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Assessing cultural heritage institutions’ needs related to CC’s public domain tools

lundi 17 janvier 2022 à 15:34
“Floral tile” by Kevin David Pointon (CC0 1.0)

On January 1, 2022, and throughout the month of January, Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating Public Domain Day, welcoming copyright works into the public domain, where they become freely available for the public to use, reuse and modify. 

As part of our Open Culture / GLAM program’s celebration of Public Domain Day, we are reaching out to practitioners and experts working in galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) to help create a clearer picture of the use of CCs’ public domain tools, CC0 and the Public Domain Mark (PDM). To do so, we are collecting information on understandings, issues, needs, wishes and expectations via a short survey in English, French and Spanish. 

📌  Take our survey in English.
📌  Répondez à notre sondage en français.
📌  Responde a nuestra encuesta en español.

Answers will inform CC’s license stewardship mandate and ensure the tools continue to respond to GLAMs’ concrete needs. 

The survey is open until 31 January, 2022.

 

Help us reach out to institutions from around the world: please share this call for information widely with your networks. Here’s a tweet you can retweet or adapt for your own social channels in English, French and Spanish.

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Join us for ‘Ground Truth in Open Internet’ — the new Creative Commons Open Journalism Webinar Series and Training

vendredi 14 janvier 2022 à 17:23
“Carry The Truth Forward” by Teo Georgiev for Fine Acts licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Journalism provides a crucial public service. Access to verifiable information and stories that question the underlying terrain of power is critical to democratic societies. Yet, journalism as we know it faces existential new challenges. Increasingly, journalists face work-halting financial and ethical challenges, as well as threats to their physical and digital safety, when sharing information online. Misinformation and disinformation campaigns in the media challenge collective notions of ground truth. They challenge the bedrock and meaning of open internet. 

Journalism also faces newfound opportunities, as the tectonic plates of power shift in our shared digital landscape. We witness the rising role of nonprofit media sources, filling gaps where traditional media organizations have shuttered; the rising power of crowdsourcing information and fact checking, and a powerful new role an open internet can play in knowledge sharing. 

Introducing our Ground Truth in Open Internet Series

Join us as we explore what public, open options our news needs, and how to take advantage of these options. Through particular cases in Brazil, Croatia, India, the US, as well as global examples, the webinar series explores topics of: 

This webinar series will culminate in a ½ day training providing: 

REGISTER HERE


Key Dates and Session Information

Open Internet and Journalism

Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation Campaigns: a Community Led Approach

Risks with Digital Platforms: Language and Narrative Power 

Gunfire and Ground truth: Investigative Journalism Using Creative Commons

CC licenses and Combatting Disinformation Campaigns

Free Online Training

Join us for our ‘Ground Truth in Open Internet’ series from January to March 2022 from wherever you are, as we explore what public, open options our news and media need, and how we can use these options. Register here >>

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Open Minds Podcast: Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise & Free Music Archive

mercredi 12 janvier 2022 à 16:42

Hi Creative Commoners! We’re back with the first episode of Open Minds  … from Creative Commons in 2022.

Photo courtesy of Hessel van Oorschot

In this episode, CC’s Ony Anukem sits down for a conversation with Hessel van Oorschot, founder and “Chief of Noise” of the online music business Tribe of Noise. Tribe of Noise is a music community that connects artists, fans, and professionals. Founded in 2008 in The Netherlands, its main objective is to create fair and sustainable business opportunities for talented artists. 

Tribe of Noise are the stewards of the Free Music Archive, an online repository of royalty-free music. Established in 2009 by the East Orange, New Jersey community radio station WFMU, and in cooperation with fellow stations KBOO and KEXP, it aims to provide music under Creative Commons licenses that can be freely downloaded and used in other works. Tribe of Noise acquired the Free Music Archive in 2019.

During the conversation, Hessel shares his unconventional path to discovering his passion, his insights on the biggest opportunities for music licensing right now, how he got involved with the open movement and Creative Commons, and more. 

Please subscribe to the show in whatever podcast app you use, so you don’t miss any of our conversations with people working to make the internet and our global culture more open and collaborative.

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SOPA Plus 10, reflections and continued work

lundi 10 janvier 2022 à 15:37

On January 18, 2012, the web went dark in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), two bills introduced into the United States House and Senate in the last quarter of 2011.

Why are we talking about this day ten years later?

The fight for a global internet, access to information, and better sharing that benefits public interests are far from over. Because there are still many threats and SOPA-like provisions in other bills. Because many of the feared outcomes of the bill proposed in 2012 – website shutdowns, censorship to free speech, and domain seizures – are happening today.

Here is a simplified overview of SOPA/PIPA.

SOPA and PIPA aimed to tighten U.S. laws to curb copyright infringement and counterfeiting, particularly focusing on illegal copies of media – films, TV shows, music – hosted on foreign servers. The bills aimed to block sites and order financial services to shut off anyone associated with a site. 

If passed, the U.S. Department of Justice and rights holders could use court orders to take down entire websites based upon a single piece of content, or linked content, on that site. Internet service providers (ISPs) would block users using Domain Name System (DNS) blocking. 

While the bills intended to stop piracy, they were vaguely written with disastrous consequences. For example:

Dubbed the Internet Blacklist Bill, Creative Commons (CC) joined other like-minded organizations in 2012 to raise awareness about the dangers and fight the bills.  As Congress continued to debate before the Jan 24 vote on SOPA, organizer Fight for the Future, watchdog groups, content creators, activists, and millions of American citizens participated in a more aggressive communication strategy to get the attention of Congress – a symbolic internet blackout and messaging protest.

On January 18, 2012:

As a result, SOPA was tabled, and PIPA was postponed.

January 18 is an historic marker of solidarity, a public interest victory. 

As so, ten years later, Creative Commons again joins many organizations to reflect and continue the work. Please join us, and many others, by attending a series of SOPA Plus 10 events starting January 18, 2022. Our goal is to promote the values of free and open internet, build a better internet, improve access to information, and generate better sharing of news information.

community events
COMMEMORATING #sopa plus 10

This list will be updated as new events are added, and registrations become available.

DATE EVENT/RECOGNITION ORGANIZER DETAILS
January 17 (ongoing) 10 years of what SOPA/PIPA’s demise made possible Re:Create
January 17-21 Copyright Week Electronic Frontier Foundation Agenda
January 18
11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. EST		 Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout Georgetown Law
and Wikimedia Foundation		 Info and Registration
January 18 (ongoing) Better Internet Conversation and Articles Public Knowledge PK Website Link
January 18 (ongoing) Better Internet Series Creative Commons and Global Summit Partners CC Series Link
January 18

1:00 p.m. PST

 Privacy event with Library Freedom Project, George Christian of the Connecticut Four, and Sarah Lamdan of CUNY Library Futures More Information
January 19 Event: A look back on SOPA. A look ahead for what’s next COPIA
January 20 Public Domain Day Observed: Celebration of Sound Internet Archive
Creative Commons
Other Leaders from Open World		 Three ways to celebrate Public Domain in 2022
January 20
7:00 p.m. UTC
2:00 p.m. EST		 Better News: Open Internet and Journalism (webinars aimed at journalists) Creative Commons Google News Initiative and CC will reflect on the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of technology, journalism, and social power.
January 21 SOPA 10 Years Out: Startups and User Generated Content Engine Advocacy Will discuss intermediary liability frameworks aimed at Hill staff and members of the public interest and technology policy communities.
January 27

4:30 p.m. UTC

11:30 a.m. EST

 Better News Series: Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation Campaigns: A Community Led Approach Creative Commons This conversation will highlight Wikimedia Foundation’s technical perspective and community lead approach to addressing mis/disinformation campaigns.
February 8

2:00 p.m. UTC

9:00 a.m. EST

 Better News Series: Risks with Digital Platforms, Language and Narrative Power Creative Commons Speakers will explore risks of digital platforms: further marginalizing languages, spreading disinformation, and perpetuating power structures in India and globally.
February 15

2:00 p.m. UTC

9:00 a.m. EST

 Better News Series: Gunfire and Ground truth, Investigative Journalism Using Creative Commons Creative Commons Cecília Oliviera (Investigative journalist and founder of Fogo Cruzado) will discuss developing and using crowd-sourcing on an open platform as an investigative tool in journalism focused on drug and arms trafficking.
March 1

TBC

 Better News Series: CC licenses and combatting disinformation campaigns through better sharing Creative Commons This discussion will explore how CC licenses increase better information sharing in global journalism.
March 23

2:00 pm-6:00 pm UTC

10:00 am-2:00 pm EDT

 Better News Series: Free Online Training Creative Commons Creative Commons staff will provide free training on the basics of copyright for journalists, how to best find and reuse openly licensed resources such as research, photos, videos, music, and more!

 

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Digital Services Act — Is the EU legislative train on the right track?

mardi 21 décembre 2021 à 19:31

On December 14, the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) of the European Parliament adopted its position on the Digital Services Act (DSA) proposal, under the leadership of IMCO DSA Rapporteur MEP Christel Schaldemose (S&D, Denmark).

What is the Digital Services Act?

“GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation” by thedescrier is licensed under CC BY 2.0

The Digital Services Act aims to update the current EU legal framework governing digital services in the wake of rapid technological, business and societal changes and the challenges brought by the increased use of services online. It intends to “create a safer and trusted online environment” and to set out the liability rules for online platforms in the EU. It plans to force online platforms to clamp down on illegal content and improve content moderation mechanisms. It is the most important reform of platform governance legislation in the EU since the 2000 e-Commerce Directive (2000/31/EC) was adopted 20 years ago. 

Creative Commons’ reaction to the IMCO report

While the DSA IMCO report presents positive outcomes, it does leave many causes for concern. 

On the positive side, within its “notice and action” mechanism, it maintains platform liability exemptions (safe harbors) and provides stronger safeguards to ensure the non-arbitrary and non-discriminatory processing of notices and respect for fundamental rights, including freedom of expression. It also sets standards to enhance the accountability and transparency of algorithms, and establishes limits on content removal. Finally, it protects users’ possibility to challenge censorship decisions.

On the concerning side, we warn against the use of upload filters, which absent human moderation are highly prone to error. We also do not want to see a version of the internet where sharing occurs on proprietary platforms designed to keep users within their own, non-interoperable, systems. These “walled gardens” impose strict legal terms and use technical functionality that undermine better sharing and permissive copyright licensing, as well as sharing of Creative-Commons-licensed content. When content does move across platforms, widespread norms have emerged that have reduced creator autonomy and impeded on users’ freedom to share. We also support Wikimedia Deutschland’s views that the DSA’s rules ignore that community-based platforms geared towards the public good are different from commercial platforms and should not be harmed by such rules.

Lastly, we are very concerned about any media exemption (a content moderation carve out) requested by press publishers. Such an exception would prevent platforms from removing content produced under editorial control of a media entity, even in cases where the content is inaccurate and spreads disinformation. This raises concerns around disinformation and the interrelation with press publishers’ rights (Article 15 of the DSM Directive). MEPs must not succumb to the pressure by press publishers and broadcasters; they must continue to fight against disinformation. 

Creative Commons’ work on platform liability

Over the course of 2021, the Copyright Platform of the Creative Commons Global Network, via its Working Group (WG) on Platform Liability, developed a policy paper entitled Freedom to Share: How the Law of Platform Liability Impacts Licensors and Users. Taking a global approach and through a freedom to share lens, the WG assessed current trends and produced five recommendations: 

What’s next? 

The European Parliament now has to adopt the IMCO DSA report as its final negotiation position, before it can start trilogue negotiations with the Council under the French Presidency in the first semester of 2022. A plenary vote is likely to take place in January 2022. We at CC will be observing these developments with great interest as we work towards better sharing for a better internet.

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