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CC Publishes Global Open Culture Call to Action to Policymakers
by Brigitte Vézina Open Culture post![In white in a gray box over a flowery landscape painting: CC Icon Open Culture and text: Towards better sharing of cultural heritage — A Creative Commons Call to Action to Policymakers.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Towards-better-sharing-of-cultural-heritage-—-A-Creative-Commons-Call-to-Action-to-Policymakers-1024x576.png)
Since its creation in 2001, Creative Commons (CC) has helped release nearly 5 million digital open images of cultural heritage held in cultural heritage institutions using CC tools. We have also been promoting open culture to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world, and it is based on this rich experience that our Open…
As European Council Adopts AI Act Position, Questions Remain on GPAI
by Creative Commons Copyright post![An abstract European Union flag of diffused gold stars linked by golden neural pathways on a deep blue mottled background.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-1024x576.png)
As we’ve discussed before, the European Union has been considering a new AI Act, which would regulate certain uses of artificial intelligence (AI). In particular, it seeks to ban certain uses of AI, such as broad-based real-time biometric identification for law enforcement in public places, and to ensure that certain precautions are taken before deployment…
Our Work in Policy at CC: Data
by Creative Commons Copyright post![Detail of a data visualization showing numerical dates and gold and burnt umber bars of different lengths representing values emanating from the center of a radial graph that ends up looking like a starburst.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/NYTimes-Regulation-and-Innovation-since-1981-Radial-1024x576.png)
As the year comes to a close, we’re spotlighting Creative Commons’ public policy work, recapping what we’ve done and looking ahead to the new year. In this edition, we turn to our work on better sharing of data. The sharing of open data can be incredibly beneficial to society: facilitating enhanced scientific collaboration and reproducibility,…
20CC: Open Works from CC’s 20th Anniversary
by Creative Commons Events post![A large black and white 20, where the 0 is the Creative Commons icon.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/20CC-1024x576.png)
During 2021–2022, CC has been celebrating the 20th anniversary of our founding in 2001 and the first release of the CC licenses in 2002, successfully concluding an ambitious fundraising campaign to support programs like Open Culture, Open Climate, and Open Education, and to help ensure CC’s ongoing sustainability. In November 2022, CC brought the 20th anniversary celebration to an official…
Reimagine Open Culture with the Newly Relaunched Curationist.org
by Ony Anukem Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Curationist-956x1024.jpeg)
Exciting news — an initiative of the MHz Foundation, Curationist.org, a free-to-use platform that connects users to over 4.4 million digital artworks and cultural objects, recently relaunched with some amazing new features. On 7 December, they will host a guided experience of the new platform, and we hope to see you there. Register now. The…
Experts Weigh In: AI Inputs, AI Outputs and the Public Commons
by Creative Commons Better Internet post![Two images generated by AI side-by-side: On the left: A brightly colorful painting in the style of Hieronymus Bosch showing vaguely human figures climbing on and attending to a wooden Medieval-looking Rube Goldberg contraption involving wheels, levers, and spheres. On the right: A white robot with a look of concentration on their face, wearing a red cap and robe, holding a painter’s palette, painting something beyond the frame with a brush that has an abstract flower growing up from its handle.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-1024x576.jpg)
On 9 and 10 November 2022, Creative Commons hosted a pair of webinars on artificial intelligence (AI). We assembled two panels of experts at the intersection of AI, art, data, and intellectual property law to look at issues related to AI inputs — works used in training and supplying AI — and another focused on…
CC’s Engagement on the EU Data Act
by Creative Commons Copyright post![A heavily pixelated blue European Union flag with pixels scattered across it in different colors.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-1024x576.png)
Recently, we provided an update on Creative Common’s engagement on the European Union’s draft Artificial Intelligence Act. We’ve also worked with policymakers and other stakeholders on another flagship EU legislative file — the draft Data Act. The European Commission published the Data Act proposal earlier this year, as a continuation of its EU’s overall data…
Introducing the “Better Sharing” Illustrations — A Creative Commons & Fine Acts Collaboration
by Ony Anukem About CC, Open Creativity post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_1434-1024x682.jpg)
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Creative Commons and our licenses, we partnered with Fine Acts to commission the “Better Sharing” collection. We are excited to share the collection with the world, which was unveiled last week at CC’s 20th Anniversary Celebration. The artworks are available on TheGreats.co to be enjoyed, used and adapted, and…
CC Certificate: Alumni interview with Jennifer Miller
by Jennryn Wetzler Open Education post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/4370249959_c02b7e6c19_o.png)
Launched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated 1255 people from 65 countries to date. We celebrate the incredible projects in open knowledge and culture led by the graduates of our program. CC Certificate alumni have used the Certificate course knowledge in a number of ways—read about how alumni have worked…
Webinars: AI Inputs, Outputs and the Public Commons
by Creative Commons Better Internet post![Two images generated by AI side-by-side: On the left: A brightly colorful painting in the style of Hieronymus Bosch showing vaguely human figures climbing on and attending to a wooden Medieval-looking Rube Goldberg contraption involving wheels, levers, and spheres. On the right: A white robot with a look of concentration on their face, wearing a red cap and robe, holding a painter’s palette, painting something beyond the frame with a brush that has an abstract flower growing up from its handle.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AIInputsAndOutputs-1024x576.jpg)
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been exploding across the digital landscape — from people sharing text and images generated by AI platforms, to new policy that tries to shape a future where AI is expected to play an even bigger role — all while we aren’t really sure yet even how to define AI, much less…