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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
Hello from the iCommons Summit! Rio is beautiful and so are the hundreds of people joining us here for this historic event. Among the many members of our community who have traveled to be a part of the summit is former Creative Commons executive director Glenn Otis Brown, who writes in to say: I’m honored…
The organizations announce availability of Microsoft Office add-in that enables easy access to Creative Commons copyright licenses. Redmond, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA – June 20, 2006 Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release a copyright licensing tool that enables…
San Francisco, USA – June 20, 2006 Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to announce the Open Video Contest taking place now. The contest promotes flexible copyright, open media formats and the Fedora Project. Entries must be 30 seconds or less, in OGG Theora format, promote freedom and openness, and be released under…
CC Salon is happening tonight in San Francisco. Join us from 6-9pm at Shine (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets). Tonight’s speakers are: Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives) Victor Stone (ccMixter) Marisa Olson (Rhizome.org) Amit Asaravala (Techsoup.org) And catch a live CC music mix set by Quarterbar. Read more details about this this event…
Scoopt, the world’s first commercial citizen journalism photography agency, has just launched ScooptWords to help bloggers sell their content to newspapers and magazines. Within the Scoopt interface, you can easily add a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license to your blog right alongside a Scoopt commercial badge. Use the CC license to tell people how your work…