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Congratulations and Farewell
by Catherine Stihler About CC postI’d like to share with our community a congratulation and a heartfelt farewell to staff in the Creative Commons legal team. First, CC is excited to announce that longtime CC staffer, Kat Walsh, has been promoted to CC General Counsel. Kat was on the CC legal team from 2012-2015 during the drafting and initial publication…
Episode 18: Open Culture VOICES – Stacy Allison-Cassin
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture postWelcome to episode 18 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 17: Open Culture VOICES – Patricia Díaz Rubio
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture postWelcome to episode 17 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…
CC Welcomes Agreement in EU on Landmark Legislation on Digital Gatekeepers
by Creative Commons Copyright postCreative Commons (CC) applauds the landmark agreement reached late last week by EU legislators on the Digital Markets Act. Given the increasingly prominent role large ‘gatekeepers’ play in the daily lives of citizens and companies, CC believes it is important that a robust legislative and regulatory framework is in place to ensure a fair and…
Episode 15: Open Culture VOICES – Rebecca Giblin
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture postWelcome to episode 15 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…
CC Welcomes Adoption of AIDA
by Creative Commons Copyright postCC welcomes the adoption of this comprehensive report by the AIDA special committee with strong, cross-party support. On Tuesday, the European Parliament’s (EU) Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) adopted its final recommendations for a Roadmap, laying the groundwork through 2030. This Roadmap concludes that artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous technological…
CC Opposes Mandatory Copyright Filters, as Well as Using CC to Justify Them
by Kat Walsh Copyright postLast Friday, United States (US) senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the “Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies (SMART) Copyright Act of 2022.” Their bill proposes to have the US Copyright Office mandate that all websites accepting user-uploaded material implement technologies to automatically filter that content. We’ve long believed that these kinds…
Creative Commons CEO Honored as RSE Fellow
by Creative Commons Events postCreative Commons CEO Catherine Stihler OBE has been elected to the Fellowship of Scotland’s national academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). The Fellowship is made up of the greatest thinkers, researchers, and practitioners working in or with Scotland today. Catherine has been an international champion for openness as a legislator and practitioner for more…
Blueprint on Open Access to UK’s Digital Cultural Heritage Collections Welcomed
by Creative Commons Open Culture postA new blueprint on open access to digital cultural heritage collections in the United Kingdom (UK) has been hailed as a significant opportunity to prevent historical works from being “locked down” behind copyright walls. Recommendations in the report, “A Culture of Copyright, A scoping study on open access to digital cultural heritage collections in the…
Episode 13: Open Culture VOICES – Melissa Terras
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture postWelcome to episode 13 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…