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Reviving archives through remix: How a Dutch archival project is reinvigorating electronic music
Open Culture
Lakker presenting Struggle and Emerge at the Hague's REWIRE festival, April 2015. Photo by Rene Passet CC BY-NC-ND
What does it mean to listen to the past through a truly modern lens? This is the question the Dutch project re:vive seeks to answer.
Announcing new staff to support CC’s global network
About CC
I’m thrilled to announce two new additions to Creative Commons’ full-time staff—Claudio Ruiz and Simeon Oriko. Both Claudio and Simeon will be taking on newly developed positions focused on supporting the growth of CC’s global network.
A month of Slack: Growing global communities every day
About CC
About a month ago, CC moved its daily communications to Slack, the team messaging service popular with communities around the world. You can read more about our decision here. What a month it’s been. We’ve seen our daily community grow to nearly 500 users, with an average of 110 people posting every day. We’ve also…
Inching Towards Open at California College of the Arts
Open Access
Eric Phetteplace is a fellow from our first Institute for Open Leadership, held in San Francisco in January 2015. He is a librarian at California College of the Arts. I was a member of the inaugural Institute for Open Leadership in 2015. I’m the Systems Librarian at California College of the Arts (CCA), and my IOL…
A simple and versatile resource for refugees: an interview with Refugee Phrasebook
Open Access, Open Data
With 1.1 million asylum seekers in Germany, the need for language and education support is acute, and the Refugee Phrasebook helps meet that need.
Solving some of the world’s toughest problems with the Global Open Policy Report
Copyright
Read the Global Open Policy Report Open Policy is when governments, institutions, and non-profits enact policies and legislation that makes content, knowledge, or data they produce or fund available under a permissive license to allow reuse, revision, remix, retention, and redistribution. This promotes innovation, access, and equity in areas of education, data, software, heritage, cultural…
Open Practices and Policies for Research Data in the Marine Community
Open Data, Open Science
In March we hosted the second Institute for Open Leadership. In our summary of the event we mentioned that the Institute fellows would be taking turns to write about their open policy projects. This week’s post is from Alessandro Sarretta from the Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR), part of the Italian National Research Council. 2016…
How fast is your internet? How MLab uses CC0 data for the public interest
Open Data
Though internet as infrastructure may have seemed radical only a short while ago, many technologists are now taking a different tack: as a vital part of modern life, access to reliable internet is essential to the development of a just and equitable society.
FRANCOCAR: An Awesome Fund Project in West Africa
Uncategorized
The Creative Commons Awesome Fund, a series of mini-grants intended to support our global communities, supported FRANCOCAR this year. FRANCOCAR is a range of events and activities in West Africa (Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Senegal) to promote open source software, digitization, and Creative Commons licenses. Follow #francocar if you want to stay in…
Making Creative Commons Licensing Work In Indonesia
Copyright
Below is an update from Creative Commons Indonesia, who recently worked with their national copyright office on proposed changes to law that will secure the ability of creators to use CC and other open licenses there. In late 2014, Indonesia amended its copyright law to add several new provisions, including changes having to do with…