Happy Friday Creative Commoners! There are only 10 more days until this year’s virtual CC Global Summit, on September 20-24. In anticipation of the Summit, we’re doing something a little different in this episode. Pack your bags and prepare for a short (audio) tour around the world, join CC’s Ony Anukem as she speaks to…

In 10 days, the second-ever virtual CC Global Summit will be coming to a screen near you September 20-24! We’re back with another ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ Q&A, in this blog post, we catch up with Lisa Macklem. Lisa is a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Western Ontario, whose research focuses…

Our ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ series is taking us around the world — next stop: Mexico City. We recently caught up with Juan Miguel Palma Peña, a PhD holder in Library Science and Information Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). At UNAM, Juan works as a scholarly librarian in the Humanindex Scholarly…

Next in our ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ series meet, Franny Gaede, Director of Digital Scholarship Services at the University of Oregon Libraries. Franny provides leadership and support for digital scholarship, digital collections, digital preservation, scholarly communication, and library-led open access publishing. She earned her MSIS and BA in History at the University of Texas…

The 2021 CC Global Summit (September 20-24) is on the horizon, and we have another ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ Q&A for you! Meet Dr. Matthew Rimmer, a Professor in Intellectual Property and Innovation Law at the Faculty of Business and Law, at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He has published widely on copyright…

Our ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ series is taking us across the world, next up we head to Australia. Meet Dr. Muhammad Zaheer Abbas, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Business and Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. He has undertaken extensive research on public health dimensions of intellectual property laws.…

We’re back with another ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter‘ Q&A. Next up, Alissa Bigelow, a Program Facilitator for the Ontario Extend program. In her role as a Program Facilitator, she creates engaging Communities of Practice about the Ontario Extend program and the “Empowered Educator” micro-credential to connect post-secondary faculty across the province of Ontario. These…

The countdown to the 2021 CC Global Summit continues! Next up in our ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ series, we have Dr. Kavita Batra. An assistant Professor at Manohar Memorial College of Education, Fatehabad, Haryana India, Dr. Kavita has worked as teacher educator for the last fourteen years. She is passionate about the integration of…

We’re back with another ‘Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ Q&A — next up is Frederick Noronha. Frederick is a journalist, alternative book publisher, Wikipedia’s Editor of the Week in March 2020,  Free Software supporter, shared 66+K photographs under Creative Commons licenses, has served on the jury of the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free…

Our next feature in the Meet the CC Summit Presenter’ series is Gorana Gomirac, GLAM Manager at Wikimedia Serbia. Gorana was born in 1996 in Belgrade, Serbia, but because of her roots, she always says she comes from Lika. Because of her origins, Gorana realized the importance of preserving culture, and the importance of its…