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Jennie Rose Halperin

Jennie was the Senior Communications Manager at Creative Commons. She makes the CC communications and brand sparkle and works with communities to tell their stories through a variety of media.

Before joining Creative Commons, Jennie worked for Safari Books Online/O’Reilly Media as the Product Engagement Manager where she managed community marketing and test-driven product growth with a mighty team of technologists dedicated to innovation in online learning. She was previously at Mozilla on the Community Building Team and earned her masters degree in Library Science.

Posts by Jennie Rose Halperin

Agitate, Educate, Organize: The Radical Printmaking of Justseeds Collective

by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture

If you’ve ever attended a demonstration in North America, chances are you’ve seen the work of the 30 person artist collective Just Seeds

Law for All: Free Law Project’s Radical Approach to Legal Transparency

by Jennie Rose Halperin Licenses & Tools

What does open access look like for the law? Through free access to primary legal sources, the Free Law Project provides an important service to advocates, journalists, researchers, and the public. Joining with an international movement for Free Access to Law, the US-based organization helps people know their rights in an increasingly uncertain and rapidly…

European Space Agency announces new Open Access Policy for Images and Data

by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Access

Yesterday, the European Space Agency announced an Open Access policy for images and data under a Creative Commons BY-SA license. ESA has made various moves toward making data and images more open in the past, but this announcement is a major milestone for the organization’s commitment to openness. Previously, ESA released individual images under Creative…

Transforming public spaces with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things

by Jennie Rose Halperin Open Culture

The Institute for Infinitely Small Things addresses the commons through an “art for all” approach to engage with the political through their work in public spaces.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art releases 375,000 digital works for remix and re-use online via CC0

by Jennie Rose Halperin About CC, Open Culture

Today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announces that all public domain images in its collection will be shared under CC0, expanding their digital collection by over 375,000 images.