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Welcome the Official Spanish Language Translation of CC0! (¡Les damos la bienvenida a la traducción oficial de CC0 al idioma castellano!)
by Diane Peters About CCThe official Spanish language translation of the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0) is now available.
New Canadian Report Offers Balanced Recommendations for Progressive Copyright Reform
by Timothy Vollmer CopyrightEarlier this week the Canadian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) released a report with 36 recommendations on the statutory review of Canadian copyright law. The report caps a year-long study, including a public consultation and committee hearings that included a variety of stakeholders. The document makes progressive recommendations that support a…
UNESCO OER Recommendation: One Step Closer to Adoption
by Cable Green Copyright, Open EducationThe 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 TechnologyThis 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.
What does it mean to have a shared culture? A wrapup from this year’s CC Global Summit
by Jennie Rose Halperin EventsAnother year, another incredible Creative Commons Global Summit! This year, nearly 400 Creative Commoners gathered in Lisbon, Portugal to lift their voices in support of the Commons as advocates, activists, creators, and community members dedicated to a more open and sharing world.
Meet CC: The 2019 Creative Commons Global Summit Scholarships
by Jennie Rose Halperin About CC, EventsEvery 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 TechnologyToday 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 EducationFrom 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 CCThis year, we’re taking an alternative, community-centered approach to keynotes for the Creative Commons Global Summit.