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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65474
title: CC Certificate: Alumni interview with Revekka Kefalea
uri: CC-Certificate-Alumni-interview-with-Revekka-Kefalea
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/06/03/cc-certificate-alumni-interview-with-revekka-kefalea/
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<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><em><strong>Launched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated over 1000 people from 56 countries.  Creative Commons staff are regularly inspired by the community of Certificate alumni, accomplishing incredible things in open knowledge and culture. CC Certificate alumni have used the Certificate course knowledge in a number of ways—read about how alumni have <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/18/cc-certificate-alumnus-mostafa-azad-kamal-on-his-work-with-open-education-policies-and-practice/">developed open licensed content for a bachelor of business program in Bangladesh</a> and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/18/cc-certificate-alumnus-mostafa-azad-kamal-on-his-work-with-open-education-policies-and-practice/">Masters courses in the US</a>. Or read about alumni testimonials <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/testimonials/">here</a>.  </strong></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this interview, we were delighted to speak with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/revekka-kefalea/">Revekka Kefalea</a>, a graduate of the CC Certificate for GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Revekka works as project manager at the civic, non-profit organization </span><a href="https://interaliaproject.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inter Alia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Athens, Greece), conceptualizing, managing and monitoring the implementation of projects in relation to arts, (digital) cultural heritage, open access and civic engagement. She holds a BSc in Social Policy and Social Anthropology (Panteion University), a MSc in Urban and Regional Planning (National Technical University of Athens), and a MSc in Political Science and Sociology (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). She is also certified in cultural management and social entrepreneurship, and closely follows the GLAM sector and its transformations, since her research interests focus on nationalism, material culture, cultural heritage, identity and memory politics. Here is the Q&amp;A: </span></p>
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What inspired you to take the CC Certificate for GLAM?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I decided to take the CC Certificate for GLAM almost two years ago, when it was first announced on the CC website &#8212; that is when I started saving money for it. At that time, I was writing my </span><a href="https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:38827/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Master’s thesis</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on the history of access to national museums, in light of the mass digitization projects of cultural heritage and the Open GLAM movement. But the story about my sources of inspiration and motivation goes way back in time. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was around 2008-9 when I discovered the term &#8220;open access&#8221;, while involved in a research project (at a public university in Athens, Greece), and while mass digitization projects of cultural heritage were gaining momentum. Of course, I benefited from this development, because I was able to find materials necessary for my research in digital libraries and collections easily and for free. Everything was just one click away! At this time, Greece was facing a debt crisis in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007–2008; and there were major funding cuts to the public sector, including the funding of public universities and libraries. This situation got me thinking: Would I be able to continue my research without the existence of these mass digitization projects and open access, digital collections and libraries? Would I be able to afford it? And what about other people with lower income than mine? How could they equally get access to education and knowledge resources to overcome the inequalities and obstacles posed by the crisis?</span><b> </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being in this situation and triggered by these questions, I started exploring the open culture / open GLAM movement more closely.  In December 2018, I decided to launch a non-formal, self-funded initiative (</span><a href="https://glamhackevents.wordpress.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GLAM Hack</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) to spread the word about the research, educational and creative possibilities of open access via workshops and other events. You can read more about the work on </span><a href="https://echo-ii.eu/glam-hack-workshop/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the blog post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this effort, I reached out to the founders of Inter Alia for support and feedback, and they proposed to hire me, providing me the opportunity, on the one hand, to go on with my initiative autonomously, and on the other, to advocate for open access within the context of Inter Alia’s projects. This development was very rewarding, but also very challenging for me, because</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">advocating for open access requires knowledge about copyright law and CC licenses, as well as considering various economical, ethical, and social-political issues that arise when digitizing and opening access to cultural heritage materials online. I had to read a lot about these topics on my own; and, at some point, I realized that I need to systematize my knowledge to articulate stronger arguments (and especially, arguments beyond the legal aspects of digital access). This is when the CC Certificate came to my attention. The timing was just perfect! </span></p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Would I be able to continue my research without the existence of these mass digitization projects and open access, digital collections and libraries? Would I be able to afford it? And what about other people with lower income than mine? How could they equally get access to education and knowledge resources to overcome the inequalities and obstacles posed by the crisis?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><b>Tell us more about your current project and any challenges or early successes you’ve experienced: </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Currently, I am involved in the Creative Europe project </span><a href="https://echo-ii.eu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ECHO II: Traditions in Transition</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, advocating for its open access policy. Within its context, we invited artists to participate in five art residencies, and create original artworks inspired by selected local traditions from Greece, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Hungary. After each art residency, we digitized the </span><a href="https://echo-ii.eu/artworks/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">artworks</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and published the digital copies on the website under the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> license. Of course, we went through all the legal formalities to do so; and given the complexities of copyright laws and the (mis)understandings around CC licenses, that was a very demanding task for us. But we managed to go through this, because opening access to the project outcomes was our clear goal from the very beginning, and we were transparent about it along the way – we even included a specific section about it in all our </span><a href="https://echo-ii.eu/tag/open-calls/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open calls for artists</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Apart from publishing the digital collection of artworks openly, we went a step further, and included a section on the website (&#8220;Locations | Traditions&#8221; webpages) with information about the selected traditions, and illustrations from open access repositories and cultural heritage aggregation platforms. We did so, because we didn’t want to create just another project website that would showcase only its progress and outcomes, but a knowledge base that would be useful for and used by wider communities for any purpose. However, if you explore this section, you will find out that the “Locations | Traditions” webpages are unequally developed and illustrated. Due to language barriers &#8212; and also due to the restrictions resulting from COVID-19 &#8212; we had to rely heavily on open access digital platforms, and especially on resources and content with rich metadata in English. Of course, we consider this unequal representation of the selected traditions a problem. Personally, I think it is an indicator of the unequal development of mass digitization and open access to cultural heritage in European countries. But it is also something that highlights, on the one hand, the importance of rich, multilingual metadata, and on the other, the importance of open access to GLAMs, not only for research and education, but also for the creative and civil society sectors.</span></p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;Advocating for open access requires knowledge about copyright law and CC licenses, as well as considering various economical, ethical, and social-political issues that arise when digitizing and opening access to cultural heritage materials online.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<p><b>What do you aim to do next? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by the </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/certificate-resources-cc-by/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate resources</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><a href="https://business-toolkit.creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Toolkit for Business</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the publications </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/made-with-cc/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Made with Creative Commons</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2011/06/24/the-power-of-open-stories-of-creators-sharing-knowledge-art-data-using-creative-commons"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Power of Open</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, I prepared and just offered (in the context of the ECHO II project) a pilot workshop on (a) the history of copyright and CC licenses, and (b) open business models for artists, heritage professionals, cultural managers, and open culture / open GLAM activists. I would like to enrich the content of this workshop and offer it again in the near future, taking into consideration the developments in the so-called platform economy. </span></p>
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<p><b>More broadly: if you had to guess, what is next for the open culture / open GLAM movement? What should we be looking for in the future? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hm… This question is really difficult to answer, because we (need to) work simultaneously on many levels and towards various directions… Every aspect is equally important… In any case, based on my educational background, work experiences and research interests, I can suggest the following two issues:    </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The current discussions around digitizing and opening access to cultural heritage collections online stress the economic costs and risks that GLAMs (need to) take into consideration before adopting their own approaches and policies. Of course, economic resources play a fundamental role in these processes, and hence, GLAMs need to have funding for them. However, public and private funding varies greatly across institutions, national states, and even fiscal years (since it is tied to the general state of the economy, and usually is least available when it is most needed). But maybe, we can look at the situation from the reverse point of view, and -from the existence or lack of financial resources- we can draw conclusions about the role, status and importance of GLAM institutions in national cultural policies, histories and identities. I think that such an approach would help us, on the one hand, to explore the power relations and dynamics existing in the GLAM sector, along with the ideological, and socio-historical factors that (re)produce them; and on the other, to draw a more complete picture of the various influences in GLAMs’ processes and practices. In this light, present-day challenges might appear less puzzling and easier to overcome.</span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the open culture / open GLAM movement, we usually highlight the benefits of open access for societies in general and GLAM audiences in particular (e.g. production of new knowledge, enhancement of creativity, generation of new business ideas, etc.), but we rarely discuss the premises for the audiences to be able to reuse and remix open content for their own purposes (research, education, entertainment, entrepreneurship, etc.). If the ultimate goal of open access is to encourage and ensure everyone’s active and equal participation in the transformation of knowledge and culture, then every reuser -apart from internet/web access- needs to have advanced digital skills and to be knowledgeable in many fields (e.g. research methodologies, classification systems, copyright laws, codes of ethics, social and cultural norms, programming etc.) to be able to do so. From the standpoint of a reuser, it seems to me that digital cultural heritage collections and aggregation platforms (including their creative functionalities) tend to be designed with an ideal internet user in mind, who is supposed to already have all the necessary knowledge and skills. However, this is rarely the case; and hence, along with building the capacities of GLAM institutions and professionals, we also need to respond to the audiences’ needs. And in this effort, apart from offering educational activities and helping GLAMs open their collections, we also need to encourage them to explain and open their internal processes and practices.   </span></li>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;From the standpoint of a reuser, it seems to me that digital cultural heritage collections and aggregation platforms (including their creative functionalities) tend to be designed with an ideal internet user in mind, who is supposed to already have all the necessary knowledge and skills. However, this is rarely the case.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<p><b>Thank you so much for your time with us, Revekka! Before we go, do you have any advice for open culture advocates? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, I can say what I repeatedly say to myself: </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opening access to knowledge and culture is a never-ending process for various reasons — first and foremost, because collecting and preserving knowledge and heritage materials for the present and future generations is a never-ending process itself. So, don’t get discouraged and don’t give up; be persistent and patient at the same time.</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">No one can be fully aware of all the issues that need to be considered when advocating for open access. Fortunately, though, the members of the open community are experts in a wide variety of topics, and, due to their mentality and values, they are always willing to share their knowledge and expertise. So, don’t be shy; just reach out and ask for help.</span></span></span>&nbsp;</li>
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<blockquote><p><span>We celebrate Revekka’s excellent work, and we want to celebrate more of our CC Certificate alumni’s work! If you have a story about something you’ve tried or an open project you’ve accomplished at your institution, please let us know (email </span><a href="mailto:certificates@creativecommons.org"><span>certificates@creativecommons.org</span></a><span>). </span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65484
title: Open Culture VOICES Vlog Series: Wrap-Up
uri: Open-Culture-VOICES-Vlog-Series-Wrap-Up
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/06/03/open-culture-voices-vlog-series-wrap-up/
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<div>In this video, Creative Commons CEO <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/">Catherine Stihler</a> concludes our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/voices-vlog/">Open Culture VOICES</a> series. Launched in February 2022, VOICES is <span>a vlog series comprised of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. Over the past four months, we have released almost 40 episodes with inspiring stories and insights from global experts on what it is like to digitize and open up collections of cultural heritage. We&#8217;re grateful to all the guests who participated in the series, and a big thanks to everyone who watched and engaged with the series over the past few months. We hope you have enjoyed the series, and learned more, by listening to the distinct voices helping make GLAM collections as openly accessible, shareable, and reusable as possible – the greatest manifestation of their public value. Going open is the best way to celebrate GLAMs’ mission in the digital era.<br />
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<blockquote><p><span>Interested in more insights from Open Culture experts around the world? </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Find all the episodes here</a><span> &gt;&gt;</span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65551
title: Open Minds Podcast: *Special Episode* CC Roundtable on EU DATA ACT
uri: Open-Minds-Podcast-Special-Episode-CC-Roundtable-on-EU-DATA-ACT
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https://creativecommons.org/2022/06/22/open-minds-podcast-special-episode-cc-roundtable-on-eu-data-act/

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<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-62861 size-thumbnail" src="media/bc8ace62.open_minds-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds-768x768.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hi Creative Commoners! We are back with a brand new episode of CC’s </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Minds … from Creative Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> podcast. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we switch things up from our typical interview style and play back the recording of <strong>Creative Commons&#8217; hybrid roundtable on the EU Data Act, which took place in Brussels on 14 June 2022</strong>. CC CEO Catherine Stihler kicks things off with welcome remarks, and then Brigitte Vézina, CC&#8217;s Director of Open Culture and Policy, moderates a conversation between our distinguished panel of experts on how this new piece of legislation could reshape the rules governing value creation around data and unlock the potential for better sharing of knowledge and culture in the digital space across the EU and globally.</span></p>
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<h3><strong>Our speakers in this episode include: </strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>INTRODUCTION</strong><br />
</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/"><span>Catherine Stihler</span></a><span> | CEO, Creative Commons</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>MODERATOR</strong><br />
</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/brigittevezina/"><span>Brigitte Vézina</span></a><span> | Director of Policy, Open Culture and GLAM, Creative Commons</span></p>
<p><strong>PANEL</strong></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/37312/CHRISTEL_SCHALDEMOSE/home"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Christel Schaldemose</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | Member, European Parliament</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://lu.linkedin.com/in/anna-ludin-a2125021a/en?trk=public_profile_locale-url"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anna Ludin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | Policy Officer DG CNECT G.1, Data Policy and Innovation, </span><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/index_en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">European Commission</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://twitter.com/amandinelepape?lang=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amandine Le Pape</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | COO/co-founder, </span><a href="https://element.io/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Element</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Guardian/co-founder, </span><a href="https://matrix.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Matrix.org </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Foundation</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://twitter.com/paul_keller?lang=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paul Keller </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">| President/founding member, </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">COMMUNIA</span></a></li>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65563
title: Here are four key takeaways from evaluating the CC Certificate
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-56895 size-medium alignright" src="media/45004011.CC-Certificate-Newsletter2-300x182.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CC-Certificate-Newsletter2-300x182.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="182" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CC-Certificate-Newsletter2-300x182.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CC-Certificate-Newsletter2-768x466.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CC-Certificate-Newsletter2-1024x621.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CC-Certificate-Newsletter2-66x40.jpg 66w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CC-Certificate-Newsletter2-50x30.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CC-Certificate-Newsletter2-255x155.jpg 255w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CC-Certificate-Newsletter2.jpg 1160w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />The</span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> CC Certificate program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> helps </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> build professionals’ capacity in open licensing and open practices. The program offers global courses for academic librarians, educators, and cultural heritage advocates; but courses are open to everyone. Through global discussions, course participants work through what it means to engage in an online commons of shared knowledge and culture. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Certificate program is an investment in the global community of open creators and advocates. It is a tool to support people as proactive participants in our shared digital commons, and strengthen the diversity of creative thought and expression to improve open access to open knowledge and culture. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But how can we understand the potential impact of this effort on our global community? We explore the CC Certificate programs’ effects on community members through a series of focused measures, such as interviews with alumni who developed a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/12/12/kevin-corcoran-the-effect-of-open-licensing-expertise-for-k12-pedagogy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">master level courses related to open education</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/18/cc-certificate-alumnus-mostafa-azad-kamal-on-his-work-with-open-education-policies-and-practice/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open policies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or</span> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/06/03/cc-certificate-alumni-interview-with-revekka-kefalea/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">openly published a digital collection of artwork, with cultural considerations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We also draw feedback from surveys and workshops.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this post, we highlight one evaluation effort analyzing how Certificate course participants’ knowledge changes over the 10 weeks of engagement. We administer baseline and endline surveys to participants on a voluntary basis, in order to: (1) understand if participants develop a greater understanding of our course content, and (2) understand differences between course communities, where participants have more challenges in course content, and what this data might mean for our teaching practices. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC works with </span><a href="https://poritz.net/jonathan"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jonathan Poritz</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to track participants’ understanding of course content, and how it changes over time. Learn more about the baseline and endline survey background, methodology and findings in a </span><a href="https://poritz.net/j/cc/cert/assess/Jan2022.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">detailed analysis</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on Jonathan Poritz’s website. [<a href="#footnote-1">1</a>]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Below are the top four takeaways from an evaluation of our baseline and endline surveys on copyright, open licensing, and reuse of CC-licensed content supported by our experience facilitating the course. </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Top takeaways: </span></h3>
<ol>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">While our open culture course (the GLAM Certificate) has not been running long enough to gather meaningful data, we do find participants in the Educators and Academic Librarians courses make significant gains from taking their respective courses. We have statistically significant evidence that the post-test scores are more than 21.2% higher than the pre-test scores, at the 5% significance level. Both the Educator and Academic Librarian participants had fairly similar starting scores, ending scores, and (therefore) gains from taking the course as each other (and the whole group).</span></span><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-65570" src="media/d6a37a2f.IMG_20220622_155606_631-1024x820.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155606_631-1024x820.png" alt="" width="840" height="673" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155606_631-1024x820.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155606_631-300x240.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155606_631-768x615.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155606_631-50x40.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155606_631-194x155.png 194w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155606_631-1200x961.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155606_631.png 1326w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" />[<a href="#footnote-2">2</a>]</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The surveys confirm our experience that Unit 4, which covers reuse of CC licensed content, is the most challenging unit for participants. Most graduates score between 80 &#8211; 85 points on all units, except Unit 4, where they score around 65 points. What does this mean? We should spend more time and focus facilitating this unit for participants.</span><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-65569" src="media/c71d9b19.IMG_20220622_155708_70.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155708_70.png" alt="" width="1000" height="500" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155708_70.png 1000w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155708_70-300x150.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155708_70-768x384.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155708_70-80x40.png 80w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155708_70-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155708_70-270x135.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" />[<a href="#footnote-3">3</a>]</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">On a side note: almost everyone realized they could not provide </span><b><i>legal</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> advice following the course. This will make course facilitators chuckle, because we make it a habit to remind participants that we cannot provide legal advice&#8211;that’s something shared between lawyers and the clients hiring them.<br />
</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">While this analysis sincerely charms us, we need to contextualize it. These data points show increased knowledge over time, which is arguably the first building block in empowering our communities with the tools they need to take advantage of the “copyright meets digital” landscape. What participants then do with their increased knowledge is crucial.</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ideally, evaluation of Creative Commons training efforts will also feed into a broader conversation about how we can evaluate, learn and adapt in open education training efforts more broadly. Now we see a wonderful variety of professional development opportunities in this field. We expect each of our efforts to be like puzzle pieces, contributing to the larger impact of open education. Ideally, we can track how the CC Certificate can work with other efforts to best support the agency and learning of our global community members. </span></p>
<p><strong>We want to thank all of the anonymous CC Certificate participants who volunteered their time to help us with this analysis. </strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[<a href="#footnote-1">1</a>] &#8211; Of note: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because the surveys were voluntary, we were concerned about the risk of volunteer sample bias. To rule out one element of this bias, which would show favorable endline survey results in favor of people who were “good students” or on the trajectory to graduate anyway, Jonathan analyzed just the results of participants who passed the course.  We did this to address the potential critique:</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “maybe the course doesn&#8217;t teach anything, but merely convinces the bad students not to take the post-test, so the distribution of post-test scores of course looks better than the distribution of pre-test scores.” We learned that by making a pair of histograms for over-all score before and after the course from only participants who were successful in the course, then they should look pretty much the same.<br />
</span></p>
<p>[<a href="#footnote-2">2</a>] &#8211; Per Jonathan Poritz, if you&#8217;re a little rusty in your statistical terminology, most of the graphs in the full analysis are histograms, meaning that the heights of the bars indicate how many scores lie in the range of percentages covered by the base of that bar on the horizontal, &#8220;Percent Correct,&#8221; axis. For example, the bar in the &#8220;Before Course&#8221; histogram whose left edge is at location 60 on the horizontal axis has a base going from 60 to 65 on that horizontal axis and height of 13. That means that 13 participants&#8217; pre-test scores were in the range 60 to 65% correct.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The vertical blue line in these histograms is located at the median of the scores for that graph, meaning that half of the scores in that dataset are less than (to the left of) that score, and half are greater than (to the right of) that score: it is a good measure of the &#8220;middle value&#8221; of the dataset.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <strong><em>x̄</em></strong> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">in the key box in each graph indicates the mean (or average) of that dataset, which is another measure of the middle of data, but means are more sensitive than medians to outliers, meaning that atypical scores way off to one end will pull the mean in that direction but not the median.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The</span> <strong>σ </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">in the box is the standard deviation of that dataset, which is a measure of how much variation there is in the data.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <strong>η</strong> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">in the box tells the size of that dataset.</span></p>
<p>[<a href="#footnote-3">3</a>] &#8211; <span style="font-weight: 400;">The term &#8220;95% confidence interval&#8221; is a standard assumption in applied statistics. The 95% confidence interval is a range of values within which we would expect to see 95% of those sample means if we were to (1) repeatedly collect random samples and (2) recalculate the sample mean each time. If the subset of participants who took the test were a random sample of course participants (rather than a self-selected group of volunteers), then the sample mean would slightly vary every time a new random sample was chosen from among all participants. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65614
title: CC Expresses Views on Italian National Cultural Heritage Digitization Plan
uri: CC-Expresses-Views-on-Italian-National-Cultural-Heritage-Digitization
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https://creativecommons.org/2022/07/04/cc-expresses-views-on-italian-national-cultural-heritage-digitization-plan/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few weeks ago, the Italian Ministry of Culture issued its </span><a href="https://digitallibrary.cultura.gov.it/il-piano/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Cultural Heritage Digitization Plan 2022-2023 – Guidelines for the acquisition, sharing and reuse of digital cultural heritage reproductions</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the Plan is welcome as an important step towards the digital transformation of cultural heritage institutions (CHIs), it risks nonetheless restricting, rather than increasing, access to and use of cultural heritage, and having a serious detrimental effect on the public domain, creators’ participation in generative creativity, and society as a whole. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Together with </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/chapter/cc-italy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC’s Italian Chapter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we have prepared a statement to address crucial points of concerns raised in the Plan, namely: </span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The public domain is being unduly encroached upon by an application of cultural heritage law that unduly limits reuse and creativity opportunities against the public interest. Rather, the public domain must be protected, because it enables essential access to knowledge and culture, and fosters creativity.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The creation of a bespoke license (MIT Standard) is inadvisable. CC tools are the established standard used by CHIs, and are important legal and communication tools between CHIs and their users. CC licenses and tools have many benefits over tailored licenses or other bespoke standards. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The risks of undermining creativity and access to culture are not outweighed by the few revenue opportunities of paid licensing established through application of cultural heritage law. </span></li>
</ol>
<blockquote><p><a href="media/773f303a.n-the-National-Cultural-Heritage-Digitization-Plan-2022-2023.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Creative-Commons-Statement-_-Consultation-on-the-National-Cultural-Heritage-Digitization-Plan-2022-2023.pdf"><b>Read our full statement &gt;&gt;</b></a><b> </b></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We take this opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of cultural heritage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and look forward to continuing to support CHIs across the world in fulfilling their public-interest mission of providing access to their collections as openly as possible, on site and online. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Note: This statement was prepared by Brigitte Vézina, Director of Policy and Open Culture, Creative Commons, Deborah De Angelis, Chapter Lead, CC Italy, and Laura Sinigaglia, Contributor, CC Italy. </span></i></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65635
title: Join us for our next round of CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks!
uri: Join-us-for-our-next-round-of-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Tal
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https://creativecommons.org/2022/07/06/join-us-for-our-next-round-of-cc-open-education-platform-lightning-talks/

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<p><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvdO2srzwrHNZyUwDgirgIVxcE4pmIgBUD"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-65638 size-large" src="media/9c5b73a2.n-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1200--675-px-1-1024x576.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1200-×-675-px-1-1024x576.png" alt="&quot;Lightning Strike&quot; by skyseeker is licensed under CC BY 2.0." width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1200-×-675-px-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1200-×-675-px-1-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1200-×-675-px-1-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1200-×-675-px-1-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1200-×-675-px-1-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1200-×-675-px-1-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1200-×-675-px-1.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Creative Commons Open Education Platform community will offer our next round of Lightning Talks, or seven-minute presentations on specific updates or stories in open education. Join the sessions on Tuesday 12 July at 6:00pm UTC</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We can’t wait to learn with you!</span></em></p>
<p><span></span><b>Location:<span> </span></b><span>Join us from wherever you are based! We’ll be using Zoom to host the event. If you haven’t installed Zoom, <a href="https://zoom.us/download">download it here</a>.</span></p>
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<h3><strong>Our Lightning Talks presentations include: </strong></h3>
<p><b><br />
“Open Syllabus: UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science” by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifermillerpublicpolicy/">Jennifer Miller</a> </b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><i>Summary:</i></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> An open syllabus, assignments&#8211;including interactive multiple choice self-check questions&#8211;and rubrics for a semester-long course teaching open science through the lens of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The syllabus and materials were created as part of the Open Education for a Better World (</span><a href="https://oe4bw.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OE4BW</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) program. The course is suitable for PIs to teach as a special topics course to early career researchers in their lab or department, for a Maymester or summer session offering to prospective or incoming STEM graduate students, or in a lifelong learning context for practicing and retired STEM practitioners and educators. The syllabus has been presented and well received at OEGlobal, OE4BW Eduscope, OERcamp, and the First UNESCO Working Group Meeting on Capacity Building in Open Science. The openly-licensed materials are available on </span><a href="https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/UNESCO_Recommendation_on_Open_Science"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikiversity </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/5823531"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zenodo</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> and a </span><a href="https://fsci2022.sched.com/event/11cST/e01-prepare-to-teach-open-science-through-the-lens-of-the-unesco-recommendation"><span style="font-weight: 400;">train-the-trainer session is offered July 26-28 at FSCI2022</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><i>Presenter:</i></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Jennifer has 10+ years experience teaching and doing research in public policy and public management. She is a civic technologist and open knowledge advocate.</span></span></li>
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<p><b>“More OER for Free!” by <a href="https://twitter.com/poritzj">Jonathan Poritz</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><i>Summary: </i></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In jurisdictions with a strong works-made-for-hire doctrine in their copyright laws, there is often a policy decision to be made about educational materials produced by employees (instructors and other staff) of educational institutions.  In the US, at least, the result tends to be that copyrights for such materials are owned by the employer, excepting only tenure-line faculty in higher ed who keep their individual copyrights.  A policy which automatically applied to those institutionally owned materials an OER-compatible CC license would instantly free enormous quantities of existing material, and open up future materials, for much wider use and public benefit. Jonathan will discuss some of the details of how versions of this policy might work, what obstacles there could be in their way, and how they are or are not consistent with other policies and efforts.</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><i>Presenter:</i></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Jonathan is a former mathematics faculty member and OER Coordinator at a public university in Colorado, USA; former member of the Colorado State OER Council; volunteer in many open ed orgs; and ongoing facilitator for the CC Certificate course.  He currently lives in a Schroedinger&#8217;s Cat-like state somewhere between Colorado, USA, and Pietrasanta, Italy.</span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>“Open Climate Campaign” by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cablegreen/">Dr. Cable Green</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-granados-1a0527182/">Dr. </a></b><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-granados-1a0527182/"><b><span data-rich-links="{&quot;per_n&quot;:&quot;Monica Granados&quot;,&quot;per_e&quot;:&quot;monica@creativecommons.org&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;person&quot;}">Monica Granados</span></b></a></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Summary:</strong> </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, is one of the world&#8217;s most pressing challenges. The complexity of the climate crisis requires global, national, and local actions informed by multidisciplinary research. The goal of this multi-year campaign is to promote open access to research to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity. If we are going to solve these global challenges, the knowledge (research, data, educational resources, software) about them must be open.</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><i>Presenters</i></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>:</strong> Dr. Cable Green works with open education, science and research communities to leverage open licensing, content, practices and policies to expand equitable access and contributions to open knowledge. His work is focused on identifying complex problems (e.g., UN SDGs) where open knowledge is a critical part of the solution, and then opening that knowledge to help solve the problem. Cable is also a leading advocate for open licensing and procurement policies that ensure publicly funded education, science and research resources are freely and openly available to the public.</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Monica Granados is the Open Climate Campaign Manager for a multi-year campaign to open knowledge about the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity. Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, is one of the world&#8217;s most pressing challenges. If we are going to solve these global challenges, the knowledge (research, data, educational resources, software) about them must be open.</span></span></li>
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<p><b>“Building OER into Capstone Courses” by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-stevenson-2210035/">Carolyn Stevenson</a></b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em><strong>Summary:</strong></em> Integrating OER into undergraduate and graduate capstone courses offers the opportunity to serve learners across disciplines. The Professional Studies degrees are competency-based, allow learners to craft their own individualized learning plan, and use OER as a cost-effective means for providing learning resources.</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><em>Presenter:</em></strong> Carolyn has 20+ plus years experience in online learning and is currently University Faculty for Purdue University Global, USA.</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>“Improve It Challenge” by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamison-miller-39399528/">Jamison Miller</a></b></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Summary:</strong> </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lumen Learning’s Improve It Challenge grant program invites anyone and everyone to engage in the continuous improvement of open educational resources. First, Jamison will share how Lumen uses data to identify learning outcomes in Lumen courses where students across the U.S. are struggling. Next, he will explain the Lumen grant program, beginning with how people can apply. Small grants are awarded to individuals with compelling proposals to revise / remix / create new learning activities aligned with these difficult outcomes. If A/B testing demonstrates that the updated learning activities significantly improve student learning, grantees receive a 10x bonus award!</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><i>Presenter</i></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>:</strong> Jamison is the Director, Research Communication at Lumen Learning.</span></span></li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p><strong>Watch our last round of Open Education Lightning Talks<span> </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/11/open-education-week-2022-lightning-talks-recordings-and-slides/">here &gt;&gt;</a></strong></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65656
title: CC Supports Internet Archive’s Efforts to Ensure Public Access to Books
uri: CC-Supports-Internet-Archive-s-Efforts-to-Ensure-Public-Access-to-Bo
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https://creativecommons.org/2022/07/08/cc-supports-internet-archives-efforts-to-ensure-public-access-to-books/

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<figure id="attachment_65658" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65658" style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-65658" src="media/25a11fc3.182078-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/182078-300x169.png" alt="" width="400" height="226" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/182078-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/182078-768x433.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/182078-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/182078-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/182078-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/182078-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/182078.png 800w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65658" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://openclipart.org/detail/182078/book-graphic-extraction-1">Book graphic extraction 1</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://openclipart.org/artist/rejon">rejon</a> is marked with <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/?ref=openverse">CC0 1.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a </span><a href="https://www.eff.org/document/hachette-v-internet-archive-internet-archives-memorandum-summary-judgment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">motion for summary judgment</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> calling to reject the lawsuit against the </span><a href="https://archive.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internet Archive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (IA) brought by four big publishers that threatens IA&#8217;s </span><a href="https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/controlled-digital-lending-unlocking-the-librarys-full-potential"><span style="font-weight: 400;">controlled digital lending</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CDL) program. Creative Commons fully supports this motion. Here’s why. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Internet Archive is an American non-profit library preserving and giving access to millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more, with the mission to provide “universal access to all knowledge.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we mention in our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/open-culture-policy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture Policy Paper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with CDL, libraries can lend one copy of digitized material from their collection to one borrower at a time, for two weeks or less, just like they would a physical book. Unlike eLending, CDL is about digitized works, not born-digital material. CDL maximizes a library’s ability to loan works, thereby making the entire lending system more efficient and equitable. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we believe libraries — and cultural heritage institutions in general — should be empowered to serve as a meaningful access point for publicly funded collections. Free and open access to knowledge stimulates creativity, is essential for research and learning, and constitutes a bedrock principle of free and democratic societies. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright must encourage CDL and ensure that legal mechanisms are in place to allow this fair practice. As </span><a href="https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive"><span style="font-weight: 400;">clearly articulated by EFF</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: “CDL helps ensure that the public can make full use of the books that libraries have bought and paid for. This activity is fundamentally the same as traditional library lending, and poses no new harm to authors or the publishing industry.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Books, in all their forms, are a public good. Libraries, whether brick-and-mortar or digital, pursue a public-interest mission. Guided by our strong belief in </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/10rQDv5Hzuss38oi1ovGuoxHagmFzqn_f/view"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CC will continue to support the IA’s crucial efforts to ensure the public can access knowledge and culture on a global level.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65667
title: CC still opposes mandatory filtering and so should you
uri: CC-still-opposes-mandatory-filtering-and-so-should-you
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/07/15/cc-still-opposes-mandatory-filtering-and-so-should-you/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of Creative Commons&#8217; key strategic goal of </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/20-years/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Better Sharing</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we have taken a firm stance against mandatory content filtering on the internet. In new proposed legislation, the U.S. Congress is now raising mandatory content filtering again as a tool to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">eliminate</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> infringement of copyrighted works. For those who are new to the discussion, mandatory filtering</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> would require that all information providers enable software that prevents the distribution of materials claimed by rightsholders. If you’ve ever uploaded videos to YouTube, you’ve seen content filters at work: videos are scanned for copyrighted audio like popular music before they are published, and sometimes videos are blocked even when they are legal to share. Policy that forces every digital publisher, platform, and service provider to adopt similar filters would make this broken model universal. CC </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/freedom-to-share-how-the-law-of-platform-liability-impacts-licensors-and-users-84d86adade4e"><span style="font-weight: 400;">has long stated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the effects of mandatory filtering are devastating to free speech, as well as the sharing of culture and knowledge. CC has also </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/04/25/european-court-renders-judgment-in-polish-challenge-to-art-17/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">spoken out against filtering mandates</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/03/21/europeans-should-tell-parliament-to-vote-no-to-copyright-filters/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">opposed their introduction</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the European Union.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/22/cc-opposes-mandatory-copyright-filters-as-well-as-using-cc-to-justify-them/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">we explained why we are strongly opposed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the proposed “</span><a href="media/b76c3d9e.lip22167.pdf" data-original-source="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21454474/lip22167.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies (SMART) Copyright Act of 2022</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">”. A few weeks ago, we submitted a </span><a href="https://www.regulations.gov/comment/COLC-2022-0002-0057"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Comment</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the U.S. Copyright Office in response to its </span><a href="media/1151591b.content.pdf" data-original-source="https://downloads.regulations.gov/COLC-2022-0002-0001/content.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Notice of Inquiry</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; in it, we </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">continue to advocate that no internet services should be forced to adopt </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Standard Technical Measures (STMs), or any other </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">mandatory filtering systems, imposed by the government.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Specifically, we stated in our Comment that we did not believe the law mandated STMs, and that the law must continue not to require them. While service providers should be free to choose to use filtering as a tool to aid in compliance for a first-level review, filters should never be the final say in what materials are shared with the public.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In June, Creative Commons was invited to present its position on mandatory filtering at </span><a href="http://blog.archive.org/2022/07/01/building-a-better-internet-internet-archive-convenes-dc-workshop/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a workshop organized by the Internet Archive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> entitled “Libraries and the Digital Information Ecosystem: Towards an Affirmative Policy Agenda for a Better Internet.” (The workshop is a continuation of </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/22/introducing-the-better-internet-series/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Better Internet initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our lightning talk presentation centered on the damaging effects of mandatory copyright filtering for library communities; mainly, that such policy was at odds with providing the public with access to information. We reiterated that </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/22/copyright-filtering-mechanisms-dont-cant-respect-fair-use/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mandatory filtering, by design, does not respect limitations and exceptions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to authors’ exclusive rights, but respects only the interests of the largest rightsholders. These simplistic technical tools unfortunately do not account for the context of uses such as education, research, preservation, or critical commentary; they see only matches for content, and many cannot even do that well. Even the most sophisticated systems available today give too many false positives to legally authorized material uploaded by users. (Examples include public domain recordings of classical music mistakenly flagged as major label recordings of those pieces, and </span><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/14/youtubes-content-id-system-flags-demonetizes-video-cat-purring/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">an hour long loop of a cat purring being misidentified as a song</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.)</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65679
title: What are the barriers to open culture? Here’s what the CC community has to say
uri: What-are-the-barriers-to-open-culture-Here-s-what-the-CC-community
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https://creativecommons.org/2022/07/22/what-are-the-barriers-to-open-culture-heres-what-the-cc-community-has-to-say/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the barriers to </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open culture</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">? What challenges do cultural heritage institutions — such as galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) — face in making their collections openly accessible online? How could Creative Commons support institutions in addressing these challenges and taking part in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of cultural heritage? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In search of answers, we looked at past research, notably Andrea Wallace’s </span><a href="https://openglam.pubpub.org/pub/barriers-to-open-access/release/1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barriers to Open Access · Open GLAM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and asked more than 30 experts in the open culture movement. You can watch what they told us in our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/voices-vlog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Open Culture VOICES vlog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> series. Here’s a small sample of what we heard:<br />
</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;A number of imbalances related to power, priority, interests, and resources can facilitate or impede participation in digitization and open access initiatives&#8230;&#8221; — Andrea Wallace</span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;&#8230;we need to consider what openness online really means and who the audiences are. Are they mostly privileged audiences? Are they mostly people who have access to very expensive laptops and mobile phones? Or is this truly an open culture that can be accessed anywhere, anytime by all people around the world?&#8221; — Temi Odumosu</span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Another perceived barrier is that [GLAMs] are missing out on opportunities to generate income from the collections.” — Dafydd Tudur</span></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Open GLAM requires resources, expertise, and investment in rights management and copyright, which are complex.” — Douglas McCarthy</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We identified three main clusters of barriers: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Money</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: lack of resources and fear of losing revenue from licensing; </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>People</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: lack of appropriate knowledge and skills, together with a host of apprehensions and risk aversion;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Policy</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: a complex and outdated copyright system, and the absence of a positive policy framework encouraging openness. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><b><a href="media/b75d00ea.Barriers-to-Open-Culture-Final-Draft.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Barriers-to-Open-Culture-Final-Draft.pdf">Read the full report</a>.</b><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W20Tr1xZD22DljAkKpiKhstPlPEqrLce0QQ3t1EBM_Q/edit#heading=h.yc62cot79mxy"><b> </b></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img src="media/b990fca8.1f449.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f449.png" alt="👉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Do you face these or other barriers? Do you have ideas about how CC could help GLAMs overcome these barriers to opening up culture? Reach out and let us know: Fill out </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">this short form</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or write to us at </span><a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and share your ideas and opportunities to overcome these barriers. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65705
title: CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks: Recordings and Request for Speakers!
uri: CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-Recordings-and-Request-for
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https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/10/cc-open-education-platform-lightning-talks-recordings-and-request-for-speakers/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Creative Commons Open Education Platform community completed our latest round of Lightning Talks, or seven-minute presentations on specific updates or stories in open education. Learn more about the presentations in the recording links and summaries below. </span></p>
<p><strong>And, we hope you will consider presenting in our next round, coming up in October. <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zUa8su-gO4zUZzGlQxiktMlNnoAgUtsUrUrGRAz9S4g/edit#gid=0">Sign up here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Our Lightning Talks presentations include:</p>
<blockquote><p><b>“Open Syllabus: UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science” by Jennifer Miller </b></p></blockquote>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summary:</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> An open syllabus, assignments&#8211;including interactive multiple choice self-check questions&#8211;and rubrics for a semester-long course teaching open science through the lens of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The syllabus and materials were created as part of the Open Education for a Better World (</span><a href="https://oe4bw.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OE4BW</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) program. The course is suitable for PIs to teach as a special topics course to early career researchers in their lab or department, for a Maymester or summer session offering to prospective or incoming STEM graduate students, or in a lifelong learning context for practicing and retired STEM practitioners and educators. The syllabus has been presented and well received at OEGlobal, OE4BW Eduscope, OERcamp, and the First UNESCO Working Group Meeting on Capacity Building in Open Science. The openly-licensed materials are available on </span><a href="https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/UNESCO_Recommendation_on_Open_Science"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikiversity </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><a href="https://zenodo.org/record/5823531"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zenodo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. A </span><a href="https://fsci2022.sched.com/event/11cST/e01-prepare-to-teach-open-science-through-the-lens-of-the-unesco-recommendation"><span style="font-weight: 400;">train-the-trainer session is offered July 26-28 at FSCI2022</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and a workshop is offered August 6 at the </span><a href="https://summerschool.scholar.social/2022/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scholar.Social Summer School</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Presenter:</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Jennifer has 10+ years experience teaching and doing research in public policy and public management. She is a civic technologist and open knowledge advocate.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19FA8N5GzUawDR_gc8WwHgy0t4IJDnB_r/view"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Presentation</span></a></li>
</ul>
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<blockquote><p><b>“More OER for Free!” by Jonathan Poritz</b></p></blockquote>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summary: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In jurisdictions with a strong works-made-for-hire doctrine in their copyright laws, there is often a policy decision to be made about educational materials produced by employees (instructors and other staff) of educational institutions.  In the US, at least, the result tends to be that copyrights for such materials are owned by the employer, excepting only tenure-line faculty in higher ed who keep their individual copyrights.  A policy which automatically applied to those institutionally owned materials an OER-compatible CC license would instantly free enormous quantities of existing material, and open up future materials, for much wider use and public benefit. Jonathan discussed some of the details of how versions of this policy might work, what obstacles there could be in their way, and how they are or are not consistent with other policies and efforts.</span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Presenter:</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Jonathan is a former mathematics faculty member and OER Coordinator at a public university in Colorado, USA; former member of the Colorado state OER Council; volunteer in many open ed orgs; and ongoing facilitator for the CC Certificate course.  He currently lives in a Schroedinger&#8217;s Cat-like state somewhere between Colorado, USA, and Pietrasanta, Italy.</span></li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><b>“Open Climate Campaign” by Dr. Cable Green and Dr. </b><a href="mailto:monica@creativecommons.org"><b><span data-rich-links="{&quot;per_n&quot;:&quot;Monica Granados&quot;,&quot;per_e&quot;:&quot;monica@creativecommons.org&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;person&quot;}">Monica Granados</span></b></a></p></blockquote>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summary: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, is one of the world&#8217;s most pressing challenges. The complexity of the climate crisis requires global, national, and local actions informed by multidisciplinary research. The goal of this multi-year campaign is to promote open access to research to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity. If we are going to solve these global challenges, the knowledge (research, data, educational resources, software) about them must be open.</span></span></span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Presenters</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Dr. Cable Green works with open education, science and research communities to leverage open licensing, content, practices and policies to expand equitable access and contributions to open knowledge. His work is focused on identifying complex problems (e.g., UN SDGs) where open knowledge is a critical part of the solution, and then opening that knowledge to help solve the problem. Cable is also a leading advocate for open licensing and procurement policies that ensure publicly funded education, science and research resources are freely and openly available to the public. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Monica Granados is the Open Climate Campaign Manager for a multi-year campaign to open knowledge about the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity. Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, is one of the world&#8217;s most pressing challenges. If we are going to solve these global challenges, the knowledge (research, data, educational resources, software) about them must be open.<br />
</span><strong>Link to presentation: </strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1soFddKvrarTIZCJZ2_P3lHy1kbE92ejuowrNcFLSj1M/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-rich-links="{&quot;fple-t&quot;:&quot;The Open Climate Campaign: opening access to climate and biodiversity knowledge (CC Open Education Lightning Talk)&quot;,&quot;fple-u&quot;:&quot;https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1soFddKvrarTIZCJZ2_P3lHy1kbE92ejuowrNcFLSj1M/edit?usp=sharing&quot;,&quot;fple-mt&quot;:&quot;application/vnd.google-apps.punch&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;first-party-link&quot;}">The Open Climate Campaign: opening access to climate and biodiversity knowledge (CC Open Education Lightning Talk)</span></a></li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p><b>“Building OER into Capstone Courses” by Carolyn Stevenson</b></p></blockquote>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summary: Integrating OER into undergraduate and graduate capstone courses offers the opportunity to serve learners across disciplines. The Professional Studies degrees are competency-based, allow learners to craft their own individualized learning plan, and use OER as a cost-effective means for providing learning resources.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Presenter: Carolyn has 20+ plus years experience in online learning and is currently University Faculty for Purdue University Global, USA.</span>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nw3kXAjayHt527ZHvy4-LMij_Tv051KW/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=112674977982204731378&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PPT</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ch0uOBi5W_eIbYPfSLZz5BDNyu4dcDFZ/edit"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PPT with Audio recording</span></a></li>
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<blockquote><p><b>“Improve It Challenge” by Jamison Miller</b></p></blockquote>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summary: </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lumen Learning’s Improve It Challenge grant program invites anyone and everyone to engage in the continuous improvement of open educational resources. First, Jamison shared how Lumen uses data to identify learning outcomes in Lumen courses where students across the U.S. are struggling. He then explained the Lumen grant program, beginning with how people can apply. Small grants are awarded to individuals with compelling proposals to revise / remix / create new learning activities aligned with these difficult outcomes. If A/B testing demonstrates that the updated learning activities significantly improve student learning, grantees receive a 10x bonus award!</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Presenter</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Jamison is the Director, Research Communication at Lumen Learning. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dxgYf6sO-zf7mWKKc5hyjHgyC1-V-uhUbz3VSr1XC5A/edit?usp=sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slides</span></a></li>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65716
title: Sharing Matters: What We’ve Learned at Creative Commons
uri: Sharing-Matters-What-We-ve-Learned-at-Creative-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/10/sharing-matters-what-weve-learned-at-creative-commons/
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<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-65719 size-full" src="media/761bc56d.image-1024x536-1-e1660153230857.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image-1024x536-1-e1660153230857.png" alt="Icon of the world globe on an orange background" width="1024" height="399" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image-1024x536-1-e1660153230857.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image-1024x536-1-e1660153230857-300x117.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image-1024x536-1-e1660153230857-768x299.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image-1024x536-1-e1660153230857-103x40.png 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image-1024x536-1-e1660153230857-50x19.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/image-1024x536-1-e1660153230857-270x105.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sharing matters. Thanks to the digital revolution, we share things like never before, from scientific research to family photos, from day-to-day life to college courses — and all instantaneously. The variety and volume of sharing today was unimaginable even just a decade ago. Now social media and publishing platforms, smartphones, cheap data, and expanded internet access have enabled more sharing, both in forms that bring us joy and connection, and in the spread of lies, hate and misinformation. Our digital life reflects human nature in all its complexity, highlighting both the good and the bad.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All this sharing has created a flood of new copyrighted works — practically everyone is now a published author, many times over, when we think of all our social media postings — but is the current copyright paradigm working in our interest?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright law is a strand of intellectual property law that affects us all, helping decide what we can read, listen to, watch and share online. It impacts creators, innovators and users of content. We all agree that creators should be fairly rewarded for their works. The economic argument that stronger protection for authors’ rights will inevitably lead to more gains for individual creators may appear convincing in the abstract. However, in practice, the economic argument doe</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">s not turn out to be persuasive, because extending copyright terms from a few decades to life plus 70 years has not materially increased earnings for the majority of individual creators. Instead, it has generated greater monopolies, benefiting select corporations whose profit motives lift only a few star players. The vast majority of creators do not experience the benefits of the current copyright system first hand. When culture is paywalled, rented and held for profit, when knowledge is locked away, when our libraries are threatened and educators diminished, there’s a chill cast on how our society interoperates, and ultimately on the health of our democracy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Onerous copyright rules, benefiting the few and not the many, obstruct our access to culture, the knowledge we share, and the society we care about. In order to empower individual creators and safeguard our democracy, Creative Commons (CC) has developed an alternative system to the onerous all rights reserved copyright rules, enabling a comm</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ons of knowledge and culture which is freely accessible to everyone, everywhere. We offer a set of open licenses and public domain tools free for anyone to use — a new system where creators get to make their own choices about which rights they want to keep and which rights they want to share. By making their own choices for sharing, creators can reach new and expanded audiences, and people across the planet can access works and ideas to build new creations. Our licenses are now the global standard for sharing content, for creators, researchers, educators, librarians, archivists and governments.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As CC celebrates 20 years of facilitating the sharing of content across the planet, it is important to reflect on what we have learne</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">d.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Firstly, our strategic shift away from sharing just for sharing’s sake to working for </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, helps us address the careful balance between sharing that is in the public interest, and sharing which is not. This is important at a time when all the benefits that the internet has brought to us seem to be so quickly forgotten, and the predominant narrative is around “harm” rather than public interest. At CC, we want to shift this narrative back to the importance of why sharing matters and how we can do it better. This is why we are an organizing partner in the nascent </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/22/introducing-the-better-internet-series/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Better Internet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> movement, and are actively advocating around the world to ensure that human values and public interest are front and center in our online world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Secondly, time and time again, we see digital public infrastructure and goods taken for granted. At a time when the public interest often stan</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">ds in direct contrast to the commercial interest of the creative industries and large tech firms, we need public investment in the structures that underpin the open commons. If we are not careful, the internet will be just a collection of those company towns, where you get paid in company scrip, can only buy from the company store, and only hear the company line and see the company viewpoint. With democracy already in a fragile state and open societies threatened, we need investment in the infrastructure that protects the public interest. Creative Commons is part of this public infrastructure. Without it, we will be poorer, less open and less democratic.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thirdly, CC needs to be better at publicizing and promoting our work, to reach more people, so that our tools and services can be used to help expand the open commons of knowledge and culture even further. Our impact dwarfs our resources. Even though people use the open commons daily, the vast majority of the public have never heard of CC, or if they have, they are either surprised there is an organization behind the licenses at all, or they think that we are the size of Wikimedia — when in reality CC has a staff of 20, and Wikimedia over 550. We at CC recognize this challenge, and this is why we are already working with our existing network to build a new community of young and emerging leaders who can carry the torch of open knowledge and culture forward into the future.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_64593" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64593" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64593" src="media/58e0566e.atherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-267x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-267x300.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="336" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-267x300.jpeg 267w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-768x861.jpeg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-36x40.jpeg 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-45x50.jpeg 45w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-138x155.jpeg 138w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1.jpeg 913w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64593" class="wp-caption-text"><span class="il">Catherine</span><span> Stihler&#8221; by </span><a href="https://martinshields.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://martinshields.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660240653462000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0cDC6iTlmI7QbJFSuo01pD">Martin Shields</a><span> is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660240653462000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0cg0XADaOF-GFxHSDQLwbU">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, the world we live in today is different from the one when CC was first created. Looking forward, as I mark my 2nd anniversary at CC, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I see our challenges and opportunities are to recognize and consolidate the impact we’ve made in supporting the growth of the commons, but also to continue that impact in this emerging era of AI, big data, and web3 to effect positive change in our world. We have reshaped the copyright regime in 20 years, becoming the global standard for open content sharing. Now we stand at the cusp of the next 20 years, encountering new places and spaces for dialogue, and championing a new generation of practitioners and advocates, but most importantly, continuing to build a commons of knowledge and culture that is accessible to everyone, everywhere. I look forward to working with you all to make this vision a reality.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65714
title: Open Minds Podcast: Sam Williams of Arweave
uri: Open-Minds-Podcast-Sam-Williams-of-Arweave
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/11/open-minds-podcast-sam-williams-of-arweave/
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<figure id="attachment_65717" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65717" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-65717" src="media/84f032bf.SamWilliams.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SamWilliams.png" alt="Headshot of of Sam Williams" width="310" height="310" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SamWilliams.png 310w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SamWilliams-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SamWilliams-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SamWilliams-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SamWilliams-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SamWilliams-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 310px) 85vw, 310px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65717" class="wp-caption-text">Courtesy of Sam Williams</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hi Creative Commoners! We are back with a new episode of CC’s </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Minds … from Creative Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> podcast. On this episode, CC’s Chief Operating Officer, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/annacreativecommons-org/">Anna Tumadóttir</a>, sits down for an interesting conversation with <a href="https://twitter.com/samecwilliams">Sam Williams</a>, the co-founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.arweave.org/">Arweave</a>, the company that created the Arweave protocol, a permanent archive of human knowledge and experiences on a blockchain. Creative Commons licenses are the first set of licensing standards to be deployed on Arweave. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam has been immersed in open source since he was a kid, and started learning to code when he was nine. So it&#8217;s no surprise that now he&#8217;s passionate about building innovative software and solving complex problems in computer networking, and has built extensive experience in real-world mechanism design and implementation. When he&#8217;s not working on Arweave, Sam actively participates in the decentralized web space as technical advisor and mentor of blockchain projects.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65747
uri: A-Big-Win-for-Open-Access-United-States-Mandates-All-Publicly-Funded
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/26/a-big-win-for-open-access/
title:
A Big Win for Open Access: United States Mandates All Publicly Funded Research Be Freely Available with No Embargo

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<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-51719" src="media/fb0c93cb.open-access-logo-300x122.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/open-access-logo-300x122.png" alt="An orange open padlock icon sandwiched by the words open and access." width="300" height="122" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/open-access-logo-300x122.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/open-access-logo-768x312.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/open-access-logo-1024x416.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/open-access-logo-99x40.png 99w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/open-access-logo-50x20.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/open-access-logo-270x110.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/open-access-logo-1200x487.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/open-access-logo.png 1498w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />Today the United States White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued dramatic <a href="media/83fb4524.08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf">guidance</a> to all US federal agencies: update all policies to require that all federally funded research and data is available for the public to freely access and re-use “in agency-designated repositories without any embargo or delay after publication.”</p>
<p>Creative Commons celebrates this big news along with the wider open community that we have worked with for so long to ensure publicly funded resources are freely available and openly licensed (or dedicated to the public domain) by default. The public deserves to have uninhibited, equitable and immediate access to use and re-use the research, data, educational resources, software and other content it funds. Our collective ability to create and share digital public goods to create a better world requires it. This new OSTP guidance realizes essential elements of that vision.</p>
<p>Importantly, this memo removes the current 12-month embargo period for access to federally funded research, and it makes the research data openly available in machine readable formats. All US agencies have up to three years to fully implement their updated policies, including ending the optional 12-month embargo. See OSTP’s two blog posts for more detail on this historic announcement (<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/ostp-issues-guidance-to-make-federally-funded-research-freely-available-without-delay/">1</a> / <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/breakthroughs-for-alldelivering-equitable-access-to-americas-research/">2</a>).</p>
<blockquote><p>This action is in line with the <a href="https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science/recommendation">UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science</a> and brings the US Government in line with other governments who have established open access policies and principles to ensure their public investments support the public good.</p></blockquote>
<p>The US government spends over $80 billion each year funding research in order to cure diseases, mitigate climate change, advance green energy, and more. Governments around the world do the same. Yet the copyright to publicly funded research is often turned over to commercial journals, placed behind paywalls, and then sold back to the public which has already paid for it. This model has always been unacceptable, and the need for governments to ask commercial journals to provide temporary open access to COVID-19 and monkeypox research has made it even more so.</p>
<p>Beyond systematically opening access to existing knowledge, the OSTP memo also requires US federal agencies to expand who contributes to new knowledge. As <a href="https://sparcopen.org/our-work/2022-updated-ostp-policy-guidance/fact-sheet-white-house-ostp-memo-on-ensuring-free-immediate-and-equitable-access-to-federally-funded-research/">our colleagues at SPARC explain</a>, the guidance “asks agencies to take measures to reduce inequities in both the publishing of and access to federally funded research publications and data, especially among individuals from underserved backgrounds and those who are early in their careers.”</p>
<p>Working to establish inclusive, just and equitable knowledge is at the heart of CC’s strategy to go beyond just sharing to enable <em>better sharing</em>. If we want to solve the world’s most pressing problems, knowledge about and contributions to those problems must be open. How can we possibly come up with global solutions for climate change, cancer, poverty, clean water and more if everyone is not able to access and contribute to the research, data and educational resources about these challenges? Answer: we cannot.</p>
<p>This OSTP policy memo is a significant win for open access research, and we hope more national governments around the world implement similar open policies. This is a critical step toward the scientific knowledge sharing model we all need, and there is more work to do. If we want to move beyond mere access and towards better sharing of the knowledge we collectively produce and use, we need to work toward (1) open licensing to ensure open re-use rights, and (2) community owned and managed public knowledge infrastructure.</p>
<h2>Open Re-Use Rights</h2>
<p>CC has, for 20 years, called for open access research policies that require the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY license</a> on research articles, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a> on the research data, and a zero embargo period. The OSTP memo does not specifically call for open licensing, but instead indicates agency plans should describe: “The circumstances or prerequisites needed to make the publications freely and publicly available by default, including any use and re-use rights, and which restrictions, including attribution, may apply.” While this is a good start, CC looks forward to working with the <a href="media/b5c7ca39.08-2022-SOS-NSTC-CHARTER.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-SOS-NSTC-CHARTER.pdf">​Subcommittee on Open Science</a> (which will decide which agency public access plans are compliant with the new guidance) and to provide direct support to US agencies on best practices for open licensing and attribution as they update their public access plans.</p>
<h2>Public Knowledge Infrastructure</h2>
<p>As the scholarly research community and libraries continue to struggle with high subscription fees and/or expensive article processing charges (APCs), Diamond Open Access is emerging as an interesting model for ensuring inclusive and equitable access to both read and submit research articles to community / academic owned and maintained open infrastructure. CC recently endorsed the <a href="https://www.scienceeurope.org/our-resources/action-plan-for-diamond-open-access/">Action Plan for Diamond Open Access</a>. CC looks forward to partnering with governments, civil society organizations and researchers to examine and redesign unjust, inequitable knowledge systems, and guide open communities to new, equitable open knowledge models that are designed for the public good. We’ll be writing more about Diamond Open Access and Diamond Open Education models in future posts.</p>
<p>As we continue to work toward fully open re-use rights in every country and global public knowledge infrastructure, Creative Commons congratulates the Biden-Harris Administration for their ongoing leadership on this critical policy issue. CC stands ready to support OSTP and US agencies as they update and implement their open access policies over the coming years. For support from Creative Commons, please contact: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/contact/">Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Knowledge</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65759
title: CC Partners with SPARC and EIFL to Launch a 4-Year Open Climate Campaign
uri: CC-Partners-with-SPARC-and-EIFL-to-Launch-a-4-Year-Open-Climate-Campai
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https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/30/cc-partners-with-sparc-and-eifl-to-launch-a-4-year-open-climate-campaign/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-65760" src="media/d361a8bd.OCC-300x170.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OCC-300x170.png" alt="" width="400" height="226" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OCC-300x170.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OCC-1024x579.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OCC-768x434.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OCC-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OCC-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OCC-270x153.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OCC-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/OCC.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px" />To make open sharing of research outputs the norm in climate science, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://sparcopen.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SPARC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.eifl.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">EIFL</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are proud to launch a 4-year </span><a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Climate Campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with funding from</span><a href="https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> which builds on planning funds from the </span><a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Society Foundations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, is one of the world&#8217;s most pressing challenges. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the existence of climate change and the resulting loss of biodiversity is certain, knowledge and data about these global challenges and the possible solutions, mitigations and actions to tackle them are too often not publicly accessible.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many researchers, governments, and global environmental organizations recognize the importance of sharing research openly to accelerate progress, but lack cohesive strategies and mechanisms to facilitate effective knowledge sharing and collaboration across disciplinary and geographic borders.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the COVID-19 crisis, the power of open access to democratize knowledge sharing, accelerate discovery, promote research collaboration, and bring together the efforts of global stakeholders to tackle the pandemic took center stage, as scientists embraced the immediate, open sharing of preprints, research articles, data and code. This adoption of openness contributed to the rapid sequencing and sharing of the virus’s genome, the quick development of therapeutics, and the fastest development of effective vaccines in human history. The lessons learned during the pandemic can and should be applied to accelerate progress on other urgent problems facing our society.</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><b><i>We now have the opportunity to take open access lessons learned from the COVID-19 experience, and intentionally craft a coordinated campaign to apply it to an equally essential challenge — climate change.</i></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When knowledge about climate change and biodiversity is not freely and openly available to all, only part of humanity is able to help build on that knowledge. When only some people are able to contribute to that knowledge, new insights and possible solutions are missing. When the data that supports research is inaccessible, scientists cannot fully assess or replicate results. Addressing a challenge as dramatic as the climate crisis and its effects on global biodiversity will require that everything we know is available to everyone to understand and augment. The Campaign will go beyond just sharing climate and biodiversity knowledge, to expand the inclusive, just and equitable knowledge policies and practices that enable </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This global Open Climate Campaign will:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bring attention to the issue of access to knowledge on climate change particularly to researchers who are producing the knowledge and informing them of tools that can open their research outputs.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work directly with national governments, funders and environmental organizations to identify legal and policy barriers; help governments create, adopt, implement equitable open access policies to overcome them; and make it easier to open and share their climate change research, data and educational resources.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify, engage, and contribute to draft international frameworks to include funder open access policy recommendations, and promote the public benefits of open access knowledge.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify important existing climate and biodiversity research publications not already open access, and unbind those seminal publications to make them open access.</span>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will also explore tactics to facilitate changes in publisher actions to ensure future climate and biodiversity research is open access.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engage with researchers, universities and policy makers from traditionally excluded groups and geographical regions to ensure inclusive outcomes throughout.</span></li>
</ul>
<p>We look forward to mobilizing researchers, national governments, funders and environmental organizations by providing them with direct, hands-on support to open access to knowledge about climate change and biodiversity preservation.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC, SPARC and EIFL are already succeeding at helping national governments adopt open access policies to share knowledge with the public. On 26 August, the U.S. Government published new guidance for all federal agencies to make all publicly funded research and related data fully open immediately upon publication (read posts about the US announcement from </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/26/a-big-win-for-open-access/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://sparcopen.org/news/2022/taxpayers-to-get-immediate-access-to-publicly-funded-research/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SPARC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). The Open Climate Campaign will support more policy work like this, with more national governments, funders and environmental organizations, to foster the knowledge sharing policies and practices we need to empower everyone to learn about and contribute to climate change and biodiversity solutions.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To learn more about the Open Climate Campaign or to connect, please visit the Open Climate Campaign </span><a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/30/press-release-new-four-year-4-million-open-climate-campaign-will-open-knowledge-to-solve-challenges-in-climate-and-biodiversity/">Read the press release</a> of the Campaign’s launch.</p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/30/cc-partners-with-sparc-and-eifl-to-launch-a-4-year-open-climate-campaign/">CC Partners with SPARC and EIFL to Launch a 4-Year Open Climate Campaign</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65766
uri: Press-Release-New-Four-Year-4-Million-Open-Climate-Campaign-Will-Op
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/30/press-release-new-four-year-4-million-open-climate-campaign/
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Press Release: New Four-Year, $4 Million Open Climate Campaign Will Open Knowledge to Solve Challenges in Climate and Biodiversity

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<p><strong>Mountain View, CA 30 Aug 2022:</strong> Creative Commons, SPARC and EIFL today announce a new 4-year, $4-million (USD) grant from <a href="https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/">Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin</a>, to fund the <a href="http://www.openclimatecampaign.org">Open Climate Campaign</a>.</p>
<p>This grant, which builds on $450,000 (USD) in planning funds from the Open Society Foundations, will fund a four-year campaign to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity by promoting open access to research.</p>
<p>“While the reality of climate change and the resulting loss of biodiversity is certain, the research about these global challenges and the possible actions to tackle them are too often not publicly accessible. In order to solve these pressing problems, the knowledge about them must be made immediately and freely open to all,” said Heather Joseph, Executive Director at SPARC.</p>
<p>“The Campaign has assembled experts from across the fields of climate change, biodiversity, open science, scholarly publishing and open education to develop a campaign that we believe will lead to the open sharing of research outputs as the norm for researchers, governments, funders and environmental organizations,” said Rima Kupryte, Director at Electronic Information for Libraries.</p>
<p>The Campaign will:</p>
<ul>
<li>Bring attention to the issue of access to knowledge on climate change and biodiversity.</li>
<li>Work directly with national governments, funders and environmental organizations to create open access policies and make it easier to share their climate change content.</li>
<li>Identify, engage and contribute to draft international frameworks to include open access policy recommendations.</li>
<li>Identify important existing climate and biodiversity research publications not already open access and help them move to open access where possible. We will also explore tactics to facilitate changes in publisher actions to ensure climate and biodiversity research is open access.</li>
<li>Engage with researchers, universities and policy makers in traditionally excluded geographical regions to ensure inclusive outcomes throughout.</li>
</ul>
<p>“Climate change is the most pressing global challenge facing humanity. When research and data are closed behind paywalls and people are excluded from the conversation, progress is stifled and we all lose out. This campaign will ensure inclusive, just and equitable access to the essential knowledge we will all need to fight the climate crisis,” said Catherine Stihler, CEO at Creative Commons.</p>
<p>“OSF is thrilled to partner with the Arcadia Fund to support Creative Commons, SPARC, and EIFL, global leaders of the open access movement, to launch the Open Climate Campaign. The quick response from the international research and publishing communities to make all research on COVID-19, and now monkeypox, openly available, demonstrates that to properly address the world’s greatest challenges, research needs to be open. OSF has called for all research to be made openly available, since we helped to define open access to research twenty years ago. I believe the Open Climate Campaign will serve as a model for opening research in other critical fields,” said Melissa Hagemann, Senior Program Officer at the Open Society Foundations.</p>
<p>More information can be found at <a href="http://openclimatecampaign.org">openclimatecampaign.org</a>.</p>
<h2>About</h2>
<p><strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a></strong><br />
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://sparcopen.org/">SPARC</a></strong><br />
SPARC is a non-profit advocacy organization that supports systems for research and education that are open by default and equitable by design.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.eifl.net/">EIFL</a></strong><br />
EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) works with libraries in Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe to enable access to knowledge for education, learning, research and sustainable community development.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/">Arcadia Fund</a></strong><br />
Arcadia is a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. It supports charities and scholarly institutions that preserve cultural heritage and the environment. Arcadia also supports projects that promote open access and all of its awards are granted on the condition that any materials produced are made available for free online. Since 2002, Arcadia has awarded more than $910 million to projects around the world.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/">Open Society Foundations</a></strong><br />
The Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, are the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.</p>
<p><strong>Media Contact</strong><br />
Nate Angell &lt;<a href="mailto:press@creativecommons.org">press@creativecommons.org</a>&gt;<br />
Director of Communications &amp; Community<br />
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65772
title: Open Minds Podcast: Trudi Radtke on InclusiveAccess.org
uri: Open-Minds-Podcast-Trudi-Radtke-on-InclusiveAccess-org
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/06/open-minds-podcast-trudi-radtke-on-inclusiveaccess-org/
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<figure id="attachment_65773" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65773" style="width: 250px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-65773" src="media/366e9aa3.Small-thumbnail-file_1.6MB-200x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Small-thumbnail-file_1.6MB-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="375" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Small-thumbnail-file_1.6MB-200x300.jpg 200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Small-thumbnail-file_1.6MB-27x40.jpg 27w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Small-thumbnail-file_1.6MB-33x50.jpg 33w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Small-thumbnail-file_1.6MB-103x155.jpg 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Small-thumbnail-file_1.6MB.jpg 418w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65773" class="wp-caption-text">Photo Courtesy of Trudi Radtke</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hi Creative Commoners! We are back with a new episode of CC’s </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Minds … from Creative Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> podcast. In this month&#8217;s episode of the show, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/jennryncreativecommons-org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jennryn Wetzler</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CC&#8217;s Director of Learning and Training, talks all things Open Education and Inclusive Access Textbooks with </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/trudi-radtke-967939173"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trudi Radtke</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, former Open Education Project Manager at </span><a href="https://sparcopen.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SPARC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.inclusiveaccess.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">InclusiveAccess.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a community-driven initiative that launched in 2021 to raise awareness of the facts about automatic textbook billing. The initiative was developed by SPARC with generous support from the </span><a href="https://20mm.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michelson 20MM Foundation</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> and Creative Commons is one of the partners. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode was recorded in June 2022, when Trudi Radtke was the Open Education Project Manager at SPARC. In this role, they spearheaded advocacy and implementation for initiatives to make education more open and equitable, including InclusiveAccess.org. Prior to working at SPARC, Trudi was an Education Technology Specialist, OER Specialist and open consultant in the California community college system. As an Open and OER consultant, they have assisted in the creation of over 120 open textbooks and several Z-Degree pathways. Trudi is passionate about Open and has advocated for OER at the state, regional, and international levels.</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Episode transcript: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Trudi-Radtke-on-InclusiveAccess.org_.txt">Text</a> // <a href="media/c32d6254.Trudi-Radtke-on-InclusiveAccess.org_.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Trudi-Radtke-on-InclusiveAccess.org_.pdf">PDF</a> // <a href="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Trudi-Radtke-on-InclusiveAccess.org_.docx">Doc</a></b></li>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65833
title: New FAQ on NFTs and CC0
uri: New-FAQ-on-NFTs-and-CC0
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/09/new-faq-on-nfts-and-cc0/
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<p>Unless you’ve been avoiding the internet entirely, you’ve probably heard about people buying and selling non-fungible tokens — or NFTs — unique data tokens that link to digital files, including artworks and other types of copyrightable works.</p>
<p>CC has been following how people are creating and trading NFTs, and how the marketplace of creative works is transforming. We keep seeing NFTs linked to works published with CC’s open licenses or the CC0 public domain dedication — so often that CC0 NFTs have their own hashtag: #cc0summer. We know that there are many in the CC community trying to figure out how CC tools interact with NFTs — as are many others who are hearing about CC for the first time as they explore NFTs.</p>
<p>While we always welcome contributions to the public commons, we want to ensure everyone understands how these new tools and practices might align with our legal tools and the global open commons that CC legal tools enable. Having spoken with some NFT artists and platform team members, we know there is widespread misunderstanding about what a CC license or CC0 dedication means. When a CC license or CC0 is used to share a work, the rights to reuse that work are widely or completely shared, with limited or no rights reserved.</p>
<p>To help clarify how NFTs are already leveraging CC legal tools, we have added a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/cc-and-nfts/">new section to our FAQ</a> on using CC licenses and the CC0 public domain dedication with NFTs. This FAQ is intended to provide basic guidance for those who are already using NFTs and want to know how to use CC licenses and legal tools with NFT projects. We will continue to update our FAQ as our understanding and interpretation develops.</p>
<p>CC’s licenses and legal tools are intentionally general-purpose: we designed them to be applicable to a wide variety of contexts and works. While some may believe NFTs are a special case that call for new copyright licenses, we believe CC licenses and CC0 work well to contribute works to the public commons when used with NFTs. NFTs may introduce new relationships around who holds the rights to related works and how such rights are transferred as NFTs change hands, but those are contractual questions best handled outside open licenses or a release to the public domain.</p>
<p>If your creative work is linked to an NFT, you may apply one of the existing CC licenses or CC0 to let others know how they may share and reuse your work, separate from the ownership of a related token. And where this is used with intention, there are many possibilities for vibrant sharing and reuse where these works are in the public commons, with the ownership of the rights completely removed from the ownership of the token.</p>
<p>We are aware of other efforts in the space, including some that say they are inspired by CC’s work but are incompatible with the material already available in the commons. (In particular, some of the licenses recently produced by a16z, which claim direct inspiration but were not developed in consultation with CC.) While the approach may be similar, the effect is different: the terms of most of these licenses are incompatible with the CC licenses and with most other free and open content licenses; users of these terms will find that their works are remixable only within the narrow space of others using the same terms, rather than the much broader spectrum of works using the CC licenses and compatible licenses. This is not true of all other licensing efforts: some simply add terms about the sale and transfer of the token as an addition to a CC license or public domain release.</p>
<p>NFTs, and the distributed web movement they are a part of, are new and still evolving. NFTs are also hotly debated. We know many in the CC community embrace NFTs as a new way to support and enable creators. Many others offer strong and convincing criticism. Whatever your opinions about NFTs, CC licenses and the CC0 dedication are being used widely in conjunction with NFTs and works they reference. CC has a responsibility to our mission and our community to clarify how our work connects to these emerging tools and practices. At CC we are watching closely, focused on how NFTs may help or hinder <em>better sharing</em>: sharing that is inclusive, just and equitable — where everyone has wide opportunity to access content, to contribute their own creativity, and to receive recognition and rewards for their contributions.</p>
<p>Please read and share the more detailed discussion <a href="https://creativecommons.org/cc-and-nfts/">in our FAQ</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65841
title: Members share their experiences with the CC Open Culture Platform
uri: Members-share-their-experiences-with-the-CC-Open-Culture-Platform
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/12/members-share-their-experiences-with-the-cc-open-culture-platform/

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<p>Do you know about the <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/">Creative Commons Open Culture Platform</a>?</p>
<p>It’s a space for open culture and cultural heritage practitioners, advocates, and enthusiasts to share resources, hold conversations, and collaborate on matters related to open access to cultural heritage, especially heritage held in galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs).</p>
<figure id="attachment_65845" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65845" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-65845 size-large" src="media/350c0937.Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-1024x576.jpg" alt="An illustration showing lots of human hands of various colors reaching together to hold up a glowing, multicolored ball." width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65845" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/better-together-stretch-your-hands" rel="cc:attributionURL">Better Together (Stretch Your Hands)</a> by <a href="https://thegreats.co/artists/ana-filipa-dos-santos-lopes" rel="cc:attributionURL dct:creator">Anna Lopes</a> is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1" target="_blank" rel="license noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>As we were curious about our members’ experience with the Platform, we recently asked a few of them to complete this sentence: “<strong>The CC Open Culture platform has been an opportunity for me to…</strong>” Here’s what they answered.</p>
<blockquote><p>“&#8230; work on critical cultural heritage issues together with a knowledgeable international community and get support and expertise in the setup of intangible heritage documentation projects in the Balkans.”<br />
— Mariana Ziku, Greece</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“&#8230; connect with a diverse community of open knowledge enthusiasts and to deepen my knowledge and understanding of the Creative Commons licenses and the open movement community in general.”<br />
— Sadik Shahadu, Ghana</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“&#8230; keep up to date with the open culture movement and contribute my expertise to other members of the group.”<br />
— Maarten Zeinstra, Netherlands</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“&#8230; learn about practices across countries and institutions that I would otherwise not come across, and meet potential allies for collaborating in the development of future policy efforts.”<br />
— Ariadna Matas, France</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“&#8230; engage with likeminded people from different parts of the world, and improve my understanding of cultural heritage outside of a formal education system. It has equipped me with advocacy skills in working with GLAM institutions and professionals in Nigeria.”<br />
— Isaac Oloruntimilehin, Nigeria</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“&#8230; explore new ideas and learn from people across the globe.”<br />
— Jesse Carson, Canada</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“&#8230; meet people with relevant experiences and interests to discuss a specific matter and learn a lot.”<br />
— Tomoaki Watanabe, Japan</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“&#8230; meet people from all over the world who are generous with their time, knowledge and experiences, and improve my cross-cultural communication skills.”<br />
— Revekka Kefalea, Greece</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“&#8230; share my ideas and experience in international copyright law and open my views based on the ideas and experience from other participants.”<br />
— Deborah De Angelis, Italy</p></blockquote>
<h2>Do you also want to get involved? Don’t hesitate!</h2>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Become a <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMXU5Sb6ATDZx-alTvf9DCfs3jzDlX-AKCY7sowjb3vqW0HA/viewform">member</a> of the CC Open Culture Platform</li>
<li aria-level="1">Sign up to the CC Open Culture <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-open-culture">mailing list</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Join our <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-eIY9DvVT4VcLIHfSeVSANBpTuDdstLMWSI2huW6k7CILWQ/viewform">Open Culture working groups</a></li>
<li aria-level="1">Join the <a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/archives/C57MTL8F7">#cc-openglam</a> Slack channel</li>
<li aria-level="1">Participate in CC Open Culture Platform calls — they are announced in the Slack channel and on the mailing list</li>
</ul>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65847
title: Open Office Hours with CC’s Legal Team
uri: Open-Office-Hours-with-CC-s-Legal-Team
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/12/open-office-hours-with-ccs-legal-team/
content:
<figure id="attachment_65850" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65850" style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-65850" src="media/043792dc.Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up-1024x576.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up-1024x576.jpg" alt="Close up photograph of a vintage telephone switchboard, showing cables plugged into numbered sockets." width="400" height="225" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Telephone-Switchboard-Close-up.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65850" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/23183960@N00/32047358090" rel="cc:attributionURL">Telephone Switchboard Close-up</a> by <a href="http://www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com" rel="cc:attributionURL dct:creator">Jeff Sullivan</a> is licensed under <a style="display: inline-block;" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1" target="_blank" rel="license noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Come join CC&#8217;s legal team for open office hours. Everyone is invited to meet with <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/katwalshcreativecommons-org/">General Counsel Kat Walsh</a> and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/xucreativecommons-org/">Counsel Yuanxiao Xu</a> to discuss legal issues related to CC licenses, CC0, and open sharing in general.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll start off with a few minutes talking about CC and some current topics and then open the floor for anything you&#8217;d like to chat about. As usual, CC will not be able to offer specific legal advice.</p>
<p>This is a casual conversation session, and there is no formal presentation — what we talk about is entirely up to you. We want to hear the questions that <a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/">our FAQs</a> have never really answered, what you&#8217;d like to see CC doing, the interesting resources you&#8217;ve found, the issues that you&#8217;re seeing as you try to share and reuse works, how you&#8217;re using and interacting with CC licenses and legal tools, and more. Or just a chat to get to know more of you in the CC community!</p>
<p>Our first office hours session will be on Friday, 16 September 2022 at 10am Pacific Time (17:00 UTC). <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqfuqsrD0vGdE5mNqIOsPdSN-Wbq7yZxnF">Register at any time</a> and get it on your calendar or <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqfuqsrD0vGdE5mNqIOsPdSN-Wbq7yZxnF">join us at the last moment</a> if your time frees up. If you can&#8217;t make this session, don&#8217;t worry, we are planning additional sessions on the third Friday of every month. Office hours will be held in Zoom to make it easier for the broadest possible community to participate.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/12/open-office-hours-with-ccs-legal-team/">Open Office Hours with CC&#8217;s Legal Team</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65875
title: Statement on the Introduction of the EU Media Freedom Act
uri: Statement-on-the-Introduction-of-the-EU-Media-Freedom-Act
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/16/statement-on-the-introduction-of-the-eu-media-freedom-act/
content:
<figure id="attachment_64219" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64219" style="width: 268px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-64219" src="media/59b0fc92.Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-268x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-268x300.jpg" alt="Headshot of Catherine Stihler, wearing a blue shawl standing in outside." width="268" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-268x300.jpg 268w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024.jpg 913w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-768x861.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-1370x1536.jpg 1370w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-36x40.jpg 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-45x50.jpg 45w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-138x155.jpg 138w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-1200x1346.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590.jpg 1523w" sizes="(max-width: 268px) 85vw, 268px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64219" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Catherine Stihler&#8221; by <a href="https://martinshields.com/">Martin Shields</a> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Creative Commons CEO Catherine Stihler welcomed the EU’s publication today of its <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5504">Media Freedom Act</a>.</p>
<p>Catherine said: “An independent, plural media is central to a healthy, functioning democratic system which in turn is the bedrock for citizens’ trust and confidence in politics and values. Creative Commons applauds the EU in its efforts to protect journalists from intimidation and to safeguard the independence of the editorial processes.</p>
<p>“As we explored in our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/14/journalism_series/">Open Journalism series</a> this year, nonprofit and public service media have a critical role to play in ensuring better sharing of information in the public interest, and we are grateful that the proposal focuses on the importance of a strong, independent public service media sector.</p>
<p>“In an ever more digitalized world, the protection of online content is vitally important. We welcome and support efforts to counter mis- and dis-information and will look in detail at the legal text in order to ensure that the provisions included on this are fit for purpose and do not, unintentionally, inhibit or restrict creativity and better sharing in the public interest.</p>
<p>“With that in mind, we do have concerns about provisions that could create loopholes for purveyors of harmful misinformation and undermine media pluralism. Under Article 17, large online platforms would be expected to give special, advance notice and consideration to media providers when it comes to removal or restriction of their content. Many groups (including Creative Commons) raised concerns about these same concepts when they were proposed and rejected as part of the debates over the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, in particular because they could require platforms to carry and give prominence to harmful content simply because an entity claims to be a media provider. Moreover, because large publishers are most likely to have the resources to engage with companies and regulators on enforcement of these tools, this provision may tilt the competitive playing field in their favor, cutting against the pluralistic goals of the Act to support publishers of every size. The Digital Services Act already provides opportunities for anyone to seek redress from a platform, and it is premature to reconsider the balance struck there.</p>
<p>“We will look in more detail at the legal texts and look forward to constructively contributing to the process as the EU develops this important framework. With war on the European continent, it is now more than ever obvious that urgent action needs to be taken to defend our values — media freedom is an essential part of that.</p>
<p>“In fact, around the globe, media freedom is in great peril. In March 2022, UNESCO published an alarming report titled <a href="https://www.unesco.org/en/world-media-trends">World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development</a>, which shows that 85% of the world population experienced a decline in press freedom in their country over the past five years. Guided by our organizational value of global inclusivity, Creative Commons will continue to uphold universal freedoms and the free flow of ideas for a free and democratic world.”</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/16/statement-on-the-introduction-of-the-eu-media-freedom-act/">Statement on the Introduction of the EU Media Freedom Act</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65881
title: CC at UN #GlobalGoalsWeek 2022
uri: CC-at-UN-GlobalGoalsWeek-2022
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/17/cc-at-un-globalgoalsweek-2022/
content:
<p>Want to build a fairer, more peaceful world? Creative Commons does and we are joining over 170 other organizations in New York City during 16–25 September to accelerate progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during 2022 <a href="https://globalgoalsweek.org/">#GlobalGoalsWeek</a>.</p>
<p>CC’s deep engagement with the SDGs comes from two of our fundamental beliefs: First, that the 17 SDGs identify the world’s biggest challenges, enabling us all to focus where we need to ensure a better future for all. And second, that we believe addressing these challenges requires that knowledge and culture about them need to be  open and accessible to all so we can solve them. When knowledge and culture are not freely and openly available, only part of humanity is able to learn about and contribute to solutions.</p>
<p>Opening knowledge and culture requires not only robust legal infrastructure for sharing — like CC’s open licenses and CC0 public domain dedication — but also intentional practices to support what we call better sharing:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Sharing that is inclusive, just and equitable — where everyone has wide opportunity to access content, to contribute their own creativity, and to receive recognition and rewards for their contributions.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Sharing that is reciprocal — where we rebalance the skewed world we live in now in which a few produce and profit from works that the many consume.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Sharing that is sustainable — where open participation in the public commons is the default rather than the exception.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Connect with CC in NYC During #GlobalGoalsWeek</h2>
<figure id="attachment_64593" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64593" style="width: 267px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64593 size-medium" src="media/58e0566e.atherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-267x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-267x300.jpeg" alt="Headshot of Catherine Stihler, wearing a blue shawl standing in outside." width="267" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-267x300.jpeg 267w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-768x861.jpeg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-36x40.jpeg 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-45x50.jpeg 45w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1-138x155.jpeg 138w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024-1.jpeg 913w" sizes="(max-width: 267px) 85vw, 267px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64593" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Catherine Stihler&#8221; by <a href="https://martinshields.com/">Martin Shields</a> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>On Friday 23 Sep, CC CEO Catherine Stihler Catherine will join Brewster Kahle, Founder &amp; Digital Librarian at the Internet Archive and Christopher Lewis, President and CEO at Public Knowledge to lead a workshop at <a href="https://live.unfinished.com/">Unfinished Live</a>: Want A Better World? Build A Better Internet, in an informal and intimate conversation about why they are initiating &#8220;a movement for a better internet,&#8221; and the public interest values that drive their work. Catherine is also a panelist on Tuesday, 20 Sep on <a href="https://gbbcouncil.org/event/blockchain-central-unga-2022/">Forging a More Equitable Internet</a> hosted by the Global Blockchain Business Council as part of Blockchain Central UNGA, and is a panelist on Wednesday 21 Sep on <a href="https://bciu.zohobackstage.com/EDUCATIONPanelDiscussionFocusedontheGreenEconomyandAcceleratingtheSkillsDevelopment">Incorporating Principles of Sustainability in the Future of Work</a> hosted by the Business Council for International Understanding.</p>
<figure id="attachment_56433" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-56433" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-56433" src="media/f8c5388e.cable-1-300x256.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cable-1-300x256.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="256" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cable-1-300x256.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cable-1-768x655.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cable-1-1024x874.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cable-1-47x40.jpg 47w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cable-1-50x43.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cable-1-182x155.jpg 182w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cable-1-1200x1024.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cable-1.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-56433" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Dr. Cable Green&#8221; by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/terburg/">Sebastiaan ter Burg</a> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Dr. Cable Green, CC’s Director of Open Knowledge will be attending UN meetings on Saturday 17 September: Effective Educational Ecosystems: Solutions for Open Digital Content (1:30–2:30pm ET <a href="https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1r/k1ra1lowuc">livestream</a>) and Transforming Education for Sustainable Development: Implementing the UNESCO OER Recommendation within Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (4:30–6:30pm ET <a href="https://media.un.org/en/asset/k14/k145zfkzvi">livestream</a>). Cable will also be attending additional meetings during the week, including the Ministerial Panel <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1drfinZF2NY4szYiF3gYCLWm-DWQhNpLU/view">Transforming education for prosperity, people and the planet</a>, the <a href="https://www.unsdsn.org/leadership-council">SDSN Leadership Council</a> session Tech Innovation for Education and Training, and The Brookings Institution symposium <a href="media/f958cee8.09-20-22-Brookings-Symposium_AgendaV2.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09-20-22-Brookings-Symposium_AgendaV2.pdf">Promises and perils of using new technologies to access, document, and credential learning in the digital age</a>.</p>
<h2>Engage with CC to Open Up Your Organization with Better Sharing</h2>
<p>We hope to connect with many people during GlobalGoalsWeek and all related events, but we know not everyone will be able to attend in person and everyone will be looking for ways to build on the energy and ideas generated by these extraordinary gatherings. We invite you to connect with CC more deeply to bring open and better sharing into your community and work.</p>
<p><strong>Looking for experts to speak on Creative Commons, open tools and practices, and better sharing?</strong> CC staff and community members are available to engage with your community and bring their expertise and experience to your organization, topics, and goals. <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/contact/">Tell us more about your event &gt;</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Need help bringing the power of openness to meet Sustainable Development Goals?</strong> CC works with organizations and governments all over the world to help them integrate tools and practices for open and better sharing into their work to meet the SDGs. <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/contact/">Start a conversation with CC &gt;</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Is your organization part of the Creative Commons Global Network?</strong> Join over 60 organizations from around the world who are dedicated to building the open commons and promoting better sharing in knowledge and culture. <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/contact/">Contact us to learn more about our global network &gt;</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Want to build your expertise in open practices?</strong> The CC Certificate program offers in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of sharing in our global, digital commons in three tracks: for educators, for academic librarians, and for professionals working in open culture and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums). <strong><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/">Certificate cohorts start on a rolling basis &gt;</a></strong></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65859
title: Better Internet for a Decentralized Web: Conversations from Camp
uri: Better-Internet-for-a-Decentralized-Web-Conversations-from-Camp
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/18/better-internet-for-a-decentralized-web-conversations-from-camp/

content:
<figure id="attachment_65866" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65866" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-65866 size-large" src="media/f64e6544.Better-Internet-1-1024x704.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1-1024x704.jpg" alt="Photo of flipchart with the words &quot;Better Internet&quot; on it from Dweb Camp, decentralized web conference at Camp Navarro, Navarro, CA" width="840" height="578" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1-768x528.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1-58x40.jpg 58w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1-50x34.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1-225x155.jpg 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1-1200x825.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65866" class="wp-caption-text">Photo is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Creative Commons, we’ve been thinking a lot about how open principles and public interest values intersect with the decentralized web movement, particularly in relation to broader, collaborative efforts to build a Better Internet. In the past year, we’ve worked with other digital human rights and tech policy organizations to power this emerging movement, focused on addressing </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the challenges and failings of dominant internet platforms. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the primary goals of the Better Internet movement is to develop an affirmative policy agenda that reflects public-interest values, championing technology that works for all. Any such agenda must be informed not only by these values, but also by the communities it intends to serve.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few weeks ago, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/">Catherine Stihler</a> and I had the opportunity to attend </span><a href="https://dwebcamp.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DWeb Camp</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a conference focused on the decentralized web that brings together a community of people around a </span><a href="https://getdweb.net/principles/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">set of collaboratively developed principles</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The camp was a mix of conference and extracurricular sessions with extremely diverse and rigorous programming, balanced by free time to enjoy the outdoors.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">❝ One of the primary goals of the Better Internet movement is to develop an affirmative policy agenda that reflects public-interest values, championing technology that works for all.</span></p></blockquote>
<figure id="attachment_65861" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65861" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-65861" src="media/a3a73240.IMG_1225-225x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1225-225x300.jpg" alt="Photo of flipchart with brainstorming on it from Dweb Camp, decentralized web conference at Camp Navarro, Navarro, CA" width="300" height="400" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1225-225x300.jpg 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1225-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1225-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1225-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1225-30x40.jpg 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1225-38x50.jpg 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1225-116x155.jpg 116w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1225-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1225-scaled.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65861" class="wp-caption-text">Photo is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While there, we hosted a workshop, alongside our peers from <a href="https://publicknowledge.org/">Public Knowledge</a>, focused on the values that might inform the building of a Better Internet. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">At this juncture, those active in the Better Internet movement are working to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">crystallize shared values about what constitutes “better” and how to get there. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We saw an opportunity to brainstorm with the DWeb community, who have led the charge in exploring and building alternatives to existing platforms and systems. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our ultimate goal is to produce a statement of values that underpins a broader public interest vision and a policy agenda for a Better Internet. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> But that doesn’t happen without learning, listening, and digging into some of the more challenging topics. The purpose of the workshop we hosted at DWeb Camp and the many informal conversations we had during our time there was to examine the role decentralization could play in achieving “better.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What would decentralization enable? </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the barriers or accelerators for the DWeb? </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">What challenges would it not address? What new issues might emerge?</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_65862" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65862" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-65862" src="media/c8e79342.2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479-300x200.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479-300x200.jpeg" alt="Photo of panel from Dweb Camp, decentralized web conference at Camp Navarro, Navarro, CA" width="350" height="233" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479-60x40.jpeg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479-50x33.jpeg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479-233x155.jpeg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-08-26-dweb-217_0479.jpeg 1560w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65862" class="wp-caption-text">Photo by <a class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Brad+Shirakawa+for+the+Internet+Archive%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Brad+Shirakawa+for+the+Internet+Archive%22" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true" aria-describedby="sk-tooltip-3780">Brad Shirakawa for the Internet Archive</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris Lewis, President &amp; CEO of <a href="https://publicknowledge.org/">Public Knowledge</a>, spoke about what it takes to build a shared vision for the internet, which respects the work of everyone in this fight. He talked through movement building, allyship, and the importance of collaborating with potential allies to make the gains that truly matter for broader society. Catherine and Chris joined Ross Schulman from the <a href="https://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)</a> in a panel discussion exploring broader matters of tech policy and collaboration, moderated by the <a href="https://fil.org/">Filecoin Foundation</a>’s Danny O’Brien.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What stood out to us the most during this camp was the sheer amount of energy and enthusiasm for building a better digital environment, where people have greater autonomy and ability to control their own presence and space.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is now a commonplace reference that Web1 was the web we read, Web2 is the web we read and write (albeit within walled gardens), and Web3 will be the web that we read, right, and own. Engaging with those building decentralized technology, though, we question this adage. In conversations with those who have focused on decentralization for the majority of their careers, it is clear that ideally future iterations of the web should actually be less about ownership and more about sharing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is why the CC licenses and public domain tools have a critical role to play in the development of these new technologies. Open sharing, reuse, and remix culture had a strong presence among creators in the early days of the web, when the CC licenses were integrated into popular platforms like Google, Bing, Flickr, and YouTube. This presence was diluted by the rise of social media and personal publication platforms (a.k.a. walled gardens), which did not integrate the open sharing ethos at the outset.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During our workshop at Dweb and throughout the camp, we repeatedly identified what societal challenges might benefit from the development of decentralized technologies, but also what it may hurt or hinder. Questions of privacy, autonomy, ownership, free expression — the list goes on. What is truly being “solved” by the decentralized web, and where are these new technologies overpromising, or too blunt an instrument?  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Folks generally shared a belief that the decentralized web will give users greater control, introduce and amplify new community structures, and has the potential to thwart monopolistic tendencies. However, there is a fear among some that history will repeat itself, and the safe and exciting spaces and platforms that develop will be overtaken by commercial interests and monopolies regardless. This does seem inevitable. Some systems will get more use than others. Some platforms will win over a larger user base. But ideally, we will see enough disparate platforms develop that users feel they have choice. There is evidently a need, and desire, for more natural gathering points, like the public squares in our cities and the parks in our neighborhoods — where the space may be less crowded, fostering greater community cohesion.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">❝ This is why the CC licenses and public domain tools have a critical role to play in the development of these new technologies.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the greatest challenges that currently faces these technologies is accessibility and the overall user experience. This is coupled with concerns around privacy. It isn’t lost on anyone that many of these emerging technologies are developing among broader societal tech pessimism, against a backdrop of cycles that oscillate between hype and scam. This gives many people pause about the potential that these technologies hold, and rightly so.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is among the many reasons why we think it is critical to ensure that open principles are adopted in the values layer of emerging technology </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">as they are being designed</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Legal open sharing empowers both the creator and the user, bringing clarity of rights and intentions. What we definitely do not need is a re-invention of every wheel that already exists. We should be able to look back and learn a lot, not just from our more recent explosive whistleblowers, but also further still. We should also not just build in a reactionary way. It is valid to try to fight surveillance and want to take back control, but in product design we have to peel back many, many layers and avoid the knee-jerk solutions that haven’t been deeply interrogated. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The spirit of cooperation and optimism was a continuous through-line in our conversations with folks at the camp. If we use this moment to look ahead, we should do so as well in the context of what we’ve already learned can work well.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a lot like parenting. You need to give your kid a high five for putting their socks on by themselves once in a while, so that you remember that these are the positives and achievements in our day, and not merely invisible and hidden gifts that we fail to appreciate. Let’s not just focus on the fact that somehow half their food ends up outside their plate after each meal. There are already things that are working, and there is ample opportunity to reimagine and improve that which is not, but there is no sense in re-creating the positive that already exists. We’d do so at the expense of global standards, like the CC legal tools, and we’d risk hindering the core principles of interoperability, without which open source technologies (and closed source, for that matter) would not thrive.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">❝ As CC</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> continues to engage with emerging technologies &#8230; we are guided by the fact that open principles will be critical to any new development of the web, and we need to ensure that our values are heard and reflected in the spaces where people are creating knowledge and building collaboratively.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One area in particular that we should continue to explore is around the balance between free expression and content moderation — especially as it relates to user safety and privacy. We anticipate working with those who are deep in this field as we determine the best balance to ensure free and open sharing remains unhindered, that better sharing is prioritized, but that users feel safe in their digital spaces and are protected from harms insofar as is possible. A world where someone can walk down their digital street and be free of harassment, but be able to express their opinion at the same time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As CC</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> continues to engage with emerging technologies — like those being built across the decentralized web, artificial intelligence tools, and beyond — we are guided by the fact that open principles will be critical to any new development of the web, and we need to ensure that our values are heard and reflected in the spaces where people are creating knowledge and building collaboratively.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the coming week, Creative Commons will be in New York for a variety of activities related to <a href="https://globalgoalsweek.org/">UN Global Goals week</a>, in addition to attending </span><a href="https://live.unfinished.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfinished Live</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fake-symposium-tickets-343200691507"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fake Symposium</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Engaging with creators, builders, academics and those who are steeped in these thorny issues is critical, as we continue to navigate the role of openness in these new spaces.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65901
title: UNESCO MONDIACULT2022: A Starting Point for Open Culture
uri: UNESCO-MONDIACULT2022-A-Starting-Point-for-Open-Culture
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/28/unesco-mondiacult2022-a-starting-point-for-open-culture/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-65903 alignright" src="media/a9a53bee.logo_mundiacult_mexico-300x124.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/logo_mundiacult_mexico-300x124.png" alt="" width="300" height="124" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/logo_mundiacult_mexico-300x124.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/logo_mundiacult_mexico-96x40.png 96w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/logo_mundiacult_mexico-50x21.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/logo_mundiacult_mexico-270x112.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/logo_mundiacult_mexico.png 627w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week, policymakers from around the world gather in Mexico for </span><a href="https://www.unesco.org/en/mondiacult2022"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MONDIACULT2022</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development, a critical event that is bound to shape the future of international cultural policies worldwide. In the lead-up to MONDIACULT2002, Creative Commons’ (CC) Brigitte Vézina delivered a keynote to the international forum “</span><a href="https://ccemx.org/evento/foro-internacional-digitalizar-en-comun-formas-distribuidas-de-propiedad-y-autoria-culturales-virtual/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digitalizar en común: formas distribuidas de propiedad y autoría culturales</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” organized by Creative Commons Mexico. </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ccemx.org/videos/426694442862904/?extid=WA-UNK-UNK-UNK-AN_GK0T-GK1C-GK2T"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watch the recording on Facebook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It was in 1982 that the </span><a href="media/0b07edfd.drets_culturals401.pdf" data-original-source="https://culturalrights.net/descargas/drets_culturals401.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mexico City Declaration on Cultural Policies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> defined a path for culture to become a fundamental pillar of development. 40 years on, culture now underpins all 17 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and calls are being made to make culture a sustainable development goal in itself. We agree with </span><a href="https://articles.unesco.org/en/articles/special-issue-ndeg5-countdown-mondiacult"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UNESCO</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that “culture is the bridge between peoples and countries&#8230; and the key to unlocking mutual understanding and reinforcing global action based human rights and respect for diversity.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, people everywhere are facing tremendous challenges in accessing, sharing, and (re)using culture, in large part due to unfit and outdated copyright rules. Culture is being locked away behind undue and unnecessary paywalls, entry and rental fees, or the walled-gardens of for-profit companies. Cultural heritage institutions too face difficulties in realizing their missions in the digital world. They struggle to conduct their legitimate activities, like digitizing collections to preserve them and make them available to the public. Furthermore, climate change, global health crises, and violent conflicts are posing great threats to culture and the institutions that make it accessible. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we promote </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">open</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> culture and aim to help cultural heritage institutions and their users make the most out of CC licenses and tools to open</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">up their collections online in the public interest. Many institutions have successfully harnessed CC tools to release nearly five million digital open images. But while our tools support global sharing of culture, they cannot erase all barriers. That’s why with our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/06/10/were-launching-the-cc-open-glam-program/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture Program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we work to drive global policy discussion in support of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better</span></i> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, i.e. sharing that is contextual, ethical, inclusive, sustainable, purposeful and prosocial: sharing that builds a commons of knowledge and culture that is just and that inspires reciprocity — a commons that serves the public interest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we look to UNESCO’s leadership to build momentum for </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">open culture</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and to champion </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. MONDIACULT offers an opportunity to rethink how policy can truly promote equitable access to culture, bolster creativity, and restore balance in a copyright system unfit for the digital age. With new technologies on the horizon, like artificial intelligence and blockchain-based conveyances, we need to build new models based on collaboration, freedom to reuse, and generative sharing of culture. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, more than ever, UNESCO and its Member States need to take action to protect the public domain and recalibrate copyright to support public interests in tune with the evolving sharing possibilities of our complex world. MONDIACULT 2022 is the starting point to explore how we can empower creators, liberate and celebrate culture as a global public good, and build a sustainable future for all. As the world of culture meets at MONDIACULT, with over 160 ministers and multiple actors of culture joining forces in México, let us reiterate our call: there is an urgent need to realize open culture for all.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65938
title: Open Minds Podcast: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker of Smarthistory
uri: Open-Minds-Podcast-Dr-Beth-Harris-and-Dr-Steven-Zucker-of-Smarthist
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https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/04/open-minds-podcast-dr-beth-harris-and-dr-steven-zucker-of-smarthistory/

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<figure id="attachment_65940" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65940" style="width: 349px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-65940" src="media/97490191.Beth-Steven.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Beth-Steven.jpg" alt="Photos of Dr. Beth Harris (left) and Dr. Steven Zucker (right)" width="349" height="250" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Beth-Steven.jpg 500w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Beth-Steven-300x215.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Beth-Steven-56x40.jpg 56w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Beth-Steven-50x36.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Beth-Steven-216x155.jpg 216w" sizes="(max-width: 349px) 85vw, 349px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65940" class="wp-caption-text">Photos courtesy of Dr. Beth Harris (left) and Dr. Steven Zucker (right)</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hi Creative Commoners! On this episode, we&#8217;re joined by art historians, <a href="https://smarthistory.org/author/dr-beth-harris/">Dr. Beth Harris </a>and <a href="https://smarthistory.org/author/dr-steven-zucker/">Dr. Steven Zucker</a>, the co-founders and executive directors of <a href="https://smarthistory.org/">Smarthistory</a>. Smarthistory is a center for public art history, with thousands of free and CC licensed videos and essays written by experts who want to share their knowledge with learners around the world. Previously, Beth was dean of art and history at <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/">Khan Academy</a> and director of digital learning at <a href="https://www.moma.org/">The Museum of Modern Art</a>. Before joining MoMA, Beth was Associate Professor of art history and director of distance learning at the <a href="https://www.fitnyc.edu/">Fashion Institute of Technology</a>, where she taught both online and in the classroom. Previously, Steven was dean of art and history at Khan Academy. He was chair of history of art and design at <a href="https://www.pratt.edu/">Pratt Institute</a>, where he strengthened enrollment and led renewal of curriculum across the Institute. Previously, he was dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY and chair of art history. He has taught at <a href="https://sva.edu/">The School of Visual Arts</a>, <a href="https://hunter.cuny.edu/">Hunter College</a>, and at The Museum of Modern Art.</span></p>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/04/open-minds-podcast-dr-beth-harris-and-dr-steven-zucker-of-smarthistory/">Open Minds Podcast: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker of Smarthistory</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65950
title: Join Us to Celebrate 20 Years of Creative Commons
uri: Join-Us-to-Celebrate-20-Years-of-Creative-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/05/join-us-to-celebrate-20-years-of-creative-commons/
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<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-65951" src="media/220f5752.b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02-300x169.png" alt="" width="400" height="225" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02-1024x577.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02-768x433.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02-1536x865.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02-1200x676.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/b83a3ba2-2ed0-11ed-b898-0a58a9feac02.png 1640w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During 2021–2022, CC has been </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/20-years/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">celebrating the 20th anniversary</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of our founding in 2001 and the first release of the CC licenses in 2002, successfully concluding an ambitious fundraising campaign to support programs like </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Climate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/education-oer/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Education</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and to help ensure CC’s ongoing sustainability.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In November 2022, CC will bring the 20th anniversary celebration to an official close with both online and in-person activities. The CC Global Network and our broader community are at the heart of CC’s work to support better sharing for an open commons, so we are inviting you to be a part of marking this milestone. There are several ways you can join the celebration — pick one or all!</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Attend a global CC 20th Anniversary event</span></h2>
<h3><b>San Francisco</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons invites you to a 20th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday 17 November 2022 at 7pm PST at </span><a href="https://terrasf.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Terra Gallery</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, San Francisco*. Join us for an evening of entertainment as we toast to the past and mobilize support for the future! </span><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/creative-commons-20th-anniversary-celebration/e421411"><b>Save your seat &gt;</b></a></p>
<h3><b>Virtual</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Can&#8217;t come to San Francisco? Join a virtual 20th Anniversary Celebration on Tuesday 22 November 2022. </span><b>Register for </b><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYoc-6oqTorE9D8ISx07Di3C20FYGeWEXrv"><b>3:00–5:00 UTC</b></a><b> and/or </b><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscOiqqDwiG9wOA2Bts9Quu9jWIbTxDEHi"><b>15:00–17:00 UTC</b></a><b> &gt;</b></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make a contribution to support CC</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons empowers people, institutions, and governments to share content openly to advance knowledge, equity, and creativity for everyone, everywhere. As we look ahead to the next 20 years, our focus is on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable. As a nonprofit, we rely on contributions from people like you. </span><a href="https://www.classy.org/campaign/20th-anniversary-better-sharing-campaign/c338989"><b>Make a contribution of any size &gt;</b></a></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Share a digital artifact showcasing your community’s open contributions</span></h2>
<p><b>Share a digital artifact</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that showcases your local community’s past or future work to build the open commons. CC will share accepted artifacts with the world to illustrate the variety of activities and points of view that represent the Creative Commons Global Network and CC community. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span><b>Requirements</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: All artifacts must be shared with CC licenses or CC0 public domain dedications, and demonstrate CC’s </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> values. </span><a href="https://forms.gle/SiMi4DQYfiUf9RWv7"><b>Describe your artifact &gt;</b></a></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC chapters: Get a grant to mark CC’s 20th Anniversary locally </span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Celebrate CC’s anniversary locally in your local CC chapter with a #20CC Anniversary US$500 grant to support a local event, activity, or project to celebrate CC’s past 20 years and our shared future. </span></p>
<p><b>Requirements</b><span>: Grant projects should have a regional focus, be clearly supported by your local CC chapter,</span> <span>and coordinated by one person acting as lead. </span><a href="https://forms.gle/iEGCUssWtEcwXGfh9"><b>See grant program details &gt;</b></a></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Celebrate on social media</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Help get the word out about CC’s 20th Anniversary celebration: Share this post with the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%2320CCAnniversary"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#20CCAnniversary hashtag</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and what CC, better sharing, and the open commons mean to you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you like what other people are sharing? Favorite and reshare #20CCAnniversary posts from other CC community members.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Questions?</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reach out to communications@creativecommons.org, or start a conversation in the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/archives/C57CA2KEK"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#cc-community</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> channel in the CC community slack.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/05/join-us-to-celebrate-20-years-of-creative-commons/">Join Us to Celebrate 20 Years of Creative Commons</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65953
title: CC’s Engagement on EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act
uri: CC-s-Engagement-on-EU-s-Artificial-Intelligence-Act
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/05/ccs-engagement-on-eus-artificial-intelligence-act/
content:
<figure id="attachment_65965" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65965" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-65965" src="media/dfa38dd7.EUAI-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-300x169.png" alt="An abstract European Union flag of diffused gold stars linked by golden neural pathways on a deep blue mottled background." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65965" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;EU Flag Neural Network&#8221; by Creative Commons was cropped from an image generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt &#8220;European Union flag neural network.&#8221; OpenAI asserts ownership of DALL-E generated images; Creative Commons dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Beginning in 2021, the European Union has been considering a new <a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/proposal-regulation-laying-down-harmonised-rules-artificial-intelligence">AI Act</a>, which would regulate certain uses of AI. In particular, it seeks to ban certain uses of AI, such as broad-based real-time biometric identification for law enforcement in public places, and it seeks to ensure that certain precautions are taken before deployment of uses deemed ‘high-risk,’ such as the use of AI for access to education, employment, financial credit, or other essential services.</p>
<p>Creative Commons has proactively worked with policymakers and other key stakeholders, creating a constructive dialogue to inform both the content of the text and the context of the debate. We agree with the objectives of the Act: ensuring AI systems placed on the Union market are used in a way that respects fundamental rights and Union values; providing legal certainty to facilitate investment and innovation in AI; and facilitating the development of a single market for lawful, transparent, and trustworthy AI applications to prevent market fragmentation.</p>
<p>While the proposal covers a broad range of topics, we have focused on two areas that are pertinent to our strategy, <em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em>.</p>
<p>First, we have advocated for the benefits of supporting open data, open source, and interoperability as means to support a healthy marketplace for and robust competition in the development and use of AI.</p>
<p>Harmful uses of AI are best addressed through a contextual approach, based on clear principles that can adapt to new developments in how AI is designed and implemented for different use cases based on their risks to society. Such a tailored approach can and should avoid overbroad restrictions on general purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) and the sharing and use of open source tools.</p>
<p>The European Commission’s original draft proposal did not directly address GPAI, and we agree that this is an appropriate approach. Requirements on GPAI creators are unnecessary because the follow-on developers of high-risk systems will already be covered by this Act. To the extent GPAI creators wish to serve that market, they already have incentives to cooperate with high-risk users to ensure broad compliance.</p>
<p>We also recognize that the EU legislators are currently considering ways to address responsibilities related to GPAI, including open source tools. If that moves forward, we recommend adding language to ensure that GPAI regulations are tailored and proportionate. These regulations should not constrain open source tools, and should focus on ensuring cooperation between GPAI creators and users with whom they have an ongoing relationship.</p>
<p>We believe this is important to get right in part because it’s vital that the capacity to develop and use AI not be concentrated in the hands of a small number of large commercial operators. Lowering barriers to the development and use of AI — such as by supporting the availability of open data and open source tools, including as part of General Purpose AI (GPAI) — can spur innovation in services and lead to major social benefits. Empowering people to share their data among services and enabling them to move between services (ie, through data portability and interoperability) also can play a role in facilitating innovation and inhibiting user lock-in. While it is crucial to ensure commercial viability and incentives for investment, it is also crucial to ensure that this does not come at the expense of robust competition, consumer protection, and the public interest more broadly.</p>
<p>In addition to these topics, we’ve also taken this opportunity to ensure the intersection of copyright and AI is well understood. While copyright’s relationship to AI is not at core to this proposal, it is important that policymakers understand that appropriate limits on copyright are also core to serving the public interest. As we’ve explored in the past, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/no-copyright-protection-for-ai-generated-output/">AI generated content should not be copyrightable</a>, and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2015/01/21/the-limits-of-copyright-text-and-data-mining/">training AI on copyrighted works should not be limited</a>.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/05/ccs-engagement-on-eus-artificial-intelligence-act/">CC’s Engagement on EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=65996
title: A Better Internet for Better Sharing: Join the Movement for a Better Internet
uri: A-Better-Internet-for-Better-Sharing-Join-the-Movement-for-a-Better-I
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/

content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-65997 size-large" src="media/9a3cd6e1.social-black-logo-1024x535.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/social-black-logo-1024x535.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="439" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/social-black-logo-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/social-black-logo-300x157.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/social-black-logo-768x401.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/social-black-logo-1536x803.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/social-black-logo-2048x1070.jpg 2048w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/social-black-logo-77x40.jpg 77w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/social-black-logo-50x26.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/social-black-logo-270x141.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/social-black-logo-1200x627.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of Creative Commons’ key strategic goal of </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/20-years/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Better Sharing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">today we have joined six other organizations spanning the globe to launch the </span><a href="https://www.movementforabetterinternet.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Movement for a Better Internet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a diverse community of advocates, activists, academics, and civil society groups working together to promote policies that create a better internet for people everywhere. The movement is a collaborative effort seeking to drive policy change based on a public interest vision for an internet that benefits us all.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For two decades, Creative Commons has worked tirelessly to facilitate the sharing of content across the planet and support an internet guided by public interest values — including privacy, openness, diversity, and equity. As part of this movement, we are committed to collaborating with other members to promote these and other values that we will determine together.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It&#8217;s inspiring to see what started over a year ago in so many different conversations now take shape as a rich, organized movement to work toward a better internet for all,&#8221; said <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/">Catherine Stihler, CC CEO</a>. &#8220;From governmental initiatives like over 60 nations signing the Declaration for the Future of the Internet just in April, to the new policies we now see taking shape in the EU and the USA, we can already see work for a better internet gain new momentum. This movement will bring together everyone who is dedicated to making sure the public interest shapes the future of the remarkable global network that connects us all.&#8221;</span></p>
<blockquote><p><b>By joining the movement, we can ensure an internet shaped by our shared values — an internet for the people that puts our communities first. We encourage academics, activists, and advocates working at organizations passionate about creating this better internet to </b><a href="https://www.movementforabetterinternet.org/"><b>join us in this movement</b></a><b>. Together, we can achieve a better internet for us all.</b></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As an organizing partner, Creative Commons also joins in launching a digital hub at </span><a href="https://www.movementforabetterinternet.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">movementforabetterinternet.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to facilitate connection and communication among those striving to build a better internet. The full list of organizing partners includes: Association for Progressive Communications; Creative Commons; Derechos Digitales; Internet Archive; Niskanen Center; Public Knowledge; and Wikimedia Foundation.</p>
<p></span></p>
<blockquote><p><b>To join the movement and learn more, visit the </b><a href="https://www.movementforabetterinternet.org/"><b>Movement for a Better Internet digital hub</b></a><b>. </b></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><b>Check out </b><a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/better-internet/"><b>CC&#8217;s Better Internet blog post series</b></a><b> to learn more about how the idea for the movement came about and the early groundwork that led us to this launch today. </b></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">A Better Internet for Better Sharing: Join the Movement for a Better Internet</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66012
title: CC celebrates 30 years of UNESCO Memory of the World
uri: CC-celebrates-30-years-of-UNESCO-Memory-of-the-World
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/27/cc-celebrates-30-years-of-unesco-memory-of-the-world/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-66016" src="media/89d96f4d.UNESCO-MOW-text.svg_-199x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UNESCO-MOW-text.svg_-199x300.png" alt="" width="150" height="226" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UNESCO-MOW-text.svg_-199x300.png 199w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UNESCO-MOW-text.svg_-679x1024.png 679w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UNESCO-MOW-text.svg_-768x1158.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UNESCO-MOW-text.svg_-1018x1536.png 1018w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UNESCO-MOW-text.svg_-27x40.png 27w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UNESCO-MOW-text.svg_-33x50.png 33w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UNESCO-MOW-text.svg_-103x155.png 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/UNESCO-MOW-text.svg_.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />This week, the international community celebrates </span><a href="https://events.unesco.org/event?id=2787545294"><span style="font-weight: 400;">30 years of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. At Creative Commons (CC), we applaud the program’s achievements in enhancing preservation and access to documentary heritage from galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) around the globe. We laud the multitude of efforts enlisting documentary heritage to promote inclusive, just and peaceful societies. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">UNESCO’s work is important now more than ever, as climate change, global health crises, and violent conflicts are posing some of the greatest threats to documentary heritage and the memory institutions that hold it. For example:  </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/05/18/the-future-of-museums-is-open/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the cultural sector</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">: many institutions had to close their doors, reorganize their workforce, and face drastic drops in attendance and harsh declines in revenue.</span></span>&nbsp;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">On any given day, a site, a monument, or an artifact can be irremediably damaged or lost due to </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/26/cc-licenses-tools-share-and-preserve-cultural-heritage-in-the-face-of-climate-change/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">extreme weather conditions induced by global warming</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, something CC helps to address through our </span><a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Climate Campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span>&nbsp;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wars, armed conflicts, and violence in all its forms — notably in </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/08/ukraine-safeguarding/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ukraine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ethiopia, Syria, Yemen and Myanmar — has heightened the importance of protecting cultural heritage, including GLAM collections, as embodiments of cultural identity and human spirit.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we believe that it is our collective duty and privilege to protect, preserve, safeguard, use and reuse, and celebrate heritage. That’s why through our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/open-culture-policy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">influence policy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/stewardship/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">maintain the world’s leading open infrastructure</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, made up of our licenses and tools, we support our community, and we build capacity to accompany open culture enthusiasts on their journey towards better sharing of cultural heritage. Our </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certification in Open Culture</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> offers professional development training for institutions or community groups engaged in cultural heritage. This course builds peoples’ capacity in opening access to cultural heritage ethically, and inclusively. Participants develop a deeper understanding of open licensing and copyright considerations with digitization projects, CC licenses and tools, Rights Statements, Traditional Knowledge Labels, working with the public domain, and more. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we work towards better sharing of cultural heritage and open culture, we will continue to be guided by UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program, as it fosters dialogue and mutual understanding between people and cultures. Here’s how you can join CC’s efforts: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">→ </span><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/2023-cc-certificate-course-registration/e421240"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register for a 2023 course</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with the following scholarship code, and receive 60% off course registration: </span><b>Y2GLAMSCHOLAR60%.</b><b> </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">→ Join the Creative Commons Open Culture platform: </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">→ Become a member of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Global Network</span></a></p>
<p><b>→ </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get in touch with us: </span><a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/27/cc-celebrates-30-years-of-unesco-memory-of-the-world/">CC celebrates 30 years of UNESCO Memory of the World</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66022
title: Webinars: AI Inputs, Outputs and the Public Commons
uri: Webinars-AI-Inputs-Outputs-and-the-Public-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/31/webinars-ai-inputs-outputs-and-the-public-commons/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66023" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66023" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="media/100f95e3.AIInputsAndOutputs.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66023 size-medium" src="media/b102e260.AIInputsAndOutputs-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-300x169.jpg" alt="Two images generated by AI side-by-side: On the left: A brightly colorful painting in the style of Hieronymus Bosch showing vaguely human figures climbing on and attending to a wooden Medieval-looking Rube Goldberg contraption involving wheels, levers, and spheres. On the right: A white robot with a look of concentration on their face, wearing a red cap and robe, holding a painter’s palette, painting something beyond the frame with a brush that has an abstract flower growing up from its handle." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-440x250.jpg 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66023" class="wp-caption-text">“AI Inputs and Outputs” by Creative Commons was made from details from two images generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompts “A Hieronymus Bosch triptych showing inputs to artificial intelligence as a Rube Goldberg machine; oil painting” and “a robot painting its own self portrait in the style of Artemisia Gentileschi.” OpenAI asserts ownership of DALL-E generated images; CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) has been exploding across the digital landscape — from people sharing text and images generated by AI platforms, to new policy that tries to shape a future where AI is expected to play an even bigger role — all while we aren’t really sure yet even how to define AI, much less understand all the impact it will have.</p>
<p>Here at CC, we’ve been thinking about what AI means for the commons we support, both in our strategy for better sharing and for our collaboration for a better internet. Are all these new works generated by AI part of the open, public commons? Should they be? If someone does hold copyright for an AI work, who is it? The technologists who created the AI tool? The person who uses AI to generate a work? The countless creators whose works trained the AI? The machine itself? Or should works generated by AI live in the public domain, as they do in many interpretations of established law?</p>
<p>Going beyond AI’s outputs: How do and should human works participate in training AI? Currently, AI platforms are using untold amounts of existing content to train their systems. Not every creator welcomes their work being used in AI, especially when AI is put to life-changing uses that could amplify biases, like predictive policing, facial recognition, job recruiting, insurance claims, or loan approvals. At the same time, if AI inputs are limited, AI could be based on a more narrow view of the world that could also perpetuate biases and block insights. How can we best ensure AI is trained to support creators and good outcomes?</p>
<p>As we form our positions at CC, we are bringing together people with diverse perspectives to participate in broad discussions about how AI intersects with open sharing in a commons that serves the public interest.</p>
<p>How does the proliferation of AI connect to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a>: sharing that is inclusive, just and equitable — where everyone has wide opportunity to access content, to contribute their own creativity, and to receive recognition and rewards for their contributions? How does the proliferation of AI connect to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">a better internet</a>: a public interest vision for an internet that benefits us all?</p>
<p>Join us to engage in this discussion at two free, public webinars: one focused on how open works and better sharing intersect with AI inputs — works used in training and supplying AI — and another focused on how open works and better sharing intersect with AI outputs — works generated by AI that are, could be, or should be participating in the open commons.</p>
<h2>Webinars</h2>
<h3>AI Inputs and the Public Commons: 5–6pm UTC Wednesday 9 November 2022</h3>
<figure id="attachment_66027" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66027" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="media/5a49d5a1.AIInputs.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputs.png"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66027 size-medium" src="media/b63447b9.AIInputs-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputs-300x300.png" alt="Generated by AI: A brightly colorful painting in the style of Hieronymus Bosch showing vaguely human figures climbing on and attending to a wooden Medieval-looking Rube Goldberg contraption involving wheels, levers, and spheres." width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputs-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputs-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputs-768x768.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputs-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputs-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputs-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputs-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputs.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66027" class="wp-caption-text">“AI Inputs” by Creative Commons was generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt “A Hieronymus Bosch triptych showing inputs to artificial intelligence as a Rube Goldberg machine; oil painting.” OpenAI asserts ownership of DALL-E generated images; CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>(<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Creative+Commons+Artificial+Intelligence+Webinar%3A+Inputs&amp;iso=20221109T17&amp;p1=1440&amp;ah=1">check the time in your local timezone</a>)</p>
<p>Join us for a free, public webinar on how open works and better sharing intersect with AI inputs — works used in training and supplying AI — with panelists:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><strong><a href="http://www.abebabirhane.com/">Abeba Birhane</a></strong>, Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI, Mozilla Foundation</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong><a href="https://alektarkowski.pl/">Alek Tarkowski</a></strong>, Co-Founder and Director of Strategy, Open Future Foundation</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/annabethke/">Anna Bethke</a></strong>, Principal Data Scientist, Salesforce</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong><a href="https://www.luc.edu/soc/florencechee.shtml">Florence Chee</a></strong>, Associate Professor, School of Communication, Director, Center for Digital Ethics and Policy, and Director, SIMLab, Loyola University Chicago</li>
<li aria-level="1">Moderator: <strong><a href="https://www.law.uga.edu/profile/stephen-wolfson">Stephen Wolfson</a></strong>, Associate Director for Research and Copyright Services, School of Law, University of Georgia</li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZUSMpFAeRn6-gAyE8d8j_g">Register now</a> to join the webinar live. Can’t join live? Register anyway to hear when the recording is available.</p></blockquote>
<h3>AI Outputs and the Public Commons: 4–5pm UTC Thursday 10 November 2022</h3>
<figure id="attachment_66030" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66030" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="media/9da3ad21.AIOutputs.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIOutputs.png"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66030" src="media/23b466ff.AIOutputs-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIOutputs-300x300.png" alt="Generated by AI: A white robot with a look of concentration on their face, wearing a red cap and robe, holding a painter’s palette, painting an empty gold picture frame with a brush that has an abstract flower growing up from its handle. A bottle of brown nail polish sits near the frame on the red-draped table." width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIOutputs-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIOutputs-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIOutputs-768x768.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIOutputs-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIOutputs-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIOutputs-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIOutputs-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIOutputs.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66030" class="wp-caption-text">“AI Outputs” by Creative Commons was generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt “a robot painting its own self portrait in the style of Artemisia Gentileschi.” OpenAI asserts ownership of DALL-E generated images; CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>(<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Creative+Commons+Artificial+Intelligence+Webinar%3A+Outputs&amp;iso=20221110T16&amp;p1=1440&amp;ah=1">check the time in your local timezone</a>)</p>
<p>Join us for a free, public webinar on how open works and better sharing intersect with AI outputs — works generated by AI that are, could be, or should be participating in the open commons  — with panelists:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><strong><a href="https://www.levendowski.net/">Amanda Levendowski</a></strong>, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic, Georgetown University</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong><a href="https://www.danielambrosi.com/">Daniel Ambrosi</a></strong>, Artist</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong><a href="http://eilab.gatech.edu/mark-riedl">Mark Riedl</a></strong>, Professor, School of Interactive Computing and Associate Director, Machine Learning Center, Georgia Institute of Technology</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong><a href="https://fairduty.wordpress.com/">Meera Nair</a></strong>, Copyright Specialist, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology</li>
<li aria-level="1">Moderator: <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/katwalshcreativecommons-org/">Kat Walsh</a></strong>, General Counsel, Creative Commons</li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SpT9S8L-Qe2ey0H4fYTP-w">Register now</a> to join the webinar live. Can’t join live? Register anyway to hear when the recording is available.</p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66036
title: CC Certificate: Alumni interview with Jennifer Miller
uri: CC-Certificate-Alumni-interview-with-Jennifer-Miller
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/02/cc-certificate-alumni-interview-with-jennifer-miller/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66037" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66037" style="width: 520px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66037 size-full" src="media/5c1ef006.4370249959_c02b7e6c19_o.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/4370249959_c02b7e6c19_o.png" alt="" width="520" height="292" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/4370249959_c02b7e6c19_o.png 520w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/4370249959_c02b7e6c19_o-300x168.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/4370249959_c02b7e6c19_o-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/4370249959_c02b7e6c19_o-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/4370249959_c02b7e6c19_o-270x152.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 520px) 85vw, 520px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66037" class="wp-caption-text"><span>&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/47691521@N07/4370249959" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Free Texts: Sources</a><span>&#8221; by </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/47691521@N07" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">opensourceway</a><span> is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-SA 2.0</a><span>.</span></figcaption></figure>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><em><strong>Launched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated 1255 people from 65 countries to date.  We celebrate the incredible projects in open knowledge and culture led by the graduates of our program. CC Certificate alumni have used the Certificate course knowledge in a number of ways—read about how alumni have worked on an <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/06/03/cc-certificate-alumni-interview-with-revekka-kefalea/">open access policy for a cultural heritage institution working with digitized art works</a>, or <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/18/cc-certificate-alumnus-mostafa-azad-kamal-on-his-work-with-open-education-policies-and-practice/">developed open licensed content for a bachelor of business program in Bangladesh</a> and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/18/cc-certificate-alumnus-mostafa-azad-kamal-on-his-work-with-open-education-policies-and-practice/">Masters courses in the US</a>. Or read about alumni testimonials <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/testimonials/">here</a>. </strong></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this interview, we were delighted to speak with Jennifer Miller, a graduate of the CC Certificate for Educators with over 10 years experience teaching and doing research in public policy and public management. She is a civic technologist and open knowledge advocate. Here is the Q&amp;A:</span></p>
<p><strong>Thank you for joining us today. Starting off with a personal question, what’s one thing people might be surprised to learn about you? </strong></p>
<p>I’ve lived in states on four of the five U.S. coasts.</p>
<p><b>So, you’re quad or tetra-coastal &#8211; that’s fun! Alright, switching gears: I know you presented </b><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/10/cc-open-education-platform-lightning-talks-recordings-and-request-for-speakers/"><b>“Open Syllabus: UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science” Lightning Talk</b></a><b> for the CC Open Education Platform earlier this year. Tell us a bit more about the Open Syllabus project and how it supports the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Open Syllabus for Open Science provides a complete but flexible way for early career researchers to learn about open science. Compared to many of the other materials being developed around open science recently, the course takes an educational approach to thinking about principles rather than focusing on specific tools. It also grounds the whole course in the principle of a human right to science, something that tends to be neglected in our STEM education.</span></p>
<p><b>In addition to the UNESCO Recommendation, we were heartened to see the </b><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/26/a-big-win-for-open-access/"><b>White House Open Access Mandate</b></a><b>, requiring that all federally funded research and data in the US be available for the public to freely access and re-use in agency-designated repositories without any embargo or delay after publication.</b><b> <a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn1"><sup>1</sup></a> Seems like this is the right time to be focused on Open Science for a number of reasons. What do you expect to see in the field of open science in the future? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is exciting to see this momentum! I think it’s important for this message to get to educators, and from there to students. In the past, students often learned to use statistical software, data, and peer-reviewed research as part of their studies, but found that these were not accessible to them after graduation. Students could take a “never going to use that after graduation” attitude, and they weren’t entirely wrong. Now, though, software, data, and research publications are widely available for free and under open licenses. With all of the open science resources available now, graduates can’t afford to ignore it; whatever their field, the information is available to their competitors as well.</span></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;With all of the open science resources available now, graduates can’t afford to ignore it; whatever their field, the information is available to their competitors as well.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In terms of publications, the way some policies use the term open access doesn’t always mean openly licensed, though. One area where this difference is especially important for open science is translation of scientific publications. An article under copyright made available to access for free still requires permission to create derivatives or adaptations, including plain language summaries or translations.</p>
<figure id="attachment_66038" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66038" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66038" src="media/b70a2487.Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-300x224.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-300x224.png" alt="" width="300" height="224" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-300x224.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-1024x765.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-768x574.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-1536x1147.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-2048x1530.png 2048w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-54x40.png 54w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-50x37.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-208x155.png 208w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Firefox-naps-on-computer-backpack-2020-1200x896.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66038" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11zU1uxkaej9LH4WiKt3IoI34UzR5GLgf/view?usp=sharing">Firefox naps on computer backpack © 2020</a>&#8221; by Jennifer Miller is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><b>What got you into open education and open access in general?</b></p>
<p><span>My first experiences with open education and open access were with openly licensed materials for teaching economics and public policy. I was especially impressed with the </span><a href="https://www.core-econ.org/"><span>CORE Economics</span></a><span> curriculum, which eliminated textbook costs for my students and presented the material in a way that felt more humane and helped more of my students see their lived experience in the material.</span></p>
<p><b>What inspired you to take the CC Certificate for Educators, and was the training useful to you?</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p>I saw a presentation about it at the 2019 Open Education conference. The timing to take the course in early 2020 worked out perfectly!</p>
<p><b>Has the CC Certificate training been useful to you? If so, in what ways? </b></p>
<p>Yes, definitely! It has allowed me to confidently share open licensed work in my civic technology activities and advocacy in open science and open education. It also opened my eyes to the wealth of open information available. Resources like the Directory of Open Access Books really open up the world.</p>
<p><b>Any advice for people who want to get involved in open education or open science?</b></p>
<p>If you are a scientist or educator who was part of the so-called “Great Resignation,” or wave of retirements associated with the pandemic, consider how open knowledge movements can help you contribute what you’ve learned to a global knowledge commons. The Creative Commons Certificate program can be a great place to start that journey!</p>
<h4 id="footnote">Notes</h4>
<p>1. <a id="fn1"></a><em>While the mandate does not require open licensing, both policies support better sharing of the knowledge we collectively produce and use.</em></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66056
title: 20CC
uri: 20CC
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/17/20cc/
content:
<p>TBD</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66060
title: Introducing the “Better Sharing” Illustrations — A Creative Commons & Fine Acts Collaboration
uri: Introducing-the-Better-Sharing-Illustrations-A-Creative-Comm
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/

content:
<figure id="attachment_66061" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66061" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66061 size-large" src="media/c2542a29.IMG_1434-1024x682.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-1024x682.jpg" alt="A photo of the 12 framed posters from the Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts collection &quot;Better Sharing&quot; hanging on two floating walls. " width="840" height="559" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-768x511.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-1200x799.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66061" class="wp-caption-text">“Better Sharing Collection at CC&#8217;s 20th Anniversary Celebration” by Creative Commons is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Creative Commons and our licenses, we partnered with Fine Acts to commission the “Better Sharing” collection. We are excited to share the collection with the world, which was unveiled last week at CC&#8217;s 20th Anniversary Celebration. <a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing">The artworks are available on TheGreats.co</a> to be enjoyed, used and adapted, and then shared again, by anyone, forever.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In developing this collection of artworks, we posed this question to 12 prominent global open advocates: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><b>What does better sharing for a brighter future look like to you? </b></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fine Acts selected 12 well-known international artists who have embraced openness to create a series of visual pieces under an open license, which are inspired by the theme, as well as the responses from the advocates. </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing&amp;search="><span style="font-weight: 400;">View the full collection &gt;&gt;</span></a></p>
<p><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-66062 size-large" src="media/d33ca929.Posters-1024x483.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-1024x483.png" alt="" width="840" height="396" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-1024x483.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-300x141.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-768x362.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-1536x724.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-2048x965.png 2048w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-85x40.png 85w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-50x24.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-270x127.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-1200x566.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<h2><b>Our Theme: Better Sharing </b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The unifying idea behind this collection is &#8220;Better Sharing,&#8221; which comes from Creative Commons&#8217; strategic goal to accelerate Better Sharing — a cooperative effort that delivers open access to technology, education, science, culture and resources, and advances knowledge to solve problems and promote the public good. Beyond just sharing, better sharing includes:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Sharing that is inclusive, just and equitable </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">— where everyone has wide opportunity to access content, contribute their own creativity, and receive recognition and rewards for their contributions.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Sharing that is reciprocal </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">— where we rebalance the skewed world we live in now, in which a few produce and profit from works that the many consume.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Sharing that is sustainable</b><span> — where open participation in the public commons is the default, rather than the exception. </span></li>
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<h2><b>The Better Sharing collection and our advocate &amp; artist pairings</b></h2>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66064 alignleft" src="media/717d2edc.Burcu-Koleli-225x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-225x300.png" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-225x300.png 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-768x1024.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-1152x1536.png 1152w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-1536x2048.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-30x40.png 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-38x50.png 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-116x155.png 116w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-1200x1600.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli.png 1782w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px" /><strong>“</strong></span><strong><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/open-palms-not-clutching-fists">Open Palms, Not Clutching Fists</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/burcukoleli/?hl=en">Burcu Köleli</a> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from </span></i><a href="https://twitter.com/brainpicker"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maria Popova </span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Writer, The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings)</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Never forget that an open palm is a greater platform of power than a clutching fist.” </span></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66070 alignleft" src="media/75392ebb.Teo-Georgiev-214x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-214x300.png" alt="" width="214" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-214x300.png 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-732x1024.png 732w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-768x1075.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-29x40.png 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-36x50.png 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-111x155.png 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev.png 1072w" sizes="(max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px" /><strong>“</strong></span><strong><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/sharing-brightens-the-future">Sharing Brightens The Future</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/teowithdoodles/?hl=en">Teo Georgiev</a> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from </span></i><a href="https://id.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biyanto_Rebin"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biyanto Rebin</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Chair (2016–2021), Wikimedia Indonesia</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Sedikit demi sedikit, lama-lama menjadi bukit (meaning: many a mickle makes a muckle).</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An Indonesian proverb with the meaning of collaboration spirit, when we do a continuous effort little by little, it will eventually become bigger in the future. This is what happens when we share our resources, our works to the public, they will have a greater impact, since sharing can empower other people, sometimes the ones who are left behind, the underprivileged.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66067 alignleft" src="media/8e65e31f.David-Espinosa-214x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-214x300.png" alt="" width="214" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-214x300.png 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-731x1024.png 731w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-768x1075.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-29x40.png 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-36x50.png 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-111x155.png 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa.png 857w" sizes="(max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px" /><strong>“</strong></span><strong><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/better-sharing-brighter-future">Better Sharing, Brighter Future</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/el.dee">David Espinosa</a> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from </span></i><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catherine Stihler</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Creative Commons CEO</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Better Sharing Brighter Future is happy and joyous open sharing where creativity, knowledge and innovation can prosper.”</span></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66074 alignleft" src="media/fc576833.Pietro-Soldi-1-214x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-214x300.jpg" alt="" width="214" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-731x1024.jpg 731w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-29x40.jpg 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-36x50.jpg 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-111x155.jpg 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-1200x1680.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Pietro-Soldi-1-scaled.jpg 1829w" sizes="(max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px" /><strong>“</strong></span><strong><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/the-more-we-share-the-more-we-have-series-12">The More We Share, The More We Have</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pietro.soldi/">Pietro Soldi</a> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from </span></i><a href="https://twitter.com/doctorow"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cory Doctorow</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Science Fiction Author, Journalist and Tech Activist</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In my utopia, we figure out how to create and keep separate rules that regulate the relationships between creators and their industry </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(e.g. writers and publishers, musicians and labels, etc); and rules that regulate the relationships between creators and their *audiences*. The things an audience does with a work — and the way that they relate to its creator — shouldn&#8217;t be a free-for-all; nor should the way that creators relate to those audiences. But whatever those rules should be, they will necessarily be very different from the way that the creative industries regulate interactions among their constituent actors.”</span></p>
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<p><b><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66073 alignleft" src="media/eb423890.Preeti-Singh-214x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-214x300.jpg" alt="" width="214" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-214x300.jpg 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-731x1024.jpg 731w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-29x40.jpg 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-36x50.jpg 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-111x155.jpg 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-1200x1680.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-scaled.jpg 1829w" sizes="(max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px" /></b><strong>“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/the-future-is-open">The Future Is Open</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/preeeti____/">Preeti Singh</a> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0</strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from </span></i><a href="https://twitter.com/EbenezarWikina"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ebenezar Wikina</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Founder, Policy Shapers, and Advocacy Coordinator, Foundation for Partnerships Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND Foundation)</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Better Sharing, Brighter Future means that as we continue to find better ways to share ideas, products and solutions on the internet, we’d directly be working towards a brighter future for ourselves and generations to come.”</span></p></blockquote>
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<p><b><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66068 alignleft" src="media/0f5dbdd6.Hust-Wilson-214x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-214x300.jpg" alt="" width="214" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-214x300.jpg 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-732x1024.jpg 732w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-29x40.jpg 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-36x50.jpg 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-111x155.jpg 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-1200x1680.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson.jpg 1418w" sizes="(max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px" />“</b><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/share-freely-openly-like-we-share-air"><b>Share Freely, Openly, Like We Share Air</b></a><b>” </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">by </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/hustwilson/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hust Wilson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from </span></i><a href="https://twitter.com/dsengeh"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">David Moinina Sengeh</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Education Minister and Chief Innovation Officer of Sierra Leone; TED Senior Fellow</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“To share anything freely and openly, much like we share air, is to be alive.”</span></p></blockquote>
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<p><b><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66069 alignleft" src="media/6d0aef13.Janice-Chang-225x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-225x300.png" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-225x300.png 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-768x1024.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-1152x1536.png 1152w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-1536x2048.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-30x40.png 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-38x50.png 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-116x155.png 116w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-1200x1600.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px" />“</b><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/better-sharing-for-brighter-future"><b>Better Sharing For Brighter Future</b></a><b>” </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">by </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/janiceechang/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Janice Chang</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from </span></i><a href="https://twitter.com/TylerGreenBooks"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tyler Green</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Author, Historian, Art Critic and Producer/Host, The Modern Art Notes Podcast</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It means understanding that sharing and open content is a means, not an end.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For me, it means understanding that sharing and open content is a means, not an end, that open content and open access policies aren&#8217;t an end in and of themselves. Although within the context of an individual project, it&#8217;s an excellent end. But what we get, we the community of scholars, we the broader community of people, what we get is an opportunity to understand how this material fits within the worlds around us, allowing new and different ideas to more fully inform us. My favorite example is always going to be the more art and visual material, whether it&#8217;s photographs or engravings in 19th century magazines. The more we understand how images have worked across histories, the more we will understand how impactful artists and visual makers, engravers, whomever have been. And so I think that open access is probably the primary and most important means through which we will understand how artists have impacted the world.”</span></p>
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<p><strong><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66065 alignleft" src="media/8b592da6.Olga-Mrozek-212x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-212x300.png" alt="" width="212" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-212x300.png 212w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-724x1024.png 724w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-768x1086.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-28x40.png 28w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-35x50.png 35w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-110x155.png 110w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-1200x1697.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 212px) 85vw, 212px" />“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/sharing-is-growing">Sharing Is Growing</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/omrozill/?hl=en">Olga Mrozek</a> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from <a href="https://twitter.com/MedhaviGandhi">Medhavi Gandhi</a>,</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Founder of The Heritage Lab</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“To me, with better (open) sharing, comes the promise of equality.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In every culture around the world, there exist traditions that promote generosity/sharing — and so, it is only natural that the value of sharing becomes part of our &#8216;digital culture&#8217; as well. To me, better sharing means enhanced relationships, collaborations between people, and an opportunity to build a world free of barriers/boundaries. South Asian history is revealing of what happened in a world where knowledge was &#8216;owned&#8217; by a select few; with better sharing, there comes a possibility for building equal access to knowledge and participating in conversations that help heal a fractured world. In the end, positive sharing &amp; contributing to others&#8217; knowledge/experiences helps make us better people, not to mention the multifold benefits that come when you start a sharing circle.”</span></p>
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<p><b><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66071 alignleft" src="media/d9e076cf.Tanya-Korniichuk-214x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk-214x300.png" alt="" width="214" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk-214x300.png 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk-732x1024.png 732w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk-768x1075.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk-1097x1536.png 1097w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk-1463x2048.png 1463w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk-29x40.png 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk-36x50.png 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk-111x155.png 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk-1200x1679.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Tanya-Korniichuk.png 1772w" sizes="(max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px" /></b><strong>“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/open-is-beautiful">Open Is Beautiful</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tanya.illustration/">Tetiana Korniichuk</a> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from <a href="https://twitter.com/cecillia">Cecília Oliveira</a></span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Executive Director, Fogo Cruzado</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The powerful hide important data to prevent us from demanding change. This is true with armed violence in Brazil, but is also true where you live on issues that you care about. Find a way to use open data to make changes in your society.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To me, Better Sharing Brighter Future means… a city where people aren&#8217;t afraid of being shot. I created Fogo Cruzado because the authorities were not sharing important data, and they did it to prevent accountability. And, unfortunately, there were no institutions out there who were ready to fill in the gap. So I decided to do it myself. We had offers to make money off of selling our data, and we had others who were taking our data and using it poorly, but we knew that the ONLY way to make this situation better was to make our work open and free and easy to access for everyone. Our focus is armed violence, but really our mission is about fighting secrecy.”</span></p>
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<p><strong><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66075 alignleft" src="media/8d05590c.Maria-Picasso-225x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Maria-Picasso-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Maria-Picasso-225x300.jpg 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Maria-Picasso-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Maria-Picasso-30x40.jpg 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Maria-Picasso-38x50.jpg 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Maria-Picasso-116x155.jpg 116w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Maria-Picasso.jpg 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px" />“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/better-sharing-better-future">Better Sharing, Better Future</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/maria_picasso_piquer/?hl=en">Maria Picassó i Piquer</a>, Spain for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from </span></i><a href="https://twitter.com/bestape"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kyle Smith</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CC Canada member &amp; member of LexDAO and Fellow in Gitcoin&#8217;s KERNEL incubator</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Better Sharing, Brighter Future means continuing Jobs’s “bicycle of the mind” dream with modern “IoT” general purpose machines like Raspberry Pi&#8230;</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> so we can unleash the latent power of humanity and innovate ourselves out of this fossil-fuel-driven climate crisis.”</span></p>
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<p><b><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66066 alignleft" src="media/df719fb8.Luisa-Brando-213x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Luisa-Brando-213x300.png" alt="" width="213" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Luisa-Brando-213x300.png 213w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Luisa-Brando-727x1024.png 727w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Luisa-Brando-768x1082.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Luisa-Brando-28x40.png 28w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Luisa-Brando-35x50.png 35w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Luisa-Brando-110x155.png 110w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Luisa-Brando.png 1056w" sizes="(max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px" /></b><strong>“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/shared-knowledge-shared-future">Shared Knowledge, Shared Future</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/luisa.brando/?hl=en">Luisa Brando</a>, Colombia for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from </span></i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Shaffer_Van_Houweling"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Molly Van Houweling</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Chair, Board of Directors, Creative Commons</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Better sharing for a brighter future means that the world is wrapped in a living connective tissue of shared knowledge, culture, and insights that spread joy and alleviate suffering.”</span></p></blockquote>
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<p><b><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66072 alignleft" src="media/b2882f32.Sakina-Saidi-214x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sakina-Saidi-214x300.png" alt="" width="214" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sakina-Saidi-214x300.png 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sakina-Saidi-731x1024.png 731w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sakina-Saidi-768x1075.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sakina-Saidi-1097x1536.png 1097w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sakina-Saidi-1463x2048.png 1463w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sakina-Saidi-29x40.png 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sakina-Saidi-36x50.png 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sakina-Saidi-111x155.png 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sakina-Saidi-1200x1680.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px" /></b><strong>“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/blessed-is-the-hand-that-gives">Blessed Is The Hand That Gives</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/heyimsakina/?hl=en">Sakina Saïdi</a> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspired by a quote from </span></i><a href="https://lizlenjo.com/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Liz Lenjo</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Entertainment &amp; IP Lawyer and Founder and Managing Consultant, MYIP Legal Studio</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Blessed is the hand that gives.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC license gives opportunities to creators to share their work with the world and to show off their prowess, their skills, and to announce to the world that they are here and that they are present. My tip for a brighter future for African artists and creators; let&#8217;s be generous with our creations. Let us aim to share one or two works through a CC license. The world has barely experienced what Africa has to offer. Let us share it, and it will without a doubt open up opportunities for very lucrative collaborations. Let us use the CC license also to better our societies, let the works created have a social conscience and a social cause. We can use the CC licenses to give back to our communities. These efforts seldom go unnoticed or unappreciated.”</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Better Sharing is essential for creating a more just, equitable, and thriving world! <img src="media/fec3268b.1f30f.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f30f.png" alt="🌏" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we look toward the next 20 years of Creative Commons, we are committed to building a world where everyone, everywhere, has access to free and open knowledge. Will you join us? </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/donate"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Donate to Creative Commons today</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! </span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66081
title: CC’s Engagement on the EU Data Act
uri: CC-s-Engagement-on-the-EU-Data-Act
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/ccs-engagement-on-the-eu-data-act/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66082" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66082" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="media/e5d542b2.EU-Pixelated.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated.png"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66082" src="media/3cbff404.EU-Pixelated-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-300x169.png" alt="A heavily pixelated blue European Union flag with pixels scattered across it in different colors." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66082" class="wp-caption-text">“EU Pixelated” by Creative Commons was cropped from an image generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt “pixel art of computer code streaming across an EU flag.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Recently, we provided an update on Creative Common’s engagement on the European Union’s draft Artificial Intelligence Act. We’ve also worked with policymakers and other stakeholders on another flagship EU legislative file — the draft <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_1113">Data Act</a>.</p>
<p>The European Commission published the Data Act proposal earlier this year, as a continuation of its EU’s overall <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1593073685620&amp;uri=CELEX:52020DC0066">data strategy</a>. The goal of the Act is to ensure the vast array of data created today — and often held by private entities — is shared in ways that serve societal interests, while respecting and protecting privacy. Of particular interest to us at CC are provisions that:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">empower consumers with greater ability to move data from certain “connected devices” (like voice-activated personal assistants, smart thermostats, and other Internet of Things appliances), so that they are not locked in to a given vendor;</li>
<li aria-level="1">support businesses in similarly accessing data from each other and switching between different cloud service providers;</li>
<li aria-level="1">facilitate greater sharing of privately held data between organizations through common “<a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/staff-working-document-data-spaces">data spaces</a>”;</li>
<li aria-level="1">and require private entities to share data with the public sector in specifically prescribed circumstances (like public emergencies).</li>
</ul>
<p>In general, we welcome the Commission’s draft text, which we believe is an important step towards better access to and sharing of data. CC has long advocated for open data; now, we believe that additional forms of data sharing can help build a better data commons for all, that empowers individuals with control, respects privacy, encourages collaboration between business, governments, and individuals, and otherwise services the public interest. To this end, we commend the Commission and urge the EU legislators to actively support better sharing and the benefits it can bring for EU citizens, businesses and society at large, throughout the negotiations of this legislation.</p>
<p>There is an important balance to strike between incentivizing firms to collect and use data in productive ways and ensuring that they do not amass data in ways that become a barrier to entry for businesses, nonprofits, and others. It’s important to ensure that access to data does not harm the public interest by constraining competition and innovation.</p>
<p>Better sharing of data can yield significant benefits in a wide variety of areas, including ones that are fundamental to critical challenges for society. For instance, as we are exploring in our <a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/">Open Climate campaign</a>, sharing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/18/how-data-could-save-earth-from-climate-change">climate research data</a> can help researchers find solutions to address this global challenge. Too often there are barriers to data access, particularly when data is not in standardized, interoperable formats, or when it is locked up behind undue copyright or other legal barriers.</p>
<p>That said, we believe there are areas where the Data Act might be further strengthened and improved. Our engagement has focused in particular on the following elements:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Clearly limit the application of sui generis database rights:</strong> Europe provides for intellectual property rights over databases in certain circumstances. We believe this law should be<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/08/30/european-commission-repeal-extra-rights-databases/"> phased out altogether</a>, as it has impeded the public’s interest in access to facts without providing any concrete benefit. Helpfully, the Data Act attempts to clarify that the data created by “connected devices” are not subject to this database right, but the language can and should be clearer to ensure no elements of the Data Act can be used to justify constraining access to data.</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Ensure all consumers who receive a covered product have rights:</strong> The initial text makes clear that consumers who buy, rent, or lease a product should have rights to access and move their data. But what about people who simply receive a product, perhaps as a gift, or someone who purchases a service and receives a connected device product as an ancillary benefit? And what about products used by multiple different users? Additional clarification is needed to ensure a scope that broadly covers and empowers all consumers using such products.</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Strengthen interoperability requirements:</strong> While the ability for consumers and businesses to ‘port’ their data to another service is important, interoperability is also key to making portability useful. Data can exist in many formats that are not necessarily compatible across services or devices; sharing may be impossible or impracticable because of differing data standards. In fact, data holders may have incentives to impede re-use of the data, in order to continue to maximize their ability to control and profit from its use. We strongly support the Data Act’s focus on interoperability.</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Clarify and strengthen “data spaces”:</strong> One of the more intriguing parts of the Act and the EU’s overall strategy is the creation of common “data spaces” that will facilitate sharing of data among different parties in areas that are critical to public purposes, such as energy, health, and mobility. Unfortunately, while the original draft of the Data Act made reference to these spaces and supported interoperability in them, they did not provide clear definitions of what they are and how they would work. We support efforts to continue to clarify and strengthen this fundamental concept.</li>
</ul>
<p>More generally, we are hopeful that the Act can help to form the basis for a broader movement towards better sharing of data for public-interest purposes. While the Data Act has requirements for business-to-government sharing in certain limited public policy circumstances, it’s also worth thinking about how to support public service entities in building and stewarding a broader data commons. Groups like Open Future and others have <a href="https://openfuture.eu/publication/data-commons-primer/">elaborated</a> on this concept, and, for our part, CC’s Copyright Platform Working Group focused on “Digital Sharing Spaces” will be publishing a comparative mapping of the legal landscape for data sharing for research purposes across the US and EU. The European Commission has signaled that progress on health and mobility data spaces is a priority, and we look forward to contributing to these and other efforts.</p>
<p>Ultimately, we believe that the Data Act is a great first step toward providing for better data sharing. While it certainly can be improved and refined, we are encouraged by the EU&#8217;s interest in protecting consumers and facilitating data sharing to serve the public interest. We will continue to actively engage with EU policymakers as the legislative debates and negotiations evolve.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66095
title: Experts Weigh In: AI Inputs, AI Outputs and the Public Commons
uri: Experts-Weigh-In-AI-Inputs-AI-Outputs-and-the-Public-Commons
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/02/experts-weigh-in-ai-inputs-ai-outputs-and-the-public-commons/

content:
<figure id="attachment_66023" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66023" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="media/100f95e3.AIInputsAndOutputs.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66023" src="media/b102e260.AIInputsAndOutputs-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-300x169.jpg" alt="Two images generated by AI side-by-side: On the left: A brightly colorful painting in the style of Hieronymus Bosch showing vaguely human figures climbing on and attending to a wooden Medieval-looking Rube Goldberg contraption involving wheels, levers, and spheres. On the right: A white robot with a look of concentration on their face, wearing a red cap and robe, holding a painter’s palette, painting something beyond the frame with a brush that has an abstract flower growing up from its handle." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-440x250.jpg 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66023" class="wp-caption-text">“AI Inputs and Outputs” by Creative Commons was made from details from two images generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompts “A Hieronymus Bosch triptych showing inputs to artificial intelligence as a Rube Goldberg machine; oil painting” and “a robot painting its own self portrait in the style of Artemisia Gentileschi.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>On 9 and 10 November 2022, Creative Commons hosted <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/31/webinars-ai-inputs-outputs-and-the-public-commons/">a pair of webinars on artificial intelligence</a> (AI). We assembled two panels of experts at the intersection of AI, art, data, and intellectual property law to look at issues related to AI inputs — works used in training and supplying AI — and another focused on how open works and better sharing intersect with AI outputs — works generated by AI that are, could be, or should be participating in the open commons.</p>
<p>In both webinars, we were looking to explore how the proliferation of AI connects to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a>: sharing that is inclusive, just and equitable — where everyone has wide opportunity to access content, to contribute their own creativity, and to receive recognition and rewards for their contributions? And how the proliferation of AI connects to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">a better internet</a>: a public interest vision for an internet that benefits us all?</p>
<h2>AI Inputs</h2>
<p>Our first panel, <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SBYGgy8Hj6QPT4xl_xpVRXsYm_qAilX0z_3HS2aYC4s/edit#slide=id.g172258508c9_1_142">AI Inputs and the Public Commons</a>, looked at AI training data. The panel for this discussion included <a href="http://www.abebabirhane.com/">Abeba Birhane</a>, the Senior Fellow in Trustworthy AI at the Mozilla Foundation;<a href="https://alektarkowski.pl/"> Alek Tarkowski</a>, the Co-Founder and Director of Strategy for the Open Future Foundation; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/annabethke/">Anna Bethke</a>, the Principal Ethical AI Data Scientist for Salesforce; and <a href="https://www.luc.edu/soc/florencechee.shtml">Florence Chee</a>, Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Director of Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University in Chicago. Stephen Wolfson, Associate Director for Research and Copyright Services, School of Law, University of Georgia, moderated the panel.</p>
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<p>AI Inputs focused on the potential harms that can come from AI systems when they are trained on problematic data. AI models require massive amounts of training data to function, and in the past, developers had to hand curate AI datasets. Today, however, large scale datasets are widely available thanks to widely available internet content, and these datasets have enabled the existence of incredibly powerful AI models like never before.</p>
<p>But along with the availability of these massive datasets, concerns have arisen over the content they contain and how they are being used. Abeba Birhane, who audits large datasets as part of her research, has found illegal, racist, and/or unethical content in datasets that are used to train common AI models. Using this data in turn embeds biases into AI models, which tends to harm marginalized groups disproportionately. Even if the content contained within these datasets is not illegal, it may have been obtained without affirmative consent from the creators or subjects of those data. People are also rarely able to withdraw their data from these datasets. Indeed, because the datasets contain millions or even billions of data points, it may be practically impossible to remove pieces of content from them.</p>
<p>At the same time, obtaining individualized consent from everyone who has data in one of these datasets would be incredibly difficult, if not impossible. Moreover, requiring consent would likely greatly constrain development of AI because it would be so hard to get consent to use every element in the large datasets that have increased innovation in AI.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there is no clear solution to the problems associated with AI inputs. Our panel agreed that some legal regulation over AI training data can be useful to improve the quality and ethics of AI inputs. But regulation alone is unlikely to solve the many problems that arise. We also need guidelines for researchers who are using data, including openly licensed data, for AI training purposes. For instance, guidelines may discourage the use of openly licensed content as AI inputs where such a use could lead to problematic outcomes, even if the use does not violate the license, such as with facial recognition technology. Public discussions like this are essential to developing a consensus among stakeholders about how to use AI inputs ethically, to raise awareness of these issues, and try to improve AI models going forward.</p>
<h3>Links shared by panelists and participants</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000381137">Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3331606">The New Legal Landscape for Text Mining and Machine Learning by Matthew Sag</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://blog.opensource.org/osi-leading-an-essential-discussion-on-the-future-of-ai-and-open-source/">OSI’s Deep Dive is an essential discussion on the future of AI and open source</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://deepdive.opensource.org/podcast/">Podcast Archive &#8211; Deep Dive: AI</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>AI Outputs</h2>
<p>We continued our conversation about AI the following day with our second panel, <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t0Tc9t7e4ZYBxGVRwc4ULUKt8ABfPzCNx6zJk5Bb4gQ/edit#slide=id.g188a5c71209_0_6">AI Outputs and the Public Commons</a>. For this panel, we brought together a group of experts that included artists, AI researchers, and intellectual property and communications scholars to discuss generative AI. This panel included <a href="https://www.technollama.co.uk/">Andreas Guadamuz</a>, a reader in intellectual property law at the University of Sussex; <a href="https://www.danielambrosi.com/">Daniel Ambrosi</a>, an artist who uses AI technology to help him produce original, creative works; <a href="http://eilab.gatech.edu/mark-riedl">Mark Riedl</a>, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive computing; and <a href="https://fairduty.wordpress.com/">Meera Nair</a>, a copyright specialist at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/katwalshcreativecommons-org/">Kat Walsh</a>, General Counsel for Creative Commons, moderated the panel.</p>
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<p>While our second panel touched on many topics, the issue that ran through most of the conversation on AI outputs was whether works produced by artificial intelligence are somehow different from works produced by humans. Right away, the panel questioned whether this distinction between human-created works and AI-generated content makes sense. Generative AI tools exist along a spectrum from those that require the least amount of human interaction required to to those that require the most, and, at least with modern AI systems, humans are involved at every step of AI content creation. Humans both develop the AI models as well as use the systems to produce content.</p>
<p>Since truly autonomously generated works do not exist at present — that is, art produced entirely by AI without any human intervention at all — our panelists suggested that perhaps it is better to think about AI systems as a type of art tool that artists can use, rather than something entirely new. From the paintbrush, to the camera, to generative AI, humans have used technology to produce art throughout history, and these technologies always raise questions about the nature of art and creativity.</p>
<p>Still, there are some important differences between AI and human creations. For example, AI systems can create new works at a scale and speed that humans cannot match. AI is not bound by human limitations when creating content. AI doesn’t need to sleep, eat, or do the other things that slow down human artistic creation. AI can produce all the time, without distraction or pause.</p>
<p>Because of the possibility for the production of vast amounts of AI-generated content, our panelists discussed whether AI-generated content belongs in the public domain or whether it should receive copyright protection. Andres Gaudamuz raised an interesting point that is front and center for us at Creative Commons — should AI-generated works be in the public domain by default or is copyright protection, in fact, a better option. He encouraged the community to consider whether it is desirable to put AI-generated content in the public domain, if that could result in harm to human artists or chill human creativity. If copyright exists to encourage the creation of new works, could a public domain that is filled with AI-generated content discourage human creation by making too much art available for free? Would an abundance of AI-generated content put human artists out of work?</p>
<p>At the same time, the panel also recognized that the public domain is necessary for the creation of art. Artists, human and AI alike, do not create in a vacuum. Instead, they build upon what has come before them to produce new works. AI systems create by mixing and matching parts they learn from their training data; similarly, humans experience art and use what has come before them to produce their own works.</p>
<p>CC has addressed AI outputs and creativity a few times in the past. In general, we believe that <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/no-copyright-protection-for-ai-generated-output/">AI-generated content should not qualify for copyright protection</a> without direct and significant human input. We have <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/can-machines-write-like-jane-austen/">been skeptical that AI creations should be considered “creative”</a> in the same way that human works are. And, importantly, we believe that <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/20/cautious-approach-to-copyright-and-artificial-intelligence/">human creativity is fundamental to copyright protection</a>. As such, copyright is incompatible with AI outputs generated by AI alone.</p>
<p>Ultimately, like our panel on AI inputs, this panel on AI outputs could not, and was not designed to solve the many issues our panelists discussed. With AI becoming an increasingly integral part of our lives, conversations like these are essential to figuring out how we can safeguard against harms produced by AI, promote creativity, and ultimately use AI to benefit us all. Creative Commons plans to be in the middle of the conversation about the intersection of AI policy and intellectual property rights. In the upcoming months, we will continue these discussions through an on-going series of conversations with experts as we try to better understand how we should make sense of AI policy and IP rights.</p>
<h3>Links shared by panelists and participants</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Species-human-creativity-remakes/dp/1948226030/">The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World: Eagleman, David, Brandt, Anthony</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.danielambrosi.com/Dreamscapes-Portal">Dreamscapes &#8211; Daniel Ambrosi</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.v7labs.com/blog/neural-style-transfer">Neural Style Transfer: Using Deep Learning to Generate Art</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2139184-artificially-intelligent-painters-invent-new-styles-of-art/">Artificially intelligent painters invent new styles of art | New Scientist</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/2/23287173/ai-image-generation-art-midjourney-multiverse-interview-david-holz">An interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image-generator Midjourney: it’s ‘an engine for the imagination’ &#8211; The Verge</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://medium.com/@danoramas/fine-art-and-the-unseen-hand-c1d1f887e111">Fine Art and the Unseen Hand. Reconsidering the role of technology in… | by Daniel Ambrosi | Medium</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://twitter.com/FairDuty/status/1588579349464494080">@FairDuty Tweet</a>: CIPO appears to have ignored the requirement of originality in terms of what qualifies for (c) protection &#8212; an exercise of skill and judgement that is more than trivial &#8211; so said by our Supreme Court in 2004 (CCH). Fascinating thread of discussion about AI output and copyright.</li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://pixexid.com/read/how-to-create-prompts-to">List of tools for creating prompts for text-to-image AI generators</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ed-sheeran-shape-of-you-trial-win-1333494/">Ed Sheeran Awarded Over $1.1 Million in Legal Fees in &#8216;Shape of You&#8217; Copyright Case</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/selling-wine-without-bottles-economy-mind-global-net">Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net | Electronic Frontier Foundation</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org/">Caspar David Friedrich</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.thelegalartist.com/blog/you-cant-copyright-style/">You Can’t Copyright Style — THE [LEGAL] ARTIST</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.artslaw.com.au/article/i-like-your-style-part-i-copyright-infringement-or-not/">Part 1: Is it copyright infringement or not? &#8211; Arts Law Centre of Australia</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/16/1059598/this-artist-is-dominating-ai-generated-art-and-hes-not-happy-about-it/">This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it. | MIT Technology Review</a></li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/whats-the-point-of-writing-every-possible-melody/607120/">The Hard Drive With 68 Billion Melodies</a></li>
</ul>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66110
title: Reimagine open culture with the newly relaunched Curationist.org
uri: Reimagine-open-culture-with-the-newly-relaunched-Curationist-org
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66111 alignright" src="media/e701b973.Curationist-280x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist-280x300.jpeg" alt="" width="280" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist-280x300.jpeg 280w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist-956x1024.jpeg 956w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist-768x823.jpeg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist-1434x1536.jpeg 1434w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist-37x40.jpeg 37w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist-47x50.jpeg 47w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist-145x155.jpeg 145w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist-1200x1286.jpeg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist.jpeg 1654w" sizes="(max-width: 280px) 85vw, 280px" />Exciting news — an initiative of the MHz Foundation, </span><a href="https://www.curationist.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Curationist.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a free-to-use platform that connects users to over 4.4 million digital artworks and cultural objects, recently relaunched with some amazing new features. On 7 December, they will host a guided experience of the new platform, and we hope to see you there. </span><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HGeJv2fUTaOnPE8mVi3Bkw"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register now</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The webinar will celebrate open access arts and culture as a vital digital tool for reimagining cultural narratives, challenging historical inequalities, and creating vibrant ecosystems of shared knowledge. As well as providing an opportunity to explore potential ways to bring open source metadata directly to the communities who created and care for their art and artifacts, this also allows for a more efficient and effective way to manage and catalog these items.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will have the chance to hear from members of the Curationist team and free knowledge movement, including DEI metadata consultant </span><a href="https://www.sharonmizota.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sharon Mizota</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Local Contexts&#8217; </span><a href="https://localcontexts.org/about/the-local-contexts-team/jane-anderson/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jane Anderson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and Curationist board member </span><a href="https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/manu-samriti-chander"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Manu Chander</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At launch, users will be able to explore Curationist’s ever-growing archive of public domain and open access artifacts and artworks, and to peruse the critical perspectives and fresh takes published in our editorial features.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66118
title: Our Work in Policy at CC: Artificial Intelligence
uri: Our-Work-in-Policy-at-CC-Artificial-Intelligence
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/03/our-work-in-policy-at-cc-artificial-intelligence/
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<blockquote><p>As the year comes to a close, we’re spotlighting Creative Commons’ public policy work, recapping what we’ve done and looking ahead to the new year. In this edition, we turn to our work on artificial intelligence (AI).</p></blockquote>
<figure id="attachment_66119" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66119" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="media/3e278901.LikeAGiantCircuitBoard.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard.png"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66119" src="media/dec807a0.LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-300x169.png" alt="An aerial view of flat rural land with a few scattered clouds showing roads and structures that make the land look like a glowing gold circuit board." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/LikeAGiantCircuitBoard.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66119" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/37996646802@N01/626228221">Like A Giant Circuit Board</a>” by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/">Alan Levine</a> is dedicated to the public domain via <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>; here modified with a filter and cropped.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Recently, you might have seen the news headline “<a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artificial-intelligence-art-wins-colorado-state-fair-180980703/">Art Made With Artificial Intelligence Wins at State Fair</a>,” or even played with one of many tools that enable people to generate content through artificial intelligence. These are just some of the ways AI is becoming increasingly connected with our daily lives. AI is a broad, evolving concept that relates to a number of technologies (such as machine learning and neural networks) that enable computers to analyze and make assessments about data on a scale that was never possible before.</p>
<p>At Creative Commons, we’ve <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/artificial-intelligence/">focused on how the development of AI</a> intersects with the commons. Generating content with AI is particularly relevant to CC’s mission, our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing strategy</a>, and our participation in the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">Movement for a Better Internet</a>. AI systems are often trained by analyzing copyrighted works — for instance, the coronavirus was <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/bluedot-used-artificial-intelligence-to-predict-coronavirus-spread.html">detected</a> in its early stages via large-scale analysis of news articles, and similar sorts of analysis are key to <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/researchers-deploy-ai-better-understand-coronavirus/.">vaccine research</a>. What’s more, AI is used in systems people use to find, access and share information — consider, for example, the recommendation systems used to find information across social media. Across all the complexity of new AI systems and their uses, we’re guided by two questions: How does the proliferation of AI connect to better sharing: sharing that is inclusive, just and equitable — where everyone has wide opportunity to access content, to contribute their own creativity, and to receive recognition and rewards for their contributions? And how does the proliferation of AI connect to a better internet: a public interest vision for an internet that benefits us all?</p>
<h2>CC’s Approach to AI &amp; Public Policy</h2>
<p>Creative Commons’ advocacy on AI centers around our core beliefs about building the commons and around addressing copyright barriers to better sharing.</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Originality and human authorship must remain essential to the granting of copyright or other related exclusive rights over creative works, and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/no-copyright-protection-for-ai-generated-output/">AI-generated content by itself does not meet those standards</a>.</strong> Copyright exists to incentivize human creativity and, where the hallmarks of creative choices don’t exist, protection should not arise. Giving exclusive rights for works produced by AI would impede copyright’s core purposes and impoverish the commons without any recognizable public benefit in the form of bolstered creativity. Thus, AI-generated output should be presumed to be in the public domain, insofar as the content was generated autonomously without human, creative choices.</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Copyright shouldn’t provide a broad monopoly over complementary technologies, and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/">the use of lawfully-accessed creative works to train AI should not be constrained by copyright</a>.</strong> The use of creative works to train AI, such as through text and data mining (TDM), does not compete with the original markets for the work, and, in fact, may enhance them by increasing demand for the work. Meanwhile, restricting such non-consumptive and non-expressive uses is not necessary to incentivize creation of the underlying works and thus would not create public benefit.</li>
</ul>
<p>To take a holistic approach to supporting better sharing, we have also expanded the focus of our advocacy to consider other key issues.</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>The capacity to develop and use AI to support better sharing should be widely distributed, rather than concentrated among a narrow few:</strong> Better sharing depends on a dynamic environment, where people are not locked into a narrow set of services for sharing knowledge and creativity. While it is crucial to ensure commercial viability and incentives for investment in helpful services, it is also crucial to ensure that developments in AI do not come at the expense of robust competition, consumer protection, and the public interest more broadly.</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>The risks of AI should be addressed through tailored means, without wide-sweeping, generic restrictions on general purpose technology and sharing:</strong> AI does not always generate unqualified good or harm. Harmful uses are best addressed through a contextual approach, based on clear principles that can adapt to new developments in how AI is designed and implemented for different use cases based on their risks to society. Such a tailored approach can and should avoid overly broad restrictions on general purpose technology, in particular the sharing and use of open source tools.</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Online platforms’ management of content sharing should be coupled with transparency and accountability measures:</strong> Large social media and user-generated content platforms use automated tools, increasingly driven by AI, in order to manage the vast scale of information produced and shared on their services. CC has long opposed mandatory, automated filtering for copyright infringement, because of the ways filtering can negatively impact free speech, as well as the sharing of culture and knowledge. When it comes to voluntary measures taken to manage content on sharing platforms, we believe it is important, at a minimum, to ensure people are well-informed about platforms’ practices, and to hold platforms accountable to their promises.</li>
</ul>
<h2>CC’s Engagement on AI &amp; Public Policy in 2022</h2>
<ul>
<li><em><strong>Engaging on AI regulation in EU and UK:</strong></em> Starting in 2021, the European Union has been considering a new AI Act, which would regulate certain uses of AI. In the EU, Creative Commons has proactively worked with policymakers and other key stakeholders, creating a constructive dialogue to inform both the content of the text and the context of the debate. We have focused on ensuring the intersection of copyright and AI is well understood. Moreover, we have advocated for the benefits of supporting open data, open source, and interoperability as means to support a healthy marketplace for and robust competition in the development and use of AI. Similarly, we responded to the UK’s consultation on their white paper: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/establishing-a-pro-innovation-approach-to-regulating-ai/establishing-a-pro-innovation-approach-to-regulating-ai-policy-statement#next-steps">Establishing a pro-innovation approach to regulating AI</a>.</li>
<li><em><strong>Supporting transparency around content moderation and opposing filtering:</strong></em> The EU passed landmark legislation, the Digital Services Act, regarding how online platforms moderate user generated content. We <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/21/digital-services-act-is-the-eu-legislative-train-on-the-right-track/">raised concerns</a> about proposals to mandate filters, which fortunately did not make it into the final text, and we <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/04/25/creative-commons-welcomes-landmark-agreement-in-europe-on-digital-services-act/">supported</a> the enhanced accountability and transparency measures included in the text. Meanwhile, in the USA, Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/07/15/cc-still-opposes-mandatory-filtering-and-so-should-you/">joined a coalition of groups</a> concerned with legislation that would have mandated copyright filters.</li>
<li><em><strong>Policy paper on copyright, including AI:</strong></em> In our new policy paper titled “<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/04/04/cc-publishes-policy-paper-titled-towards-better-sharing-of-cultural-heritage-an-agenda-for-copyright-reform/">Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage — An Agenda for Copyright Reform</a>,” we advanced proposals to support cultural heritage institutions in making use of their collections for AI-training purposes, and in making AI-generated content available. In addition, CC’s Copyright Platform Working Group is working to update <a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/key-findings-of-the-creative-commons-working-group-on-copyright-and-ai-d8870956d50f">previous work</a> on the intersection of copyright and AI.</li>
<li><em><strong>Webinars: AI Inputs, Outputs and the Public Commons:</strong></em> We also sought to bring more visibility to issues around AI and copyright, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/02/experts-weigh-in-ai-inputs-ai-outputs-and-the-public-commons/">by hosting a series of webinars with experts</a>, one focused on how open works and better sharing intersect with AI inputs  — works used in training and supplying AI — and another focused on how open works and better sharing intersect with AI outputs — works generated by AI that are, could be, or should be participating in the open commons.</li>
</ul>
<h2>What’s Next</h2>
<p>Next year, we plan to build on this work in a number of ways. First, as AI tools for generating content have become more widely available, there are more and more questions about how copyright should apply. We will continue to engage in this debate to support better sharing. Second, as the EU’s institutions negotiate the final text of the AI Act, we will continue to actively engage and comment on the draft texts. We’ll also engage in similar debates in the UK, at the World Intellectual Property Organization, and elsewhere as opportunities arise.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66172
title: Our Work in Policy at CC: Data
uri: Our-Work-in-Policy-at-CC-Data
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/09/our-work-in-policy-at-cc-data/
content:
<blockquote><p>As the year comes to a close, we’re spotlighting Creative Commons’ public policy work, recapping what we’ve done and looking ahead to the new year. In this edition, we turn to our work on better sharing of data.</p></blockquote>
<figure id="attachment_66174" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66174" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66174" src="media/85dda130.NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-300x169.png" alt="Detail of a data visualization showing numerical dates and gold and burnt umber bars of different lengths representing values emanating from the center of a radial graph that ends up looking like a starburst." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66174" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/blprnt/3257552056/">NYTimes: Regulation and Innovation since 1981 (Radial)</a>” by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/blprnt/">Jer Thorp</a> is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a>; here modified by cropping.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The sharing of open data can be incredibly beneficial to society: facilitating enhanced scientific collaboration and reproducibility, increasing government and corporate transparency, and speeding the discovery and understanding of solutions to planetary and societal needs. Creative Commons has long championed open data, including in our recent launch of our <a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/">Open Climate Campaign</a> and our collaboration with partners to launch <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">The Movement for a Better Internet</a>.</p>
<p>Along with promoting open data, we also believe that other ways to share data better can help build the commons and support our mission of <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a>: sharing that is inclusive, just and equitable — where everyone has wide opportunity to access data and to contribute their own data as they see fit. Of course, not all sharing of data is beneficial; for instance, collection and use of one’s personal data can undermine a person’s choice, autonomy, and fundamental rights and raise real concerns. At the same time, there are other ways to share data beyond merely open data — such as by giving individuals control over sharing of their own data — that hold the potential for meaningful benefits.</p>
<h2>Creative Commons’ Approach to Data &amp; Public Policy</h2>
<p>Creative Commons’ advocacy on data sharing centers around the following key areas:</p>
<p><strong>Neither copyright nor related or <em>sui generis</em> rights should be used to raise barriers to the reuse and sharing of data.</strong> Data — that is, facts about subjects — has not traditionally been protected by intellectual property laws, in part, because of the negative consequences of granting legal monopolies over facts. Protecting facts with ownership rights locks up truths about the world, making the basic building blocks of creativity and innovation unavailable for anyone else to use other than their rightsholders, potentially for decades.</p>
<p><strong>People should be able to use, reuse, and share the data they generate when engaging with digital services.</strong> Public policy should enable data portability for the data people generate, particularly in contexts of dominant service providers that effectively act as gatekeepers in a market. Enabling portability can foster innovation in the marketplace by preventing users from being locked-in to particular services; unlock more value from the data by allowing others to use and build upon it; and can lead to creative new insights that may have been invisible to the initial data holder.</p>
<p><strong>Interoperability can help ensure individuals can access and share their data.</strong> While regulations may encourage or require data sharing, such sharing may be impossible or impractical because of differing data standards. Public policy can play an important role by facilitating or mandating interoperability. To that end, policy can support the development of clear, agreed-upon standards by which data can be shared across services.</p>
<p><strong>The public sector has a critical role to play in facilitating data uses for public purposes.</strong> Data collected by public bodies is a public asset, and, except where it’s subject to valid limitations (like privacy and security interests), should be made freely available for everyone to use, reuse, build upon, and share without restrictions. Similarly, databases and datasets that are produced using public funds should be open to the public, even if they were created by third parties. Moreover, public sector entities have a crucial role to play in unlocking access to business’ data in order to serve public purposes. Policy can empower the public sector to help build and steward a broader data commons, where both private sector and public bodies’ data can be accessed and used to public ends, and can encourage more collaboration between the public and private sectors regarding the use and sharing of data.</p>
<h2>CC’s Engagement on Data &amp; Public Policy in 2022</h2>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><em><strong>Engaging on data regulation in the EU:</strong></em> This year, the European Commission introduced the Data Act, as part of its broader data governance strategy. The Data Act is designed to rebalance control and power over data and hands more control back to consumers and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to more broadly unlock industrial data. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/24/thoughts-on-eu-data-act-proposal/#:~:text=The%20Data%20Act%20is%20designed,power%20over%20their%20own%20data.">We welcomed the Act</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/06/22/open-minds-podcast-special-episode-cc-roundtable-on-eu-data-act/">organized briefings on it</a>, and have advocated before policymakers to strengthen provisions around interoperability and business-to-government data sharing, among other matters.</li>
<li aria-level="1"><em><strong>Supporting open access in the USA:</strong></em> The United States White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/26/a-big-win-for-open-access/">issued guidance to all US federal agencies</a> requiring federally funded research and research data to be made available to the public to access and reuse. We have long advocated for the importance of open access to publicly funded research data, and this is an important step toward building a better open commons of data that serves the public. We welcome this decision by the OSTP, and we look forward to working with US federal agencies to develop their public access plans.</li>
<li aria-level="1"><em><strong>Ensuring data sharing is part of infrastructure policy in the UK:</strong></em> We submitted comments to the UK Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy’s open consultation <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/enabling-a-national-cyber-physical-infrastructure-to-catalyse-innovation">Enabling a national Cyber-Physical Infrastructure to catalyse innovation</a>. We argued to remove barriers to information and promote the sharing of data and knowledge by educators, activists, advocates, librarians, educators, lawyers, technologists, scientists and more.</li>
<li aria-level="1"><em><strong>Exploring standards for sharing climate data:</strong></em> Through our work on the <a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/">Open Climate Campaign</a>, we have seen how large climate change datasets are distributed and not easily accessible to climate researchers and policy makers, due to a combination of varying technical formats and confusing legal terms of use. This year, we have begun to explore what it would take to develop a sharing standard for climate data (similar to the <a href="https://digitalpublicgoods.net/standard">Digital Public Goods Standard</a> that CC helped create), and are looking at how this effort could be sufficiently resourced.</li>
</ul>
<h2>What’s Next</h2>
<p>In the coming year, we’ll continue to engage on specific legislation like the EU’s Data Act and campaign for ensuring that data can be put to critical public-interest purposes, including through our Open Climate Campaign. While the Data Act has requirements for business-to-government sharing in certain limited public policy circumstances, it’s also worth thinking about how to support public service entities in building and stewarding a broader data commons. Groups like Open Future and others have <a href="https://openfuture.eu/publication/data-commons-primer/">elaborated</a> on this concept, and, for our part, CC’s Copyright Platform Working Group 2 “Digital Sharing Spaces” will be publishing a comparative mapping of the legal landscape for data sharing for research purposes across the US and EU. The European Commission has signaled that progress on health and mobility data spaces is a priority, and we look forward to contributing to these and other efforts.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66185
title: As European Council Adopts AI Act Position, Questions Remain on GPAI
uri: As-European-Council-Adopts-AI-Act-Position-Questions-Remain-on-GPAI
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/13/as-european-council-adopts-ai-act-position-questions-remain-on-gpai/

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<figure id="attachment_65965" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65965" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-65965 size-medium" src="media/dfa38dd7.EUAI-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-300x169.png" alt="An abstract European Union flag of diffused gold stars linked by golden neural pathways on a deep blue mottled background." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65965" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;EU Flag Neural Network&#8221; by Creative Commons was cropped from an image generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt &#8220;European Union flag neural network.&#8221; OpenAI asserts ownership of DALL-E generated images; Creative Commons dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>As we’ve discussed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/05/ccs-engagement-on-eus-artificial-intelligence-act/">before</a>, the European Union has been considering a new <a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/proposal-regulation-laying-down-harmonised-rules-artificial-intelligence">AI Act</a>, which would regulate certain uses of artificial intelligence (AI). In particular, it seeks to ban certain uses of AI, such as broad-based real-time biometric identification for law enforcement in public places, and to ensure that certain precautions are taken before deployment of uses deemed “high-risk.”</p>
<p>Last week, the European Council <a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/12/06/artificial-intelligence-act-council-calls-for-promoting-safe-ai-that-respects-fundamental-rights/">adopted its position</a> on the Act. This is an important milestone, and the next step is for the European Parliament to form a common position, expected in early 2023, so that the positions of those two institutions and the European Commission can then be negotiated into a final, joint position during the so-called “trilogue” phase of the process.</p>
<p>While the AI Act covers a number of important issues, CC has focused on two aspects of AI regulation. First, while copyright’s relationship to AI is not core to this proposal, it is important that policymakers understand that appropriate limits on copyright are necessary to serve the public interest. Originality and human authorship must remain essential to the granting of copyright or other related exclusive rights over creative works, and content generated with minimal human input by AI does not meet those standards. What’s more, training AI on copyrighted works should not be limited by copyright law. Happily, the AI Act does not interfere with these basic premises.</p>
<p>Second, we’ve focused on ensuring that the AI Act takes a tailored approach to general purpose artificial intelligence (GPAI) and, in particular, the sharing and use of open source tools. We believe this is particularly important to get right, given the fact that GPAI can be an input into myriad different uses, including AI tools for generating content like GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion.</p>
<p>Because GPAI is by definition a multi-purpose tool, it may be impractical for GPAI developers to implement risk management in ways suited for narrowly defined, “high risk” AI uses. In turn, imposing the same rules on GPAI creators may create significant barriers to innovation and drive market concentration, leading the development of AI to only occur within a small number of large, well-resourced commercial operators. When it comes to open-source GPAI, overly broad regulation may be particularly harmful, as open source is critical to lowering barriers to AI development, and open-source developers have even more limited ability to control how their works are shared and re-used.</p>
<p>While there are a wide range of views on how best to address GPAI, the best approach, we believe, would be for legislators and regulations to focus on ensuring GPAI creators provide information to downstream users so that they can comply when implementing “high risk uses.” When GPAI creators and users have an ongoing relationship, the AI Act could require ongoing information exchange and cooperation in service of compliance, with requirements tailored to the different actors’ roles. When it comes to open source, the Act should take a proportionate approach, ensuring developers make information available to downstream users in support of their compliance, but otherwise not regulating open-source software or creating the expectation that open-source developers can control or be responsible for downstream use.</p>
<p>On this GPAI topic, the Council’s approach appears to go further, while still leaving many questions open. The Council’s text applies many of the risk management requirements for “high risk” AI uses to all GPAI services. At the same time, how these requirements will be specifically applied is left to further “implementing acts” (secondary legislation) that the European Commission will craft in the future, and the text recognizes the need to tailor requirements in a proportionate manner to GPAI’s distinct elements. Whilst we appreciate the complexity in drafting future-proof primary legislation of this nature, the potential delay in clarity regarding the technical application of the GPAI provisions may constitute a significant barrier to innovation and sharing. To the extent possible, this should be avoided.</p>
<p>We’re glad to see that further care will be taken on this subject, although this approach leaves a considerable amount of uncertainty for developers at the moment. With that in mind, we would urge the Parliament to continue to refine the proposal to ensure responsibilities are allocated in a way that supports GPAI development, especially when it comes to open-source developers, so as to ensure AI’s potential can benefit society.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66204
title: CC Publishes Global Open Culture Call to Action to Policymakers
uri: CC-Publishes-Global-Open-Culture-Call-to-Action-to-Policymakers
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/19/cc-publishes-global-open-culture-call-to-action-to-policymakers/

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<figure id="attachment_66208" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66208" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66208 size-medium" src="media/359fca88.DP805782-300x223.jpeg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DP805782-300x223.jpeg" alt="An abstract watercolor painting of a garden titled The Artist’s Garden at Saint-Clair by Henri-Edmond Cross" width="300" height="223" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DP805782-300x223.jpeg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DP805782-1024x762.jpeg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DP805782-768x572.jpeg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DP805782-1536x1144.jpeg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DP805782-2048x1525.jpeg 2048w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DP805782-54x40.jpeg 54w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DP805782-50x37.jpeg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DP805782-208x155.jpeg 208w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DP805782-1200x894.jpeg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66208" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/original/">The Artist’s Garden at Saint-Clair by Henri-Edmond Cross</a>, The Metropolitan Museum; Public Domain</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since its creation in 2001, Creative Commons (CC) has helped release nearly 5 million digital open images of cultural heritage held in cultural heritage institutions using CC tools. We have also been promoting open culture to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world, and it is based on this rich experience that our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> now supports </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/05/24/announcing-our-20th-anniversary-better-sharing-campaign/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of cultural heritage globally.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we are proud at CC to announce the publication of </span><a href="media/cb9748bc.-heritage--A-Creative-Commons-Call-to-Action-to-Policymakers.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Towards-better-sharing-of-cultural-heritage-—-A-Creative-Commons-Call-to-Action-to-Policymakers.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b><i>Towards better sharing of cultural heritage — A Creative Commons Call to Action to Policymakers</i></b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a simple, concise, and accessible resource that aims to support policymakers with key arguments to reform policy — in particular copyright — to achieve better sharing of cultural heritage in the public interest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Drafted by a small group of open culture advocates of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform-activity-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Copyright Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — Shanna Hollich (CC US), Emine Ozge Yildirim (KU Leuven), Maarten Zeinstra (CC Netherlands) and Brigitte Vézina (Director of Policy and Open Culture) — this resource: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">summarizes key takeaways from the 2022 CC policy paper “</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/04/04/cc-publishes-policy-paper-titled-towards-better-sharing-of-cultural-heritage-an-agenda-for-copyright-reform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage — An Agenda for Copyright Reform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">applies the lessons learned during a CC </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/05/17/virtual-workshop-recap-towards-better-sharing-of-cultural-heritage/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">virtual workshop for policy experts and open culture enthusiasts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> held in May 2022, and;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">distills numerous conversations with and by the CC open culture community held between June and October 2022, as well as direct document input gathering ideas, feedback and real-life examples.<br />
</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This publication offers a basis for a shared vision on better sharing and makes a call for five actions: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ACTION 1: Protect the public domain from erosion</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ACTION 2: Reduce the term of copyright protection</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ACTION 3: Legally allow necessary activities of cultural heritage institutions</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ACTION 4: Shield cultural heritage institutions from liability</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ACTION 5: Ensure respect, equity, and inclusivity</span></span></li>
</ul>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="media/cb9748bc.-heritage--A-Creative-Commons-Call-to-Action-to-Policymakers.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Towards-better-sharing-of-cultural-heritage-—-A-Creative-Commons-Call-to-Action-to-Policymakers.pdf"><b>Read the full document &gt;</b></a></h3>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll be presenting the publication at Open Nederland’s Public Domain Day 2023 on January 13, 2023, at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague. More information and registration for this hybrid event: </span><a href="https://publiekdomeindag.nl/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://publiekdomeindag.nl/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img src="media/b990fca8.1f449.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f449.png" alt="👉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Do you want to know more about open culture at Creative Commons? Write to us at </span><a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66227
title: Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Funds New CC Initiative to Open Large Climate Datasets
uri: Patrick-J-McGovern-Foundation-Funds-New-CC-Initiative-to-Open-Large-C
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/19/patrick-j-mcgovern-foundation-funds-new-cc-initiative-to-open-large-climate-datasets/

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<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-66229 size-full" src="media/335395d8.CC-PJMF-blog.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-PJMF-blog.png" alt="" width="900" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-PJMF-blog.png 900w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-PJMF-blog-300x100.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-PJMF-blog-768x256.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-PJMF-blog-120x40.png 120w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-PJMF-blog-50x17.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-PJMF-blog-270x90.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, Creative Commons (CC) is excited to announce one million US dollars in new programmatic support from the <a href="https://www.mcgovern.org/">Patrick J. McGovern Foundation</a> (PJMF) to help open large climate datasets. The twelve-month grant will enable CC to conduct key climate data landscape analyses and expand our work, bringing people together to create policy and practices to open data that advances climate research and innovation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We are delighted to have been awarded this new programmatic support to help us play our part in solving one of humanity&#8217;s greatest challenges, the climate crisis,” said <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/">Catherine Stihler</a>, CC CEO. “By opening up large datasets, we open endless possibilities to further knowledge and greater understanding of the causes and solutions to our climate crisis.”</span></p>
<blockquote><p>“By opening up large datasets, we open endless possibilities to further knowledge and greater understanding of the causes and solutions to our climate crisis.”</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The work funded by PJMF will complement activities already underway with CC and our partners in the </span><a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Climate Campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a multi-year project to promote open access to research to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Providing scale, accuracy, and granularity, data assets like the ones this partnership makes possible will serve as transformational tools in achieving climate goals and protecting our planet and community,&#8221; said <a href="https://www.mcgovern.org/about-president-vilas-s-dhar/">Vilas Dhar</a>, President of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. “Our work with Creative Commons advances and accelerates the creation of such open data sets and leverages the best knowledge we have today to create a better future for tomorrow.”</span></p>
<blockquote><p>“Providing scale, accuracy, and granularity, data assets like the ones this partnership makes possible will serve as transformational tools in achieving climate goals and protecting our planet and community.<span style="font-weight: 400;">”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We are so pleased to have our climate work further supported by the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation,” said <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/cablecreativecommons-org/">Dr. Cable Green</a>, CC Director of Open Knowledge. “Opening large climate datasets is essential to our strategy to support </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which includes helping scientists share all the components of their research &#8211; including their data &#8211; to support reproducibility and further inquiry.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC will be recruiting soon for a new person to join our team, working on opening large climate datasets. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you want to help with this work? Please keep an eye on our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/team/opportunities/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">job opportunities</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/19/patrick-j-mcgovern-foundation-funds-new-cc-initiative-to-open-large-climate-datasets/">Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Funds New CC Initiative to Open Large Climate Datasets</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66203
title: CC at 20: CEO Catherine Stihler Reflects on 2022 and Where CC Is Headed Next
uri: CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-on-2022-and-Where-CC-Is-Heade
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/20/cc-at-20-ceo-catherine-stihler-reflects-on-2022-and-where-cc-is-headed-next/

content:
<figure id="attachment_66206" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66206" style="width: 375px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66206" src="media/0dc5b715.CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080-300x300.png" alt="Headshot of Catherine Stihler, wearing a black topw with a white CC logo with a tree in the background." width="375" height="375" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080-1024x1024.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080-768x768.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1080-x-1080.png 1080w" sizes="(max-width: 375px) 85vw, 375px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66206" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Catherine Stihler” by </span><a href="http://martinshields.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Martin Shields</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/05/join-us-to-celebrate-20-years-of-creative-commons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY 4.0</span></a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last Friday (16 December 2022), Creative Commons proudly celebrated twenty years of CC licensing and all the groundbreaking collaboration it has enabled. As we look back on this remarkable journey, time seems to pass more quickly than ever — yet our gratitude for each milestone remains unwavering, as do words of thanks towards everyone who helped make it possible.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team, network, and community of Creative Commons have so much to be proud of in 2022. We celebrated our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/05/20cc/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">20th anniversary with community events</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> around the world and an </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/creativecommons/albums/72177720304291684/with/52549683523/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">in-person party in San Francisco</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In these two decades, CC revolutionized the copyright landscape, creating an open access alternative to traditional &#8220;all rights reserved&#8221; restrictions. Today, this system continues to empower a new era of online sharing and collaboration that has transformed our global digital landscape. Now two and a half billion pieces of content have been freed up because our open licenses and public domain tools empower creators, researchers, librarians, archivists, musicians, artists, educators, students, and individuals globally to share content openly. We are so proud of our key relationships, where our licenses are used every second to share knowledge and culture on platforms like Wikipedia, YouTube, and Flickr. And now in new spaces, we saw our public domain tools celebrating the #CC0Summer in 2022, where NFT artists used our licenses to place their creations in the commons.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC has made a dramatic new commitment to tackling the climate crisis this year. We&#8217;ve taken an ambitious leap forward by launching our </span><a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Climate Campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in partnership with EIFL and SPARC, turning open sharing of research outputs into a cornerstone of climate science. Huge thank you goes to the Open Society Foundations, whose initial seed funding led to a four-year funding award from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. CC has a huge role to play in opening up knowledge that can help solve humanity’s greatest challenge. We were thrilled to receive a further one million dollars by the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/19/patrick-j-mcgovern-foundation-funds-new-cc-initiative-to-open-large-climate-datasets/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">McGovern Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to expand our efforts and do more in 2023 to open large climate data sets. We are currently recruiting for an Open Climate Data Manager. Please do come and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/team/opportunities/job-opportunity-open-climate-data-manager/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">join our team at CC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if you too want to play your part in solving the world&#8217;s greatest challenge.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We were also one of the seven organizing partners who joined forces to launch the </span><a href="https://www.movementforabetterinternet.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Movement for a Better Internet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a diverse community of advocates, activists, academics, and civil society groups working together to promote policies that create a better internet for people everywhere. We&#8217;ve made a great start in our mission to build an inspiring movement — with 60 committed partners and the launch of an acclaimed hub in October. The internet is at an inflection point, with many people and organizations prioritizing public interest values over eyeballs, attention and profit. With the Musk-led takeover of Twitter, the new Online Harms Bill in UK Parliament, upcoming implementation of the EU&#8217;s DMA and DSA, as well as potential Supreme Court rulings on Section 230 set for 2023 — there is certainly a lot to do. We were delighted to join both the </span><a href="https://unfinished.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfinished Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><a href="https://globalgoalsweek.org/partners/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UN Global Goals Week Coalition</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and were proud to be chosen as a </span><a href="https://discovermap.org/map-fellowship/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Morgridge Family Foundation organization for the fellow/mentor programme</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC has been following the crucial debates on data and AI in the EU as policy becomes law and where better sharing, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">our strategic theme</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, came under scrutiny. We have </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/better-internet/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">written more on data and AI</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> than we had ever planned for, because there is just so much to reflect on and be challenged by. We must continue to pursue these policy areas into 2023, particularly giving a global perspective, so that our strategic theme of better sharing may continue and prosper. Our tireless commitment and passion for </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/education-oer/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Education</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2022 positioned us to further the CC mission of leveraging open licenses, open access policies, and open education opportunities. Our Open Education Platform community made a lasting impression with </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/10/cc-open-education-platform-lightning-talks-recordings-and-request-for-speakers/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">two rounds of electrifying Lightning Talks</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Their seven-minute presentations were full of inspiring stories and the latest updates in open education!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another highlight was partnering with </span><a href="https://fineacts.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fine Acts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to commission </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the #BetterSharing collection</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of illustrations, inspired by quotes about Better Sharing from 12 prominent global open advocates. These CC-licensed visual pieces were created by 12 internationally renowned artists and shared on </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheGreats.co</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, an open repository of free illustrations focused on social justice issues.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform-activity-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Copyright Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> continues to highlight the global nature of the continuing copyright challenge, and our Open Culture program is going from strength to strength. A key highlight this year was launching our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Voices</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> series, featuring distinguished global cultural heritage professionals, which engaged 3 million people across multiple platforms. We hosted and attended numerous webinars, expert talks, panel discussions &amp; community gatherings. Additionally, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/05/04/eight-case-studies-show-opportunities-challenges-and-needs-of-low-capacity-and-non-western-cultural-heritage-institutions/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">we released eight case studies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that demonstrated the opportunities available for underrepresented &amp; marginalized organizations, while our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/04/04/cc-publishes-policy-paper-titled-towards-better-sharing-of-cultural-heritage-an-agenda-for-copyright-reform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">policy paper on copyright reform provided a roadmap towards better sharing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of culture resources around the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year saw our Open Journalism program pilot launch to great success — culminating in a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/04/08/global-report-on-journalism-released/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">global report on the state of journalism</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that uncovered the struggles of combating misinformation and bridging the divide between press and public. We look forward to expanding our work in Open Journalism in 2023.  This seems timely, as 2024 is set to be the year of elections across the world, from India to the US, the EU to Mexico, Indonesia to the UK and many more. If we want to uphold global democracy, supporting quality journalism has never been so important.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, like all our programmatic work, none of this would happen if it were not for the licenses. I hope in 2023 we will be able to secure dedicated funding to support our license infrastructure, because in supporting our licenses, all other open projects are supported, from publicly funded scientific research to all Wikipedia pages. Without CC, you could not share in the same way globally — something we need to be more intentional about in 2023 — sharing our intrinsic value and promoting the organization in new places and spaces. If we join forces and prioritize better sharing in the public interest, we can make great strides in tackling the most pressing issues of our time. Our value is everywhere, and it is our responsibility to advance CC’s impact and promote our work to a new generation of open knowledge enthusiasts and advocates.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2022, we met our 20th Anniversary fundraising goal, we launched two new programs, and were involved in policy deliberations at the EU in a way we have never been before. Our signature Open Culture program continued to make great strides in the global cultural heritage space. In 2023, we want to build on this success with our first in-person </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Global Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 4 years, which will be held in Mexico City the first week of October. This landmark event will explore emerging technologies and CC’s role in creating a more open world where everyone can thrive. Enjoy the holiday season, and wishing you all the best for 2023.</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make a contribution to support CC</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons empowers people, institutions, and governments to share content openly to advance knowledge, equity, and creativity for everyone, everywhere. As we look ahead to the next 20 years, our focus is on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable. As a nonprofit, we rely on contributions from people like you. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/donate"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make a contribution of any size &gt;</span></a></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-66141 size-full" src="media/c2b56d27.20CCWordmark.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CCWordmark.png" alt="A large black and white 20, where the 0 is the Creative Commons icon, followed by the Creative Commons wordmark." width="1600" height="330" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CCWordmark.png 1600w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CCWordmark-300x62.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CCWordmark-1024x211.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CCWordmark-768x158.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CCWordmark-1536x317.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CCWordmark-140x29.png 140w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CCWordmark-50x10.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CCWordmark-270x56.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CCWordmark-1200x248.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/20/cc-at-20-ceo-catherine-stihler-reflects-on-2022-and-where-cc-is-headed-next/">CC at 20: CEO Catherine Stihler Reflects on 2022 and Where CC Is Headed Next</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66272
title: Creative Commons (CC) Certificate: available in French and Spanish!
uri: Creative-Commons-(CC)-Certificate-available-in-French-and-Spanish
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/06/creative-commons-cc-certificate-available-in-french-and-spanish/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-66273" src="media/9d7a9262.CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-300x169.png" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />The </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> program offers training covering open licensing and the ethos of sharing. All CC Certificate content is openly licensed and built with the intention of adaptation and remix. While CC currently offers Certificate courses to address (1) educators, (2) academic librarians, and (3) cultural heritage communities (also known as GLAM: galleries, libraries, archives and museums), everyone is welcome. We seek opportunities to share and adapt the course content for different cultures, languages and countries — leveraging its Creative Commons Attribution licensing (CC BY). The more audiences for whom the content resonates, the greater the impact of our open licensing training.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons proudly presents the latest translations of the CC Certificate course content. Thanks to the translation efforts of CC Certificate graduates and additional translators below, a total of </span><b>569 million</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> people will have access to the educational resources in their native languages. These published works enable </span><b>493 million native Spanish speakers</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><b>76 million native French speakers</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to access translations in their languages — not to mention others who have Spanish or French as a second language. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_66276" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66276" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66276" src="media/ed4b2da0.1.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1.png" alt="" width="200" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66276" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MIo4YfXSiMn13iTj-pgjiWiCTlBpE2h4/view">Nicolas Simon – Creative Commons 2022</a>” by Nicolas Simon is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Nicolas Simon</strong> offered the first iteration of our French translation. Nicolas Simon is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, and Social Work at Eastern Connecticut State University. He graduated from the CC Certificate for Educators course in 2022.</span></p>
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<p>The following individuals engaged in a two-week “translation sprint” using open source software, built for translations:</p>
<figure id="attachment_66277" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66277" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66277" style="font-weight: 400;" src="media/19e46c6e.2.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2.png" alt="" width="200" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66277" class="wp-caption-text">Photo courtesy of Carlos</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Carlos E. Ferrero</strong> is an ATA certified English into Spanish translator. He was a financial analyst for La Banque Française et Italienne pour L&#8217;Amérique du Sud in Caracas and the Citizens &amp; Southern National Bank in Atlanta, GA.</span></span></p>
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<figure id="attachment_66278" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66278" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66278" src="media/394e8061.3.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/3.png" alt="" width="200" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/3.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/3-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/3-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/3-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/3-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66278" class="wp-caption-text">Photo courtesy of Emma</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Emma Miliani</strong> is </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Linguistics Full Professor at Carabobo University, Valencia Venezuela. (Now retired). Milani taught English and Spanish at </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Università della Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy, after leaving Venezuela.<br />
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<figure id="attachment_66279" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66279" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66279" src="media/105cc95d.4.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/4.png" alt="" width="200" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/4.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/4-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/4-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/4-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/4-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66279" class="wp-caption-text">Photo courtesy of Hector</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Hector Teran Torres (also known as Hecter)</strong> is a Professor in the Engineering Faculty at Simon Bolivar University, Colombia.  He is passionate about the SDGs and Creative Commons. He likes to share knowledge, teach computer science, volunteer, inspire his students and ride his bike.  Hector was part of the inaugural CC Certificate BETA class for Educators, and graduated in 2019.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">⎯⎯</p>
<figure id="attachment_66280" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66280" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66280" src="media/edd27bcf.5.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/5.png" alt="" width="200" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/5.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/5-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/5-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/5-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/5-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66280" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/43a43975.FileTata_mendez.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tata_mendez.jpg">Tata Méndez</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Talia Méndez Mahecha (</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>also known as Tata)</strong> is a digital creative. She is a PhD student at Western University studying Media Studies. Her experience includes consulting for libraries, museums, and historical memory projects, including the National Library of Colombia and the Colombian Truth Commission. Currently, she serves as research assistant to the projects </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Surviving Memory in Post War El Salvador” and “Google Arts &amp; Culture – Assessment of Collection”. Tata graduated from the CC Certificate for Open Culture / GLAM (Galeries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) in 2022.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">⎯⎯</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_66281" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66281" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66281" src="media/30585274.6.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/6.png" alt="" width="200" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/6.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/6-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/6-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/6-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/6-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66281" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">Txtdgtl</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Jackeline Bucio</strong> currently serves as Deputy Director in the Online high school &amp; MOOC area at the Open University, Educational Innovation and Distance Education Department (CUAIEED), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She also works actively in the use of Wikipedia in educational contexts (WMMX).  Jackeline graduated from the CC Certificate for Educators in 2022. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">⎯⎯</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carlos Ferrero, Emma Miliani and Hector Teran Torres revised the drafted translation following the sprint, providing the final version. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Both translations are available on the </span><a href="http://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/translations/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Initial complete translations like these are the first step in making Certificate materials useful for more people. While Creative Commons does not vet translations or update them with our annual content updates, we are proud to share these big first steps to localize the core CC Certificate content. We celebrate having the CC Certificate materials now available in nine languages: Arabic, Burmese, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish and Yoruba!</span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Want to get involved? </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are interested in translating CC Certificate content in a different language or creating an audio version of the content in 2023, please be in touch. We have some funding for translation work in 2023, and hope to work with you.<br />
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also look forward to working with Nicolas Simon and other native French speakers on a revision process for the French translation in 2023, to ensure the translation is useful to a range of French speaking communities beyond France. Please contact </span><a href="mailto:jennryn@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">jennryn@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if you are interested in either of these opportunities. </span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66298
title: Celebrate Public Domain Day 2023 with Us: The Best Things in Life Are Free
uri: Celebrate-Public-Domain-Day-2023-with-Us-The-Best-Things-in-Life-Are
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/09/celebrate-public-domain-day-2023-with-us-the-best-things-in-life-are-free/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-66299 size-large" src="media/ac37e33f.unnamed-17-1024x512.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17-1024x512.png" alt="an image with music sheets in the background layered with two people dancing, and text that reads “THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE” and “PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY JANUARY 2023”" width="840" height="420" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17-1024x512.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17-300x150.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17-768x384.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17-1536x768.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17-80x40.png 80w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17-270x135.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17-1200x600.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" />Join Creative Commons, Internet Archive, and many other leaders from the open world to celebrate Public Domain Day 2023. As of January 2023, a treasure trove of new cultural works has become as free as the moon and the stars — at least in the USA and many other countries. And what better way to get us feeling inspired than recalling those timeless lyrics of the 1927 hit musical composition: &#8220;</span><a href="https://archive.org/details/bestthingsinlife00june/mode/2up"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Best Things In Life Are Free</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;. We agree! That’s why we made it our theme. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year ushered in a wealth of creative works published in 1927 into the Public Domain, which now contribute to our cultural heritage. Iconic authors like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf, silent film classics like the controversial </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Jazz Singer</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with Al Jolson and Fritz Lang’s dystopian </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Metropolis</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and snappy musical compositions like “You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream”.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can welcome new public domain works and celebrate with us in three ways:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Join us for a virtual party on 19 January 2023 at 1pm PST / 4pm EST / 9pm UTC</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where we will celebrate our theme, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Best Things In Life Are Free</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with a host of entertainers, historians, librarians, academics, activists and other leaders from the open world, including additional sponsoring organizations Library Futures, SPARC, Authors Alliance, Public Knowledge, and the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain. </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-domain-day-virtual-party-tickets-477668177377"><b>REGISTER FOR THE VIRTUAL EVENT</b></a><b><b>!</b></b>&nbsp;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>The Internet Archive will also host an in-person Film Remix Contest Screening Party on 20 January 2023 at 6pm at 300 Funston Ave in San Francisco.</b><span> We will celebrate 1927 as the founding year of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, while watching this year’s Public Domain Day </span><a href="https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/public-domain-day-2023-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/"><span>Remix Contest</span></a><span> winning entries, eating popcorn and ice cream. Come dressed in your best golden age of Hollywood inspired costume, and walk the red carpet with the Internet Archive as we celebrate the entry of “talkies” into the public domain. </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-domain-day-party-in-san-francisco-tickets-477675589547"><b>REGISTER FOR THE IN-PERSON PARTY IN SAN FRANCISCO</b></a><b><b>!</b></b>&nbsp;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Celebrate Public Domain Day 2023 with the Internet Archive through creative expression! </b><span>Artists of all levels are invited to submit short films 2-3 minutes in length crafted from  resources from the Internet Archive’s collections from 1927. The uploaded videos will be judged and prizes of up to $1500 awarded. All submissions must be in by Midnight, 16 January 2023 (PST). </span><a href="http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/30/public-domain-day-2023-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/"><b>SUBMIT AN ENTRY OR FIND OUT MORE</b></a><span>!</span></li>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66303
title: 2022 in Review: a Look at Creative Commons’ Open Culture Program
uri: 2022-in-Review-a-Look-at-Creative-Commons-Open-Culture-Program
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/11/2022-in-review-a-look-at-creative-commons-open-culture-program/

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<figure id="attachment_66306" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66306" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66306 size-large" src="media/483309fe.Open-Culture-1024x576.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture-1024x576.png" alt="image of a white CC open culture logo in the left corner on top of an illustration of a person sitting by a window and reading a newspaper" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66306" class="wp-caption-text">A cropped version of <span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/37667416@N04/4052591576"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8216;Espejo exterior o espía&#8217;.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/37667416@N04"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is marked with </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain Mark 1.0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span>with a white CC open culture logo</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">2022 was quite a year for the Creative Commons (CC) </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture Program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, thanks to generous funding from </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/06/03/creative-commons-receives-5m-grant-from-arcadia-to-advance-open-access-at-galleries-libraries-archives-and-museums/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing &amp; Peter Baldwin</span></a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">and the </span><a href="https://www.kressfoundation.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Samuel H. Kress Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In this blog post, we take a look back at some of the year’s highlights in our program’s four components: Policy, Infrastructure, Capacity building, and Community engagement. </span></p>
<h3><b>Policy </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Engaging with UNESCO to promote open culture in the framework of MONDIACULT 2022, we hosted </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/15/panel-resiliart-x-mondiacult-from-access-to-culture-to-contemporary-creativity/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UNESCO ResiliArt x Mondiacult – From Access to Culture to Contemporary Creativity</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in February and heard from </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/28/webinar-recording-resiliart-x-mondiacult-from-access-to-culture-to-contemporary-creativity/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">artists, creators, and curators</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> about how open access is an essential ingredient for vibrant cultural life. In September, we delivered the keynote at </span><a href="https://ccemx.org/evento/foro-internacional-digitalizar-en-comun-formas-distribuidas-de-propiedad-y-autoria-culturales-virtual/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digitalizar en común: formas distribuidas de propiedad y autoría culturales</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> organized by CC México — you can </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ccemx.org/videos/426694442862904/?extid=WA-UNK-UNK-UNK-AN_GK0T-GK1C-GK2T"><span style="font-weight: 400;">watch the recording on Facebook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — and called participants to MONDIACULT 2022 to support </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/28/unesco-mondiacult2022-a-starting-point-for-open-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing of cultural heritage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1576977044902383616?s=20&amp;t=XrEw6XGiC7Fs4AjZAaGRWg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">welcomed the Mexico City Declaration for Culture</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, declaring culture a global public good, and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/27/cc-celebrates-30-years-of-unesco-memory-of-the-world/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">celebrated UNESCO’s Memory of the World’s 30th anniversary</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Members of the open culture community from both the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform-activity-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC copyright platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC open culture platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> alongside global supporters co-drafted the policy paper </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/open-culture-policy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage — An Agenda for Copyright Reform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, published in April, to serve as a reference point for the community’s advocacy work in copyright reform in the cultural heritage context. It is available in 6 languages, and more translations are coming. The paper was the basis for discussion during a virtual </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/05/17/virtual-workshop-recap-towards-better-sharing-of-cultural-heritage/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">workshop</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in May, which paved the way for the development of a guide for policymakers </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/19/cc-publishes-global-open-culture-call-to-action-to-policymakers/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Towards better sharing of cultural heritage — A Creative Commons Call to Action to Policymakers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, released in December. We will be presenting the guide at </span><a href="https://publiekdomeindag.nl/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Nederland’s Public Domain Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on January 13, 2023, among other events.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/05/16/cc-at-sccr-42-a-look-back-at-the-wipo-copyright-meeting/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">pushed for better exceptions and limitations for cultural heritage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in international copyright law at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) in May, and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/07/04/cc-expresses-views-on-italian-national-cultural-heritage-digitization-plan/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">expressed our views on Italy’s national cultural heritage digitization plan</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which found an echo in our joint statement with Communia for protecting the public domain in the </span><a href="https://communia-association.org/2022/10/25/the-uffizi-vs-jean-paul-gaultier/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">case opposing the Uffizi gallery in Florence to French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.  </span></p>
<h3><b>Infrastructure</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Public Domain Day, January 1, 2022, we launched the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1480902490442842117?s=20"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Public Domain Tools in GLAMs – Needs Assessment</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to probe needs around CC tools in the cultural heritage sector, notably galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs). A survey was shared in English, French and Spanish, and gathered 133 responses from 43 countries on five continents. We are currently processing the data and will soon publish a report and roadmap for future action. Watch this space! </span></p>
<h3><b>Capacity building</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">January marked the launch of the first </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture/GLAM Certificate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> cohort of 20 participants from six countries. And in February, CC made </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1493948173949284357?s=20&amp;t=2cJkkVpkpQ21n5vwP7R5bA"><span style="font-weight: 400;">scholarships</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> available for the June and September Certificate courses. The scholarships enabled participants from eight countries to take the June Certificate alone — including colleagues from Open Future, Wikimedia Italy, University of Leeds, the Wasila Museum, and other academic and research institutions. Thinking about enrolling in our next CC Certificate cohort? Check out this </span><a href="https://t.co/6iPcXl9qXd"><span style="font-weight: 400;">interview with Revekka Kefalea</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a graduate of the CC Certificate for GLAM, and read what </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/testimonials/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">people say about CC Certificate courses.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can </span><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/2023-cc-certificate-course-registration/e421240"><span style="font-weight: 400;">register for a 2023 course for open Culture/GLAM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. To access a 60% scholarship for a Certificate for Open Culture/GLAM course, simply (1) select a Certificate for “Open Culture” course from</span><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/2023-cc-certificate-course-registration/e421240"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">the 2023 list of courses</span></a><b>. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">When registering for a course: (2) Select the option to “add promo code” and type in: </span><b>Y2GLAMSCHOLAR60%. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">That will provide you with a </span><b>60%</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> discount on registration, while tickets last. Note: there are no refunds on scholarship tickets.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also offer on-demand training and consulting services. Reach out (</span><a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) to find out more.</span></p>
<h3><b>Community engagement </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout the year, we facilitated the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a space for heritage professionals and open advocates to share resources. We held monthly calls and organized several collaboration opportunities, including six working groups tackling emerging issues, such as traditional knowledge and copyright, heritage materials from community-driven initiatives, contemporary archiving of cultural heritage, “attribution” models for public domain materials, a glossary and bibliography of open culture, and the ethics of open sharing. Interested in joining the platform? Read a few </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/12/members-share-their-experiences-with-the-cc-open-culture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">members’ experiences</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of taking part in platform activities, and </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">become a member</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> yourself! Keep an eye out for the working groups’ reports and webinar recordings, coming soon on </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC’s Medium</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In January, we launched CC </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/voices-vlog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture VOICES</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a multilingual series of 35 </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">short interviews</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with dozens of distinguished experts from around the world — historians, researchers, activists, curators, professors, and many others — which engaged 3 million people across multiple platforms. Stay tuned for Season 2, a whole series of new episodes to be released in the coming months! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also published eight </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/05/04/eight-case-studies-show-opportunities-challenges-and-needs-of-low-capacity-and-non-western-cultural-heritage-institutions/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">community case studies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which show some of the opportunities, challenges, and needs of low-capacity and non-Western cultural heritage institutions. This helped us discover diverse and inclusive avenues of engagement with the global community, as well as generate a more global, inclusive, and equitable picture and understanding of open culture. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Valentine’s Day, February 14, we launched the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/14/cc-open-culture-remix-art-contest-2022-ccsharesculture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture Remix Art Contest</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> calling on artists to remix public domain or openly licensed works from open GLAM collections. Not only did this showcase contemporary creativity, it also canvassed the importance of CC’s infrastructure for the dissemination and revitalization of culture. Take a look at the 1st place winner’s work:  </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-66308 size-large" src="media/22cfcb1f.unnamed-18-1024x845.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-18-1024x845.png" alt="" width="840" height="693" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-18-1024x845.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-18-300x248.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-18-768x634.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-18-48x40.png 48w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-18-50x41.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-18-188x155.png 188w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-18.png 1064w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In July, we published a comprehensive report on the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/07/22/what-are-the-barriers-to-open-culture-heres-what-the-cc-community-has-to-say/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barriers to Open Culture</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which lays out the legal, financial, resource, and technical barriers faced by institutions wishing to open their collections. We looked at past research, notably Andrea Wallace’s</span><a href="https://openglam.pubpub.org/pub/barriers-to-open-access/release/1"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Barriers to Open Access</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and analyzed our VOICES interviews for a wide range of insights, coming up with Money, People and Policy as the three main barriers. In 2023, we aspire to develop a report on the Benefits of Open Culture. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have lots of other plans for 2023 and can’t wait to start a new chapter of CC’s Open Culture program. Want to stay informed and participate? Make sure to join our </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-open-culture"><span style="font-weight: 400;">sign up to our mailing list</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. You can also visit </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/02/cc-open-culture-february-updates/?c_src=mailing&amp;c_src2=InsiderReport03-22"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the CC Blog for more on open culture</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> news (we hosted and attended numerous webinars, expert talks, panel discussions and community gatherings, check them out) and </span><a href="https://t.co/dujnrzsvdW"><span style="font-weight: 400;">subscribe to the CC Newsletter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for CC-wide updates. You can also go back in time and listen to a presentation of the open culture program on the podcast </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/02/open-minds-podcast-brigitte-vezina-of-creative-commons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Minds… from Creative Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, giving an overview of activities in February 2022.</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img src="media/b990fca8.1f449.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f449.png" alt="👉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />Do you want to know more about open culture at Creative Commons? Write to us at </span><a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p></blockquote>
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