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We’re Turning 20! What’s Happened Since 2001?
by Creative Commons About CC postCreative Commons is turning 20! We are celebrating with a special Better Sharing campaign, honoring 20 years of commitment to open access and better sharing. We invite you to join us. We have an ambitious goal to raise over $15 million in support. When Creative Commons was founded in 2001, the internet was a budding universe with high potential,…
At the Intersection of NFTs and Creative Commons Licenses
by Catherine Stihler Open Culture postLike many people on the internet, we here at Creative Commons have been thinking about NFTs, and the possibilities that unique digital assets might bring for artists and creators. (By the way, did you know that Beeple, the artist who famously sold an NFT for $69 million, has been using CC licenses for years?) Most…
Open Minds Podcast: Coraline Ada Ehmke on Ethical Source
by Eric Steuer About CC, Technology postWe’ve been getting such great feedback about our new podcast, Open Minds…from Creative Commons. Thank you for listening! On today’s episode, Sarah Pearson, CC’s Senior Counsel, talks to Coraline Ada Ehmke about her work at the intersection of open source and social good. Ehmke is a developer, writer, speaker, musician, and activist. She’s the creator…
Meet Your New Global Network Council Executive Committee!
by Julia Brungs Community postIn December 2020 the Creative Commons Global Network Council (GNC) voted on the new Executive Committee (ExCom). The ExCom took up its work in January 2021 and will be working throughout the next year and beyond by supporting the Network, fostering and strengthening connections, and encouraging activities around the new CC Strategy. Meet the six…
Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends.
by Brigitte Vézina, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson Copyright postDevelopments in artificial intelligence (AI) raise several questions when it comes to the use of copyright material and Creative Commons-licensed content in particular.1 One of them is whether CC-licensed content (e.g. photographs, artworks, text, music, etc.) should be used as input to train AI. To get a sense of the various views on this question,…
The Postal Worker, a Sea Shanty and the Public Domain
by Catherine Stihler Open Culture postUntil recently, I had never heard of the sea shanty “The Wellerman”. My sea shanty repertoire consisted of “What can you do with a drunken sailor” to sea-songs on the soundtrack of Master and Commander. However, Nathan Evans, a fellow Scot who hails, like me, from North Lanarkshire, has changed all of this. His rendition…
Meet CC Argentina, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!
by Julia Brungs Community postAfter introducing the CC Italy Chapter to you in July, the CC Netherlands Chapter in August, CC Bangladesh Chapter in September, CC Tanzania Chapter in October, and the CC India Chapter in November, and the CC Mexico Chapter in December, we are staying in Latin America to introduce the CC Argentina Chapter! The Creative Commons…
Meet CC Mexico, Our Next Feature for CC Network Fridays!
by Julia Brungs Community postAfter introducing the CC Italy Chapter to you in July, the CC Netherlands Chapter in August, CC Bangladesh Chapter in September, CC Tanzania Chapter in October, and the CC India Chapter in November, we are now traveling to Latin America to introduce the CC Mexico Chapter! The Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) consists of 46…
Important Updates to the Creative Commons Catalog
Community, Technology postThis is part of a series of posts introducing the projects built by open source contributors mentored by Creative Commons during Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020 and Outreachy. K. S. Srinidhi Krishna and Charini Nanayakkara were two of those contributors and we are grateful for their work on this project. The Creative Commons (CC)…
Registration Is Now Open for the CC Global Summit! Join Us on 19–23 October!
by Alison Pearce Events postThe CC Global Summit is back and better than ever! For the first time in its history, we’ve moved the entire event online. This has allowed us to support multiple time zones and languages as well as host two keynote panels and over 150 sessions with more than 200 speakers across 40 countries (with more…