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Tag: policymakers

CC Publishes Global Open Culture Call to Action to Policymakers

by Brigitte Vézina Open Culture

In white in a gray box over a flowery landscape painting: CC Icon Open Culture and text: Towards better sharing of cultural heritage — A Creative Commons Call to Action to Policymakers.

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…