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Category: Community
CC Global Summit 2023: Reflections
by Catherine Stihler CC Global Network, Events
CC has long been at the forefront of enabling innovation and promoting access to knowledge and creativity. The Creative Commons 2023 Summit brought together creators, academics, technologists, and policymakers from around the world to discuss the future of open culture and how CC can continue to drive positive change. This blog post reflects on the key challenges of the summit and shares the insightful learnings that emerged from these discussions.
Making AI Work for Creators and the Commons
by Creative Commons Better Internet, Community, Events, Licenses & Tools, Open Culture, Open Knowledge, Technology
On the eve of the CC Global Summit, members of the CC global community and Creative Commons held a one-day workshop to discuss issues related to AI, creators, and the commons. Emerging from that deep discussion and in subsequent conversation during the three days of the Summit, this group identified a set of common issues and values.
Marina Núñez Bespalova Será una Oradora Principal en la Cumbre Mundial CC 2023
by Creative Commons Community, Events, Open Culture
[read this post in English >] Tenemos un grupo increíble de personas preparadas para ser oradores principales en la Cumbre Global 2023, que se llevará a cabo del 3 al 6 de octubre en la Ciudad de México. En nuestros primeros anuncios, dimos la bienvenida a la escritora Anya Kamenetz y al líder de medios…
Marina Núñez Bespalova to Keynote CC Global Summit 2023
by Creative Commons Community, Events, Open Culture
[lee esta entrada en español >] We have an incredible group of people lined up to be keynote speakers at the 2023 CC Global Summit, to be held 3–6 October in Mexico City. In our first announcements, we welcomed writer Anya Kamenetz and Māori media leader Peter-Lucas Jones. We are now deeply honored to announce…
CC Community Input: Better Sharing for Generative AI
by Nate Angell Better Internet, CC Global Network, Licenses & Tools, Open Creativity, Technology
Over the last year, innovation and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has proliferated, providing new ways for people to create content from art to zines, and everything in between. At CC, we’ve been watching these experiments in creativity while considering what it all means for what we call better sharing: sharing that is contextual,…
Sharing Matters: What We’ve Learned at Creative Commons
by Catherine Stihler About CC, Community
Sharing matters. Thanks to the digital revolution, we share things like never before, from scientific research to family photos, from day-to-day life to college courses — and all instantaneously. The variety and volume of sharing today was unimaginable even just a decade ago. Now social media and publishing platforms, smartphones, cheap data, and expanded internet…
CC stands in solidarity with Ukraine and supports those safeguarding public collections, educational resources, and cultural heritage sites
by Catherine Stihler Community
As more than a million Ukrainians flee for safety, the United Nations is calling the exodus Europe’s fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II (WWII). The war in Ukraine is causing terrible human suffering and death and will impact future generations of Ukrainians. The lives of millions across the continent are now in total upheaval.…
A message from our CEO to the CC Community on Creative Commons’ 20th Anniversary
by Catherine Stihler About CC, Community
Dear CC Community, It’s a very special day — today marks the 20th Anniversary of Creative Commons’ founding! Twenty years ago, Creative Commons started with a simple, radical idea: to save the internet from “failed sharing” and create a world where everyone has access to knowledge and creativity. What began as a simple idea and…
Remembering Elliot Harmon, 1981-2021
by Creative Commons Community
Creative Commons (CC) was saddened by the news of Elliot Harmon’s passing on October 23. Prior to his role as activism director at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), he was the director of communications at Creative Commons. As mentioned on EFF’s website, “We will deeply miss Elliot’s clever mind, powerful pen, generous heart, and expansive kindness. We…
New License Enforcement Principles for Public Comment
by Sarah Hinchliff Pearson Community, Licenses & Tools
For several years, Creative Commons has been monitoring an alarming increase in enforcement actions relating to CC licenses. Today, we are announcing the next phase of our evolving response to this complex issue, and we would like your input. There are several elements to our plans, but the centerpiece today is a draft Statement of…