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The Czech CC Chapter is finally here! Our Chapter was founded by March 2020, as the first chapter meeting was held both offline and online by the core members of CC Czech Republic and CC supporters and enthusiasts in the vibrant city of Brno. The establishment of the Czech Chapter is an outcome of many…
After introducing the CC Italy Chapter to you in July, the CC Netherlands Chapter in August, CC Bangladesh Chapter in September, and CC Tanzania Chapter in October, we are now traveling to Asia again to introduce the CC India Chapter! The Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) consists of 45 CC Country Chapters spread across the…
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This post is written by Ethan Senack, a member of Creative Commons USA and the Global Network Council Executive Committee. Just over a year ago, the Executive Committee of the CC Global Network Council (GNC) launched an open process to collect feedback from all members on the network structure, with the purpose of understanding what…
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We are excited to introduce to you the newest addition to the CC Chapter Network: CC Austria! In July, the CC Austria Chapter was founded (via video conference due to COVID-19). The core group of CC Austria members have been dealing with copyright matters in Austria for years; submitting statements on reforms of the Austrian…
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On Saturday August 15, 2020 we met online for the first official meeting of the Creative Commons Peru Chapter. The meeting was attended by 26 people and we had a great time!. Physical distancing was not a limitation for the success of this first encounter. On the contrary, the fact that the meeting took place…
In theory, publishing publicly funded television content under open licenses should be a no-brainer. As with publicly funded research, open licenses improve distribution, allow for remix creativity, and unlock access to popular free knowledge platforms such as Wikipedia. In practice, however, advocates of open licenses in the realm of public-service media face several hurdles, such…
Grant for the Web, the $100 million fund for efforts that utilize and build upon the Web Monetization standard, today announced $250,000 in funding for a small group of projects: Free Music Archive, Coronavirus Tech Handbook, DEV, and Grant for the Web Ambassadors. These “early grantees” represent the wide array of endeavors that this project…
"Bhavna Ben Ramesh" by Paul Bronstein (2015), CC BY-NC.
Storytelling is a powerful tool because it can change perceptions and inspire action—and images are an essential component. As Depression-era American photojournalist and documentarian Dorothea Lange said, “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” Unfortunately, finding high-quality and diverse openly licensed images, particularly those of women, is a…
The story of the Creative Commons (CC) logo is linked to the story of CC. In 2002, just one year after the founding of CC, designer Ryan Junell accomplished the difficult task of designing a logo that is distinctive, yet teaches through its design. Over time, the CC logo has become a recognizable symbol of…
Jeffrey Epstein used his position of power, influence, and wealth to abuse young women and girls. The brief message that follows relates to matters that are inconsequential in comparison to the pain of the survivors, although it connects to broader issues about the society in which that pain was inflicted and persisted. Like many members…