Find Creative Commons this month! 12 Nov | Open Data Week: License to Share - Open Data Data and Creative Commons As part of Open Data Week, Liverpool John Moores University invites postgraduate researchers, research staff, and anyone involved in producing or managing research outputs for this session focusing on open research data licensing and sharing with Jan Ainali, a research analyst at CC. https://lnkd.in/gpDSMRkm 18-22 Nov | Semana de la Cultura Libra La Semana de la Cultura Libre vuelve con conciertos, debates y talleres de creación colectiva. Aprenderás sobre el licenciamiento abierto de las obras, modelos alternativos de producción cultural y acceso a la cultura. Con entrada libre y gratuita. https://lnkd.in/gTdTF7TN 19 Nov | AI and the Commons: Creative Commons and Copyright in a New Era Hear the latest thoughts about the relationship between AI, copyright, and the existing CC licenses and legal tools, both in the US and also globally, from CC's Learning & Training Manager, Shanna Hollich. Free for Lyrasis members and open to all for a small fee. https://lnkd.in/gfWnxBje 21 Nov | CC Legal Office Hours Join Kat Walsh, an expert on open licensing and copyright, to ask questions about how to interpret and implement CC licenses and public domain tools. https://lnkd.in/eXx2RQWq
Creative Commons
Internet Publishing
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The nonprofit behind the licenses and tools the world uses to share. 🌍 Follow us for all things open access.
About us
CC is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture we need to address the world’s most pressing challenges and create a brighter future for all. Together with our global community and multiple partners, we build capacity and infrastructure, we develop practical solutions, and we advocate for better sharing: sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable.
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http://creativecommons.org/
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- Internet Publishing
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, CA
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2001
- Specialties
- copyright, public domain, internet, web, semantic web, rdf, legal, licenses, licensing, open content, free culture, publishing, open access, and education
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P.O. Box 1866
Mountain View, CA 94042, US
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Belvedere-Tiburon, CA 94920, US
Employees at Creative Commons
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Tarmo Toikkanen
AI, open data, fair digital society. Tech, psychology, design, pedagogy.
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Dorothy Gordon
Working to make digital technologies accessible, safe and useful for Africa and beyond.
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Johnathan Nightingale
2x bestselling author and co-founder at Raw Signal Group
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Bilal Randeree
CA(SA). Chief Program Officer
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What does equitable access mean to your country? Alwaleed Alkhaja, the Head of Open Access & Copyright at the Qatar National Library, shares the profound effects that open heritage would have on his region. ✍️ Sign the Statement: https://lnkd.in/geJ3-uWJ
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We participated in the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence to discuss the threats that AI poses to the #commons and the many uncertainties that now grip rightsholders in this digital age in response. You can watch the brief statement here: https://lnkd.in/g76YQ-av
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🎈 Thank you Wikimedia Foundation for being one of the first signatories to the #OpenHeritageStatement and to the many affiliates who participated actively in developing this values-based statement within the TAROCH Coalition. 🎈By joining the cause for equitable access to heritage in the public domain, we are one step closer to ensuring everyone can enjoy their fundamental right to participate in cultural life in the digital environment.
Equitable and open access to cultural heritage is vital to foster global learning, creativity, and knowledge sharing. When institutions and communities can freely use and build on our shared heritage, everyone benefits. For these reasons, the Wikimedia Foundation has signed the Open Heritage Statement: a global call to action to remove barriers to accessing and reusing cultural heritage in the digital age. 🥳 Developed by the TAROCH Coalition, the Statement advances unrestricted access to the world’s cultural resources and calls for global policy change to make this possible. Read more on how we’re joining partners, maybe you 🤞, to shape an open and sustainable future for digital heritage. #OpenHeritage #GLAM #PublicDomain #DigitalRights #FreeKnowledge
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When cultural heritage institutions share items online, they are often accompanied by biased, outdated, or offensive narratives. During a webinar in 2023, we convened experts to discuss their approaches to reparative metadata practices. Discussion participants navigated the complicated balance between preserving legacy terminology as a historical record and facilitating a more respectful discovery experience for users today ⚖️. Watch here: https://buff.ly/dpDKKcF.
Respectful Terminologies & Changing the Subject
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We’re excited to share that Creative Commons has transitioned our community chat from Slack to Zulip! Zulip offers improved organization, accessibility, and openness — helping our global community connect and collaborate more effectively. Read about the move and learn how to join here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gtTBngBe #CreativeCommons #CommunityEngagement #DigitalCommons
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Join us and help shape the future of reuse in modular science!
Creative Commons + Continuous Science Foundation are teaming up to make reuse the default for modular science. The Reuse Incentives Working Group will explore what drives researchers to share and reuse modular outputs—from figures and code to data and methods and how we can design better systems and incentives to make it worthwhile. Join the cohort working to shape incentives for reuse in modular science. The group will kick off in January 2026. Apply by Sunday, Nov 30 https://lnkd.in/gQkDtFWn #openscience #composablescience #reusescience #modularscience
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CC's Director of Strategic Communications, Rebecca Ross, is representing Creative Commons today at the Responsible Tech Summit! This year's theme is Centering Humanity in our Tech Future, and we're excited to connect with leaders across industries on AI governance and aligning a tech future with joy, creativity, and human connection. As part of the gathering, Rebecca also participated in a panel on the effects of AI on the creative industries to discuss CC Signals, the challenges of enforcing copyright in the age of AI, and more. If you're attending, find Rebecca and say hi! All Tech Is Human
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has just launched its newly updated policy for Immediate Access to Research! CC is proud to have worked with HHMI as part of our Preprint Policy Framework. When HHMI scientists share CC BY licensed preprints, students, educators, and researchers can: 🔬 Adapt cutting-edge science into educational materials. 🌍 Rapidly share research in many languages. 🌐 Immediately access initial and revised preprints without the delays of traditional journal publishing 📰 Participate in more transparent and equitable peer review
HHMI have announced a new open access policy: their scientists must post preprints. https://lnkd.in/emjDKak3 This very much an implementation of our Plan U proposal https://lnkd.in/eNM4qyuK A couple of noteworthy aspects: 1) HHMI scientists must post the initial version and a revised preprint responding to reviewers' comments. So peer review is still valued but not necessarily a form in which it is completed and certified by journals. i.e. clearly a drive for peer review as a service not an endorsement. 2) Non-profit community preprint servers like bioRxiv and chemRxiv are. recommended. 3) They are imposing restrictions on journal APCs and clearly want to drive the system away from these.
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After almost 15 years, CC's Director of Open Education, Cable Green, PhD, is moving on from Creative Commons. Cable's leadership, vision, and passion for access to knowledge have left an indelible mark on CC and the broader open movement, and we are grateful that he will always be a part of the Creative Commons community! Join us in thanking Cable and wishing him well in all that is to come! Read more about Cable's work at CC and his impact on the open movement: https://lnkd.in/gkBpXwDS