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Towards a vibrant, usable commons
by Ryan Merkley About CC postOver the next few days, I’m going to share a series of posts about Creative Commons’ 2016-2020 strategy. Let me skip to the end: CC is going to refocus our work to build a vibrant, usable commons, powered by collaboration and gratitude. Over the course of these next few posts, I’ll explain what that means,…
Keep the commons thriving
by Ryan Merkley Uncategorized postYou’ve heard about the incredible 1.1 billion CC licensed works available to be reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed in infinite ways. You’ve heard about huge gains in OER and Open Policy. You’ve heard about the threats to our shared global commons, and that we now find ourselves in one of the most restrictive eras of…
Special request from Esther Wojcicki, Creative Commons Advisory Council
by rlendl Uncategorized postBelow is a guest post by Esther Wojcicki from the Creative Commons Advisory Council. As a lifelong educator and recent author of Moonshots in Education, I’m proud to serve on Creative Commons’ Advisory Council and to have served as Chair of the CC Board. CC is at the very heart of the open education movement…
State of the Commons Report Highlights Milestone of Over 1 Billion Creative Commons Works Shared Online
by Ryan Merkley About CC postAnnual State of the Commons Report highlights global cultural and policy impact of free and open content Creative Commons, the global nonprofit that makes it easier for creators to share their work under simple copyright terms, announced a major milestone in the release of its 2015 State of the Commons Report today: over 1 billion…
State of the Commons: 1 Billion Creative Commons Works
by Ryan Merkley About CC postI’m proud to share with you Creative Commons’ 2015 State of the Commons report, our best effort to measure the immeasurable scope of the commons by looking at the CC licensed content, along with content marked as public domain, that comprise the slice of the commons powered by CC tools. Creative Commoners have known all…
Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Harm User Rights and the Commons
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postThe final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was released earlier this month. The gigantic agreement contains sweeping provisions regarding environmental regulation, pharmaceutical procurement, intellectual property, labor standards, food safety, and many other things. If adopted, it would be the most significant expansion of international restrictions on copyright in over two decades. Over the last five years, the TPP…
Creative Commons offers Bassel Khartabil position as Digital Cultural Preservation Fellow
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postBassel Khartabil by Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0. Bassel Khartabil is the lead of Creative Commons Syria. He’s been has been imprisoned in Syria since March 15, 2012. Bassel has been a key contributor to projects that digitize, preserve, and share cultural heritage works. The #NEWPALMYRA project was launched last month, which is an online community…
A plea from the Commons: #FreeBassel now
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postAs the Creative Commons Global Summit kicks off this week in Seoul, we are acutely aware of the absence of Bassel Khartabil, the Palestinian-Syrian open source software engineer and activist who led the CC Syria affiliate team. He has been imprisoned in Syria since March 2012. It is an incredibly dangerous time for Bassel. Earlier this month we heard…
Obama administration should require sharing of federally funded educational resources under Creative Commons licenses
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postWhite House by Diego Cambiaso, available under the CC BY-SA license. Today, Creative Commons and a broad coalition of education, library, technology, public interest, and legal organizations are calling upon the White House to take administrative action to ensure that federally funded educational materials are made available as Open Educational Resources (OER) for the public…
Help Outernet and Creative Commons build a #LibraryFromSpace
by Jane Park Uncategorized postHubble Space Telescope and Earth Limb / NASA on The Commons / No known copyright restrictions If you could send a folder with 50 MB of content to every human on Earth, what would you include? This weekend Creative Commons volunteers and Outernet are hosting a CC Content Edit-a-thon to populate the first Outernet library…