CC Community releases movement strategy for consultation
About CC
Today, the Creative Commons community is opening consultation on its draft strategy to support a strong and growing global movement.
The Platform Cooperatives Movement Helps Light up the Commons
About CC, Events
The Creative Commons upcoming Global Summit is the first major opportunity to introduce our community to the newly-born Platform Cooperatives Consortium and to look for ways our two movements, which share many core values, can collaborate. We have just entered a time of potentially enormous social turmoil. Like the 1960’s, it could also set the…
Compartir no es delito: Sharing is not a crime
Copyright, Open Access
Why are students criminalized for sharing knowledge? Over the last two years several organizations have been highlighting the situation of Colombian graduate student Diego Gomez, who is being criminally prosecuted for sharing a research article online. Gomez is a student in conservation and wildlife management, and for the most part has poor access to many…
CC 4.0 German now live!
Licenses & Tools
At the end of an intense process of expert hearings, thesaurus
discussions, translation sprints, legal language comparisons and several
rounds of fine-tuning the texts, the unified German translation of CC
licenses version 4.0 is finally here.
Copyright as a tool to censor political dissent in Latin America
Copyright
The “Safe harbor” provisions on the DMCA have been critical to build the internet as we know it today.
State Department Publishes Open Licensing “Playbook” for Federal Agencies
Copyright, Open Access, Open Education
Today the U.S. Department of State released the Federal Open Licensing Playbook, a list of considerations, use cases, and recommendations for federal departments interested in developing and implementing open license requirements on federally-funded grant projects. It is designed to assist federal efforts to maximize the impact of grant funds, and create opportunities for innovation and…
We are a community of creators
About CC
Our core of community is not a series of disparate projects, but instead a network of people driven by the desire to share their creativity with the world. What is creating in the 21st century? It’s remix, it’s reuse, and it’s collaboration, made possible by the dream of the global commons.
One Click Attribution Tool now available for WordPress
About CC, Technology
Today we’re excited to announce the public beta and feedback period for our One Click Attribution Tool for Wordpress.
We Bought It, We Own It, We Fix It: Building Open Policies for Digital Public Goods
Copyright
We’re taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of the law, and addressing what’s at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation. Today’s…
Opening up the Public Domain with Europeana Sounds
Open Culture
Recently, Europeana Sounds has doubled the amount of audio heritage available on the Europeana platform.