Taylor leads the Open Climate Data Project at Creative Commons, which provides practical guidance to agencies like the World Meteorological Organization, NASA, and NOAA for open licensing and attribution of climate data worldwide. She also leads the Openly Licensing Life Sciences Preprints Project, advocating for the expansion of openly-licensed research preprints and open access to…
Since 2002, Creative Commons (CC) licenses have served as legally enforceable tools for digital sharing. Beyond their functionality, they also signal a commitment to open sharing in the public interest. CC’s general guidance has been to acknowledge and support all valid uses for each of our current six licenses and two public domain tools.
Furthering scientific progress through sharing The Preprint Policy Framework In the age of the AI, open practices reaffirm our shared commitment to growing the commons and ensuring equitable sharing of scientific research. Open practices for preprints, including open licensing, are crucial to a policy approach that supports rapid and early dissemination of outputs throughout the…
Open access content is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions on reuse. Open access stands in contrast to the existing “closed” system for communicating scientific and scholarly research. This current approach is slow, expensive, and ill-suited for research collaboration and discovery. And even though scholarly research is largely…
Creative Commons transforms institutions toward more open futures. Through facilitation to support institutional change, integrating open licenses on websites, or 1:1 consulting to ensure institutions have a roadmap for open licensing policies, we are here to support your open needs. See our standard offerings below and contact us for customized solutions. To request consulting: please…
Creative Commons offers solidarity and joins the millions around the world who are mourning the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Ahmaud Arbery, and others. We recognize that they are the latest victims of systemic racism and institutionalized violence not only in the United States but globally, prompting anti-racism and anti-police…
This week a coalition of scholarly publishers, researchers, and nonprofit organizations launched the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a project to promote the unrestricted open access to scholarly citation data. From the website: Citations are the links that knit together our scientific and cultural knowledge. They are primary data that provide both provenance and an…
Kalie Taylor / CC0 / Download all posters If you follow this blog with any regularity, you’re likely already familiar with Bassel Khartabil, the Syrian CC community leader who has been in imprisoned since March 2012 without having had any charges brought against him. Thursday, May 22, is Bassel’s birthday, and the third birthday he’ll…
This guest blog post was written by Niki Korth. If you’re in the Bay Area, come see Marc read from his new book at City Lights Thursday night and come hear Niki speak at next week’s CC Salon. Marc Weidenbaum / Jorge Colombo In 1996, Marc Weidenbaum founded the website Disquiet.com, which focuses on the…
Welcome to the very first day of Creative Commons’ 10th birthday celebrations! Over the next 10 days we will be celebrating CC’s first decade with activities, events, tweets and competitions. As well as dozens of real world parties, we’ve set up a dedicated CC10 website as a hub for all things birthday. Each day on…