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Episode 3: Open Culture VOICES – Dr. Temi Odumosu
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture postNew week, new episode of Open Culture VOICES! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to…
Episode 2: Open Culture VOICES – Jonathan Hernández
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture postWe are back with the second episode of Open Culture VOICES, a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled…
It’s been a busy start of the year for open culture at CC! Here’s an update
by Brigitte Vézina Open Culture postSince June 2021, thanks to a grant by the Arcadia Fund, Creative Commons has been developing our Open Culture / Open GLAM program to help transform institutions and support them as they embrace open culture and all the benefits it creates for themselves and their communities. Our core task is to enable galleries, libraries, archives…
Episode 1: Open Culture VOICES – Medhavi Gandhi
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Culture postWe are excited to share the first episode of Open Culture VOICES, a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re…
Better Internet Series: Access to Information and Knowledge
by Dee Harris Better Internet postSee our article introducing this series. This article is part of a series of five articles detailing breakout sessions from the 2021 Creative Commons (CC) Global Summit related to imagining a Better Internet. Throughout 2021, community partners interested in building a “better internet” have been coming together for conversations. Some partners joined as an opportunity…
Assessing Cultural Heritage Institutions’ Needs Related to CC’s Public Domain Tools
by Brigitte Vézina, Camille Françoise Open Heritage postOn January 1, 2022, and throughout the month of January, Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating Public Domain Day, welcoming copyright works into the public domain, where they become freely available for the public to use, reuse and modify. As part of our Open Culture / GLAM program’s celebration of Public Domain Day, we are reaching…
Open Minds Podcast: Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise & Free Music Archive
by Ony Anukem About CC postHi Creative Commoners! We’re back with the first episode of Open Minds … from Creative Commons in 2022. In this episode, CC’s Ony Anukem sits down for a conversation with Hessel van Oorschot, founder and “Chief of Noise” of the online music business Tribe of Noise. Tribe of Noise is a music community that connects…
SOPA Plus 10, reflections and continued work
by Dee Harris Better Internet postOn January 18, 2012, the web went dark in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), two bills introduced into the United States House and Senate in the last quarter of 2011. Why are we talking about this day ten years later? The fight for a global internet,…
Digital Services Act: Is the EU legislative train on the right track?
by Brigitte Vézina, Catherine Stihler Copyright postOn December 14, the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) of the European Parliament adopted its position on the Digital Services Act (DSA) proposal, under the leadership of IMCO DSA Rapporteur MEP Christel Schaldemose (S&D, Denmark). What is the Digital Services Act? The Digital Services Act aims to update the current EU legal framework…
Dear Users of CC Search, Welcome to Openverse
by Anna Tumadóttir Technology postEarlier this year, we shared an exciting announcement that CC Search would be joining WordPress. Several beloved former CC tech team alumni joined the team at WordPress to tackle this important initiative, shepherding it forward into an exciting new era. Starting today, all our wonderful, loyal users of CC Search will be redirected to Openverse…