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More California Community Colleges Get CC Certified!
by Shanna Hollich, Jennryn Wetzler CC Certificate, Events, Open Education post![Sunset over San Bernardino skyline](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CC-Bootcamp-California-Community-Colleges-4-1024x576.jpg)
This December, Creative Commons led a CC Certificate Bootcamp, or condensed Certificate training, for faculty and staff from 16 different California Community Colleges implementing Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) degree programs. This marked the second CC Bootcamp for California Community Colleges after the California legislature invested $115 million to expand ZTC degrees and the use of…
Celebrate Public Domain Day 2024 with us: Weird Tales from the Public Domain
by Creative Commons Copyright post![A clipped image with](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Weird-Tales-Clip-1024x576.png)
Join Creative Commons, Internet Archive, and many other leaders from the open world to celebrate Public Domain Day 2024. The mouse that became Mickey will finally be free of his corporate captivity as the copyright term of the 1928 animated Disney film, Steamboat Willie, expires along with that of thousands of other cultural works on…
Open Culture Live Recap & Recording: Respectful Terminologies & Changing the Subject
by Jocelyn Miyara, Brigitte Vézina Open Culture post![A detail from the painting showing a scene of Indian princesses gathered around a fountain with multi-colored dresses, overlaid with the CC Open Culture logo and Open Culture Live wordmark, and text saying “Changing the Subject & Respectful Technologies 29 November 2023 | 4:00 PM UTC” and including an attribution for the image: “Princesses Gather at a Fountain, ca. 1770 Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.”](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2-1024x576.png)
On 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 post![The end of Open Culture Voices card](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/OCV-The-End-1024x640.jpg)
Today 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!
On Openness & Copyright, EU AI Act Final Version Appears to Include Promising Changes
by Creative Commons Better Internet, Policy post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/AI-1024x510.jpg)
The EU’s political institutions announced that they have reached a tentative final agreement. While details are still not finalized and many questions remain regarding treatment of certain high-risk systems, the agreement appears promising relative to the recent Parliament text and from the perspective of supporting open source, open science, as well as on copyright.
Highlights from GLAM Wiki by the CC Open Culture Team
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara, Jennryn Wetzler, Connor Benedict Open Culture post![From left to right, the team stands together with GLAM Wiki Lanyards. Jocelyn has short brown curly hair and wears a black and white dress with a black shirt. Brigitte has light brown hair and wears jeans and a pink jacket. Connor wears a white button up shirt and jeans, glasses. Jennryn has long blonde hair and colorful hoop earrings with a CC t-shirt. The team is featured in front of an ornate door and checkered black and white tiled floor.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/GLAM-Wiki-Coverphoto-1024x576.png)
From 16 to 18 November, members of the Creative Commons (CC) Open Culture and Learning and Training teams attended GLAM Wiki in Montevideo Uruguay. In this blog post we look back at the event’s highlights from CC’s perspective.
CC Global Summit 2023: Reflections
by Catherine Stihler CC Global Network, Events post![A colorful illustration of a wall of windows, each showing a different figure, including an axolotl and humans engaged in various activities, one wearing a blue luchador mask, and others holding a slender blue line hung with a light blue CC Global Summit banner, all surrounded by butterflies, birds, vines, and flowering plants.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún16x9-1024x576.jpg)
CC has long been at the forefront of enabling innovation and promoting access to knowledge and creativity. The Creative Commons 2023 Summit brought together creators, academics, technologists, and policymakers from around the world to discuss the future of open culture and how CC can continue to drive positive change. This blog post reflects on the key challenges of the summit and shares the insightful learnings that emerged from these discussions.
Open Culture Live Webinar: Changing the Subject & Respectful Terminologies
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara Open Culture post![A detail from the painting showing a scene of Indian princesses gathered around a fountain with multi-colored dresses, overlaid with the CC Open Culture logo and Open Culture Live wordmark, and text saying “Changing the Subject & Respectful Technologies 29 November 2023 | 4:00 PM UTC” and including an attribution for the image: “Princesses Gather at a Fountain, ca. 1770 Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.”](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2-1024x576.png)
For centuries, cultural heritage institutions have been undertaking the work to document and catalog objects in their collections — sometimes this work suffers from a legacy of colonialism and discrimination in the way their collections are labeled and categorized. Some institutions are working to update these labels with more respectful terminology. Hear more from some of the changemakers working to update labels and metadata with more respectful terminologies during this CC panel.
CC’s Key Insights from WIPO’s Meeting on Copyright
by Brigitte Vézina, Catherine Stihler Copyright, Open Heritage post![A screenshot of the SCCR webcasting with Brigitte Vézina delivering a statement on behalf of Creative Commons.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/WIPO-SCCR-1024x576.png)
From 6 to 8 November 2023, Creative Commons participated remotely in the 44th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. In this blog post, we look back on the session’s highlights on broadcasting, exceptions and limitations, and generative AI, from CC’s perspective.
Kyle K. Courtney — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 32
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open Culture post![Screenshot from Kyle K. Courtney from Open Culture Voices by Creative Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Kyle.png)
Kyle 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…