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Episode 1: Open Culture VOICES – Medhavi Gandhi
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We are excited to share the first episode of Open Culture VOICES, 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…
Creative Commons Receives $1M Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Advance Better Sharing
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently allocated $1M to Creative Commons (CC) in honor of CC’s 20th Anniversary. This three-year, general operating support will help foster CC’s commitment to Better Sharing by addressing equity gaps and unequal balances of power in the open ecosystem. The internet has global ownership with people…
Better Internet Series: Access to Information and Knowledge
by Dee Harris Better Internet post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/AKI-1024x571.jpg)
See our article introducing this series. This article is part of a series of five articles detailing breakout sessions from the 2021 Creative Commons (CC) Global Summit related to imagining a Better Internet. Throughout 2021, community partners interested in building a “better internet” have been coming together for conversations. Some partners joined as an opportunity…
Assessing Cultural Heritage Institutions’ Needs Related to CC’s Public Domain Tools
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Heritage post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Untitled-design-36-1024x576.png)
On January 1, 2022, and throughout the month of January, Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating Public Domain Day, welcoming copyright works into the public domain, where they become freely available for the public to use, reuse and modify. As part of our Open Culture / GLAM program’s celebration of Public Domain Day, we are reaching…
Join us for ‘Ground Truth in Open Internet’ — the new Creative Commons Open Journalism Webinar Series and Training
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Journalism provides a crucial public service. Access to verifiable information and stories that question the underlying terrain of power is critical to democratic societies. Yet, journalism as we know it faces existential new challenges. Increasingly, journalists face work-halting financial and ethical challenges, as well as threats to their physical and digital safety, when sharing information…
Open Minds Podcast: Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise & Free Music Archive
by Ony Anukem About CC post![Cartoonish illustration of a human hand holding a torch with a lightbulb radiating yellow light next to the words Open Minds above a #20CC icon and Creative Commons wordmark, all on a faded purplish-blue sky with white clouds.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/open_minds-1024x1024.jpg)
Hi Creative Commoners! We’re back with the first episode of Open Minds … from Creative Commons in 2022. In this episode, CC’s Ony Anukem sits down for a conversation with Hessel van Oorschot, founder and “Chief of Noise” of the online music business Tribe of Noise. Tribe of Noise is a music community that connects…
SOPA Plus 10, reflections and continued work
by Dee Harris Better Internet post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/sopa10BI-copy.jpg)
On January 18, 2012, the web went dark in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), two bills introduced into the United States House and Senate in the last quarter of 2011. Why are we talking about this day ten years later? The fight for a global internet,…
Digital Services Act: Is the EU legislative train on the right track?
by Brigitte Vézina, Catherine Stihler Copyright post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/35440117101_2acdb1a905_o-1024x640.jpg)
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On December 14, the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) of the European Parliament adopted its position on the Digital Services Act (DSA) proposal, under the leadership of IMCO DSA Rapporteur MEP Christel Schaldemose (S&D, Denmark). What is the Digital Services Act? The Digital Services Act aims to update the current EU legal framework…
A message from our CEO to the CC Community on Creative Commons’ 20th Anniversary
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Dear CC Community, It’s a very special day — today marks the 20th Anniversary of Creative Commons’ founding! Twenty years ago, Creative Commons started with a simple, radical idea: to save the internet from “failed sharing” and create a world where everyone has access to knowledge and creativity. What began as a simple idea and…
Dear Users of CC Search, Welcome to Openverse
by Anna Tumadóttir Technology post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-1024x576.png)
Earlier this year, we shared an exciting announcement that CC Search would be joining WordPress. Several beloved former CC tech team alumni joined the team at WordPress to tackle this important initiative, shepherding it forward into an exciting new era. Starting today, all our wonderful, loyal users of CC Search will be redirected to Openverse…