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Tag: CC licenses
Understanding CC Licenses and Generative AI
by Kat Walsh Better Internet, Licenses & Tools, Open Creativity, Technology
Many wonder what role CC licenses, and CC as an organization, can and should play in the future of generative AI. The legal and ethical uncertainty over using copyrighted inputs for training, the uncertainty over the legal status and best practices around works produced by generative AI, and the implications for this technology on the…
Back to Basics: Open Culture for Beginners
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict, Jocelyn Miyara Open Culture
On 27 July 2023 we hosted the first webinar in our new Open Culture Live series. In this session about the basics of Open Culture, we led a presentation that answers some of the key questions for beginners hoping to understand more about Creative Commons, and how we work closely with the cultural heritage sector…
Wikipedia Moves to CC 4.0 Licenses
by Creative Commons Licenses & Tools
We are thrilled to announce that Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have now adopted version 4.0 of the Creative Commons BY-SA license! The project first began using version 3.0 of the CC licenses in 2009 following a community process, having previously used the GNU Free Documentation License. This decision, made as part of a Terms…
Open Education Week 2023: Creative Commons Celebrates Community Members
by Jennryn Wetzler, Ony Anukem Open Education
As we gear up for Open Education Week 2023 (6 – 10 March), Creative Commons wants to recognize the contributions of our open education and related open communities. In the past several months, our community members have shared their knowledge and inquiry through lightning talks, panel discussions, presentations, and working groups. The list below offers…
CC Publishes Global Open Culture Call to Action to Policymakers
by Brigitte Vézina Open Culture
Since its creation in 2001, Creative Commons (CC) has helped release nearly 5 million digital open images of cultural heritage held in cultural heritage institutions using CC tools. We have also been promoting open culture to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world, and it is based on this rich experience that our Open…
Open Minds Podcast: Sam Williams of Arweave
by Ony Anukem About CC
Hi Creative Commoners! We are back with a new episode of CC’s Open Minds … from Creative Commons podcast. On this episode, CC’s Chief Operating Officer, Anna Tumadóttir, sits down for an interesting conversation with Sam Williams, the co-founder and CEO of Arweave, the company that created the Arweave protocol, a permanent archive of human…
Sharing Matters: What We’ve Learned at Creative Commons
by Catherine Stihler About CC, Community
Sharing matters. Thanks to the digital revolution, we share things like never before, from scientific research to family photos, from day-to-day life to college courses — and all instantaneously. The variety and volume of sharing today was unimaginable even just a decade ago. Now social media and publishing platforms, smartphones, cheap data, and expanded internet…
Explore the New CC Legal Database Site!
Licenses & Tools
The Creative Commons Legal Database is a collection of case law and legal scholarship to help our users learn more about legal issues surrounding Creative Commons (CC) licenses and legal tools. This information has been contributed by many dedicated members of the CC Global Network and the CC Legal Team. It was shared in a…
We’ve Redesigned the CC License “Legal Code” Pages
by Eric Steuer Licenses & Tools
Last week, we launched a redesign of Creative Commons’ various license (aka “legal code”) pages. See one for yourself. In this post, I’ll spell out what the changes are and why we made them. The most obvious change we made is updating the overall look of the pages so that they resemble the rest of…
Creative Commons 4.0 License now in Turkish
by İlkay Holt Uncategorized
We are so pleased to announce that the official translation of CC 4.0 Licenses into Turkish are now available so Turkish speaking communities can use them in their own language.