There are too few nonprofit organizations like CC fighting for the digital commons – support our vital leadership with an end of year contribution. Donate today!
Author:
UNESCO OER Recommendation: One Step Closer to Adoption
by Cable Green Copyright Reform, Open Education
The global open education community works collectively to create a world in which everyone has universal access to effective open education resources (OER) and meaningful learning opportunities
Looking forward and back: Five years at Creative Commons
by Ryan Merkley About CCThis month, I’ll mark five years as CEO at Creative Commons. That makes me the longest-serving CEO in the organization’s history, and it’s also the longest I’ve served with the same job title. Every day I get to work with some of the brightest, most dedicated staff and community members in the open movement. Anniversaries…
Meet CC’s 2019 Google Summer of Code students
by Kriti Godey Technology
This year, CC is participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring organization after a six year break from the program. We are excited to be hosting five phenomenal students (representing three continents) who will be working on CC tech projects full-time over the summer.
Meet CC: The 2019 Creative Commons Global Summit Scholarships
by Jennie Rose Halperin About CC, Events
Every year, Creative Commons invites community members from around the world to join us at our Global Summit. It is crucial that we come together as a community, celebrate each other, light up the commons, and collaborate.
CC Search is out of beta with 300M images and easier attribution
by Jane Park Technology
Today CC Search comes out of beta, with over 300 million images indexed from multiple collections, a major redesign, and faster, more relevant search. It’s the result of a huge amount of work from the engineering team at Creative Commons and our community of volunteer developers.
Congratulations to the new 62 CC Certificate Graduates and 7 Facilitators!
by Cable Green Open Education
From January to April 2019, Creative Commons hosted three CC Certificate courses and a Facilitators course to train the next cohort of Certificate instructors. Participants from Australia, Qatar, South Africa, Egypt, Indonesia, Canada, Argentina, United Kingdom, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Denmark, New Zealand, Sweden, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and United States engaged in rigorous readings, assignments, discussions…
Unleashing a Community in Action: this year’s CC Global Summit Keynotes
by Alison Pearce About CC
This year, we’re taking an alternative, community-centered approach to keynotes for the Creative Commons Global Summit.
European Commission adopts CC BY and CC0 for sharing information
by Timothy Vollmer Licenses & Tools, Open Data
Last week the European Commission announced it has adopted CC BY 4.0 and CC0 to share published documents, including photos, videos, reports, peer-reviewed studies, and data. The Commission joins other public institutions around the world that use standard, legally interoperable tools like Creative Commons licenses and public domain tools to share a wide range of…
The freedom to listen: Rute Correia on the power of community radio
by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture
Academic, producer, and open culture enthusiast, Rute Correia is a Lisbon-based doctoral candidate who produces the White Market Podcast, which focuses on free culture and CC music.
A Dark Day for the Web: EU Parliament Approves Damaging Copyright Rules
by Timothy Vollmer Copyright Reform
Today in Strasbourg, the European Parliament voted 348-274 (with 36 abstentions) to approve the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. It retains Article 13, the harmful provision that will require nearly all for-profit web platforms to get a license for every user upload or otherwise install content filters and censor content, lest they…