Mauricio says that “open access makes it easier for people to use what is a common good for all.” In this episode we dive into the work of a historian and librarian in Argentina. Mauricio discusses the value of cultural heritage preservation over generations and what role present day  institutions play for the future.

Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Mauricio is a historian, librarian, and museologist. He works with Wikimedia Argentina to open up collections and make them accessible for people all over the world.

Marcio responds to the following questions:

1. What are the main benefits of open GLAM?
2. What are the barriers?
3. Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?
4. Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?

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Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES here >>

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Join us on 14 June at ‘Disruption: Creator Edition’ as we explore the profound influence of generative AI on creativity across multiple industries. Register now >>

In collaboration with the team at EQTY Lab, and with Nonny de la Peña of the Arizona State University California Center, Creative Commons welcomes our community to join us next week on 14 June in downtown Los Angeles. We’d like to thank ASU for donating their space for this event, and our sponsors, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT), for enabling us to make this event happen.

PROGRAM

Time (all PST)	Speakers	Focus
09:30am – 10:00am	/ ARRIVAL	Coffee and snacks.
10:00am – 10:20am	Jonathan Dotan (EQTY Lab)	Setting the scene
10:30am – 10:50am	Nonny de la Peña (ASU)	Lessons learned with emerging technologies
11:00am – 12:00pm	Final lineup to be announced	Fireside keynote
12:00pm – 01:00pm	/ LUNCH	Lunch will be provided.
01:00pm – 01:40pm	Sarah Duran (DWT) in conversation with Dwain Worrell (filmmaker), Adam Piron (Sundance), Ben Sinclair (filmmaker)	Panel discussing the impacts of generative AI on Film & TV.
01:50pm – 02:30pm	Jesse Damiani (author) in conversation with Q (artist), Joel Ferree (LACMA), Alice Scope (Vellum)	Panel discussing the impacts of generative AI on the Arts
02:40pm – 03:20pm	Final lineup to be announced	Panel discussing the impacts of generative AI on music and contemporary media.
03:30pm – 04:10pm	Catherine Stihler (Creative Commons) in conversation with Damon Krukowski (musician)	A discussion on topics including creativity, copyright, and labor.
04:20pm – 04:50pm	Robert Tercek in conversation with Che Chang (OpenAI)	A closing fireside digging into labor issues in the creative industries.
05:00pm – 06:00pm	/ DRINKS

 

Register here to join us next Wednesday, 14 June, in downtown LA.

SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT

We’re thrilled to welcome an accomplished, thoughtful, and diverse set of speakers to the stage to share all sides of the debate on this critical issue. Meet some of our speakers below:

Damon Krukowski is a multi talented musician, writer, and activist. His music career began as the drummer for the alternative rock band Galaxie 500 in the late 1980s. The band released three critically acclaimed albums before splitting up in 1991. Following Galaxie 500, Damon formed the indie pop duo Damon & Naomi with bandmate Naomi Yang. The duo have a distinctive style of melancholic pop, and continue to produce music to this day. He is also a well-respected writer, having published two books, “The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World” (2017) and “Ways of Hearing” (2019), and writing for numerous esteemed publications like Pitchfork and The Wire. His writing often intertwines with his music career, as he explores themes around the intersection of technology, music, and culture. His observations and critiques have been influential in discussions about the digital evolution of the music industry. His unique perspective, combining his background as an artist with his understanding of technology’s impact, makes him a compelling voice in these debates.

Catch him at a live show the night before the conference at Permanent Records Roadhouse.

Nonny de la Peña is a pioneer in emerging media and immersive journalism, and is currently the program director of ASU’s Narrative and Emerging Media Program. With over two decades of experience in visual, virtual, augmented and extended reality, her award-winning work in film, print and TV has had a major impact on storytelling. As the founder and CEO of Emblematic Group, Nonny leverages cutting-edge technologies to tell stories that foster deeply empathetic viewer engagement. Recognized as a “Technology Innovator of the Year” by WSJ and dubbed the “Godmother of Virtual Reality” by major publications, her contributions, including the first VR pieces shown at Sundance and Tribeca Film Festival, have set industry standards. Her influential paper “Immersive Journalism: Immersive Virtual Reality for the First-Person Experience of the News,” in MIT’s journal Presence, is among its most downloaded. A laureate of numerous awards, including the SXSW Innovation Awards Hall of Fame, de la Peña’s innovative approach to storytelling continues to inspire and drive the field forward. She holds prestigious fellowships and degrees from Harvard University and USC.

Robert Tercek is a globally renowned figure in digital innovation and dematerialization, blending his roles as an author, entrepreneur, educator, and co-host of The Futurists podcast. As the founder and CEO of General Creativity, Robert shapes strategies for digital transformation and future-proof planning for new products, services, and ventures. His former executive leadership roles in media studios and software companies allowed him to launch digital services now integral to millions of daily lives. In 2021, the Media Excellence Awards named him Humanitarian of the Year for creating COVID SMART, an interactive program ensuring worker safety during the pandemic. His book “VAPORIZED: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World” has made him an authority on software dematerialization, a process that is continuing to reshape various industries. 

Q (Qianqian Ye) is a Chinese artist, creative technologist, and educator based in Los Angeles. Q merges her architectural training with art and technology, generating spaces—digital, physical, and social—that probe into gender, immigrant, power, and technology matters. The Future of Memory, her recent collaboration, secured the Mozilla Creative Media Award. As the lead of p5.js at the Processing Foundation, she is central to an open-source platform that champions inclusive and accessible learning in code, a community now exceeding 1.5 million users. Q serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC Media Arts + Practice, teaching creative coding, and imparts 3D Arts knowledge at Parsons School of Design. In 2022-2023, she will broaden her reach as a Civic Media Fellow at USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Having been raised in China and moved to the US in 2012, Q’s work now centers on alternative community building, technology against misinformation, the Chinese language system, and re-envisioning gender in non-western narratives. Her distinguished work has been showcased globally, from the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art to Ecobuild London. 

Jesse Damiani is a celebrated writer, curator, producer, and entrepreneur known for his expertise in virtual reality, augmented reality, and emerging media and technologies. He currently serves as Senior Curator of Nxt Realtime at Nxt Museum. Nxt Realtime represents a new exhibition structure, evolving 2-4 times annually to explore critical questions facing humanity. This innovative initiative assembles artists, curators, scholars, experts, and the public, seeking to stimulate critical and curious approaches to new ideas and practices. Concurrently, Realtime echoes web3 movement ideals, focusing on how art and artists pave the way for decentralized power and collective imagination as a problem-solving tool. Jesse is renowned for curating exhibitions such as Synthetic Wilderness, Sea Change, and PROOF OF ART. Beyond curating, he writes extensively on art, media, and emerging technology for Forbes and other prominent publications. He is also the founder of Best American Experimental Writing and CEO of Galatea, a tool for VR and AR storytelling.

Register here to secure your seat!

TOPICS

These are the key themes we’ll be interrogating throughout the day:

Representation

• How can we address the problems of representation in generative AI while we’re still early in its rise? How can creators be a part of that?
• How does AI affect inclusion and representation in the entertainment industries?

Lessons Learned

• What can we learn from the past? The ways previous technologies have been incorporated into art, and in particular the relationships between creators and publishers, distributors, and other intermediaries?
• Generative AI carries both opportunities and challenges for creators, but which if any are innate in the technology and which stem from other factors, like the current business and institutional structures?

The political environment

• How might labor policy and organizing from the creator perspective factor into the future of generative AI, and how do they compare to other levers for policy and business change?

 

Register here to join us next Wednesday, 14 June, in downtown LA. Registration is free, donations are greatly appreciated.

The proceedings will be recorded and released at a future date. If you have any questions, please reach out to Anna Tumadóttir at anna@creativecommons.org 

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Ellen shares that “by making cultural heritage openly available it can foster innovation and creativity.” This is a key aspect of why Ellen advocates for opening up cultural heritage and what drives her passion for open access in the cultural heritage sector.

Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Ellen is a Lawyer and Cultural Heritage professional who is currently a Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam where she teaches about open access in the Library and Information Sciences department.

Ellen responds to the following questions:

1. What are the main benefits of open GLAM?
2. What are the barriers?
3. Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?
4. Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?

Closed captions are available for this video, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.

Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES here >>

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Sharing and reusing content in newsrooms is nothing new. But embracing Creative Commons unlocks infinitely more potential, completely free of charge. Increasingly, news outlets around the world embrace Creative Commons to enhance their coverage, boost their readership, and move towards more sustainable business models. 

Whether you work for a smaller newsroom seeking high quality, newsworthy photos that are free to use, or are part of a larger operation, like Propublica, that CC licenses all news to increase access and spread, CC licenses are free, powerful tools at your disposal.  

Yet, some journalists may not be aware of the potential and ease of these tools. Open Newswire and Creative Commons partnered to offer a practical primer on Creative Commons for journalism, and how to make the most of CC licenses. Enjoy!

For more information about Open Newswire, the global aggregator of CC-licensed articles, contact info@opennewswire.org.

For more information about CC licensing your works, or reusing others’ CC licensed content, visit the CC FAQ page, the CC Certificate training resources, or contact learning@creativecommons.org for a consultation. 

CC also offers free “office hours” with our copyright lawyers and periodic trainings. We will run open journalism trainings at the 2023 Collaborative Journalism Summit June 6, online at RightsCon June 7 in partnership with Open Newswire, and The Conversation, and at Media Party June 8. CC will host additional open journalism training at the CC Summit, October 3-6. We hope to connect with you. 

You can view the guide below (click at the bottom to navigate through pages), or download it in a PDF format.

“A Journalist’s Guide to Creative Commons 2023” by Zac Crellin and Jennryn Wetzler for Creative Commons, licensed CC BY 4.0.

 

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Are you attending RightsCon 2023, either in person in Costa Rica or virtually online? Join the Creative Commons team and community members for two sessions, one in-person for RightsCon participants in San José  and the other virtual so anyone can attend with a free online pass.

These sessions on artificial intelligence (AI) and open journalism will extend our work to support the public interest commons and a better internet for everyone, by following our strategy to support better sharing, sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable. Both topics will also be part of the program at CC’s Global Summit during 3–6 Oct 2023 in Mexico City, now open for registration and session proposals!

Exploring the values that will shape AI for a better internet

In-person session: Tue 6 June 2023 16:30–17:30 Costa Rica time

We have all witnessed the internet’s ability to democratize speech and access to knowledge, give voice to the voiceless, and support shared online spaces. We have also seen how the internet’s evolution can cause unanticipated harms and how tools for sharing can be misused to manipulate, mislead, and limit choice. With AI coming online, we now also see how both benefits and harms can be augmented and accelerated at scale.  Organizations that have been championing digital human rights to benefit internet users everywhere are collaborating on an emerging Movement for a Better internet. Together we are working to crystallize shared values about what would constitute “better” and paths to get to a better internet from different perspectives, with a primary goal to produce a statement of values that underpin a broader public interest vision, and a collaborative policy agenda for a better internet.

At CC, we’ve been exploring issues around AI for some time — for example, see our 2023 blog post series and our 2021 blog post: Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends. But the way forward is still not clear. Our workshop with other members of the Movement for a Better Internet will distill thinking from the RightsCon community about the opportunities and challenges AI brings to the commons and the internet, and explore potential solutions to shape AI for the better.

Open journalism: Why many newsrooms open and share their content, and how you can help!

Virtual online session: Wed 7 June 2023 09:30–10:30 UTC

Journalism is a critical public service to all of us. Unfettered access to verified information is essential for a healthy information ecosystem — which is essential for democracy and social justice. Yet, journalism is challenged by broken revenue models, the closures of local news outlets, and declining trust among readers. Misinformation and disinformation campaigns in the media challenge collective notions of ground truth. They also challenge the bedrock and meaning of an open internet, as most proposed solutions involve limiting speech.

To go beyond the session at RightsCon, you can read our report, From Broken Revenue Models to Embracing an “Open” Ethos, based on research with over 500 journalists from 18 different countries, and use our guide, A Journalist’s Guide to Creative Commons. Are you a journalist or part of a news organization? Get in touch with CC to hold a workshop on open journalism with your team.

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