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Eric Phetteplace is a fellow from our first Institute for Open Leadership, held in San Francisco in January 2015. He is a librarian at California College of the Arts.  I was a member of the inaugural Institute for Open Leadership in 2015. I’m the Systems Librarian at California College of the Arts (CCA), and my IOL…

"Another Busy Afternoon in Kenya," Zuraj Studio. 2015 Wiki Loves Africa Winner.

Wikipedians are an integral part of the CC Community, and as a key Wikipedian in Wiki Loves Women, WikiAfrica, and Wiki Loves Africa, Isla Haddow-Flood’s work is a crux for that community.

International arrivals / James Cridland / CC BY We are delighted to finally publish the fourth and final draft of the 4.0 license suite for public comment. We are publishing draft 4 of BY-NC-SA today, and will publish the other five licenses over the course of the next few days. The prior public comment period…

Victoria Lungu Leading a School of Open Challenge / Open.Michigan / CC BY Last Friday, Open.Michigan helped a group of students get Creative Commons savvy in an offline version of the School of Open’s “Get CC Savvy” challenge, a course originally designed for independent online learners. For those yet unaware, the School of Open is…

Portugal x Holland by pedroffmarques / CC BYCongratulations to CC Portugal for launching localized versions of the CC 3.0 licenses! These are Portugal’s second localized CC licenses. Although CC’s international license suite is appropriate and intended for use around the globe, CC has historically permitted affiliates to port (linguistically translate and then adapt) the licenses…

At the beginning of this year we announced a revised approach to our education plans, focusing our activities to support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. In order to do so we have worked hard to increase the amount of information available on our own site – in addition to an Education landing page and the OER…

Table of Contents General Information Regarding These Master Terms of Use (“Master Terms”). Your Agreement to the Terms. Changes to the Terms. Provision of the Websites and Services Generally. No Legal Advice. Location of the Websites and Services. User Conduct. Terms Relating to Content on the Websites and Services. Third Party Websites and Content; Links.…

Table of Contents General Information Regarding These Master Terms of Use (“Master Terms”). Your Agreement to the Terms. Changes to the Terms. Provision of the Websites and Services Generally. No Legal Advice. Location of the Websites and Services. User Conduct. Terms Relating to Content on the Websites and Services. Third Party Websites and Content; Links.…

Creative Commons Master Terms of Use Effective as of 26 August 2020 1. General Information Regarding These Terms of Use Master terms: Welcome, and thank you for your interest in Creative Commons (“Creative Commons,” “CC,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). Unless otherwise noted on a particular site or service, these master terms of use (“Master Terms”)…