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Category: Open Culture
Celebrating Two Years of CC’s Open Culture Voices
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict, Jocelyn Miyara Open CultureToday we conclude the Open Culture Voices series, which over two years has showcased more than 65 open culture experts and practitioners from around the world. Over these two years we have had the privilege of engaging with remarkable individuals, each bringing their unique insights and stories to our community. Thank you!
Highlights from GLAM Wiki by the CC Open Culture Team
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara, Jennryn Wetzler, Connor Benedict Open CultureFrom 16 to 18 November, members of the Creative Commons (CC) Open Culture and Learning and Training teams attended GLAM Wiki in Montevideo Uruguay. In this blog post we look back at the event’s highlights from CC’s perspective.
Open Culture Live Webinar: Changing the Subject & Respectful Terminologies
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara Open CultureFor centuries, cultural heritage institutions have been undertaking the work to document and catalog objects in their collections — sometimes this work suffers from a legacy of colonialism and discrimination in the way their collections are labeled and categorized. Some institutions are working to update these labels with more respectful terminology. Hear more from some of the changemakers working to update labels and metadata with more respectful terminologies during this CC panel.
Dave Hansen — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 33
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open CultureDave talks about how many “institutions are on a mission to expose their collections to the world and make them available for everyone.” Dave sees this as a major evolution from a time not too long ago when it was only those with means who could access collections in any way. Open Culture VOICES is…
CC’s Key Insights from WIPO’s Meeting on Copyright
by Brigitte Vézina, Catherine Stihler Copyright, Open HeritageFrom 6 to 8 November 2023, Creative Commons participated remotely in the 44th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. In this blog post, we look back on the session’s highlights on broadcasting, exceptions and limitations, and generative AI, from CC’s perspective.
Kyle K. Courtney — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 32
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open CultureKyle believes that “the artistic and creative expressions of humanity is the best way to experience our human efforts” and open GLAM makes this a reality for much more than what you can see on a given day in a museum. Open GLAM also helps drive more digitization of collections around the world in an…
Maarten Zeinstra — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 31
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open CultureMaarten believes that “Open GLAM is a necessity of a disbalanced copyright framework.” Maarten talks about how open access policies help institutions achieve their public missions. Open access policies in instutions provides good evidence that society and communities need access to cultural heritage to flourish. Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos…
Sorry: This video does not exist. CC’s Open VIdeo Blocked by Automatic Copyright Robots
by Catherine Stihler Licenses & Tools, Open CreativityA key video disappeared from the CC home webpage after the video hosting service Vimeo tagged the open work with an invalid automated copyright violation takedown notice. Learn more about what happens when automated copyright filters go wrong.
Marike van Roon — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 30
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open CultureMarike van Roon shares that “the main benefit of open culture is accessibility” because if you are not fortunate enough to be part of organization that pays for you to have access to collections and you don’t live in city with public collections it’s almost impossible to access a lot of cultural heritage. In this…
CC and Communia Statement on Transparency in the EU AI Act
by Creative Commons Better Internet, Licenses & Tools, Open Culture, Open Knowledge, TechnologyThe European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act will be discussed at a key trilogue meeting on 24 October 2023. CC collaborated with Communia to summarize our views emphasizing the importance of a balanced and tailored approach to regulating foundation models and of transparency in general.