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Help us make a giant leap against cancer: Biden presents five-year Cancer Moonshot plan
by Jennie Rose Halperin, Timothy Vollmer Copyright, Open Access, Open Science postToday Vice President Biden announced a comprehensive plan for his Cancer Moonshot initiative, which seeks to achieve a decade’s worth of progress on cancer research in five years.
EU Member States Should Push To Improve Commission’s Disappointing Copyright Proposal
by Timothy Vollmer Copyright postLast month the European Commission released its proposed changes to copyright in the EU. Unfortunately, the proposal fails to deliver on the promise for a modern copyright law in Europe.
‘School of Rock(ing) Copyright’ at the CC Europe meeting
by Lisette Kalshoven, Natalia Mileszyk Copyright postThis post was written by Natalia Mileszyk and Lisette Kalshoven of COMMUNIA. Photo by Saša Krajnc, CC BY 4.0. Last week at the Creative Commons Europe Meeting in Lisbon, COMMUNIA organised a “School of Rock(ing) Copyright” workshop. Creative Commons affiliates from Poland, the Netherlands, and Portugal joined efforts in sharing knowledge about the current European…
United Nations Report Calls for Open Access to Research to Improve Global Health
by Timothy Vollmer Open Access postPhoto by Maarten van den Heuvel on Unsplash, CC0. Last month the United Nations released a report with recommendations on how to improve innovation and access to health technologies. The panel’s charge called for it to “recommend solutions for remedying the policy incoherence between the justifiable rights of inventors, international human rights law, trade rules and…
Cancer Moonshot Should Prioritize Open Access to Publicly-funded Research
by Timothy Vollmer Open Access post18FDG Synthesis by Brookhaven National Laboratory, BY-NC-ND 2.0. Vice President Biden is leading the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, which seeks to make ten years’ worth of progress on cancer research in half that time. We think an important part to finding cures is changing policy to improve access to cancer research. Our recommendations include: Make…
2016 State of the Commons: Call for submissions
by Jane Park About CC postSince 2014, CC has published an annual State of the Commons report that tracks the growth of CC-licensed content on the web. Last year, we reported a milestone of 1 billion CC-licensed works in the commons. This year, we are shifting our reporting focus to align with our new strategy. Quantitatively, we will still report…
Embedding openness in everything we do: Freedom of the Press Foundation
by Jennie Rose Halperin Copyright, Licenses & Tools, Technology postAs connectivity continues to increase globally, more people than ever live in a ubiquitous and nonstop media environment. In light of these changes, the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s work has never been more important.
Announcing the CC Europe meeting!
by Gwen Franck About CC postNext weekend, 30 participants from 15 different countries will meet for a regional meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. In this packed weekend, we will work on a variety of subjects such as Copyright Reform during a School of Rocking Copyright session, OER and Open Science, CC Business models, Tech and Infrastructure, and we’ll also kick…
Copyright reform in Colombia should focus on supporting users’ rights
by Timothy Vollmer Copyright postToday Creative Commons, CC Colombia, and over a dozen other CC affiliates and partners sent a letter to the Colombian government calling for user-friendly copyright reform. Colombia’s copyright law is being re-opened to come into compliance with the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. We believe that this is a timely opportunity to introduce positive changes to…
Musician Marisa Anderson looks for the new in the old
by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture, Uncategorized postI have been a fan of Marisa Anderson’s music since discovering her albums at the legendary Chapel Hill radio station WXYC, where my show usually ran from from 4-8AM. At 4 in the morning in a windowless studio, the title of Anderson’s 2011 release “The Golden Hour” seemed apropos. I would listen to her virtuosic,…