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Episode 7: Open Culture VOICES – Larissa Borck
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open CultureNew week, new episode of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to…
Episode 6: Open Culture VOICES – Biyanto Rebin
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open CultureOpen Culture VOICES is back with a new episode! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to…
What’s Next for CC Licenses
by Sarah Hinchliff Pearson Licenses & ToolsIn this 20th anniversary year of the CC license suite, we are pleased to be renewing our commitment to license stewardship. Creative Commons has always taken its stewardship responsibilities seriously, engaging in multi-year consultation processes for versioning the tools, publishing official translations of the licenses into dozens of languages, and working to educate people about…
Panel: ResiliArt x Mondiacult – From Access to Culture to Contemporary Creativity
by Brigitte Vézina, Ony Anukem EventsJoin us on Wednesday, 23 February for an online panel discussion, as we explore how open access to cultural heritage materials encourages artists to discover, share, and remix such materials. In advance of the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development — Mondiacult 2022, Creative Commons is pleased to participate in the ResiliArt…
Episode 5: Open Culture VOICES – Merete Sanderhoff
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open CultureHappy Monday Friends! We’re back with a new episode of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture…
Episode 4: Open Culture VOICES – Douglas McCarthy
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open CultureWe are back with a new episode of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES,…
Do not feed the trolls
by Catherine Stihler Licenses & ToolsRecently, there has been an increase in threatened and actual lawsuits involving CC licensed works, and in some cases, license enforcement has even become a business model. We have now learned that even long-time friend and contributor to Creative Commons, Cory Doctorow, has been targeted. Put simply, “license-enforcement-as-business model” is a perversion of the founding…
Episode 3: Open Culture VOICES – Dr. Temi Odumosu
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open CultureNew week, new episode of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to…
Episode 2: Open Culture VOICES – Jonathan Hernández
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open CultureWe are back with the second episode of Open Culture VOICES, a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled…
It’s been a busy start of the year for open culture at CC! Here’s an update
by Brigitte Vézina Open CultureSince June 2021, thanks to a grant by the Arcadia Fund, Creative Commons has been developing our Open Culture / Open GLAM program to help transform institutions and support them as they embrace open culture and all the benefits it creates for themselves and their communities. Our core task is to enable galleries, libraries, archives…