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Elevating Emerging Audiences: Share Your Experience

April 12, 2023

Calling all AI developers, NFT creators, and entrepreneurs As our world faces increasingly complex and interconnected challenges, it becomes clear that innovation and collaboration are essential to finding viable solutions. Creative Commons is proud of the thousands who make our global community. And this year, we’re expanding. We’re endeavoring to connect with groups who we’ve … Read More “Elevating Emerging Audiences: Share Your Experience”

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State of the Commons 2022

April 11, 2023

We are pleased to present the 2022 Creative Commons State of the Commons annual report. This report highlights key innovations, achievements, collaborations, conversations, and partnerships from CC and our global community over the past year. In 2022 we were incredibly proud to mark twenty years of CC licensing and all the groundbreaking collaboration it has … Read More “State of the Commons 2022”

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Sandra Soster — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 10

April 10, 2023

Sandra notes that “the collections being present online, helps to reduce theft of works of art.” When the information about collection is available to the public then the public will also help to recover works that are sold on marketplaces illegally. Sandra shares insights about working with Open GLAM in Brazil, in museums, and other … Read More “Sandra Soster — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 10”

Open Culture VOICES
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CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | April: The More We Share, The More We Have

April 4, 2023

As part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what better sharing looks like in action. Our #BetterSharing collection of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness … Read More “CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | April: The More We Share, The More We Have”

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Nkem E. Osuigwe — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 9

April 4, 2023

“When the culture of openness is part of society it helps knowledge to grow” is what Nkem says to introduce her perspective on Open Culture. In this episode we learn about how the walls around culture discourage growth and discovery and how opening up knowledge and culture encourages inclusivity and fosters growth. Open Culture VOICES … Read More “Nkem E. Osuigwe — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 9”

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Creative Commons Open Education Platform: 2022 in Review

March 28, 2023

The Creative Commons Open Education Team is pleased to provide a snapshot of progress made toward opening access and equity in education, through a look at our collective efforts in 2022.1 We laud the CC open education community for its important work throughout 2022. CC and community members’ open education efforts in 2022 included, but … Read More “Creative Commons Open Education Platform: 2022 in Review”

Education / OER

CC at WIPO SCCR 43 – Progress made on exceptions and limitations and draft

March 27, 2023

From 13 to 17 March 2023, Creative Commons (CC) participated in the 43rd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) in Geneva, Switzerland. In this blog post, we look back on the highlights of the SCCR/43 week. Excited to be @WIPO in Geneva to attend the … Read More “CC at WIPO SCCR 43 – Progress made on exceptions and limitations and draft”

Policy / advocacy / copyright reform

Style, Copyright, and Generative AI Part 2: Vicarious Liability

March 24, 2023

In my last blog post, I looked at whether copyright protects artistic style, particularly in the context of generative AI (GAI) art tools like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. However, in the class action litigation against Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, the plaintiffs are not only concerned that people can use the GAI tools to produce works … Read More “Style, Copyright, and Generative AI Part 2: Vicarious Liability”

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