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CC Open Education Platform Activities Fund: Six Winners!
by Cable Green, Jennryn Wetzler Open EducationCreative Commons is proud to announce six winning project proposals from the inaugural round of the CC Open Education Platform Activities Fund! The CC Open Education Platform is a vibrant, international network of over 1120 open education advocates, educators, librarians, lawmakers, graduate students, and more, spanning 79 countries. This year, CC launched an activities fund…
Creative Commons Is Now Leading the Open COVID Pledge—Here’s What That Means
by Diane Peters, Eric Steuer About CCWe’re pleased to announce today that Creative Commons is taking on leadership and stewardship of the Open COVID Pledge. Earlier this year, CC joined forces with an international group of researchers, scientists, academics, and lawyers seeking to accelerate the development of diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, medical equipment, and software solutions that might be used to assist…
Meet the Program Committee Making the 2020 CC Global Summit a Reality!
by Alison Pearce EventsAt Creative Commons, we value sharing, openness, and gratitude. Over the last few months, we’ve had the privilege of working with a group of global volunteers who embody these values. In order to make the CC Global Summit a reality each year, we enlist the help of dozens of volunteers, many of whom are members…
Introducing Our Google Season of Docs 2020 Participants
by Kriti Godey Community, TechnologyCode is just one part of open source; good documentation is essential for both users and contributors in order for open source projects to succeed. We’re excited to announce that Creative Commons is participating for the first time in Google Season of Docs, a program that pairs experienced technical writers with open source projects in…
Why cOAlition S’ Rights Retention Strategy Protects Researchers
by Brigitte Vézina CopyrightLast month, cOAlition S released its Rights Retention Strategy to safeguard researchers’ intellectual ownership rights and suppress unreasonable embargo periods—Creative Commons (CC) keenly supports this initiative. Modernizing an outdated academic publishing system Under a traditional publishing model, researchers who want to publish their articles in a journal typically need to assign or exclusively license their…
From CC’s New CEO: Working Towards Our Shared Future
by Catherine Stihler About CCIt is an honor to be joining the Creative Commons team on the eve of its 20th anniversary year. For nearly two decades, this organization has worked to make the world a more open and equitable place. When CC first launched in 2001, I was a recently-elected Member of the European Parliament at a time…
Meet CC Netherlands, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!
by Julia Brungs CommunityLast month we introduced the CC Chapter in Italy to you! This month we’re traveling north to the CC Chapter in The Netherlands! The Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) consists of 43 CC Country Chapters spread across the globe. They’re the home for a community of advocates, activists, educators, artists, lawyers, and users who share…
Your Chance to Perform for the CC Global Summit!
by Alison Pearce Events, Open CultureThe wrap-up party for the annual CC Global Summit is always incredible, featuring local artists and musicians who send us off in style. Of course, things are a little different this year as we’ve transformed our in-person event to an entirely virtual one—but that doesn’t mean we can’t find a way to party together like…
Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Can Machines Write Like Jane Austen?
by Brent Moran, Brigitte Vézina Copyright, TechnologyIn the second part of our series on artificial intelligence (AI) and creativity, we get immersed in the fascinating universe of AI in an attempt to determine whether it is capable of creating works eligible for copyright protection. Below, we present two examples of an AI system generating arguably novel content through two different methods:…
Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Why We’re Against Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Output
by Brent Moran, Brigitte Vézina CopyrightShould novel output (such as music, artworks, poems, etc.) generated by artificial intelligence1 (AI) be protected by copyright? While this question seems straightforward, the answer certainly isn’t. It brings together technical, legal, and philosophical questions regarding “creativity,” and whether machines can be considered “authors” that produce “original” works. In search of an answer, we ran…