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CC Supports Internet Archive’s Efforts to Ensure Public Access to Books
by Brigitte Vézina, Catherine Stihler Copyright post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/182078.png)
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a motion for summary judgment calling to reject the lawsuit against the Internet Archive (IA) brought by four big publishers that threatens IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) program. Creative Commons fully supports this motion. Here’s why. The Internet Archive is an American non-profit library preserving and giving access…
Join us for our next round of CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks!
by Jennryn Wetzler Open Education post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1200-×-675-px-1-1024x576.png)
The Creative Commons Open Education Platform community will offer our next round of Lightning Talks, or seven-minute presentations on specific updates or stories in open education. Join the sessions on Tuesday 12 July at 6:00pm UTC. We can’t wait to learn with you! Location: Join us from wherever you are based! We’ll be using Zoom to…
CC Expresses Views on Italian National Cultural Heritage Digitization Plan
by Brigitte Vézina Copyright, Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CC-Expresses-Views-on-Italian-National-Cultural-Heritage-Digitization-Plan-1024x576.png)
A few weeks ago, the Italian Ministry of Culture issued its National Cultural Heritage Digitization Plan 2022-2023 – Guidelines for the acquisition, sharing and reuse of digital cultural heritage reproductions. While the Plan is welcome as an important step towards the digital transformation of cultural heritage institutions (CHIs), it risks nonetheless restricting, rather than increasing,…
Here are four key takeaways from evaluating the CC Certificate
by Jennryn Wetzler Open Education post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IMG_20220622_155708_70.png)
The CC Certificate program helps Creative Commons build professionals’ capacity in open licensing and open practices. The program offers global courses for academic librarians, educators, and cultural heritage advocates; but courses are open to everyone. Through global discussions, course participants work through what it means to engage in an online commons of shared knowledge and…
A History of Creative Commons
page![A screenshot of a milestone in the Creative Commons History timeline: 16 January 2001 Creative Commons Founded with the CC logo below and other milestones to the left and right.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CCTimeline.png)
Explore CC’s dynamic history, from our founding in 2001 and the release of our first open licenses in 2002, all the way to our most recent milestones. CC grew up online, so we’ve also included landmarks from web history to show the close connections between the spread of digital networks and key events in our…
Open Culture VOICES Vlog Series: Wrap-Up
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screenshot-2022-06-02-at-16.42.29-scaled-1-1024x574.jpg)
In this video, Creative Commons CEO Catherine Stihler concludes our Open Culture VOICES series. Launched in February 2022, VOICES is a vlog series, which features short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. Over the past four months, we have released almost 40 episodes with inspiring stories…
CC Certificate: Alumni interview with Revekka Kefalea
by Jennryn Wetzler Open Culture, Open Education post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CC-Cert-Post-1024x576.png)
Launched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated over 1000 people from 56 countries. Creative Commons staff are regularly inspired by the community of Certificate alumni, accomplishing incredible things in open knowledge and culture. CC Certificate alumni have used the Certificate course knowledge in a number of ways—read about how alumni…
Episode 35: Open Culture VOICES – Josée Plamondon
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/JP-1024x576.jpeg)
Welcome to episode 35 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to…
Episode 34: Open Culture VOICES – Kristina Petrasova
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CC-VOICES-Kristina-Petrasova-1024x576.jpeg)
Welcome to episode 34 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to…
Episode 33: Open Culture VOICES – Ariadna Matas
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ariadna-Matas-scaled-1-1024x573.jpg)
Welcome to episode 33 of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to…