Join us for a rare and intimate conversation with some of the voices who helped build the commons. To mark 25 years of Creative Commons, this special founders fireside chat brings together Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Molly Van Houweling, in conversation with moderator Glenn O. Brown Together, they’ll go beyond the official history to…

Giovanna Fontenelle is a journalist, historian, and master’s in Social History. She works as a Program Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, in the Content Enablement team, previously called Culture and Heritage. She’s a member of the Creative Commons Global Network, ICOM Brasil, co-founded WikiMulheres+, and was the general coordinator of Creative Commons Brasil. She works…

Merete Sanderhoff is an art historian working as curator and senior advisor of digital museum practice at SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark. She is part of the team that is responsible for all strategic development and uses of digital technologies across the museum’s operations, keeping a strong focus on opening up cultural heritage to…

Medhavi Gandhi is a cultural practitioner and creator of The Heritage Lab, a platform that engages audiences with archival material in ways that foreground interpretation, context, and close observation. Her work spans writing, research, participatory campaigns, and collaborations with museums, libraries, technology platforms, and cultural organisations across India, Europe, the UK, and the US. She…

Tomoaki Watanabe is a professor, Executive Research Fellow and General Manager for Research Division, GLOCOM (Center for Global Communication), at the International University of Japan.

Tyng-Ruey Chuang is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He collaborates with researchers diverse in discipline to work on programming language and systems, digital archives, copyrights and public licenses, and research data management, among others. His lab at Academia Sinica operates a public repository serving worldwide researchers for…

Creative Commons invites you to explore the legacy and history of copyright and open licensing—examining how new legal and cultural frameworks for sharing creativity helped expand public access to knowledge, culture, and collaboration around the world. This panel will reflect on the origins of open licensing, the development of the Creative Commons licenses, and the…

Dr. Vinodh Ilangovan (pronouns: they/ them) is a biomedical scientist and Coordinator for Curation and Community Building of the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) at Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany. They advance open science by supporting researchers and research organizations in making scholarly knowledge FAIR and machine-actionable. As part of Germany’s…

Twenty-five years ago, Creative Commons gave the world a new vocabulary for sharing through licenses and tools that made openness legible, legal, and actionable. What began as an act of infrastructure became a movement with cultural heritage institutions around the world opening their collections. In the early 2000s, a handful of trailblazing galleries, libraries, archives,…

Watch the event recording   Creative Commons invites you to explore the legacy and history of Open Science—tracing how a belief in open, accessible, and reusable knowledge grew into a global movement to transform the way research is shared and built upon. The promise of open science is that openly available knowledge accelerates discovery, enabling…