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Book Preview: “Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians”
by Jennryn Wetzler Open Education post![ALA CC Book Cover](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ALA_CC_BookCover-683x1024.jpg)
Over the last several months, Creative Commons has collaborated with the American Library Association (ALA) on the first-ever print complement to the CC Certificate program—and we are thrilled to announce that the book will be available in November! The CC Certificate program is Creative Commons’ official training in open licensing. It targets copyright law, CC…
Leadership Transitions at
Creative Commons
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Molly Van Houweling
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Today Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley is announcing the conclusion of his five years of leadership of the organization. As he describes in his personal message, he is stepping down as CEO to start a new position at Wikimedia. We are thankful to Ryan for his five years of leadership at CC and excited for…
Moving on from Creative Commons
by Ryan Merkley About CC post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cc-heart_k.png)
I have some bittersweet professional news to share. I will be stepping down from my position at Creative Commons and joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Chief of Staff. Leading Creative Commons has been the most challenging and rewarding role of my career. It has been a privilege to do this work, and together we’ve had…
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Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley named as Harvard Berkman Klein Center affiliate
by Eric Steuer About CC post![bkc-logo](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1_dOV0mkw9lpB5DD3PTScIDw@2x-1024x196.png)
We’re happy to announce that Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley has been named as a Harvard Berkman Klein Center affiliate for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Looking forward and back: Five years at Creative Commons
by Ryan Merkley About CC postThis month, I’ll mark five years as CEO at Creative Commons. That makes me the longest-serving CEO in the organization’s history, and it’s also the longest I’ve served with the same job title. Every day I get to work with some of the brightest, most dedicated staff and community members in the open movement. Anniversaries…
Meet CC: The 2019 Creative Commons Global Summit Scholarships
by Jennie Rose Halperin About CC, Events post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Untitled-design-11-1.png)
Every year, Creative Commons invites community members from around the world to join us at our Global Summit. It is crucial that we come together as a community, celebrate each other, light up the commons, and collaborate.
Is it possible to decolonize the Commons? An interview with Jane Anderson of Local Contexts
by Jennie Rose Halperin Uncategorized post![tk-labels](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/download.png)
Joining us at the Creative Commons Global Summit in 2018, NYU professor and legal scholar Jane Anderson presented the collaborative project “Local Contexts,” “an initiative to support Native, First Nations, Aboriginal, Inuit, Metis and Indigenous communities in the management of their intellectual property and cultural heritage specifically within the digital environment.”
EU’s proposed link tax would [still] harm Creative Commons licensors
by Till Kreutzer, Timothy Vollmer Copyright post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Chains-by-Christina-McCarty.jpg)
In September the European Parliament voted to approve drastic changes to copyright law that would negatively affect creativity, freedom of expression, research, and sharing across the EU. Now the Parliament and Council (representing the Member State governments) are engaged in closed-door negotiations, and their task over the coming months is to come up with a…
CC Working with Flickr to Protect the Commons
by Ryan Merkley About CC post![smugmug-tweet](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Screen-Shot-2018-11-01-at-1.27.32-PM.png)
Today, Creative Commons is working closely with Flickr and its parent company SmugMug to find ways to protect and preserve the Commons, and ultimately help it grow and thrive. We want to ensure that when users share their works that they are available online in perpetuity