62472" src="media/6efbda2f.Punjabi-public-domain-works-on-Wikimedia-Commons-300x144.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Punjabi-public-domain-works-on-Wikimedia-Commons-300x144.jpg" alt="Punjabi public domain works on Wikimedia Commons" width="556" height="267" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Punjabi-public-domain-works-on-Wikimedia-Commons-300x144.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Punjabi-public-domain-works-on-Wikimedia-Commons-83x40.jpg 83w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Punjabi-public-domain-works-on-Wikimedia-Commons-50x24.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Punjabi-public-domain-works-on-Wikimedia-Commons-270x129.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Punjabi-public-domain-works-on-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg 638w" sizes="(max-width: 556px) 85vw, 556px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62472" class="wp-caption-text">Some of the works that the Punjabi community has uploaded and corrected in Wikisource through different contests.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of the works that the Punjabi community has uploaded and corrected in Wikisource through different contests.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are interested in knowing more about Rupika and the work the Open Heritage Foundation is doing in India, make sure to check her astonishing post “</span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/lose-yourself-in-journey-to-global-folklore-with-the-winners-of-wiki-loves-folklore-843d6581d4d"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lose yourself in Journey to Global Folklore with the winners of Wiki Loves Folklore</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;">” about their Wiki Loves Folklore contest on the network publication </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons: We like to share</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><b>Spreading GLAM-Wiki resources in Brazil</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">João Alexandre Peschanski is doing amazing work on the ground to help Brazilian GLAMs, together with </span><a href="https://wmnobrasil.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wiki Movimento Brazil</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In their article “</span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/opening-up-the-collection-of-a-closed-museum-in-brazil-f58f05bef5b2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opening up the collection of a closed museum in Brazil</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” on the </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM Medium</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">publication, funded with the Open GLAM short stories fund, they share with us their approach to opening collections in Brazil.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But they also received funding with their project “Spreading GLAM-Wiki resources in Brazil” will develop tutorials in Portuguese to ease the task of cultural institutions willing to share collections/contents on the internet but which lack a clear roadmap to do so. The need for these resources is key in the Brazilian context, as several institutions are under-resourced (they often have only one staff person) and cannot make an extra effort to bring collections/contents to the digital realm. This scenario is directly associated with the pervasive presence of collections/contents from wealthier countries. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can see João’s recorded presentation of their project here: </span></p>
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Spreading GLAM Wiki Resources in Brazil" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wKMfaCPK-T0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<ul>
<li><b>Online Ugandan GLAM Directory</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eric Nelson Haumba is the Chapter Lead of CC Uganda. In this opportunity, he is working to make an online directory of GLAM institutions in Uganda. This information will be freely available online through a GLAM directory where interested persons globally can check-in and access fundamental facts and information about Ugandan GLAM institutions. This directory is a representative source of basic GLAM statistics and a robust tool providing institutional-level data and a nationwide comparison of GLAMs in Uganda. This will allow the CC chapter and other communities to design different activities to help these GLAM institutions embrace open access to cultural heritage.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_62470" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62470" style="width: 558px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-62470" src="media/7cca1cd3.f-the-online-directory-being-designed-by-Eric-Haumba-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot-of-the-current-status-of-the-online-directory-being-designed-by-Eric-Haumba-300x169.jpg" alt="Screenshot of the current status of the online directory being designed by Eric Haumba." width="558" height="314" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot-of-the-current-status-of-the-online-directory-being-designed-by-Eric-Haumba-300x169.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot-of-the-current-status-of-the-online-directory-being-designed-by-Eric-Haumba-768x432.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot-of-the-current-status-of-the-online-directory-being-designed-by-Eric-Haumba-71x40.jpg 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot-of-the-current-status-of-the-online-directory-being-designed-by-Eric-Haumba-50x28.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot-of-the-current-status-of-the-online-directory-being-designed-by-Eric-Haumba-270x152.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot-of-the-current-status-of-the-online-directory-being-designed-by-Eric-Haumba.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 558px) 85vw, 558px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62470" class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot of the current status of the online directory being designed by Eric Haumba.</figcaption></figure>
<ul>
<li><b>Enhancing Public Domain in Indonesia: Catalog and Re-Make Project</b></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hilman Fathoni and Fitriayu Penyalai are longtime members of CC Indonesia. Their project wants to show the value of the public domain in Indonesia. For that, they will be creating an open-access catalog of public domain works from Indonesia, and inviting a visual artist from Indonesia to create a remix using some of the public domain works currently available online. These activities will be presented in a webinar series, where the members of CC Indonesia will explain some of the core concepts of the public domain and how it works, the function of their open-access catalog, and invite the visual artist to talk about the remix of the public domain works resulting from this project.</span></p>
<p><b>We look forward to seeing project results soon, and we expect these projects to fuel more Open GLAM activities in 2021 and beyond. </b></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/17/meet-the-winners-of-the-cc-open-glam-platform-activities-fund/">Meet the Winners of the CC Open GLAM Platform Activities Fund!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62483
title: It’s Been a (Good) Year for Open GLAM. Here’s Why.
uri: It-s-Been-a-(Good)-Year-for-Open-GLAM-Here-s-Why
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/19/its-been-a-good-year-for-open-glam-heres-why/
content:
<p>Generally speaking, 2020 hasn’t been a great year. That’s obvious. But w<span style="font-weight: 400;">e’re not here to focus on the awful things that have happened (and are still happening) this year. Instead, we’re here to tell you a good news story about 2020: a story about collaboration, innovation, and creativity. A story about the present and the future of open access to cultural heritage. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year started with a major accomplishment for open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) advocates. After years of collaborative efforts from members of the Creative Commons team, the CC Global Network, the Wikimedia Foundation, and more, the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/27/smithsonian-releases-2-8-million-images-data-into-the-public-domain-using-cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smithsonian released over 2.8 million</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> digital 2D and 3D images and nearly two centuries of data into the public domain using </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Zero</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CC0). This new initiative, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/27/smithsonian-releases-2-8-million-images-data-into-the-public-domain-using-cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Smithsonian Open Access</a>, followed previous releases across big and small institutions, as Effie Kapsalis (Smithsonian) outlined in the <a href="media/03d52a12.2016_03_10_OpenCollections_Public.pdf" data-original-source="http://siarchives.si.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/2016_03_10_OpenCollections_Public.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2016 report</a> that accompanied her advocacy efforts.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" style="text-align: center;">You&#8217;re not dreaming.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/smithsonian?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@smithsonian</a> really did just release *2.8 million images and nearly two centuries of data* (<img src="media/a4e4dd66.1f92f.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f92f.png" alt="🤯" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />) into the public domain using CC0! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SmithsonianOpenAccess?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SmithsonianOpenAccess</a> <a href="https://t.co/Uk0IzSU2oh">https://t.co/Uk0IzSU2oh</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">— Creative Commons (@creativecommons) <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1232349349608337409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2020</a></p>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If this was any other year, the Smithsonian’s announcement alone would’ve propelled us happily into 2021. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a huge, exciting win!</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> But this isn’t just any other year&#8230;take a look at this timeline:</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>27 February:</strong> The Smithsonian announces Smithsonian Open Access</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>11 March:</strong> The World Health Organization </span><a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/events-as-they-happen" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">declares</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic </span></li>
<li><strong>3 April: </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">Euronews </span><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-in-europe-spain-s-death-toll-hits-10-000-after-record-950-new-deaths-in-24-hou" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reports</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that more than 50% of the world’s population is under a lockdown order </span><i><span> </span></i><i><span> </span></i></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The rapid pace of change at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic was quite remarkable—and the challenges for GLAM institutions were immediate. </span></p>
<h3><b>Open GLAM in 2020: challenges and opportunities<b></b></b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Early on in the pandemic, the open GLAM community quickly realized that this would have a </span><a href="https://en.unesco.org/news/covid-19-unesco-and-icom-concerned-about-situation-faced-worlds-museums" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">significant impact</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on GLAM institutions, especially financially. In a <a href="https://icom.museum/en/covid-19/surveys-and-data/survey-museums-and-museum-professionals/">May report</a>, the International Council on Museums (ICOM) found that &#8220;nearly one-third of them [GLAM institutions] will reduce staff, and more than one-tenth may be forced to close permanently&#8221; due to forced closures and a reduction in ticket sales. Closures due to the pandemic have particularly affected institutions in African, Asian and the Arab countries. Many institutions across the world have since been forced to layoff large swaths of their staff and cut programs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The GLAM community also recognized that the pandemic would disrupt millions of children and young adults’ education and bar access to cultural heritage, amplifying existing inequalities and inequities. ICOM </span><a href="media/aa245bf5.CommunityResilience_UpdatedArticle_EN_final_20200930.pdf" data-original-source="https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CommunityResilience_UpdatedArticle_EN_final_20200930.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">acknowledged</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “We are aware that this is not simply a matter of keeping our institutions alive but also of mobilising their efforts and capacities to support community resilience and an effective recovery.” Over time, it&#8217;s beco</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">me clear that this global challenge will have ripple effects for years, if not decades, to come. In response, Douglas McCarthy (Europeana) and Dr. Andrea Wallace (University of Exeter) </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/the-case-for-open-access-7f8686c642f" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">made the case for open access</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Providing open access to digital collections transfers significant power from institutions to the public they exist to serve. As the Covid-19 pandemic progresses, it has never been more vital for museums to explore how they can make new connections with audiences and support creators, educators, scholars and innovators working through this difficult time.”</span></em></p>
<figure id="attachment_62507" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62507" style="width: 356px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62507" src="media/ddf724b0.0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-235x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-235x300.jpg" alt="Rose-Breasted Grosbeak" width="356" height="454" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-235x300.jpg 235w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-802x1024.jpg 802w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-768x980.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-1204x1536.jpg 1204w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-1605x2048.jpg 1605w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-31x40.jpg 31w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-39x50.jpg 39w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-121x155.jpg 121w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-1200x1531.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Rose-Breasted-Grosbeak22-1889-by-Joseph-Barthmolomew-Kidd-CC0-via-the-Smithsonian-American-Art-Museum-Collection-scaled.jpg 2006w" sizes="(max-width: 356px) 85vw, 356px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62507" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://www.curationist.org/collection/top-finds-bird-illustrations-from-smithsonianopenaccess/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rose-Breasted Grosbeak</a>&#8221; (1889) by Joseph Barthmolomew Kidd via the Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC0</a>).</figcaption></figure>
<p>In <a href="https://icom.museum/en/covid-19/surveys-and-data/survey-museums-and-museum-professionals/">their report</a>, ICOM found that digital communication activities &#8220;<span>increased for at least 15 % of the museums, and in particular </span>social media activities increased for more than half of the museums&#8221; surveyed. <span style="font-weight: 400;">GLAMs that were already deeply committed to open access were able to respond quickly and creatively to the challenge presented by the pandemic. The Getty Museum, for example, launched the </span><a href="https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-artworks-recreated-with-household-items-by-creative-geniuses-the-world-over/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Getty Museum Challenge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a digital challenge to recreate public domain works with household items. The images sent from across the world were eventually compiled into a book entitled, </span><a href="http://news.getty.edu/getty-publications-announces-new-book-celebrating-creativity-and-joy-sparked-by-getty-museum-challengewith-all-profits-going-to-charity.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Off the Walls: Inspired Re-Creations of Iconic Artworks</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with all profits going to </span><a href="https://www.artistrelief.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Artist Relief</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, not everything that happened this year in open GLAM is a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many open access initiatives and projects were in-progress before any of us even knew what a “coronavirus” was. In fact, the following GLAM institutions adopted open access policies this year, effectively releasing millions of cultural artefacts to the public. These include </span><a href="http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Archives of Ontario</span></a>, <a href="https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Petit Palais</span></a>, <a href="https://www.freiburg.de/pb/,Lde/237748.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Augustinermuseum</span></a>, <a href="https://www.freiburg.de/pb/,Lde/237742.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museum für Neue Kunst</span></a>, <a href="https://www.freiburg.de/pb/238070.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museum Natur und Mensch</span></a>, <a href="https://dagworld.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DAG Museums</span></a>, <a href="http://www.bne.es" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biblioteca Nacional de España</span></a>, <a href="http://anacostia.si.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anacostia Community Museum</span></a>, and <a href="https://sammlung.wienmuseum.at/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wien Museum</span></a>. <span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the impact of this tragic and challenging moment on the movement can’t be understated: It has created a sense of urgency that has historically only been felt during human-made or natural disasters. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">While GLAM institutions have been implementing and benefiting from open access policies for over a decade, generating goodwill and recognition from the public and enhancing their missions and relevance for 21st-century audiences, the pandemic has shown how vital it is that institutions become “open.” This has set a new norm for GLAM.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The impact of this tragic and challenging moment on the movement can’t be understated: It has created a sense of urgency that has historically only been felt during human-made or natural disasters.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If there’s one thing we can count on as we continue to live and work in a state of uncertainty, it&#8217;s that more and more cultural institutions will choose to go “open.” CC’s Sarah Pearson expressed this idea during an </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM</span></a> <a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/copyright-open-access-for-glams-in-the-age-of-covid-3a35e67f7a1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">webinar</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in March, stating, “This will have ripple effects and increase people’s willingness to share more broadly, whether it is with CC licensing or not.” </span></p>
<h3><b>What about Open GLAM at Creative Commons?</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_62503" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62503" style="width: 297px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-62503" src="media/6579b6f6.Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-230x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-230x300.jpg" alt="Chan-ku-wash-te-mine (Good Road Woman)" width="297" height="387" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-230x300.jpg 230w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-785x1024.jpg 785w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-768x1002.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-1177x1536.jpg 1177w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-1569x2048.jpg 1569w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-31x40.jpg 31w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-38x50.jpg 38w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-119x155.jpg 119w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-1200x1566.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22Chan-ku-wash-te-mine-Good-Road-Woman22-by-Antonion-Zeno-Shindler-1887-via-the-Smithsonian-Learning-Lab-CC0-1-scaled.jpg 1962w" sizes="(max-width: 297px) 85vw, 297px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62503" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/resources/view/143537#more-info" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chan-ku-wash-te-mine (Good Road Woman)</a>&#8221; by Antonion Zeno Shindler (1887) via the Smithsonian Learning Lab (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC0</a>).</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are, of course, more challenges ahead and questions to answer. For example, the majority of the GLAM workforce is still predominantly white, and issues of racial justice and equity are still hard to bring to the table. Colonialist practices extend to the digital realm, continuing to do harm to communities that have seen their heritage despoiled. That also includes Indigenous cultural heritage, as CC&#8217;s Brigitte Vézina and Alexis Muscat wrote in August, “Existing copyright law, steeped in Western concepts and values, does not adequately protect Indigenous traditional cultural expressions, nor does it sufficiently reflect or account for Indigenous cultural values.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM is not only about sharing cultural heritage by respecting copyright law, but also how to do it more responsibly, collaboratively, and equitably. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Creative Commons, we hope to help find solutions to these emerging and growing challenges through our Open GLAM work. Here&#8217;s a brief overview of what we&#8217;ve been working on: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>CC GLAM Certificate</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—we’re currently in the process of launching the alpha and beta cohorts for the CC Certificate course exclusively for GLAM. Stay </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">tuned for more</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> information in 2021!</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Analysis and commentary</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—through the CC Blog and elsewhere, we’re excited to share our thoughts, insights, and analysis regarding several issues, such as </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/08/sharing-indigenous-cultural-heritage-online-an-overview-of-glam-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">sharing Indigenous cultural heritage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, maintaining </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/11/20/reproductions-of-public-domain-works/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open access to public domain materials</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, etc. (</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">See more here!</span></a>) We also submitted a <a href="media/0d91bc00.on_paper_on_the_EC_consultation_on_digital_cultural_heritage.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/a4/Creative_Commons_position_paper_on_the_EC_consultation_on_digital_cultural_heritage.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">position paper</a> to the European Commission on Digital Cultural Heritage.<b></b></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Declaration on Open Access for Cultural Heritage</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—we worked on this document throughout 2019 and 2020, including leading the public consultation process. </span><a href="https://openglam.pubpub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Details here.</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b></b><b>CC Global Network Open GLAM Platform</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—the CC Open GLAM Platform is a space to help coordinate efforts to connect and support open access to cultural heritage initiatives. Check out the 2020 winners for the CC Open GLAM Platform Activities Fund </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/17/meet-the-winners-of-the-cc-open-glam-platform-activities-fund/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Webinars</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—through Open GLAM, we hosted webinars on important topics like copyright, OpenGLAM, open access, etc. in partnership with other actors, like Europeana, the Museum Computer Network (summaries </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/glam-collections-on-social-media-navigating-copyright-questions-7a4065332f39" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/introduction-to-structured-rights-information-a-conversation-about-rights-statements-6645d31a889" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/copyright-open-access-for-glams-in-the-age-of-covid-3a35e67f7a1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/copyright-clearance-and-labeling-works-a-primer-ab40d0992582" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), and the UNESCO-Bangkok/Memory of the World Committee Asia Pacific (</span><a href="https://bangkok.unesco.org/content/promoting-universal-access-documentary-heritage-asia-pacific-openglam-webinar-series" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">details here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">).</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Translation sprints</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—through Open GLAM, we hosted translation sprints, one at the Creative Commons Global Summit (</span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/translation-sprint/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) and one at the Europeana Conference (</span><a href="https://pro.europeana.eu/event/openglam-translation-sprint-at-europeana-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Multilingual content</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—we supported multilingual stories on the </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM Medium blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (check out </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CultureDoug/status/1324634188025389057?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">this visual</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!).</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Hack4OpenGLAM</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—at the 2020 Creative Commons Global Summit, Open GLAM hosted the “Hack4OpenGLAM” workshop for the first time, inviting people to get creative with open access to cultural heritage (full report </span><a href="https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/October_2020/Contents/Finland_report" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). Some highlights available </span><a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/2592067/cc_global_summit_2020/collections/9P45VRNT" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! </span></li>
<li><strong>Is Sharing Always Caring?</strong>—we collaborated with the European Fashion Heritage Foundation and the Onassis Foundation on the 2020 symposium exploring issues regarding the tensions between digitizing fashion cultural heritage and remaining mindful and respectful of cultural rights and values. Read the summary <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/11/16/open-glam-reshape-the-fashion-heritage-narrative/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</li>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62558
title: Introducing the Newest CC Chapter, CC Czech Republic!
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/02/introducing-the-newest-cc-chapter-cc-czech-republic/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Czech CC Chapter is finally here! Our Chapter was founded by March 2020, as the first chapter meeting was held both offline and online by the core members of CC Czech Republic and CC supporters and enthusiasts in the vibrant city of Brno. The establishment of the Czech Chapter is an outcome of many previous years of interest and work of its founding members (since 2011) in the Creative Commons community, openness, and specific copyright issues.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Czech Republic, supported by Chapter Lead and Representative to the CC Global Network</span> <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/luciestrakova/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lucie Smolka</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, will continue to develop the Czech environment of commons and other open areas. The Czech Chapter is working closely with the institutional CC Network member NGO Open Content. Board members of Open Content are </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/luciestrakova/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lucie Smolka</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a CEO, </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/martinloucka/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Martin Loučka</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a COO and </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/members/jirkamarekbrno/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jiří Marek</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a CMO. Members of Open Content are experienced lawyers from different “open” areas such as Open Science, Open Source or Open Educational Resources. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Czech Chapter has recently submitted a statement as part of the consultation process led by the Czech Ministry of Culture on the implementation of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, and is also consulting the Implementation of Open Data Directive. We have also entered the strategic partnership with NGO Otevřená města (Open Cities). This organization deals with digitization of local governments and the Czech Chapter is bringing the necessary legal interoperability expertise. Recently, we have submitted a project proposal for the public research funding by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic with the project called  </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Re-use System Management</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, that should bring the abstract re-use economy (so-called “circular economy in cyber-space”) closer to the everyday practice of local governments and NGOs. The goal for the upcoming months is to foster these projects and partnerships and to develop a Czech open community scene.</span></p>
<p><b>Join us!</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are looking forward to branching out further in the Czech Republic and </span><b>encourage interested people to join us!</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You can find more information on the </span><a href="https://www.creativecommons.cz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Czech Chapter website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! Contact us directly at </span><a href="mailto:info@opencontent.cz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@opencontent.cz</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, engage with us on </span><a href="https://twitter.com/cc_cesko" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons.cz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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