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Legal Office Hours | September 2026

September 1, 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT | Zoom
CC Legal Office Hours

We know that using the CC licenses and public domain tools can, at times, be complex. To provide support and assistance with the CC licenses and public domain tools, we offer office hours open to anyone. Join office hours with members of our team who can share expertise in open licensing and copyright and ask…

Responsibilities, Ethics, and Access: A Conversation with the Authors of Guidance for Indigenous Collections and Indigenous Data

September 1, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT | Zoom
Still from Awasəwehlαwə́lətinα wikəwαmok | They Returned Home (2023), Andreas Burgess & Jane Anderson in collaboration with James Francis, Jennifer Neptune & Darren Ranco. ©️ Penobscot Nation and Local Contexts. This material carries TK Attribution, TK Outreach, and TK Non-Commerical Labels.

Watch the event recording This webinar will be presented in English and Spanish (special thanks to Wikimedistas de Uruguay and Wikimedia Colombia). Read the report here or visit Zenodo. Join us for Responsibilities, Ethics, and Access, a conversation with the authors of Guidance for Indigenous Collections and Indigenous Data, a new resource developed by Local Contexts…

Community Office Hours | September 2026

September 3, 2026, 9:00 am - 10:00 am EDT | Zoom
Community Office Hours

Join CC’s Senior Manager of Community Strategy and Engagement to ask more questions about the CC community, share ideas for collaborations with the wider community, and learn more about how to get involved.

OPEN @ UNGA 81: A Conversation on Collaboration

September 21, 2026, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm EDT | NYU Engelberg Center, Lipton Hall at D’Agostine Hall
A photo of the UN General Assembly hall
"UN General Assembly hall" by Patrick Gruban is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Open Source. Digital Sovereignty. The Open Stack. What does it all mean? Open source and digital sovereignty are closely related. While open source does not suffice for digital sovereignty, it is a critical building block. While definitions of digital sovereignty vary, it is generally accepted that digital sovereignty at the national level entails the ability to…

Community Voices on AI: Attribution as the Norm

October 1, 2026, 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT | Zoom
"Earth's City Lights by DMSP" by NASA is in the public domain.

If you have Googled, Grok’d, or ChatGPT’d anything recently, you’ve encountered an AI-generated response, built by pulling information from a wide range of sources, often without clarity about which sources are being used. Compare this to looking something up on Wikipedia, where citations let you trace a claim back to its sources. That chain of…

Open Preprints: Licensing and Other Practical Policy Tools for Research Funders, Librarians, and Institutions

October 13, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT | Zoom
"Spectra of metalloids" by René Henri Digeon is in the public domain.

As we celebrate 25 years of Creative Commons, we’re inviting investigators, funders, libraries, and institutions in the research space to connect with our legacy of openly licensing research as a primary way of strengthening the open infrastructure of sharing. You’re invited to join CC staff for an interactive, 60-minute webinar and discussion about our work…

Guidance on Using CC Licenses in the Age of AI—Session A

October 14, 2026, 9:30 am - 10:30 am EDT | Zoom
"Polytope 1" by Richard A Carter is licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

CC licenses have long served as a legally enforceable tool for digital sharing–focused on open sharing in the public interest. With increasingly widespread machine use of content through AI, we have seen an increase in enclosure and less permissive sharing as a response. In this webinar we will speak about how open sharing remains essential…

Guidance on Using CC Licenses in the Age of AI—Session B

October 14, 2026, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT | Zoom
"Polytope 1" by Richard A Carter is licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

CC licenses have long served as a legally enforceable tool for digital sharing–focused on open sharing in the public interest. With increasingly widespread machine use of content through AI, we have seen an increase in enclosure and less permissive sharing as a response. In this webinar we will speak about how open sharing remains essential…

Community Office Hours | December 2026

December 1, 2026, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST | Zoom
Community Office Hours

Join CC’s Community Manager to ask more questions about the CC community, share ideas for collaborations with the wider community, and learn more about how to get involved.

Legal Office Hours | December 2026

December 11, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST | Zoom
CC Legal Office Hours

We know that using the CC licenses and public domain tools can, at times, be complex. To provide support and assistance with the CC licenses and public domain tools, we offer office hours open to anyone. Join office hours with members of our team who can share expertise in open licensing and copyright and ask…