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Recap & Recording: “Open Culture in the Age of AI: Concerns, Hopes and Opportunities”
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict, Jocelyn Miyara Open Culture, Open Heritage postIn May, CC’s Open Culture Program hosted a new webinar in our Open Culture Live series titled “Open Culture in the Age of AI: Concerns, Hopes and Opportunities.” In this blog post we share key takeaways and a link to the recording.
Learn More with Creative Commons: Recent Training Highlights
by Jennryn Wetzler, Shanna Hollich CC Certificate, Open Education postIn this blog post, we share some highlights and recordings from recent trainings offered by the Creative Commons Learning and Training team.
CC Open Education Platform Activities: 2023 in Review
by Jennryn Wetzler, Werner Westermann, Tetiana Kolesnykova, Dan McGuire, Dr. Suma Parahakaran, Lisa Di Valentino, John Okewole, Fernando Daguanno About CC, Community, Open Education, Open Knowledge postThe CC Open Education community had a busy 2023! Five project teams, spanning nine countries, worked on open education projects ranging from developing STEAM, interactive, and climate change-related OER, to international curriculum alignment and translation work. Community members also worked on multimedia resources supporting the UNESCO Recommendation on OER, and presented in CC’s biannual Open…
Open Culture Live Recap & Recording: Respectful Terminologies & Changing the Subject
by Jocelyn Miyara, Brigitte Vézina Open Culture postOn 22 November, we organized a webinar with a group of experts to discuss their unique approaches to reparative metadata practices: considering the ways that harmful histories and terminologies have made their way into collections labeling and categorization practices and finding ways to identify those terms, contextualize them, and/or replace them altogether. Jill Baron, a…
Celebrating Two Years of CC’s Open Culture Voices
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict, Jocelyn Miyara Open Culture postToday we conclude the Open Culture Voices series, which over two years has showcased more than 65 open culture experts and practitioners from around the world. Over these two years we have had the privilege of engaging with remarkable individuals, each bringing their unique insights and stories to our community. Thank you!
Dave Hansen — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 33
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open Culture postDave talks about how many “institutions are on a mission to expose their collections to the world and make them available for everyone.” Dave sees this as a major evolution from a time not too long ago when it was only those with means who could access collections in any way. Open Culture VOICES is…
Kyle K. Courtney — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 32
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open Culture postKyle believes that “the artistic and creative expressions of humanity is the best way to experience our human efforts” and open GLAM makes this a reality for much more than what you can see on a given day in a museum. Open GLAM also helps drive more digitization of collections around the world in an…
Announcing CC’s Open Infrastructure Circle
by Creative Commons Licenses & Tools, Sustaining the Commons, Technology postCC Licenses make it possible to share content legally and openly. Over the past 20 years, they have unlocked approximately 3 billion articles, books, research, artwork, and music. CC’s Legal Tools are a free and reliable public good. Yet most people are unaware that their infrastructure and stewardship takes a lot of money and work to maintain. That’s why we’re launching the Open Infrastructure Circle (OIC) — an initiative to obtain annual or multi-year support from foundations, corporations, and individuals for Creative Commons’ core operations and license infrastructure.
Maarten Zeinstra — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 31
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open Culture postMaarten believes that “Open GLAM is a necessity of a disbalanced copyright framework.” Maarten talks about how open access policies help institutions achieve their public missions. Open access policies in instutions provides good evidence that society and communities need access to cultural heritage to flourish. Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos…
Sorry: This video does not exist. CC’s Open VIdeo Blocked by Automatic Copyright Robots
by Catherine Stihler Licenses & Tools, Open Creativity postA key video disappeared from the CC home webpage after the video hosting service Vimeo tagged the open work with an invalid automated copyright violation takedown notice. Learn more about what happens when automated copyright filters go wrong.