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Does WIPO’s New Leadership Have the Vision to Shake Up Global Copyright Policy-Making?
by Brigitte Vézina Copyright post![WIPO Main Building](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Main-Building-Arpad-Bogsch-Building22-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND.jpg)
New beginnings at WIPO On March 4, Daren Tang was nominated director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency dealing with intellectual property matters. Tang is currently the chief executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and his six-year term as top WIPO official will start on October…
Open-Source Medical Hardware: What You Should Know and What You Can Do
by Victoria Heath Open Access, Technology post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Medical-devices_-by-Victoria-Heath-CC-BY-4.0-1024x512.jpg)
You’ve heard the stories: engineers 3D printing face shields in their basements; do-it-yourself hobbyists sewing face masks; and fashion designers crafting personal protection gowns. Globally, people are trying to help fill the medical supply gap caused by the COVID-19 pandemic through open-source medical hardware. It’s a heartwarming display of global ingenuity, innovation, and collaboration. In this…
Open COVID Pledge: Removing Obstacles to Sharing IP in the Fight Against COVID-19
by Diane Peters About CC post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/logo-lightback-jpg-01-1024x698.jpg)
Creative Commons has joined forces with other legal experts and leading scientists to offer a simple way for universities, companies, and other holders of intellectual property rights to support the development of medicines, test kits, vaccines, and other scientific discoveries related to COVID-19 for the duration of the pandemic. The Open COVID Pledge grants the…
Bassel Khartabil Fellowship Awarded to Tarek Loubani—Using Open Access to Combat COVID-19
by Eric Steuer Open Access post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/tarek-loubani-1024x683.jpg)
We are thrilled to announce today that Dr. Tarek Loubani has been awarded the 2020 Bassel Khartabil Fellowship. Loubani is the medical director of Glia, a project focused on using Open Access manufacturing and distribution in order to provide lower costs and vastly increase the accessibility of urgently needed medical supplies and gear. The Fellowship…
Education in Times of Crisis and Beyond: Maximizing Copyright Flexibilities
by Brigitte Vézina, Cable Green Open Education post![Aurora Tom-Quinn teaches her students](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/22Aurora-Tom-Quinn-a-health-educator-for-the-Institute-of-Women-Ethnic-Studies-IWES22-Nina-Robinson-CC-BY-NC-4.0-1024x536.jpg)
The global health crisis is crystalizing the need for policies that support universal access to learning resources. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on over a billion learners’ lives—half of the world’s student population have seen their schools or universities close to slow the spread of the virus. As a result, many educational institutions are…
Dr. Lucie Guibault on What Scientists Should Know About Open Access
by Brigitte Vézina, Victoria Heath Open Access, Open Science post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/22The-Chancellor-Rishi-Sunak-visits-a-coronavirus-testing-laboratory-in-Leeds22-HM-Treasury-March-12-2020-CC-BY-NC-SA-opt-1024x536.jpg)
In response to the global health emergency caused by COVID-19, we’ve seen an array of organizations, publications, and governments make COVID-19 related research open access. For example, the U.S. National Library of Medicine recently released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)—a machine-readable coronavirus literature collection with over 29,000 articles available for text and data mining…
Collaborate With Us as a Google Summer of Code or Outreachy Participant
by Kriti Godey Technology post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/GSOCOutreachy-Feature-CC-BY-scaled-1-1024x512.jpg)
We are proud to announce that Creative Commons (CC) will once again be participating as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy. GSoC and Outreachy are both programs focused on introducing open-source software development to a wider audience. They provide stipends to work on a 3-month project for the open source…
Now Is the Time for Open Access Policies—Here’s Why
by Brigitte Vézina, Victoria Heath Copyright post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/22Novel-Coronavirus-SARS-CoV-222-Governor-Tom-Wolf-March-06-2020-CC-BY-opt-1024x536.jpg)
Over the weekend, news emerged that upset even the most ardent skeptics of open access. Under the headline, “Trump vs Berlin” the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported that President Trump offered $1 billion USD to the German biopharmaceutical company CureVac to secure their COVID-19 vaccine “only for the United States.” In response, Jens Spahn, the…
The Unicode Standard Now Includes CC License Symbols
by Eric Steuer About CC post![cc](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cc.jpg)
Last week, the Unicode Consortium released the latest version of the Unicode Standard—the universal character coding system used in computer processing (which includes the international emoji portfolio ?). We’re thrilled to announce that Creative Commons (CC) license symbols were included in this new release. The latest Unicode Standard adds 5,930 characters, including 4 new scripts,…
Announcing the CC Catalog API, Version 1.0
by Alden Page Technology post![CC Catalog API (V1)](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CC-Catalog-API-V1-Featured-Image-scaled-1-1024x512.jpg)
The Creative Commons Catalog Application Programming Interface (CC Catalog API) gives developers the ability to create custom applications that utilize CC Search, a rich collection of 330 million and counting openly licensed images. We have spent the last two years gathering this data from a diverse set of 28 sources, ranging from curated collections assembled…