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CC Certificate Alumni Making a Global Impact
by Shanna Hollich CC Certificate, Open Education, Policy post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/24520626072_d6a6a05978_o-1024x683.jpg)
Launched in 2018, the Creative Commons Certificate program has trained and graduated nearly 1800 people from 66 countries. The Certificate program offers in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of the Commons. Our staff is constantly inspired by our community of Certificate alumni, accomplishing incredible things. In this interview, we were delighted…
CC Is Refreshing Its Strategy. Here’s Why Your Voice Matters.
by Creative Commons, Jocelyn Miyara, Rebecca Ross About CC post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/29732874223_d470ec1631_k-1024x680.jpg)
Image by Mario Jr. Nicorelli is licensed via CC BY-NC 2.0 Over the past weeks, the CC board and team have been working behind the scenes on our strategy refresh. We are excited to share our progress as we enter the community engagement phase of the refresh and explain how you can contribute to the process.…
Moving Institutions Toward Open—Building on 6 Years of the Open GLAM Survey
by Creative Commons, Douglas McCarthy, Andrea Wallace Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Blog-Image-1024x576.png)
“Violette Heymann, 1910” by Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection ,CC0. Creative Commons’ Open Culture Platform is supporting 25 institutions in opening up access to their collections by the end of 2025. Members of the Platform community will be working together to create a policy template, conduct outreach,…
A Quick Look at the CC Strategic Workshop on Open Heritage
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open Culture post![A group of people standing together looking at the camera in a green garden.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2CC_23.06_DSCF5352-1024x576.png)
One year after Creative Commons (CC) hosted an exploratory Open Culture Roundtable, in Lisbon, Portugal, which initiated the Towards a Recommendation on Open Culture (TAROC) global initiative, nearly 50 stakeholders from all continents gathered again for a strategic workshop, in Lisbon in May 2024. In this blog post, we share a snapshot of key highlights.
Recap & Recording: “Open Culture in the Age of AI: Concerns, Hopes and Opportunities”
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict, Jocelyn Miyara Open Culture, Open Heritage post![Black and grey image of speckled orbs in the background. In the foreground the text reads](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Open-Culture-Live-AI-1024x576.png)
In May, CC’s Open Culture Program hosted a new webinar in our Open Culture Live series titled “Open Culture in the Age of AI: Concerns, Hopes and Opportunities.” In this blog post we share key takeaways and a link to the recording.
The CC Open Education Platform Funds Five New Community Projects
by Jennryn Wetzler Community, Open Education post![Image of people on the top of a verdant mountain, which is on top of a skateboard.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Screen-Shot-2024-05-28-at-5.07.01-PM-1024x550.png)
Thanks to the CC Open Education Platform community’s time proposing projects and voting on the proposals, we now have five winning ideas to advance open education globally. CC will fund five projects in 2024, spanning Brazil, Ghana, Nepal, and Nigeria. The CC Open Education Platform is also funding ongoing global community work supporting the UNESCO…
Open Culture Platform Activity Fund Winners 2024
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara Open Culture post![Green and orange flowers illustrated in a scientific style.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Amazonian--1024x576.png)
As part of the Open Culture Platform’s 2024 work plan, we at Creative Commons are offering funding for community activities. We called for proposals and invited the community to vote on the activities. The projects needed to have a focus on building community through outreach and helping institutions move toward open. Here are the four…
Webinar: Open Culture in the Age of AI: Concerns, Hopes and Opportunities
by Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara, Connor Benedict Open Culture post![Black and grey image of speckled orbs in the background. In the foreground the text reads](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Open-Culture-Live-AI-1024x576.png)
On Wednesday, 8 May 2024, at 2:00 pm UTC, CC’s Open Culture Program will be hosting a new webinar in our Open Culture Live series titled “Open Culture in the Age of AI: Concerns, Hopes and Opportunities.”
What are the Benefits of Open Culture? A new CC Publication
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open Culture, Open Heritage post![An illustration of a prehistoric landscape with dinosaurs and reptiles.](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Duria_Antiquior.jpg)
Today we in the Open Culture Program are releasing a new publication: Don’t be a Dinosaur; or, The Benefits of Open Culture.
CC at WIPO: Slow progress on copyright exceptions for cultural heritage institutions
by Brigitte Vézina Copyright, Open Culture post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Design-sans-titre-1-1024x576.png)
Last week, Creative Commons (CC) participated in the 45th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR). In this post, we report on the session discussions on exceptions and limitations for cultural heritage institutions (CHIs), a topic of utmost relevance to our Open Culture Program.