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Open Minds Podcast: Matt Mullenweg of Automattic
by Ony Anukem About CC postHi folks! We are back with a new episode of CC’s podcast, Open Minds … from Creative Commons! On this episode, CC’s Director of Product, Anna Tumadóttir, sits down with Matt Mullenweg. Originally from Houston, Texas, Matt is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and…
Open Minds Podcast: Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures
by Ony Anukem About CC, Open Science postIt’s the start of a new month, which means a new episode of CC’s podcast, Open Minds … from Creative Commons! Our guest on this episode is Albert Wenger, managing partner at Union Square Ventures, a thesis-driven venture capital firm based in New York City. USV has invested in over 100 companies that use the…
Open Minds Podcast: Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan
by Eric Steuer About CC, Open Data postWe’re back with another episode of CC’s podcast, Open Minds … from Creative Commons! In this episode, I speak with Audrey Tang, who is the Digital Minister of Taiwan, as well as an influential free software programmer and hacker. Tang is a vocal proponent of openness and is working to manifest a vision for how…
At the Intersection of NFTs and Creative Commons Licenses
by Catherine Stihler Open Culture postLike many people on the internet, we here at Creative Commons have been thinking about NFTs, and the possibilities that unique digital assets might bring for artists and creators. (By the way, did you know that Beeple, the artist who famously sold an NFT for $69 million, has been using CC licenses for years?) Most…
Open Minds Podcast: Lila Bailey of the Internet Archive
by Eric Steuer About CC, Open Culture postWe’ve got a new episode of our podcast to share. On today’s episode of Open Minds … from Creative Commons, I talk to Lila Bailey. She’s the policy counsel (i.e. the lead lawyer) for the Internet Archive, the nonprofit digital library that makes millions of books, movies, websites, and other cultural works available for free…
Her Story: Promoting Inclusivity and Equity
by Julia Brungs, Victoria Heath Community postFor over 40 years, millions across the globe have collectively celebrated the achievements, histories, ideas, and contributions of women on March 8 and increasingly, throughout March for Women’s History Month using #HerStory and #BecauseOfHerStory. This year, we wanted to do something special to celebrate this annual event, so we reached out to several members of…
Open Minds Podcast: Coraline Ada Ehmke on Ethical Source
by Eric Steuer About CC, Technology postWe’ve been getting such great feedback about our new podcast, Open Minds…from Creative Commons. Thank you for listening! On today’s episode, Sarah Pearson, CC’s Senior Counsel, talks to Coraline Ada Ehmke about her work at the intersection of open source and social good. Ehmke is a developer, writer, speaker, musician, and activist. She’s the creator…
Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends.
by Brigitte Vézina, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson Copyright postDevelopments in artificial intelligence (AI) raise several questions when it comes to the use of copyright material and Creative Commons-licensed content in particular.1 One of them is whether CC-licensed content (e.g. photographs, artworks, text, music, etc.) should be used as input to train AI. To get a sense of the various views on this question,…
Open Minds: Celebrating Smithsonian Open Access With Effie Kapsalis
by Victoria Heath About CC, Open Culture postIn two days, the Smithsonian will celebrate one year of Smithsonian Open Access. This initiative removed copyright restrictions from 2.8 million digital collection 2D and 3D images and nearly two centuries of data using Creative Commons’ public domain dedication tool (CC0). Launched just before many of us went into lockdown due to COVID-19, Smithsonian Open…
Announcing Our New Podcast: “Open Minds … from Creative Commons”
by Eric Steuer About CC postToday we’re excited to launch a new podcast called Open Minds … from Creative Commons. It’s CC’s 20th anniversary this year. And to celebrate, we decided to launch this show, a series of conversations with people working on the issues we’re involved with and excited about. Expect Open Minds to feature folks from the worlds of…