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Eric Steuer

Eric Steuer develops creative projects, partnerships, and events on behalf of Creative Commons. He also directs CC’s creative vision, editorial strategy, and communications planning.

Steuer serves on the leadership team of the Open COVID Coalition, an international effort to remove obstacles to intellectual property during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also manages CC’s role in the Bassel Khartabil Fellowship, an initiative that provides financial support and guidance to outstanding individuals developing open source projects in their communities under adverse circumstances.

Before joining CC, Steuer was an editor for WIRED, where he also wrote feature stories and led audience development. He has written for the New York Times Magazine, California Sunday Magazine, Make Magazine, and many other publications. He was the longtime board chair of CASH Music, a nonprofit focused on developing free resources and software for artists and record labels.

Steuer lives in the East Bay area of the great state of California, where he runs, writes, makes podcasts, hangs out with his family, and records music with his friends.

Photo credit: Priscilla C. Scott, CC BY

Posts by Eric Steuer

Creative Commons Announces Pledges Made to Fulfill “5×5” Funding Challenge

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CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES PLEDGES MADE TO FULFILL “5×5” FUNDING CHALLENGE Pledges include promises of support from the Hewlett Foundation, Omidyar Network, Google, Mozilla, Red Hat, and the Creative Commons board San Francisco, CA, USA — January 2, 2008 Today, Creative Commons announced that pledges have been made to meet the Hewlett Foundation’s “5×5” funding challenge…

Creative Commons Announces Pledges Made to Fulfill “5×5” Funding Challenge

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CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES PLEDGES MADE TO FULFILL “5×5” FUNDING CHALLENGE Pledges include promises of support from the Hewlett Foundation, Omidyar Network, Google, Mozilla, Red Hat, and the Creative Commons board San Francisco, CA, USA — January 2, 2008 Today, Creative Commons announced that pledges have been made to meet the Hewlett Foundation’s “5×5” funding challenge…

Creative Commons Launches CC+ and CC0 Programs

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We are very excited to announce the launch of the CC+ (aka CC Plus) and CC0 (aka CC Zero) programs. These are major additions to the Creative Commons array of legal tools. In a nutshell, CC+ is a protocol to enable a simple way for users to get rights beyond those granted by a CC…

Creative Commons Launches CC0 and CC+ Programs

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San Francisco — December 17, 2007 Today, Creative Commons announced the launch of CC0 (aka CC Zero) and CC+ (aka CC Plus). These programs are major additions to CC’s array of free legal tools. CC+ CC+ is a protocol to enable a simple way for users to get rights beyond the rights granted by a…

Christopher Willits releases four new CC-licensed music videos

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In support of the Japanese release of his critically-acclaimed album Surf Boundaries, Ghostly International recording artist Christopher Willits (who, you may remember, was the subject of a recent ccMixter remix contest) just spent the summer touring the world and performing for fans in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Thailand. To celebrate his homecoming to San…