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All the news that’s fit to share: Melody Kramer on CC and the power of media
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By ZMcCune (WMF) [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons
Melody Kramer is a news and public media expert with a special gift for uplifting open knowledge and demonstrating the power of the Commons.
Katherine Maher on a generosity of spirit and contributing to the Commons
Events
Katherine will be speaking on Friday, April 13 at 11AM at the CC Global Summit and will follow up her talk with a panel on “The Big Open,” exploring how networks for Open can work together collaboratively and effectively.
Chris Bourg on the Compelling Vision for an Open Digital Commons
Events
MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg is one of the most salient voices in the library community for Open Access, diversity and inclusion, ethics in scholarly publishing, and social justice.
Knowledge Crushes all Barriers
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One of my major goals is cross-collaboration in the open movement. I’ve realized that there isn’t enough cohesion between the different programs and individual projects that exist here in Ghana and elsewhere. We need a coalition.
Hibridos: A portal to the spirit of Brazil
Open Culture
Vincent Moon, CC BY-NC-SA
Vincent Moon’s Hibridos project melds text, music, and ritual through a breathtaking series of films produced in collaboration with his partner Priscilla Telmon.
Art and the Every Day with Mike Winkelmann (AKA beeple)
Open Culture
From Everydays by Mike Winkelmann
Beeple, AKA Mike Winkelmann, is a graphic designer, artist, and videographer whose popular video art and design work has largely been released free under CC.
The staff of music is long, but it bends towards harmony: An interview with the authors of Theft! A History of Music
Open Culture
Meticulously researched and incredibly entertaining, Theft explores 2,000 years of musical history, from Plato’s admonition that “musical innovation is full of danger to the whole state” to the recent “Blurred Lines” case – and everything in between.
The revolution will be openly licensed!
Open Culture
Beautiful Trouble Workshop in Oaxaca, MX by Dave Mitchell
An interview with Dave Mitchell of Beautiful Trouble After Occupy and the Arab Spring in 2011, the artist-activists of Beautiful Trouble burst on the scene with a number of seasoned professionals ready to change the dialogue by utilizing creative, radical protest. Since then, the organization has created a number of invaluable online resources for social…
Just make music and share it: Podington Bear’s music for storytelling and podcasts
Open Culture
Chad Crouch AKA Podington Bear via the Free Music Archive
In 2007, the artist Chad Crouch began releasing three instrumental songs per week under the pseudonym Podington Bear. Crouch revealed his identity in July 2008 upon the release of a box set of his work, ending a speculative mystery covered in NPR, KEXP, Wired, and the Globe and Mail. According to his bio on Free…
Agitate, Educate, Organize: The Radical Printmaking of Justseeds Collective
Open Culture
If you’ve ever attended a demonstration in North America, chances are you’ve seen the work of the 30 person artist collective Just Seeds