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Open Content Licensing – Cultivating the Creative Commons
by eva Uncategorized post“What if Rupert Murdoch’s Fox … bought the rights to Socrates’ dinner parties?” – Richard Neville “Never in our history have fewer exercised more power over our culture than now.” – Professor Lawrence Lessig It is a great pleasure to announce the release of Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, a new publication of…
Leaders in Intellectual Property and Open Content from All Corners of the Globe Participating in Inaugural International Creative Commons Conference
by raul About CC postCambridge, Massachusetts, USA—June 24, 2005 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, is holding a conference at Harvard Law School over the coming weekend of June 25 and 26, 2005, for all of its international collaboration partners, who are responsible for the legal ‘porting’ of the Creative Commons…
FINDING Free Content in the Creative Commons
by press-robot Press postThe Creative Commons search engine can help you find tons of (legally)from Search Engine Watch – Darien,CT,USA
Creative Commons and University of Nebraska at Omaha Partner on a Microcredential Course
by Jennryn Wetzler, Craig Finlay CC Certificate, Open Education postCreative Commons is proud to announce the launch of “Introduction to Open Educational Resources,” our first professional development microcredential course and partnership with the University of Nebraska at Omaha, commencing on 31 May. This microcredential pilot started with one CC Certificate alumnus’s enthusiasm for open education. Craig Finlay, OER and STEM Librarian at the University…
Anna Tumadóttir Appointed as CEO of Creative Commons
by Creative Commons About CC postThe Board of Directors of Creative Commons (CC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Anna Tumadóttir as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CC.
Exploring a Books Data Commons for AI Training
by Creative Commons Policy postWhat role do books play in training AI models, and how might digitized books be made widely accessible for the purposes of training AI? What dataset of books could be constructed and under what circumstances? A new paper investigates the concept of a responsibly designed, broadly accessible dataset of digitized books to be used in training AI models.
Creative Commons joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance
by Cable Green, Creative Commons About CC postToday, Creative Commons (CC) joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) as a new member. The DPGA is a multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods (DPGs).
New Revisions to CC Certificate Course Content = New Opportunities for Translations
by Shanna Hollich, Jennryn Wetzler CC Certificate postWe are delighted to share the latest revisions of our Creative Commons Certificate Course content, available on our website as an OER in multiple formats.
What did Creative Commons do for Open Culture in 2023?
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara, Connor Benedict Open Culture post2023 was quite a year for the Creative Commons (CC) Open Culture Program, thanks to generous funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing & Peter Baldwin. In this blog post we look back on some of the year’s key achievements.
Making AI Work for Creators and the Commons
by Creative Commons Better Internet, Community, Events, Licenses & Tools, Open Culture, Open Knowledge, Technology postOn the eve of the CC Global Summit, members of the CC global community and Creative Commons held a one-day workshop to discuss issues related to AI, creators, and the commons. Emerging from that deep discussion and in subsequent conversation during the three days of the Summit, this group identified a set of common issues and values.