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CC welcomes agreement in EU on landmark legislation on digital gatekeepers

March 28, 2022

Creative Commons (CC) applauds the landmark agreement reached late last week by EU legislators on the Digital Markets Act. Given the increasingly prominent role large ‘gatekeepers’ play in the daily lives of citizens and companies, CC believes it is important that a robust legislative and regulatory framework is in place to ensure a fair and … Read More “CC welcomes agreement in EU on landmark legislation on digital gatekeepers”

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Episode 16: Open Culture VOICES – Neal Stimler

March 24, 2022

  Welcome to episode 16 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to … Read More “Episode 16: Open Culture VOICES – Neal Stimler”

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Episode 15: Open Culture VOICES – Rebecca Giblin

March 24, 2022

  Welcome to episode 15 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to … Read More “Episode 15: Open Culture VOICES – Rebecca Giblin”

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CC welcomes adoption of AIDA

March 23, 2022

CC welcomes the adoption of this comprehensive report by the AIDA special committee with strong, cross-party support.  On Tuesday, the European Parliament’s (EU) Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) adopted its final recommendations for a Roadmap, laying the groundwork through 2030. This Roadmap concludes that artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous technological … Read More “CC welcomes adoption of AIDA”

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CC opposes mandatory copyright filters, as well as using CC to justify them

March 22, 2022

Last Friday, United States (US) senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies (SMART) Copyright Act of 2022.” Their bill proposes to have the US Copyright Office mandate that all websites accepting user-uploaded material implement technologies to automatically filter that content. We’ve long believed that these kinds … Read More “CC opposes mandatory copyright filters, as well as using CC to justify them”

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Blueprint on open access to UK’s digital cultural heritage collections welcomed

March 18, 2022

A new blueprint on open access to digital cultural heritage collections in the United Kingdom (UK) has been hailed as a significant opportunity to prevent historical works from being “locked down” behind copyright walls. Recommendations in the report, “A Culture of Copyright, A scoping study on open access to digital cultural heritage collections in the … Read More “Blueprint on open access to UK’s digital cultural heritage collections welcomed”

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Episode 13: Open Culture VOICES – Melissa Terras

March 17, 2022

  Welcome to episode 13 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to … Read More “Episode 13: Open Culture VOICES – Melissa Terras”

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Episode 14: Open Culture VOICES – Karin Glasemann

March 17, 2022

  Welcome to episode 14 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to … Read More “Episode 14: Open Culture VOICES – Karin Glasemann”

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Better Internet Series: Architecture and Open Standards

March 15, 2022

See our article introducing this series. This article is the third of five detailing breakout sessions from the 2021 Creative Commons (CC) Global Summit about “creating a better internet.” The Summit was an opportune platform for these conversations, as it drew over 1600 attendees from over 90 countries. Attendees included organizations, activists, advocates, librarians, educators, … Read More “Better Internet Series: Architecture and Open Standards”

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