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Anya Kamenetz Será una Oradora Principal en la Cumbre Mundial CC 2023
by Creative Commons Events post![A headshot of Anya Kamenetz, smiling and wearing a greenish top, to the right of a colorful illustration of a wall of windows, each revealing a different human or animal doing some activity, on a building decorated with a light blue CC Global Summit banner hanging from a slender blue line, surrounded by yellow butterflies and birds and green vines and plants.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CCGlobalSummitKeynoteAnyaKamenetz-1024x576.png)
[read this post in English >] Tenemos un grupo increíble de personas preparadas para ser oradores principales en la Cumbre Global 2023, que se llevará a cabo del 3 al 6 de octubre en la Ciudad de México. En nuestro primer anuncio, damos la bienvenida a la escritora Anya Kamenetz, quien cerrará la Cumbre con…
Anya Kamenetz to Keynote CC Global Summit 2023
by Creative Commons Events post![A headshot of Anya Kamenetz, smiling and wearing a greenish top, to the right of a colorful illustration of a wall of windows, each revealing a different human or animal doing some activity, on a building decorated with a light blue CC Global Summit banner hanging from a slender blue line, surrounded by yellow butterflies and birds and green vines and plants.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/CCGlobalSummitKeynoteAnyaKamenetz-1024x576.png)
[lee esta entrada en español >] We have an incredible group of people lined up to be keynote speakers at the 2023 CC Global Summit, to be held 3–6 October in Mexico City. In our first announcement, we welcome writer Anya Kamenetz, who will close the Summit with a keynote that grows out of her…
A Tale of Two Global Challenges: Climate research is not as open as COVID-19 research
by Cable Green, Monica Granados Open Climate, Open Science post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SDGs-vs-COVID-1024x364.png)
In early 2020, something unusual happened in the academic community. A normally guarded community accustomed to holding their data and research papers close, began to adopt much more open practices. Researchers came in droves to preprint servers to post versions of their research papers – that had not yet been peer reviewed – to make…
CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | September: Open Is Beautiful
by Corrine Murray About CC, Open Creativity post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Copy-of-Sharing-Is-Growing-1200-×-678-px-1-1024x579.png)
“Open Is Beautiful” by Tetiana Korniichuk for Creative Commons and Fine Acts is licensed via CC BY-SA 4.0. As part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what better sharing looks like in action. Our #BetterSharing collection of illustrations was the result — we…
Hardiansyah — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 23
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open Culture post![Screenshot from Hardiansyah from Open Culture Voices by Creative Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Hardi.png)
“Culture is something that should be shared among many people.” Hardi talks about the work he is doing with Wikipedia to make collections in Indonesia accessible to the wider world. He explains how the internet makes unique cultures more visible and promotes dialogue between cultures. Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that…
Exploring Preference Signals for AI Training
by Catherine Stihler Better Internet, Open Culture, Technology post![Close up photo of three round metal signs lying haphazardly on a stony path, each with a big white arrow pointing in a different direction, embossed on a greenish-blue background.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-1024x576.png)
One of the motivations for founding Creative Commons (CC) was offering more choices for people who wish to share their works openly. Through engagement with a wide variety of stakeholders, we heard frustrations with the “all or nothing” choices they seemed to face with copyright. Instead they wanted to let the public share and reuse…
How CC Will Advance Open Licensing Understanding Within 25 California Community Colleges
by Creative Commons Open Education post![A teal and light purple graphic of lines and arrows with the text: Open Educational Resources 2023 Spark Grantees next to the Creative Commons and The Michelson 20MM Foundation logos and wordmarks.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OER_2023-SG-Funding-Cycle_20230423-3.png)
Crossposted with permission from The Michelson 20MM Foundation 23 Aug 2023 blog post. Creative Commons licenses enable much of the open content across the arts, sciences, and academia, including open educational resources (OER). Creative Commons (CC) offers CC Certificate courses, or training on CC licensing and open tools, which have become a key tool for…
Open Culture Resources
page![Black and white photo of a dandelion](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/R_Lau_233983-1024x616.jpg)
The Open Culture program is dedicated to making our resources available to our diverse global audience. Many of our resources are available in multiple languages and we are grateful to our community of volunteers for expanding CC’s linguistic reach. Note that the original English version is the authoritative version on which all unofficial translations are…
Understanding CC Licenses and Generative AI
by Kat Walsh Better Internet, Licenses & Tools, Open Creativity, Technology post![A black and white illustration of a group of human figures in silhouette using unrecognizable tools to work on a giant Creative Commons icon.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-1024x576.png)
Many wonder what role CC licenses, and CC as an organization, can and should play in the future of generative AI. The legal and ethical uncertainty over using copyrighted inputs for training, the uncertainty over the legal status and best practices around works produced by generative AI, and the implications for this technology on the…
Back to Basics: Open Culture for Beginners
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict, Jocelyn Miyara Open Culture post![The background image is the Wave of Kanagawa, a famous Japanese painting of a large wave with boats floating toward it. Creative Commons’ logo is in the upper right hand corner. Underneath reads “OPEN CULTURE LIVE” and “Back to Basics: Open Culture for Beginners, 27 July, 2023, 14 UTC.”](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live-1024x576.png)
On 27 July 2023 we hosted the first webinar in our new Open Culture Live series. In this session about the basics of Open Culture, we led a presentation that answers some of the key questions for beginners hoping to understand more about Creative Commons, and how we work closely with the cultural heritage sector…