This past August, I facilitated an online peer-learning course in the School of Open introducing open science to newcomers, and Michelle Sidler worked behind the scenes to keep things glued together. This guest post was written by Michelle, and gives a look at how things went teaching an entirely free course on open science over…

Philip Pullman / Adrian Hon / CC BY-SA Catherine Casserly / Joi Ito / CC BY The Index on Censorship just published a dialogue on the future of copyright between Creative Commons CEO Cathy Casserly and British writer and Society of Authors president Philip Pullman. Pullman writes that internet piracy has made it harder for…

GS2013 Final Day in Hall (Ibtihel Zaatouri /

Creative Commons Global Summit 2013 (cckorea / CC BY) You might remember a few months ago when CC announced the start of an affiliate project grant program to support and expand the work of CC’s global volunteer network. Today, we are thrilled to announce the recipients of those grants. With a pool of over 70…

Earlier this year, CC China Mainland volunteers helped organize an educational event to promote open licensing. The CC China Mainland team recaps the event in this guest blog post, which originally appeared on the CC China Mainland blog. CC China Mainland volunteers recently helped organize the Trans-disciplinary System Integration Design Challenge, a program of the…

Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our newsletter and following us on Twitter. Top stories: Round 2 of the School of Open starts August 5! Sign up for courses on copyright for educators, open science, and much more. The first decade of CC is over; what’s next? In our new publication…

We’re happy to have two interns this summer: Pei-Yi Wang (Google Policy Fellow) and Teresa Sempere Garcia (Community Support Intern). Pei-Yi Wang / CC BY Teresa Sempere Garcia by Christian H. Paleari / CC BY Pei-Yi has been with CC Taiwan via Academia Sinica part-time since 2006. As a graduate student at the Law School…

Judy van der Velden / CC BY-NC-ND CC is excited to announce the launch of our Affiliate Project Grants. These project grants will be used to support and expand the work of CC’s Global community of volunteers. The goal of the grant program, which is enabled by sponsorship from Google, is to increase the capacity…

Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our newsletter and following us on Twitter. Top stories: Law BooksKolinio Niumataiwalu / CC BY-NC-SA We’re nearing the finish line for version 4.0 of the CC license suite. Find out what’s new in Draft 3 and what issues are stil being discussed. School of Open…

Faiza Souici / CC BY-SA In keeping with the tradition inaugurated by the third Creative Commons Arab regional meeting (30th June-2nd July, Tunis, 2011), the 2012 fourth annual gathering of the CC Arab communities was marked by a great deal of creative energy and a strong push towards strengthening a sharing culture in the Arab…