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Mark Your Calendars: The 2023 CC Global Summit Is Coming to Mexico City
by Creative Commons Events post![A photo tinted blue of a giant Mexican flag flying over Mexico City’s Zocalo Square with the Cathedral in the background, decorated with CC Global Summit logo and text that says “Mexico City | 3-6 Oct 2023” and “SUMMIT.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG”](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png)
[Lee esta entrada en español >] We are thrilled to announce that the Creative Commons Global Summit will return to an in-person event in 2023, and this time we are heading to one of the most vibrant and culturally rich cities in the world — Mexico City! During 3-6 October 2023, we will be gathering…
2023: The Year of Open Science
by Cable Green, Monica Granados Open Science post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS-1024x576.png)
2023 is the year of the rabbit in the Chinese Lunar calendar, the year Voyager 2 is predicted to overtake Pioneer 10 as the second-farthest spacecraft from Earth, and the Year of Open Science. In an announcement by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), 2023 was declared the Year of Open…
Coming Soon! Season 2 of Open Culture VOICES
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open Culture post![CC inside a speech bubble followed by](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-19-1024x640.png)
Open Culture is a growing sector of the open movement around the world, with museums, galleries, archives and libraries increasingly making collections available and accessible online. The Open Culture VOICES series aims to shine a light on the leaders and advocates in the sector to inspire others and increase the accessibility and availability of cultural…
Bringing Better Sharing to Davos
by Anna Tumadóttir Better Internet, Copyright post![Colorful, orange-winged insects sitting on a pink thistle flower in a mountain meadow with an out-of-focus town in the far distance.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Davos-1024x576.jpg)
Creative Commons is in Davos this week for the World Economic Forum (WEF). While CC is not (yet) a formal member of the forum, there is extensive programming available to the public that touches on our work. As we strive to strengthen the voice of civil society and promote better sharing of knowledge and culture…
Pioneers of Open Culture: A look back at how open access happened at three early adopters
by Brigitte Vézina, Michael Weinberg Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Photo-of-Central-Building-from-North-East.jpeg)
Ever wondered how it must have been for some of the first cultural heritage institutions to embark on their open access journey? Michael Weinberg, Executive Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU Law, talked to three major institutions that helped shape the early open GLAM / open culture movement to…
2022 in Review: a Look at Creative Commons’ Open Culture Program
by Brigitte Vézina Open Culture post![image of a white CC open culture logo in the left corner on top of an illustration of a person sitting by a window and reading a newspaper](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Open-Culture-1024x576.png)
2022 was quite a year for the Creative Commons (CC) Open Culture Program, thanks to generous funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing & Peter Baldwin, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. In this blog post, we take a look back at some of the year’s highlights in our program’s four components: Policy,…
Celebrate Public Domain Day 2023 with Us: The Best Things in Life Are Free
by Ony Anukem Events, Licenses & Tools, Open Heritage post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/unnamed-17-1024x512.png)
Join Creative Commons, Internet Archive, and many other leaders from the open world to celebrate Public Domain Day 2023. As of January 2023, a treasure trove of new cultural works has become as free as the moon and the stars — at least in the USA and many other countries. And what better way to…
Creative Commons (CC) Certificate Content: Available in French and Spanish!
by Jennryn Wetzler Open Education post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-CERT-French-and-Spanish-1024x576.png)
The CC Certificate program offers training covering open licensing and the ethos of sharing. All CC Certificate content is openly licensed and built with the intention of adaptation and remix. While CC currently offers Certificate courses to address (1) educators, (2) academic librarians, and (3) cultural heritage communities (also known as GLAM: galleries, libraries, archives…
CC at 20: CEO Catherine Stihler Reflects on 2022 and Where CC Is Headed Next
by Catherine Stihler About CC post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-at-20-CEO-Catherine-Stihler-Reflects-1024x576.png)
Last Friday (16 December 2022), Creative Commons proudly celebrated twenty years of CC licensing and all the groundbreaking collaboration it has enabled. As we look back on this remarkable journey, time seems to pass more quickly than ever — yet our gratitude for each milestone remains unwavering, as do words of thanks towards everyone who…
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Funds New CC Initiative to Open Large Climate Datasets
by Creative Commons Open Data, Open Science post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CC-PJMF-1024x576.png)
Today, Creative Commons (CC) is excited to announce one million US dollars in new programmatic support from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) to help open large climate datasets. The twelve-month grant will enable CC to conduct key climate data landscape analyses and expand our work, bringing people together to create policy and practices to…