Creative Commons is pleased to be a part of the second annual Public Domain Day (PDD) celebration held in Washington D.C. on January 30, in collaboration with the Internet Archive, the Institute for Intellectual Property & Social Justice, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, and SPARC. In order to celebrate the public domain…

Today the Fabricatorz Foundation announced an open call for applicants for the Bassel Khartabil Fellowship.  The Fellowship supports outstanding individuals developing free culture projects in their communities under adverse circumstances, honoring the legacy of beloved artist, open source technology innovator, free culture advocate Bassel Khartabil. Bassel was Creative Commons’ Syrian project lead, the cofounder of…

I’m thrilled to share the first episode of our podcast, Plays Well with Others, with our community today. It’s about the art, science, and mechanics of collaboration.

Today, we are announcing a release of 30,000 high quality, free and open digital images from the museum’s collection under CC0 and available via their API.

January 14-18, 2019 is #CopyrightWeek, and today’s theme is Public Domain and Creativity, which aims to explore how copyright policy should encourage creativity, not hamper it. Excessive copyright terms inhibit our ability to comment, criticize, and rework our common culture. On January 1, tens of thousands of books, films, visual art, sheet music, plays, and…

Majd Al-CC BY Ziad Tareq Hassan

The inaugural Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship was awarded today to Majd Al-shihabi, a Palestinian-Syrian engineer and urban planning graduate based in Beirut, Lebanon.

Bassel Khartabil by freebassel is in the public domain via CC0. Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund Bassel Khartabil Fellowship

Bassel Khartabil by freebassel is in the public domain via CC0.

Creative Commons is accepting applications for two new opportunities to continue the legacy and impact of Syrian Palestinian Open internet activist Bassel Khartabil.

Honoring the legacy of Bassel Khartabil: Advancing collaboration, community, and the open web Application PROCESS HAS CONCLUDED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST. فتح باب تقديم الطلبات: مِنح لتخليد ذكرى باسل خرطبيل Creative Commons is inviting applications for interested individuals, groups, and organizations to apply for grants that build on the extraordinary work and legacy of…

Meet the 2020 Bassel Khartabil Fellowship recipient, Tarek Loubani Meet the 2018 (inaugural) fellowship recipient, Majd Al-shihabi Honoring the legacy of Creative Commoner Bassel Khartabil: Advancing collaboration, community, and the open web The Bassel Khartabil Fellowship supports outstanding individuals developing free culture projects in their communities under adverse circumstances, honoring the legacy of beloved artist,…