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SDG Academy & Creative Commons
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+ By Cable Green: Director of Open Education, Creative Commons, and Chandrika Bahadur: Director, SDG Academy Open access to knowledge has never been more important than it is today. The promise of connectivity and the democratization of knowledge has made it possible for anyone, anywhere, to learn. In an increasingly connected and complex world, society…
CC Copyright Platform Members Share the Stories of Their Projects
by Brigitte Vézina Community post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cc-heart_k.png)
Last year, six projects were carried out thanks to funding made available to the Creative Commons Copyright Platform members to drive policy issues affecting the open movement. In this blog post, we’re glad to share the engaging, inspiring articles the project lead wrote on CC’s Medium publication We Like to Share. Preparing Bulgarian GLAMs for…
We’re Launching the CC Open GLAM Program
by Brigitte Vézina, Catherine Stihler Open Access post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22National-Gallery-of-Art22-by-Phil-Roeder-licensed-CC-BY-2.0-1024x684.jpg)
Following our recent announcement of a major grant from Arcadia to advance open access at galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs), we’re excited to officially launch Creative Commons’ Open GLAM program. In this post, we share an overview of the program’s rationale and briefly introduce our key program areas. ——— GLAMs’ public interest mission, rooted…
Creative Commons Receives $5M Grant from Arcadia to Advance Open Access at Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
by Eric Steuer About CC, Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/arcadia-square-scaled-1-1024x1024.jpg)
Today Creative Commons (CC) announced that it has received a five-year $5 million grant from Arcadia, to advance open access in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) sector. The generous grant will enable CC to develop a robust Open GLAM Program that builds upon the organization’s two decades’ worth of successes in facilitating openness…
Four Creative Commons Working Groups Will Explore Policy Issues. Meet Their Leads!
by Brigitte Vézina Community post![creative commons logo](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cc.xlarge.png)
Throughout 2021, four working groups of the Creative Commons Copyright Platform are undertaking an exploration of policy issues affecting the open ecosystem, in line with the Creative Commons 2021-2026 strategy. In this blog post, we present the four working groups and introduce you to their leads. Generally, the Platform is a space for copyright and…
We’re Turning 20! What’s Happened Since 2001?
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Creative Commons is turning 20! We are celebrating with a special Better Sharing campaign, honoring 20 years of commitment to open access and better sharing. We invite you to join us. We have an ambitious goal to raise over $15 million in support. When Creative Commons was founded in 2001, the internet was a budding universe with high potential,…
Announcing Our 20th Anniversary “Better Sharing” Campaign
by Catherine Stihler Sustaining the Commons post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20a-1024x652.jpg)
Creative Commons is turning 20! We are delighted to be celebrating this milestone with our global community, honoring our commitment as a nonprofit to creating a world where everyone has access to knowledge and creativity. As we considered CC’s goals for the next 20 years, we kept returning to a simple idea: Better Sharing for…
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Twenty years of CC
pageCreative Commons empowers people, institutions, and governments to openly share content to advance knowledge, equity, and creativity for everyone, everywhere. Throughout modern history, access to knowledge has been deliberately and unjustly denied to many, limiting our collective ability to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. That’s why, in 2001, we came up with a simple…
The Future of Museums Is Open
by Brigitte Vézina Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IMD_2021_POSTER-EN-1-1024x801.jpg)
It’s International Museum Day and at Creative Commons (CC) we are thrilled to once again celebrate the institutions that acquire, conserve, research, communicate, and exhibit the world’s heritage for education, study, and enjoyment. This year’s theme is The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine and in this blog post, we imagine a future where museums…