Creative Commons is turning 20! We are celebrating with a special Better Sharing campaign, honoring 20 years of commitment to open access and better sharing. We invite you to join us. We have an ambitious goal to raise over $15 million in support.  When Creative Commons was founded in 2001, the internet was a budding universe with high potential,…

Creative Commons is turning 20! We are delighted to be celebrating this milestone with our global community, honoring our commitment as a nonprofit to creating a world where everyone has access to knowledge and creativity.  As we considered CC’s goals for the next 20 years, we kept returning to a simple idea:  Better Sharing for…

We’ve got a new episode of our podcast to share. On today’s episode of Open Minds … from Creative Commons, I talk to Lila Bailey. She’s the policy counsel (i.e. the lead lawyer) for the Internet Archive, the nonprofit digital library that makes millions of books, movies, websites, and other cultural works available for free…

Dear CC Community, This past year has been full of change and challenges for all of us, and I’ve never been more grateful for (and amazed by!) the people that make up our CC community.  I joined Creative Commons in 2016 as a newbie to the open movement, eager to learn from this incredible community…

We’ve been getting such great feedback about our new podcast, Open Minds…from Creative Commons. Thank you for listening! On today’s episode, Sarah Pearson, CC’s Senior Counsel, talks to Coraline Ada Ehmke about her work at the intersection of open source and social good. Ehmke is a developer, writer, speaker, musician, and activist. She’s the creator…

2020 was a year none of us will forget—and while there are many reasons to look back on last year with sadness and anger, we’ve chosen a different path: one of optimism and hope. In our 2020 State of the Commons report, we take you through what we accomplished last year, from effectively unlocking hundreds…

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Creative Commons published an article titled, “Now Is the Time for Open Access Policies—Here’s Why” in March 2020. A lot has changed since then and it’s important to assess the progress made and take a hard look at the dangers ahead. In this panel, we’ll examine the fields of…

In two days, the Smithsonian will celebrate one year of Smithsonian Open Access. This initiative removed copyright restrictions from 2.8 million digital collection 2D and 3D images and nearly two centuries of data using Creative Commons’ public domain dedication tool (CC0). Launched just before many of us went into lockdown due to COVID-19, Smithsonian Open…

Today we’re excited to launch a new podcast called Open Minds … from Creative Commons. It’s CC’s 20th anniversary this year. And to celebrate, we decided to launch this show, a series of conversations with people working on the issues we’re involved with and excited about. Expect Open Minds to feature folks from the worlds of…

We’ve grown the CC Global Summit every year, with over 1300 participants and 200 presenters joining us in 2020 for discussion and debate, workshops and planning, talks and community building. After consulting with our community, we’re excited to build on the success of last year’s virtual event and host the second-ever virtual CC Global Summit…