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Author: Brigitte Vézina
What are the Benefits of Open Culture? A new CC Publication
Open Culture, Open Heritage
Duria Antiquior by Henry De la Beche, National Museum Cardiff, Public Domain
Today we in the Open Culture Program are releasing a new publication: Don’t be a Dinosaur; or, The Benefits of Open Culture.
CC at WIPO: Slow progress on copyright exceptions for cultural heritage institutions
Copyright, Open Culture
Last week, Creative Commons (CC) participated in the 45th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). In this post, we report on the session discussions on exceptions and limitations for cultural heritage institutions (CHIs), a topic of utmost relevance to our Open Culture Program.
Exploring a Books Data Commons for AI Training
Policy
What role do books play in training AI models, and how might digitized books be made widely accessible for the purposes of training AI? What dataset of books could be constructed and under what circumstances? A new paper investigates the concept of a responsibly designed, broadly accessible dataset of digitized books to be used in training AI models.
CC’s take on the European Media Freedom Act
Open Journalism
“The Artist's Father, Reading a Newspaper” by Albert Engström - 1892 - Nationalmuseum Sweden, Sweden - Public Domain.
Last month, the European Parliament and Council gave the green light to an important piece of legislation: the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA). In this blog post, we look at the aims of the EMFA and why it matters for Creative Commons (CC) and everyone’s right to access trustworthy information.
CC Joins Civil Society Letter Urging U.S. to Support Openness and Transparency in AI
Policy
“Artificial Intelligence” by Oksana Latysheva from NounProject.com is licensed via CC BY 3.0.
CC joins civil society letter urging U.S. to support openness and transparency in AI.
EU adopts landmark Artificial Intelligence Act
Copyright
“L'Europe by Delisle” by
Creative Commons welcomes the adoption by the European Parliament of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act. We engaged intensively with EU policymakers to safeguard the appropriate interplay with EU copyright legislation. The EU must now ensure implementation allows broad, open access to harness the full potential of generative AI whilst enforcing the safeguards provided.
Getty Museum releases 88K+ images of artworks with CC0
Open Heritage
“Irises, 1889” by Vincent van Gogh, The J. Paul Getty Museum is dedicated to the public domain by CC0.
The J. Paul Getty Museum just released more than 88 thousand works under Creative Commons Zero (CCØ), putting the digital images of items from its impressive collection squarely and unequivocally into the public domain. This is in line with our advocacy efforts at Creative Commons (CC): digital reproductions of public domain material must remain in the public domain. In other words, no new copyright should arise over the creation of a digitized “twin.”
CC Supports a new Digital Knowledge Act for Europe
Copyright, Open Access, Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Science, Policy
Anonymous, “Prudence, Wisdom and Knowledge”, National Library of the Netherlands, Public Domain Mark. Source: www.europeana.eu/item/9200122/BibliographicResource_1000056088368
Anonymous, “Prudence, Wisdom and Knowledge”, National Library of the Netherlands, Public Domain Mark. In December last year, the Communia Association for the Public Domain — of which Creative Commons (CC) is a member — asked the European Commission and European Parliament to consider the development of a Digital Knowledge Act. In this blog post, we…