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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

"Boy Who Never Slept" film and source files online

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In May, we reported that indie filmmaker Solomon Rothman had released the trailer to his movie Boy Who Never Slept online under Creative Commons’ BY-NC-SA license. The full feature is now online, along with the film’s source files, which are — quite wonderfully — offered to the public under CC’s Attribution license.

GOOD Magazine comes to San Francisco

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Bay Area CC friends: You are invited to a party on July 14 at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, hosted by GOOD Magazine! Join us for a night of art, music (provided by Odd Nosdam of Anticon), and an open bar. Admission is free if you purchase a year subscription to GOOD Magazine.…

Robberriff remix contest

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Monkey Love Records and Fake Science are sponsoring a super cool CC-licensed remix contest for the Robberriff track “Stringing Away Revisited.” You have until July 16 to “rinse, cut, splice, add samples and do whatever the hell you want to it.” Fake Science will choose the top 20 remixes and post them online for people…