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Watch/listen: a celebration of Freedom of Sharing in Indonesia!
by Hilman Fathoni Events postAt the end of 2016, Creative Commons Indonesia held a discussion titled “Celebration of Freedom of Sharing in Indonesia” with support from the Awesome Fund. This event was also held to celebrate Creative Commons’s 15th anniversary. Creative Commons Indonesia is a project under Wikimedia Indonesia that aims to spread the message about open culture in…
The Platform Cooperatives Movement Helps Light up the Commons
by Hal Plotkin About CC, Events postThe Creative Commons upcoming Global Summit is the first major opportunity to introduce our community to the newly-born Platform Cooperatives Consortium and to look for ways our two movements, which share many core values, can collaborate. We have just entered a time of potentially enormous social turmoil. Like the 1960’s, it could also set the…
Copyright as a tool to censor political dissent in Latin America
by Claudio Ruiz Copyright postThe “Safe harbor” provisions on the DMCA have been critical to build the internet as we know it today.
The top of the commons 2016: Favorites from our community of commoners
by Jennie Rose Halperin Uncategorized post2016 is almost at a close, and our global communities are as busy as ever. Around the world, diverse groups are working together to create meaningful connections and light up the commons.
Reviving archives through remix: How a Dutch archival project is reinvigorating electronic music
by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture postWhat does it mean to listen to the past through a truly modern lens? This is the question the Dutch project re:vive seeks to answer.
How fast is your internet? How MLab uses CC0 data for the public interest
by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Data postThough internet as infrastructure may have seemed radical only a short while ago, many technologists are now taking a different tack: as a vital part of modern life, access to reliable internet is essential to the development of a just and equitable society.
Election resources from the Commons: A guide for Election Day
by Jennie Rose Halperin About CC, Copyright postIn the unlikely chance you haven’t noticed, it’s Election Day in the United States. For the past few months, we’ve been sharing resources from the commons to help you get informed, get excited, and most importantly, get voting! Below are some of our favorite election related resources from this year from the commons: Our profile…
Pondering the Future of Open Education in Nigeria
by Jane-Frances Abgu Open Education postIn March we hosted the second Institute for Open Leadership. In our summary of the event we mentioned that the Institute fellows would be taking turns to write about their open policy projects. This week’s post is from Dr. Jane-Frances Agbu from the National Open University of Nigeria. We also interviewed Dr. Agbu about her…
‘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…
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…