# articles

feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64000
title: Introducing InclusiveAccess.org
uri: Introducing-InclusiveAccess-org
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/06/introducing-inclusiveaccess-org/
content:
<figure id="attachment_64008" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64008" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a style="font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: inherit;" href="https://www.inclusiveaccess.org/"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64008 size-large" src="media/3299d8f1.InclusiveAccess.org_-1024x576.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/InclusiveAccess.org_-1024x576.jpeg" alt="InclusiveAccess.org" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/InclusiveAccess.org_-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/InclusiveAccess.org_-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/InclusiveAccess.org_-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/InclusiveAccess.org_-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/InclusiveAccess.org_-71x40.jpeg 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/InclusiveAccess.org_-50x28.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/InclusiveAccess.org_-270x152.jpeg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/InclusiveAccess.org_-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/InclusiveAccess.org_.jpeg 1800w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64008" class="wp-caption-text">InclusiveAccess.org CC BY 4.0</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The price of college textbooks in the United States (and many other countries) has skyrocketed over the past 30 years.</span><a href="https://uspirg.org/reports/usp/fixing-broken-textbook-market-third-edition"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Two-thirds of college students</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> say that they’ve delayed buying a textbook because it was too expensive—even though</span><a href="media/70e9e8a4.NATIONAL20Fixing20Broken20Textbooks20Report1.pdf" data-original-source="https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/NATIONAL%20Fixing%20Broken%20Textbooks%20Report1.pdf"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">90% of those students</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> worry that not having the textbook will affect their course grade. In addition, more than</span><a href="media/397622b2.2019inflectionpoint.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.bayviewanalytics.com/reports/2019inflectionpoint.pdf"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">80% of faculty</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> agree that the cost of course materials is a serious problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Against this backdrop, a new sales model known as &#8220;Inclusive Access&#8221; has taken off. Also known as automatic textbook billing, this model adds the cost of digital course content into students’ tuition and fees. Hardly known five years ago,</span><a href="https://www.nacs.org/nacs-student-watch-report-use-of-digital-course-materials-is-up"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">one in three college students</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> reported participating in at least one Inclusive Access course during the 2020-21 academic year.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How exactly does Inclusive Access work? Does it really really save students money? What about this kind of program is “inclusive”? Straightforward answers to these questions aren’t always easy to find.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://inclusiveaccess.org">InclusiveAccess.org</a> is a community-driven initiative to raise awareness of the facts about automatic textbook billing. The site aims to be a one-stop shop for information, tools, and other resources that can help</span><a href="http://inclusiveaccess.org/administrators"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">administrators</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="http://inclusiveaccess.org/faculty"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">faculty</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="http://inclusiveaccess.org/students"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">students</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and</span><a href="http://inclusiveaccess.org/policymakers"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">policymakers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> make smart decisions about how to address textbook costs on campus.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">InclusiveAccess.org was developed by</span><a href="https://sparcopen.org"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">SPARC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with generous support from the</span><a href="https://20mm.org"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Michelson 20MM Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><a href="http://inclusiveaccess.org/about"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Partners</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> include AAC&amp;U, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Creative Commons, DigiTex, Student PIRGs, Open Education Global, and OpenStax. The initiative is also forming an advisory committee with representation from a broad range of stakeholders across higher education.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons and our partners hope that InclusiveAccess.org will help decision makers fully consider and understand how automatic textbook billing can impact their institution and students. We also hope that it empowers students to ask important questions about how they are charged for textbooks, and to exercise freedom over how they access course materials.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Check back at</span><a href="https://inclusiveaccess.org"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">InclusiveAccess.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> regularly for updates on the latest facts, news, and case studies on automatic textbook billing, as well as additional tools and resources. Join the</span><a href="https://www.inclusiveaccess.org/subscribe"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> email list</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and follow</span><a href="https://twitter.com/TextbookBilling"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">@TextbookBilling</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to get involved.</span></p>
<p>Of course, the problem of high textbook costs can be solved with CC-licensed <span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/education-oer/">Open Educational Resources (OER)</a> as a way to promote more equitable access to course materials. See the <a href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=49556&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html">UNESCO Recommendation on OER</a> for actions your government and/or educational institution can take to support open education resources, practices and policy.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/06/introducing-inclusiveaccess-org/">Introducing InclusiveAccess.org</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64042
title: License Stewardship consultation
uri: License-Stewardship-consultation
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/12/license-stewardship-consultation/
content:
<p><span>The CC license suite was foundational to the creation of Creative Commons. To this day, the stewardship of CC licenses and public domain tools remains </span><span>one of the core functions of the organization.</span><br />
<span><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-63508 alignright" src="media/6c821cd8.cc.xlarge-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cc.xlarge-300x300.png" alt="cc logo" width="151" height="151" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cc.xlarge-300x300.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cc.xlarge-150x150.png 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cc.xlarge-768x768.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cc.xlarge-40x40.png 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cc.xlarge-50x50.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cc.xlarge-350x350.png 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cc.xlarge-155x155.png 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cc.xlarge.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 151px) 85vw, 151px" /></span><span></span></p>
<p><span>At this milestone of the </span><span>20th</span><span> anniversary of Creative Commons, we are embarking on a public consultation around CC’s stewardship. Specifically, </span><b>we seek to collectively define the principles and responsibilities that CC should and will uphold in its role as stewards of the CC legal tools. And we want you to participate.</b></p>
<p><span>The </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aQLW81v_WRwXgvPYFtVkeNG7PApIga8QkGb9-Z09n-c/edit#"><span>public consultation draft</span></a><span> is open to all for written comment. (This is hosted on Google Docs; there is also <a href="https://creativecommons.org/license-stewardship-consultation-draft/">a copy on our site</a> for comments by email.) </span></p>
<p>You may also answer a few specific questions in a <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSco3cnrU09nctTaNzYvYEASeh8rpPaQt-gxTdoPptSpGCofGQ/viewform">short survey</a>.</p>
<p><span>This effort will assist with: </span></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Resource allocation </span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Prioritization </span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Accountability </span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Transparency</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Making space for others to fill gaps that CC cannot </span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Resiliency of the licenses and public domain tools </span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Rebuilding an active community of people around the world invested in the licenses and public domain tools</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span>Our initial draft is an attempt to make explicit the values and the practices CC has followed over the years, and to identify where CC should continue investing its efforts, where it needs to improve, and what it should no longer continue. As we consider the work of Creative Commons in the next decade and look to </span><i><span>new</span></i><span> endeavors and projects, we want to ensure we effectively sustain and nurture our existing tools.</span><b> We can’t do this effectively without the CC community. Please help us define what good stewardship looks like by contributing to this consultation. </b></p>
<p><span>More information about the process and timeline as well as call details are available on the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/stewardship/"><span>License Stewardship</span></a><span> landing page.<strong> We aim to publish this renewed Stewardship Commitment in December 2021.</strong><br />
</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/12/license-stewardship-consultation/">License Stewardship consultation</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64055
title: The 2021 CC Global Summit Keynotes Are Here!
uri: The-2021-CC-Global-Summit-Keynotes-Are-Here
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/14/the-2021-cc-global-summit-keynotes-are-here/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have exciting news…we published the keynotes from the 2021 CC Global Summit!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alongside the 170+ sessions that took place at this year’s virtual event, we hosted five keynotes from global leaders in the open movement, who shared their work in open data, science and health, software and law. We’re excited to share these recordings of the keynotes with you today!</span></p>
<h3><b>Achal Prabhala</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HlM29oZ6KGE" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was our first keynote of the CC Global Summit, entitled <strong>&#8220;On the Margins of Creative Commons and Open,&#8221;</strong> by Achal Prabhala, Coordinator of the <a href="https://accessibsa.org/">AccessIBSA project</a>. Achal is a writer, researcher, recent fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, and longtime activist for access to medicines and vaccines. AccessIBSA campaigns to expand access and speed up the discovery of new drugs in India, Brazil and South Africa. In this keynote, Achal challenges the Creative Commons movement to look beyond traditional epistemological frameworks and consider allying with forces that achieve the same goals, but don&#8217;t use the same means.</span></p>
<h3><b>Cecilia Oliveira</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_uYY63Cvj9w" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was our second keynote of the CC Global Summit by Cecília Olliveira, an investigative journalist, researcher and Executive Director of Fogo Cruzado. <a href="https://fogocruzado.org.br/">Fogo Cruzado</a>, which translates to cross-fire, is a Brazilian-based community-driven open data platform that collects and cross-checks real-time data on armed violence with a goal of reduce gun crime. In this keynote, Cecília shares her motivation for starting Fogo Cruzado in 2016 and the incredible impact the organisation has had in reducing armed violence in Rio de Janeiro and Recife over the past five years!</span></p>
<h3><b>Audrey Tang </b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KfSxg6eVxXs" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was our third keynote of the CC Global Summit, entitled &#8220;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">Digital Social Innovation,</a>&#8221; by Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s digital minister in charge of Social Innovation. Audrey Tang is one of the world’s leading computer scientists, and among other things, is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin. In this keynote, Audrey shares how Taiwan has used open data and transparent governance to empower its citizens to code their own way out of a pandemic, and the lessons other nations can adopt from their digital playbook.<strong> <a href="https://issuu.com/pdis.tw/docs/cc2021?e=30178544/87356303" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the slides &gt;&gt;</a> </strong></span></p>
<h3><b>Angela Odour Lungati</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/74ygRQqh3cA" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was our fourth keynote of the CC Global Summit by Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director at <a href="https://www.ushahidi.com/">Ushahidi</a>, and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/06/creative-commons-announces-new-board-members-angela-oduor-lungati-glenn-otis-brown-jeni-tennison/">recently appointed Board Member of the Creative Commons Board of Directors</a>. Ushahidi is a global non-profit technology company that helps communities quickly collect and share information that enables them to raise voices, inform decisions and influence change. Angela shares her insights as a technologist, community builder, and open-source software advocate who is passionate about building and using appropriate technology tools to create an impact in the lives of marginalized groups. </span></p>
<h3><b>Lawrence Lessig</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oxzI0RToTzA" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was our final keynote of the CC Global Summit by Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, law professor, attorney, and political activist. As Creative Commons celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, Lessig reflects on how CC began, what it has accomplished, and what he hopes to see in the next twenty years and beyond. In this keynote, Lessig discusses some of the most pressing issues affecting the open ecosystem and the internet right now, and discusses what lessons can be learned from the prosecution and regulation of Big Tobacco—its media misinformation and disinformation, and its political interference.</span></p>
<h3><b>What’s next?</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next up, we’ll be sharing the nine panel presentations that took place during the 2021 CC Global Summit—keep an eye on the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/">CC blog</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/creativecommonsvids">Youtube channel</a> over the next two weeks. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once that is completed, we’ll start releasing as many of the other amazing sessions that took place as possible. We ask for your patience and understanding during this process. Thank you!</span></p>
<p><strong>Missed the CC Global Summit? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/14/reflections-from-the-2021-cc-global-summit/">Take a look at our wrap-up</a>!</strong></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63886" src="media/dcfb4d19.-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1.png" alt="" width="1600" height="700" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1.png 1600w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-300x131.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-1024x448.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-768x336.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-1536x672.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-91x40.png 91w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-50x22.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-270x118.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-1200x525.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/14/the-2021-cc-global-summit-keynotes-are-here/">The 2021 CC Global Summit Keynotes Are Here!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64056
title: Reflections from the 2021 CC Global Summit
uri: Reflections-from-the-2021-CC-Global-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/14/reflections-from-the-2021-cc-global-summit/
content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64060" src="media/f2bf9661.CC-Global-Summit-2021.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Global-Summit-2021.jpg" alt="" width="1920" height="1080" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Global-Summit-2021.jpg 1920w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Global-Summit-2021-300x169.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Global-Summit-2021-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Global-Summit-2021-768x432.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Global-Summit-2021-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Global-Summit-2021-71x40.jpg 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Global-Summit-2021-50x28.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Global-Summit-2021-270x152.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Global-Summit-2021-1200x675.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><b>1600+ attendees | 300+ presenters | 170+ sessions | 90+ countries</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 2021 CC Global Summit (20-24 September) was our biggest and boldest event yet! The CC Global Summit is an annual highlight for the Creative Commons vast global network, this year being CC’s 20th anniversary and a milestone year for the Open movement more broadly—it was even more special.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The week was filled with engaging and thought-provoking sessions on the advances and challenges facing free and open culture today: open vs. privacy, the promotion of open GLAM, the unknowns of artificial intelligence, the climate crisis, developments in OER, the possibilities of NFTs, and so much more. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_64061" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64061" style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64061" src="media/a1bb1e78.Map-1-1.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Map-1-1.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="225" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Map-1-1.jpg 1920w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Map-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Map-1-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Map-1-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Map-1-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Map-1-1-71x40.jpg 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Map-1-1-50x28.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Map-1-1-270x152.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Map-1-1-1200x675.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64061" class="wp-caption-text">A map showing where participants to the CC Global Summit attended from! Courtesy of Hopin.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year, we had over 90 countries represented at Summit (50% more than last year!) from every corner of the globe. This means so much to us, as one of the core values of the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">2021-2025 Creative Commons strategy</a> is global inclusivity—we were on a mission to make this years summit more inclusive and diverse than ever before. Thanks to our sponsors and generous community donations, we were able to enhance our language supports, including live captioning and interpretation of our major program elements. We also launched our first-ever Summit Access Fund, which provided small dollar grants to help our community members and presenters cover internet and technology-related costs to attend the event. We are committed to building on this for future events, please <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaxr6_lOSK67hY1Ogai02mI0la6tN_XLXtjPKY-japbufwYw/viewform">share your experience in the Post-Summit Survey</a>.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’d like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who made this event one of our best yet, keynote speakers, panelists, presenters, sponsors, performers and attendees. A special mention to our volunteers, who again amazed us with their energy, responsiveness, and dedication throughout the event. </span></p>
<h3><b>What Next?</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have finally published the keynotes from the 2021 CC Global Summit (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/14/the-2021-cc-global-summit-keynotes-are-here/">watch them here</a>)! Over the next two weeks, we’ll be sharing the nine panel presentations that took place during the Summit—keep an eye on the CC blog &amp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/creativecommonsvids">Youtube channel</a>. Once that is completed, we’ll start releasing as many of the other amazing session recordings as possible. We ask for your patience and understanding during this process. Thank you!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also released a campaign featuring the 2021 CC Global Summit artwork by queer South Asian illustrator, Sonaksha Iyengar</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. You can now purchase </span><a href="https://creative-commons-2.creator-spring.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, and tote bags</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with this year’s artwork, and support Creative Commons at the same time! Want to make your own CC Summit-inspired pieces? Download the artwork </span><a href="media/e2652727.8e3ca86a-0f5e-2b11-7d53-692aa4600686.jpg" data-original-source="https://mcusercontent.com/fd30364b6577b471373d6076c/_compresseds/8e3ca86a-0f5e-2b11-7d53-692aa4600686.jpg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong><img src="media/fd6891cb.1f44b.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f44b.png" alt="👋" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> As a nonprofit, Creative Commons relies on the generosity of the public to make events, like the CC Global Summit, possible. Every dollar helps us continue to unlock and expand the limits of open, driving innovation, collaboration, and creativity. <a href="https://www.classy.org/give/347520/#!/donation/checkout" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Please join us in pushing the boundaries of open by making a gift to CC today!</a></strong></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63886" src="media/dcfb4d19.-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1.png" alt="" width="1600" height="700" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1.png 1600w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-300x131.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-1024x448.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-768x336.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-1536x672.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-91x40.png 91w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-50x22.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-270x118.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-1-1200x525.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/14/reflections-from-the-2021-cc-global-summit/">Reflections from the 2021 CC Global Summit</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64076
title: Join us at our ‘Future of Open’ Webinar on 9 November!
uri: Join-us-at-our-Future-of-Open-Webinar-on-9-November
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/15/join-us-at-our-future-of-open-webinar-on-9-november/
content:
<p><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/the-future-of-open-cc-copyright-platform-working-groups-present/e369430"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64077" src="media/70cf22df.CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px.png" alt="" width="1920" height="900" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px.png 1920w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px-300x141.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px-1024x480.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px-768x360.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px-1536x720.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px-85x40.png 85w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px-50x23.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px-270x127.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-1920-x-900-px-1200x563.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<h3><b>CC Policy Working Groups</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In May this year, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/05/25/four-creative-commons-working-groups-will-explore-policy-issues-meet-their-leads/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">we announced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that four working groups of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform-activity-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Copyright Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> would examine policy issues affecting the open ecosystem. For the past five months, they have worked vigorously to provide clearer articulation of the issues and consider possible solutions in four areas: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Working Group 1 — Artificial Intelligence and Open Content </strong><br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Lead:</strong> Max Mahmoud Wardeh </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Working Group 2 — Internet Platform Liability</strong><br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Lead:</strong> Emine Yildirim </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Working Group 3 — Exceptions and Limitations to address Global</strong> <strong>Challenges</strong></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Lead:</strong> André Houang </span></p>
<p><strong>Working Group 4 — Beyond Copyright: the Ethics of Open Sharing<br />
</strong><strong>Lead:</strong> Josie Fraser</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each working group will be publishing an article encapsulating their outcomes in the </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Medium Publication</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the first week of November. Keep an eye out for their release!</span></p>
<h3><b>Future of Open Webinar</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Tuesday 9 November, you will have the chance to hear from each of the working groups’ leads, delving into questions like: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the implications of artificial intelligence for copyright law?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How does copyright law over platform liability affect our freedom to share content online?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What role do exceptions and limitations play in supporting the human rights to access to information, culture and knowledge?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What ethical considerations might we need to take into account in the open environment?</span></li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/the-future-of-open-cc-copyright-platform-working-groups-present/e369430"><b>Register for your ticket today!</b></a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interested in joining the Creative Commons Copyright Platform? You can: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/archives/C5B3EE4G6"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#cc-copyrightreform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Slack channel; and/or</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join the Copyright platform </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mailing list</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
</ul>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/15/join-us-at-our-future-of-open-webinar-on-9-november/">Join us at our ‘Future of Open’ Webinar on 9 November!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64094
title: A time of new beginnings and heartfelt farewells
uri: A-time-of-new-beginnings-and-heartfelt-farewells
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/18/a-time-of-new-beginnings-and-heartfelt-farewells/
content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64096" src="media/8d38a9c6.Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px.png" alt="" width="1920" height="900" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px.png 1920w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px-300x141.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px-1024x480.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px-768x360.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px-1536x720.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px-85x40.png 85w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px-50x23.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px-270x127.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dee-Camille-1920-x-900-px-1200x563.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I wanted to welcome and introduce some new team members to our broader community, as well as publicly thank those for their service who have recently moved on to new and exciting opportunities. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are delighted to announce our new Director of Communications, Dee Harris, has joined the CC team today. Dee has a wealth of experience covering strategic communication, media relations and campaign management. She has a keen background in creating content too, and has taught students how to apply CC licenses to their creative works. Dee has been a fan of CC for many years, and it is wonderful to harness her talent, enthusiasm and commitment for our cause. She will be joining Ony Anukem, CC’s Campaigns Manager, who joined the team in July as we develop and progress our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/20-years/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">20th anniversary capital campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the GLAM front, we were excited that just before our Summit, we welcomed our new GLAM Manager, Camille Françoise, who is working with Brigitte to develop our new </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/06/10/were-launching-the-cc-open-glam-program/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Open GLAM Program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Camille brings a wealth of experience after working as a policy and research officer on copyright and open access at the International Federation of Library Associations &amp; Institutions (IFLA) and in various museums and libraries in Europe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And as people begin their journey with CC, others are embarking on new and exciting opportunities. Jami Vass, our former Director of Development, is now with World Pulse whilst Eric Steuer, long term CCer, is now the new Head of Content and Creative at Kickstarter. The team and I want to wish them both well in their new and exciting roles.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/18/a-time-of-new-beginnings-and-heartfelt-farewells/">A time of new beginnings and heartfelt farewells</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64102
title: You can now rewatch the 2021 CC Global Summit Panel Presentations!
uri: You-can-now-rewatch-the-2021-CC-Global-Summit-Panel-Presentations
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/22/you-can-now-rewatch-the-2021-cc-global-summit-panel-presentations/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last week, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/14/the-2021-cc-global-summit-keynotes-are-here/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">we released the five keynotes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from CC Summit 2021. This week, we&#8217;re back with seven panel presentations from the event. Our Summit panels this year featured thought leaders, pioneers and community members who shared their insights on emerging trends and innovations in Open. Whether you missed them live or want to replay them to soak up all the knowledge shared — there is something for everyone!</span></p>
<h3><b>Empowering Digital Creators</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2F8ci5y4FXU" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
In ‘Empowering Digital Creators’ our panel has a dynamic conversation celebrating paths to supporting creativity and innovation online. There are so many resources available for digital creators to thrive. Hear directly from creators and those steering the platforms that support them.</span></p>
<h3><b>The New Palmyra Project</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9DcUATaTT84" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">New Palmyra Project (aka #NEWPALMYRA) is an effort to reconstruct the ancient city of Palmyra, one of the most significant heritage sites in the world, as an immersive virtual environment, based on archaeological and other clues. This panel reflected on the project’s history from 2005 to the present, including founder Bassel Khartabil’s vision, the open community’s efforts since, and the importance of openly and digitally preserving these sites.</span></p>
<h3><b>Link Rot</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L30mTOxrqKQ" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Link rot (also called link death, link breaking, or reference rot) is the phenomenon of hyperlinks tending over time to cease to point to their originally targeted file, web page, or server due to that resource being relocated to a new address or becoming permanently unavailable. This panel had an informative discussion around the Internet’s ability to preserve information and knowledge.</span></p>
<h3><b>Women in Open</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l3xE9G9t0X0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this panel, four amazing women at the forefront of open have an insightful discussion on the contributions women have made to the open movement and how to inspire future generations. The panel are past CC employees, board members and current community members—each share their journey in open, speak about their work and talk about what excites them most about the future of open. </span></p>
<h3><b>The Future of the Internet: A Digital Rights Approach</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vymK7X7LyvM" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this panel, digital rights experts examined emerging trends shaping our digital world. They addressed issues around open access to information, privacy, data protection, and fundamental freedoms, including free expression. They contemplated the threats and opportunities for the internet to support freedom, justice, democracy and innovation in the digital age. Enjoy insights into what our digital future might look like, as we co-imagine future online spaces based on open and democratic principles.</span></p>
<h3><b>Edutainment, Open Pedagogy and Empowered Learning</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uoSwjLTy6SE" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This panel of teachers and students discussed their work with Tract, a peer-to-peer education space where students create media, clubs, and classes in their voices. Legendary educator Esther Wojcicki, Tract CEO Ari Memar, and Tract Creators Carissa Cabrera and Gibran Nassif shared the importance of bringing together student agency, problem based learning, student directed learning, media creation, and CC licensed open educational resources into student created learning pathways. Empowering students to think critically and independently, and openly sharing their creative expressions, is the key to solving the world’s biggest challenges.</span></p>
<h3><b>Open Innovation &#8211; Covid &amp; Beyond</b></h3>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GG_lFFO4jxw" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The past year has brought home just how much health, the environment, and other concerns are intertwined with technology. Urgent crises depend on our ability to access information, share ideas, and scale innovations. In this recording, our panelists reflect on how the open movement has revolutionized accessible knowledge to empower communities worldwide in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as longer-term issues.</span></p>
<h3><b>What’s next?</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have two more panel presentations to release—they will be available next week, keep an eye on the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/blog/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC blog</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &amp; </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/creativecommonsvids"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Youtube channel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Between now and the end of the year, we will be sharing many of the other session recordings that took place during the 2021 CC Global Summit. Thank you for your patience and understanding during this process! </span></p>
<p><b>Missed the CC Global Summit? </b><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/14/reflections-from-the-2021-cc-global-summit/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take a look at our wrap-up</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-63908" src="media/76bf02d2.-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2.png" alt="" width="1600" height="700" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2.png 1600w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2-300x131.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2-1024x448.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2-768x336.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2-1536x672.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2-91x40.png 91w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2-50x22.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2-270x118.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Thank-you-to-our-sponsors-for-making-this-years-Summit-possible-2-1200x525.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/22/you-can-now-rewatch-the-2021-cc-global-summit-panel-presentations/">You can now rewatch the 2021 CC Global Summit Panel Presentations!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64109
title: Open Minds Podcast: Heather Joseph of SPARC
uri: Open-Minds-Podcast-Heather-Joseph-of-SPARC
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/25/open-minds-podcast-heather-joseph-of-sparc/
content:
<p>Hi folks! <span>We are back with a new episode of CC’s podcast, </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons">Open Minds … from Creative Commons</a><span>!</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_64111" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64111" style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64111" src="media/48b43205.Heather-Joseph.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-Joseph.png" alt="" width="400" height="400" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-Joseph.png 1080w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-Joseph-300x300.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-Joseph-1024x1024.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-Joseph-150x150.png 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-Joseph-768x768.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-Joseph-40x40.png 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-Joseph-50x50.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-Joseph-350x350.png 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Heather-Joseph-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64111" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/97963478@N06/9132326499" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-v-e1c1f65a="">&#8220;At SPARC&#8217;s Dupont Circle offices in Washington, DC&#8221;</a><span> </span><span data-v-e1c1f65a="">by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/97963478@N06" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-v-e1c1f65a="">Open Science</a></span><span> is licensed under </span><a class="photo_license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-v-e1c1f65a="">CC BY 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Happy International Open Access Week! Open Acces Week is a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research, taking place from October 25-31 this year. In celebration of this, our guest on this episode is Heather Joseph, the Executive Director of <a href="http://sparcopen.org/">SPARC</a> (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). SPARC is a global advocacy organization working to make research and education open and equitable by design—for everyone. Heather is a United States-based advocate for open access and academic journal publishing reform. Under her stewardship, SPARC has become widely recognized as the leading international force for effective open access policies and practices.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have so many structural inequities in the way we share scholarship and knowledge. We have English kind of canonized, as the official language. Why is that? And how can we deliberately look at strategies in the open movement to change that?&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>International Open Access Week was established by SPARC and partners in the student community in 2008. Find out more about the week’s activities at <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">openaccessweek.org</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Listen on<span> </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-minds-from-creative-commons/id1554356942" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple Podcasts</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5bTf4Ok2R58bIul5LIHJVf?si=f2tIFA3cSJaW21XtS0B7BQ&amp;dl_branch=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spotify</a>, and<span> </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons">more.</a> You can also subscribe via the show’s<span> </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/s/4d70d828/podcast/rss">RSS feed</a>.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Episode transcript:<span> </span><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/9-Heather-Joseph-of-SPARC.txt">Text</a><span> </span>//<span> </span><a href="media/de2b511d.9-Heather-Joseph-of-SPARC.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/9-Heather-Joseph-of-SPARC.pdf">PDF</a><span> </span>//<span> </span><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/9-Heather-Joseph-of-SPARC.docx">Doc</a></strong></li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/25/open-minds-podcast-heather-joseph-of-sparc/">Open Minds Podcast: Heather Joseph of SPARC</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64117
title: Creative Commons (CC) Certificate: available in Yorùbá, Burmese and Turkish!
uri: Creative-Commons-(CC)-Certificate-available-in-Yorùbá-Burmese-and
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/25/creative-commons-cc-certificate-available-in-yoruba-burmese-and-turkish/

content:
<figure id="attachment_64118" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64118" style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64118" src="media/500e1daa.5928878871_9b8af38d45_o-300x174.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/5928878871_9b8af38d45_o-300x174.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="232" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/5928878871_9b8af38d45_o-300x174.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/5928878871_9b8af38d45_o-768x446.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/5928878871_9b8af38d45_o-69x40.jpg 69w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/5928878871_9b8af38d45_o-50x29.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/5928878871_9b8af38d45_o-267x155.jpg 267w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/5928878871_9b8af38d45_o.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64118" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/39072595@N03/5928878871" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-v-e1c1f65a="">&#8220;Drop.&#8221;</a><span> </span><span data-v-e1c1f65a="">by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/39072595@N03" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-v-e1c1f65a="">Yogendra174</a></span><span> is licensed under </span><a class="photo_license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-v-e1c1f65a="">CC BY 2.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a global learning opportunity covering open licensing and the ethos of sharing. The Certificate is built with the intention of adaptation and remix. While the CC Certificate courses address (1) educators, (2) academic librarians, and (3) the galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) communities, everyone is welcome. We seek opportunities to share and adapt the Creative Commons Attribution licensed (CC BY) course content for different cultures, languages and countries. The more audiences for whom the content resonates, the greater the impact of our open licensing tutorials.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, Creative Commons proudly presents the latest translations of the CC Certificate course content. Thanks to CC Nigeria, CC Turkey, and the following individuals, our course content on open licensing and recommended practices for open sharing are available to over 140M Yorùbá, Burmese, Turkish language speakers around the world. </span></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.cibervoluntarios.org/en/cibernews/view/2021-06-18/empoderaimpact-omoyooba-interview"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Adéṣínà Ghani Ayẹni</strong></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Open Educational Resources developer, multimedia journalist, digital and language rights activist, professional translator and founder of </span><a href="https://www.yobamoodua.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yobamoodua Cultural Heritage</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://openair.africa/person/helen-chuma-okoro/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Helen Chuma-Okoro</strong></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CC Nigeria Chapter Lead</span></li>
<li><strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayusyussuf/?originalSubdomain=ng">Kayode Yussuf</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CC Chapter Global Network Council Representative</span></li>
<li><a href="https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/beck.pitt"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Dr. Beck Pitt</strong></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, researcher and member of the Open Education Research (OER) Hub, Institute of Educational Technology (IET), The Open University (UK)</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkayholt/?originalSubdomain=uk"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>İlkay Holt</strong>,</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> CC Turkey Chapter Lead</span></li>
<li><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/orcunmadran"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Orçun Madran</strong></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CC Turkey, Global Network Council Representative</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adéṣínà Ghani Ayẹni (also known as Ọmọ Yoòbá) and CC Nigeria completed the Yoruba translation, sharing it with a Nigerian case study at the end of 2020.  Through the practice of neologism (coining of new words), Ọmọ Yoòbá introduced new words to describe copyright concepts covered in the Certificate content, which were not previously part of the Yorùbá vocabulary. CC Nigeria organized a team of reviewers, including Yorùbá language teachers and tech experts, to ensure the content’s accuracy. Access the Yoruba translation and country case study </span><a href="http://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/translations/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of the </span><a href="https://www.open.ac.uk/about/international-development/projects-and-programmes/tide-transformation-innovation-distance-education"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Transformation by Innovation in Distance Education (TIDE)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> project, Dr. Beck Pitt led the collaborative remix of the Creative Commons Certificate programme for Librarians. The course is available in English and Myanmar languages, with accompanying facilitated course materials, </span><a href="https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/index.php?categoryid=490"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thanks to Goethe-Institut Istanbul’s financial support, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org.tr/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Turkey</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was able to translate CC Certificate course content into Turkish by September 2021. CC Turkey volunteers proofread and localized content, under the coordination of Ilkay Holt and Orcun Madran. The Turkish translations, published here, will</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> help reduce the gap in the relevant Turkish open licensing literature. Turkish librarians, educators, GLAM specialists, funders and other interested parties can educate themselves and train their audiences, adopt good practices in using licences, and make their works and digital collections more open.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The three translations and Nigerian case study are added to the </span><a href="http://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/translations/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, along side the Arabic and Italian translations. While Creative Commons does not vet translations or update them with our annual content updates, we are immensely proud to share them as accompaniments to the core CC Certificate content. We celebrate having the CC Certificate materials now available in six languages: Arabic, Burmese, English, Italian, Turkish and Yoruba! </span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Interested in translating content in a different language in 2022? <a href="mailto:jennryn@creativecommons.org">Contact CC&#8217;s Assistant Director, Open Education Jennryn Wetzler</a>.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/25/creative-commons-cc-certificate-available-in-yoruba-burmese-and-turkish/">Creative Commons (CC) Certificate: available in Yorùbá, Burmese and Turkish!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64150
title: As Open Access Week 2021 Draws to a Close, the UK Prepares to Host COP26
uri: As-Open-Access-Week-2021-Draws-to-a-Close-the-UK-Prepares-to-Host-COP
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/29/as-open-access-week-2021-draws-to-a-close-the-uk-prepares-to-host-cop26/

content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64151" src="media/0147d7a2.2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng.png" alt="" width="1601" height="492" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng.png 1601w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng-300x92.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng-1024x315.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng-768x236.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng-1536x472.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng-130x40.png 130w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng-50x15.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng-270x83.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-OAW-02-1600x491-Eng-1200x369.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><em><strong>As <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">International Open Access Week</a> (25 &#8211; 31 October) draws to a close, the UK prepares to welcome the world to the <a href="https://ukcop26.org/">COP26 summit</a> (31 October – 12 November). Creative Commons CEO, Catherine Stihler, says</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong> the UK has the opportunity to unlock digital democracy if the government invests in and commits to open software, openly licensed content, research and data.</strong> </span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that new ways of sharing information and knowledge are possible.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open access, data and content have played a critical role, from developing a vaccine in record speed to citizen science initiatives tackling the virus in local communities. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But as we mark International Open Access Week across the globe, it’s clear that these lessons are not universally being learned.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Restrictive copyright systems and other barriers to access and sharing of knowledge and information are threatening the foundations of our free and democratic societies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the UK prepares to welcome the world to COP26, the importance of open data and open science in providing evidence-based solutions and required actions to achieve net zero and mitigate the impact of climate change is clear.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But the need for open access goes far wider than just the UK – it applies across the global research space, which must work together for the public good.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And there is an opportunity for a Global Britain that showcases the use of open software, openly licensed content and research and data, and becomes a leading player at home and abroad.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The launch of a new National Data Strategy and the UK Research and Innovation’s new open access policy are positive developments; but the UK’s ambitions must not be confined to its own borders. The challenges ahead of us require a global response.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If our international influence is as strong as the UK Government claims it is, then the current G7 presidency is an opportunity for the Foreign Office to champion open tools and promote the design and application of new technologies that reflect our democratic and ethical values. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because there are major challenges to openness across the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In China, we see the opposite of digital democracy &#8211; digital autocracy. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Chinese state-run biometric facial recognition technology holds data that controls an entire population in real-time. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No other country has this level of surveillance conducted by the state.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If we are to succeed in creating technology, as the G7 has described, which respects human rights and the rule of law, then we will need to lead on creating trusted, open and accountable systems – with a human hand of care looking after the public&#8217;s interest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Currently, there is a rash of regulation hurtling towards policy makers – some in the name of online safety, which could have the effect of stifling free speech, banning online content which would otherwise be legal offline, and detrimentally affecting individual human rights and freedom of expression. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proposals in Australia, according to Digital Rights Watch, could see new laws which would allow for hacking into your computer, your online accounts and any networks you had been in contact with.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So to be a leader in digital democracy, we need to be aware of the complexity and trade-offs required both to defend and promote open societies. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The UK can look to Taiwan for an open reformation approach.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taiwan’s success is down to its leadership and recognition of what open software enables; but then there are very few governments across the globe with someone like Audrey Tang, a free software developer, at the helm of digital policy making.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the UK to be a leader in digital democracy, we need to place open digital tools at the heart of government decision-making. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Huge amounts of data and knowledge remain locked away even after a decade of open government initiatives.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What if, barring reasons of national security, all UK Government data was openly licensed in the same format and then promoted by those departments for citizen use, or even cross departmental collaboration and experimentation? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What if there’s a new collaboration of ‘digital open champions’ (DOCs) – data scientists and ethics-driven civil servants who can communicate with a lay audience?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because while freeing data is one step, communicating clearly and effectively the potential usage is another.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This International Open Access Week, coming just ahead of COP26 and near the end of the UK’s G7 presidency, is an opportunity to unlock digital democracy &#8211; benefiting our citizens, parliaments and governments.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/29/as-open-access-week-2021-draws-to-a-close-the-uk-prepares-to-host-cop26/">As Open Access Week 2021 Draws to a Close, the UK Prepares to Host COP26</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64159
title: Power to the people
uri: Power-to-the-people
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/31/power-to-the-people/
content:
<p><strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yLtpNru93diB_JBGWrUSdc3k2sItP4LH/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=111898302755147297198&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-64160" src="media/5ed1578f.St.Andrews-Pres.-10.28.21.pptx.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/St.Andrews-Pres.-10.28.21.pptx.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="253" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/St.Andrews-Pres.-10.28.21.pptx.jpg 960w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/St.Andrews-Pres.-10.28.21.pptx-300x169.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/St.Andrews-Pres.-10.28.21.pptx-768x432.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/St.Andrews-Pres.-10.28.21.pptx-71x40.jpg 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/St.Andrews-Pres.-10.28.21.pptx-50x28.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/St.Andrews-Pres.-10.28.21.pptx-270x152.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px" /></a>On Thursday 28 October 2021, Creative Commons CEO Catherine Stihler delivered a keynote at the University of St Andrews&#8217; <em><a href="https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/power-to-the-people/">Power to the people</a>: </em></strong><strong><em>St Andrews&#8217; journey to net-zero and the future of energy </em>event ahead of the annual <a href="https://ukcop26.org/">United Nations Climate Change Conference</a>, officially known as the 26th Conference of Parties, or <a href="https://twitter.com/COP26">COP26</a>. In her keynote, Catherine discusses how open access to research and data, and the ability to widely share context-specific approaches, are key to unlocking sustainable solutions for every facet of climate change and preservation of biodiversity. Read the full speech below and access the presentation <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yLtpNru93diB_JBGWrUSdc3k2sItP4LH/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=111898302755147297198&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true">here</a>.</strong></p>
<h3>Introduction</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good evening and welcome to this wonderful COP26 event. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m Catherine Stihler, CEO of Creative Commons, and the elected Chair of University Court, the governing body of the university. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">So I stand before you this evening with my two distinct but related hats on. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me start with Creative Commons. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also referred to as CC, is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to building and sustaining a thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture that serves the public interest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC removes the legal and technical obstacles to sharing knowledge to help society overcome its most pressing challenges, from climate change to health emergencies to education for all.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC has been at the forefront of the digital commons for 20 years, partnering with activists and advocates, institutions, and governments to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world.  </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">And on our 20th anniversary year, we have made a commitment to “Better Sharing” and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">advocating for open access to knowledge and culture. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">P</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">art of our work supports efforts in the creation, adoption and implementation of open access policies. CC assisted the UKRI in developing a new open access policy, which launched in August 2021. This move will increase opportunities for the findings of publicly funded research to be accessed, shared and reused in the UK research community and globally. CC also helped write the UNESCO Recommendations for Open Educational Resources and Open Science. We are now working through three coalitions to help national governments implement the recommendation on Open Education and we plan to do the same with Open Science.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m excited to speak with you today with both my professional and St Andrews hats on, in order that we can achieve together our net zero ambitions by 2035.</span></p>
<h3>1979</h3>
<p>In 1979, data collected over 130 years – since reliable records were kept – indicated that global temperatures were rising.</p>
<p>That same year, government leaders launched the First World Climate Conference in Geneva.</p>
<p>The science of climate change was just emerging, and nations in attendance were urged “to foresee and prevent potential man-made changes in climate that might be adverse to the well-being of humanity.”</p>
<p>Declarations at the conference identified that increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and changes in land use was the leading cause that the planet was warming.</p>
<p>In 1990, when the Second World Climate Conference was held, scientists and technology experts at the conference issued a stronger statement about the risks.</p>
<p>Margaret Thatcher delivered a speech at the conference, comparing the threat of global warming to the Gulf War – which was then just escalating following Iraq&#8217;s invasion of Kuwait. She also talked about the importance of research.</p>
<p>Breakthroughs in science – and many other disciplines – come from access to knowledge and for 20 years, Creative Commons has been working with governments, institutions, foundations and activists across the globe in a coordinated effort to openly license scientific research articles, data and educational resources.</p>
<h3><b>Thatcher Quote from 1990</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Briefly returning to Margaret Thatcher, in 1990, she mentioned the power of a coordinated effort, </span><b>“We must also make sure that research is carefully targeted. Too many people can do the same thing, and at the same time vital problems can be neglected. The task of global observation is immense. It will require a coordinated effort more ambitious than any attempt before, as the meeting of scientists and experts last week recognized.”</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Developments at the Second World Climate Conference led to the establishment of the </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as a framework for international cooperation to combat climate change.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Conference of Parties, known as COP, is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It brings together the 197 nations and territories – called Parties.</span></p>
<h3>Getting real and UK action</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So here we are, decades later, swimming in the effects of our actions, or lack-there-of. </span></p>
<p><b>Is it reassuring that scientists saw this coming, or is it reprehensible that we waited so long to coordinate efforts? Both. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last week during a BBC interview, America&#8217;s climate envoy John Kerry said that the COP26 summit in Glasgow is the </span><b>“last best hope for the world to get its act together. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">He said that if greenhouse gas emissions were not reduced by 2030, there was no chance of holding the rise in the earth&#8217;s temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The UK has already experienced 1.2C of warming compared to preindustrial levels and a mean sea level rise of 16cm. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 1.5 degree goal was set in The Paris Agreement in 2015. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Put into perspective, if we don’t limit global warming below two-degrees, sea-levels will rise several meters, and tropical reefs will be extinct. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If the planet warms three-degrees, there will be forests in the Arctic, and most coastal cities will be gone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Four?</strong> Europe will be in permanent drought. Polynesia will be swallowed by the sea.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Five Degrees?</strong> According to the world’s leading climate scientists – the end of human civilization.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With doom and gloom on the horizon, many countries are finally prioritizing a low-carbon future. </span></p>
<p><strong>70% of the world economy is covered by net zero targets, up from less than 30% when the UK took on the Presidency of the COP26. </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The UK was the first country to pledge to reduce carbon emissions by 78% by 2035, and completely phase out coal power by 2024. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Prime Minister has set out a Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time is ticking. Our </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“last best hope”</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> IS now.</span></p>
<h3>Urgent solutions</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Floods. Droughts. Heat. Extreme weather disrupts and threatens lives and infrastructures. Fluctuating temperatures create conditions for disease to spread. It accelerates food insecurity and can cause stress, anxiety and other mental health disorders. Even slow-developing events – like droughts – have even been linked to increases in suicide. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We need urgent solutions. Just imagine i</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">f the research from climatologists, biologists, geoscientists, engineers, psychologists were open to all. This multidisciplinary approach to looking for solutions </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">could lead to incredible discoveries, much like the accidental penicillin breakthrough. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, as more than 30,000 species face the threat of extinction, so much scientific research still remains locked behind paywalls. Many climate affected communities, particularly in rural and/or lower-resourced areas, are unable to access climate or biodiversity research or data due to prohibitive copyright laws. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While many researchers, governments, and global environmental organizations recognize the importance of the open sharing of knowledge to accelerate progress, they lack cohesive strategies and mechanisms to facilitate sharing and collaboration across disciplinary and geographic borders. </span></p>
<p><b>But challenges can stimulate opportunities. </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crises can motivate collective adrenaline and accelerate motivations and cooperative behaviors. During COVID-19, when under extreme duress, the scientific community turned to &#8220;open&#8221; to accelerate progress. This resulted in democratized sharing and accelerated discovery, as scientists from across the globe embraced the immediate, open sharing of preprints, research articles, data, and code. This adoption of openness contributed to the rapid sequencing and sharing of the virus’ genome, the quick development of therapeutics, and the fastest development of effective vaccines in human history. The lessons learned during the pandemic can and should be applied to accelerate progress on other urgent problems facing our society.</span></p>
<h3>Open Research and Data</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As you can see, there are many benefits of open access to research and data. Not only does this help ensure information is available to all regardless of their location or economic situation, but it helps accelerate processes and solutions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Effective change will rely on collaborative interventions across policy, research, practitioners, and communities to create actionable, tailored, and evidence-based implementation strategies. This includes plain language summaries and open licensing enabling translation into local languages. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Under the current scientific journal publishing model, the cost of open access is falling on higher education institutions who pay exorbitant article processing charges (or APCs), whilst the publishers are reporting record profits. Individual researchers and their institutions are having to find thousands of pounds to do the right thing. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Governments and other research funders, researchers and public universities have an opportunity to rethink how we should fund, do and share research. If the purpose of research is to share peer reviewed knowledge with the public to make the world a better place, we need to think about research as a public good. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If we built a new system for producing and sharing scientific knowledge &#8211; what would we build and how would we fund it? How do we get to a world in which everyone has immediate open access to scientific research and data, authors can keep their copyright, and we spend significantly less public money producing and sharing quality, peer reviewed research? Could governments both require open access to publicly funded research and support public Universities to host and steward open access journals?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open access to research and data, and the ability to widely share context-specific approaches, is the key to unlock sustainable solutions for every facet of climate change and preservation of biodiversity. This includes a greater investment in the inclusion and agency of affected communities in climate research, and robust policy frameworks which prioritize open access to publicly and foundation funded research.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To date, there has not been a coordinated global effort to address the challenge to open access to scientific research on climate change or biodiversity. . But this will soon change. I am pleased to announce that the Open Society Foundations has funded CC and our partners SPARC and EIFL to lead a global campaign to promote open access to climate and biodiversity research. This is a promising strategy to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opening access to climate science shouldn’t be limited to scientific communities. In order to empower educators and students, science educational resources also need to be accessible for all. This leads me to open education. </span></p>
<h3>Open Education</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scotland is one of the world’s leading countries in the Eco-Schools programme and COP26 provides us with a unique opportunity to recognize and celebrate our long-standing commitment to education and sustainability. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scotland&#8217;s Learning for Sustainability is an excellent example of how access to educational resources can empower students, teachers and individuals. I’m proud that over 98% of Scotland’s local authority schools are registered in the programme, with 31% receiving the highest award – the Green Flag.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Battlefield Primary School in Glasgow has been involved in the programme since 2005 and are constantly striving to find new ways to make the school more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Their search led them to using solar energy as a school greenhouse.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When educators can share resources, they can improve curriculum and learning outcomes. Developing the next generation of environmental leaders is not just a good idea, </span><b>it’s essential.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Does it seem reasonable that education in the age of the internet should be more expensive and less flexible than it was in previous generations? As people and knowledge are increasingly networked and available online, what will it mean for learning, work, and society?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As economies become increasingly global and networked, the skills and knowledge required to successfully acquire and keep good jobs require a higher education. All national governments invest in and have strategic goals for how their public education systems can support individuals, families, and the broader society.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Climate education is so important, and while big solutions like renewable and cleaner sources of energy will come from government and corporate action, individuals also have the power to make change at a grander scale by using your voice as a consumer, a customer, a voter and an active citizen. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Individual choices also provide a contribution for our future.</span></p>
<h3>CC’s Sustainability Policy</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we have made and are continuing to prioritize sustainable practices to minimize our impact on the environment. Our employees have been working remotely since 2015, avoiding commuter and office building impacts. Much of our program work is guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We just completed our 2</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">nd</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> year having a virtual Global Summit, which eliminated the need for staff and community travel and food waste. When purchasing team equipment and locating our servers, we look for the most sustainable options. At CC, we don&#8217;t rest on our laurels, and we are currently developing more purposeful sustainability policies thinking about energy use of our employees with remote working, travel off setting, and like at St Andrews, training in personal approaches to sustainability.</span></p>
<h3>St Andrews Sustainability (energy, mindset, travel off setting)</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I know our Quaestor, Derek Watson, will talk more about the Eden Campus and the key part it will play to reach net zero by 2035. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">But as we look at Sustainability, the work of the sustainability board, and now sustainability being a key strategic pillar for the university, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We know that to reach net zero by 2035 will require action for each and everyone of us.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of all the actions, whether biodiversity, energy conservation, food choices, all of these require a mindset shift—traveling</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by car to an event like this tonight will need to be carefully assessed. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Was there a public transport option? If not, could I have spoken remotely travel or who pays for the offsetting of my carbon footprint?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the event itself, if there is food, are we looking at this sustainably? and the list goes on. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are entering a period of change where each and every one of us will play a part, and those who go above and beyond recognized for their endeavors. </span></p>
<h3><b>Envisage 2035 – 14 years from now, where will we be?</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So as I come to the end of my talk, f</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ourteen years ago, in 2007, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued the Fourth Assessment Report to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information concerning climate change. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">People from over 130 countries contributed to the report, which took 6 years to produce. This groundbreaking document is the largest and most detailed summary of the climate change situation ever undertaken. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contributors included more than 2500 scientific expert reviewers, more than 800 contributing authors, and more than 450 lead authors. It cited over 6,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies.</span></p>
<p><strong> Here are some of the findings.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice and rising global average sea levels.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is &#8220;very likely&#8221; due to human activities.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unmitigated climate change would, in the long term, be likely to exceed the capacity of natural, managed and human systems to adapt.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">And this one is essential! Many impacts of climate change </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">can be reduced, delayed or avoided by mitigation</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let’s flip this idea and look forward 14 years to 2035, when we will cross a point of no return to stop Earth’s temperatures from rising by 2 degrees Celsius and setting off a disastrous array of global disasters?  </span></p>
<p><strong> I hope we can all work together so that our findings look like this.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve successfully halved emissions every decade.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The air is cleaner than it has been since the Industrial Revolution.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trees are everywhere.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are fewer cars on the road, and electric railways crisscross landscapes.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smart tech prevents unnecessary energy consumption</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now that is a world that I would like to live in. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is our last best hope. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just imagine what we can achieve if we ALL work together.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you for being here tonight and over to Derek. </span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/31/power-to-the-people/">Power to the people</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64175
title: Digital Democracy from the ‘Global Britain for an open world?’ publication
uri: Digital-Democracy-from-the-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world-pub
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/01/digital-democracy-from-the-global-britain-for-an-open-world-publication/

content:
<p><strong><a href="media/7ea7fc4b.FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world.pdf" data-original-source="https://fpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world.pdf"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-64176" src="media/8cdaa152.FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world-212x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world-212x300.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="353" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world-212x300.jpg 212w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world-28x40.jpg 28w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world-35x50.jpg 35w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world-110x155.jpg 110w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world.jpg 595w" sizes="(max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px" /></a>Last month, the <a href="https://fpc.org.uk/">Foreign Policy Centre</a> (FPC) and <a href="https://www.wfd.org/">Westminster Foundation for Democracy</a> (WFD) released a publication entitled <a href="https://fpc.org.uk/publications/global-britain-for-an-open-world/">Global Britain for an open world?</a> Open societies around the world and the international system that supports them are under growing threat. This publication examines the importance of open societies to the UK’s ‘force for good’ ambitions</strong><strong>.  Edited by Adam Hug (FPC) and Devin O’Shaughnessy (WFD), it features several contributions from leading voices in Open, including Creative Commons CEO Catherine Stihler. <a href="media/7ea7fc4b.FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world.pdf" data-original-source="https://fpc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/FPC-WFD-Global-Britain-for-an-open-world.pdf">Access the full publication here</a> and read Catherine&#8217;s &#8216;Digital Democracy&#8217; article below.</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For digital democracy to succeed across the world, we need an open reformation in our democratic systems, practices and mindset. Far from radical, this is essential if we are to promote liberal democracy and open societies across the globe.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that new ways of doing things are possible &#8211; if not preferable &#8211; and open access, data and content have played a critical role from developing a vaccine in record speed to citizen science initiatives tackling the virus in local communities. At Creative Commons we are proud of the part we play in enabling sharing in the public interest through our open licenses, creating open access to knowledge, culture, research and data worldwide. <a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/">The Open COVID Pledge</a>, freeing thousands of patents to be used in the fight against the virus, is just one example of our leadership in opening up knowledge for public good.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Across the world, our digital lives have enabled us to continue working and living when our physical world has been closed or limited. And now as we slowly return to a new normal, what can we learn from what we have just experienced to promote the benefits of digital democracy in the support of open societies across our world?</span></p>
<h3><b>Digital democracy and human rights</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contained in <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2021-open-societies-statement">the G7 Open Societies statement from July</a> is the commitment to “protect digital civic space” through “capacity building and ensur[ing] that the design and application of new technologies reflect our shared values, respect human rights and international law, promote diversity and embed principles of public safety”.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Taking human rights and international law, if digital democracy is to succeed human rights on-line and off-line must be protected and promoted. For what is legal off-line should be legal on-line and by default what is illegal off-line should be illegal on-line, where this supports democratic values. To protect individual human rights, digital democracy and an open society, we need to ensure that human rights today reflect our digital reality particularly as we seek to balance privacy with progress, our data rights with innovation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Article 27(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is clear &#8211; ‘everyone has the right to freely participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and share in scientific advancement and its benefits’. On culture, during lockdown only those with internet access could enjoy a cultural life and even then it was limited to what collections galleries and museums could legally take place on-line. With internet access no longer available in public libraries, the poorest and most vulnerable were left even more isolated than before. Only those that could afford to subscribe to certain content channels could view the latest films or consume up to date content &#8211; a life line when we were locked down. Yet the benefits of open scientific research could be clearly evidenced during the pandemic when sharing research and open data literally helped save countless lives. Not only did official scientific research, the majority of which was publicly funded with an open access requirement, illustrate the impact of open practices but citizen driven open initiatives to understand and tackle the virus contributed to local understanding and decision making. It is a tragedy that open research sharing did not go further to open patent sharing and so once again the Global South suffers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Two thoughts stem from here &#8211; where institutions and individuals were familiar with open practices and principles on-line, where trained individuals could volunteer or public funding supported, their application evidenced impact and results with scientific breakthroughs such as vaccines in record time. Those organisations that did not have the skills, resources or where the practices were not part of the culture and mindset, clearly lost out. Museums who digitised stayed accessible, those who did not remained closed. If we can learn anything from the pandemic and apply it to digital democracy, it is that for digital democracy to succeed and for an open society to flourish, we need digital skills, data skills, an open culture, clear communication and most importantly resources to support these actions. In a data driven society, digital democracy for open societies will only succeed if there is trust in the technology and its benefits. </span></p>
<h3><b>China</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In China we see the opposite of digital democracy &#8211; digital autocracy. I remember visiting China in 2008 being made aware that we were clearly being observed as foreigners. Fast forward to 2021 and there is no need for humans to be involved in day-to-day surveillance when cameras and biometric facial recognition can observe both foreigners and the population as a whole. The Chinese state-run biometric facial recognition technology holds data that controls an entire population in real time. No other country has this level of surveillance conducted by the state. Jaywalk in the street and a camera can pick up your indiscretion and ping you on your phone as a warning. If a multiple offender, it could potentially lead to a low social scoring, affecting job opportunities, an entire family’s standing in the eyes of the state or worse still, arrest. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For many Chinese, this is not a violation of human rights but about the state&#8217;s responsibility for their individual personal safety. For many the state&#8217;s intervention is welcomed by those where safety comes before freedom. For outsiders looking in this appears the epitome of Big Brother, the Orwellian control of a population with chilling effects. Yet as we condemn China, the UK and many G7 democracies use similar technology which has led to wrongful convictions and poor decision making, affecting prisoners, asylum seekers and people of colour. If we are to succeed in creating technology, as the G7 has described, which respects human rights and the rule of law we will need to lead on creating trusted open and accountable systems, with a human hand of care looking after the public&#8217;s interest. Currently there is a rash of regulation hurtling towards policy makers &#8211; some in the name of on-line safety which could have the chilling effect of stifling free speech, banning on-line content which would otherwise be legal off-line and detrimentally affecting individual human rights and freedom of expression. Proposals in Australia, <a href="https://digitalrightswatch.org.au/2021/09/02/australias-new-mass-surveillance-mandate/">according to Digital Rights Watch</a>, could see new laws which would allow for hacking into your computer, your online accounts and any networks you had been in contact with.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> This would happen without you knowing or even without requiring a warrant. Clearly the on-line/offline human rights issue will become increasingly important as regulation is considered by Parliaments across the world. </span></p>
<h3><b>Open Reformation in practice </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To be a leader in digital democracy, we need to be aware of the complexity and trade-offs required both to defend and promote open societies. It is no coincidence that just as summer holidays ended and schools returned, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/30/china-cuts-amount-of-time-minors-can-spend-playing-video-games">there was an announcement by the Chinese Government</a> that they would be restricting the amount of time minors played video games to an hour a day on Fridays, weekends and holidays.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Many parents with teenage kids, me included, on the surface could not agree more about limiting screen time. But surely that is a parent’s job, not the state’s? Gaming today, what you eat tomorrow? Digital democracy could help society collectively find an alternative inclusive approach to this issue opposite to autocracy, using open, inclusive methods to reach consensus and make decisions. During the pandemic Taiwan has stood out on using digital democracy to empower citizens and promote an open society. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If ever there was an open reformation approach, Taiwan is its embodiment. Yet, their success is hugely down to leadership and that of one inspiring, wise and radical individual, Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s first ever digital minister. Tang understands technology. She is a free software programmer and in line with her open values makes herself available for interviews, conferences, summits and podcasts. She took the time recently to talk to Creative Commons in <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/07/13/open-minds-podcast-audrey-tang-digital-minister-of-taiwan/">our Open Minds podcast</a> where her passion and enthusiasm for open content licensing shines through.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Her approach is often described as ‘radical transparency’ but her direct openness has benefited the world, helping to understand what open can empower and change. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taiwan is both walking the walk and talking the talk driven both by geopolitical necessity but also reckoning that society has changed and democracy needs to reflect a new reality. In a recent interview for Noema, Tang quotes the Taiwanese President, Tsai Ing-wen who said “Before, democracy was a showdown between two opposing values. Now, democracy is a conversation among many diverse values.” This is why <a href="https://info.vtaiwan.tw/">vTaiwan</a> (virtual Taiwan) has at its core the belief that “the government and the citizens must have the same information so that there is a trustworthy basis for public conversation”.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Open information helped Taiwan during the pandemic whilst the UK Government struggled with the very concept of open sharing information and data. If the UK is to promote open methods, information available to the government must be available to citizens, warts and all. What Taiwan teaches us is that to be effective in digital democracy technical understanding is critical. Taiwan’s success is down to their leadership and what open software enables. There are very few governments across the globe with a free software developer at the helm of digital policy making and yet with Web 2.0 (mobile, social and the cloud) moving to <a href="https://medium.com/fabric-ventures/what-is-web-3-0-why-it-matters-934eb07f3d2b">Web 3.0</a></span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Sir Tim Berners Lee coined the Semantic Web) (edge computing, AI and decentralised networks) we need to bridge the knowledge and culture gap before it becomes a chasm.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<h3><b>Open digital tools</b></h3>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interoperability</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To be a leader in digital democracy we need to place open digital tools at the heart of government decision making. These tools, freely accessible to use, are also more cost effective compared to their proprietary alternatives. Huge amounts of data and knowledge remain locked away even after a decade of open government initiatives.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Often this is not by design; data does not talk to data, lack of interoperability between systems creates barriers and for the vast majority of civil servants and government ministers who are not data specialists this world is alien, complex and ironically feels so far from open that for the majority it feels in accessible, closed and elitist. This leads to those who understand this world to be evangelical concerning its benefits and whilst those who do not are at best ambivalent at worst hostile. For digital democracy to succeed and open societies to flourish we need a ladder of engagement making the world of Web 3 mainstream and accessible. This will help dispel myths, create understanding and foster trust. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digital Open Champions (DoCs)</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What if, barring reasons of national security, that all UK Government data were openly licensed in the same format and then promoted by those departments for citizen use or even cross departmental collaboration and experimentation? What if there’s a new leadership/coordination of data scientist/ethics driven civil servants, (<a href="https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/biden-administration-launches-us-digital-corps-to-recruit-the-next-generation-of-technology-talent-to-federal-service-08302021">the US announced a similar idea</a>), who can communicate with a lay audience &#8211; let&#8217;s call them Digital Open Champions (DoCs)?</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A fast track of young, student recruits who can navigate this virtual world supported by their political masters. This could be painted as a recruitment exercise to attract a new, enthusiastic and change-driven cohort who want government to be run for the people by the people, with data at its centre. Mirroring<a href="https://www.codeforamerica.org/"> Code for America’s volunteering leadership work</a>, DoCs would not just be recruited in central government but in local government helping communities and volunteers create solutions to local problems.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> DoCs would form the first remote and distributed cross departmental team breaking silos in central, local and devolved governments. However, part of their role, similar to the not for profit world, would be not just technical proficiency but also communication for impact and change. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Storytelling and Ethics</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freeing the data is one step, communicating clearly and effectively the potential usage is another. Just like in the not for profit world, impact stories would determine success and create more budget relieving resources for even greater open reformation. This open reformation would also consider aspects of content, data and knowledge from an equity and ethical lens &#8211; creating the first ethical data collective separate from government, but which individuals could opt into if they desired as a trusted source of learning and inspiration. As social media platforms are forced to become interoperable &#8211; whether that is due to anti-trust or through platform regulation &#8211; users potentially could take their data and apply it where they want for the causes they care about and Web 3 will allow this to happen whilst preserving privacy. Could Web 3 be the key to unlock digital democracy benefiting citizens, parliaments and governments and by default promote open societies? </span></p>
<h3><b>Conclusion</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are only at the beginning of this journey, but by considering the power of open data, content and sharing as it empowers digital democracy in support of open society principles, we are at a moment where open tools stand in defence of our central belief in democracy where:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Global Britain has the potential to showcase the use of open software, openly licensed content, research and data, as a leading player in the open reformation by both leading at home through Digital Open Champions but promoting abroad through FCDO support.  </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open tools championed by the FCDO can promote an open global research space for the global public good. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design and application of new technologies can reflect our shared democratic and ethical values. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open technologies can help deliver a shared future, supporting healthy democracies and open societies across our world. </span></li>
</ul>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/01/digital-democracy-from-the-global-britain-for-an-open-world-publication/">Digital Democracy from the &#8216;Global Britain for an open world?&#8217; publication</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64184
title: Open Minds Podcast: Tyler Green of The Modern Art Notes
uri: Open-Minds-Podcast-Tyler-Green-of-The-Modern-Art-Notes
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/03/open-minds-podcast-tyler-green-of-the-modern-art-notes/
content:
<p>Hi Creative Commoners! <span>We&#8217;re back with a new episode of CC’s podcast, </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons">Open Minds … from Creative Commons</a>.</p>
<figure id="attachment_64186" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64186" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64186 size-medium" src="media/5e4d2d44.Green-stage-300x173.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Green-stage-300x173.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="173" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Green-stage-300x173.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Green-stage-768x443.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Green-stage-69x40.jpg 69w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Green-stage-50x29.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Green-stage-270x155.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Green-stage.jpg 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64186" class="wp-caption-text">Photo Courtesy of Tyler Green</figcaption></figure>
<p>In this episode, CC&#8217;s Ony Anukem sits down for a conversation with award-winning author, historian and art critic, <a href="http://tylergreenbooks.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tyler Green</a>. Tyler is also the producer/host of <a href="https://manpodcast.com/">The Modern Art Notes </a>podcast, described by The Washington Post as &#8220;one of the great resources for all art lovers.&#8221; Tyler is an avid Creative Commoner, and since launching the podcast in 2011, it has been released, licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">CC BY-NC-ND 3.0</a>.</p>
<p>Tyler recently published his latest book ‘<a class="bv ia" href="https://tylergreenbooks.com/books/emersons-nature-and-the-artists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener ugc nofollow noreferrer">Emerson’s <em class="ja">Nature</em> and the Artists</a>’,which brings together a selection of 75 artistic works in dialog with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>’s 1836 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(essay)"><em>Nature</em></a> essay for the first time. All of the artworks in the book were sourced from art museums and libraries with open access policies. Tyler offers his own compelling insights into <em>Nature</em> through new research into how Emerson&#8217;s art experiences influenced the essay, and in turn how it informed American art well into the twentieth century. In the episode, we discuss Emerson’s understanding of landscape and the public commons, and how it is still relevant to Creative Commons and the broader open movement today. Tyler shares top tips from a decades worth of podcasting experience and much more.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Listen on<span> </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-minds-from-creative-commons/id1554356942" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple Podcasts</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5bTf4Ok2R58bIul5LIHJVf?si=f2tIFA3cSJaW21XtS0B7BQ&amp;dl_branch=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spotify</a>, and<span> </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons">more.</a> You can also subscribe via the show’s<span> </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/s/4d70d828/podcast/rss">RSS feed</a>.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Episode transcript:<span> </span><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-Tyler-Green-of-The-Modern-Art-Notes.docx.txt">Text</a> //<span> </span><a href="media/7593b054.10-Tyler-Green-of-The-Modern-Art-Notes.docx.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-Tyler-Green-of-The-Modern-Art-Notes.docx.pdf">PDF</a><span> </span>//<span> </span><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-Tyler-Green-of-The-Modern-Art-Notes.docx">Doc</a></strong></li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/03/open-minds-podcast-tyler-green-of-the-modern-art-notes/">Open Minds Podcast: Tyler Green of The Modern Art Notes</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64191
uri: Creating-a-Campaign-to-Increase-Open-Access-to-Research-on-Climate-Sci
title:
Creating a Campaign to Increase Open Access to Research on Climate Science and Biodiversity: A joint initiative of Creative Commons, EIFL and SPARC

url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/08/creating-a-campaign-to-increase-open-access-to-research-on-climate-science-and-biodiversity-a-joint-initiative-of-creative-commons-eifl-and-sparc/

content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-64189 aligncenter" src="media/12cbc1cf.6365692655_f646bbae6e_e.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6365692655_f646bbae6e_e.jpg" alt="Open Science No Text Logo" width="484" height="477" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6365692655_f646bbae6e_e.jpg 484w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6365692655_f646bbae6e_e-300x296.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6365692655_f646bbae6e_e-41x40.jpg 41w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6365692655_f646bbae6e_e-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6365692655_f646bbae6e_e-157x155.jpg 157w" sizes="(max-width: 484px) 85vw, 484px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gemmerich/6365692655/in/photostream/">Open Science No Text</a>. By: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gemmerich/">Greg Emmerich</a>. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA 3.0</a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
As the <a href="https://ukcop26.org/">United Nations Climate Change Conference</a>, officially known as the 26th Conference of Parties, or <a href="https://twitter.com/COP26">COP26</a>, continues in Glasgow, Scotland, I’m pleased to share some good news. The <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/">Open Society Foundations</a> approved funding for Creative Com</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">mons, <a href="https://sparcopen.org/">SPARC</a> and <a href="https://www.eifl.net/">EIFL</a> to lead a global campaign promoting open access to climate and biodiversity research.</span> This is a promising new strategy to encourage <span style="font-weight: 400;">governments, foundations, institutes, universities and environmental organizations </span>to use “open” to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and to preserve global biodiversity. Catherine Stihler, CC’s CEO and a native of Scotland, publicly announced the campaign during her keynote at the University of St Andrews’ <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/31/power-to-the-people/">Power to the people</a> event and will have the opportunity to announce the campaign at a COP26 fringe event &#8211; <a href="https://openuk.uk/sustainability/">Open UK: Open Technology for Sustainability</a> &#8211; on 11 November. CC is particularly happy to have the opportunity to work closely with our longtime allies in the open access movement to ensure that this effort is truly a global campaign, and hope that this initiative will help to provide a blueprint for future funding of similar collaborative campaigns.</p>
<p><strong>Additional Detail</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, is one of the world&#8217;s most pressing challenges. The complexity of the climate crisis requires collaborative global interventions that center on equity and evidence-based mitigation practices informed by multidisciplinary research. Many researchers, governments, and global environmental organizations recognize the importance of the open sharing of research to accelerate progress, but lack cohesive strategies and mechanisms to facilitate effective knowledge sharing and collaboration across disciplinary and geographic borders. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the COVID-19 crisis, the power of open access to democratize knowledge sharing, accelerate discovery, promote research collaboration, and bring together the efforts of global stakeholders to tackle the pandemic took center stage. Scientists embraced the immediate, open sharing of preprints, research articles, data and code. This embrace of openness contributed to the rapid sequencing and sharing of the virus’ genome, the quick development of therapeutics, and the fastest development of effective vaccines in human history. The lessons learned during the pandemic can &#8211; and should &#8211; be applied to accelerate progress on other urgent problems facing society. </span></p>
<p><b>The goal of this project is to create a truly global campaign to promote open access, open science and open data as effective enabling strategies to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> It will develop effective messaging, strategies, and tactics to empower stakeholders currently leading critical climate and biodiversity work to embed open practices and policies in their operations, and make open sharing of research the default.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We expect to identify the most important climate and biodiversity research publications not already OA and coordinate a campaign to open those publications, remove legal and policy barriers to applying open licenses to research articles, influence key funders (governments, foundations, and institutes) of climate science and biodiversity research to adopt and implement strong OA policies, and identify opportunities to open climate and biodiversity educational resources </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">so students, teachers and citizens can learn about these global challenges and help contribute to solutions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will encourage global environment organizations to adopt open licensing policies to ensure all their content is free to be reused, built upon and shared for the global public good, delivering on their SDG commitments. We will engage with researchers, universities and policy makers in the Global South to ensure inclusive outcomes throughout.</span></p>
<p>We will share additional news on this campaign as it progresses.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/08/creating-a-campaign-to-increase-open-access-to-research-on-climate-science-and-biodiversity-a-joint-initiative-of-creative-commons-eifl-and-sparc/">Creating a Campaign to Increase Open Access to Research on Climate Science and Biodiversity: A joint initiative of Creative Commons, EIFL and SPARC</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64247
title: CC Community Spotlight Series: Meet Tyler Green
uri: CC-Community-Spotlight-Series-Meet-Tyler-Green
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/09/cc-community-spotlight-series-meet-tyler-green/
content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-64248 size-full" src="media/834a0938.unnamed-1-e1636492259302.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302.png" alt="" width="1640" height="779" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302.png 1640w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-300x143.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-1024x486.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-768x365.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-1536x730.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-84x40.png 84w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-50x24.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-270x128.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-1200x570.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><em>This <strong>#GivingTuesday</strong><strong> </strong>— Tuesday, November 30th, Creative Commons invites you to join our 20th Anniversary celebration. In the weeks leading up to <strong>#GivingTuesday</strong>, we’ll be spotlighting leaders in the Open Movement and encouraging you to support our <a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=6d61b0eb70&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3D6d61b0eb70%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG2qT8QykCwLMQCGhdxstv1xe-cTw"><strong>Better Sharing, Brighter Future</strong></a> campaign.</em></p>
<p><em>We’ve set a goal to raise $100,000 before the end of this year.  The great news is that<strong> </strong><strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=bb07ce8e50&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Dbb07ce8e50%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNED9axutUwE9Ux__Nlck_h5j-A1dw">every donation up to $30,000 will be generously matched by a handful of longstanding CC supporters.</a> </strong></em></p>
<p><span>Creative Commons is not only an online ecosystem of CC licenses and tech. </span><span><strong>We’re a movement of people</strong></span><span><strong> </strong>— a vast network of dedicated activists, scholars, inspiring librarians and teachers, lawyers, artists, fashionistas, digital masterminds and policy makers, fighting for more equitable global access to education, resources and creativity.</span></p>
<p><span>This includes individuals like </span><span><strong>Tyler Green</strong></span><span>, this week’s community spotlight, an award-<a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=c177bd2497&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Dc177bd2497%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH820yXTlXv4-sfMO4At96FS_r2iQ"><img loading="lazy" class="CToWUd" src="media/bd778e18.nTgfY1bqxKOqL7AT3ijPACdIQsT9ussA_2dnA0rMj_k_ipGszcx3ugs0-d-e1-ft" data-original-source="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/Qz_JSv-jH4iLHIoaFmXt-gEvGnCHKl7Xp5tk9R1LcmfcGcsxOH6EbWgxOIuZVVRY5VzWzw9bc0hfdFmgR_v_1xxZAhlqPfmc06G1zgnbnTgfY1bqxKOqL7AT3ijPACdIQsT9ussA_2dnA0rMj_k_ipGszcx3ug=s0-d-e1-ft" width="350" height="350" align="right" /></a>winning historian, critic, author and host of </span><span><strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=fb0be95c97&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Dfb0be95c97%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF1yeci4cZG7oY05yuD5SsZ5XfiXQ">The Modern Art Notes Podcast</a></strong></span><span>, a weekly (CC licensed!) program featuring discussions with artists, historians, authors and curators. </span></p>
<p><span>Green recently released a new book, </span><span><strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=6c498c7bba&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3D6c498c7bba%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHhBXdRr1Cu_bKVL71a_QGYU5dvzg">Emerson’s Nature and the Artists: Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea</a></strong></span><span>, which explores the ways the written work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th century U.S. author, poet and philosopher, was deeply influenced by “American Art” and the natural landscape in the United States. He argues Emerson’s famous text </span><span><em><strong>Nature</strong></em></span><span> was a game changer in our modern day understanding of the commons and Open Access, and that, as a scholar, Green needed access to both visual and textual resources to make his case.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span><strong>“&#8230;the greatest obstacle to understanding art&#8217;s role in the American project, in the idea of the American nation &#8230;is that it costs scholars serious money to publish our works. That makes it harder for scholars to know what&#8217;s out there, but it also makes it harder to make arguments. If you can&#8217;t publish the visual part of your argument with the textual part of your argument, why work hard to have an argument that is both visual and textual. And so open access is, at the risk of sounding grandiose, open access is the answer, right? Open access makes that possible.”</strong></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span>Green encourages his audience to consider how greater access to a range of historical resources, visual and written, might strengthen our ability to understand our collective past and imagine a better and brighter future.</span></p>
<p><strong>Learn more about Tyler Green and his work by tuning into <a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=e025dd0c1f&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3De025dd0c1f%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNECnjjorxUdmfiuCAp_hWQSegKmOg">Creative Commons’ Open Minds Podcast.</a></strong></p>
<p><span>In the coming weeks, we’ll feature more Open Access advocates like Green, who are working to make our global culture more open and collaborative. In the meantime, we invite you to join our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=ecd37157b9&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Decd37157b9%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHHjbtgp1mnnqlP9qNHwhiUtpouCw"><span><em><strong>Better Sharing, Brighter Future</strong></em></span></a><span> </span><span>campaign. See below for ways to get involved. </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64249" src="media/d5675961.unnamed-2.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2.png" alt="" width="1200" height="400" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-300x100.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-1024x341.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-768x256.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-120x40.png 120w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-50x17.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-270x90.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<h3><span><strong>Donate</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Make a donation to CC’s <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=c106abb3b4&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Dc106abb3b4%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGRHzGmmSQ9_NvTWHtggvzvsYVQjg">20th Anniversary Campaign</a></strong>. Visit our <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=e7e3fa4085&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3De7e3fa4085%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGDuETrU6QnecoinvKrAi-Xivv9lg">Donor FAQ</a></strong> for information on all the ways to contribute.</span></p>
<h3><span></span><span><strong>Share</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Share <em>why</em> you support the open movement on social media, with the hashtags <strong>#CCTurns20</strong> and <strong>#BetterSharing,</strong> and don&#8217;t forget to tag <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=33331f2556&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3D33331f2556%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGuCS8QJoIOa0BYkvInIyh1xdTKTw">@creativecommons</a>.</strong></span></p>
<h3><span><strong>Listen</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Check out our <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=b52caf8c1c&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Db52caf8c1c%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFqW-yVt1ZPWuiL1Tn4HRYUoieHJg">Creative Commons’ Open Minds Podcast</a></strong> and share with your friends.</span></p>
<h3><span><strong>Follow</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Follow CC on <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=3f5560ad71&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3D3f5560ad71%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGE0sEFvxsp19myodAmuUcHt65F0Q">Twitter</a></strong>, <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=f03ae59ab5&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Df03ae59ab5%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFyaAG05cAAZ9GNtnlQnURpyRL4Kg">Facebook</a></strong>, <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=59b70471e4&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3D59b70471e4%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGXIDZXAb2M6OzR2LefcQjuc_4sVA">Instagram</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=13af6ea9cc&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3D13af6ea9cc%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYoesW884cNDkCA7DM1rAksYUpyw">LinkedIn</a></strong>. </span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/09/cc-community-spotlight-series-meet-tyler-green/">CC Community Spotlight Series: Meet Tyler Green</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64238
title: Remembering Elliot Harmon, 1981-2021
uri: Remembering-Elliot-Harmon-1981-2021
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/10/remembering-elliot-harmon-1981-2021/
content:
<p><em>Creative Commons (CC) was saddened by the news of Elliot Harmon’s passing on October 23. Prior to his role as activism director at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), he was the director of communications at Creative Commons. <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/honoring-elliot-harmon-eff-activism-director-poet-friend-1981-2021">As mentioned on EFF’s website, “We will deeply miss Elliot’s clever mind, powerful pen, generous heart, and expansive kindness. We will carry his memory with us in our work.”</a></em></p>
<hr />
<figure id="attachment_64240" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64240" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/amber_vittoria/"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64240 size-large" src="media/e4c51716.Elliot2-1024x214.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elliot2-1024x214.jpg" alt="" width="840" height="176" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elliot2-1024x214.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elliot2-300x63.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elliot2-768x160.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elliot2-1536x321.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elliot2-2048x428.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elliot2-140x29.jpg 140w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elliot2-50x10.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elliot2-270x56.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Elliot2-1200x251.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64240" class="wp-caption-text">by Amber Vittoria for Fine Arts, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</figcaption></figure>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Elliot was always willing to grapple with the hard problems, and you could tell he wasn&#8217;t satisfied with the easy answers. I remember rides on the Caltrain from Mountain View back to San Francisco where we&#8217;d use the whole time debating; in the best sense possible. He used those debates with me to find the underlying truth so we could improve what we did every day at CC.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Elliot was passionate, uncannily insightful, and a joy to work with personally and professionally. I really enjoyed EFF&#8217;s post. I don&#8217;t have anything particularly unique to add to CC&#8217;s that others wouldn&#8217;t have already expressed. I will miss his contributions to the public dialogue, whether at conferences or in his writings, where he could always be counted on to be pressing an urgent point or seeking out all points of view.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p>“The thing that I remember most about him is that he was always strongly committed to doing the right thing. He cared a lot about doing right by people and about telling them the truth. He never wanted to communicate something that sounded good but wasn&#8217;t truly honest and forthright. That he could have a strong idea of what was right and still be able to hold in his head all the complexity of the issue, and empathy for those who believed differently. And that once he was committed to something that was right, he didn&#8217;t commit halfway. He was incredibly smart and perceptive, but never made a show of it. You&#8217;d just notice when he heard about an issue for the first time, and immediately figured out what the hardest bits were, and started asking questions about it to get to the truth. And then he could explain it to others as if it was the simplest thing in the world.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p>“He made your work better somehow, by being supportive when you needed it, and being challenging when you needed that, by asking the questions that made you think more deeply about what you were doing and why, and who it would help. He always wanted to know how things ‘really’ worked and sometimes you&#8217;d find you didn&#8217;t know either. I&#8217;ve seen some of the EFF staff talk about how good he was as a manager of their activism team, and of course he was, he really cared about setting others up for success.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p>“He cared a lot about what he was doing, whether it was going to help, whether people involved were behaving with integrity, and it&#8217;s a mindset that could be harsh and humorless but instead he was one of the most hilarious people you&#8217;d ever meet, cracking quietly devastating jokes, sharing bits of weird and delightful knowledge about everything that he carried in his head. He was really open to meeting people and hearing what they had to say and truly engaging with people and ideas that weren&#8217;t his. I&#8217;ve seen a bunch of remembrances on Twitter now and of course everyone who met him was struck by his kindness and intelligence, feeling his loss not just to the digital rights community but as a personal connection they were going to miss.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p>“He was always someone I could trust to be honest, and to be kind. I wish I&#8217;d seen him more often without a work-related question to bring. I remember him spending a lot of time trying to understand the licensing changes so he could explain and advocate for them to others.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p>“When I think about Elliot, the primary word that comes to mind is exuberance. Elliot was tall, had stunning red hair, and a loud wonderful voice and laugh. He had a quick smile and wit, and he was extremely knowledgeable and well-read, making him an incredibly interesting person to talk to about just about anything.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;If I remember correctly, Elliot grew up in South Dakota and his father was a lawyer, and I think perhaps that made him especially interested in talking through legal issues despite not being a lawyer himself. He believed very deeply in the open internet and digital rights, and you could tell his work at both CC and EFF was far more than a j-o-b to him. He was passionate about it.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p>“Elliot was also a poet, and I believe he did some spoken word poetry as well as lots of writing. I think that detail helps reveal why he almost had an aura about him, like he was in touch with some things in life that many people overlook.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p>“I did not know Elliot that well, though we did socialize some during our brief time overlapping at CC. But yet he made a big impression on me. He was a ray of light or of sunshine. There was something larger than life about him, and I am really sad to know he is no longer in this world.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/10/remembering-elliot-harmon-1981-2021/">Remembering Elliot Harmon, 1981-2021</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64262
title: The Future of Open Webinar Recap & Recording
uri: The-Future-of-Open-Webinar-Recap-Recording
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/12/the-future-of-open-webinar-recap-recording/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/05/25/four-creative-commons-working-groups-will-explore-policy-issues-meet-their-leads/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons announced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that four working groups of the Creative Commons Copyright Platform would examine policy issues affecting the open ecosystem from a global perspective: (1) artificial intelligence and open content; (2) platform liability; (3) copyright exceptions and limitations; and (4) the ethics of open sharing. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-64272 alignright" src="media/d897be05.Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-Presentation-600-x-338-px-1.gif" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CC-Copyright-Platform-WG-Webinar-V2-Presentation-600-x-338-px-1.gif" alt="" width="450" height="254" />The CC Copyright Platform was established as a discussion space to strategize on copyright reform as a complementary action to developing and stewarding CC licenses. Over the last few months, each working group has discussed, researched and dissected these issues, and produced four Position Papers encapsulating their outcomes, available now on the CC Medium Publication.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At ‘The Future of Open’ webinar, hosted on 9 November 2021, the four working group leads presented their work to CC Global Network members, practitioners, policymakers and the general public. Speakers at the webinar included: </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catherine Stihler</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CEO, Creative Commons (Welcome Remarks), </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/brigittevezina/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brigitte Vézina</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Director of Policy, Open Culture, and GLAM, Creative Commons (Moderator), </span><a href="https://twitter.com/lurnid"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Max Mahmoud Wardeh</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, WG 1 Lead (Artificial Intelligence and Open Content), </span><a href="https://twitter.com/eozgeyildirim"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emine Yildirim</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, WG 2 Lead (Internet Platform Liability), </span><a href="https://twitter.com/andrehouang?lang=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">André Houang</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, WG 3 Lead (copyright exceptions and limitations), </span><a href="https://twitter.com/josiefraser?lang=fr"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Josie Fraser</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, WG 4 Lead (the ethics of open sharing). Below you will find the webinar recording, summaries of the four papers, and links to read them.</span></p>
<p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vp6Jc3QCdxc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Working Group 1 — Artificial Intelligence and Open Content </span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Max kicked things off presenting WG 1’s paper </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/key-findings-of-the-creative-commons-working-group-on-copyright-and-ai-d8870956d50f"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Key Findings of the Creative Commons Working Group on Copyright and AI</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Max highlights that “this is an area that’s constantly changing in terms of the legislation, as well as, of course, the technology, and it’s also a very wide ranging remit in terms of how much progress has happened with regard to the use and generation of content by computers.” This informed the group’s decision to divide their work and outputs into five key areas: the definition of AI; text and data mining; training of AI and machine learning algorithms; AI generations and creations; and authors collaborating with AI. Max reminds us that the positions and recommendations mentioned in the paper are just a summary of the details that have gone into exploring and considering the topics of the Working Group. They will continue to build on the work done so far, in line with the developments in the social, technical, and legal aspects of AI and copyright. </span><b>They invite you to explore and contribute to their continued work on the </b><a href="https://ccai.pubpub.org/"><b>CC AI Working Group site,</b></a><b> and by joining the conversation on their channel in the </b><a href="https://join.slack.com/t/creativecommons/shared_invite/zt-folsvnur-tWDKEaWU9uR092Ov7wCN2w"><b>Creative Commons Slack</b></a><b>.</b></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Working Group 2 — Internet Platform Liability</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emine presented key findings from WG 2’s paper </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/freedom-to-share-how-the-law-of-platform-liability-impacts-licensors-and-users-84d86adade4e"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freedom to Share: How the Law of Platform Liability Impacts Licensors and Users</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Emine shares that WG 2 limited the geographic scope of their paper to the European Union, U.S. &amp; Canada, New Zealand, and several countries in Latin America (Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru). They focused their work and outputs on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Access to Information, Right to Participate in Cultural Life and Freedom to Share. Through this lens, they assessed current trends and produced five recommendations: </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64269" src="media/437f5384.Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2.png" alt="" width="1106" height="618" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2.png 1106w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-300x168.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-1024x572.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-768x429.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-72x40.png 72w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-270x151.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Working Group 3 — Exceptions and Limitations to address Global Challenges</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">André shared key findings from WG 3’s paper </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/working-group-on-user-rights-position-paper-9c5e589f1c9b"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Copyright Platform Working Group on User Rights’ Position Paper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In their paper, WG3 stressed that “important changes in copyright are necessary to ensure user rights are protected, and that copyright in turn achieves its goals of promoting access to culture and knowledge.” André starts by explaining that although they are traditionally referred to as “exceptions and limitations” of copyright, this paper refers to them as “user rights” to reflect the complex layers of this issue. André explains they “decided to avoid focusing on issues specific to U.S. copyright law or European copyright law, and instead adopt a broader view, which we understood could make our paper have a broader reach and be useful to different organizations.” </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Working Group 4 — Beyond Copyright: the Ethics of Open Sharing</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Josie presented key findings from WG 4’s paper </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/beyond-copyright-the-ethics-of-open-sharing-a495bb95569d"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Beyond Copyright: the Ethics of Open Sharing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. To begin with, Josie starts off by explaining WQ 4’s definition of Ethics and Open Sharing in the context of this paper, explaining that “for the purposes of this paper, we&#8217;re looking at ethics primarily in relation to principles of equity, diversity and inclusion.” She adds “by ‘open sharing’ we mean the act of sharing digital materials either under an open license, or by applying a public domain tool”. This paper particularly focuses on the decisions that communities, groups and organizations take to share the materials they produce — including code, data and databases, images, software, sound and video recordings, written content, and 3D models — openly or not.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Based on these definitions, they explored this issue and developed 6 recommendations for an ethical open practice:</span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64268" src="media/0d396aa7.Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-13.01.27-2.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-13.01.27-2.png" alt="" width="930" height="523" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-13.01.27-2.png 930w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-13.01.27-2-300x169.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-13.01.27-2-768x432.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-13.01.27-2-71x40.png 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-13.01.27-2-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-13.01.27-2-270x152.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>We are hugely appreciative of the efforts of all the working group members who contributed to these papers, those who participated in the public consultation of earlier drafts, and to the WG leads for their role in guiding these efforts and presenting them so clearly at the webinar. </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">———</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The conversations continue in the Creative Commons Copyright Platform! Interested in joining? You can: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/archives/C5B3EE4G6"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#cc-copyrightreform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Slack channel; and/or</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join the Copyright platform </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mailing list</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and attend our monthly meetings.</span></li>
</ul>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/12/the-future-of-open-webinar-recap-recording/">The Future of Open Webinar Recap &#038; Recording</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64279
title: Open Minds Podcast: Yana Buhrer Tavanier and Pavel Kounchev of Fine Acts
uri: Open-Minds-Podcast-Yana-Buhrer-Tavanier-and-Pavel-Kounchev-of-Fine-Ac
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/15/open-minds-podcast-yana-buhrer-tavanier-and-pavel-kounchev-of-fine-acts/

content:
<p>Hi Creative Commoners! <span>We&#8217;re back with a new episode of CC’s podcast, </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons">Open Minds … from Creative Commons</a>.</p>
<figure id="attachment_64283" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64283" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64283" src="media/f53fa93c.Untitled-design-5.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Untitled-design-5.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="700" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Untitled-design-5.jpg 1080w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Untitled-design-5-150x300.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Untitled-design-5-512x1024.jpg 512w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Untitled-design-5-768x1536.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Untitled-design-5-1024x2048.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Untitled-design-5-20x40.jpg 20w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Untitled-design-5-25x50.jpg 25w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Untitled-design-5-78x155.jpg 78w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64283" class="wp-caption-text">First photo: Yana Buhrer Tavanier, Second photo: Pavel Kounchev</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode, we’re joined by two guests, Yana Buhrer Tavanier and Pavel Kounchev, two of three co-founders of </span><a href="https://fineacts.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fine Acts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a global creative studio that encourages experimentation and collaboration across disciplines to inspire social change. Fine Acts brings together multidisciplinary teams of artists, activists and technologists to prototype compelling works of art aligned with specific human rights campaigns. They publish all completed works on </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheGreats.co</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, their free platform filled with socially engaged visual content, open to anyone to use or adapt non-commercially under CC licenses. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yana is the Executive Director of Fine Acts, a TED Senior Fellow, Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/yana_buhrer_tavanier_how_to_recover_from_activism_burnout?language=en">her most recent TED talk</a>, focused on the concept of playtivism: incorporating multidisciplinary creative play and experimentation in activism has been viewed close to 2 million times. Pavel is chair of the board of Fine Acts, an Obama Foundation scholar at Columbia University, and a Royal Society of the Arts fellow. He was born in Bulgaria, where he also co-founded <a href="https://timeheroes.org/">TimeHeroes</a> with Yana – the biggest online volunteering service in the country, with 80,000 registered volunteers – for which he was named among Forbes Bulgaria’s list of 30 Under 30.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Listen on<span> </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-minds-from-creative-commons/id1554356942" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple Podcasts</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5bTf4Ok2R58bIul5LIHJVf?si=f2tIFA3cSJaW21XtS0B7BQ&amp;dl_branch=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spotify</a>, and<span> </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons">more.</a> You can also subscribe via the show’s<span> </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/s/4d70d828/podcast/rss">RSS feed</a>.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Episode transcript:<span> </span><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-Yana-Buhrer-Tavanier-and-Pavel-Kounchev-of-Fine-Acts.txt" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Text</a> //<span> </span><a href="media/3d4dfa1e.11-Yana-Buhrer-Tavanier-and-Pavel-Kounchev-of-Fine-Acts.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-Yana-Buhrer-Tavanier-and-Pavel-Kounchev-of-Fine-Acts.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PDF</a><span> </span>//<span> </span><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-Yana-Buhrer-Tavanier-and-Pavel-Kounchev-of-Fine-Acts.docx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Doc</a></strong></li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/15/open-minds-podcast-yana-buhrer-tavanier-and-pavel-kounchev-of-fine-acts/">Open Minds Podcast: Yana Buhrer Tavanier and Pavel Kounchev of Fine Acts</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64291
title: CC Community Spotlight Series: Meet the co-founders of Fine Acts, Pavel and Yana
uri: CC-Community-Spotlight-Series-Meet-the-co-founders-of-Fine-Acts-Pave
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/16/cc-community-spotlight-series-meet-the-co-founders-of-fine-acts-pavel-and-yana/

content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-64248 size-full" src="media/834a0938.unnamed-1-e1636492259302.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302.png" alt="" width="1640" height="779" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302.png 1640w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-300x143.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-1024x486.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-768x365.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-1536x730.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-84x40.png 84w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-50x24.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-270x128.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-1200x570.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the weeks leading up to </span><b>#GivingTuesday </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">on November 30th, we’re spotlighting leaders in the Open Movement and encouraging you to support our </span><a href="https://www.classy.org/campaign/20th-anniversary-giving-tuesday-campaign/c375358"><b>Better Sharing, Brighter Future</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> campaign. </span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re inching toward our $100,000 goal and hoping you can help us out. </span><b>The good news is every donation up to $30,000 will be matched</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. You can transform your $25 donation into a $50 one. <img src="media/66810bd9.1f4ab.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f4ab.png" alt="💫" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></span></em></p>
<p><span>Last week, we took a look at the work of historian, critic, author and podcast host <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/09/cc-community-spotlight-series-meet-tyler-green/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3D04afb95fa8%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637172256033000&amp;usg=AOvVaw22lOqqtQFmk2Q36PX_8sUW">Tyler Green</a></strong>, who highlighted how Open Access to art history is critical in strengthening our understanding of the past. </span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=30739c5b6d&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3D30739c5b6d%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637172256033000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1iyjLoTlGRF1MdpyH-4oYc"><img loading="lazy" class="CToWUd" src="media/6853fa85.elZRDnRFt7zxHsU0XdV0WLeg87_sCYWgaA6friOWxcjSFE41ke1ctws0-d-e1-ft" data-original-source="https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/cposP-JGVwWtsy8VAkaI4uTjJstFNAVKo-o7lQHWd8Kduf8tQ_9CYXWXKOWhblLoorn68I2cZPy9UgxUn6abEwZ9PeTX9-yzAgDOIES0elZRDnRFt7zxHsU0XdV0WLeg87_sCYWgaA6friOWxcjSFE41ke1ctw=s0-d-e1-ft" width="350" height="195" align="right" /></a>This week, we’re featuring dynamic duo </span><span><strong>Yana Buhrer Tavanier</strong></span><span><strong> </strong>and </span><span><strong>Pavel Kounchev</strong></span><span>, two of three co-founders of </span><span><strong><a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=a3f8594b3a&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Da3f8594b3a%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637172256034000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2arbHdH7rZvqE8bunifz2K">Fine Acts</a></strong></span><span>, a global creative studio that encourages experimentation and collaboration across disciplines to inspire social change. Yana and Pavel met on Twitter over a decade ago, united in their drive for activism that centers art, experimentation and play. </span></p>
<p><span>Fine Acts brings together multidisciplinary teams of artists, activists and technologists to prototype compelling works of art aligned with specific human rights campaigns. </span><span><strong>They publish all completed works under Creative Commons on <a href="https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fd30364b6577b471373d6076c&amp;id=240f4f7f80&amp;e=9ae165dd86" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3D240f4f7f80%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637172256034000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3I7wiNlKIE5bBUDtXDzOBm">TheGreats.co</a> </strong></span><span>for anyone to use and adapt, especially nonprofits and activists who, they say, often lack easy access to the visual materials needed for an impactful campaign. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span><strong>“&#8230;creating this kind of powerful visual content on social issues does result in raising visibility and engagement. However, it is very difficult for nonprofits to produce it because they very rarely have the resources or the person on their team that could produce these kinds of content. Publishing it under an open license, we do solve such a key problem for many nonprofits or grassroots groups, even individual activists.”</strong></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yana and Pavel hope more nonprofits and individuals will embrace play and experimentation in their work, and recognize art as a central strategy in driving social change.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can learn more about </span><b>Yana Buhrer Tavanier</b> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><b>Pavel Kounchev </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">and their organization </span><b>Fine Acts</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by tuning into </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons"><b>Creative Commons’ Open Minds Podcast</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us next week for one final Community Spotlight before #GivingTuesday kicks off on November 30th. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the meantime, we invite you to join our </span><b><i>Better Sharing, Brighter Future</i></b> <span style="font-weight: 400;">campaign. See below for ways to get involved. </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64249" src="media/d5675961.unnamed-2.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2.png" alt="" width="1200" height="400" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-300x100.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-1024x341.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-768x256.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-120x40.png 120w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-50x17.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-270x90.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<h3><span><strong>Donate</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Make a donation to CC’s <strong><a href="https://www.classy.org/campaign/20th-anniversary-giving-tuesday-campaign/c375358" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Dc106abb3b4%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGRHzGmmSQ9_NvTWHtggvzvsYVQjg">20th Anniversary Campaign</a></strong>. Visit our <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/donate/other-ways-to-give/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3De7e3fa4085%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGDuETrU6QnecoinvKrAi-Xivv9lg">Donor FAQ</a></strong> for information on all the ways to contribute.</span></p>
<h3><span></span><span><strong>Share</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Share <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">why</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you support the open movement or </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">how</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> CC has impacted your work on social media, with the hashtags </span><b>#CCTurns20 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">and/or</span><b> #BetterSharing </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">and tagging </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons"><b>@creativecommons</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></p>
<h3><span><strong>Listen</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Check out our <strong><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Db52caf8c1c%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFqW-yVt1ZPWuiL1Tn4HRYUoieHJg">Creative Commons’ Open Minds Podcast</a></strong> and share with your friends.</span></p>
<h3><span><strong>Follow</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Follow CC on <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons"><b>Twitter</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons"><b>Facebook</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/creativecommons/"><b>Instagram</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/creative-commons"><b>LinkedIn</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/16/cc-community-spotlight-series-meet-the-co-founders-of-fine-acts-pavel-and-yana/">CC Community Spotlight Series: Meet the co-founders of Fine Acts, Pavel and Yana</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64299
title: CC Certificate Alumnus, Mostafa Azad Kamal on his work with open education policies and practice
uri: CC-Certificate-Alumnus-Mostafa-Azad-Kamal-on-his-work-with-open-educa
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/18/cc-certificate-alumnus-mostafa-azad-kamal-on-his-work-with-open-education-policies-and-practice/

content:
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><em><strong>The Creative Commons <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/">Certificate</a> program provides unique training courses for educators, academic librarians and the GLAM community (galleries, libraries, archives and museums). Certificate courses are an investment in open movements, training people on copyright, open licensing, and the ethos of working with our global, shared commons using CC licenses.</strong></em></p>
<figure id="attachment_64303" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64303" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64303" src="media/d88629f5.IMG-20210806-WA0002.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG-20210806-WA0002.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="438" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG-20210806-WA0002.jpg 472w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG-20210806-WA0002-240x300.jpg 240w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG-20210806-WA0002-32x40.jpg 32w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG-20210806-WA0002-40x50.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/IMG-20210806-WA0002-124x155.jpg 124w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64303" class="wp-caption-text">Portrait, Mostafa Azad Kamal, CC BY 4.0</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After launching in 2018, and certifying approximately 1000 graduates from 56 countries, Creative Commons (CC) is taking stock of the incredible community of Certificate participants and alumni. We are particularly interested in learning about local “case studies” of open licensing in local country contexts, and asking alumni about their experiences. CC Certificate alumni have used the certificate course in a number of ways—read about alumni testimonials </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/testimonials/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and an in-depth adaptation one alumnus made of course content </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/12/12/kevin-corcoran-the-effect-of-open-licensing-expertise-for-k12-pedagogy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In this interview, we highlight one Certificate graduate’s work in Bangladesh, and celebrate the momentum he’s built in open education. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This interview is with Mostafa Azad Kamal. Mostafa is </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the Dean of Business Faculty at Open University in Bangladesh. He mentors people for the Open Education for a Better World project (OE4BW); was a reviewer for UNESCO OER* Recommendation; and helped draft a National OER Policy for Bangladesh. Mostafa serves as a CC Global Network Chapter Lead for Bangladesh. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mostafa is also designing and updating the curriculum for the OU bachelor of business program in Bangladesh, moving to OER materials where possible. He and colleagues have developed almost 40 business modules using OER for students.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">An Interview With Mostafa Azad Kamal at Open University Bangladesh, Dean of Business Faculty </span></h3>
<p><strong>CC: Thank you for joining us today. We understand you have a pretty unique role, working at the intersection of open education policy and practice. As Dean of Business Faculty at Open University in Bangladesh, you understand how OER serves the needs of students in your classes, and you’ve given numerous talks about the importance of OER; but, you also were a reviewer for the UNESCO OER Recommendation (passed in November 2019), you developed an open OER repository for Bangladesh in 2013, and now, you helped draft the National OER Policy that the Ministry of Education is considering. Tell us about this policy and what it took to draft it.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Mostafa:</strong> <em>My journey with the open movement started in 2012. With the help of the Commonwealth of Learning’s (COL) open schooling initiatives (led by Ms. Frances Ferriera), I planned to develop an OER Policy for Bangladesh Open University (BOU). As I believed that Open Policy would create a commitment of the authority of BOU, my colleague Dr. Sadia Afroze Sultana and I designed a workshop for OER Policy development for BOU. It was exciting that BOU was the first university in Bangladesh to have an OER Policy. Following the policy, BOU developed a repository that contains the books developed for the learners of different BOU programs. Now BOU has 43 formal programs with 600,000 students. BOU OER repository is extensively visited by BOU learners as well as other learners.</em></p>
<p><em>I’ve always had a strong intention to create awareness of open education in Bangladesh, so I began looking for an opportunity to draft a policy for the Ministry of Education. I managed to convince Dr. Sanjaya Mishra, Educational Specialist (eLearning) at the Commonwealth of Learning, to provide support for the National OER Policy.</em></p>
<p><em>Developing the National OER Registry happened in 3 phases. First, we conducted a nationwide survey among public university students and produced a COL report identifying the strong need for OER among the university students. The study found that the limited access to the books decreased students’ learning achievements and affected their grades.<br />
</em><br />
<em>Based on these findings, we drafted a national policy on OER. This required hosting two national consultation workshops and incorporating feedback on a draft policy before submitting the policy to the Ministry of Education for further approval.</em></p>
<p><em>In phase 3, the Ministry of Education started a feedback and vetting process, working with various related agencies, institutions and ministries before finalizing the draft. Now it is waiting for the final approval from the cabinet division of the government.</em></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The study found that the limited access to the books decreased students’ learning achievements and affected their grades.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>CC: How do you see policy and practice working together? What are some of the challenges open policies face, either in creation or implementation? </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Mostafa:</strong></span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Policy is a commitment from the top management as well as the stakeholders. I believe policy is critical for mainstreaming the open culture and practices. Since the open movement is relatively new at educational institutions, an informed policy usually makes the stakeholders aware of the concept and motivates them to use and create OER. </span>Though practicing open education is not necessarily dependent on the open policy, a policy is always helpful for mainstreaming open educational practices at institutions.</em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open policies face challenges in various ways. </span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The mindset of the institution’s leadership is a big obstacle for promoting open policies. Most of the institutions charge money from the students on study packages. So, they do not feel comfortable with open sharing. </span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sometimes, authors do not permit institutions to share their resources openly. They are mostly afraid of economic loss, or losing their moral rights. </span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teachers are often used to using foreign textbooks for their courses, even if those books are copyrighted and highly expensive. They like to maintain this status quo, as they are so much confused about the quality of open resources. So, they do not encourage open education. </span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another challenge is the lack of skills in using OER for teaching and learning.  </span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>CC: Now let’s talk about OER in practice. I understand you and colleagues have developed almost 40 business course modules using OER. How is OER helping your MBA students</strong></span></p>
<p><span><strong>Mostafa:</strong></span><span> </span><i><span>As the Dean of the Business School, I am now working toward adoption and adaptation of OER for all our courses of MBA, BBA, Commonwealth MBA and PGD programs. The reasons are:</span></i> <i><span>1) textbooks are highly expensive, students buy bootlegs which are violations to copyright; and 2) textbook case studies and examples never reflect the local context for Bangladeshi students. </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I got a plan to engage students (MBA and commonwealth MBA) in developing case studies from local contexts. I prefer to give them assignments for developing content based on their local contexts. I strongly believe that the content developed by students helps their engagement, helps them learn more, and makes the material better for future students. </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pedagogically, I never believe that a student can learn from a fixed textbook if he/she is not engaged in their own context. Also, to be future ready, learners must understand how to search for and synthesize relevant resources. A singular, closed textbook limits learners to one source of knowledge, subject to old theories, cases and concepts. So, they end up just memorizing the concepts.  Considering the issue of contextualization and the importance of the capacity of surfing the world of knowledge, I strongly believe that there is no better alternative to OER.</span></i><i></i></p>
<p><strong>CC: You took the CC Certificate in 2018, but you’d already contributed a tremendous amount in the field of open education. Did the CC Certificate help you with any of your open projects? </strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Mostafa:</strong></span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Certainly. It helps me in five ways. First, I am confident that I got a certificate that speaks to the authenticity of my understanding of open licenses. Secondly, the CC Certificate course enhanced my understanding of open education, copyright issues, open licenses and open policies very much. With clarity on the concepts, I’m better able to teach my colleagues and participants in local workshops. Thirdly, the Certificate offers a very gracious network with the kind and noble open leaders and practitioners worldwide, which allows me to keep myself in the learning process not only in OER, but also in eLearning, learning design and open pedagogies. Fourthly, I am confidently pushing the institutions and government agencies to develop open policies for their benefits and the benefits of the rest of the world as well. Fifthly, I am now helping my colleagues at my university, as well as other universities in Bangladesh and India, find OER and develop OER-based study resources. Recently, I facilitated 3 workshops on OER, where more than 1000 teachers from 20 universities of Bangladesh attended. They came up with 20 institutional OER Policies which are in revision form.</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Though practicing open education is not necessarily dependent on the open policy, a policy is always helpful for mainstreaming open educational practices at institutions.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>CC: That’s terrific! Once the national policy is done, what do you hope to accomplish next?</strong> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Mostafa:</strong></span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Once the national policy is approved, I will convince the Ministry to create a fund for promoting open educational practices among all universities. As a first step, I aim to help develop OER policies for the country’s 150 universities, and also conduct the workshops, seminars and summits to make the academics and learners aware of OER.</span></i><i></i></p>
<p><strong>CC: If there’s one piece of advice you could give people, like educators or administrators, considering conducting open work at their institution, what would it be?</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Mostafa:</strong> <em>The fundamental truth of education is ‘learning’. To ensure meaningful learning, we must not keep ourselves confined to a few expensive and copyrighted textbooks, which limits learners’ access to resources and their ability to think deeply and critically. Another point is that the copyrighted textbooks from foreign origin are not customizable, which reduces the quality of learning. Therefore, </em></span><em>OER can help them reduce the cost of education, enhance the quality of learning, and expand the free and legal access to plainly relevant education resources.   </em></p>
<p><strong>CC: Thanks again for your time with us here. </strong></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We celebrate Mostafa’s excellent work, and we want to celebrate more of our CC Certificate alumni’s work, as well as the fantastic work of people in the broader open education community! If you have a story about something you’ve tried or an open project you’ve accomplished at your institution, please let us know (email </span><a href="mailto:certificates@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">certificates@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). </span></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8212;</p>
<p><em>*Readers note: Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are either (a) in the public domain or (b) licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities.</em></p>
<p><em>Retain – make, own, and control a copy of the resource</em><br />
<em>Reuse – use your original, revised, or remixed copy of the resource publicly</em><br />
<em>Revise – edit, adapt, and modify your copy of the resource</em><br />
<em>Remix – combine your original or revised copy of the resource with other existing material to create something new</em><br />
<em>Redistribute – share copies of your original, revised, or remixed copy of the resource with others</em></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/18/cc-certificate-alumnus-mostafa-azad-kamal-on-his-work-with-open-education-policies-and-practice/">CC Certificate Alumnus, Mostafa Azad Kamal on his work with open education policies and practice</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64318
title: Creative Commons welcomes EC recommendation on common European data space for cultural heritage
uri: Creative-Commons-welcomes-EC-recommendation-on-common-European-data-sp
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/19/creative-commons-welcomes-ec-recommendation-on-common-european-data-space-for-cultural-heritage/

content:
<figure id="attachment_64319" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64319" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64319" src="media/aea6eaba.916118_S_TEK_photo_TEKA0156211-300x227.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/916118_S_TEK_photo_TEKA0156211-300x227.jpeg" alt="" width="450" height="340" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/916118_S_TEK_photo_TEKA0156211-300x227.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/916118_S_TEK_photo_TEKA0156211-53x40.jpeg 53w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/916118_S_TEK_photo_TEKA0156211-50x38.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/916118_S_TEK_photo_TEKA0156211-205x155.jpeg 205w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/916118_S_TEK_photo_TEKA0156211.jpeg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64319" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/916118/S_TEK_photo_TEKA0156211">Notre Dame, Paris, 1886</a>. by Okänd &#8211; Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology, Sweden &#8211; Public Domain.</p>
<p></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few days ago, the European Commission (EC) released a </span><a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-proposes-common-european-data-space-cultural-heritage"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recommendation for a common data space for cultural heritage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which aims to “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">accelerate the digitization of all cultural heritage monuments and sites, objects and artefacts for future generations, to protect and preserve those at risk, and boost their reuse in domains such as education, sustainable tourism and cultural creative sectors</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” </span><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/discovering-europe"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Europeana</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the European digital cultural platform, will serve as the basis for building this common data space. It will allow museums, galleries, libraries, and archives across Europe to share and reuse the digitized cultural heritage images, such as 3D models of historical sites and high quality scans of paintings, on the Europeana platform. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The recommendation encourages Member States to digitize by 2030 all monuments and sites that are at risk of degradation, and half of those highly frequented by tourists. Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market, said: “</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">We owe the preservation of our European cultural heritage to future generations. This requires building and deploying our own technological capabilities, empowering people and businesses to enjoy and make the most of this heritage. We must take advantage of the opportunities brought by artificial intelligence, data, and extended reality</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” This last point was </span><a href="https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1458437810931777546?s=20"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reinforced by the EC on Twitter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: “3D, artificial intelligence or virtual reality can accelerate the digital transformation of the cultural sector.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons (CC) is eager to explore the recommendation and its potential to catalyze “open GLAM,” the set of ideals, principles and values promoting preservation, open access, sharing and reuse of cultural heritage around the world, in line with our organization’s value of global inclusivity and commitment to better sharing. As part of our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/06/10/were-launching-the-cc-open-glam-program/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM Program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we strive to help create a regulatory environment that supports creativity, collaboration, and the sharing of creative works and cultural heritage, upholds user rights and enables a rich, robust and thriving public domain. The recommendation appears to be a step in the right direction. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The recommendation succeeds the 2011 </span><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32011H0711"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recommendation on the digitization and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which underwent review last year. Creative Commons had submitted </span><a href="media/0d91bc00.on_paper_on_the_EC_consultation_on_digital_cultural_heritage.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/a/a4/Creative_Commons_position_paper_on_the_EC_consultation_on_digital_cultural_heritage.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">comments</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the consultation on the opportunities offered by digital technologies to the cultural heritage sector. We are thrilled to see many of our comments have found an echo in the new recommendation. Here’s a summary of what we pushed for: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digitization is essential to ensure </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/05/18/the-future-of-museums-is-open/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">access, sharing, use and reuse of cultural heritage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digitization is a fundamental component of cultural heritage </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/26/cc-licenses-tools-share-and-preserve-cultural-heritage-in-the-face-of-climate-change/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">preservation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons licenses and tools</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are standard and easy ways to communicate with users a cultural heritage’s copyright status and use permissions </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The copyright system, notably through </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/working-group-on-user-rights-position-paper-9c5e589f1c9b"><span style="font-weight: 400;">exceptions and limitations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, must </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/18/copyright-law-must-enable-museums-to-fulfill-their-mission/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">enable cultural heritage institutions to fulfill their missions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Access and use of cultural heritage is also governed by </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/beyond-copyright-the-ethics-of-open-sharing-a495bb95569d"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ethical considerations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that must be taken into account </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The implementation of the </span><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790/oj"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CDSM Directive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> must support cultural institutions </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a crucial need for </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">training and capacity building</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on copyright and licensing issues in the cultural heritage sector </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://pro.europeana.eu/post/artificial-intelligence-and-copyright-in-the-cultural-heritage-sector-views-from-creative-commons"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Artificial intelligence</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> can potentially offer many benefits for the cultural heritage sector</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Open GLAM Program comes within the scope of our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">strategy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for 2021-2025, whose central theme is </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/05/24/announcing-our-20th-anniversary-better-sharing-campaign/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, i.e. sharing that is contextual, ethical, inclusive, sustainable, purposeful and prosocial. We look forward to following the development and implementation of the recommendation, and will endeavor to put our tools for accessing, using, and resharing cultural heritage in the hands of all to build a brighter future for everyone, everywhere.</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong><em>Cultural heritage must be preserved, accessed, shared, reused and celebrated throughout the world. At Creative Commons, we’re proud to support the cultural heritage sector through our Open GLAM Program. Interested in learning more? Join the <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openglam-platform/">Creative Commons Open GLAM Platform</a>, subscribe to our <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-open-glam">mailing list</a> or get in touch <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org">info@creativecommons.org</a>!</em></strong></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/19/creative-commons-welcomes-ec-recommendation-on-common-european-data-space-for-cultural-heritage/">Creative Commons welcomes EC recommendation on common European data space for cultural heritage</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64332
title: Introducing the Better Internet Series
uri: Introducing-the-Better-Internet-Series
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/22/introducing-the-better-internet-series/
content:
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64336" src="media/f2230ff3.Better-Internet-Header.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Better-Internet-Header.png" alt="" width="900" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Better-Internet-Header.png 900w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Better-Internet-Header-300x100.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Better-Internet-Header-768x256.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Better-Internet-Header-120x40.png 120w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Better-Internet-Header-50x17.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Better-Internet-Header-270x90.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year at <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">CC Global Summit</a>, we hosted two workshops focused on the notion of a better version of the internet. For the workshops, we prepared in smaller groups, identified common areas of interest and concern, and gathered a global group of voices to dig into the issues. In this blog post, we introduce the Better Internet series, which we will use to share the findings of the workshops we hosted at the CC Global Summit, explore the perspectives communicated by those who participated, and share what we are working on with partners to drive these conversations forward and take action. </span></i></p>
<p>Throughout 2021, community partners interested in building what was loosely being called a “better internet” have been coming together for conversations. Some partners joined as an opportunity to mark the 10th anniversary of the US-based fight to defeat the legislation known as SOPA/PIPA.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anniversaries are often an opportune time to not only look back, but to also look forward to the future. In fact, many anniversaries are being celebrated in the open movement this year. Twenty years ago, Creative Commons (CC), Wikimedia, Public Knowledge, and MIT OpenCourseWare were founded. Ever ahead of the curve, the Internet Archive celebrated 25 years. Collectively, we’ve all been looking back – and looking forward – and talking about how, as forces with shared values, we can help keep the internet open, accessible, and safe for the future. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The conversations range from light and reflective to deep and contemplative. Some have been asynchronous. Some become a snowball that starts rolling down the hill into reflections about better days, and past collaborations about an open internet. Before major platforms. Before social media. Before clickbait, misinformation, and fake news. There is a desire among this group to build an improved version of the internet for those who live there now, and protect its best features for the future generations to come.</span></p>
<p>Today, we are imagining a multi-stakeholder public interest technology alliance, working together to shape a vision for a Better Internet. Let’s protect the good and define a positive, affirmative view of how we can solve and transform the challenges we face.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At this year’s CC Global Summit, we hosted two workshops focused on this notion of a better version of the internet. This fully supports our vision to advance Better Sharing, outlined in our current </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">organizational strategy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. For the Summit workshops, we prepared in smaller groups, identified common areas of interest and concern, and gathered together a global group of voices to dig into the issues.</span></p>
<p>Our focus was on:</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Misinformation and Disinformation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Access to Information and Knowledge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Platformization and Choice</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internet Architecture and Open Standards</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last Mile Access</span></span></li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p>Today, we are imagining a multi-stakeholder public interest technology alliance, working together to shape a vision for a Better Internet. Let’s protect the good and define a positive, affirmative view of how we can solve and transform the challenges we face.</p></blockquote>
<p>We also called for folks to explore what the concept of Positive Internet Citizenship might mean for this movement, and the critical role of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in all of the work that we want to carry forward.</p>
<p><span>In some ways, these are distinct topics, each with their own set of existing actors, policy environments, and agendas. In other ways, they’re slices from the same apple. Considerations for fighting misinformation can tie back to provenance of content, which can be strengthened by greater access to information. Open standards and interoperability would decrease the power of platformization to keep folks locked into separate walled gardens. Every issue must be grounded in the importance of protecting fundamental human rights online and empowering those who are marginalized. The absolute prerequisite to any of this is folks actually </span><b>being online. </b><span>We cannot ignore last mile access as a key matter of equity and access.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It turns out a lot of folks have been thinking along these same lines, as the desire to steer our way towards a better digital experience takes hold at all levels. Our work will be to effectively work together and find common ground.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the United States, President Biden’s </span><a href="https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Summit for Democracy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is publicly about protecting democracy and advancing human rights, but on the fringe there is a plan emerging to form a new alliance &#8211; </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017c-e71b-d8e1-a57c-efffa3810004"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Alliance for the Future of the Internet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. As </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/04/biden-democracy-summit-technology-519530"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Politico reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> earlier in November, civil society groups appear jarringly absent from the alleged multi-stakeholder effort. In addition, critics may also point to the fact that instead of building something new, perhaps building on something existing, like the </span><a href="https://freedomonlinecoalition.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freedom Online Coalition</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, would be a more useful investment. It remains to be seen how this will all play out.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this month, the Knight Foundation hosted a digital event, </span><a href="https://knightfoundation.org/events/misc/lessons-from-the-first-internet-ages/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lessons from the First Internet Ages</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">which brought together activists, academics, civil servants, and everything in between, to reflect on the last 30 days, and posit how things might have been done, and perhaps </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">should </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">be done differently. Members of the open movement contributed their voices, from Creative Commons board member Alexander Macgillivray, to Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, to creator and tech activist Cory Doctorow, and many more luminaries.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The signals from government and civil society that we need to build a better internet may in part be getting stronger due to the digital policy environment globally. In the EU, a number of challenges have been identified with the transposition of Article 17 of the CDSM Directive. There is potential for openly licensed and public domain content, along with other content being used legitimately, to be over-filtered or taken down, which would be a massive blow to those who work towards free and open access to knowledge and information. Concurrently, the Digital Services Act that is being debated has the potential to overregulate and impact freedom of expression. We want to see a balance between online safety and individual empowerment being preserved, as the </span><a href="https://off-on.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#OffOn campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is fighting for.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Creative Commons coordinates with other organizations to continue these conversations around a Better Internet, and give shape to a movement, the very underpinnings include using our existing collective power of convening to impact change. Call it an alliance. Call it a coalition. Call it a movement. Call it a multi-stakeholder effort. At the end of the day, this is about folks working on different but complementary issues, coming together across local, regional, and national divides to give shape to our own civil society agenda, to fulfill the promise of the Internet, and to build something that works for the people and serves the public interest. In the coming weeks, we will be sharing some of the findings from the workshops we hosted at the CC Global Summit, exploring the perspectives communicated by those who took part, and sharing what we’re working on with fellow believers to continue moving the conversation forward. Watch this space and help us expand the values on which we can build a Better Internet.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/22/introducing-the-better-internet-series/">Introducing the Better Internet Series</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64353
title: CC Community Spotlight Series: Angela Oduor Lungati, Achal Prabhala and Cecília Olliveira
uri: CC-Community-Spotlight-Series-Angela-Oduor-Lungati-Achal-Prabhala-an
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/23/cc-community-spotlight-series-angela-oduor-lungati-achal-prabhala-and-cecilia-olliveira/

content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-64248 size-full" src="media/834a0938.unnamed-1-e1636492259302.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302.png" alt="" width="1640" height="779" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302.png 1640w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-300x143.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-1024x486.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-768x365.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-1536x730.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-84x40.png 84w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-50x24.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-270x128.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-1-e1636492259302-1200x570.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><em>Giving Tuesday is only a week away! We hope you’ll join us next Tuesday, 30 November in celebrating our <a href="https://www.classy.org/campaign/20th-anniversary-giving-tuesday-campaign/c375358">Better Sharing, Brighter Future</a> campaign. </em></p>
<p><em><strong>We’re trying to raise $100,000</strong> before the end of this year. The good news is every donation up to $30,000 will be matched. </em><em>Help us reach our goal and <strong>double your impact</strong> to ensure everyone, everywhere, has access to resources, knowledge, and creativity.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the weeks leading up to </span>Giving Tuesday<span style="font-weight: 400;">, we’ve highlighted the work of </span><a href="https://manpodcast.com/"><b><i>The</i></b> <b><i>Modern Art Notes Podcast</i></b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> host </span><b>Tyler Green</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://fineacts.co"><b><i>Fine Acts</i></b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> co-founders </span><b>Yana Buhrer Tavanier</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><b>Pavel Kounchev</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, all Open Access advocates who highlight the importance of visual art in both understanding the past and shaping a better, brighter future.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week, we close out our Community Spotlight series, featuring three of this year’s CC Global Summit keynotes: </span><b>Angela Oduor Lungati</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><b>Achal Prabhala</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><b>Cecília Olliveira</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.  </span></p>
<p><img src="media/c0f0b310.4qOSny-t51RhFCUf99zEL30TuKcWmd_SAwUoewE0461F8tLLc8RmfAs0-d-e1-ft" data-original-source="https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/PrjYbUYA-GMjFiwBZY7fhvwtFgPfVIOPPHpj2OhIFL_xbF0mU0mnhotCS8Q6BlA3VWCqih9xufD6WneW4gmpfJfCk-8CI2fw1ZHvj3ED4qOSny-t51RhFCUf99zEL30TuKcWmd_SAwUoewE0461F8tLLc8RmfA=s0-d-e1-ft" /></p>
<p><b>Angela Oduor Lungati </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">is a CC Board Member and Executive Director at </span><a href="https://www.ushahidi.com/about"><b>Ushahidi</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a Kenya-based non-profit that empowers communities to advance social change via Open Source technology solutions.</span></p>
<p><b>Achal Prabhala</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a Shuttleworth Fellow and Coordinator at </span><a href="https://accessibsa.org"><b>AccessIBSA</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a tri-continental project to expand access to life-saving medicines and vaccines, specifically in India, Brasil, and South Africa.</span></p>
<p><b>Cecília Olliveira</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is also Shuttleworth Fellow and Executive Director of </span><a href="https://fogocruzado.org.br/sobre/"><b>Fogo Cruzado</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a community-driven digital platform that collects and cross-checks real-time data on armed violence with the goal of reducing gun crime in Recife and Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. </span></p>
<p><b>Angela</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><b>Achal</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><b>Cecília</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are Open Movement trailblazers who believe that freed up access to technology, research, and data is essential to social change, and urge that more of us open up our resources, find our voice, and push for solutions. </span><b>Cecília Olliveira </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">elaborates: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><b>“&#8230;if you have no information&#8230;you have no tools to pressure for solutions. This is why I was pursuing information. And&#8230;that&#8217;s also why I believe that openness is the key, because I cannot be the only one pressured for solutions. We need more people pressuring, because when you have more voices, you can pressure better and claim for solutions that really can help…”</b></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope you’ve enjoyed our Community Spotlight series. </span><b>Angela</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><b>Achal</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><b>Cecília</b> <span style="font-weight: 400;">are paving the way for 20 more years of advocacy and innovation in the Open Movement. You can learn more about their work by tuning into our </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons/episodes/Special-Episode-Meet-3-of-our-CC-Global-Summit-Keynotes-e176ekl"><b>Open Minds Podcast</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next week, we’ll celebrate</span><b> #GivingTuesday</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and invite you to consider making a donation to our </span><b><i>Better Sharing, Brighter Future </i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">campaign. However, we know not everyone is able or willing to give, so please see below for all the ways you can get involved. </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64249" src="media/d5675961.unnamed-2.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2.png" alt="" width="1200" height="400" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-300x100.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-1024x341.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-768x256.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-120x40.png 120w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-50x17.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-270x90.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<h3><span><strong>Donate</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Make a donation to CC’s <strong><a href="https://www.classy.org/campaign/20th-anniversary-giving-tuesday-campaign/c375358" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Dc106abb3b4%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGRHzGmmSQ9_NvTWHtggvzvsYVQjg">20th Anniversary Campaign</a></strong>. Visit our <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/donate/other-ways-to-give/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3De7e3fa4085%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGDuETrU6QnecoinvKrAi-Xivv9lg">Donor FAQ</a></strong> for information on all the ways to contribute.</span></p>
<h3><span></span><span><strong>Share</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Share <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">why</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> you support the open movement or </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">how</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> CC has impacted your work on social media, with the hashtags </span><b>#CCTurns20 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">and/or</span><b> #BetterSharing </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">and tagging </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons"><b>@creativecommons</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></p>
<h3><span><strong>Listen</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Check out our <strong><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfd30364b6577b471373d6076c%26id%3Db52caf8c1c%26e%3D9ae165dd86&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636572595270000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFqW-yVt1ZPWuiL1Tn4HRYUoieHJg">Creative Commons’ Open Minds Podcast</a></strong> and share with your friends.</span></p>
<h3><span><strong>Follow</strong></span><span> </span></h3>
<p><span>Follow CC on <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons"><b>Twitter</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons"><b>Facebook</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/creativecommons/"><b>Instagram</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/creative-commons"><b>LinkedIn</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/23/cc-community-spotlight-series-angela-oduor-lungati-achal-prabhala-and-cecilia-olliveira/">CC Community Spotlight Series: Angela Oduor Lungati, Achal Prabhala and Cecília Olliveira</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64363
title: In response to NFT debate
uri: In-response-to-NFT-debate
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/27/in-response-to-nft-debate/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Wednesday, November 24, Creative Commons (CC) shared an article on our social media channels from Cuseum titled </span><a href="https://cuseum.com/blog/2021/11/16/how-21-museums-amp-cultural-organizations-engaged-with-nfts-in-2021?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=MT&amp;fbclid=IwAR3hYdZF8dDDFZo5GW-Ks-wa0OD9WCr3-Ob9DDdOsKd8fyg49zWrx5fmQg8"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">How 21 Museums &amp; Cultural Organization Engaged with NFTS in 2021.</span></i></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we pride ourselves on raising issues thoughtfully and often share articles on our platforms about the digital space where we work. Many times CC staff will expand on these topics through our blog, to provide a perspective that reflects CC’s experiences around our work to support, steward and provide legal and technical assistance for the maximization of digital creativity, innovation and sharing. It is our hope that this open space of conversation will generate different viewpoints and promote civil debate. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So it came as a surprise that yesterday a blog post shared about our nascent thoughts on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/05/04/at-the-intersection-of-nfts-and-creative-commons-licenses/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NFTs dating back to May 2021</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> could lead to such a personal attack on myself, our Board and the CC team. We encourage healthy debate and welcome feedback but will not tolerate unfair and inaccurate attacks.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC has been researching and having conversations with others about NFTs, as referenced in the blog post from May 2021. We continued the dialogue during the CC Global Summit in September 2021 including sessions from stakeholders with different perspectives about NFTs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the record I hold no crypto currency or own any NFTs &#8211; my interest is looking into how NFTs relate to our licenses and our mission. From discussions so far, many artists and creators are benefiting from being fairly and justly compensated, whilst others have broader concerns about NFTs, which is why there should be a debate. In such a nascent space and as</span><b> with any new technology, there are differing views and it is important that debate and discussion can be conducted respectfully. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sadly this was not always the case during the recent exchange online.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC will continue to thoughtfully explore emerging and controversial issues affecting our licenses, our community and our belief in the value of open sharing. We will continue to share our views and ideas in this space and encourage civil debate both online and offline. Guided by our value of informed intention as stated in our strategy, we will continue to “take care with the work that we do, and &#8230; act with integrity, accountability, insight and humility.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/27/in-response-to-nft-debate/">In response to NFT debate</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64393
title: Eight open GLAM case studies selected: discover the successful projects and their leaders!
uri: Eight-open-GLAM-case-studies-selected-discover-the-successful-project
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/01/eight-open-glam-case-studies-selected-discover-the-successful-projects-and-their-leaders/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In October 2021, Creative Commons launched a </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/open-call-for-open-glam-case-studies-2021/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">call for case studies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on open access in cultural institutions, such as galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs), from low-capacity, non-Western institutions, or representing marginalized, underrepresented communities from various regions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The aim of the open call was to help generate a more global, inclusive, and equitable picture and understanding of open GLAM, highlighting the needs and expectations of a variety of communities and institutions from diverse regions and backgrounds. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope the outcomes will provide some insights to guide the development of avenues of engagement with the global open GLAM community. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We received many excellent submissions, and we thank the Creative Commons Open GLAM Platform members for their interest and efforts in responding to our call. An </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/open-call-for-open-glam-case-studies-2021/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">evaluation committee</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was tasked with selecting the applications. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Without further ado, meet our successful applicants and read about their upcoming case studies!</span></p>
<hr />
<h3><b>Case 1: Common voices: contributing oral histories to the open knowledge ecosystem in Brazil </b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_64398" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64398" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64398 size-medium" src="media/419011b0.9-300x200.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9-300x200.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9-60x40.jpeg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9-50x33.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9-232x155.jpeg 232w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/9.jpeg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64398" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/444f5e75.FileWikidataCon_2019_-_2019-10-34_-_Questions.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikidataCon_2019_-_2019-10-34_-_Questions.jpg">Premier jour de la WikidataCons: questions</a>, Caroline Léna Becker, 2019, CC-BY 4.0 International</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Érica Azzellini is the Communications Manager of the User Group Wiki Movimento Brasil. Graduated in Journalism at Faculdade Cásper Líbero, she is a former researcher of the Scientific Journalism program at the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for the Neuromathematics at the University of São Paulo.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">João Alexandre Peschanski is a Professor of Journalism at Faculdade Cásper Líbero, in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently the executive director of the User Group Wiki Movimento Brasil and is a board member of the User Group Wikipedia &amp; Education.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_64399" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64399" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64399 size-medium" src="media/6a1fd1b4.11-300x200.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-300x200.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-60x40.jpeg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-50x33.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-232x155.jpeg 232w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/11.jpeg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64399" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/2c8a09a7.FileWikidata_Lab_XI_10.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Lab_XI_(10).jpg">Fotos do Wikidata Lab XI</a>, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton, 2018, CC-BY-SA 4.0 International</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Brazil, Museu da Pessoa is a virtual museum that gathers and disseminates oral histories. Anyone can participate, and contributions are based on crowdsourced methodologies. The museum was created in 1991 and, since 2021, partners with the Wikimedia affiliate Wiki Movimento Brasil to share around 12,000 oral histories to Wikimedia projects. The case study will present this unique GLAM, a collection of lives, and the importance and methodological challenges to bringing oral histories to the open knowledge ecosystem, including challenges related to content licensing. </span></p>
<hr />
<h3><b>Case 2: Open Access practices: Limitations and opportunities in Public Libraries in Nigeria</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_64400" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64400" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64400 size-medium" src="media/6f56644f.10-200x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-200x300.jpeg" alt="" width="200" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-200x300.jpeg 200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-27x40.jpeg 27w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-33x50.jpeg 33w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10-103x155.jpeg 103w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/10.jpeg 1067w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64400" class="wp-caption-text">Isaac Oloruntimilehin, Isaac Oloruntimilehin, CC BY 4.0 International.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Isaac Oloruntimilehin is a member of the Wikimedia movement in Nigeria and co-founder of Free Knowledge Africa. He previously led the Wikimedia Club at the University of Ilorin. Isaac is also a member of the Creative Commons Global Network, Europeana Network Association, and actively contributes to open source projects. He is an alumnus of the Millennium Fellowship (2019 class) and a Local Pathways Fellow (2020 cohort) at the United Nations SDSN Youth. He is an environmentalist and an advocate of the SDGs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This case study will highlight the current open access practices in public libraries in various locations in Nigeria. It will examine the opportunities that currently exist, potential areas of benefits, and the limitations in terms of resources, legal instruments, technical skills and facilities.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><b style="font-size: 23px;">Case 3: Campaigns to digitize Treasures in the Tiny Home of the First Printing Press in Asia</b></p>
<figure id="attachment_64401" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64401" style="width: 152px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-64401" src="media/b7de31af.8v.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/8v.jpeg" alt="" width="152" height="274" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/8v.jpeg 152w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/8v-22x40.jpeg 22w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/8v-28x50.jpeg 28w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/8v-86x155.jpeg 86w" sizes="(max-width: 152px) 85vw, 152px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64401" class="wp-caption-text">Frederick Noronha, Frederick Noronha, CC BY-SA 4.0 International.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Frederick Noronha, PhD, has been a journalist, alternative book publisher, and photography enthusiast for his working life. He was born in Cubatão, SP, Brazil, to Indian migrant parents, and lives in Goa, on the west coast of South Asia. Over the past two decades, he has been closely tracking, involved with, and writing about India’s Free Software, Open Source, Wikipedia, and Open Access campaigns. He is a strong votary for sharing information, knowledge, and software in a way that makes a difference in the lives of millions. He co-founded BytesForAll, which has focused on the use of ICT and the Internet for the benefit of the deprived, particularly in South Asia. In addition, he is deeply involved in building cybernetworks in his home region of Goa, India&#8217;s tiniest state, but among the most active by way of cyber initiatives. His PhD was completed in January 2021, after a lifetime in journalism-publishing, focusing on publishing, and was undertaken through Goa University.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Goa was the home to the first Gutenberg printing press in the whole of Asia, way back in 1556. Once the center of knowledge exchange between Asia and Europe has rich archives and copyright-expired resources (in various languages, some relatively inaccessible now). This study will look at initiatives at digitization and sharing such resources, how much has been digitized, factors that might have blocked the same, and suggestions that could make a difference.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Photo: Frederick Noronha, Frederick Noronha, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0 International</span></p>
<hr />
<h3><b style="font-size: 23px;">Case 4: Better together! Malopolska Virtual Museums &#8211; a regional hub for access to local heritage and best Open GLAM practices</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_64402" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64402" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-64402" src="media/2dbfe603.7-300x200.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7-300x200.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7-60x40.jpeg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7-50x33.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7-233x155.jpeg 233w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/7.jpeg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64402" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/26ce284f.FileMarta_Moraczewska_2015.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marta_Moraczewska_2015.jpg">Marta Moraczewska</a>, Marta Malina Moraczewska, 2015, CC-BY-SA 4.0 International</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marta is an animator of educational projects on the Web and an independent OpenGLAM specialist. She coordinates projects based on open content, working with museum staff and visitors. In 2014-2019, as the coordinator of </span><a href="https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GLAM-Wiki</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at Wikimedia Polska, she helped the National Museum in Warsaw, National Archives, and the National Library of Poland share their collections with Wikipedia, and ran projects such as </span><a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2016/09/01/carpathian-ethnography/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Carpathian Ethnography</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span><a href="https://diff.wikimedia.org/2017/06/20/digest-faras-wikipedia/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Faras</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Wikiproject and the Digital Museum (</span><a href="https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Konferencja_Muzeum_Cyfrowe"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Muzeum Cyfrowe</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 2016) conference. She edited the </span><a href="media/18b5766a.Otwarte_projekty_cyfrowe._Zbiory_MNW_w_Wikipedii.pdf" data-original-source="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Otwarte_projekty_cyfrowe._Zbiory_MNW_w_Wikipedii.pdf"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Cultural Projects</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> guidebook and is the author of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">School Navigator</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><a href="https://nawigatorszkolny.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">nawigatorszkolny.net</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) – a teachers’ roadmap to reusing digital content from Polish museums, archives and libraries (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland grant, 2000). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The case study discusses the plan, development and results of the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Małopolska Virtual Museums</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> project – an innovative digitization effort based on establishing a hub for best Open GLAM practices in cooperation with 48 regional institutions from Małopolska, many of them small, under-resourced local museums. The case study will analyze the initial assumptions, openness strategy and working method, and then examine the project results in terms of usability of all the new digital content for learning and further innovation for local and global users and audiences.</span></p>
<hr />
<h3><b>Case 5: Inside the Badagry slave heritage museum in Nigeria</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span></h3>
<figure id="attachment_64404" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64404" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-64404" src="media/ead7ecb6.5-300x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-300x300.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-40x40.jpeg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-350x350.jpeg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-155x155.jpeg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5-1200x1200.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.jpeg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64404" class="wp-caption-text">Charles Ikem, Charles, Ikem, CC BY-NC 4.0 International.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charles Ikem is the co-founder of PolicyLab Africa based in Lagos, Nigeria. Charles is an open access and open data advocate. His focus is on supporting breakthrough research and policy at the nexus of technology, open policy, and humanity, and leading high-impact change projects in Africa. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This case study project will document the history and foundations of the Badagry Slave Heritage Museum in Nigeria, with the artifacts as the subject. Using photo documentaries to showcase historical artifacts and oral narrations by the elders of the Badagry community to produce a substantial body of work to support the case study.</span></p>
<hr />
<h3><b>Case 6: The State of Open Access in Chilean Museums in 2021</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_64405" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64405" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-64405" src="media/fa653aac.6-300x231.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6-300x231.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="231" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6-300x231.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6-1024x788.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6-768x591.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6-1536x1183.jpeg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6-52x40.jpeg 52w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6-50x39.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6-201x155.jpeg 201w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6-1200x924.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/6.jpeg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64405" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/0fc766f7.FilePatricia_DC3ADaz_-_Staff_member_Wikimedia_Chile_02.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Patricia_D%C3%ADaz_-_Staff_member_Wikimedia_Chile_02.jpg">Patricia Diaz, asistente administrativa de Wikimedia Chile</a>, Carlos Figueroa, 2018, CC-BY-SA 4.0 International</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Patricia Díaz Rubio is a Chilean social communicator (Universidad de Chile) passionate about collective work and social impact. Since 2018, she has been working at Wikimedia Chile, promoting local and open content on the Internet. She has a cultural heritage diploma (USACH) and a Master’s degree in Development Studies (Université Panthéon Sorbonne). She is interested in emerging new narratives within digital environments, and in promoting dissemination policies and open access to culture, collective memory, and cultural heritage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the Survey of GLAM open access policy and practice (McCarthy &amp; Wallace, 2018), only two museums in Chile develop some open-access policies or practices: the Memory and Human Rights Museum and the National Natural History Museum. Which is the current situation of “open” within Chilean museums in 2021? Has it changed or improved somehow? Or, more specifically: Which is the situation of public Chilean museums’ digital collections? Which are the licenses that they use to display their collections online? And mostly: Which are the limitations they put on their digital collections and copies? This case study will present the current status of these institutions, in particular public ones, and their online collections, and how they are used (or not) to promote and diffuse their contents.</span></p>
<hr />
<h3><b>Case 7: Open Access Cultural Heritage Outlook in Pakistan: Case Study on GLAMs in Karachi</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_64406" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64406" style="width: 207px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64406 size-medium" src="media/579bf36f.4-207x300.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4-207x300.png" alt="" width="207" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4-207x300.png 207w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4-28x40.png 28w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4-34x50.png 34w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4-107x155.png 107w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/4.png 327w" sizes="(max-width: 207px) 85vw, 207px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64406" class="wp-caption-text">Amber Osman, CC-BY-SA 4.0 International.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amber Osman is a passionate expert in open science and a research enthusiast. Over the last decade, Amber has been actively involved in different international academic, research &amp; publishing organizations, and with the Higher Education Commission (Govt. of Pakistan). She has been an </span><a href="http://interest.ip.thomsonreuters.com/scholaronevisionaward"><span style="font-weight: 400;">award-winning journal editor</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for advancing the publishing process by adopting innovative research and publishing solutions. Amber advocates for best practices in open access scholarly content and has positively conducted &amp; contributed to workshops, talks, training sessions globally while writing on the given matters in articles. She has two masters, one in Philosophy and one in Marketing.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_64407" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64407" style="width: 273px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-64407" src="media/2cf3bb51.3-273x300.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3-273x300.png" alt="" width="273" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3-273x300.png 273w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3-36x40.png 36w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3-46x50.png 46w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3-141x155.png 141w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3.png 364w" sizes="(max-width: 273px) 85vw, 273px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64407" class="wp-caption-text">Dr Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani, CC-BY-SA 4.0 International.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani (Thomson Reuters </span><a href="http://interest.ip.thomsonreuters.com/scholaronevisionaward"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Award-Winning Editor</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, (2015)) is a Doctor of Philosophy in Financial Econometrics. He is currently Dean of Business School at ILMA University, Pakistan, and contributes as an Education committee member at Society for Scholarly Publishing, USA, member of Creative Commons Global Network, and scientific publishing consultant at Higher Education Commission, Govt. of Pakistan. He is also an Editor at PLOSONE.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">To identify different aspects of GLAM in Karachi, the study will look at Pakistan’s organizations/institutions and see how they provide access to cultural heritage content. We will target universities/institutions/ rendering different teaching perspectives on ancient history, culture preservation, the country’s historical tools &amp; ranges; whether they know about the CC GLAM movement to enrich &amp; collaborate at a global level, which helps highlight and restore the country’s historical/cultural values.</span></p>
<hr />
<h3><b>Case 8: Spreading Creative Commons’ Open GLAM message in Brazil</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_64408" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64408" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-64408" src="media/ea4b9c6e.2-300x225.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2-300x225.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2-53x40.jpeg 53w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2-50x38.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2-207x155.jpeg 207w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2.jpeg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64408" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/cc86143b.FileWikidata_Lab_XII_February_2019_03.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_Lab_XII_(February_2019)_03.jpg">Wikidata Lab XII (February 2019) 03</a>, Sturm, CC BY-SA 4.0 International</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Giovanna Fontenelle is a Journalist, Historian, Wikimedian, and Master&#8217;s student in Social History at the University of São Paulo. She works as a Program Officer, GLAM and Culture, at the Wikimedia Foundation. She&#8217;s also a member of Creative Commons Brasil (CCBR), Creative Commons Global Network, Wiki Movimento Brasil User Group, and ICOM Brazil. At CCBR, she coordinates the areas of Open GLAM and Wikimedia. Her current work activities are related to GLAM-Wiki, Open GLAM, linked open data, in addition to carrying out projects on diversity and knowledge equity.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_64409" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64409" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-64409" src="media/47e1d89e.1-300x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1-300x300.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1-40x40.jpeg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1-350x350.jpeg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1-155x155.jpeg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/1.jpeg 1170w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64409" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/1a061031.FileWikimedia_Conference_2017_by_Ren_Zieger__108_cropped.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Conference_2017_by_René_Zieger_–_108_(cropped).jpg">Wikimedia Conference 2017 in Berlin, Germany</a>, René Zieger for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. CC BY-SA 4.0 International</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Juliana Monteiro holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in Museology and a Master&#8217;s degree in Information Science. She has been working in the collection management area for 14 years. She worked as a museologist at the São Paulo Energy Museum (2007-2008); as coordination assistant of the Museum Heritage Preservation Unit of the State Secretariat for Culture (2008-2015), where she coordinated the Museum Collection Policy Committee. Later, she was the manager of the Preservation Center of the São Paulo Immigration Museum (2015-2016). She is also a member of COMCOL-ICOM and of the advisory board of ICOM Brazil. She has been a professor of museology at ETEC Parque da Juventude since 2010, giving classes on documentation and databases for museums. She is the representative of the Creative Commons Brazilian chapter in the Global Council Network. She has also worked in the articulation between Wikimedia projects and cultural institutions, as a member of the Wiki Educação Brasil Group. She has been a regional ambassador for countries in the Portuguese-speaking community of the Art+Feminism international campaign since 2019. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">GLAMs have become more interested in sharing their collections online using open licenses, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the inability to access the physical space of cultural institutions. However, in places such as the Global South, this interest and some punctual actions were not necessarily accompanied by actual long-term open initiatives, on account of the difficulty in sharing the open GLAM ideals with institutions, especially considering the lack of resources by and for institutions in these regions. This case study aims to present Creative Commons Brasil’s work and workflow, providing guidance for Brazilian GLAMs during 2020 and 2021, to not only present the group’s work, but also to share the workflows of this process with other Creative Commons chapters and advocates, to help and inspire them to overcome barriers in the process of sharing and advocating for Open GLAM. It is an opportunity to discuss the cultural heritage situation in Global South places like Brazil and Latin America. And finally, it aims to engage more Brazilian GLAMs to know and understand Creative Commons, the licenses, open GLAM, and how to open their collections in such under-resourced regions.</span></p>
<hr />
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As one of the program’s key components, community engagement aims to foster community-driven initiatives and underline community members’ efforts to provide better access to cultural heritage materials.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are delighted to showcase regional and national open GLAM initiatives and encourage sharing feedback from open experiences within cultural heritage institutions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The case studies will be published under CC BY licenses in early 2022 on our </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Medium account</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> and shared on our various communication channels.  </span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><em><strong>Have you found these projects interesting? Are you curious to know more? Join the Creative Commons <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openglam-platform/">Open GLAM Platform</a> by filling out our membership <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMXU5Sb6ATDZx-alTvf9DCfs3jzDlX-AKCY7sowjb3vqW0HA/viewform">form</a> and subscribe to our Open GLAM <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-open-glam/members?hl=en">mailing list</a>! </strong></em></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/01/eight-open-glam-case-studies-selected-discover-the-successful-projects-and-their-leaders/">Eight open GLAM case studies selected: discover the successful projects and their leaders!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64344
title: UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science Ratified
uri: UNESCO-Recommendation-on-Open-Science-Ratified
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/02/unesco-recommendation-on-open-science-ratified/
content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-64374 aligncenter" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: inherit;" src="media/4a64d343.UNESCO-Open-Science-circle.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UNESCO-Open-Science-circle.png" alt="UNESCO Open Science (circle)" width="517" height="659" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UNESCO-Open-Science-circle.png 836w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UNESCO-Open-Science-circle-235x300.png 235w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UNESCO-Open-Science-circle-803x1024.png 803w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UNESCO-Open-Science-circle-768x979.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UNESCO-Open-Science-circle-31x40.png 31w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UNESCO-Open-Science-circle-39x50.png 39w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UNESCO-Open-Science-circle-122x155.png 122w" sizes="(max-width: 517px) 85vw, 517px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Graphic on page 11. <a href="https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379949.locale=en">UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science</a>. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/">CC BY IGO 3.0</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p>Creative Commons (CC) applauds the unanimous ratification of the <a href="https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379949.locale=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at UNESCO’s 41st General Conference. This landmark document is a major step forward towards creating a world in which better sharing of science is open and inclusive by design.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC is honored to have been part of the global community that drafted, reviewed and revised the Recommendation. We firmly believe open access to knowledge is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition to solving big, complex problems. Better sharing of scientific articles, data and science educational resources is a necessary condition to make progress on solving the </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UN Sustainable Development Goals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the global grand challenges we face today.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the COVID pandemic and climate change have exemplified, there is an urgent need to accelerate change in how we produce, share, and communicate scientific knowledge. The UNESCO Recommendations on Open Science and </span><a href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=49556&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Educational Resources</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are international frameworks that can guide national governments, funders, educational institutions, scientists, educators, and civil society organizations as we work to create a world in which open access to knowledge is a basic human right.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Recommendation sets an international standard for the definition of open science and associated policies and practices to drive better sharing throughout the global science community. It details seven broad areas for action:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Promoting a common understanding of open science and its benefits and challenges</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, as well as diverse paths to open science</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Developing and enabling a policy environment for open science</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Investing in open science infrastructures and services</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Investing in human resources, training, education, digital literacy and capacity building</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fostering a culture of open science and aligning incentives</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Promoting innovative approaches for open science across the scientific process</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Promoting cooperation in the context of open science to reduce digital, technological and knowledge gaps</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For details on the multi-stakeholder consultations, the open science advisory committee, and the UNESCO global open science partnership, please visit the </span><a href="https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science/recommendation"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recommendation on Open Science website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, adopting the Recommendation for Open Science is just the first step. The real work is in the implementation of the actions. Broad implementation success will require governments to: prioritize this work, partner with international NGOs and other stakeholders working in open science, and work with and learn from other governments. Creative Commons stands ready to partner with national governments, UNESCO, NGOs, and the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">global research community </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">to implement the actions detailed in this Recommendation to build a brighter future for everyone, everywhere.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/02/unesco-recommendation-on-open-science-ratified/">UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science Ratified</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64230
title: Principles for License Enforcement published
uri: Principles-for-License-Enforcement-published
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/08/principles-for-license-enforcement-published/
content:
<p><span>The <a href="https://creativecommons.org/license-enforcement/enforcement-principles/">principles for license enforcement</a> are now published. The consultation period has ended and we’re grateful to everyone who contributed their many thoughtful comments!</span><span></span></p>
<p>These principles will be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Platforms that host CC-licensed materials and want to incorporate them into site policy to guide user expectations</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Creators who wants to enforce rights under a CC license but aren’t sure how to do it without being overly aggressive</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Reusers who want to know whether a copyright enforcer might be trolling</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span>Lawyers or other professionals who want to give informed advice to creators and users of CC licensed works about enforcement of rights</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span>Although the draft comment period is over, you can always continue to suggest improvements or ask questions in our community channels.</span></p>
<p>This is just one part of CC&#8217;s<a href="https://creativecommons.org/license-enforcement/"> resources for addressing license enforcement issues</a>, and we look forward to sharing more of them over the coming year.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/08/principles-for-license-enforcement-published/">Principles for License Enforcement published</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64440
title: Public Domain 2022: Join us 20 January for a Celebration of Sound
uri: Public-Domain-2022-Join-us-20-January-for-a-Celebration-of-Sound
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/09/public-domain-2022-join-us-20-january-for-a-celebration-of-sound/

content:
<p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebration-of-sound-public-domain-day-virtual-celebration-tickets-223634836817" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-64441 size-full" src="media/46071394.Land_Twitter.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Land_Twitter.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="512" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Land_Twitter.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Land_Twitter-300x150.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Land_Twitter-768x384.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Land_Twitter-80x40.jpg 80w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Land_Twitter-50x25.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Land_Twitter-270x135.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every year, on 1 January, advocates of free and open content celebrate the works of art that have entered the public domain around the world. Why New Year&#8217;s Day? Copyrighted works such as books, artworks or music are only protected for a certain number of years, and this protection ends on 1 January.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On 20 January 2022, Creative Commons, the Internet Archive, and various other Open Movement leaders will honor the amazing works published in 1926 that will enter the public domain for the first time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next year&#8217;s public domain celebration will be one for the history books, as approximately 400,000 sound recordings from the pre-1923 era will join the public domain for the first time in our history due to the recently enacted Music Modernization Act in the United States. <strong>That’s why this year, our theme is a Celebration of Sound.</strong></span></p>
<h3><strong>Virtual Celebration</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us for a virtual party on 20 January 2022 at 1pm PT/4pm ET/9pm UTC with a keynote from Senator Ron Wyden, champion of the Music Modernization Act, and a host of musical acts, dancers, historians, librarians, academics, activists and other leaders from the Open world! This event will explore the rich historical context of recorded sound from its earliest days, including early jazz and blues, classical, and spoken word recordings reflecting important political and social issues of the era.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additional sponsoring organizations include: Library Futures, SPARC, Authors Alliance, the Bioheritage Diversity Library, Public Knowledge, ARSC, the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and the Music Library Association.<br />
</span></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebration-of-sound-public-domain-day-virtual-celebration-tickets-223634836817"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register for the virtual event here!</span></a></p></blockquote>
<h3>In-person Celebration</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Internet Archive will also host an in-person Dance Party on Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 6pm at 300 Funston Ave in San Francisco. There you can mingle with like-minded public-domain enthusiasts while sipping a Gin Rickey, a Hanky Panky or a Singapore Sling. Dine on shrimp cocktail, cucumber sandwiches or Waldorf salad. There will be dance instructors to help you learn the 1920’s dance sensation – the Charleston. Period costumes encouraged. Let’s kick up our heels for the Public Domain!</span></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebration-of-sound-public-domain-day-dance-party-tickets-223671426257"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register for the live, in-person Internet Archive event in San Francisco here.</span></a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/09/public-domain-2022-join-us-20-january-for-a-celebration-of-sound/">Public Domain 2022: Join us 20 January for a Celebration of Sound</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64447
title: Dear Users of CC Search, Welcome to Openverse
uri: Dear-Users-of-CC-Search-Welcome-to-Openverse
url: https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/13/dear-users-of-cc-search-welcome-to-openverse/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year, we shared an </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/05/03/cc-search-to-join-wordpress/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">exciting announcement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that CC Search would be joining WordPress. Several beloved former CC tech team alumni joined the team at WordPress to tackle this important initiative, shepherding it forward into an exciting new era.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/openverse/"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64448 size-medium alignright" src="media/45d8ad04.openverse-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-300x169.png" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-300x169.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-1024x576.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-768x432.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-1536x864.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-71x40.png 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-270x152.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-440x250.png 440w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse-1200x675.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/openverse.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Starting today, all our wonderful, loyal users of CC Search will be redirected to <a href="https://wordpress.org/openverse/?referrer=creativecommons.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Openverse at WordPress</a>. You’ll find the same important, openly-licensed collections. You’ll see a familiar interface, allowing you to search by use case, license type, or several other filters. Significantly, Openverse has built language support into the project, so users now have options for what language to use the search engine in, with </span><a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/meta/openverse/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">10 languages already fully translated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A lot of work has been done to prepare for this day, and we anticipate a smooth transition. If any of our community members experience any issues, we invite you to please let us know or contact the Openverse team, and we will all do our best to resolve them as quickly as possible. More details about the transition </span><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/2021/12/13/cc-search-now-redirects-to-openverse/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">are here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’d like to once again express our thanks to WordPress for carrying forward the important work of providing the open community with a search engine to find works to remix, reuse, and openly enjoy. For</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> those interested in staying involved in the project in its new home, we’d like to direct folks to the </span><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/openverse"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Openverse developer community</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We also recommend joining the </span><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/chat/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Making WordPress Slack</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where the Openverse team can be found in the #openverse channel.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/13/dear-users-of-cc-search-welcome-to-openverse/">Dear Users of CC Search, Welcome to Openverse</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64458
uri: Creative-Commons-statement-on-CC-licenses-and-the-ext-and-data-mini
title:
Creative Commons’ statement on CC licenses and the ext and data mining exception under Article 4 EU CDSM Directive

url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/17/creative-commons-statement-on-cc-licenses-and-the-ext-and-data-mining-exception-under-article-4-eu-cdsm-directive/

content:
<figure id="attachment_64459" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64459" style="width: 450px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64459" src="media/66cd30c5.75-1024x556.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/75-1024x556.jpeg" alt="" width="450" height="245" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/75-1024x556.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/75-300x163.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/75-768x417.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/75-1536x835.jpeg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/75-2048x1113.jpeg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/75-74x40.jpeg 74w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/75-50x27.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/75-270x147.jpeg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/75-1200x652.jpeg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64459" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://alinac.itch.io/">Alina Constantin</a><span> / </span><a href="https://www.betterimagesofai.org/">Better Images of AI</a><span> / Handmade A.I / </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons’ statement on the Opt-Out Exception Regime / Rights Reservation Regime for Text and Data Mining under Article 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market is now <a href="media/e6a2f0e7.CC-Statement-on-the-TDM-Exception-Art-4-DSM-Final.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CC-Statement-on-the-TDM-Exception-Art-4-DSM-Final.pdf">available here</a>. We&#8217;re grateful to everyone who contributed their many thoughtful comments during the public consultation period, which has now come to an end. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>We especially want to take the opportunity to thank our contributors to this statement:<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ana Lazarova (CC Bulgaria), Thomas Margoni (KU Leuven), Ariadna Matas (Europeana), Sarah Pearson (CC), Julia Reda (Shuttleworth Foundation), Brigitte Vézina (CC), Kat Walsh (CC), and Stephen Wyber (IFLA). </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here is Creative Commons’ summary position: </span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The terms of the Creative Commons (CC) licenses cannot be construed or interpreted as a reservation of a right in the context of Article 4 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (EU 2019/790) or any of its national transposition instruments. CC licenses do not operate as an opt-out of an exception or limitation to copyright. Both the language (legal code) and purpose (spirit) of the licenses prohibit such an interpretation:</span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The language in the licenses specifically makes clear that they are not intended to impose any restrictions beyond what copyright imposes, and that they do not override exceptions and limitations. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The licenses are designed to permit more uses than the default all-rights-reserved, so any interpretation that they do reserve rights in the context of Article 4 runs contrary to the overall design and purpose of the licenses. </span></li>
</ol>
<blockquote><p><b><i>Read Creative Commons’ full statement <a href="media/e6a2f0e7.CC-Statement-on-the-TDM-Exception-Art-4-DSM-Final.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CC-Statement-on-the-TDM-Exception-Art-4-DSM-Final.pdf">here</a>.</i></b></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/17/creative-commons-statement-on-cc-licenses-and-the-ext-and-data-mining-exception-under-article-4-eu-cdsm-directive/">Creative Commons&#8217; statement on CC licenses and the ext and data mining exception under Article 4 EU CDSM Directive</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64465
title: Open Minds Podcast: Creative Commons’ 20th Anniversary Special feat. Lawrence Lessig
uri: Open-Minds-Podcast-Creative-Commons-20th-Anniversary-Special-feat
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/19/open-minds-podcast-creative-commons-20th-anniversary-lawrence-lessig/

content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-63965" src="media/1d0d151f.Lessig-copy-906x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lessig-copy-906x1024.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="339" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lessig-copy-906x1024.jpg 906w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lessig-copy-265x300.jpg 265w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lessig-copy-768x868.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lessig-copy-1359x1536.jpg 1359w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lessig-copy-1812x2048.jpg 1812w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lessig-copy-35x40.jpg 35w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lessig-copy-44x50.jpg 44w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lessig-copy-137x155.jpg 137w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Lessig-copy-1200x1356.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />Hi Creative Commoners! We&#8217;re back with a very special episode of CC’s podcast, <a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons">Open Minds … from Creative Commo</a><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons">ns</a>. <strong>Today marks the 20th Anniversary of Creative Commons!</strong></p>
<p><span>On this milestone episode of CC&#8217;s Open Minds podcast, join us as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Creative Commons&#8217; founding on December 19, 2021. We take you back to Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s keynote from the 2021 CC Global Summit (<a href="https://youtu.be/oxzI0RToTzA">watch the recording here</a>), originally held in September 2021.<br />
</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Let me say thank you, 20 years is forever, and 20 years is just a beginning. The first 20 were extraordinary, but I think the next 20 could be so much, much more. Thank you so much for gathering to celebrate, and thank you for the inspiration and ideas that will make the next 20 even more important than the first.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span>Lawrence, fondly referred to by many as Larry, reflects on how CC began, what it has accomplished, and is later joined by Creative Commons CEO, Catherine Stihler, for a fireside chat where he shares his hopes for CC for the next twenty years and beyond. A distinguished attorney, political activist and incredible visionary, Lawrence is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Lawrence is a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/lessig/">Board Member Emeritus</a> of the Creative Commons board.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Listen on<span> </span><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-minds-from-creative-commons/id1554356942" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple Podcasts</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5bTf4Ok2R58bIul5LIHJVf?si=f2tIFA3cSJaW21XtS0B7BQ&amp;dl_branch=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spotify</a>, and<span> </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons">more.</a> You can also subscribe via the show’s<span> </span><a href="https://anchor.fm/s/4d70d828/podcast/rss">RSS feed</a>.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Episode transcript:<span> </span><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Open-Minds-Lawrence-Lessig-.txt">Text</a> //<span> </span><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Open-Minds-Lawrence-Lessig-.txt">PDF</a><span> </span>//<span> </span><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Open-Minds-Lawrence-Lessig-.docx">Doc</a></strong></li>
</ul>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/19/open-minds-podcast-creative-commons-20th-anniversary-lawrence-lessig/">Open Minds Podcast: Creative Commons&#8217; 20th Anniversary Special feat. Lawrence Lessig</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64483
title: A message from our CEO to the CC Community on Creative Commons’ 20th Anniversary
uri: A-message-from-our-CEO-to-the-CC-Community-on-Creative-Commons-20th
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/19/a-message-from-our-ceo-to-the-cc-community-on-creative-commons-20th-anniversary/

content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-63422" src="media/fd3c5356.20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1.png" alt="" width="2053" height="693" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1.png 2053w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1-300x101.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1-1024x346.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1-768x259.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1-1536x518.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1-2048x691.png 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1-118x40.png 118w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1-50x17.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1-270x91.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20A-Header-Colorful-Version-1-1200x405.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<figure id="attachment_64219" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64219" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64219" src="media/e6fbffee.Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="393" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-913x1024.jpg 913w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-268x300.jpg 268w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-768x861.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-1370x1536.jpg 1370w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-36x40.jpg 36w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-45x50.jpg 45w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-138x155.jpg 138w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590-1200x1346.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Catherine-Shiler-50-scaled-e1639913114590.jpg 1523w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64219" class="wp-caption-text"><span>&#8220;Catherine Stihler&#8221; by </span><a href="https://martinshields.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://martinshields.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639999532375000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2psi2D2myIUSkN134gdOeR">Martin Shields</a><span> is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639999532375000&amp;usg=AOvVaw17jGOhlTCpNI6RvKGAh8xZ">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>Dear CC Community,</p>
<p>It’s a very special day — today marks the <strong>20th Anniversary of Creative Commons&#8217; founding</strong>!</p>
<p>Twenty years ago, Creative Commons started with a simple, radical idea: to save the internet from “failed sharing” and create a world where everyone has access to knowledge and creativity.</p>
<p>What began as a simple idea and dream is today a reality worldwide. Over the past 20 years, Creative Commons has powered a <strong>global movement spanning 86 countries</strong>, developed and stewarded legal tools and licenses, and<strong> unlocked over two billion works</strong> that can be openly and freely shared.</p>
<p>But we didn&#8217;t get here on our own — as we&#8217;ve grown and evolved over the last two decades, we&#8217;ve built a vibrant global CC Community of advocates, activists, scholars, artists, and users working to strengthen the Commons worldwide. In 2017, we established the<a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/"> CC Global Network</a> to help coordinate and provide leadership in the global Creative Commons movement. <strong>And today there are 48 CC Chapters around the world!</strong></p>
<p><span>While we stay grounded in the vision of our founding, we also look toward the future. And for us, and many others, the future includes <strong>Better Sharing</strong> – the type of sharing that serves the public interest, creates the world the internet promised, and one where everyone has access to culture, science, and knowledge. We invite you to support our <strong><a href="https://creativecommons.org/20-years/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Better Sharing campaign</a></strong> below.</p>
<p><strong>And the good news is that the celebration isn’t over yet!</strong> The 20th Anniversary of CC licenses is December 16, 2022. So throughout the year, we will continue conversations with influencers who are adding to the open movement, share insights and innovations from CC staff and partners, and host special events of celebration for our global community. Keep an eye on the CC Blog, our monthly newsletters, and on social for exciting announcements and new content.</p>
<p>To the entire <strong>CC Community, CC staff and board members (past and present), our 20th Anniversary Committee, CC friends, partners and donors</strong> — I thank you for your continued commitment to Creative Commons and our mission. Simply put, we wouldn&#8217;t be celebrating 20 years of CC without you.</p>
<p><strong>Here’s to another 20 fantastic years! </strong></span></p>
<p><span>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Catherine Stihler,<br />
</span>CEO of Creative Commons<br />
On behalf of the CC Team <img loading="lazy" src="media/d76c6112.0caab65cabd44307.png" data-original-source="https://emoji.slack-edge.com/T2BQ14ZC6/love_cc/0caab65cabd44307.png" alt="love_cc" width="15px" height="14px" data-ratio-lock="true" data-unit="px" /></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><em><strong>Check out our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/19/open-minds-podcast-creative-commons-20th-anniversary-lawrence-lessig/">special 20th Anniversary episode of CC&#8217;s Open Minds</a> podcast, featuring Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig!</strong> Lessig reflects on how CC began, what it has accomplished, and what he hopes to see in the next twenty years and beyond. </em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/19/a-message-from-our-ceo-to-the-cc-community-on-creative-commons-20th-anniversary/">A message from our CEO to the CC Community on Creative Commons&#8217; 20th Anniversary</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64490
title: Digital Services Act — Is the EU legislative train on the right track?
uri: Digital-Services-Act-Is-the-EU-legislative-train-on-the-right-trac
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/21/digital-services-act-is-the-eu-legislative-train-on-the-right-track/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On December 14, the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) of the European Parliament </span><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20211210IPR19209/digital-services-act-safer-online-space-for-users-stricter-rules-for-platforms"><span style="font-weight: 400;">adopted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> its position on the </span><a href="https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?lang=en&amp;reference=2020/0361(COD)"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digital Services Act</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (DSA) proposal, under the leadership of IMCO DSA Rapporteur MEP </span><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/37312/CHRISTEL_SCHALDEMOSE/home"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Christel Schaldemose</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (S&amp;D, Denmark).</span></p>
<h3><b>What is the Digital Services Act?</b><a style="display: inline-block; white-space: none; margin-top: 2px; margin-left: 3px; height: 22px !important;" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse&amp;atype=html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="height: inherit; margin-right: 3px; display: inline-block;" src="https://search.creativecommons.org/static/img/cc_icon.svg?image_id=fe746e9c-9333-420f-b5c5-c2aee84ab04b" /><img style="height: inherit; margin-right: 3px; display: inline-block;" src="media/896c1ab3.cc-by_icon.svg" data-original-source="https://search.creativecommons.org/static/img/cc-by_icon.svg" /></a></h3>
<figure id="attachment_64491" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64491" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64491 size-medium" src="media/d576908c.35440117101_2acdb1a905_o-300x188.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/35440117101_2acdb1a905_o-300x188.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="188" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/35440117101_2acdb1a905_o-300x188.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/35440117101_2acdb1a905_o-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/35440117101_2acdb1a905_o-768x480.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/35440117101_2acdb1a905_o-64x40.jpg 64w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/35440117101_2acdb1a905_o-50x31.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/35440117101_2acdb1a905_o-248x155.jpg 248w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/35440117101_2acdb1a905_o-1200x750.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/35440117101_2acdb1a905_o.jpg 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64491" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/61502033@N02/35440117101" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-v-3ff7d89a="">&#8220;GDPR &#8211; General Data Protection Regulation&#8221;</a><span data-v-3ff7d89a=""> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/61502033@N02" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-v-3ff7d89a="">thedescrier</a></span><span> is licensed under </span><a class="photo_license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse&amp;atype=rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-v-3ff7d89a="">CC BY 2.0</a><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 16px;"></span><a style="display: inline-block; white-space: none; margin-top: 2px; margin-left: 3px; height: 22px !important;" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse&amp;atype=html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img style="height: inherit; margin-right: 3px; display: inline-block;" src="https://search.creativecommons.org/static/img/cc_icon.svg?image_id=fe746e9c-9333-420f-b5c5-c2aee84ab04b" /><img style="height: inherit; margin-right: 3px; display: inline-block;" src="media/896c1ab3.cc-by_icon.svg" data-original-source="https://search.creativecommons.org/static/img/cc-by_icon.svg" /></a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 “</span><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-a-europe-fit-for-the-digital-age/file-digital-services-act"><span style="font-weight: 400;">create a safer and trusted online environment</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” 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 </span><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=celex%3A32000L0031"><span style="font-weight: 400;">e-Commerce Directive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (2000/31/EC) was adopted 20 years ago. </span></p>
<h3><b>Creative Commons’ reaction to the IMCO report</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the DSA IMCO report presents positive outcomes, it does leave many causes for concern. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 </span><a href="https://www.wikimedia.de/presse/wikimedia-deutschland-begruesst-fortschritte-beim-digital-services-act-gemeinnuetzige-plattformen-aber-noch-nicht-ausreichend-beruecksichtigt/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">views</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lastly, we are very concerned about any media exemption (a content moderation carve out) requested by press publishers. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">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). </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">MEPs must not succumb to the pressure by press publishers and broadcasters; they must continue to fight against disinformation. </span></p>
<h3><b>Creative Commons’ work on platform liability</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the course of 2021, the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/12/the-future-of-open-webinar-recap-recording/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright Platform of the Creative Commons Global Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, via its Working Group (WG) on Platform Liability, developed a policy paper entitled </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/freedom-to-share-how-the-law-of-platform-liability-impacts-licensors-and-users-84d86adade4e"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Freedom to Share: How the Law of Platform Liability Impacts Licensors and Users</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Taking a global approach and through a freedom to share lens, the WG assessed current trends and produced five recommendations: </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-64269" src="media/0ae9ee11.Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-1024x572.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-1024x572.png" alt="" width="840" height="469" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-1024x572.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-300x168.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-768x429.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-72x40.png 72w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2-270x151.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screenshot-2021-11-09-at-12.30.35-2.png 1106w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<h3><b>What’s next? </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We at CC will be observing these developments with great interest as we work towards </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/20-years/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for a better internet.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/21/digital-services-act-is-the-eu-legislative-train-on-the-right-track/">Digital Services Act — Is the EU legislative train on the right track?</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64503
title: SOPA Plus 10, reflections and continued work
uri: SOPA-Plus-10-reflections-and-continued-work
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/10/sopa-plus-10/
content:
<p>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.</p>
<p>Why are we talking about this day ten years later?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h4><strong>Here is a simplified overview of SOPA/PIPA.</strong></h4>
<p>SOPA and PIPA aimed to tighten U.S. laws <span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>If passed, the U.S. </span><span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>While the bills intended to stop piracy, they were vaguely written with disastrous consequences. For example: </span></p>
<ul>
<li><span>DNS blocking sets a global </span>precedent and disrupts internet architecture.</li>
<li><span>Cybersecurity, and the possibility of Americans opting to use foreign DNS services to reach sites, was concerning. </span></li>
<li>Ideologically, the bills undermine the foundational structure of the global internet, cultural communication, free speech, economic innovation, and how people create, find, discuss, and share information lawfully online.</li>
</ul>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.fightforthefuture.org/">Fight for the Future</a>, 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.</p>
<p>On January 18, 2012:</p>
<ul>
<li>50,000 websites went dark including Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, and Craigslist.</li>
<li>162 million people visited Wikipedia.</li>
<li>115,000 sites, including Creative Commons, altered web pages with banners and messages opposing SOPA and PIPA with links to Congress.</li>
<li>Google blacked out its logo and generated over 7 million signatures on its petition.</li>
<li>Electronic Frontier Foundation reported more than 1 million emails were sent to congress using their site.</li>
<li>MSNBC reported over 2.4 million Twitter messages about SOPA/PIPA.</li>
<li>887,000 people phoned congress.</li>
<li><em>Time</em> reported that before the day had ended, “the political dominoes began to fall…then trickle turned into flood.”</li>
<li><em>The Washington Post</em> said, “This is what happens when you make the internet mad.”</li>
<li><em>The New York Times</em> said this sent “an unmistakable message to lawmakers grappling with new media issues: Don’t mess with the Internet.”</li>
</ul>
<p>As a result, SOPA was tabled, and PIPA was postponed.</p>
<h4><strong>January 18 is an historic marker of solidarity, a public interest victory. </strong></h4>
<p>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 <strong>SOPA Plus 10</strong> 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.</p>
<h4><strong>community events<br />
COMMEMORATING #sopa plus 10</strong></h4>
<p><strong><em>This list will be updated as new events are added, and registrations become available.</em></strong></p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">DATE</td>
<td width="156">EVENT/RECOGNITION</td>
<td width="156">ORGANIZER</td>
<td width="156">DETAILS</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 17 (ongoing)</td>
<td width="156">10 years of what SOPA/PIPA’s demise made possible</td>
<td width="156">Re:Create</td>
<td width="156"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 17-21</td>
<td width="156">Copyright Week</td>
<td width="156">Electronic Frontier Foundation</td>
<td width="156"><a href="https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek">Agenda</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 18<br />
11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. EST</td>
<td width="156">Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout</td>
<td width="156">Georgetown Law<br />
and Wikimedia Foundation</td>
<td width="156"><a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/tech-institute/news/regulating-the-internet-ten-years-after-the-sopa-pipa-blackout/">Info and Registration</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 18 (ongoing)</td>
<td width="156">Better Internet Conversation and Articles</td>
<td width="156">Public Knowledge</td>
<td width="156"><a href="https://publicknowledge.org/">PK Website Link</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 18 (ongoing)</td>
<td width="156">Better Internet Series</td>
<td width="156">Creative Commons and Global Summit Partners</td>
<td width="156"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/22/introducing-the-better-internet-series/">CC Series Link</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 18</p>
<p>1:00 p.m. PST</td>
<td width="156">Privacy event with Library Freedom Project, George Christian of the Connecticut Four, and Sarah Lamdan of CUNY</td>
<td width="156">Library Futures</td>
<td width="156"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Four">More Information</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 19</td>
<td width="156">Event: A look back on SOPA. A look ahead for what’s next</td>
<td width="156">COPIA</td>
<td width="156"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 20</td>
<td width="156">Public Domain Day Observed: Celebration of Sound</td>
<td width="156">Internet Archive<br />
Creative Commons<br />
Other Leaders from Open World</td>
<td width="156"><a href="http://blog.archive.org/2021/12/08/three-ways-to-celebrate-the-public-domain-in-2022/">Three ways to celebrate Public Domain in 2022</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 20<br />
7:00 p.m. UTC<br />
2:00 p.m. EST</td>
<td width="156">Better News: Open Internet and Journalism (webinars aimed at journalists)</td>
<td width="156">Creative Commons</td>
<td width="156">Google News Initiative and CC will reflect on the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of technology, journalism, and social power.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 21</td>
<td width="156">SOPA 10 Years Out: Startups and User Generated Content</td>
<td width="156">Engine Advocacy</td>
<td width="156">Will discuss intermediary liability frameworks aimed at Hill staff and members of the public interest and technology policy communities.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">January 27</p>
<p>4:30 p.m. UTC</p>
<p>11:30 a.m. EST</td>
<td width="156">Better News Series: Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation Campaigns: A Community Led Approach</td>
<td width="156">Creative Commons</td>
<td width="156">This conversation will highlight Wikimedia Foundation’s technical perspective and community lead approach to addressing mis/disinformation campaigns.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">February 8</p>
<p>2:00 p.m. UTC</p>
<p>9:00 a.m. EST</td>
<td width="156">Better News Series: Risks with Digital Platforms, Language and Narrative Power</td>
<td width="156">Creative Commons</td>
<td width="156">Speakers will explore risks of digital platforms: further marginalizing languages, spreading disinformation, and perpetuating power structures in India and globally.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">February 15</p>
<p>2:00 p.m. UTC</p>
<p>9:00 a.m. EST</td>
<td width="156">Better News Series: Gunfire and Ground truth, Investigative Journalism Using Creative Commons</td>
<td width="156">Creative Commons</td>
<td width="156">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.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">March 1</p>
<p>TBC</td>
<td width="156">Better News Series: CC licenses and combatting disinformation campaigns through better sharing</td>
<td width="156">Creative Commons</td>
<td width="156">This discussion will explore how CC licenses increase better information sharing in global journalism.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="156">March 23</p>
<p>2:00 pm-6:00 pm UTC</p>
<p>10:00 am-2:00 pm EDT</td>
<td width="156">Better News Series: Free Online Training</td>
<td width="156">Creative Commons</td>
<td width="156">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!</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/10/sopa-plus-10/">SOPA Plus 10, reflections and continued work</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64537
title: Open Minds Podcast: Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise & Free Music Archive
uri: Open-Minds-Podcast-Hessel-van-Oorschot-of-Tribe-of-Noise-Free-Music
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/12/open-minds-podcast-hessel-van-oorschot-of-tribe-of-noise-free-music-archive/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hi Creative Commoners! We’re back with the first episode of Open Minds  … from Creative Commons in 2022.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_64541" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64541" style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64541" src="media/7cdedf45.hessel-lisboa-1-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="400" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-350x350.jpg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-155x155.jpg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/hessel-lisboa-1-1200x1200.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64541" class="wp-caption-text">Photo courtesy of Hessel van Oorschot</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, CC’s Ony Anukem sits down for a conversation with Hessel van Oorschot, founder and &#8220;Chief of Noise&#8221; of the online music business </span><a href="https://www.tribeofnoise.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tribe of Noise</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. 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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tribe of Noise are the stewards of the </span><a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free Music Archive</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Listen on </b><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-minds-from-creative-commons/id1554356942"><b>Apple Podcasts</b></a><b>, </b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5bTf4Ok2R58bIul5LIHJVf?si=f2tIFA3cSJaW21XtS0B7BQ&amp;dl_branch=1"><b>Spotify</b></a><b>, and </b><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons"><b>more.</b></a><b> You can also subscribe via the show’s </b><a href="https://anchor.fm/s/4d70d828/podcast/rss"><b>RSS feed</b></a><b>.</b></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Episode transcript: </b><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/13-Hessel-van-Oorschot-of-Tribe-of-Noise-Free-Music-Archive.docx.txt"><b>Text</b></a><b> // </b><a href="media/d6d56e21.essel-van-Oorschot-of-Tribe-of-Noise-Free-Music-Archive.docx.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/13-Hessel-van-Oorschot-of-Tribe-of-Noise-Free-Music-Archive.docx.pdf"><b>PDF</b></a><b> // </b><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/13-Hessel-van-Oorschot-of-Tribe-of-Noise-Free-Music-Archive.docx.txt"><b>Doc</b></a></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/12/open-minds-podcast-hessel-van-oorschot-of-tribe-of-noise-free-music-archive/">Open Minds Podcast: Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise &#038; Free Music Archive</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64556
uri: Join-us-for-Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-the-new-Creative-C
title:
Join us for ‘Ground Truth in Open Internet’ — the new Creative Commons Open Journalism Webinar Series and Training

url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/14/join-us-for-ground-truth-in-open-internet-the-new-creative-commons-open-journalism-webinar-series-and-training/

content:
<figure id="attachment_64558" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64558" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-64558" src="media/ed582c63.Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-Twitter-Header-1024x341.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-Twitter-Header-1024x341.png" alt="" width="840" height="280" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-Twitter-Header-1024x341.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-Twitter-Header-300x100.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-Twitter-Header-768x256.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-Twitter-Header-120x40.png 120w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-Twitter-Header-50x17.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-Twitter-Header-270x90.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-Twitter-Header-1200x400.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ground-Truth-in-Open-Internet-Twitter-Header.png 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64558" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/carry-the-truth">&#8220;Carry The Truth Forward&#8221;</a> by Teo Georgiev for Fine Acts licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Introducing our Ground Truth in Open Internet Series</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Online narrative power as social power</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Access to information and paywalls in the time of COVID</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to address mis &amp; disinformation campaigns shifting the focus of traditional news audiences</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The rising role of nonprofit media and the gap they fill</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open licensed media</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>This webinar series will culminate in a ½ day training providing: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright basics for journalists</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tools for open access research</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Access to usable photo and media archives</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to best use open licensed media</span></span></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<h3><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/ground-truth-in-open-internet-creative-commons-open-journalism-webinar-series-and-training/e386024"><span style="font-weight: 400;">REGISTER HERE</span></a></h3>
</blockquote>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
Key Dates and Session Information</span></h3>
<p><b>Open Internet and Journalism</b></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><b>January 20, 7:00 pm UTC/2:00 pm EST </b></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaker: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyaedwards/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ashley Edwards</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">US Partnerships Manager, </span><a href="https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google News Initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaker: </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catherine Stihler</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CEO of </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">To kick off the discussion series, Google News Initiative and Creative Commons will reflect on the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of technology, journalism, and social power. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation Campaigns: a Community Led Approach</b></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><b>January 27, 4:30 pm UTC/ 11:30 am EST </b></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaker: </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:KLevan_(WMF)"><b>Kate Levan</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disinformation Specialist &#8211; Trust &amp; Safety, </span><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikimedia Foundation </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">(WMF) </span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaker: </span><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/diego-saez-trumper/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diego Saez-Trumper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Senior Research Scientist at </span><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikimedia Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (WMF)</span></span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This conversation will highlight Wikimedia Foundation’s technical perspective and community-led approach to addressing mis and disinformation campaigns on Wikipedia, highlighting the </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Wikipedia_Disinformation_Assessment-2021"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Croatian Disinformation Case</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><a href="media/bde9cab0.FileBiden_Campaign_Disinformation_Retrospective.pdf" data-original-source="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biden_Campaign_Disinformation_Retrospective.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biden Campaign Disinformation Retrospective</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Risks with Digital Platforms: Language and Narrative Power </b></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><b>February 8, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00 am EST</b></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaker: </span><a href="https://cis-india.org/raw/digital-humanities/sneha-pp.pdf/view"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PP Sneha</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Program Manager at the </span><a href="https://cis-india.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Centre for Internet and Society</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaker: </span><a href="https://www.torshasarkar.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Torsha Sarkar</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Policy Officer at the </span><a href="https://cis-india.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Centre for Internet and Society</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaker: </span><a href="https://openlearning.mit.edu/about/our-team/peter-b-kaufman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Peter Kaufmann</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://openlearning.mit.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MIT Open Learning</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Strategic Initiatives<br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speakers will explore risks of digital platforms: further marginalizing languages, spreading disinformation, and perpetuating power structures in India and globally. Speakers will also describe new ways journalists can work with digital knowledge institutions. Conversation will draw from the Centre for Internet and Society’s Global Disinformation Index’s (GDI) </span><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/gdi-and-cis-torsha-sarkar-pranav-m-bidare-and-gurshabad-grover-july-12-2021-media-market-risk-ratings-india"><span style="font-weight: 400;">study into the risk of disinformation on digital news platforms in India</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a forthcoming report on the </span><a href="https://whoseknowledge.org/initiatives/state-of-the-internets-languages/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">State of the Internet’s Languages</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and Peter Kaufmann’s recent book, “</span><a href="https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/gdi-and-cis-torsha-sarkar-pranav-m-bidare-and-gurshabad-grover-july-12-2021-media-market-risk-ratings-india"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New Enlightenment and the fight to free knowledge</span></a><b>.</b><b>” </b></em></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Gunfire and Ground truth: Investigative Journalism Using Creative Commons</b></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><b>February 15, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00 am EST</b></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaker: </span><a href="https://shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/cecilia-oliveira/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cecília Oliviera</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Investigative Journalist and founder of</span><a href="https://fogocruzado.org.br/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Fogo Cruzado</span></a><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cecília Oliviera will discuss developing and using crowd-sourcing on an open platform as an investigative tool in journalism focused on drug and arms trafficking. In 2016, frustrated with the lack of publicly available data, she began mapping every shooting in Rio de Janeiro. This effort turned into Fogo Cruzado, an open data platform on armed violence that is spreading to every major city in Brazil.</span></em></li>
</ul>
<p><b>CC licenses and Combatting Disinformation Campaigns</b></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><b>March 3, 2:00 pm UTC/ 9:00am  </b></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaker: Shalini Joshi, Executive Editor and co-founder of Khabar Lahariya and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regional Program Officer at </span><a href="https://meedan.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meedan</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(India)</span></li>
<li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaker: </span><a href="mailto:joel.abrams@theconversation.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joel Abrams</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Director of Digital Strategy and Outreach at</span> <a href="https://theconversation.com/us"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Conversation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (US)</span></span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This discussion will explore how CC licenses increase information sharing in global journalism. Speakers will share anecdotes from Meedan’s </span><a href="https://meedan.com/checklist"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Checklist</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a weekly roundup of global misinformation news—open-source investigations, industry resources and event information. Discussion will also target</span> <a href="https://theconversation.com/us"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Conversation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a nonprofit network of 8 international news sites publishing hundreds of useful articles of news and analysis each week, all written by experts, in 4 languages, and all available under the Creative Commons license, CC-BY-ND.</span></em></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Free Online Training</b></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><b>March 23, 2:00 pm-6:00 pm UTC/ 10:00 am-2:00 pm EDT</b><em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">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!  Come away from the training, understanding the flexibilities within copyright law that journalists can harness for better information sharing. Journalists will also gain the practical tools and resource lists to take advantage of open licensed content. All are welcome to join. </span></em></li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us for our ‘</span><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/ground-truth-in-open-internet-creative-commons-open-journalism-webinar-series-and-training/e386024"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ground Truth in Open Internet</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">’ 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. </span><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/ground-truth-in-open-internet-creative-commons-open-journalism-webinar-series-and-training/e386024"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register here &gt;&gt;</span></a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/14/join-us-for-ground-truth-in-open-internet-the-new-creative-commons-open-journalism-webinar-series-and-training/">Join us for ‘Ground Truth in Open Internet&#8217; — the new Creative Commons Open Journalism Webinar Series and Training</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64568
title: Assessing cultural heritage institutions’ needs related to CC’s public domain tools
uri: Assessing-cultural-heritage-institutions-needs-related-to-CC-s-pu
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/17/assessing-cultural-heritage-institutions-needs-related-to-ccs-public-domain-tools/

content:
<figure id="attachment_64570" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64570" style="width: 296px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-64570 size-medium" src="media/f0d020ed.280325-296x300.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/280325-296x300.png" alt="" width="296" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/280325-296x300.png 296w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/280325-1011x1024.png 1011w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/280325-768x778.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/280325-1516x1536.png 1516w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/280325-39x40.png 39w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/280325-50x50.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/280325-153x155.png 153w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/280325-1200x1216.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/280325.png 1974w" sizes="(max-width: 296px) 85vw, 296px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-64570" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://openclipart.org/detail/280325/floral-tile">Floral tile</a>&#8221; by Kevin David Pointon (CC0 1.0)</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On January 1, 2022, and throughout the month of January, Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/09/public-domain-2022-join-us-20-january-for-a-celebration-of-sound/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, welcoming copyright works into the public domain, where they become freely available for the public to use, reuse and modify. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of our</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture / GLAM program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">’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,</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/pdm/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain Mark (PDM)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. To do so, we are collecting information on understandings, issues, needs, wishes and expectations via a short survey in English, French and Spanish. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img src="media/0606a352.1f4cc.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f4cc.png" alt="📌" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />  Take our</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQNNTG5cZdJ7RGdY_ft9NwUEPBzYidW_ntubCdYDhO6wSZnA/viewform"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">survey</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in English.<br />
</span><span><img src="media/0606a352.1f4cc.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f4cc.png" alt="📌" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />  Répondez à notre</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOFpHeZ1O616VbOHnacTG1Nni9nYDGTf1YjqEfVi9D-p73Kw/viewform"> <span>sondage</span></a><span> en français.<br />
</span><span><img src="media/0606a352.1f4cc.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f4cc.png" alt="📌" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />  Responde a nuestra</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgyAGgLwXq88DCO_iR3hbrFNrnahkw1b05JhnyuIBtqjJo0g/viewform"> <span>encuesta</span></a><span> en español.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Answers will inform CC’s</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/stewardship/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">license stewardship</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> mandate and ensure the tools continue to respond to GLAMs’ concrete needs. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>The survey is open until 31 January, 2022.</strong></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><b>Help us reach out to institutions from around the world</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: 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</span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1480902490442842117?s=20"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">English</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1480903775070085122?s=20"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">French</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and</span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1480903776743612420?s=20"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Spanish</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/17/assessing-cultural-heritage-institutions-needs-related-to-ccs-public-domain-tools/">Assessing cultural heritage institutions’ needs related to CC’s public domain tools</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64578
title: Better Internet Series: Access to Information and Knowledge
uri: Better-Internet-Series-Access-to-Information-and-Knowledge
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/18/better-internet-series-access-to-information-and-knowledge/
content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64580" src="media/ec233f0e.HeaderAI-1.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HeaderAI-1.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="481" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HeaderAI-1.jpg 900w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HeaderAI-1-300x160.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HeaderAI-1-768x410.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HeaderAI-1-75x40.jpg 75w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HeaderAI-1-50x27.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HeaderAI-1-270x144.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<h4><b>PREFACE</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/11/22/introducing-the-better-internet-series/">See our article introducing this series.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This article is part of a series of five pieces detailing breakout sessions from the 2021 Creative Commons (CC) Global Summit related to imagining a Better Internet. Throughout 2021, community partners interested in building a “better internet” have been coming together for conversations. Some partners joined as an opportunity to mark the 10th anniversary of the US-based fight to defeat the legislation known as </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/10/sopa-plus-10/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SOPA/PIPA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<h4><b>INTRODUCTION</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the 2021 Creative Commons (CC) Global Summit, organizations, activists, advocates, librarians, educators, lawyers, technologists, and others participated in workshops on “creating a better internet.” </span><b>During the breakout conversation on “Access to Information and Knowledge,” participants discussed problems, generated ideas, and formulated solutions about re-imagining the internet. </b></p>
<h4><b>VISION FOR THE FUTURE</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2003, The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities issued an international statement about open access and access to knowledge, “the mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the information is not made widely and readily available to society”. This ideal holds true today.</span></p>
<h3><b>The emerging vision for access to information and knowledge, in all disciplines, includes free, equitable, openly licensed, and trusted information that serves the public’s interests. </b></h3>
<p><b>Benefits:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Open access to information and knowledge (as opposed to closed, subscription, paid access, or censored access) is vital for solving the world’s biggest challenges through increased readership, wider collaboration, and faster results for institutions, researchers, nations, and citizens. It strengthens the valorization of knowledge and could be a critical step in advancing UNESCO’s sustainable development goals. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to reach this vision, a number of critical barriers to address were discussed during the workshop. </span></p>
<h4><b>BARRIERS TO OVERCOME</b></h4>
<p>In 1984, Stewart Brand said, “Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine—too cheap to meter. It wants to be expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable to the recipient. That tension will not go away. It leads to endless wrenching debate about price, copyright, ‘intellectual property’, the moral rightness of casual distribution, because each round of new devices makes the tension worse, not better.”</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As you can see, the balancing act between social impact and profit is not new; however, today cultural shifts are happening. Purpose-driven consumers support and are demanding business models to change for the betterment of society. COVID-19 accelerated this shift as more and more companies are creating social impact statements and delivering tangible action on those statements. Why can’t that be the case for the dissemination of information?</span></p>
<p><b>Publication Business Model:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In a print-on-paper business model, journals sold through subscriptions were a way to recoup cost. Only those who could afford to pay the charges were able to read the articles. The internet changed the cost of distribution, but not necessarily the model. Research findings could be freely shared without printing costs. Publicly-funded research should be freely accessible so that society can benefit from the results. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most journal publishers, not the authors, own the copyright to the articles in their journals as authors must transfer their rights. The status of publication and peer review is an incentive for many authors. This is an old business model. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For libraries, educational institutions and other organizations, they must negotiate with publishers to share paywalled research with their stakeholders. Even then, in many cases the article cannot be reused or built upon by researchers, students, or taxpayers without permission, and often more fees, from the publisher.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Great strides have been made in terms of access to research with publishers adopting open licensing options, but often the cost of the publication then falls to the author or their home institution, shifting the burden of the cost, allowing the publisher to retain their margins. This is a known challenge and Creative Commons anticipates further conversations in the coming year exploring these tensions of open access.</span></p>
<p><b>Digital Divide:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The digital divide is the gap between demographics and regions that have access to information and technology and those that have restricted access based on region or barriers. This unequal equity divide can be based on education, income, geography, language, and internet access. In 2021, nearly 37% of the world’s population had never used the internet (source: United Nations 11.20.21). While open and freely distributed access to information and technology would help close the divide, it doesn’t solve all of the problems with equity. </span></p>
<p><b>Permissions: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright can unreasonably restrict a user’s access to content and doesn’t have to be a barrier to open access if the copyright holder gives consent through Creative Commons licenses. These “some rights reserved” permissions, that focus on the end-user and their ability to access copyright material, empowers the content holder and elevates the public interest impact of access. This also safeguards public institutions which promote the preservation of and public access to information, knowledge, and culture; but as those in the open movement know all too well, great swaths of human history, culture, and knowledge still remain locked away despite already being in the public domain.</span></p>
<p><b>Trusted Information: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today’s internet is rife with concerns about privacy, confidentiality, violence, misinformation, bias, excessive profit and polarization. There are ideological and competing differences between autocracies and democracies. While global connectivity accelerates the benefits of sharing information and knowledge, it has also created problems that have harmed citizens. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Misinformation was one of the topics discussed during the workshops and the outcomes of those discussions will be explored in-depth in a separate article.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Censorship was not comprehensively discussed during the breakout session, but Creative Commons plans to explore this topic in depth during future workshops. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In order to make progress towards better access to information and knowledge, here are some action steps to realizing an affirmative vision. As mentioned before, this is not a comprehensive list but highlights from the workshop conversations.</span></p>
<h4><b>REALIZING THE VISION</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The vision of access to information and knowledge includes the free, equitable, openly licensed, and trusted information that serves the public’s interests. How can we get there? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Better access to information and knowledge prioritizes policy and advocacy, an ethical cultural shift, and public interest commons.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The overarching, guiding principle of all work focuses on what best serves the public’s interests and clarifies the use of the internet to preserve the benefits and limit, or eliminate, the harms we as a society have allowed to grow online. </span></p>
<p><b>Policy and Advocacy: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Policy and advocacy should focus on what is best for public interest. This work for a better internet can include: open access licensing, progressive intellectual property law reform, access regulations, digital divide, helping UNESCO’s members implement Open Education and Open Science recommendations, freedom of expression, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works, to name a few that were mentioned during the workshops.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons anticipates organizing and discovering many more policy and advocacy priorities as discussion around a better internet continues.</span></p>
<p><b>Open Internet for Democracy: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The internet is an information domain, and supporting an open and accessible internet is fundamental to the success of democratic societies. Digital spaces should serve the public’s interest. In order to get there, all sectors of society, including governments, the tech industry, publishers, and civil society, should focus on trusted information, ethics, privacy and transparency that value people over profit. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Accurate, fair, and trusted information should be digital age norms and considered as an essential service. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Truth is knowable and citizens should be able to access information in a language they can consume and discern sources.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Global access, accurate news, and fact-based public information spaces could help inform citizens, strengthen democratic self-governance, close the digital divide, and help address the world’s problems. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">More discussion took place on the topic of misinformation, which touched on a lot of these, and will be explored in a future article. Access to information and access to accurate information are two different but related challenges.</span></p>
<h4><b>CONCLUSION</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A recurring point that emerged during the workshop was a desire for a public interest commons that supersedes commercial interests. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aspiring, constructing, and reinforcing better access to information and knowledge, to solve social and community challenges, will require prioritizing democratic self-governance, public good, innovative technological solutions, education, advocacy, and policy work. To reach this goal, i</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">t is important to educate others, including policymakers, publishers, authors, and creators, so they have a better understanding of open source licensing, and how better sharing of information, knowledge and culture is in the public’s best interest to advance society. This includes using shared language and translations, without legalese, so that all citizens have equal opportunities to learn and contribute. </span></p>
<hr />
<h4><b>APPENDIX</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The following is a consolidation of comments made during the 2021 CC Global Summit breakout session, Access to Information and Knowledge. If you would like to add your thoughts and participate in the conversation, use #BetterInternet on social media.</span></p>
<h4><b>PROMPT</b></h4>
<p><b>“I will know we have achieved a better internet with regard to Access to Information if/when&#8230;”</b></p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barriers</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Locate Info. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cost</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are no barriers to finding the information you want to find. If it existed, it’s available for you to read/listen to/watch/otherwise consume without cost.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Individual interest can’t impede legitimate access to information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are no more funding battles concerning libraries and their future in supporting a better internet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We do not constantly hit paywalls if we look for scientific information.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digital Divide</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Equity</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gov Regulation</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Where you live doesn’t limit your ability to access information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyone/everywhere across the world has easy access to information. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">High quality information is available in a language that most people can understand and process.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Governments don’t use legal means to restrict internet access for their own ends.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Education </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
Open Licensing</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Developers, researchers, others, have a better understanding of open source licensing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All information is accessible through a CC licenses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All information about and resources to solve the </span><a href="https://en.unesco.org/sustainabledevelopmentgoals"><span style="font-weight: 400;">United Nations (UNSCO) Sustained Development Goals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is openly licensed and freely available to the public.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Interest</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have open platform that enable smooth access but also re-purposing content &#8211; at the same time we have effective social control (no spam, no threats, no discrimination).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Information is accountable to people.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When publicly available information can be accessed without license or tracking.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We no longer need freedom of information rules.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Governments don’t use legal means to restrict internet access for their own ends.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regulations are set up to protect individuals and not to restrict access.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publicly Funded = OPEN</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">All publicly funded education resources are openly licensed (CC BY).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">All publicly funded research is openly licensed (CC BY on articles, 0 embargo, CC0 on data).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publicly funded pharmaceuticals have open patents and are freely available.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Trusted Information</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Every user has a known toolkit of trusted tools that they can trust to find the knowledge they want, and understand why, where, and the context of the information they’re given.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">High quality (trusted) information is freely available and effectively support equal rights for education.</span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h4><b>PROMPT</b></h4>
<p><b>I/We are working to realize a better internet with regard to Access to Information by doing X to achieve Z.</b></p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Source Licenses</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensuring information is not locked away by law (ex: copyright) or technology (ex: 1201-empowered software).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using openly licensed content to achieve free no barrier access to research and information. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Campaigning for the public domain to achieve a commons for all.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Removing proprietary ownership to achieve access for everyone everywhere.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cost </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and publisher model</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contesting actions by publishers to propertize public information and academic research. </span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Policy:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work with governments</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Education</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">By helping UNESCO’s members (national governments) implement its Recommendations on </span><a href="https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Education</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.unesco.org/en/natural-sciences/open-science"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Science</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensuring that policymakers understand and believe in the importance of access to information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pushing back on overreaching/oversimplified information regulation.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Interest  </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and Equity and Inclusivity</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Understanding how to better share to achieve freeing of knowledge and culture for the public good and in the public interest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Providing factual, trustworthy information in a language that people without university degree can understand is essential to achieve wisdom, democracy, and equal opportunities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sharing more to achieve a more inclusive net.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intermediary Protection</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensuring that services and people can help provide information/facilitate information sharing/host information/etc. </span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/18/better-internet-series-access-to-information-and-knowledge/">Better Internet Series: Access to Information and Knowledge</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64595
title: Creative Commons Receives $1M Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Advance Better Sharing
uri: Creative-Commons-Receives-1M-Grant-from-Robert-Wood-Johnson-Foundatio
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/24/creative-commons-receives-1m-grant-from-robert-wood-johnson-foundation-to-advance-better-sharing/

content:
<p><b>MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently allocated $1M to Creative Commons (CC) in honor of CC’s 20th Anniversary. This three-year, general operating support will help foster CC’s commitment to Better Sharing by addressing equity gaps and unequal balances of power in the open ecosystem.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The internet has global ownership with </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">people sharing more information and ideas than ever before; but not all sharing supports equity and the public’s best interests. Better Sharing involves a concerted effort and dedication to building a globally produced, open commons of knowledge, data, culture, and innovation that is universally applicable and accessible.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We are committed to building a world where everyone, everywhere, has access to free and open knowledge,” says Catherine Stihler, CC chief executive officer. “For us, this means doubling down on our efforts to ensure open access and better sharing for all – not only those with privilege. It also means launching new ventures in Open Science to remove unnecessary barriers to addressing public health crises and the climate emergency, driving comprehensive equitable solutions.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the last 20 years, CC has been at the forefront of the digital commons, prioritizing equity in our foundational projects, spanning license stewardship and infrastructure, cultural heritage, education, science, policy, and expanding the global open community. Through CC’s signature licenses, creators have shared over 2 billion works of art, images, texts, research, textbooks, and 3-D models. This global copyright standard empowers people, institutions, and systems to share information openly to advance education, equity, and creativity worldwide. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To ensure inclusively, sustained progress of Better Sharing, CC will strengthen the CC licenses with a focus on technical infrastructure, legal robustness, accessibility features, and supporting materials. This includes refining open tools and learning materials to strengthen collaborations and community-led solutions, improve knowledge, provide benefits, solve global challenges, promote the public good, and address systemic disparities and biases. </span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><b>About the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:<br />
</b>Support for Better Sharing is provided, in part, by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is committed to improving health and health equity in the United States. In partnership with others, we are working to develop a Culture of Health rooted in equity that provides every individual with a fair and just opportunity to thrive, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they have. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.rwjf.org">www.rwjf.org</a>.</p>
<p><b>About Creative Commons:<br />
</b><span>Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization that enables sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge through the provision of free legal tools. Our legal tools help those who want to encourage reuse of their works by offering them for use under generous, standardized terms; those who want to make creative uses of works; and those who want to benefit from this symbiosis. Our vision is to help others realize the full potential of the internet. CC has affiliates all over the world who help ensure our licenses work internationally, and who raise awareness of our work. Learn more at </span><a href="http://www.creativecommons.org"><span>www.creativecommons.org</span></a>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/24/creative-commons-receives-1m-grant-from-robert-wood-johnson-foundation-to-advance-better-sharing/">Creative Commons Receives $1M Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Advance Better Sharing</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64623
title: Episode 1: Open Culture VOICES – Medhavi Gandhi
uri: Episode-1-Open-Culture-VOICES-Medhavi-Gandhi
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/31/episode-1-open-culture-voices-medhavi-gandhi/
content:
<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }</style>
<div class="embed-container"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//l8Zte5lVXSE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>We are excited to share the first episode of <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/voices-vlog/">Open Culture VOICES</a>, a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online. <span dir="auto" class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">In this interview, we hear from <a href="https://twitter.com/medhavigandhi">Medhavi Gandhi</a>, founder of <a href="https://www.theheritagelab.in">The Heritage Lab</a></span><span dir="auto" class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">, India&#8217;s first digital platform that connects museums and citizens through engaging campaigns, content and resources. </span></p>
<p><strong><span dir="auto" class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Medhavi responds to the following questions: </span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li>What are the barriers?</li>
<li>Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li>Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<blockquote><p><span>Episodes will be released twice a week until June 2022. Learn more about the Open Culture VOICES series <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/voices-vlog/">here&gt;&gt;</a></span></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/31/episode-1-open-culture-voices-medhavi-gandhi/">Episode 1: Open Culture VOICES &#8211; Medhavi Gandhi</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64647
title: It’s been a busy start of the year for open culture at CC! Here’s an update
uri: It-s-been-a-busy-start-of-the-year-for-open-culture-at-CC-Here-s
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/02/cc-open-culture-february-updates/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-64648" src="media/73b74c30.onfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nonfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00-300x169.png" alt="" width="450" height="253" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nonfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00-300x169.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nonfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00-1024x576.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nonfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00-768x432.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nonfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00-1536x864.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nonfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00-71x40.png 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nonfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nonfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00-270x152.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nonfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00-1200x675.png 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nonfigurative-painting-by-Lazur-URH-licensed-CC0-1.00.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px" />Since June 2021, thanks to a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/06/03/creative-commons-receives-5m-grant-from-arcadia-to-advance-open-access-at-galleries-libraries-archives-and-museums/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">grant by the Arcadia Fund</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Creative Commons has been developing our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture / Open GLAM program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to help transform institutions and support them as they embrace open culture and all the benefits it creates for themselves and their communities. Our core task is to enable galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs) to share their collections online as freely and openly as possible in participatory, interactive, sustainable, ethical, and equitable ways. </span></p>
<p><strong>Here’s an overview of what we have been up to in recent months. </strong></p>
<h3>Open Culture VOICES</h3>
<p><span>Our &#8220;Open Culture VOICES&#8221; Vlog consists of a series of short interviews with dozens of open GLAM experts from around the world, who all bring their unique perspectives, in various languages, on what it is like to open up heritage content online. We asked all our guests the same four 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? Their answers reveal not only the key advantages of open GLAM and the transformative power of open access to cultural heritage, but also the hurdles that stand in the way. Look out for two videos per week on </span><span>this website</span><span>.<br />
</span></p>
<h3>GLAM Public Domain Tools</h3>
<p><span>On </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/09/public-domain-2022-join-us-20-january-for-a-celebration-of-sound/"><span>Public Domain Day</span></a><span>, we launched the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1480902490442842117?s=20"><span>CC Public Domain Tools in GLAMs &#8211; Needs Assessment</span></a><span>, an online survey to probe whether CC’s tools are fit-for-purpose to make cultural heritage available. We are reaching out to GLAM practitioners and experts to help create a clearer picture of the use of CCs’ public domain tools,</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/"> <span>CC0</span></a><span> and the</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/pdm/"><span> Public Domain Mark (PDM)</span></a><span>. These tools serve to communicate the public domain status of content and indicate it can be used for any purpose, free of charge, without copyright permission. GLAMs are key users of CC tools — nearly 5 million public domain works from GLAM collections have been released using our tools. We look forward to learning from the data gathered, and hope they will guide us on where and when to take action as we continue to build and improve the sharing infrastructure in support of better sharing of cultural heritage. <strong>The survey can be answered in English, French or Spanish until 15 February, 2022. </strong><br />
</span></p>
<h3>Listen to the latest episode of CC’s Open Minds Podcast</h3>
<p><b></b>Don’t miss Brigitte Vézina, CC’s Director of Policy, Open Culture, and GLAM, on the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/02/open-minds-podcast-brigitte-vezina-of-creative-commons">latest episode of Open Minds… from Creative Commons</a>. We discuss everything you need to know about the Creative Commons Open Culture / Open GLAM program and the new and exciting opportunities we have in store.</p>
<h3><b>GLAM Case Studies (being released week of 07/02)</b></h3>
<p><b></b><span>In October last year, we launched an </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/open-call-for-open-glam-case-studies-2021/"><span>Open call for open GLAM case studies</span></a><span> and invited members from our community to share their stories from institutions in the Global South or those involved with underrepresented or underserved communities. We look forward to publishing the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/01/eight-open-glam-case-studies-selected-discover-the-successful-projects-and-their-leaders/"><span>eight successful</span></a><span> case studies this month and sharing their inspiring stories from Brazil, Poland, Chile, India, Pakistan and Nigeria. We hope to discover diverse and inclusive avenues of engagement with the open GLAM community. </span></p>
<h3>Teaser of Open Culture Remix Art Contest</h3>
<p>What is so exciting about open sharing is its almost limitless potential to unlock creativity as people discover, share, and remix cultural heritage. When content is openly accessible, anyone can reuse it, build upon it, and create something new and unexpected. That’s the idea behind our upcoming Open Culture Remix Art contest. Participants will be invited to reuse public domain or openly licensed works like paintings, photographs, drawings, etc. to create original artworks. It’s not only a way to showcase contemporary creativity, it’s also a means of canvassing the importance of CC’s infrastructure for the dissemination and revitalization of culture.</p>
<h3><b>CC GLAM platform and its working groups</b></h3>
<p><span>The </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openglam-platform/"><span>CC Open GLAM Platform</span></a><span> provides a space for GLAM professionals and open advocates to share resources, enhance collaboration and raise awareness about open access to cultural heritage. We at CC are lucky to work with a global community, and there are plenty of opportunities to get involved. We hold monthly calls, and over the course of 2022, several working groups will engage in conversations to tackle emerging issues, such as folklore and indigenous heritage collections, heritage materials from community-driven initiatives, the impact of reuse of cultural heritage, contemporary archiving of cultural heritage, and “attribution” models for public domain materials. Other groups will develop practical resources, like a bibliography and glossary of open GLAM.  </span></p>
<h3><b>CC policy paper on GLAMs </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC influences global policy to </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/reform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">bring down the copyright barriers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to universal access and reuse of the cultural heritage held in GLAMs. We work to ensure that the interests, concerns and needs of the public and GLAMs in fulfilling their public-interest mission are balanced with those of rights holders in a fair manner. As part of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform-activity-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">copyright platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we have developed a draft policy paper provisionally entitled “Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage — An Agenda for Copyright Reform.” It is intended as a reference point for CC’s advocacy work in copyright reform in the cultural heritage context, with a focus on issues arising in the digital environment. It will hopefully serve to support the CC community in various advocacy efforts, guide policymakers in their legislative processes, and inform anyone interested in the policy issues gravitating around access and reuse of culture and cultural heritage. The paper recognizes the pivotal roles of GLAMs in preserving and providing access to knowledge and culture to all members of society. It will be published on CC’s website soon. </span></p>
<h3><b>Launch of the first GLAM Certificate cohort</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> offers in-depth courses about CC licenses, open practices and the ethos of the Commons. Courses are composed of readings, quizzes, discussions, and practical exercises to develop learners’ open skills. On January 31, CC welcomed its first cohort of the new GLAM certificate. The CC Certificate for GLAMs is a professional development training for institutions or community groups engaged in cultural or documentary heritage. As more GLAMs adapt to increasingly online audiences and users, they often seek CC legal tools, expertise and community support. Cultural heritage institutions share a common goal with CC: to make knowledge and culture globally accessible. In the CC Certificate for GLAM, community members will develop capacity in opening access to cultural heritage. They will develop a deeper understanding of open licensing and copyright considerations with digitization projects, Rights Statements, Traditional Knowledge Labels, working with the public domain, and more. CC Certificate for GLAM participants will also gain access to a global community of professionals and activists working toward similar cultural and policy changes in their own cultural heritage institutions.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/02/cc-open-culture-february-updates/">It’s been a busy start of the year for open culture at CC! Here’s an update</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64640
title: Open Minds Podcast: Brigitte Vézina of Creative Commons
uri: Open-Minds-Podcast-Brigitte-Vézina-of-Creative-Commons
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/02/open-minds-podcast-brigitte-vezina-of-creative-commons/
content:
<p>Hello Creative Commoners, we are back with another episode of Open Minds… from Creative Commons.</p>
<figure id="attachment_64541" class="wp-caption alignright" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-64541">
<p><figure id="attachment_57376" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-57376" style="width: 400px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-57376" src="media/efb48ada.Brigitte-Vezina_opt-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-300x300.jpg" alt="Brigitte Vézina" width="400" height="400" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-300x300.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-150x150.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-768x768.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-350x350.jpg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-155x155.jpg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Brigitte-Vézina_opt-1200x1200.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-57376" class="wp-caption-text">Brigitte Vézina (Photo by Victoria Heath, CC BY)</figcaption></figure></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This month at Creative Commons, we are celebrating better sharing of Open Culture! In this episode, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/brigittevezina/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brigitte Vézina</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CC&#8217;s Director of Policy, Open Culture, and GLAM, shares everything you need to know about the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Open Culture / Open GLAM program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the new and exciting opportunities we have in store. Since June 2021, thanks to a grant from the </span><a href="https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arcadia Fund</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CC has been developing our Open Culture / Open GLAM program to help transform institutions and support them as they embrace open culture and all the benefits it creates for themselves and their communities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brigitte is passionate about all things spanning culture, arts, handicraft, traditions, fashion and, of course, copyright law and policy. She gets a kick out of tackling the fuzzy legal and policy issues that stand in the way of access, use, re-use and remix of culture, information and knowledge. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">We discuss Brigitte’s path to Creative Commons, the role and importance of Open Culture / Open GLAM, the impacts of COVID-19 on the sector, the future of Open Culture and more. </span></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><b>Listen on<span> </span></b><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-minds-from-creative-commons/id1554356942"><b>Apple Podcasts</b></a><b>,<span> </span></b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5bTf4Ok2R58bIul5LIHJVf?si=f2tIFA3cSJaW21XtS0B7BQ&amp;dl_branch=1"><b>Spotify</b></a><b>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/wearecc/sets/open-minds-from-creative">Soundcloud</a>, and<span> </span></b><a href="https://anchor.fm/creativecommons"><b>more.</b></a><b><span> </span>You can also subscribe via the show’s<span> </span></b><a href="https://anchor.fm/s/4d70d828/podcast/rss"><b>RSS feed</b></a><b>.</b></li>
<li aria-level="1"><b>Episode transcript:<span> </span></b><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/14-Brigitte-Vézina-CCs-Director-of-Policy-Open-Culture-and-GLAM.txt"><b>Text</b></a><b><span> </span>//<span> </span></b><a href="media/13e63e4b.Brigitte-Vezina-CCs-Director-of-Policy-Open-Culture-and-GLAM.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/14-Brigitte-Vézina-CCs-Director-of-Policy-Open-Culture-and-GLAM.pdf"><b>PDF</b></a><b><span> </span>//<span> </span></b><a href="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/14-Brigitte-Vézina-CCs-Director-of-Policy-Open-Culture-and-GLAM.docx"><b>Doc</b></a></li>
</ul>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/02/open-minds-podcast-brigitte-vezina-of-creative-commons/">Open Minds Podcast: Brigitte Vézina of Creative Commons</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64663
title: Episode 2: Open Culture VOICES – Jonathan Hernández
uri: Episode-2-Open-Culture-VOICES-Jonathan-Hernández
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/03/episode-2-open-culture-voices-jonathan-hernandez/
content:
<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }</style>
<div class="embed-container"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//QlzHeanUtGM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>We are back with the second episode of <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/voices-vlog/">Open Culture VOICES</a>, a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online.  In this interview,  Jonathan Hernández, Researcher at the <a href="https://iibi.unam.mx/">National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Library and Information Research Institute </a>offers a unique perspective on what it&#8217;s like to open up heritage content online.</p>
<p><strong><span dir="auto" class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Jonathan responds to the following questions: </span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li>What are the barriers?</li>
<li>Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li>Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<blockquote><p><span>Episodes will be released twice a week until June 2022. Missed episode one of our Open Culture VOICES series? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Catch up here &gt;&gt;</a></span></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/03/episode-2-open-culture-voices-jonathan-hernandez/">Episode 2: Open Culture VOICES &#8211; Jonathan Hernández</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64674
title: Episode 3: Open Culture VOICES – Temitope Odumosu
uri: Episode-3-Open-Culture-VOICES-Temitope-Odumosu
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/07/episode-3-open-culture-voices-temitope-odumosu/
content:
<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }</style>
<div class="embed-container"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed//yFCgveWHKs8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>New week, new episode of <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/voices-vlog/">Open Culture VOICES</a>! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online.  <span>On episode three, we&#8217;re joined by Dr. Temitope Odumosu, art historian, curator and senior lecturer in cultural studies at Malmö University in Sweden. Her international research and cultural practice is concerned with the representation of African peoples, visual and affective politics of slavery and colonialism, colonial archives and archiving, Afro-Diaspora aesthetics, and more broadly exploring how art mediates social transformation and healing. </span></p>
<p><strong><span dir="auto" class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Jonathan responds to the following questions: </span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li>What are the barriers?</li>
<li>Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li>Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<blockquote><p><span>Episodes will be released twice a week until June 2022. Missed episode two of our Open Culture VOICES series? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Catch up here &gt;&gt;</a></span></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/07/episode-3-open-culture-voices-temitope-odumosu/">Episode 3: Open Culture VOICES &#8211; Temitope Odumosu</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64679
title: Do not feed the trolls
uri: Do-not-feed-the-trolls
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/08/copyleft-trolls/
content:
<div class="mceTemp"></div>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-64684" src="media/020091bb.nofeed.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed.jpg" alt="" width="2100" height="1292" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed.jpg 2100w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed-300x185.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed-768x473.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed-2048x1260.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed-65x40.jpg 65w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed-50x31.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed-252x155.jpg 252w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nofeed-1200x738.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p>Recently, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3844180">there has been an increase</a> in threatened and actual lawsuits involving CC licensed works, and in some cases, license enforcement has even become a business model. We have now learned that even long-time friend and contributor to Creative Commons, <a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299">Cory Doctorow, has been targeted.</a></p>
<p>Put simply, “license-enforcement-as-business model” is a perversion of the founding ideals of Creative Commons. We condemn this behavior. These aggressive enforcement actions lessen trust in open licensing, and they erode the good faith ecosystem that is the basis of the commons.</p>
<p>At CC, we have prioritized work on issues of license enforcement in order to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/license-enforcement/">combat this problem</a>. In 2021, we engaged in a public consultation to create and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/license-enforcement/enforcement-principles/">vet a set of principles</a> around when and how CC licenses should be enforced. We also continue to actively promote adoption of the most recent version of CC licenses, the version 4.0 suite, which contains terms that make explicit what for most of CC’s history was implied and upheld by licensors around the world—that errors in license compliance made in good faith should be correctable.</p>
<p>Together with our community, we will continue to take action to deter those who leverage CC licenses in bad faith. The health of the commons depends upon it.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/08/copyleft-trolls/">Do not feed the trolls</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=64693
title: Episode 4: Open Culture VOICES – Douglas McCarthy
uri: Episode-4-Open-Culture-VOICES-Douglas-McCarthy
url: https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/10/episode-4-open-culture-voices-douglas-mccarthy/
content:
<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }</style>
<div class="embed-container"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/endqo8R6mr4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>We are back with a new episode of <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/voices-vlog/">Open Culture VOICES</a>! VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. The Open Culture Program at Creative Commons aims to promote better sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online. In this episode, we hear from <a href="https://pro.europeana.eu/person/douglas-mccarthy">Douglas McCarthy</a>, Collections Engagement Manager at the <a href="https://pro.europeana.eu/">Europeana Foundation</a> in the Netherlands. Douglas is a passionate advocate for making cultural heritage openly accessible to promote the exchange of ideas and contribute to a thriving knowledge economy. As Collections Engagement Manager at Europeana, Douglas supports Europeana’s mission by working with partner institutions to showcase their collections to online audiences.</p>
<p><strong><span dir="auto" class="style-scope yt-formatted-string">Douglas responds to the following questions: </span></strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li>What are the barriers?</li>
<li>Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li>Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><em><strong>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.</strong></em></p>
<blockquote><p><span>Episodes will be released twice a week until June 2022. Missed episode three of our Open Culture VOICES series? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Catch up here &gt;&gt;</a></span></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/02/10/episode-4-open-culture-voices-douglas-mccarthy/">Episode 4: Open Culture VOICES &#8211; Douglas McCarthy</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


