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
Elizabeth Stark of Harvard Free Culture reports that Sharing Is Daring — a terrific art show featuring works offered under Creative Commons licenses — is ready to rock with an opening reception on April 27. Harvard Free Culture presents Sharing is Daring, a showcase of new & derivative artworks released under flexible licenses that allow…
San Francisco, USA & Brussels, Belgium – April 17, 2006 Creative Commons and Crammed Discs are pleased to announce the Crammed Discs Remix Contest taking place now at ccMixter. Crammed Discs artists Cibelle, DJ Dolores, and Apollo Nove — three of Brazil’s most creative musical innovators — are offering the audio source files from three…
We’re pleased to announce a new Creative Commons remix contest in conjunction with Crammed Discs over at our community remix site, ccMixter. Crammed artists Cibelle, DJ Dolores, and Apollo Nove — some of Brazil’s most innovative contemporary musicians — are offering new sounds online under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so people throughout the world…
MAKE (which is, incidentally, one of the coolest magazines around) is hosting the MAKE: Movies film festival as part of the Maker Faire, taking place on April 22 and 23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. You’ve got a few more days (until Wednesday, April 12) to submit your CC-licensed project demo videos, DIY tech documentaries,…
San Francisco, USA, March 28, 2006 ccHost, an Open Source project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using Creative Commons licenses and metadata, released version 2.0 today. This major feature release combines approximately six months of development, usage, and testing into packages that anyone may download, install, and use…