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CC celebrates 30 years of UNESCO Memory of the World
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This week, the international community celebrates 30 years of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program. At Creative Commons (CC), we applaud the program’s achievements in enhancing preservation and access to documentary heritage from galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) around the globe. We laud the multitude of efforts enlisting documentary heritage to promote inclusive,…
A Better Internet for Better Sharing: Join the Movement for a Better Internet
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As part of Creative Commons’ key strategic goal of Better Sharing, today we have joined six other organizations spanning the globe to launch the Movement for a Better Internet, a diverse community of advocates, activists, academics, and civil society groups working together to promote policies that create a better internet for people everywhere. The movement…
Join Us to Celebrate 20 Years of Creative Commons
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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 will bring the…
Training
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At Creative Commons, we offer an array of learning and training opportunities to support our global community in developing open licensing expertise and a deeper understanding of recommended practices for better sharing. Choose from workshops, lectures, and our CC Certificate courses to find what meets your needs. Contact us via our online form! CC Certificate…
Better Internet for a Decentralized Web: Conversations from Camp
by Anna Tumadóttir Better Internet, Events post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Better-Internet-1024x704.jpg)
At Creative Commons, we’ve been thinking a lot about how open principles and public interest values intersect with the decentralized web movement, particularly in relation to broader, collaborative efforts to build a Better Internet. In the past year, we’ve worked with other digital human rights and tech policy organizations to power this emerging movement, focused…
CC at UN #GlobalGoalsWeek 2022
by Creative Commons Events, Open Culture, Open Education, Open Science post![Colored grid of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal icons.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/UNSDGs-1024x576.png)
Want to build a fairer, more peaceful world? Creative Commons does and we are joining over 170 other organizations in New York City during 16–25 September to accelerate progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during 2022 #GlobalGoalsWeek. CC’s deep engagement with the SDGs comes from two of our fundamental beliefs: First, that…
Statement on the Introduction of the EU Media Freedom Act
by Creative Commons Copyright post![Headshot of Catherine Stihler, wearing a blue shawl standing in front of a body of water with buildings and clouds in the distance.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CatherineStihler-1024x576.jpg)
Creative Commons CEO Catherine Stihler welcomed the EU’s publication today of its Media Freedom Act. Catherine said: “An independent, plural media is central to a healthy, functioning democratic system which in turn is the bedrock for citizens’ trust and confidence in politics and values. Creative Commons applauds the EU in its efforts to protect journalists…
Open Office Hours with CC’s Legal Team
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(updated May 2024 with new link) Come join CC’s legal team for open office hours. Everyone is invited to meet with General Counsel Kat Walsh and Counsel Yuanxiao Xu to discuss legal issues related to CC licenses, CC0, and open sharing in general. We’ll start off with a few minutes talking about CC and some…
Members Share Their Experiences with the CC Open Culture Platform
by Brigitte Vézina Open Culture post![An illustration showing lots of human hands of various colors reaching together to hold up a glowing, multicolored ball.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Togetherness-by-Anna-Lopes-1024x576.jpg)
Do you know about the Creative Commons Open Culture Platform? It’s a space for open culture and cultural heritage practitioners, advocates, and enthusiasts to share resources, hold conversations, and collaborate on matters related to open access to cultural heritage, especially heritage held in galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs). As we were curious about our…
New FAQ on NFTs and CC0
by Creative Commons Licenses & Tools post![Black CC and CC0 logos side by side.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CC0Social-1024x576.png)
Unless you’ve been avoiding the internet entirely, you’ve probably heard about people buying and selling non-fungible tokens — or NFTs — unique data tokens that link to digital files, including artworks and other types of copyrightable works. CC has been following how people are creating and trading NFTs, and how the marketplace of creative works is…