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Open-Source Medical Hardware: What You Should Know and What You Can Do
by Victoria Heath Open Access, Technology post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Medical-devices_-by-Victoria-Heath-CC-BY-4.0-1024x512.jpg)
You’ve heard the stories: engineers 3D printing face shields in their basements; do-it-yourself hobbyists sewing face masks; and fashion designers crafting personal protection gowns. Globally, people are trying to help fill the medical supply gap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic through open-source medical hardware. It’s a heartwarming display of global ingenuity, innovation, and collaboration. In this…
Update to CC’s Policy on Legal Code Corrections
by Diane Peters, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson Licenses & Tools post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cc_heart_logo_green_heart.png)
Creative Commons is changing its legal code correction policy for official translations of the Version 4.0 licenses and the CC0 public domain dedication. In order to maintain the integrity of our firm commitment to honor official translations as legal equivalents of the original English 4.0 version and the original English CC0 1.0, CC will correct…
Education in Times of Crisis and Beyond: Maximizing Copyright Flexibilities
by Brigitte Vézina, Cable Green Open Education post![Aurora Tom-Quinn teaches her students](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/22Aurora-Tom-Quinn-a-health-educator-for-the-Institute-of-Women-Ethnic-Studies-IWES22-Nina-Robinson-CC-BY-NC-4.0-1024x536.jpg)
The global health crisis is crystalizing the need for policies that support universal access to learning resources. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on over a billion learners’ lives—half of the world’s student population have seen their schools or universities close to slow the spread of the virus. As a result, many educational institutions are…
Creative Commons’ Response to COVID-19
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The Open COVID Pledge calls on organizations around the world to make their patents and copyrights freely available in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pledge was originally developed by an international group of researchers, scientists, academics and lawyers seeking to accelerate the rapid development and deployment of diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, medical equipment, and…
Dr. Lucie Guibault on What Scientists Should Know About Open Access
by Brigitte Vézina, Victoria Heath Open Access, Open Science post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/22The-Chancellor-Rishi-Sunak-visits-a-coronavirus-testing-laboratory-in-Leeds22-HM-Treasury-March-12-2020-CC-BY-NC-SA-opt-1024x536.jpg)
In response to the global health emergency caused by COVID-19, we’ve seen an array of organizations, publications, and governments make COVID-19 related research open access. For example, the U.S. National Library of Medicine recently released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)—a machine-readable coronavirus literature collection with over 29,000 articles available for text and data mining…
Now Is the Time for Open Access Policies—Here’s Why
by Brigitte Vézina, Victoria Heath Copyright post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/22Novel-Coronavirus-SARS-CoV-222-Governor-Tom-Wolf-March-06-2020-CC-BY-opt-1024x536.jpg)
Over the weekend, news emerged that upset even the most ardent skeptics of open access. Under the headline, “Trump vs Berlin” the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported that President Trump offered $1 billion USD to the German biopharmaceutical company CureVac to secure their COVID-19 vaccine “only for the United States.” In response, Jens Spahn, the…
The Unicode Standard Now Includes CC License Symbols
by Eric Steuer About CC post![cc](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cc.jpg)
Last week, the Unicode Consortium released the latest version of the Unicode Standard—the universal character coding system used in computer processing (which includes the international emoji portfolio ?). We’re thrilled to announce that Creative Commons (CC) license symbols were included in this new release. The latest Unicode Standard adds 5,930 characters, including 4 new scripts,…
Announcing the CC Catalog API, Version 1.0
by Alden Page Technology post![CC Catalog API (V1)](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CC-Catalog-API-V1-Featured-Image-scaled-1-1024x512.jpg)
The Creative Commons Catalog Application Programming Interface (CC Catalog API) gives developers the ability to create custom applications that utilize CC Search, a rich collection of 330 million and counting openly licensed images. We have spent the last two years gathering this data from a diverse set of 28 sources, ranging from curated collections assembled…
We’re a Fully Remote Nonprofit; Here’s Some Advice on Working From Home
by Mari Moreshead, Victoria Heath About CC post![Woman working at her desk](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Working-from-Home_-Victoria-Heath-CC-BY-opt-1024x536.jpg)
Over the last few days, a growing number of organizations have shut down their offices and told employees to work from home in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Here at Creative Commons (CC), we’ve also taken necessary precautions such as postponing all work-related travel and canceling the in-person component of the annual CC…
The Hewlett and Packard Foundations Share Women’s Stories Through Openly Licensed Images
by Victoria Heath Uncategorized post![Bhavna Ben Ramesh in front of her sewing machine](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/22Bhavna-Ben-Ramesh22-by-Paul-Bronstein-2015-CC-BY-NC-1024x683.jpg)
Storytelling is a powerful tool because it can change perceptions and inspire action—and images are an essential component. As Depression-era American photojournalist and documentarian Dorothea Lange said, “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” Unfortunately, finding high-quality and diverse openly licensed images, particularly those of women, is a…