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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67095
title: Shanna Hollich — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 13
uri: Shanna-Hollich-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-13
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/05/shanna-hollich-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-13/
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<p>Shanna shares  how “keeping content locked up and isolated keeps us separate from one another” so opening up collections brings people together and bridges our shared humanity, across cultures and continents. In this episode we learn about how publicly funded institutions should provide online access to the public which is funding it and held accountable to maintaining that access.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Shanna is the Library Director and Copyright Consultant at the Guthrie Memorial Library. They also work on global copyright policy advocacy together with Creative Common and other organisations.</p>
<p><strong>Shanna responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66891
title: Laksmi Sugiri — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 14
uri: Laksmi-Sugiri-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-14
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/09/laksmi-sugiri-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-14/
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<p>Laksmi says that “open access…makes it possible to collaborate and reconstruct cultural heritage.” In this episode we learn about cultural heritage in Indonesia and how open access has made it possible for organisations to work together and build out data sets and information about historical collections across the country.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Laksmi is a project manager at Museum Pasifika where she has worked with Wikipedia to develop an open access and open data project for the collections.</p>
<p><strong>Laksmi responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67121
title: CC Supports Trans Rights
uri: CC-Supports-Trans-Rights
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/11/cc-supports-trans-rights/
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<figure id="attachment_67124" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67124" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67124 size-medium" src="media/2d26e74c.image1-1-300x150.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1-1-300x150.png" alt="The transgender pride flag: horizontal stripes of light blue on top, pink, white in the center, pink and light blue again on the bottom." width="300" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1-1-300x150.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1-1-80x40.png 80w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1-1-50x25.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1-1-270x135.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1-1.png 640w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67124" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/c3477c83.FileTransgender_Pride_flag.svg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Transgender_Pride_flag.svg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SVG file Dlloyd based on Monica Helms design</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.</span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Creative Commons, we vehemently condemn the extensive violations of trans rights that are occurring across the world, and the current climate of fear and violence directed at trans individuals. We stand firmly against any and all forms of transphobia, including but not limited to bigotry, violence or persecution based on gender identity, and we affirm that trans rights are human rights <img src="media/bacc8716.1f3f3-fe0f-200d-26a7-fe0f.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f3f3-fe0f-200d-26a7-fe0f.png" alt="🏳️‍⚧️" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">As an international nonprofit organization, with a diverse global community that believes in democratic values and free culture, the protection and affirmation of all human rights — including trans rights — are central to our core value of global inclusivity and our mission of promoting openness and providing access to knowledge and culture. We believe much of the hate and discrimination that trans communities are facing is connected to misinformation and myths, highlighting the need for greater global access to and better sharing of information, culture and knowledge — and there is no better way to achieve this than to open them up: open science, open culture and open education are the keys to unlocking essential information and upholding trans rights.</span></p>
<p><span>Recently, we witnessed [<a href="#footnote-1">1</a>] book bans and educational restrictions on content related to trans rights and experiences, along with other bans of books related to other marginalized identities. These acts of censorship limit public access to important information, perpetuating misinformation, prejudice and discrimination.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As an employer of a small team of diverse individuals, and a steward of a global community of open advocates, CC is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Trans individuals are an important part of our community, and we affirm our commitment to providing a safe, supportive, and welcoming environment for trans people within the workplace and the broader CC community. We also acknowledge the unique challenges that trans individuals may face in areas such as access to health care, housing and employment, and we commit to advocating for policies that address these issues. We recognize that these attacks on human rights also impact or prevent access to open knowledge and open culture. Unjust laws and acts of censorship and bigotry limit peoples’ ability to share knowledge, partake in our shared commons, and learn — these run counter to our mission.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We understand that language and terminology around gender and identity may be complex and constantly evolving. As such, we are committed to educating ourselves and others to ensure we use language that is inclusive and affirming. We also recognize the importance of legal protections for trans people, and support legislation that upholds the rights of trans individuals to live free from discrimination, harassment, and violence.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of this commitment, CC is working to update the codes of conduct to help shape experiences in our community and our team, so they explicitly cover trans rights, are consistent across and surfaced in all CC contexts, are clear in their language and processes, and are adopted by all community and team members.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">By reflecting on our actions and prioritizing a culture of understanding and empathy, collectively we have the power to create a world where everyone is treated with dignity, respect, and equity no matter their gender identity or expression.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[<a href="#footnote-1">1</a>] <span>&#8220;Book Bans LGBTQ+ Reading.&#8221; The 19th, 2023, </span><a href="https://19thnews.org/2023/02/book-bans-lgbtq-reading/" target="_new" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://19thnews.org/2023/02/book-bans-lgbtq-reading/</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66894
title: Michal Čudrnák — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 15
uri: Michal-Čudrnák-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-15
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/16/michal-cudrnak-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-15/
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<p>“If you’re considering opening up, start small” says Michal Čudrnák, the Head of Digital Collections at the Slovak National Gallery. When you open up just a small part first you will see what unfolds and can learn in the process what works for your community and what they interested in and how your community wants to use the cultural heritage in your collection. This episode dives into issues of legislation as well as the unique ways public domain material is re-used.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Michal works in the Slovak National Gallery on all the digital projects including the catalog of public domain works and other collections in Slovakia, and the main project “web-of-art” which comprises the entire collection.</p>
<p><strong>Michal responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67130
title: Knowledge & Cultural Institutions Defend Net Neutrality in EU
uri: Knowledge-Cultural-Institutions-Defend-Net-Neutrality-in-EU
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/17/knowledge-cultural-institutions-defend-net-neutrality-in-eu/
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<figure id="attachment_67133" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67133" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67133 size-medium" src="media/d501235b.and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-300x169.png" alt="A photo of The EU Flag overlayed on top of statues of Castor and Pollux" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0.-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/The-EU-Flag-and-Castor-and-Pollux-by-waldopics-is-licensed-under-CC-BY-2.0..png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67133" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/85056813@N00/5866027999" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The EU Flag and Castor and Pollux</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/85056813@N00" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">waldopics</a> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY 2.0 </a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year, the European Commission started a new </span><a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/consultations/future-electronic-communications-sector-and-its-infrastructure"><span style="font-weight: 400;">consultation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on “The future of the electronic communications sector and its infrastructure.” On the one hand, it’s good that policymakers are examining how to expand broadband access and ensure the capacity of networks continues to expand and support helpful innovation. On the other hand, the consultation is anchored on one particular, problematic policy idea — a new legal right for telecom companies to require bonus payments from content and application providers, imposing new tolls for sending and “generating” traffic. Content and application providers would not just pay for their connection to the Internet (as they already do today), but then have to pay again in order to reach a consumer when the consumer requests data from them.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This sort of approach has long been advanced by incumbent telecom companies, opposed by </span><a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2023/02/in-one-corner-large-telecom-operators-in-the-other-everybody-else/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">virtually every other relevant constituency</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and rejected repeatedly around the world. It would undermine open Internet access — sometimes called “net neutrality” — and replace today’s well-functioning system of payments with a regulated morass, where consumers will ultimately pay the price. Content and application providers (in particular smaller players) will either be impeded from delivering their traffic at all due to costs, or will pass the costs on to consumers themselves.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC was pleased to join with the </span><a href="https://www.ifla.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://pro.europeana.eu/about-us/foundation"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Europeana Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in a submission opposing this misguided approach (<a href="media/7bd669bc.Final-GLAM_CHI-institutions-letter-re_-Fair-Share.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Final-GLAM_CHI-institutions-letter-re_-Fair-Share.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">read the full submission</a>). We highlight the particular the impacts on knowledge and cultural heritage institutions:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For the institutions and communities we support, these new tolls pose particular concerns. Knowledge and cultural institutions act as repositories for large amounts of data — we are responsible for collecting, storing, and making available all sorts of media and information to Europeans, often under public mandates. While an individual user may not make use of the entire catalog of information, collectively serving our communities can mean serving large amounts of data. Moreover, knowledge and cultural institutions serve academics and researchers who do require access to large amounts of the corpus for their public-interest activities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We fear that, under this proposal, such institutions could be considered “large traffic generators” and forced to pay new fees. As public serving institutions, they already face significant budget strains, and new fees would inevitably mean limiting the services we provide, and using our resources to bolster the turnover of telecom operators rather than to deliver on our missions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet it is important to note here that a simple carve-out for such institutions would not be sufficient. For one thing, the fees would still frustrate knowledge and cultural production and dissemination in ways that would run counter to the goal of encouraging artistic and expressive freedom, as well as having knock-on effects on us. What’s more, knowledge and cultural institutions may rely on commercial services to host and serve our traffic, and thus to the extent those providers would face new fees and pass those costs on, we would still be impacted.”</span></p></blockquote>
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As we note in our submission, there are a wide variety of other ways to support open, robust, affordable internet access, including expanding access to spectrum for wireless services and community networks, modernization of universal service funding, and collaborating with knowledge and cultural institutions, which in some cases already work to provide Internet access to surrounding residents. We hope these and other ideas will become the focus as this consultation moves forward.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67143
title: CC Celebrates International Museum Day 2023 — Museums, Sustainability and Well-being
uri: CC-Celebrates-International-Museum-Day-2023-Museums-Sustainabilit
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s International Museum Day today, and at Creative Commons (CC), we are thrilled to celebrate museums under this year’s theme of </span><a href="https://icom.museum/en/news/how-to-participate-in-international-museum-day-2023/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museums, Sustainability and Well-being</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museums play an important role in sustainable development — they are in fact instrumental in achieving the United Nations’ </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sustainable Development Goals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (SDGs) — and in supporting the well-being of the communities that they serve. As </span><a href="https://imd.icom.museum/what-is-imd/imd-in-short/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ICOM states</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures, and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_67144" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67144" style="width: 290px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-67144 alignright" src="media/9f129c12.illustration-200x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/illustration-200x300.png" alt="A person with long hair and a dress swings in a tree, which is animated with the canopy as a small biosphere with a rabbit, birds, butterflies and flowers. " width="290" height="436" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/illustration-200x300.png 200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/illustration-683x1024.png 683w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/illustration-768x1152.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/illustration-1024x1536.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/illustration-1366x2048.png 1366w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/illustration-27x40.png 27w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/illustration-33x50.png 33w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/illustration-103x155.png 103w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/illustration-1200x1800.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 290px) 85vw, 290px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67144" class="wp-caption-text">International Museum Day 2023 Poster, International Council of Museums</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we believe in the transformational power of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> through open access to knowledge and culture to achieve sustainability and support well-being. By making the collections that they hold as openly accessible as possible for use and reuse, museums can contribute to fostering global collaboration to solve the world’s most pressing problems and enable people to lead richer, more meaningful lives. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As just one example of the power of open sharing, last year, the </span><a href="https://naturalhistorymuseum.blog/2022/04/05/data-in-action-british-butterflies-body-size-changes-in-response-to-climate-change-digital-collections-programme/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UK’s Natural History Museum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> shared that over 125,000 of the Museum’s digitized Butterfly collection — released to the public domain using the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC public domain dedication tool (CC0)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — were analyzed by scientists to understand how animals may respond to climate change. The Museum stated: “…open access digitized collections … allows scientists from all over the globe to be able to more easily use collections, can accelerate research in a more collaborative way than ever before.” This example is emblematic of the immense benefit for society of making information held in museums as openly accessible as possible to the public. It really embodies the mission of museums: preserving heritage, of course, but also enabling members of the public to access and use that heritage in furtherance of the public good. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Openness is key to achieving global goals, like fighting climate change, because it helps us to collaborate in the face of common challenges. Museums hold the keys to unlocking fresh solutions through global collaboration, and with collaboration comes increased pace, efficiency and efficacy of research, so that more communities have the opportunity to build upon research. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museums also serve as peaceful spaces to come together, reduce social isolation, gain better understanding of each other, and improve people’s mental health. Both on site and online, museums can support the well-being of communities around them by providing a public space for cultural exchange and discourse. When it comes to sharing potentially sensitive materials, museums must also account for important ethical considerations. The CC </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> working group on the “</span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/collaborate-communicate-and-navigate-ethical-considerations-with-the-ethical-sharing-card-game-20623d3f630b"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ethics of Open Sharing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” has identified some of the thorny ethical considerations regarding the opening up of cultural heritage. The working group developed a gamified approach to dealing with some of these to ensure well-informed and balanced decisions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museums educate, entertain, inspire, and bring joy to visitors — they are close to levers that can spark wide-ranging, positive change. By “opening up”, by better sharing their collections with the public, disseminating information, and working together to serve as public forums to hold society-wide debates, museums can empower people, generation after generation, in offering them the resources to engage and participate in civic life, increase the speed of innovation and scientific discovery, and strengthen community bonds for a sustainable future. </span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Want to get involved? Join us!</span></h2>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a member of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Global Network</span></a></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participate in CC Open Culture Platform calls — they are announced in the Slack channel and on the mailing list</span></li>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/18/cc-celebrates-international-museum-day-2023-museums-sustainability-and-well-being/">CC Celebrates International Museum Day 2023 — Museums, Sustainability and Well-being</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67150
title: Everything might be OK! Warhol v. Goldsmith
uri: Everything-might-be-OK-Warhol-v-Goldsmith
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/18/warhol-v-goldsmith/
content:
<figure id="attachment_67152" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67152" style="width: 280px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-67152" src="media/0ba7d977.Prince_by_Andy_Warhol.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Prince_by_Andy_Warhol.jpg" alt="An orange and black Andy Warhol silk-screen painting of Prince, circa 1984." width="280" height="355" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Prince_by_Andy_Warhol.jpg 280w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Prince_by_Andy_Warhol-237x300.jpg 237w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Prince_by_Andy_Warhol-32x40.jpg 32w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Prince_by_Andy_Warhol-39x50.jpg 39w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Prince_by_Andy_Warhol-122x155.jpg 122w" sizes="(max-width: 280px) 85vw, 280px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67152" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Prince_(1984)">Orange Prince</a>” by Andy Warhol.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The United States Supreme Court released its opinion today in <em><a href="media/4faea7c9.21-869_87ad.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-869_87ad.pdf">Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith</a></em>. While it’s hard to predict the full ramifications of this decision at this point, our initial opinion is that this decision is not ideal, but also not the death knell for transformative fair use that many feared it could have been. We address three points below.</p>
<h2 style="clear: none;">What use is fair?</h2>
<p>First, the Court’s focus on Warhol’s specific “use” of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph of Prince provides clarification on what the word “use” means as part of the fair use analysis, and narrows the scope of the opinion in ways that will allow for many future fair uses.</p>
<p>Fair use analysis in the United States depends on a <a href="https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/">four-factor test</a>, where courts must consider all four factors and decide how to balance each one. The <em>Goldsmith</em> case focuses entirely on factor 1: the “purpose and character of the use.” (In particular, it was argued that Warhol’s <em>Orange Prince</em> was a “transformative” use: where the original work served one function, but has a different purpose and character because it has been “transformed” by changing the context of the use.) The copyright statute does not specify what “use” means in this context, and indeed there are many different ways to interpret it. For example, in this case, “use” could mean:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Andy Warhol’s use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph of Prince Rogers Nelson to create a series of silk screen prints called <em>The Prince Series</em>;</li>
<li aria-level="1">Warhol’s use of the photograph to create <em>Orange Prince</em> without it ever appearing on a magazine cover;</li>
<li aria-level="1">The use of <em>Orange Prince</em> as a portrait of Prince for a magazine cover/profile piece.</li>
</ul>
<p>Here, the Court narrowly focuses on this third meaning: The commercial “use” of <em>Orange Prince</em> as a published magazine portrait of Prince. The Court found the “purpose” of these two images of Prince to be identical: Both featured in magazines as portraits of the same musician. This narrow similarity will enable later would-be transformative users to distinguish their use from the original in a way that makes it different from the fact pattern in this case, suggesting that the fair use analysis of this factor would be different. That is, if a use does not serve the exact same function as the original, then this decision leaves the door open to argue that it has a different “purpose” from the original. The decision’s distinctions between these different kinds of uses suggest that a case over this very same work used for another purpose might have had a different outcome.</p>
<p>Additionally, the Court’s particular focus on the commerciality of this use is not ideal. While commercial purpose is part of the analysis of this factor, it is common for commercial uses to still be fair uses. As the Court itself notes, <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_v._Acuff-Rose_Music,_Inc.">Campbell v. Acuff-Rose</a></em> (perhaps the most famous fair use case) found an explicitly commercial use to be fair, and was clear about commercial use not barring a finding of fair use. We hope that this case is not read to walk back those statements, harming users who want to make transformative commercial uses of a work.</p>
<h2>Derivative v. transformative</h2>
<p>Second, the Court’s attempt to draw a line between a derivative work and a fair use does not provide much clarity to guide future uses.</p>
<p>Much of the confusion over distinguishing a derivative work and a fair use involves what it means to “transform” a work, and the degree of that transformation. Under U.S. law, one of the rights that authors have over their works is the right to create or authorize the creation of “derivative works.” As defined by statute, a derivative work is “a work based upon one or more preexisting works” that is “recast, <em>transformed</em> or adapted.” (emphasis added). At the same time, however, since <em>Campbell</em>, one of the most important parts of the fair use analysis has been whether a secondary work is “transformative.” Because of this, there is a tension between what is a transformation in the context of a derivative work and what is a transformative fair use. (This is often one of the most difficult points for users of CC-licensed works to navigate, as well, especially where the license is one that places conditions upon derivative works.)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the Court does not successfully relieve this tension. While we agree with the Court that “overbroad concept of transformative use, one that includes any further purpose, or any different character, would narrow the copyright owner’s exclusive right to create derivative works” and that “the degree of transformation required to make ‘transformative’ use of an original must go beyond that required to qualify as a derivative,” the decision does not provide clear guidance on what this actually means.</p>
<h2>Fair use: An engine of creativity</h2>
<p>Third, as Justice Kagan writes in a dissent joined by Chief Justice Roberts, the majority seems to undervalue the importance of transformation in the fair use inquiry, and indeed, may undervalue fair use more broadly. Justice Kagan writes: “Why do we have ‘fair use’ anyway? The majority responds that while copyrights encourage the making of creative works, fair use promotes their ‘public availability.’ … But that description sells fair use far short. Beyond promoting ‘availability,’ fair use itself advances creativity and artistic progress.” Moreover, “when a transformation of the original work has occurred, the user of the work has made the kind of creative contribution that copyright law has as its object.” By failing to focus on how Warhol’s piece transformed the original photograph and added a new meaning and message to the original, the Court’s opinion may influence future decisions to also undervalue this point and undermine the purpose of fair use itself.</p>
<p>Ultimately, this decision is disappointing to champions of fair use, but does not appear to change much about judgments on fair use from what we’ve seen before. Transformative fair use has always been difficult to rely on, with the possibility of a court’s judgment differing from the artist’s as to when a fair use was made. It is promising to note how much of what we believe to be fair use the Court also holds up as examples to distinguish — Warhol’s own soup cans, for example, which don’t occupy the same place in the market as the product on supermarket shelves. Moreover, the Court’s narrow focus on a single, very specific, use — the commercial use of one portrait to serve as another portrait — continues to leave a lot of room for more easily distinguished transformative uses like remixes and other forms of appropriation art.</p>
<figure id="attachment_67151" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67151" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67151" src="media/13db60fd.WarholsCampbellsSoupCans-300x180.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WarholsCampbellsSoupCans-300x180.jpg" alt="Multiple framed red and white silkscreen paintings of cans of different Campbell’s Soups by Andy Warhol, circa 1962." width="500" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WarholsCampbellsSoupCans-300x180.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WarholsCampbellsSoupCans-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WarholsCampbellsSoupCans-768x461.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WarholsCampbellsSoupCans-1536x922.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WarholsCampbellsSoupCans-67x40.jpg 67w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WarholsCampbellsSoupCans-50x30.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WarholsCampbellsSoupCans-258x155.jpg 258w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WarholsCampbellsSoupCans-1200x720.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/WarholsCampbellsSoupCans.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67151" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Soup_Cans">Campbell&#8217;s Soup Cans</a>” by Andy Warhol.</figcaption></figure>
<p>CC continues to believe that fair use is essential to creativity and culture. Justice Kagan’s dissent aligns well with CC’s views on transformation and creativity; in particular, that “artists don’t create all on their own; they cannot do what they do without borrowing from or otherwise making use of the work of others.” All art incorporates and transforms what came before it, and depends on the ability to reuse and reinterpret previous works, and the exclusivity of copyright should block that only as far as necessary to support an environment where artists can continue to create. This was a case with a particularly challenging set of facts, where there was a great deal of similarity to consider in the fair use analysis, and we believe that even after this decision, fair use continues to be alive and well in the United States, and that the Court’s narrow decision changes little about that.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67156
title: A look at CC’s Open Culture Roundtable in Lisbon
uri: A-look-at-CC-s-Open-Culture-Roundtable-in-Lisbon
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/22/a-look-at-ccs-open-culture-roundtable-in-lisbon/
content:
<figure id="attachment_67163" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67163" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67163 size-large" src="media/5703d15b.CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon-1024x576.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon-1024x576.png" alt="" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CC-OC-Roundtable-Lisbon.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67163" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Group photo at CC’s Open Culture Roundtable in Lisbon&#8221; licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<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 Program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we at Creative Commons (CC) are exploring avenues to build momentum towards a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Culture. On 11 May, 2023, we hosted our first in-person Open Culture event, in Lisbon, Portugal. In this blog post, we look back at the day’s highlights and map out next steps.<br />
</span></p>
<h3><b>Background</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the past decade, the open movement has made incredible strides in the cultural sector — take a look at some of the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/12/pioneers-of-open-culture-a-look-back-at-how-open-access-happened-at-three-early-adopters/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">pioneers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> — yet it is still facing major </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/07/22/what-are-the-barriers-to-open-culture-heres-what-the-cc-community-has-to-say/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">barriers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and challenges. But challenges are opportunities in disguise. In September last year, UNESCO declared culture a global public good at </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/28/unesco-mondiacult2022-a-starting-point-for-open-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mondiacult 2022</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. With the successes of the 2019 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources and 2021 Recommendation on Open Science, the world looks to UNESCO’s leadership to create the necessary international framework that would unlock the possibilities of equitable, ethical, and respectful sharing of cultural heritage in the digital age: a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Culture. For an explanation of useful terms related to open culture, take a look at the </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/creating-a-bibliography-and-a-glossary-on-open-culture-open-glam-b855ffe1059a"><span style="font-weight: 400;">glossary developed by the CC open culture platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<h3><b>Meeting highlights</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Recognizing that such an international instrument requires deliberative, inclusive community consultations, the in-person event focused on the foundational work of gathering community input. Structured around a co-created agenda and under the able guidance of Abdul Dube and Mona Ebdrup, facilitators at </span><a href="http://www.visual-confidence.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visual Confidence</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, just under 40 experts gathered to exchange views and open initial discussions on the need to realize </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">open</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> culture as a global public good. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participants came from far and wide across the open movement and beyond, spanning the fields of law, library science, policy, design, anthropology, history, museum curation, international organizations, and many others. Attending from CC’s team were Brigitte Vézina, Director of Policy and Open Culture; Connor Benedict, Open Culture Coordinator; Jennryn Wetzler, Director of Learning and Training; and Jocelyn Miyara, Open Culture Manager. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During convivial, engaged, polyphonous and cross-pollinating conversations, we exchanged our diverse perspectives; explored potential common grounds on backgrounds and contexts, core issues, and key principles; built a common understanding of what we collectively want to achieve; and elaborated a skeleton of a shared vision for “open culture.” Issues discussed included the role of copyright over access to cultural heritage, the impact of artificial intelligence, the “platformization” of culture, a sense of a generational shift in the open movement, the need to account for ethical sharing, the economics of open culture, open beyond “GLAMs” (galleries, libraries, archives and museums), the need for diversity and inclusivity in global and local contexts (including traditional knowledge and Indigenous rights), a vision for open culture in 100 years, and a lot more!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take a look at the meeting’s graphic record, offering a visual summary of the diverse perspectives that felt most resonant within our breakout groups and that surfaced in plenary debriefs.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_67160" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67160" style="width: 375px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67160" src="media/96109f60.SNAP_SHOT_VISUAL_AGENDA-768x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/SNAP_SHOT_VISUAL_AGENDA-768x1024.jpg" alt="A hand drawn flowchart depicts the agenda for the day with “Snap Shot: Visual Agenda” in a speech bubble at the top. Beginning at the top with a smiling face coming through a doorway; two stick figures greeting each other, and arrows pointing to our three movements as described in the caption. All of this leads to a globe encircled by arrows and an opening question “what are you here to help achieve?”" width="375" height="500" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67160" class="wp-caption-text">Our work together was organized in three flows or movements. Flow #1: Mapping our Collective Knowledge, Flow #2: Context Mapping, and Flow #3: Bold Steps. These movements were designed to help us gather our collective knowledge, and hold multiple perspectives and truths at the same time. © Creative Commons / Abdul Dube and Mona Ebdrup, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_67157" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67157" style="width: 375px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67157" src="media/c4f77c2d.flow01HISTORY-768x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/flow01HISTORY-768x1024.jpg" alt="This graphic recording is a hand-drawn representation of our conversations. With a bold black line framing the box, there is a speech bubble around “#01 Flow” next to the words “History of Open Culture”. In the center of the diagram is a globe with Africa centered. Themes with doodles orbit the globe. Clockwise from the top - “focus on western references and achievements”, “Pessimism or optimism” with a question mark, “new opportunities emerging in a quickly changing context” with an arrow pointing away from the globe, “AI comes with risks and benefits” with two lap tops chatting with each other, “different places but together”, “Missing global south perspectives” with speech bubbles, one colored orange, “negative actors: lack of clarity and infrastructure…risk of being illegal when working within open culture” with a skull and crossbones saying “who owns what?”, “History can mean many things” with a timeline, and “focus on ownership and access”." width="375" height="500" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67157" class="wp-caption-text">In our first flow, participants were divided into five groups to discuss the History of Open Culture, and then came back together to identify key themes. This is a visual representation of some themes that were discussed, including ownership, western references and achievements, emerging opportunities in a quickly changing context, missing global south perspectives and the emergence of AI with its risks and benefits. © Creative Commons / Abdul Dube and Mona Ebdrup, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_67158" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67158" style="width: 375px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67158" src="media/16413e83.flow02_CONTEXT_MAPPING-225x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/flow02_CONTEXT_MAPPING-225x300.jpg" alt="This graphic recording is a hand-drawn representation of our conversations. With a bold black line framing the box, there is a speech bubble around “#02 Flow” next to the words “Context Mapping”. In the center of the diagram is a piece of paper with the words “open culture” and a globe with arrows pointing to it. Around the piece of paper are the themes discussed with doodles to accompany them. Themes include “What’s the role of open culture?” with an arrow to “clear goals”, “who uses OPEN”, “blurriness around legal safety”, “AI concerns - what/how/where/when”, “Need to expand memory institutions”, “emergent technologies”, “activism: direct, hacker, subvert platformization”, “Digital barbershops”, “what is info literacy?”, “build bridges” written in the shape of a bridge, “How do we accommodate all the different needs” with a big drawn question mark, “internet know how”, “false!! Universality”, “NB boundaries for the greater goods”, “bad actors”, “license trolls”, “the traps of open: ethical concerns to fuzzy times..” with an open eyeball, “more access but gated” with a drawn wall with a gate, “identifying gaps” with arrows to “technical knowledge, generational, stakeholder needs”, “the rise of conservatism and its affects on culture”, “what are we supposed to do” with arrows to “choosing battles, allies in other forms of monopoly, ethics of open culture needs an update”. " width="375" height="500" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67158" class="wp-caption-text">In Flow #2, groups met again to discuss the context around open culture, including the political climate, internal and outside trends, economic climate, tech factors, stakeholder needs and uncertainties. A few major themes were the desire to build bridges, the need to accommodate diverse needs of diverse stakeholders, the desire to identify what our shared goals are and better define the role of open culture. © Creative Commons / Abdul Dube and Mona Ebdrup, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_67159" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67159" style="width: 375px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67159" src="media/4179dd0b.flow03_BOLD_STEPS-768x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/flow03_BOLD_STEPS-768x1024.jpg" alt="This graphic recording is inside a bold black framed box, with a speech bubble at the top “#03 Flow” surrounded by “Bold steps…towards open culture”. Underneath is a sun rising on the horizon with a road narrowing towards it. Surrounding this are all some of the major themes with doodles accompanying them. “What are the opportunities for cultural change”, “bold steps are also known steps'' with a stick figure going up a staircase, “Assumption that we have shared values and sense of urgency”, “we can be more ambitious” with a stick figure atop an exclamation mark holding a sign that says “copyrights”, “strong opinions on platforms” surrounding a stack of flat rectangles, “meeting with more diverse stakeholders”, “UNESCO global fair use recommendation for culture; ethics open to local interpretation”, “TAX the RICH: taxation that supports cultural creation”, “need of different voices still…” with a heart drawing, “need for economic resources” with a big exclamation mark, “long term intentionality: centuries vs. decades vs. 100 year strategies”, on a theater stage “power of cultural literacy” on top and “space for telling stories” on the stage, a laptop with the words “investment for building different infrastructure” on its screen, “we don't’ really know why we really want open culture”, a venn diagram with private and public in two circles and “division between” below - “can we build sustainable and reliable relationships?”, a three-part venn diagram encircled by the worlds “partnerships with private sector” surrounding it and “can there be detachment from commercial interests” below. “Commercial platforms role in cultural creation” with a stick figure standing on an exclamation mark with an open eye above, “limited liability for cultural heritage institutions/public interest institutions”. " width="375" height="500" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67159" class="wp-caption-text">In our third and final flow, we discussed “Bold Steps toward Open Culture”. By focusing on our values, supports, and challenges, we discussed what bold steps we might make toward our shared vision of the future of Open Culture. Major themes included discussions around partnerships between public and private actors; division between public and private interests and the need to build sustainable and reliable relationships, need for economic resources to support open, and the desire to meet with more diverse stakeholders. © Creative Commons / Abdul Dube and Mona Ebdrup, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participants appreciated the opportunity to meet peers and build new relationships, and got a sense of the possibilities of going down a common path together. While in-person meetings such as this cannot include all of the perspectives needed, participants noted the value of in-person discussions to probe various approaches to open culture deeply. We aim to offer additional avenues to include more perspectives in follow-up activities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s what some of the participants shared about their experience: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The CC Open Culture Roundtable was an opportunity to meet and engage with open culture experts and advocates around the world and see how, despite the many contextual differences, there are meaningful ways for us to collaborate and shape nuanced, context-mindful perspectives for projects and policies aiming at a shared and open culture.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Mariana Valente</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Assistant Professor in law, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Associate Director, InternetLab (Brazil).</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was a great opportunity to hold first discussions about the initiative, and it allowed me to reflect on possible options further.” </span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Gašper Hrastelj</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Secretary General, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The CC Open Culture Roundtable was a perfect opportunity to meet in person to discuss Open Culture, and it allowed me to enlarge my view and learn other perspectives.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Deborah de Angelis</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Chapter Lead, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Italy</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Open Culture Roundtable was a great opportunity to meet people from diverse organizations and parts of the world, and it allowed me to see different perspectives on IP and ‘openness’ as a concept and movement.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Matt Voigts</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright and Open Access Policy Officer, IFLA</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was an excellent opportunity to bring different open culture stakeholders together and reignite and expand important discussions among them. And it allowed me to reflect on the possibilities in my reach to contribute more effectively to the progress of open culture, both locally and globally.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Fátima São Simão</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Chapter Lead, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Portugal</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was an inspiring opportunity to share ideas of the open culture and notice that there are a lot of people trying to solve similar questions from different angles, and it allowed me to meet many new and interesting people and to enjoy working together.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Johanna Lilja</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Director of Services, National Library of Finland, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">IFLA Cultural Heritage Advisory Board</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For me, it was an opportunity to do a historical reflection exercise where we were able to look at how we have grown as a movement. And it allowed me to collaborate in the construction of a more or less common concept or idea of what is understood in different corners of the world as &#8220;open culture&#8221;. It also allowed me to connect with people who are doing amazing projects.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Ivan Martinez</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Coordinator, Creative Commons Mexico</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The CC Open Culture Roundtable was a first step on a exploratory journey on how GLAMs could be better supported through open approaches to public domain material. It allowed me to understand the diversity of stakeholders’ perspectives on the issue.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Lutz Möller</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Deputy Secretary-General, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">German National Commission for UNESCO</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The CC Open Culture Roundtable was a pitstop for ongoing discussions around the importance of open culture, and it allowed me to reconnect to the wider international community.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Maarten Zeinstra</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Owner, IP Squared and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Member, Creative Commons Netherlands</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It was firstly a chance to meet people who are actively involved in the movement, particularly from different contexts, it allowed me to better see somewhat paradoxically the boundaries of open culture, and have the space to start to think about what openness means for knowledges outside of the legal frameworks of IP.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Abira Hussein</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Advisor, Whose (Digital) Archives? and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lab Partner, GLAM-E Lab</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The CC Open Culture Roundtable was a warm gathering of fellow travelers and it allowed us to imagine new ways to act together.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">— </span><b>Fiona Romeo</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Senior Manager, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Culture and Heritage, Wikimedia Foundation </span></p>
<h3><b>Next steps</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are excited to take the outcomes of our Lisbon event forward. We are already planning to continue the conversation at the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/19/mark-your-calendars-the-2023-cc-global-summit-is-coming-to-mexico-city/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Summit in Mexico</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in October, and hopefully at </span><a href="https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GLAM Wiki 2023</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Montevideo, Uruguay in November this year. We will also organize multiple virtual opportunities to contribute as we engage more community members in our work on open culture.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interested in knowing more about CC’s work in the field of open culture? </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join our open culture platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or write to us at </span><a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66898
title: Ivan Martinez — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 8
uri: Ivan-Martinez-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-8
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/23/ivan-martinez-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-8/
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<p>“Open Access… is an amplification of the work that these institutions do” Ivan says in this episode. He also shares what unique challenges are faced by cultural heritage institutions in Mexico which has one of the longest copyright terms in the world: 100 years plus the lifetime of the creator or author</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Ivan is a Coordinator for Creative Commons Mexico, an activist for knowledge and human rights, and is part of the organizing team of the 2023 CC Summit in Mexico City.</p>
<p><strong>Ivan responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67190
title: Join us for ‘Disruption: Creator Edition’ — An Event Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Creators
uri: Join-us-for-Disruption-Creator-Edition-An-Event-Exploring-G
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<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us on 14 June at ‘Disruption: Creator Edition’ as we explore the profound influence of generative AI on creativity across multiple industries. </span><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/disruption-creator-edition/e490855"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register now &gt;&gt;</span></a></h3>
<figure id="attachment_67191" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67191" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67191 size-medium" src="media/1cf15ac8.Humans-walking-together-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together-300x169.png" alt="An AI generated image of a group of individual faceless humans in all different colors walking on the lunar surface in three dimensions" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Humans-walking-together.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67191" class="wp-caption-text"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Humans walking together” by Anna Tumadóttir for Creative Commons was generated by Dall-E with the text prompt “a group of individual faceless humans in all different colors walking on the lunar surface in three dimensions.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via </span></i><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC has long focused on the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) can build on, contribute to, and exploit the commons and impact sharing of knowledge and creativity. The rapid rise of generative AI late last year presented a unique challenge and opportunity for CC. From the community and beyond, we saw an urgent demand for support in navigating AI’s implications for the commons.<br />
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year, we kicked off a public </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">consultation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with CC community members and a wide range of stakeholders. We believe AI can work in the public interest, and want to be part of the solution in navigating to that reality.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As one component of that consultation, we joined forces with the team at </span><a href="https://eqtylab.io/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">EQTY Lab</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and with Nonny de la Peña of the </span><a href="https://california.asu.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arizona State University California Center</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, to host an event called Disruption. This brought together a diverse set of speakers, from the fields of law, entertainment, and beyond, and showcased a series of curated conversations about copyright and generative AI in arts &amp; entertainment. We gratefully received fiscal support from Morrison Foerster, whose lawyers are on the front lines of what may well turn out to be landmark cases in the field of generative AI.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve always been an organization that, at our core, is about empowering creators to share knowledge and creativity in ways that work for them. We are delighted to announce that the next iteration of Disruption will happen 14 June in Los Angeles, bringing together experts across AI and creators across film &amp; TV, music, and the arts to discuss how creators in all arts &amp; entertainment industries are being affected with the rise of generative AI. This conversation goes beyond copyright, into issues of labor, value, ethics, and more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Date:</strong> 14 June<br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Time:</strong> 9:30am to 5pm (optional happy hour afterwards)<br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Location:</strong> ASU California Center (1111 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015)</span></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/disruption-creator-edition/e490855"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please register</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if you are able to attend.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Creative Commons has a strategic emphasis on “better sharing”, sharing that is just, equitable, and pro-social. Copyright, and the open licenses that CC stewards, are one way to share knowledge and creativity, but many more abound. How can we balance technological innovation and development of disruptive tools with the rights of creators to be fairly remunerated for their human creative efforts? And how do we ensure individual freedoms whilst protecting broader social norms?</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In particular, we want to interrogate these key themes during the course of the proceedings as they relate to creators:</span></p>
<p><b>Representation</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How can we address the problems of representation in generative AI while we’re still early in its rise? How can creators be a part of that?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How does AI affect inclusion and representation in the entertainment industries?</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Lessons Learned</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What can we learn from the past? The ways previous technologies have been incorporated into art, and in particular the relationships between creators and publishers, distributors, and other intermediaries?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generative AI carries both opportunities and challenges for creators, but which if any are innate in the technology and which stem from other factors, like the current business and institutional structures?</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>The political environment</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How might labor policy and organizing from the creator perspective factor into the future of generative AI, and how do they compare to other levers for policy and business change?</span></li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/disruption-creator-edition/e490855"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to join us on June 14th in downtown LA.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
<strong>The proceedings will be recorded and released at a future date. Full speaker line-up is forthcoming.</strong></span></p>
<div style="background: #e0c93d; font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 1em 2em 1em; padding: 2em;"><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></div>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66902
title: Kirsty von Gogh — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 17
uri: Kirsty-von-Gogh-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-17
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/30/kirsty-von-gogh-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-17/
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<p>“Opening up cultural artifacts from African organizations might change how we’re represented in online spaces” says Kirsty von Gogh from Johannesburg. She also shares how increasing production of culturally, linguistically, and contextually aware and relevant content can ensure a more representative digital space for Africans, and how open licensing increases accessibility to this content.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Kirsty is a project manager for Neil Buchanan &amp; Associates where she works to promote open licensing of educational and cultural material across Africa, for example of story books in underrepresented languages, and the implementation of the UNESCO recommendation on Open Education Resources.</p>
<p><strong>Kirsty responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
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<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/30/kirsty-von-gogh-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-17/">Kirsty von Gogh — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 17</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67208
title: CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | June: Share Freely, Openly, Like We Share Air
uri: CC-s-BetterSharing-Collection-June-Share-Freely-Openly-Like-We
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/01/ccs-bettersharing-collection-june-share-freely-openly-like-we-share-air/

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<figure id="attachment_66068" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66068" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66068" src="media/218a34e3.Hust-Wilson-732x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-732x1024.jpg" alt="An illustration of decorative text in various colors saying SHARE FREELY OPENLY LIKE WE SHARE AIR, surrounded by floating colored balls." width="350" height="490" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-732x1024.jpg 732w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-214x300.jpg 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-29x40.jpg 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-36x50.jpg 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-111x155.jpg 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson-1200x1680.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hust-Wilson.jpg 1418w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66068" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/share-freely-openly-like-we-share-air">Share Freely, Openly, Like We Share Air</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hustwilson/?hl=en">Hust Wilson</a> for <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> and <a href="https://fineacts.co/">Fine Acts</a> is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> looks like in action. Our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#BetterSharing collection</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness with transforming these perspectives into captivating visual pieces available under a CC license.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For June, we&#8217;re excited to showcase “</span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/share-freely-openly-like-we-share-air"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Share Freely, Openly, Like We Share Air</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Hust Wilson. The piece, licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, was inspired by a quote from </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dsengeh"><span style="font-weight: 400;">David Moinina Sengeh</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Education Minister and Chief Innovation Officer of Sierra Leone and TED Senior Fellow:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“To share anything freely and openly, much like we share air, is to be alive.”</span></p></blockquote>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meet the artist:</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-67211 size-medium" src="media/1fc84c4d.Hust-Wilson-300x273.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Hust-Wilson-300x273.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="273" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Hust-Wilson-300x273.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Hust-Wilson-44x40.jpg 44w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Hust-Wilson-50x46.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Hust-Wilson-170x155.jpg 170w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Hust-Wilson.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Huston Wilson, known as Hust Wilson, is an Art Director and Designer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He grew up learning different design skills to improve his knowledge on the history of design, but has an aesthetic for typography and illustration. With a profound passion for design, Hust has established himself as a masterful artist, renowned for crafting captivating artworks that convey compelling stories. “Always improve yourself and get out of your comfort box” are words constantly employed within his mind.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow Hust on Instagram: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/hustwilson/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@hustwilson</span></a><br />
<span>Follow Hust on Behance: </span><a href="https://www.behance.net/hustwilson"><span>@hustwilson</span></a></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The full #BetterSharing collection is available on </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheGreats.co</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to be enjoyed, used and adapted, and then shared again, by anyone, forever. </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing&amp;search="><span style="font-weight: 400;">View the full collection &gt;&gt;</span></a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/01/ccs-bettersharing-collection-june-share-freely-openly-like-we-share-air/">CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | June: Share Freely, Openly, Like We Share Air</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67225
title: 2023 Cumbre Global CC: Registro, convocatoria de propuestas y solicitudes de becas ahora abiertas.
uri: 2023-Cumbre-Global-CC-Registro-convocatoria-de-propuestas-y-solicitu
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/02/2023-cumbre-global-cc-registro-convocatoria-de-propuestas-y-solicitudes-de-becas-ahora-abiertas/

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<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-67226 size-large" src="media/8f9f5204.CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP-1024x576.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP-1024x576.png" alt="Una foto teñida de azul de una bandera mexicana gigante ondeando sobre la Plaza Zócalo de la Ciudad de México con la Catedral al fondo, superpuesta con líneas de conexión neuronal en la esquina inferior izquierda y decorada con el logotipo de CC Global Summit y el texto que dice &quot;INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL (IA) Y LOS BIENES COMUNES, CIUDAD DE MÉXICO | 3–6 DE OCTUBRE DE 2023” y “SUMMIT.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG”" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-ESP.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">[<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/02/2023-cc-global-summit-registration-call-for-proposals-and-scholarships-now-open/">read this post in English &gt;</a>]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Luego de nuestro anuncio inicial para la Cumbre Global Creative Commons 2023, ahora nos complace abrir la siguiente fase de preparación para este evento tan esperado, que tendrá lugar del 3 al 6 de octubre de 2023 en el corazón de la Ciudad de México. Hoy comienza </span><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/home"><span style="font-weight: 400;">el registro</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://pheedloop.com/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/proposal/start/?call=CALFBPALLJ79517"><span style="font-weight: 400;">la convocatoria de propuestas</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, y </span><a href="https://pheedloop.com/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/proposal/start/?call=CALU9QL64TQSIXB"><span style="font-weight: 400;">solicitudes de becas</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<h2>Tema de la Cumbre: IA y los bienes comunes</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dentro de la preparación de la Cumbre, hemos estado perfeccionando el enfoque para que sea </span><b>inteligencia artificial (IA) y los bienes comunes</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">El creciente uso de la IA ha llegado a dominar las conversaciones y actividades en nuestras comunidades. Incluso el término &#8220;IA&#8221; es demasiado simplificado y cuestionado, ya que representa una amplia variedad de prácticas y herramientas de aprendizaje automático con diferentes orígenes y usos que no son necesariamente artificiales (ya que la IA es creada por humanos) o inteligentes (en la forma en que los humanos son). Mientras tanto, los autores están incorporando herramientas de IA a su trabajo, los investigadores están aprovechando la IA para explorar grandes conjuntos de datos y los educadores están usando la IA para ayudar a crear nuevos recursos educativos abiertos. Pero al mismo tiempo, los artistas y escritores se preguntan cómo la IA se basa en sus creaciones, las publicaciones como Wikipedia y las revistas académicas están luchando con las presentaciones automatizadas impulsadas por la IA, y los legisladores están adoptando nuevas regulaciones de la IA como las que vemos en la Unión Europea, quizás sin tener en cuenta las preocupaciones globales.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">La intersección entre la IA y los bienes comunes es compleja, pero una cosa está clara: la IA crea importantes oportunidades y desafíos tanto a los bienes comunes como a la estrategia de CC para apoyar </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">mejor compartir</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, que sea contextual, inclusivo, justo, equitativo, recíproco y sostenible.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">En CC, hemos estado explorando asuntos relacionados con la IA durante algún tiempo; por ejemplo, nuestra </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">serie de publicaciones de blog 2023</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> y nuestra publicación de blog de 2021: </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Pero el camino a seguir aún no está claro. Necesitamos seguir adelante y explorar la complejidad de la IA como comunidad, por lo que estamos entusiasmados de poder tener la Cumbre como una oportunidad para promover la conversación, la exploración y la comprensión.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vendremos a la Cumbre buscando ampliar nuestra comprensión de la IA y los bienes comunes, además de que se ofrecerá una amplia combinación de sesiones, incluirá temas clásicos de CC que pueden no estar relacionados con la IA y reunirá a personas de toda la comunidad de CC para conectarse en vivo en la Ciudad de México y también de forma virtual en línea para quienes no puedan asistir de manera presencial.</span></p>
<h2>Regístrese</h2>
<p>Únase a nosotros en el Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco del 3 al 6 de octubre de 2023, asistirán entusiastas del conocimiento y cultura abierta de todo el mundo para intercambiar ideas, desarrollar soluciones y dar forma colectiva al futuro de la creatividad y la colaboración digital.</p>
<p>Espere una reunión vibrante y diversa en la Cumbre de este año, con una variedad de sesiones que incluyen conferencias magistrales, paneles, sesiones comunitarias, talleres, oportunidades para establecer contactos, así como arte y música. Entonces, ya sea que sea un entusiasta de la tecnología, un creador digital, un experto en políticas o un ferviente miembro de la comunidad CC, habrá sesiones y conversaciones que lo involucrarán.</p>
<p>Para aquellos que no pueden unirse a nosotros en la Ciudad de México, estamos planeando reuniones de forma virtual en línea adicionales antes, durante y después de la Cumbre en persona.</p>
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<blockquote><p><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/home"><b>REGÍSTRESE AHORA &gt;&gt;</b></a></p></blockquote>
<h2>Proponer una sesión</h2>
<p>También estamos encantados de anunciar nuestra convocatoria de propuestas. El comité del programa comunitario invita propuestas que aborden la IA y los bienes comunes u otros temas relevantes para la comunidad CC, especialmente propuestas que van más allá de las sesiones de conferencias estándar para explorar experiencias interactivas, trabajos culturales y resultados colaborativos. Invitamos a todos los activistas, creadores, defensores, bibliotecarios, estudiantes, educadores, abogados, tecnólogos, y otros de todo el mundo para presentar sus ideas, proyectos y experiencias. Damos la bienvenida a una gran variedad de formatos de presentación, que incluyen conferencias magistrales, paneles, sesiones comunitarias, talleres, creación de redes, arte y música.</p>
<p><strong>La fecha límite para enviar propuestas es la medianoche, hora del Pacífico (UTC-7) del 4 de julio de 2023.</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://pheedloop.com/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/proposal/start/?call=CALFBPALLJ79517"><b>CONOZCA MÁS Y ENVÍE SU PROPUESTA &gt;&gt;</b></a></p></blockquote>
<h2>Solicitar una beca</h2>
<p>Ahora estamos aceptando solicitudes para el fondo de becas de la Cumbre Global CC 2023 la fecha límite es el 26 junio 2023. El fondo de becas existe para ayudar a cubrir el costo de asistencia a la Cumbre para aquellos que no puedan asistir de otra manera. Queremos asegurarnos de que tantas personas como sea posible tengan la oportunidad de participar y beneficiarse de la CC comunidad, independientemente de su situación financiera. Un objetivo principal de las becas es garantizar la diversidad, la equidad y la inclusión entre los participantes de la Cumbre. En las cumbres anteriores de CC, casi el 25% de todos los asistentes recibieron algún apoyo de becas. Nuestros beneficiarios de becas provienen de todas las regiones del mundo de CC, con un enfoque en garantizar que las personas de África, Asia-Pacífico y América Latina estén bien representadas.</p>
<p><strong>La fecha límite para solicitar una beca es la medianoche, hora del Pacífico (UTC-7) del 26 de junio de 2023.</strong></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://pheedloop.com/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/proposal/start/?call=CALU9QL64TQSIXB"><b>APRENDE MÁS Y SOLICITA UNA BECA &gt;&gt;</b></a></p></blockquote>
<h2><b>Mantente conectado</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">¡No te pierdas esta experiencia incomparable en la Cumbre Global CC 2023 en la Ciudad de México! Para mantenerte informado sobre las noticias y actualizaciones de la Cumbre:</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">¿Estás interesado en convertirte en patrocinador de la Cumbre Global CC 2023? Obtén más información sobre nuestras oportunidades de patrocinio comunicándote con Javaher Nooryani en </span></i><a href="mailto:javaher@creativecommons.org"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">javaher@creativecommons.org</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Únete a nosotros en la Ciudad de México del 3 al 6 de octubre para la Cumbre Global CC 2023 para conectarte con otros creadores, innovadores y agentes de cambio que están impulsando el futuro de #BetterSharing. </span></i><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/register#start"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regístrese hoy y asegure su lugar &gt;&gt;</span></i></a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67224
title: 2023 CC Global Summit: Registration, Call for Proposals, and Scholarships Now Open
uri: 2023-CC-Global-Summit-Registration-Call-for-Proposals-and-Scholarsh
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/02/2023-cc-global-summit-registration-call-for-proposals-and-scholarships-now-open/

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<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-67227 size-large" src="media/1c5d1cc2.CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png" alt="A photo tinted blue of a giant Mexican flag flying over Mexico City’s Zocalo Square with the Cathedral in the background, overlaid with neural connection lines in the bottom left corner, and decorated with CC Global Summit logo and text that says “AI &amp; THE COMMONS, MEXICO CITY | 3–6 OCT 2023” and “SUMMIT.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG”" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">[<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/02/2023-cumbre-global-cc-registro-convocatoria-de-propuestas-y-solicitudes-de-becas-ahora-abiertas/">lee esta entrada en español &gt;</a>]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following our initial announcement for the 2023 Creative Commons Global Summit, we are now excited to open the next phase of preparation for this much-anticipated event, set to take place during 3–6 October 2023 in the heart of Mexico City. Today, we are </span><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/home"><span style="font-weight: 400;">opening up registration</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, initiating the </span><a href="https://pheedloop.com/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/proposal/start/?call=CALFBPALLJ79517"><span style="font-weight: 400;">call for proposals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and starting to accept </span><a href="https://pheedloop.com/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/proposal/start/?call=CALU9QL64TQSIXB"><span style="font-weight: 400;">scholarship applications</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<h2><b>Summit theme: AI &amp; the commons</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As preparations have evolved, we&#8217;re also honing the thematic focus for this year&#8217;s Summit to be </span><b>AI &amp; the Commons</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) has come to dominate conversations and activities across our communities. Even the term “AI” is oversimplified and contested, as it stands for a wide variety of machine learning practices and tools with different origins and uses that are not necessarily artificial (as AI is made by humans) nor intelligent (in the way that humans are). Meanwhile, creators are bringing AI tools into their work, researchers are harnessing AI to explore large datasets, and educators are using AI to help build new open educational resources. But at the same time, artists and writers are questioning how AI builds on their creations, publications like Wikipedia and scholarly journals are struggling with automated submissions powered by AI, and policymakers are adopting new AI regulations like those we see in the European Union, perhaps without considering global concerns.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The intersection between AI and the commons is complex, but one thing is clear: AI brings significant opportunities and challenges both to the commons and to CC’s strategy to support </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we’ve been exploring issues around AI for some time — for example, see our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2023 blog post series</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and our 2021 blog post: </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. But the way forward is still not clear. We need to keep going and explore AI’s complexity as a community, so we are excited to be able to have the Summit as an opportunity to further conversation, exploration, and understanding.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will come to Summit looking to extend our understanding of AI and the commons, but the Summit will also have a wide mix of sessions, include classic CC topics that may not relate to AI, and bring together people from across the CC community to connect live in Mexico City and also virtually online for those who are not able to attend in person.</span></p>
<h2><b>Register</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco during 3–6 October 2023, as we convene open knowledge and culture enthusiasts from around the world to exchange ideas, develop solutions, and collectively shape the future of digital creativity and collaboration.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expect a vibrant and diverse gathering at this year&#8217;s Summit, featuring an array of sessions including keynotes, panels, community sessions, workshops, networking opportunities, as well as art and music. So, whether you&#8217;re a tech enthusiast, a digital creator, a policy expert, or a fervent member of the CC community, there will be sessions and conversations that will engage you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For those who can&#8217;t join us in Mexico City, we&#8217;re planning additional online/virtual gatherings before, during, and after the in-person Summit.</span></p>
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<h2><b>Propose a session</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are also thrilled to announce our call for proposals. The community program committee invites proposals that address AI and the commons and/or other topics relevant to the CC community, especially proposals that go beyond standard conference sessions to explore interactive experiences, cultural works, and collaborative outcomes. We invite all activists, creators, advocates, librarians, students, educators, lawyers, technologists, and others across the globe to submit their ideas, projects, and experiences. We welcome a myriad of presentation formats, including keynotes, panels, community sessions, workshops, networking, art, and music.</span></p>
<p><b>The deadline for submitting proposals is midnight Pacific Time (UTC-7) on 4 July 2023.</b></p>
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<blockquote><p><a href="https://pheedloop.com/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/proposal/start/?call=CALFBPALLJ79517"><b>LEARN MORE AND SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL &gt;&gt;</b></a></p></blockquote>
<h2><b>Apply for a scholarship</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are now accepting applications for the 2023 CC Global Summit scholarship fund until </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">26 June 2023</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The scholarship fund exists to help cover the cost of attendance for the Summit for those who may not be able to attend otherwise. We want to make sure that as many people as possible have a chance to participate in and benefit from the CC community, regardless of their financial situation. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A primary goal of the scholarships is to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion among Summit participants.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> At past CC Summits, nearly 25% of all attendees received some CC scholarship support. Our scholarship recipients come from every CC world region, with a focus on ensuring that individuals from Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America are well-represented.</span></p>
<p><b>The deadline for applying for a scholarship is midnight Pacific Time (UTC-7) on 26 June 2023.</b></p>
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<h2><b>Stay connected</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don&#8217;t miss this unparalleled experience at the 2023 CC Global Summit in Mexico City! To stay informed about CC Summit news and updates:</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Interested in becoming a sponsor for the 2023 CC Global Summit? Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities by contacting Javaher Nooryani at </span></i><a href="mailto:javaher@creativecommons.org"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">javaher@creativecommons.org</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us in Mexico City during 3–6 October for the 2023 CC Global Summit to connect with fellow creators, innovators, and changemakers who are driving the future of #BetterSharing.</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></i><a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/home/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register today and secure your spot &gt;&gt;</span></i></a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67234
title: Join CC at RightsCon: AI for a Better Internet and Open Journalism
uri: Join-CC-at-RightsCon-AI-for-a-Better-Internet-and-Open-Journalism
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/03/join-cc-at-rightscon-ai-for-a-better-internet-and-open-journalism/

content:
<p>Are you attending <a href="https://www.rightscon.org/">RightsCon 2023</a>, either in person in Costa Rica or virtually online? Join the Creative Commons team and community members for two sessions, one in-person for RightsCon participants in San José  and the other virtual so anyone can attend with <a href="https://www.rightscon.org/participate/">a free online pass</a>.</p>
<p>These sessions on artificial intelligence (AI) and open journalism will extend our work to support the public interest commons and a better internet for everyone, by following our strategy to support <em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em>, sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable. Both topics will also be part of the program at <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">CC’s Global Summit</a> during 3–6 Oct 2023 in Mexico City, now open for registration and session proposals!</p>
<h2>Exploring the values that will shape AI for a better internet</h2>
<figure id="attachment_67237" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67237" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67237" src="media/eaf37bb1.RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-300x169.png" alt="Text saying “RightsCon Costa Rica Register for RightsCon to join our in-person session Exploring the values that will shape AI for a better internet 6 June 2023 16:30 Costa Rica time” and a logo for Movement for a Better Internet followed by text saying “facilitated by team members from” over logos for Creative Commons, Internet Archive, Public Knowledge, and Association for Progressive Communications, all on a green rectangle with orange bottom left and top right corners." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Better-Internet.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67237" class="wp-caption-text">“AI for a Better Internet at RightsCon 2023” by <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> is dedicated to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0 1.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><em>In-person session: Tue 6 June 2023 16:30–17:30 Costa Rica time</em></p>
<p>We have all witnessed the internet’s ability to democratize speech and access to knowledge, give voice to the voiceless, and support shared online spaces. We have also seen how the internet’s evolution can cause unanticipated harms and how tools for sharing can be misused to manipulate, mislead, and limit choice. With AI coming online, we now also see how both benefits and harms can be augmented and accelerated at scale.  Organizations that have been championing digital human rights to benefit internet users everywhere are collaborating on an emerging Movement for a Better internet. Together we are working to crystallize shared values about what would constitute “better” and paths to get to a better internet from different perspectives, with a primary goal to produce a statement of values that underpin a broader public interest vision, and a collaborative policy agenda for a better internet.</p>
<p>At CC, we’ve been exploring issues around AI for some time — for example, see our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">2023 blog post series</a> and our 2021 blog post: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/">Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends</a>. But the way forward is still not clear. Our workshop with other members of the <a href="https://www.movementforabetterinternet.org/">Movement for a Better Internet</a> will distill thinking from the RightsCon community about the opportunities and challenges AI brings to the commons and the internet, and explore potential solutions to shape AI for the better.</p>
<h2>Open journalism: Why many newsrooms open and share their content, and how you can help!</h2>
<figure id="attachment_67241" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67241" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67241" src="media/39301105.RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-300x169.png" alt="Text saying “RightsCon Costa Rica Register for RightsCon to join our online session Help us crowdsource open journalism outlets! 7 June 2023 9:30am UTC” and headshots labelled Zac Crellin, Founder, Open Newswire, Khalil A. Cassimally, Head of Audience Insights, The Conversation, and Jennryn Wetzler, Director of Learning &amp; Training, Creative Commons." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RightsCon-2023-Open-Journalism.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67241" class="wp-caption-text">“Open Journalism at RightsCon 2023” by <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> is dedicated to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0 1.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><em>Virtual online session: Wed 7 June 2023 09:30–10:30 UTC</em></p>
<p>Journalism is a critical public service to all of us. Unfettered access to verified information is essential for a healthy information ecosystem — which is essential for democracy and social justice. Yet, journalism is challenged by broken revenue models, the closures of local news outlets, and declining trust among readers. Misinformation and disinformation campaigns in the media challenge collective notions of ground truth. They also challenge the bedrock and meaning of an open internet, as most proposed solutions involve limiting speech.</p>
<p>To go beyond the session at RightsCon, you can read our report, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/04/08/global-report-on-journalism-released/">From Broken Revenue Models to Embracing an “Open” Ethos</a>, based on research with over 500 journalists from 18 different countries, and use our guide, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/a-journalists-guide-to-creative-commons-2023/">A Journalist’s Guide to Creative Commons</a>. Are you a journalist or part of a news organization? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/contact/">Get in touch with CC</a> to hold a workshop on open journalism with your team.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67182
title: A Journalist’s Guide to Creative Commons 2023
uri: A-Journalist-s-Guide-to-Creative-Commons-2023
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/05/a-journalists-guide-to-creative-commons-2023/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sharing and reusing content in newsrooms is nothing new. But embracing Creative Commons unlocks infinitely more potential, completely free of charge. Increasingly, news outlets around the world embrace Creative Commons to enhance their coverage, boost their readership, and move towards more sustainable business models. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whether you work for a smaller newsroom seeking high quality, newsworthy photos that are free to use, or are part of a larger operation, like Propublica, that CC licenses all news to increase access and spread, CC licenses are free, powerful tools at your disposal.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet, some journalists may not be aware of the potential and ease of these tools. Open Newswire and Creative Commons partnered to offer a practical primer on Creative Commons for journalism, and how to make the most of CC licenses. Enjoy!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more information about </span><a href="https://opennewswire.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Newswire</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the global aggregator of CC-licensed articles, contact </span><a href="mailto:info@opennewswire.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@opennewswire.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more information about CC licensing your works, or reusing others’ CC licensed content, visit the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC FAQ page</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate training resources</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or contact </span><a href="mailto:learning@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">learning@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for a consultation. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC also offers free</span> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/12/open-office-hours-with-ccs-legal-team/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“office hours” with our copyright lawyers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and periodic trainings. We will run open journalism trainings at the </span><a href="https://collaborativejournalism.org/cjs2023/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2023 Collaborative Journalism Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> June 6, online at </span><a href="https://rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightscon-costa-rica-2023/events/open-journalism-why-many-newsrooms-open-and-share-their-content-and-how-you-can-help-iGfquQREjebTZDfct2ZSCo"><span style="font-weight: 400;">RightsCon</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> June 7 in partnership with Open Newswire, and The Conversation, and at </span><a href="https://mediaparty.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Media Party</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> June 8. CC will host additional open journalism training at the </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Summit</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, October 3-6</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We hope to connect with you. </span></p>
<p>You can view the guide below (click at the bottom to navigate through pages), or <a href="media/e735398c.A-Journalists-Guide-to-Creative-Commons-2.0.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/A-Journalists-Guide-to-Creative-Commons-2.0.pdf">download it in a PDF format</a>.</p>
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<a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> is a global nonprofit organization that addresses the world’s most pressing challenges through advancing open access to knowledge and knowledge. CC built and stewards the global standard of open licenses that power millions of people’s unfettered access to culture, research, information, education and more. We know of over 2.5 billion CC licenses being used across 9 million websites, to date. We work to deliver open access to technology, education, science, culture and resources, and advance knowledge to solve problems and promote the public interest.</i></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.opennewswire.org/">Open Newswire</a> is a consolidated feed of freely-republishable news articles written by professional journalists from around the world. Articles are written in over 90 languages and are available to be used under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/"><i>Creative Commons</i></a><i> licenses or </i><a href="https://www.opennewswire.org/2021/12/01/what-do-all-the-licences-mean-decoding-creative-commons/"><i>similar guidelines</i></a><i>.</i></strong></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66922
title: Ellen Euler — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 18
uri: Ellen-Euler-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-18
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/06/ellen-euler-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-18/
content:
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Ellen Euler — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 18" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-rQy9FybaSE?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>Ellen shares that “by making cultural heritage openly available it can foster innovation and creativity.” This is a key aspect of why Ellen advocates for opening up cultural heritage and what drives her passion for open access in the cultural heritage sector.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Ellen is a Lawyer and Cultural Heritage professional who is currently a Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam where she teaches about open access in the Library and Information Sciences department.</p>
<p><strong>Ellen responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
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<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/06/ellen-euler-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-18/">Ellen Euler — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 18</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67271
title: Disruption: Creator Edition — Unveiling the Program & Speakers
uri: Disruption-Creator-Edition-Unveiling-the-Program-Speakers
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/09/disruption-creator-edition-unveiling-the-program-speakers/
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<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us on 14 June at ‘Disruption: Creator Edition’ as we explore the profound influence of generative AI on creativity across multiple industries. </span><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/disruption-creator-edition/e490855"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register now &gt;&gt;</span></a></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In collaboration with the team at </span><a href="https://eqtylab.io/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">EQTY Lab</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and with Nonny de la Peña of the </span><a href="https://california.asu.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arizona State University California Center</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Creative Commons welcomes our community to join us next week on 14 June in downtown Los Angeles. We’d like to thank ASU for donating their space for this event, and our sponsors, </span><a href="https://www.dwt.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Davis Wright Tremaine LLP</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (DWT), for enabling us to make this event happen.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">PROGRAM</span></h2>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time (all PST)</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speakers</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Focus</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">09:30am &#8211; 10:00am</span></td>
<td><b>/ ARRIVAL</b></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coffee and snacks.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">10:00am &#8211; 10:20am</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jonathan Dotan (EQTY Lab)</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Setting the scene</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">10:30am &#8211; 10:50am</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nonny de la Peña (ASU)</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lessons learned with emerging technologies</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">11:00am &#8211; 12:00pm</span></td>
<td><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Final lineup to be announced</span></i></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fireside keynote</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">12:00pm &#8211; 01:00pm</span></td>
<td><b>/ LUNCH</b></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lunch will be provided.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">01:00pm &#8211; 01:40pm</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sarah Duran (DWT) in conversation with Dwain Worrell (filmmaker), Adam Piron (Sundance), Ben Sinclair (filmmaker)</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Panel discussing the impacts of generative AI on Film &amp; TV.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">01:50pm &#8211; 02:30pm</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jesse Damiani (author) in conversation with Q (artist), Joel Ferree (LACMA), Alice Scope (Vellum)</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Panel discussing the impacts of generative AI on the Arts</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">02:40pm &#8211; 03:20pm</span></td>
<td><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Final lineup to be announced</span></i></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Panel discussing the impacts of generative AI on music and contemporary media.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">03:30pm &#8211; 04:10pm</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catherine Stihler (Creative Commons) in conversation with Damon Krukowski (musician)</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">A discussion on topics including creativity, copyright, and labor.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">04:20pm &#8211; 04:50pm</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robert Tercek in conversation with Che Chang (OpenAI)</span></td>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">A closing fireside digging into labor issues in the creative industries.</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-weight: 400;">05:00pm &#8211; 06:00pm</span></td>
<td><b>/ DRINKS</b></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/disruption-creator-edition/e490855"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to join us next Wednesday, 14 June, in downtown LA.</span></p></blockquote>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re thrilled to welcome an accomplished, thoughtful, and diverse set of speakers to the stage to share all sides of the debate on this critical issue. Meet some of our speakers below:</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dadadrummer.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Damon Krukowski</strong></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a multi talented musician, writer, and activist. His music career began as the drummer for the alternative rock band Galaxie 500 in the late 1980s. The band released three critically acclaimed albums before splitting up in 1991. Following Galaxie 500, Damon formed the indie pop duo Damon &amp; Naomi with bandmate Naomi Yang. The duo have a distinctive style of melancholic pop, and continue to produce music to this day. He is also a well-respected writer, having published two books, &#8220;</span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31213293-the-new-analog?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; (2017) and &#8220;</span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42068866-ways-of-hearing?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_20"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ways of Hearing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; (2019), and writing for numerous esteemed publications like </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pitchfork</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Wire</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. His writing often intertwines with his music career, as he explores themes around the intersection of technology, music, and culture. His observations and critiques have been influential in discussions about the digital evolution of the music industry. His unique perspective, combining his background as an artist with his understanding of technology&#8217;s impact, makes him a compelling voice in these debates.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catch him at a live show the night before the conference at </span><a href="https://dice.fm/event/ap9b2-damon-naomi-ziemba-joel-jerome-13th-jun-permanent-records-roadhouse-los-angeles-tickets"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Permanent Records Roadhouse</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3969940"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Nonny de la Peña </strong></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">is a pioneer in emerging media and immersive journalism, and is currently the program director of ASU’s Narrative and Emerging Media Program. With over two decades of experience in visual, virtual, augmented and extended reality, her award-winning work in film, print and TV has had a major impact on storytelling. As the founder and CEO of Emblematic Group, Nonny leverages cutting-edge technologies to tell stories that foster deeply empathetic viewer engagement. Recognized as a &#8220;Technology Innovator of the Year&#8221; by WSJ and dubbed the &#8220;Godmother of Virtual Reality&#8221; by major publications, her contributions, including the first VR pieces shown at Sundance and Tribeca Film Festival, have set industry standards. Her influential paper “</span><a href="https://direct.mit.edu/pvar/article/19/4/291/59078/Immersive-Journalism-Immersive-Virtual-Reality-for"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Immersive Journalism: Immersive Virtual Reality for the First-Person Experience of the News</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,” in MIT&#8217;s journal Presence, is among its most downloaded. A laureate of numerous awards, including the SXSW Innovation Awards Hall of Fame, de la Peña&#8217;s innovative approach to storytelling continues to inspire and drive the field forward. She holds prestigious fellowships and degrees from Harvard University and USC.</span></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://roberttercek.com/">Robert Tercek</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a globally renowned figure in digital innovation and dematerialization, blending his roles as an author, entrepreneur, educator, and co-host of The Futurists podcast. As the founder and CEO of General Creativity, Robert shapes strategies for digital transformation and future-proof planning for new products, services, and ventures. His former executive leadership roles in media studios and software companies allowed him to launch digital services now integral to millions of daily lives. In 2021, the Media Excellence Awards named him Humanitarian of the Year for creating COVID SMART<img src="media/a6ffb3d9.2122.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />, an interactive program ensuring worker safety during the pandemic. His book &#8220;VAPORIZED: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World&#8221; has made him an authority on software dematerialization, a process that is continuing to reshape various industries. </span></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://qianqian-ye.com/">Q (Qianqian Ye)</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a Chinese artist, creative technologist, and educator based in Los Angeles. Q merges her architectural training with art and technology, generating spaces—digital, physical, and social—that probe into gender, immigrant, power, and technology matters. The Future of Memory, her recent collaboration, secured the Mozilla Creative Media Award. As the lead of p5.js at the Processing Foundation, she is central to an open-source platform that champions inclusive and accessible learning in code, a community now exceeding 1.5 million users. Q serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC Media Arts + Practice, teaching creative coding, and imparts 3D Arts knowledge at Parsons School of Design. In 2022-2023, she will broaden her reach as a Civic Media Fellow at USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Having been raised in China and moved to the US in 2012, Q’s work now centers on alternative community building, technology against misinformation, the Chinese language system, and re-envisioning gender in non-western narratives. Her distinguished work has been showcased globally, from the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art to Ecobuild London. </span></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Damiani">Jesse Damiani</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a celebrated writer, curator, producer, and entrepreneur known for his expertise in virtual reality, augmented reality, and emerging media and technologies. He currently serves as Senior Curator of Nxt Realtime at Nxt Museum. Nxt Realtime represents a new exhibition structure, evolving 2-4 times annually to explore critical questions facing humanity. This innovative initiative assembles artists, curators, scholars, experts, and the public, seeking to stimulate critical and curious approaches to new ideas and practices. Concurrently, Realtime echoes web3 movement ideals, focusing on how art and artists pave the way for decentralized power and collective imagination as a problem-solving tool. Jesse is renowned for curating exhibitions such as Synthetic Wilderness, Sea Change, and PROOF OF ART. Beyond curating, he writes extensively on art, media, and emerging technology for Forbes and other prominent publications. He is also the founder of Best American Experimental Writing and CEO of Galatea, a tool for VR and AR storytelling.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/disruption-creator-edition/e490855"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to secure your seat!</span></p></blockquote>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">TOPICS</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These are the key themes we’ll be interrogating throughout the day:</span></p>
<p><b>Representation</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How can we address the problems of representation in generative AI while we’re still early in its rise? How can creators be a part of that?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How does AI affect inclusion and representation in the entertainment industries?</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Lessons Learned</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What can we learn from the past? The ways previous technologies have been incorporated into art, and in particular the relationships between creators and publishers, distributors, and other intermediaries?</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generative AI carries both opportunities and challenges for creators, but which if any are innate in the technology and which stem from other factors, like the current business and institutional structures?</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>The political environment</b></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How might labor policy and organizing from the creator perspective factor into the future of generative AI, and how do they compare to other levers for policy and business change?</span></li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/disruption-creator-edition/e490855"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to join us next Wednesday, 14 June, in downtown LA. Registration is free, donations are greatly appreciated.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span><br />
The proceedings will be recorded and released at a future date. If you have any questions, please reach out to Anna Tumadóttir at </span><a href="mailto:anna@creativecommons.org"><span>anna@creativecommons.org</span></a><span> </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67292
title: An Open Wave: New Calls for Open Access
uri: An-Open-Wave-New-Calls-for-Open-Access
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/13/an-open-wave-new-calls-for-open-access/
content:
<figure id="attachment_67293" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67293" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67293" src="media/8fea448b.The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-1024x706.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-1024x706.jpg" alt="Modern recut copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖波裏), from 36 Views of Mount Fuji, Color woodcut." width="350" height="241" data-wp-editing="1" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-300x207.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-768x530.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-1536x1060.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-2048x1413.jpg 2048w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-58x40.jpg 58w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-50x34.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-225x155.jpg 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa-1200x828.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67293" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa.jpg?useskin=vector#file">Modern recut copy of The Great Wave off Kanagawa</a> (神奈川沖波裏), from 36 Views of Mount Fuji, Color woodcut. Circa 1930 (original created 1829-1832). Public domain.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Climate Campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is pleased to see the recent wave of announcements requiring open access to knowledge that support our goal to make the open sharing of research outputs the norm in climate science. The Campaign recognizes that in order to generate solutions and mitigations to climate change, the knowledge (i.e. research papers, data, educational resources) about it must be open. To us, “open” means: immediately available without embargo, with an open license (or dedicated to the public domain), supporting rights retention, and published in a standardized format that enables machine readability. The emphasis on these specifics in these announcements is what is particularly exciting and different than what has come before.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This open access wave began in August 2022 with the release of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/26/a-big-win-for-open-access/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Access Memo</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, commonly referred to as the “Nelson Memo,” after Dr. Alondra Nelson, the Director of the OSTP at the time. The memo calls for each of the US Federal Agencies to make “articles resulting from all U.S. federally funded research freely available and publicly accessible by default in agency-designated repositories, without any embargo or delay after publication.” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The memo also directs agencies to describe: “the circumstances or prerequisites needed to make the publications freely and publicly available by default, including any use and re-use rights, and which restrictions, including attribution, may apply.” Creative Commons and our partners SPARC, Harvard and American University have been working with the US agencies to help them ensure rights are retained and publicly funded research is openly licensed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The next crest in the wave was on 20 May 2023, with the release of the </span><a href="media/d78c7c60.230513_g7_communique.pdf" data-original-source="https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/kokusaiteki/g7_2023/230513_g7_communique.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">G7 Leaders Communiqué</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which stated that the G7 will “promote open science by equitably disseminating scientific knowledge, publicly funded research outputs including research data and scholarly publications following the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) principles.” Followed just a few days later, on 23 May, by the release of the </span><a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/23/council-calls-for-transparent-equitable-and-open-access-to-scholarly-publications/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Council of the European Union’s proceedings on “High-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing.&#8221;</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> As waves are measured by the distance between consecutive crests, the decreasing time between these announcements suggests that this open wave is growing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once considered simply a good practice, open scholarship is becoming the default for publicly funded research. Both practitioners and decision-makers recognize how critical open access to knowledge is in understanding the world and solving the world’s greatest challenges. While open plans and policies have been cropping up across the world (e.g. </span><a href="https://www.eifl.net/news/ukraine-launches-national-open-science-action-plan"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ukraine</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://ni4os.eu/2020/06/25/government-of-montenegro-has-adopted-the-first-strategic-document-related-to-open-science/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Montenegro</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), these announcements have stipulations that require not just open access to publications, but immediate access and “supporting the rights of researchers to publish, share, disseminate and communicate openly the results and data of their research…as well as maximum accessibility and reusability of research results.” These broader definitions of open match CC’s strategy for </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">: sharing that is not just open, but that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable. The tide has turned: it’s now not only important to make research open, but also to enable the full potential of open access by making publications accessible as quickly as possible and enabling the reuse of content and data.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The <a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/">Open Climate Campaign</a> welcomes these developments and language that aligns with our definition of open. This ongoing wave of announcements heralds real change in enabling better knowledge sharing and collaboration to solve the world’s greatest challenges.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the Open Climate Campaign, we are working to make the open sharing of research the norm in climate science through global advocacy, one-on-one work with funders, national governments and environmental organizations; and partnerships with open projects and publishers. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can learn more about how you can participate at </span><a href="http://www.openclimatecampaign.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.openclimatecampaign.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66907
title: Mauricio Genta — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 19
uri: Mauricio-Genta-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-19
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/13/mauricio-genta-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-19/
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<p>Mauricio says that “open access makes it easier for people to use what is a common good for all.” In this episode we dive into the work of a historian and librarian in Argentina. Mauricio discusses the value of cultural heritage preservation over generations and what role present day  institutions play for the future.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Mauricio is a historian, librarian, and museologist. He works with Wikimedia Argentina to open up collections and make them accessible for people all over the world.</p>
<p><strong>Marcio responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67299
uri: European-Parliament-gives-green-light-to-AI-Act-moving-EU-towards-fin
title:
European Parliament gives green light to AI Act, moving EU towards finalizing the world’s leading regulation of AI

url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/14/european-parliament-gives-green-light-to-ai-act-moving-eu-towards-finalizing-the-worlds-leading-regulation-of-ai/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, the European Parliament (EP) adopted its position in plenary on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. This is the culmination of a months-long process whereby thousands of pages of amended text have been pored over by policymakers, civil society and industry alike. The strong, cross-party endorsement (499 votes in favor, 28 against and 93 abstentions) paves the way for tough negotiations with the European Council, which concluded its position at the end of last year. Since then, the bulk of the EP’s political focus has been on so-called “foundation models,” which are trained on vast ranges of data for a wide set of downstream tasks. In particular, they have focused on “generative AI,” with Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) seeking to provide a legal framework for recent innovations such as ChatGPT or Bard.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a rare move, the EP, European Commission, and European Council agreed to start three-way negotiations — the so-called trilogues — immediately after the vote at 9pm CET today. This need for speed underscores the political imperative of reaching a deal before next year’s EP elections on the high-stakes, hot-button draft AI Act, which is the regulation that will set the rules around AI in the EU space. In fact, the Act is bound to shape how policymakers approach regulating AI in many other jurisdictions and at the international level. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons (CC) has actively engaged in the AI Act process (see </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/05/ccs-engagement-on-eus-artificial-intelligence-act/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/13/as-european-council-adopts-ai-act-position-questions-remain-on-gpai/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) and welcomes the EU’s leadership on defining a regulatory framework around this impactful technology. In this blog post, we highlight the issues most likely to impact the topics we focus on: growing the commons and better sharing of knowledge and culture. </span></p>
<h3><b>Background and key issues for CC</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The AI Act process started in 2021 with a </span><a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/proposal-regulation-laying-down-harmonised-rules-artificial-intelligence"><span style="font-weight: 400;">proposal by the Commission</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and has since been debated in Parliament and Council, whose approaches will need to converge in order for an agreement to be reached and the Act adopted. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In its initial conception, the Act focused on regulating certain uses of AI. In particular, it seeks to ban certain uses of AI, such as broad-based real-time biometric identification for law enforcement in public places. It also seeks to ensure that certain precautions are taken before deployment of uses deemed “high-risk,” such as the use of AI for access to education, employment, financial credit, or other essential services. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, in the last year, the focus expanded. The Council incorporated provisions with respect to “general purpose AI” (GPAI), and the Parliament subsequently created requirements specifically for “foundation models.” Rather than addressing specific high-risk uses, these provisions impact technologies that have a wide range of uses, both potentially beneficial and harmful, and of varying degrees of risk. Moreover, the Parliament added specific requirements for generative AI, including requirements related to transparency of copyright works used to train these models.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we support the overall aims of the draft legislation, but we want to ensure that these new points of focus are handled in a careful, narrowly-tailored way. Specifically, here is what we will be focusing on as we engage policymakers going forward.</span></p>
<h3><b>CC comments on specific issues</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For many years, CC has focused on the interplay between copyright and AI, because of the way this technology can foster better sharing, helping people build on and contribute to the commons, spurring on new creativity and knowledge sharing. The Act poses several challenges to these aims, and we address them in turn below. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free and open source software (FOSS)</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">FOSS provides important benefits, including by improving transparency and auditability of AI systems and by making it easier for a wide variety of players, including nonprofits, start-ups, researchers/academics and SMEs, to innovate, test and compete in the market. As such, CC’s views are that collaborative development of FOSS and merely making FOSS available in public repositories should not subject developers to the AI Act’s requirements.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">GPAI, foundation models, and FOSS</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We appreciate the concerns policymakers have about how general purpose tools can be used “downstream” by other actors in harmful ways. It is particularly important that downstream users have sufficient information about the underlying model in order to address possible risks.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the same time, it is important to treat general purpose tools distinctly from tools aimed for a particular, high-risk use. For multi-purpose tools, it can be impractical for developers to implement risk management in ways suited for narrowly defined, “high risk” AI uses. In turn, imposing the same rules on GPAI creators may create significant barriers to innovation and drive market concentration, leading the development of AI to only occur within a small number of large, well-resourced commercial operators. With that in mind, we also want to ensure there are proportional requirements for FOSS “foundation models” that are “put on the market” or “put into service,&#8221; tailored to different services and providers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In particular, we have concerns when it comes to FOSS developers. As above, merely developing and making available in a repository a FOSS “foundation model” or other general purpose tool should not subject developers to the Act’s requirements.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Transparency of training data and copyright</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we are convinced that greater openness and transparency in the development of AI models can serve the public interest and facilitate better sharing by building trust among creators and users. As such, we generally support more transparency around the training data for regulated AI systems.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Parliament version of the text includes specific provisions with respect to generative AI models, requiring providers to “document and make publicly available a sufficiently detailed summary of the use of training data protected under copyright law.” On the one hand, this can be a sensible way to ensure transparency, particularly for rightsholders who wish to exercise their right to “opt-out” of exceptions to copyright pertaining to AI training pursuant to Article 4 of the EU Copyright Directive in the Digital Single Market. On the other hand, it is important that this requirement is applied proportionately; developers should not be expected to literally list out every item in the training data, but rather provide useful summaries, such as use of a particular dataset like Common Crawl or LAOIN-5B, which rightsholders can then use to determine whether their works were used or not.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Generative AI and copyright generally</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Parliament’s text also requires that generative AI model providers take “adequate safeguards against the generation of content in breach of Union law, in line with the generally acknowledged state of the art, and without prejudice to fundamental rights, including the freedom of expression.” While perhaps to reaffirm that developers should comply with copyright law, this is likely to create much more uncertainty; at worst, it could be read to suggest a more sweeping requirement for developers to implement copyright filtering tools that could address perfectly lawful uses. We encourage policymakers to take steps to ensure this does not become a backdoor expansion of copyright law; to the extent policymakers want to consider this broader topic, they should do it separately, rather than tacked on to the AI Act at the eleventh hour.</span></p>
<h3><b>Looking ahead</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regarding the start of the trilogues, Creative Commons CEO Catherine Stihler said: “Creative Commons remains committed to finding fair and lasting solutions to ensure AI can support creators and grow the commons, in line with our strategy of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and our values of openness, transparency, fairness, and creativity. At CC, we will continue to proactively engage with EU institutions as the trilogues commence, in order to achieve our mission to empower individuals and communities around the world by equipping them with technical, legal and policy solutions to enable sharing of knowledge and culture in the public interest.”</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are in Brussels on 28 June, 2023, do not miss Creative Commons’ Brigitte Vézina speaking at the </span><a href="https://internetforum.eu/events/events/1555-generative-ai-art-copyright-from-creative-machines-to-human-powered-tools.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">European Internet Forum’s Generative AI, art &amp; copyright: from creative machines to human-powered tools event</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, an in-person panel organized by EIF with opening remarks by MEP Dragos Tudorache, Parliament co-rapporteur on the AI Act — you can find more information on the program and </span><a href="https://internetforum.eu/events/events/1555-generative-ai-art-copyright-from-creative-machines-to-human-powered-tools.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">register on the EIF’s website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66911
title: Stephen Wyber — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 20
uri: Stephen-Wyber-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-20
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/20/stephen-wyber-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-20/
content:
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Stephen Wyber — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 20" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e2Blh__gHqI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>Did you know that access to cultural heritage is part of the UN Declaration of Human Rights? Stephen discusses this little known article among other important aspects of access, participation, and engagement of cultural heritage and the responsibilities of institutions in this regard. He also explains how Open Culture is a way to establish the social responsibility of institutions to a community and society.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Stephen Wyber is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at IFLA which coordinates meetings and collaborations between GLAM institutions, namely libraries, around the world. He works to co-create meaningful understanding of the needs of libraries and what role libraries play in society and community.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67319
title: ccMixter: A Collaborative Music Community
uri: ccMixter-A-Collaborative-Music-Community
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/27/ccmixter/
content:
<figure id="attachment_67320" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67320" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67320" src="media/364d9b76.ccMixter-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter-300x169.jpg" alt="The ccMixter logo: A black record with a green border and a white reversed, nested C inside a larger white C on a green center, all to the left of a lowercase “mixter” in gray with the X green, above “collaborative community” in gray." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter-440x250.jpg 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ccMixter.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67320" class="wp-caption-text">The new ccMixter logo designed by community member<a href="https://ccmixter.org/thread/4376">Airtone</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Back in 2004, <a href="https://ccmixter.org/">ccMixter.org</a> was born when Creative Commons and Wired magazine collaborated to support communities engaged in remixing openly-licensed and public domain music. As it has evolved over the years, ccMixter has become an independent project that supports musicians and creators working in remix culture, connecting them with each other and their fans. To reflect ccMixter’s contemporary identity, they have developed a new logo and a new tagline, “collaborative community”, represented by the “cc” in their name and logo.</p>
<p>Starting in 2009, ccMixter’s marks, terms of use, and format were managed by both Creative Commons and <a href="https://www.artistechmedia.com/">ArtisTech Media</a>, an organization that supports global open music communities. Going forward, ccMixter will be operated independently by ArtisTech Media alone, with Creative Commons’ enthusiastic support.</p>
<p>“Today we’re celebrating an exciting new chapter for ccMixter,” said Emily Richards, CEO of ArtisTech Media. “Our history with Creative Commons and its licenses built a solid foundation for our community’s culture of sharing. We’re ready to take our creative collaboration to yet another level.”</p>
<p>Along with their new identity and independence, ccMixter has updated their platform to use the latest CC licenses, version 4.0, which enable shared music to be remixed more flexibly and with greater legal certainty across international jurisdictions.</p>
<p>“We are delighted that ccMixter can now be independently stewarded by the expert hands of Emily and her colleagues at ArtisTech Media,” said Catherine Stihler, CEO of Creative Commons. “Better sharing and the ability for us to work together with like-minded organizations further increases the value of the commons for generations to come. We wish Emily and her colleagues well and know that the commons is stronger for our working together to enable this project to live and grow in their hands.”</p>
<p>CC salutes ccMixter and its collaborative community and the ongoing beat of remix culture!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67325
title: Wikipedia Moves to CC 4.0 Licenses
uri: Wikipedia-Moves-to-CC-4-0-Licenses
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/29/wikipedia-moves-to-cc-4-0-licenses/
content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-67326" src="media/b3fe4b91.WikimediaAndCC-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC-300x169.png" alt="Black logos for the Wikimedia Foundation and Creative Commons, side by side." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/WikimediaAndCC.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />We are thrilled to announce that Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have now adopted version 4.0 of the Creative Commons BY-SA license! The project first began using <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2009/06/22/wikipedia-cc-by-sa-free-culture-win/">version 3.0 of the CC licenses in 2009</a> following a community process, having previously used the GNU Free Documentation License.</p>
<p>This decision, made as part of a Terms of Use revision that was widely discussed by the Wikimedia community, will enable more compatibility and reuse with CC-licensed resources as well as take advantage of the improvements in the 4.0 licenses.</p>
<p>Wikipedia is run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, and is one of the most widely-used websites in the world. Its resources are all freely licensed for reuse by the public. This change will now enable Wikipedia to incorporate content from a variety of useful sources that also use CC 4.0 licenses, including publications from the United Nations and many national governments.</p>
<p>This change was made through <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_department/2023_ToU_updates/About">a revision to the project’s Terms of Use</a>, where all new edits to Wikipedia will be under version 4.0 of the CC BY-SA license. Older edits will remain under BY-SA 3.0, <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/ShareAlike_compatibility">which allows adaptations to be made with 4.0-licensed material</a>. This presents a small amount of complexity for reusers, but over time, as more and more of the project is revised, this will become less of a practical concern.</p>
<p>Version 4.0 of the CC licenses, first published in 2013, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/version4/">introduced several important updates and improvements</a>. Some of the key benefits of this upgrade include greater internationalization, more practical attribution requirements, a grace period for correcting reuse errors, improved clarity and simplicity, and better handling of rights outside copyright, such as database rights. These changes make it an ideal fit for Wikimedia&#8217;s mission of simple, globally accessible reuse in a wide variety of contexts.</p>
<p>A big part of CC’s ongoing stewardship of the commons is helping organizations like Wikimedia keep their platforms and communities aligned with current open licensing tools and practices. With Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikidata, and all the other Wikimedia projects together being some of the biggest contributors to the open commons, we know how important it is for these essential works made by people from all over the world to be as interoperable as possible with other open content. CC salutes Wikimedia and its community for doing the necessary work to align thinking and technology to make the move to 4.0 a reality!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67331
title: CC Joins Key AI Panel in Brussels
uri: CC-Joins-Key-AI-Panel-in-Brussels
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/01/cc-joins-key-ai-panel-in-brussels/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66082" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66082" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66082" src="media/3cbff404.EU-Pixelated-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-300x169.png" alt="A heavily pixelated blue European Union flag with pixels scattered across it in different colors." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EU-Pixelated.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66082" class="wp-caption-text">“EU Pixelated” by Creative Commons was cropped from an image generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt “pixel art of computer code streaming across an EU flag.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>As a part of CC’s continuing engagement in policy to shape generative artificial intelligence (AI), Brigitte Vézina, our Director of Policy and Open Culture, participated in a June session hosted by the European Internet Forum: <a href="https://www.internetforum.eu/events/events/1555-generative-ai-art-copyright-from-creative-machines-to-human-powered-tools.html">Generative AI, Art &amp; copyright: from creative machines to human-powered tools</a>. The panel was held in the framework of EU negotiations on the development of the Artificial Intelligence Act, one of the world’s first regulations dedicated to AI.</p>
<p>The panel was chaired by MEP Dragos Tudorache, Rapporteur on the AI Act, and brought together speakers representing rightholders in the creative industries, an AI developer, and CC as the only representative of civil society present to defend the public interest. The debate touched on several copyright-related issues related to AI training, transparency and safeguards, AI-generated outputs, and more.</p>
<p>In our panel remarks, we emphasized how, for many years, we have been examining the interplay between copyright and AI — exploring ways in which these technologies and practices could help people build on and contribute to the commons, stimulate new creativity, and foster <em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em>, i.e. sharing that is inclusive, equitable, reciprocal and sustainable.</p>
<p>Going forward, it is clear that a diverse, global community must be involved in guiding the regulation of generative AI, with expertise spanning the fields of copyright, certainly, but also ethics, privacy and data protection, and fundamental human rights, so that AI’s promises are fulfilled and its perils, averted.</p>
<p>CC will continue our work to represent the public interest in negotiations around AI policy, as well as continue to engage and grow our broad, global community to refine and share understanding of AI&#8217;s impact on the commons. Join us at our <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">Global Summit</a> in Mexico City during 3–6 October 2023 where our theme is <em>AI &amp; the Commons</em>.</p>
<div style="background: #e0c93d; font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 1em 2em 1em; padding: 2em;"><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></div>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67346
title: CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | July: Better Sharing For Brighter Future
uri: CC-s-BetterSharing-Collection-July-Better-Sharing-For-Brighter-F
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/04/ccs-bettersharing-collection-july-better-sharing-for-brighter-future/

content:
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<figure id="attachment_66069" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66069" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66069" src="media/6c27bd14.Janice-Chang-768x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-768x1024.png" alt="An illustration of people holding each other up to reach flowers dangling from the sky, surrounded by the text: Better Sharing and Brighter Future." width="350" height="467" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-768x1024.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-225x300.png 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-1152x1536.png 1152w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-1536x2048.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-30x40.png 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-38x50.png 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-116x155.png 116w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Janice-Chang-1200x1600.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66069" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/better-sharing-for-brighter-future">Better Sharing for Brighter Future</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/janiceechang/?hl=en">Janice Chang</a> for <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> and <a href="https://fineacts.co/">Fine Acts</a> is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> looks like in action. Our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#BetterSharing collection</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness with transforming these perspectives into captivating visual pieces available under a CC license.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For July, we&#8217;re excited to showcase “<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/better-sharing-for-brighter-future">Better Sharing For Brighter Future</a>” by Janice Chang. The piece, licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, was inspired by a quote from <a href="https://twitter.com/TylerGreenBooks">Tyler Green</a>, Author, Historian, Art Critic and Producer/Host, The Modern Art Notes Podcast:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It means understanding that sharing and open content is a means, not an end. For me, it means understanding that sharing and open content is a means, not an end, that open content and open access policies aren’t an end in and of themselves. Although within the context of an individual project, it’s an excellent end. But what we get, we the community of scholars, we the broader community of people, what we get is an opportunity to understand how this material fits within the worlds around us, allowing new and different ideas to more fully inform us. My favorite example is always going to be the more art and visual material, whether it’s photographs or engravings in 19th century magazines. The more we understand how images have worked across histories, the more we will understand how impactful artists and visual makers, engravers, whomever have been. And so I think that open access is probably the primary and most important means through which we will understand how artists have impacted the world.”</span></p></blockquote>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meet the artist:</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-67347 size-medium" src="media/b8b7caf4.Janice-Chang-300x274.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Janice-Chang-300x274.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="274" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Janice-Chang-300x274.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Janice-Chang-44x40.jpg 44w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Janice-Chang-50x46.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Janice-Chang-170x155.jpg 170w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Janice-Chang.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><a href="https://www.janicechangart.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Janice Chang</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a Los Angeles born and raised illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. Much of her work takes on an honest representation of the sometimes humorous and bendy limbs of her characters as a way to engage in conversations around social and interpersonal issues. She works primarily for editorial, commercial, advertising, and motion clients, but also loves to explore painting murals, animation, and making sculptures.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow Janice on Instagram: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/janiceechang/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@janiceechang</span></a></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The full #BetterSharing collection is available on </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheGreats.co</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to be enjoyed, used and adapted, and then shared again, by anyone, forever. </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing&amp;search="><span style="font-weight: 400;">View the full collection &gt;&gt;</span></a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67358
title: Creative Commons Announces New Board Members: Marta Belcher, James Grimmelmann & Luis Villa
uri: Creative-Commons-Announces-New-Board-Members-Marta-Belcher-James-Gri
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/05/creative-commons-announces-new-board-members-marta-belcher-james-grimmelmann-luis-villa/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am delighted to introduce the latest additions to the Creative Commons Board of Directors: Marta Belcher, James Grimmelmann, and Luis Villa. They each bring unique skills and experiences, and they&#8217;re all passionate advocates for Creative Commons and the open movement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are at a pivotal moment in the development of Creative Commons. As we focus on CC’s strategic goal of accelerating </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and prepare for the first <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/02/2023-cc-global-summit-registration-call-for-proposals-and-scholarships-now-open/">CC Global Summit</a> since 2019 in Mexico City this October, the insights of Marta, James, and Luis will be invaluable.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Their appointment was made possible through an open nomination process steered by the Governance and Nominations Committee Chair, Carolina Botero, who harnessed the insights of the CC Global Network. I would like to thank the committee for their work, and a hearty welcome to Marta, James, and Luis. Let us all welcome them with open arms as they embark on their journey with us.</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">About the new board members:</span></p></blockquote>
<h3><b>Marta Belcher</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marta Belcher holds multiple esteemed positions in the tech and legal sectors, notably serving as President, Chair, General Counsel, and Head of Policy for the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Additionally, she is an integral part of Protocol Labs. She also lends her expertise to the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a Special Counsel. Marta is also a Board member of the Blockchain Association and the Zcash Foundation, and a member of Paradigm&#8217;s Crypto Policy Council. Marta is a pioneer in blockchain law and policy, and has testified in Congress and state legislatures, as well as speaking in European Parliament. Marta was previously an intellectual property litigator at Ropes &amp; Gray, and has submitted briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. appellate courts for high-profile public interest organizations, including EFF, the Center for Democracy &amp; Technology, Public Knowledge, the Cato Institute, the National Consumers&#8217; League, the Blockchain Association, and Project Gutenberg. Marta has been recognized by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer awards, by Law360’s list of Top Attorneys Under 40, by CryptoWeekly’s list of Most Influential Women in Crypto, and as Business Intelligence Group’s Woman of the Year.</span></p>
<h3><b>James Grimmelmann</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">James Grimmelmann is the Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. His work is primarily focused on how laws regulating software affect freedom, wealth, and power. His role often involves helping lawyers and technologists understand each other, and he&#8217;s applied concepts from computer science to tackle legal problems. He&#8217;s also written a casebook titled &#8220;Internet Law: Cases and Problems&#8221; and over fifty articles on a range of topics within computer and internet law. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College. Before law school, he worked as a programmer for Microsoft; after graduation, he clerked for a federal appellate judge. He is an affiliated fellow of the Yale Information Society Project. He previously taught at New York Law School, Georgetown, and the University of Maryland. He has written for </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slate, Salon, Wired, Ars Technica,</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publishers Weekly</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">; he is a regular source of expert commentary for major news media including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and All Things Considered. He and his students created the Public Index website to inform the public about the Google Books settlement.</span></p>
<h3><b>Luis Villa</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Luis Villa has made significant contributions to the open community since the late 90s, taking on a multitude of roles. He started as a developer, later transitioning into legal and board positions. His experience spans renowned organizations like Mozilla and the Wikimedia Foundation, where he held critical positions. In addition, he has provided legal counsel to a spectrum of companies, from small startups to giant Silicon Valley firms. His involvement in the open-source community extends beyond his professional roles. As a community member and informal advisor, he has worked with organizations such as Open Street Map, the Open Knowledge Foundation, the World Wide Web Consortium, and OpenETdata.org. Luis is also a co-founder and General Counsel at Tidelift, where the mission is making open source work better for everyone, including the maintainers behind the projects we all rely on, and the enterprises benefiting from their creations.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67379
title: Introducing Open Culture Live – a webinar series
uri: Introducing-Open-Culture-Live-a-webinar-series
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/11/introducing-open-culture-live-a-webinar-series/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Open Culture Team is excited to announce a new webinar series, Open Culture Live. This series will feature conversations with experts on a number of topics, from the basics of open culture to discussions about traditional knowledge, artificial intelligence, respectful terminologies in collections, and more. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a first session, we wanted to introduce folks to the basics of open culture &#8211; how our licenses work, and how they can be harnessed by cultural heritage institutions or GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) to responsibly share the world’s cultural heritage. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_67381" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67381" style="width: 661px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-67381" src="media/55d58800.Open-Culture-Live-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live-300x169.png" alt="The background image is the Wave of Kanagawa, a famous Japanese painting of a large wave with boats floating toward it. Creative Commons’ logo is in the upper right hand corner. Underneath reads “OPEN CULTURE LIVE” and “Back to Basics: Open Culture for Beginners, 27 July, 2023, 14 UTC.”" width="661" height="372" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Open-Culture-Live.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67381" class="wp-caption-text">Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei). Katsushika Hokusai ca. 1830–32. Metropolitan Museum. Public Domain.</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Back to Basics: Open Culture for Beginners</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">27 July, 2023, 2:00 PM UTC</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jocelyn Miyara, Open Culture Manager &amp; Connor Benedict, Open Culture Coordinator</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why is open access important for cultural heritage institutions? The mission of many of these kinds of organizations is to share culture and knowledge &#8211; and the internet enables sharing much more widely. Open culture’s most exciting potential is to empower creators anywhere in the world to discover, share, reuse and remix cultural heritage. We see open culture as a catalyst for the dissemination and revitalization of culture, a spark for the creation of new cultural expressions and experiences, and an engine for sustainable cultural, economic and social development, where culture as a public good takes center stage. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Register to attend </span><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtdeisrTssH9JBTcLOlmb0YXcPSKDi5tCI"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67336
title: A Special Episode of the Open Culture Voices Series, Part 1
uri: A-Special-Episode-of-the-Open-Culture-Voices-Series-Part-1
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/13/a-special-episode-of-the-open-culture-voices-series-part-1/
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<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Open Culture Voices — Special Episode Part 1" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QzUGs1qRTEI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>In this Special Episode of the Open Culture Voices series, CC hosts a conversation among five open culture experts from around the world.</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Dr. Andrea Wallace</strong>, Professor, University of Exeter Law School, United Kingdom</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Dr. Nkem Osuigwe,</strong> Director, African Library and Information Associations and Institutions, Nigeria</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Medhavi Gandhi</strong>, Founder, The Heritage Lab, India</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Evelin Heidel (Scann)</strong>, Program Lead at Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Uruguay</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Michael Peter Edson</strong>, Founder and Director at the Museum of Solutions, USA/India</li>
</ul>
<p>Topics addressed range from the fundamental issues surrounding open culture, its transformative impact, and the challenges it faces in a world undergoing profound changes.</p>
<p>The conversation takes place at a pivotal moment in the open culture movement: while 2022 saw the adoption of the MONDIACULT Declaration by UNESCO member states, which recognizes culture as a global public good, only 1% of the world’s cultural heritage institutions have open access policies. The experts reflect on whether open culture can fulfill its commitment to inclusive and global access to culture and participation in cultural life.</p>
<p><strong>Some of the key points discussed in this episode include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">The disruptive impact of new technologies, such as generative AI, on the open culture ecosystem, raising concerns about sustainability, accessibility, and equity.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The need to sketch a blueprint for open culture and better sharing to guide the direction of open culture in the coming years.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The observation that the open movement has stalled and is at a crossroads, requiring a realistic assessment of accomplishments, challenges, and future directions.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The importance of reflecting on and rethinking the mission, structure, and practices of cultural institutions in the digital age.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The need for a more equitable approach in open culture, addressing the bias in data representation and the lack of voices from underrepresented regions.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The sector’s need for active support and collaboration to address complex issues such as decolonization and inclusivity.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The importance of open culture in creating awareness, understanding, and appreciation of diverse cultures and knowledges.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Challenges include the need for more participatory practices, addressing issues of interoperability, and overcoming barriers to access in developing countries.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The role of open culture in contributing to addressing the climate crisis and preserving cultural heritage in emergency situations.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The environmental impact of digital technologies and the labor invisibilization associated with digital extraction.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The importance of considering local and intentional digital activities in open practices.</li>
</ul>
<p>Overall, the first part of the conversation highlights the need to expand the reach and impact of open culture, address inequalities, and actively shape the future of openness in the cultural heritage sector. As the open culture movement evolves, it must address issues of representation, equity, and resource distribution and by embracing diverse perspectives and forging partnerships, the blueprint for open culture can be shaped to create a more inclusive and equitable future for all.</p>
<p>When asked why open culture is important, here’s what they had to say:</p>
<p>“For me, open culture is really important locally because it&#8217;s a way to think creatively about how to make connections among collections, individuals, histories, narratives. That previously hasn&#8217;t actually been possible because of the analog nature of heritage and heritage management.”  <strong>Andrea Wallace</strong></p>
<p>“I started my career working with artisans and craftspeople, and my main interest was in building participation with the arts…I realized that the knowledge of the craft was at museums, like the background knowledge and contextual knowledge. And so we started taking artisans and crafts people to museums.” <strong>Medhavi Gandhi</strong></p>
<p>“Open content was this thread that ran through all our thinking about the future role of institutions and in the digital age… And for me, that&#8217;s a very very local and intimate challenge.” <strong>Michael Peter Edson</strong></p>
<p>“I think it&#8217;s very important that we put out our stories and our heritage in ways that actually represent our culture.” <strong>Evelin Heidel (Scann)</strong></p>
<p>“In my culture, some things are open and some are not, and I&#8217;m wondering how we can open up…there are some areas where women are not even allowed to join, and I’m wondering how open culture can help us achieve that.” <strong>Nkem Osuigwe</strong></p>
<p><strong>Part 2 will be release at the end of July 2023. Stay tuned!</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>For more information on CC&#8217;s Open Culture work head to our<a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"> information page</a> or <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/">join the platform.</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67402
title: Update and Next Steps on CC’s AI Community Consultation
uri: Update-and-Next-Steps-on-CC-s-AI-Community-Consultation
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/20/update-and-next-steps-on-ccs-ai-community-consultation/
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<figure id="attachment_67403" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67403" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67403" src="media/b435822a.PlantCircuits-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits-300x169.png" alt="Generated by AI: An abstract green, gold, and pink illustration of plants and circuit boards." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PlantCircuits.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67403" class="wp-caption-text">“Plant Circuits” by Creative Commons was generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt “vines and digital circuit boards in the style of Erté.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>We’re nearly halfway through 2023 and this year has already been an eventful one for generative artificial intelligence (AI), presenting unique challenges and opportunities for the Creative Commons (CC) community of creators who embrace open sharing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">From the community and beyond, we are seeing urgent demands for support in navigating AI’s implications for the commons.</p>
<p dir="ltr">CC has been hard at work developing our thoughts on the intersection of copyright and generative AI inputs and outputs. In February, we kicked off a public <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">consultation</a> with our community members and a wide range of stakeholders to learn about their thoughts on generative AI and to contemplate ways to move toward a positive future with this promising technology.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We believe AI can work in the public interest, and want to be part of the solution in navigating to that reality.</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="ltr">We use “artificial intelligence” and “AI” as shorthand terms for what we know is a complex field of technologies and practices, currently involving machine learning and large language models (LLMs). Using the abbreviation “AI” is handy, but not ideal, because we recognize that AI is not really “artificial” (in that AI is created and used by humans), nor “intelligent” (at least in the way we think of human intelligence).</p>
</blockquote>
<h2 dir="ltr">What We Heard From You</h2>
<p dir="ltr">We talked to <strong>creators, artists, publishers, policymakers, and legal experts</strong>. There are a wide variety of uses of these new tools, and just as wide a variety of points of view. As with previous technologies like the camera and Photoshop, generative AI is providing new tools for creativity, empowering both professionals and the public at large to make new works. At the same time, we listened to creators who worry about how their works are used to train AI and produce content that may compete with their works. For instance, if someone can generate works in the style of a previous artist, is that fair to the original artist? If people can use ChatGPT to get answers gleaned from Wikipedia without ever visiting Wikipedia, will Wikipedia’s commons of information continue to be sustainable?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Hearing these diverse voices helped reinforce and clarify our view that we need to think about a diverse set of solutions to support our strategy of <em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> in a world with AI. While we think it’s important that copyright continues to leave room for people to study and learn from past works to create new ones, including by analyzing past works using automated means, copyright is just one lens to think about AI. It’s still important to grapple with legitimate concerns about this technology and consider solutions that support responsible development and use.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Importantly, we heard interest in such solutions not just from creators, but also from <strong>developers of AI</strong>. With laws varying around the world and cases in the midst of active litigation, some developers are uncertain about whether and how to proceed in building AI. Moreover, regardless of what the law permits, some developers want to work with creators to find ways to respect creators’ wishes and support the commons through clear norms and technical solutions. For instance, we met with developers actively working on opt-in and opt-out solutions for creators regarding training of AI, and we talked to many developers who see using openly-licensed content for AI training as in line with their own aspirations and values.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We also spent time consulting with developers of <strong>open-source AI tools</strong>. Open source can help grow the commons, improve transparency in AI, and democratize access to the technology. At the same time, people have <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04844">raised concerns</a> about how open source may lower the barriers to harmful uses such as deepfakes or disinformation, and we’re starting to see proposed regulatory approaches that may go too far, hindering open approaches to AI. It is critical that, as an organization and a voice for the public interest, we continue to support appropriate regulations and practices that strike a balance among essential concerns, including open access, transparency, incentives for creativity, and protecting the commons and digital rights .</p>
<p dir="ltr">Additionally, we spent time talking to <strong>legal experts</strong> from academia and from private practice. Our thoughts about using AI in the public interest are rooted in our understanding of the legal frameworks involved and the way CC’s licenses and legal tools interact with them. We want the advice we share with our community and the policy approaches we advocate for to be informed by the most thoughtful analyses of the current and evolving legal situation, and we’ll provide further insights about AI and CC’s licenses in a future post. (For now, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses">you can find additional details in our FAQ</a>.)</p>
<h2 dir="ltr">What’s Coming Up for CC</h2>
<p dir="ltr">With new developments in generative AI coming daily, and with increasing debate worldwide about how best to regulate AI, it is time for CC to look to the future and to consider our place in the ongoing conversation around generative AI.</p>
<p dir="ltr">We will continue to convene critical conversations and bring together stakeholders who may not typically sit across the table from each other. If you know of events where the CC community should be engaged, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/contact/">please share</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Upcoming opportunities to engage in-person on these topics include:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">CC Global Summit</a> in Mexico City in October, with a specific focus on AI and the Commons, including participants from diverse communities around the world, not just people in the centers of power and privilege who already dominate conversations about AI</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Additionally, anyone may join our community <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform/">Copyright Platform</a> and participate in its community advisory group on AI.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The CC team is dedicated to <strong>loud listening</strong> as we thoughtfully consider our stance and foster an exchange of ideas and knowledge.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">There are things we must do urgently to help bring clarity to our community and support for creators. We must:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Empower creators, engaging even more deeply with those whose voices are being excluded from mainstream media coverage and policy debates. One question raised by creators rests on moral rights (non economic rights) which vary between jurisdictions, creating uncertainty over reuse.</p>
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<h2 dir="ltr">Join us</h2>
<p dir="ltr">Please join us on this journey of discovery through our platforms, community, network and in person at our Global Summit.</p>
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<div style="background: #e0c93d; font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 1em 2em 1em; padding: 2em;"><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></div>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/20/update-and-next-steps-on-ccs-ai-community-consultation/">Update and Next Steps on CC’s AI Community Consultation</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67418
title: Supporting Open Source and Open Science in the EU AI Act
uri: Supporting-Open-Source-and-Open-Science-in-the-EU-AI-Act
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/26/supporting-open-source-and-open-science-in-the-eu-ai-act/
content:
<figure id="attachment_65965" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-65965" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-65965" src="media/dfa38dd7.EUAI-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-300x169.png" alt="An abstract European Union flag of diffused gold stars linked by golden neural pathways on a deep blue mottled background." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EUAI.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-65965" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;EU Flag Neural Network&#8221; by Creative Commons was cropped from an image generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt &#8220;European Union flag neural network.&#8221; OpenAI asserts ownership of DALL-E generated images; Creative Commons dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>As the EU seeks to finalize its landmark AI Act, CC has joined with <a href="https://blog.eleuther.ai/eu-aia/">Eleuther AI</a>, <a href="https://github.blog/2023-07-26-how-to-get-ai-regulation-right-for-open-source/">GitHub</a>, <a href="https://huggingface.co/blog/eu-ai-act-oss">Hugging Face</a>, <a href="https://laion.ai/">LAION</a>, and <a href="https://openfuture.eu/blog/supporting-open-source-and-open-science-in-the-eu-ai-act/">Open Future</a> in offering suggestions for how the Act can better support open source and open science.</p>
<p>As we’ve said <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/14/european-parliament-gives-green-light-to-ai-act-moving-eu-towards-finalizing-the-worlds-leading-regulation-of-ai/">before</a>, we welcome the EU’s leadership on defining a regulatory framework around AI and the Act’s overall approach. At the same time, it’s critical that well-intentioned proposals do not have unintended, harmful consequences for the extensive ecosystem of open scientific research and open source development.</p>
<p>As we note in <a href="media/a3dd80da.SupportingOpenSourceAndOpenScienceInTheEUAIAct.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SupportingOpenSourceAndOpenScienceInTheEUAIAct.pdf">our full paper</a>, open and accessible sharing of the software, datasets, and models that make up AI systems allows for more widespread scrutiny and understanding of both their capabilities and shortcomings. Open source development can enable competition and innovation by new entrants and smaller players, including in the EU. Projects like EleutherAI and <a href="https://bigscience.huggingface.co/">BigScience</a> have brought together researchers and a range of institutions, including ones in the EU, to develop and share resources and skills to train high quality models.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, as things stand in the current negotiations, we believe the proposals threaten to create impractical barriers to and disadvantages for contributors to this open ecosystem. For instance, the text could impede simply making open source components available in public repositories and collaborating on them, thereby threatening the very process on which open source depends to develop.</p>
<p>To be clear, we don’t think open approaches to AI development should make their use fully exempt from the Act’s requirements, and we recognize how open source AI can also make harmful uses of AI more accessible to more people. Instead, our recommendations underscore the need for a tailored, proportionate approach to open source and open science, which supports collaborative models of development of AI by a wide range of players.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/26/supporting-open-source-and-open-science-in-the-eu-ai-act/">Supporting Open Source and Open Science in the EU AI Act</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67482
title: CC Open Education Platform Activities 2023
uri: CC-Open-Education-Platform-Activities-2023
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/02/cc-open-education-platform-activities-2023/
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<blockquote><p>This post was prepared collaboratively by Jennryn Wetzler, Werner Westermann, Lisa Di Valentino, Dr. Suma Parahakaran, Tetiana Kolesnykova, Paola Corti, Dan McGuire, and Fernando Daguanno.</p></blockquote>
<figure id="attachment_67484" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67484" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67484" src="media/090c0bdf.AbstractBackgrounds-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AbstractBackgrounds-300x169.jpg" alt="A vibrant, colorful abstract image, including color splashes, ink drawings, goldfish and flowers." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AbstractBackgrounds-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AbstractBackgrounds-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AbstractBackgrounds-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AbstractBackgrounds-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AbstractBackgrounds-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AbstractBackgrounds-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AbstractBackgrounds-440x250.jpg 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AbstractBackgrounds-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AbstractBackgrounds.jpg 1366w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67484" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/91352029@N04/10612982473">Abstract Backgrounds</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/91352029@N04">NichoDesign</a> is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>In February and March, the CC Open Education Platform community voted on five winning ideas to advance open education globally. Five project teams, spanning Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Italy, Malaysia, Ukraine, South Africa, and the USA have received CC Open Education funds. The CC Open Education Platform also funded ongoing global community work supporting the UNESCO Recommendation on OER. We are delighted to share updates about the projects now underway.</p>
<p>CC lauds all of the open education community efforts, and we look forward to sharing additional highlights at the end of this year.</p>
<h2>Title: Building a K-12 Interactive Open Textbook</h2>
<p><strong>Contact</strong>: <a href="https://twitter.com/wernerio?lang=en">Werner Westermann</a><br />
<strong>Location</strong>: Chile</p>
<figure id="attachment_67488" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67488" style="width: 197px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67488" src="media/1216c871.EducacionCiudadana-197x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EducaciónCiudadana-197x300.png" alt="A blue book cover titled Educación Ciudadana 3º4º de Enseñanza Media en Chile, showing the figure of a human hand covered with a map of Latin America overlaid with colors from national flags rising out of a fanned-open book, surrounded by internet symbols like @, #, and http." width="197" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EducaciónCiudadana-197x300.png 197w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EducaciónCiudadana-26x40.png 26w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EducaciónCiudadana-33x50.png 33w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EducaciónCiudadana-102x155.png 102w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EducaciónCiudadana.png 330w" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 85vw, 197px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67488" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://press.rebus.community/educacionciudadana/">Educación Ciudadana</a>&#8221; by Werner Westermann is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>, except where otherwise noted.</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Summary</strong>: The Building a K-12 Interactive Open Textbook project works with community members to support the development of a K-12 Open Textbook in the subject of Civics and Citizenship subject for 11th and 12th Grade, aligned to the official K-12 curriculum of Chile. Thus far, the project has gathered a core team focusing on content selection, H5P deployment, and graphic design. The core team has discussed: curricular alignment and structuring learning chapters; textual content creation and reuse; graphical content selection using <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org">Wikimedia Commons</a>; creating learning chapters and reusing previous developments, using Interactive Book H5P tool. The team has H5P packages and trials hosted in Pressbooks, thanks to support of REBUS Foundation.</p>
<h2>Title: Climate Change: OER integrating SDG components in Education in two Southeast Asian Countries</h2>
<p><strong>Contact</strong>: <a href="https://www.globalnxt.edu.my/gnxt/experience-us/faculty-research/dr-suma.html">Dr. Suma Parahakaran</a><br />
<strong>Location</strong>: Malaysia and Laos PDR</p>
<p><strong>Summary</strong>: This project supports OER for Climate Change and the sustainable development goals (SDGs); it focuses on OER creation through experiential activities in schools. Where Malaysia’s Global Environment Center (GEC) focused on climate change and water resources education, Laotian Sri Sathya Sai Institution focused on climate change work, installing solar lights and solar-generated electricity to reduce a primary and secondary school’s carbon footprint and energy costs. The project has also created a greenspace within the Laotian school for students and staff to engage in outdoor learning and gardening.</p>
<p>The project will be compiling OER content from both education centers, and displaying videos, activities and other media outputs on the project website. Next steps include hosting a competition for Climate Change and network building for collaboration.</p>
<h2>Title: &#8220;Popularization of OER in Ukraine: Small steps to a big goal&#8221;</h2>
<p><strong>Contact</strong>: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tetyana-Kolesnykova">Tetiana Kolesnykova</a><br />
<strong>Locations</strong>: Ukraine and Italy</p>
<figure id="attachment_67487" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67487" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67487" src="media/2d9bb737.UsingOpenEducationalResourcesInTeaching-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/UsingOpenEducationalResourcesInTeaching-300x169.jpg" alt="A black and white line drawing of 12 people standing in front of an ornate building." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/UsingOpenEducationalResourcesInTeaching-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/UsingOpenEducationalResourcesInTeaching-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/UsingOpenEducationalResourcesInTeaching-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/UsingOpenEducationalResourcesInTeaching-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/UsingOpenEducationalResourcesInTeaching-440x250.jpg 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/UsingOpenEducationalResourcesInTeaching.jpg 512w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67487" class="wp-caption-text">Image from <a href="https://www.pok.polimi.it/courses/course-v1:Polimi+OER101+2022_M5/about">Using Open Educational Resources in Teaching</a> by Politecnico di Milano &#8211; METID is licensed via <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Summary</strong>: Polytechnic University of Milan has partnered with the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies (USUST) to translate and localize a MOOC on OER. The Polytechnic University’s learning innovation unit (METID) developed and shared a MOOC, “<a href="https://www.pok.polimi.it/courses/course-v1:Polimi+OER101+2022_M5/about">Using Open Educational Resources in Teaching</a>” to meet the needs of Ukrainian teachers and academic library professionals. This partnership overcomes language barriers and ensures equitable and inclusive access to education in times of a full-scale war.</p>
<p>After METID and USUST agreed on a process and the necessary parameters to ensure the project would be sustainable for both partners, they adapted subtitles, infographics, the course description and summative weekly quizzes. USUST also created a bilingual version of the quizzes, which helps students in obtaining the MOOC’s final Certificate of Completion. Next steps include: creating instructions in Ukrainian; debugging video subtitles; verifying the MOOC content; and testing the process with teachers and librarians. USUST will also develop a mock-up of the Certificate of Completion of the course &#8220;Using Open Educational Resources in Teaching&#8221; released by Polimi Open Knowledge platform adapted into Ukrainian. The certificate will be generated in Ukrainian at the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, indicating the amount of training in ECTS credits.</p>
<h2>Title: STEAM Ahead with OER in South Africa project</h2>
<p><strong>Contact</strong>: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-mcguire-267a4a8/">Dan McGuire</a><br />
<strong>Locations</strong>: Ghana, South Africa, and USA</p>
<figure id="attachment_67486" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67486" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67486" src="media/56822894.RuralLiteracySolutions-300x97.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RuralLiteracySolutions-300x97.png" alt="Screenshot of the website for Rural Literacy Solutions: Community-based Organization in Tamale, Northern Region, showing three human figures wearing white head scarves leaning together to look at some learning materials." width="300" height="97" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RuralLiteracySolutions-300x97.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RuralLiteracySolutions-123x40.png 123w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RuralLiteracySolutions-50x16.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RuralLiteracySolutions-270x88.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RuralLiteracySolutions.png 512w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67486" class="wp-caption-text">Screenshot of the website for <a href="https://ruralliteracysolutions.com/">Rural Literacy Solutions</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Summary</strong>: This collaborative project creates, curates, and sources OER content that meets the needs of elementary students and is aligned with Ghanaian Education standards as well as South African standards. The project has a special emphasis on incorporating materials edited and adapted for and translated to the local languages in addition to the use of English language materials. Dan McGruire and colleague, Peter Amoabil, created a <a href="https://youtu.be/f0cgM68krrY">video explainer about the Ghanaian portion of the project</a>, which works Amoabil’s nonprofit, <a href="https://ruralliteracysolutions.com/">Rural Literacy Solutions</a>. There are some great pictures on their website of students reading OER materials in their local language on the server in their classroom that is not connected to the internet via an open source learning management system.</p>
<h2>Title: Alquimetricos</h2>
<p><strong>Contact</strong>: <a href="https://twitter.com/ferdaguanno?lang=en">Fernando Daguanno</a><br />
<strong>Locations</strong>: Argentina and Brazil</p>
<figure id="attachment_67485" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67485" style="width: 279px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67485" src="media/80d6c687.Alquimetricos-279x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Alquimétricos-279x300.png" alt="An orange rounded hexagonal icon with radiating white dots in each corner, with Alquimétricos in white text across the center." width="279" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Alquimétricos-279x300.png 279w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Alquimétricos-37x40.png 37w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Alquimétricos-46x50.png 46w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Alquimétricos-144x155.png 144w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Alquimétricos.png 476w" sizes="(max-width: 279px) 85vw, 279px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67485" class="wp-caption-text">Icon for <a href="https://alquimetricos.com/">Alquimétricos</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Summary</strong>: Alquimetricos is a STEAM OER project that inspires wonder, using card games, connectors and sticks to build geometric sculptures. Through experiential learning, the project develops students’ spatial, mathematical and kinetic understanding. For this phase of project work, Alquimetricos is developing a STEAM OER collection repository translated to English, <a href="http://lab.alquimetricos.cc/lab/">Portuguese</a>, and <a href="http://es.alquimetricos.cc/lab/">Spanish</a>. The first draft translations will be machine-generated. Alquimetricos will then organize a set of online workshops and collabora-thons to share, revise translations and document the contents and replication process, inviting Creative Commons community members to join.</p>
<p>The project is also developing a card game, which teachers can download and share with their K-12 classes for STEAM education. The digital version will be free, and the printed version will be available for sale. Fernando piloted the project and card games with students and teachers at the International book fair at Comodoro Rivadavia, in Chubut, Argentina, a 10-day learning fair for over 10,000 people.</p>
<p>Next steps include: (1) providing a demo of the card deck at the CC Summit, in Mexico City this October. (2) Alquimetricos will also produce a short video summarizing case studies of its CC BY-licensed educational products being used.</p>
<h2>Title: Global Commons: Unlocking Open Education with Creative Commons</h2>
<p><strong>Contacts</strong>: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/divalentino/">Lisa Di Valentino</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnokewole/?originalSubdomain=ng">John Okewole</a><br />
<strong>Locations</strong>: Nigeria, USA, and global</p>
<p><strong>Summary</strong>: This project is developing a short animated video describing Creative Commons and how it would accommodate the implementation of the UN recommendations for OER. The video will have narrations in different languages, potentially including: English, French, Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin could be the initial ones that would hopefully be ready by the end of the year. Team members are also developing 2-3 one-page graphic handouts explaining Creative Commons licenses, and the CC organization, also in different languages. Handouts will be shipped to CC Open Education Platform community members engaging in communications around the UNESCO Recommendation for OER.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/02/cc-open-education-platform-activities-2023/">CC Open Education Platform Activities 2023</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


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title: Conozca a los Miembros del Comité de la Cumbre Mundial de CC 2023
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<p style="text-align: right;">[<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/04/meet-ccs-2023-global-summit-committee-members/">read this post in English &gt;</a>]</p>
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<p>Después de años de reunirse en línea, la comunidad de CC claramente está lista para reunirse en persona para la Cumbre Global de CC 2023 del 3 al 6 de octubre en la Ciudad de México, mostrando que el trabajo para abrir el conocimiento y la cultura es más popular e importante que nunca. Recibimos 184 respuestas de calidad a nuestra convocatoria de propuestas y más de 300 solicitudes de ayuda financiera para asistir. Ahora las personas reciben notificaciones sobre el éxito de sus propuestas de sesiones y solicitudes de becas y comienzan a planificar su viaje.</p>
<p>El interés inmenso en la Cumbre Global de este año generó grandes desafíos para los voluntarios que se unieron a la comunidad de CC para dar forma al programa y la participación de la Cumbre. Si bien hubiera sido maravilloso aceptar cada propuesta y solicitud, los límites de financiamiento, tiempo y espacio significaron que los miembros del comité tuvieron que tomar decisiones difíciles para tratar de formar una Cumbre que esperamos sea diversa, enriquecedora y práctica.</p>
<p>En todo momento, los comités trabajaron para tratar de hacer posible que todos tuvieran algún conexión con la Cumbre. Si bien decidimos que no sería práctico tratar de realizar un evento totalmente híbrido en el que tanto los participantes remotos como los presenciales pudieran participar de manera sincrónica, reconocimos que también era imposible reunir a todos los que quisieran asistir en un solo lugar.</p>
<p>En consecuencia, solicitamos sesiones en vivo en la Ciudad de México y experiencias a las que la gente pueda acceder en línea, cuando y donde pueda. Además de los paneles, talleres, charlas relámpago, carteles, y reuniones de la Cumbre misma, los participantes grabarán videos para verlos a pedido y reunirse en sesiones en línea antes y después de las sesiones en persona que tendrán lugar del 3 al 6 de octubre. En resumen, hay una manera de que cada sesión interesante llegue a una audiencia, ya sea solo los presentes en la Ciudad de México o el público mundial en línea. Dados los altos costos, las molestias de las restricciones de viaje, y los impactos ambientales de realizar eventos globales en ubicaciones únicas, más allá de la Cumbre de este año, esperamos continuar explorando prácticas tan variadas para unir a las personas.</p>
<p>En todas sus decisiones, los comités priorizaron la inclusión, trabajaron para equilibrar a los becarios e invitaron a sesiones para reflejar la diversidad de la comunidad de CC. Mientras tomamos en consideración factores como la calidad de la propuesta, la contribución anterior, y la necesidad financiera, también nos esforzamos por equilibrar el programa y los participantes por país, región, idioma, género, formato de entrega — enfatizando las sesiones que son colaborativas, interactivas y/o rompen el molde de la presentación clásica de un orador — y el tema — basándose en el tema de la Cumbre de IA y los bienes comunes, y temas que incluyen una mejor internet, creatividad contemporánea, cultura y patrimonio, educación, periodismo, y investigación y ciencia.</p>
<p>¡Únase a nosotros para agradecer a los miembros del comité del programa y de becas por su servicio! Se reunieron de todo el mundo — y en todo momento del día y de la noche — para refinar los procesos y revisar las presentaciones para ayudar a tantas personas como sea posible con fondos para asistir a la Cumbre y para dar forma a un programa que represente muchas actividades diversas en los bienes comunes que esperamos que inspire, pero no abrumar.</p>
<p>Si aún no se ha registrado en la Cumbre, <a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/register#start">regístrese para unirse a nosotros en la Ciudad de México</a>, o si no está seguro de poder viajar allí, <a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/register#start">regístrese como participante virtual</a> para asegurarse de enterarse y poder unirse a todas las actividades en línea.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nota: Los miembros de los comités presentaron sus biografías en inglés.</p></blockquote>
<h2>Comité de Programa</h2>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/5641d39a.AmberOsman-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AmberOsman-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Amber Osman." width="150" height="150" /> Amber Osman (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Ambassador, DOAJ</strong></p>
<p>I am an open science advocate and my greater interests are in scholarly content and the publication ethics. I am actively involved in different international academic, research &amp; publishing organizations and with the Higher Education Commission (Govt. of Pakistan). An award-winning journal editor for advancing the publishing process by adopting innovative research and publishing solutions.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/fd747fd4.AysaEkanger-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AysaEkanger-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Aysa Ekanger." width="150" height="150" />Aysa Ekanger (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Open Access Advisor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway</strong></p>
<p>I am based at the library of UiT The Arctic University of Norway and work mainly with Open Access-related topics. Giving advice about copyright and licensing issues is one of my tasks.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/6f2a82bf.BrianSsennoga-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BrianSsennoga-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Brian Ssennoga." width="150" height="150" />Brian Ssennoga (he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>CEO, Guild Digital</strong></p>
<p>Brian is passionate mostly about 2 things: developing young leaders and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development. Brian currently serves as Director, Digital Health, for Last Mile Health’s Liberia Country Program, overseeing the adoption of the eCBIS (Community Based Information System) powered by the OpenSRP, a digital public good choice for public and private sector Community health digitization programs in Liberia. He is a founding member of the ICT Association of Uganda, and holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, a Postgrad diploma in Information Technology and an MBA (International Business). When not exploring the world through technology events and adventure, Brian loves to cook meals for family and friends, enjoy a good book, post a blog or play the guitar.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/696e50c2.CarloJosephMoskito-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CarloJosephMoskito-150x150.jpg" alt="Cartoon avatar of Carlo Joseph Moskito." width="150" height="150" />Carlo Joseph Moskito (co-chair; he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>Teacher, Instructional Designer, e-Learning Developer, Wikimedian, Philippines</strong></p>
<p>Carlo is an educator and a free culture and open movement advocate from the Philippines. He has worked for several print publishing companies and an educational technology (edtech) company focusing on the content development of K to 12 instructional materials. Currently, he works for a USAID project on developing early grades reading materials in selected mother tongues in the Philippines. He is the lone member from the Philippines of the Creative Commons Global Network, a volunteer to several Wikimedia projects such as the Encyclopedia of Philippine Heritage, and a member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Elections Committee.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/f14a894b.IreneSoria-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IreneSoria-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Irene Soria." width="150" height="150" />Irene Soria (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Embajadora, Creative Commons México</strong></p>
<p>Irene is a PhD in the Feminist Studies Department at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. She is a part-time faculty member, academic, consultant, graphic designer and activist for the free software / free culture movement since 2009. Irene decided to explore and study her own practices when migrating to the exclusive use of free software as a graphic designer, which led her to the in-depth analysis of open knowledge, free access, the Commons and above all: social sciences crossed by feminism and decolonial studies. Around these topics, she has written a degree thesis, academic and general interest articles, books and compilations, as well as attended and presented at conferences in many countries. In 2018, she was invited to re-found the Creative Commons Mexico Chapter, which she represents at the Global Network Council, in addition to being a member of the CC Global Network Council Membership Committee and, lately, part of the ExCom.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/d9befa0d.JenniferMiller-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JenniferMiller-150x150.jpg" alt="Screenshot of an abstract geometrical illustration shown in a computer drawing program." width="150" height="150" />Jennifer Miller (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Independent Open Knowledge Advocate</strong></p>
<p>As an independent civic technologist and open knowledge advocate, my activities currently focus on organizing civic tech volunteers at Code for the Carolinas, service on the board of FORCE11, and planning a sustainable future for Translate Science. My academic background is in public policy and technical communication, and I have completed the Creative Commons Certificate Program for Educators.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/bc8bc724.LiaRodriguez-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LíaRodríguez-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Lía Rodríguez." width="150" height="150" />Lía Rodríguez (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Socióloga, TEDIC</strong></p>
<p>Estudiante de Sociología, militante feminista de las ciencias sociales. Cuento con experiencia laboral en organizaciones sociales rurales y urbanas. Activista en ámbitos de la comunicación popular e inclusión digital de comunidades en situación de vulnerabilidad.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/0c4c8d85.MarcelaBasch-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MarcelaBasch-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Marcela Basch." width="150" height="150" />Marcela Basch (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Nexialist, LAIA</strong></p>
<p>I am a journalist, educator and nexialist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 2013, I am focused on collaborative, free, and open culture. I founded El Plan C, the first website in Spanish focused on these issues. I co-founded Encuentro Comunes (Commons Conference) with the goal of spreading awareness about those initiatives. I write a newsletter, Diez palabras: new tendencies from a linguistics nerd perspective. I have been part of CCGN since 2017, the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) since 2018, and Laboratorio Abierto de Inteligencia Artificial (LAIA) since 2023.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/443921e3.NateAngell-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NateAngell-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Nate Angell." width="150" height="150" />Nate Angell (co-chair; he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>Director of Communications &amp; Community, Creative Commons</strong></p>
<p>I’m an evangelist connecting people, ideas, and technologies to try to make things better, now leading communications and community at Creative Commons. I’ve worked across a wide variety of public and private institutions, focusing on community development, digital communications, meaningful education, open technologies, and sustainable growth. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA with some other cats and humans.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/c7bbef82.NyirahabihirweClementine-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NyirahabihirweClementine-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Nyirahabihirwe Clementine." width="150" height="150" />Nyirahabihirwe Clementine</h3>
<p><strong>General Secretary, Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda</strong></p>
<p>Nyirahabihirwe Clementine is Rwandese and holds a Bachelor’s degree from National University of Rwanda, in the faculty of Economics and Management, Economics Department. ​She started contributing on Wikimedia projects in 2019 and is one of the four founders of Rwanda Wikimedia community user group, acting as General Secretary in the executive team. She used to organize and coordinate many different Wikimedian projects in my community (eg, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Wiki Loves Monuments , Wiki Loves Women, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Folklore).</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/e47b6d00.ProdipRoy-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ProdipRoy-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Prodip Roy." width="150" height="150" />Prodip Roy</h3>
<p><strong>Library Officer. RMIT University</strong></p>
<p>I have been a library professional in local and state Governments and the tertiary education sector in Australia and Bangladesh for nineteen years. As the founder and Editor in Chief, I lead The Librarian Times team in implementing its vision and mission. I was the founder and President of the Bangla Language and Cultural School in Adelaide, South Australia, from 2013 -2015. I served as a Co-Chair for Special Interest Group-International Information Issues (SIG-III) of The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&amp;T) for three consecutive years from 2018 to 2021. I am serving as an ASIS&amp;T Governance Committee member for 2022-2023. I have been a Creative Commons Global Network and CC Australia chapters member for the last few years.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/1e5eaf7b.ThaliaRahme-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ThaliaRahme-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Thalia Rahme." width="150" height="150" />Thalia Rahme (co-chair; she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Independent Communications Consultant</strong></p>
<p>A city goat, originally from Beirut, but currently living in Marseille. A former journalist, yet an unrepentant storyteller. A versatile comms person who&#8217;s into management. I&#8217;m interested in bridging between languages and technology and making information accessible to whomever needs it in the appropriate format. Currently learning 한국어 My Achilles heel is design but I haven&#8217;t lost hope yet <img src="media/432cf937.1f642.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<h2>Comité de Becas</h2>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67519" src="media/108320f8.EuniceMercadoLara-150x150.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-150x150.png" alt="Head shot of Eunice Mercado-Lara." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara.png 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Eunice Mercado-Lara (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Civic Science Fellow, The Open Research Funders Group</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m a Civic Science Fellow at the Open Research Funders Group, where I lead the Open &amp; Equitable Model Funding Program, a research funders&#8217; community of practice to pilot interventions to make grantmaking practices more equitable and incentivize open and collaborative scholarly practices. I have worked in the public sector to help government funding agencies in North and Latin America align incentives and policies to advance open research. I have served as a board and committee member in several international organizations and initiatives advocating for open scholarship practices, such as CERN&#8217;s SCOAP3 initiative, the Open Access Week, and the OpenCon LATAM.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67520" src="media/50ee5d75.IvanMartinez-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Ivan Martínez." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Ivan Martínez (he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>Creative Commons México and R3D</strong></p>
<p>Human rights defender and long-time free and open knowledge activist. Currently Creative Commons México Coordinator.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67521" src="media/ff20a1bd.LiaPHernandezPerez-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Lia P. Hernández Pérez." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Lia P. Hernández Pérez (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Co-Founder, Creative Commons Panama Chapter</strong></p>
<p>I am the founder of the Panamanian chapter of Creative Commons. Since 2014, I have been a very active actor promoting the use of CC licenses in the local and regional community.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67522" src="media/6b48f389.MariMoreshead-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Mari Moreshead." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-768x768.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Mari Moreshead (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Chief of Staff, Creative Commons</strong></p>
<p>Mari came to CC in 2015 after three years at the Mozilla Foundation. Prior to that, she held similar administrative roles at a legal technology start up and the Playful Invention Company. She leads staff engagement, hiring, and other CC operations. She’s lived in a few Canadian cities but now calls Toronto home where she lives with her cats.  When she&#8217;s not at her desk, she&#8217;s quilting.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67540" src="media/4c7ead92.MaxWardeh-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Max Wardeh." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Max Wardeh (he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>Founder and CEO, Open Knowledge Connective</strong></p>
<p>Interested in finding ways to get people in different areas of open culture (education, software, hardware, media, archives) to collaborate and grow the movement. Helping build <a href="https://www.internetofproduction.org/">Internet of Production Alliance</a>, <a href="https://okconnect.org/">Open Knowledge Connective</a>, and <a href="https://lessimpact.org/">Less Impact</a>. Teaching at <a href="https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/">Loughborough University London</a> and <a href="https://openclassrooms.com/">OpenClassrooms</a>.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67523" src="media/1cb34826.OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Olalekan Isaac Olatunde." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Olalekan Isaac Olatunde (he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>Executive Secretary, Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation</strong></p>
<p>Olatunde Isaac is a Nigerian scientist, food safety specialist, open knowledge advocate and social entrepreneur. He’s a long-term Wikipedia editor and Wikimedia community manager in Nigeria. Isaac is a versatile personality whose works in the open movement, specifically on Wikipedia, have been extensively covered by national and international media and have received numerous accolades for his contributions. He is one of the most prolific contributors to Wikipedia in Africa, and in 2015, he founded Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (now a charitable organization in Nigeria) that focuses on promoting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Nigeria.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67524" src="media/12c61378.SamiMlouhi-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Sami Mlouhi." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Sami Mlouhi</h3>
<p><strong>CC Global Network Member</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m Sami Mlouhi, a CC network member living in Tunis, Tunisia. I&#8217;m a Wikimedian and an advocate for open knowledge all over the world.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/04/conozca-a-los-miembros-del-comite-de-la-cumbre-mundial-de-cc-2023/">Conozca a los Miembros del Comité de la Cumbre Mundial de CC 2023</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67375
title: Meet CC’s 2023 Global Summit Committee Members
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/04/meet-ccs-2023-global-summit-committee-members/
content:
<p style="text-align: right;">[<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/04/conozca-a-los-miembros-del-comite-de-la-cumbre-mundial-de-cc-2023/">lee esta entrada en español &gt;</a>]</p>
<figure id="attachment_67227" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67227" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67227" src="media/336d1f94.CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png" alt="A photo tinted blue of a giant Mexican flag flying over Mexico City’s Zocalo Square with the Cathedral in the background, overlaid with neural connection lines in the bottom left corner, and decorated with CC Global Summit logo and text that says “AI &amp; THE COMMONS, MEXICO CITY | 3–6 OCT 2023” and “SUMMIT.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG”" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/CC-Global-Summit-AI-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67227" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="media/cfb4fc5b.FileCreative_Commons_Summit_2023_-_1_-_English.webm" data-original-source="https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creative_Commons_Summit_2023_-_1_-_English.webm">Creative Commons Summit 2023</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ProtoplasmaKid">ProtoplasmaKid</a> is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>After years of gathering online, the CC community is clearly eager to gather in person for CC’s 2023 Global Summit during 3–6 October in Mexico City, demonstrating that the work to open knowledge and culture is more popular and important than ever. We received 184 compelling responses to our call for proposals and over 300 requests for funding assistance to attend. Now people are receiving notifications about the success of their session proposals and scholarship applications and starting to plan their travel.</p>
<p>The overwhelming interest in this year’s Global Summit generated big challenges for the volunteers who stepped up from the CC community to shape the Summit’s program and participation. While it would have been wonderful to accept every proposal and application, the limits of funding, time, and space meant committee members had to make difficult decisions to try to form a Summit that we hope is diverse, enriching, and practical.</p>
<p>Throughout, the committees worked to try to make it possible for everyone to have some engagement with the Summit. While we decided it would be impractical to try to hold a fully hybrid event where both remote and in-person participants could engage together synchronously, we recognized that it was also impossible to bring everyone who might want to attend together in a single location.</p>
<p>Accordingly, we called for sessions to be held live in Mexico City and for experiences that people can access online, when and where they can. In addition to the panels, workshops, lightning talks, posters, and meetups that will happen at the Summit itself, participants will be recording videos for on-demand viewing and gathering in live online sessions both before and after the in-person sessions that will take place during 3–6 October. In short, there is a way for every compelling session to reach an audience — whether that’s just those present in Mexico City, or the worldwide public online. Given the high costs, travel restriction hassles, and environmental impacts of holding global events in single locations, beyond this year’s Summit we expect to continue to explore such varied practices to bring people together.</p>
<p>In all their decisions, the committees prioritized inclusion, working to balance scholarship recipients and invited sessions to reflect the diversity of the CC community. While taking factors like proposal quality, past contribution, and financial need into consideration, we also strived to balance the program and participants by country, region, language, gender, delivery format — emphasizing sessions that are collaborative, interactive, and/or break the mold of the classic speaker presentation — and subject matter — drawing on the Summit’s theme of AI &amp; the Commons and topics including Better Internet, Contemporary Creativity, Culture &amp; Heritage, Education, Journalism, and Scholarship &amp; Science.</p>
<p>Please join us in thanking the program and scholarship committee members for their service! They gathered from all over the world — and all times of the day and night — to refine processes and review submissions to assist as many people as possible with funding to attend the Summit and to shape a program to represent many diverse activities in the commons that we hope will inspire, but not overwhelm.</p>
<p>If you haven’t registered for Summit yet, <a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/register#start">sign up to join us in Mexico City</a>, or if you’re not sure you can travel there, <a href="https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEWHNCWWDNEG/register#start">register as a virtual participant</a> to make sure you hear about and can join in all the online activities.</p>
<h2>Program Committee</h2>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67505" src="media/5641d39a.AmberOsman-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AmberOsman-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Amber Osman." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AmberOsman-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AmberOsman-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AmberOsman-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AmberOsman-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AmberOsman-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AmberOsman-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AmberOsman.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" /> Amber Osman (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Ambassador, DOAJ</strong></p>
<p>I am an open science advocate and my greater interests are in scholarly content and the publication ethics. I am actively involved in different international academic, research &amp; publishing organizations and with the Higher Education Commission (Govt. of Pakistan). An award-winning journal editor for advancing the publishing process by adopting innovative research and publishing solutions.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67506" src="media/fd747fd4.AysaEkanger-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AysaEkanger-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Aysa Ekanger." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AysaEkanger-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AysaEkanger-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AysaEkanger-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AysaEkanger-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AysaEkanger-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AysaEkanger-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AysaEkanger.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Aysa Ekanger (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Open Access Advisor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway</strong></p>
<p>I am based at the library of UiT The Arctic University of Norway and work mainly with Open Access-related topics. Giving advice about copyright and licensing issues is one of my tasks.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67507" src="media/6f2a82bf.BrianSsennoga-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BrianSsennoga-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Brian Ssennoga." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BrianSsennoga-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BrianSsennoga-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BrianSsennoga-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BrianSsennoga-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BrianSsennoga-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BrianSsennoga-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/BrianSsennoga.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Brian Ssennoga (he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>CEO, Guild Digital</strong></p>
<p>Brian is passionate mostly about 2 things: developing young leaders and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development. Brian currently serves as Director, Digital Health, for Last Mile Health’s Liberia Country Program, overseeing the adoption of the eCBIS (Community Based Information System) powered by the OpenSRP, a digital public good choice for public and private sector Community health digitization programs in Liberia. He is a founding member of the ICT Association of Uganda, and holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, a Postgrad diploma in Information Technology and an MBA (International Business). When not exploring the world through technology events and adventure, Brian loves to cook meals for family and friends, enjoy a good book, post a blog or play the guitar.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67508" src="media/696e50c2.CarloJosephMoskito-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CarloJosephMoskito-150x150.jpg" alt="Cartoon avatar of Carlo Joseph Moskito." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CarloJosephMoskito-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CarloJosephMoskito-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CarloJosephMoskito-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CarloJosephMoskito-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CarloJosephMoskito-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CarloJosephMoskito-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CarloJosephMoskito.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Carlo Joseph Moskito (co-chair; he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>Teacher, Instructional Designer, e-Learning Developer, Wikimedian, Philippines</strong></p>
<p>Carlo is an educator and a free culture and open movement advocate from the Philippines. He has worked for several print publishing companies and an educational technology (edtech) company focusing on the content development of K to 12 instructional materials. Currently, he works for a USAID project on developing early grades reading materials in selected mother tongues in the Philippines. He is the lone member from the Philippines of the Creative Commons Global Network, a volunteer to several Wikimedia projects such as the Encyclopedia of Philippine Heritage, and a member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Elections Committee.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67509" src="media/f14a894b.IreneSoria-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IreneSoria-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Irene Soria." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IreneSoria-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IreneSoria-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IreneSoria-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IreneSoria-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IreneSoria-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IreneSoria-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IreneSoria.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Irene Soria (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Embajadora, Creative Commons México</strong></p>
<p>Irene is a PhD in the Feminist Studies Department at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. She is a part-time faculty member, academic, consultant, graphic designer and activist for the free software / free culture movement since 2009. Irene decided to explore and study her own practices when migrating to the exclusive use of free software as a graphic designer, which led her to the in-depth analysis of open knowledge, free access, the Commons and above all: social sciences crossed by feminism and decolonial studies. Around these topics, she has written a degree thesis, academic and general interest articles, books and compilations, as well as attended and presented at conferences in many countries. In 2018, she was invited to re-found the Creative Commons Mexico Chapter, which she represents at the Global Network Council, in addition to being a member of the CC Global Network Council Membership Committee and, lately, part of the ExCom.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67510" src="media/d9befa0d.JenniferMiller-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JenniferMiller-150x150.jpg" alt="Screenshot of an abstract geometrical illustration shown in a computer drawing program." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JenniferMiller-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JenniferMiller-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JenniferMiller-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JenniferMiller-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JenniferMiller-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JenniferMiller-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JenniferMiller.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Jennifer Miller (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Independent Open Knowledge Advocate</strong></p>
<p>As an independent civic technologist and open knowledge advocate, my activities currently focus on organizing civic tech volunteers at Code for the Carolinas, service on the board of FORCE11, and planning a sustainable future for Translate Science. My academic background is in public policy and technical communication, and I have completed the Creative Commons Certificate Program for Educators.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67511" src="media/bc8bc724.LiaRodriguez-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LíaRodríguez-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Lía Rodríguez." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LíaRodríguez-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LíaRodríguez-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LíaRodríguez-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LíaRodríguez-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LíaRodríguez-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LíaRodríguez-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LíaRodríguez.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Lía Rodríguez (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Socióloga, TEDIC</strong></p>
<p>Estudiante de Sociología, militante feminista de las ciencias sociales. Cuento con experiencia laboral en organizaciones sociales rurales y urbanas. Activista en ámbitos de la comunicación popular e inclusión digital de comunidades en situación de vulnerabilidad.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67512" src="media/0c4c8d85.MarcelaBasch-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MarcelaBasch-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Marcela Basch." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MarcelaBasch-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MarcelaBasch-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MarcelaBasch-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MarcelaBasch-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MarcelaBasch-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MarcelaBasch-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MarcelaBasch.jpg 420w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Marcela Basch (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Nexialist, LAIA</strong></p>
<p>I am a journalist, educator and nexialist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 2013, I am focused on collaborative, free, and open culture. I founded El Plan C, the first website in Spanish focused on these issues. I co-founded Encuentro Comunes (Commons Conference) with the goal of spreading awareness about those initiatives. I write a newsletter, Diez palabras: new tendencies from a linguistics nerd perspective. I have been part of CCGN since 2017, the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) since 2018, and Laboratorio Abierto de Inteligencia Artificial (LAIA) since 2023.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67513" src="media/443921e3.NateAngell-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NateAngell-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Nate Angell." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NateAngell-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NateAngell-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NateAngell-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NateAngell-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NateAngell-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NateAngell-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NateAngell.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Nate Angell (co-chair; he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>Director of Communications &amp; Community, Creative Commons</strong></p>
<p>I’m an evangelist connecting people, ideas, and technologies to try to make things better, now leading communications and community at Creative Commons. I’ve worked across a wide variety of public and private institutions, focusing on community development, digital communications, meaningful education, open technologies, and sustainable growth. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA with some other cats and humans.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67514" src="media/c7bbef82.NyirahabihirweClementine-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NyirahabihirweClementine-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Nyirahabihirwe Clementine." width="150" height="150" />Nyirahabihirwe Clementine</h3>
<p><strong>General Secretary, Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda</strong></p>
<p>Nyirahabihirwe Clementine is Rwandese and holds a Bachelor’s degree from National University of Rwanda, in the faculty of Economics and Management, Economics Department. ​She started contributing on Wikimedia projects in 2019 and is one of the four founders of Rwanda Wikimedia community user group, acting as General Secretary in the executive team. She used to organize and coordinate many different Wikimedian projects in my community (eg, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Wiki Loves Monuments , Wiki Loves Women, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Folklore).</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-67515 size-thumbnail" src="media/e47b6d00.ProdipRoy-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ProdipRoy-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Prodip Roy." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ProdipRoy-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ProdipRoy-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ProdipRoy-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ProdipRoy-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ProdipRoy-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ProdipRoy-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ProdipRoy.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Prodip Roy</h3>
<p><strong>Library Officer. RMIT University</strong></p>
<p>I have been a library professional in local and state Governments and the tertiary education sector in Australia and Bangladesh for nineteen years. As the founder and Editor in Chief, I lead The Librarian Times team in implementing its vision and mission. I was the founder and President of the Bangla Language and Cultural School in Adelaide, South Australia, from 2013 -2015. I served as a Co-Chair for Special Interest Group-International Information Issues (SIG-III) of The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&amp;T) for three consecutive years from 2018 to 2021. I am serving as an ASIS&amp;T Governance Committee member for 2022-2023. I have been a Creative Commons Global Network and CC Australia chapters member for the last few years.</p>
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<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67516" src="media/1e5eaf7b.ThaliaRahme-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ThaliaRahme-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Thalia Rahme." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ThaliaRahme-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ThaliaRahme-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ThaliaRahme-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ThaliaRahme-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ThaliaRahme-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ThaliaRahme-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ThaliaRahme.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Thalia Rahme (co-chair; she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Independent Communications Consultant</strong></p>
<p>A city goat, originally from Beirut, but currently living in Marseille. A former journalist, yet an unrepentant storyteller. A versatile comms person who&#8217;s into management. I&#8217;m interested in bridging between languages and technology and making information accessible to whomever needs it in the appropriate format. Currently learning 한국어 My Achilles heel is design but I haven&#8217;t lost hope yet <img src="media/432cf937.1f642.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<h2>Scholarship Committee</h2>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67519" src="media/108320f8.EuniceMercadoLara-150x150.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-150x150.png" alt="Head shot of Eunice Mercado-Lara." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/EuniceMercadoLara.png 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Eunice Mercado-Lara (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Civic Science Fellow, The Open Research Funders Group</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m a Civic Science Fellow at the Open Research Funders Group, where I lead the Open &amp; Equitable Model Funding Program, a research funders&#8217; community of practice to pilot interventions to make grantmaking practices more equitable and incentivize open and collaborative scholarly practices. I have worked in the public sector to help government funding agencies in North and Latin America align incentives and policies to advance open research. I have served as a board and committee member in several international organizations and initiatives advocating for open scholarship practices, such as CERN&#8217;s SCOAP3 initiative, the Open Access Week, and the OpenCon LATAM.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67520" src="media/50ee5d75.IvanMartinez-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Ivan Martínez." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IvanMartínez.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Ivan Martínez (he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>Creative Commons México and R3D</strong></p>
<p>Human rights defender and long-time free and open knowledge activist. Currently Creative Commons México Coordinator.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67521" src="media/ff20a1bd.LiaPHernandezPerez-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Lia P. Hernández Pérez." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/LiaPHernándezPérez.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Lia P. Hernández Pérez (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Co-Founder, Creative Commons Panama Chapter</strong></p>
<p>I am the founder of the Panamanian chapter of Creative Commons. Since 2014, I have been a very active actor promoting the use of CC licenses in the local and regional community.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67522" src="media/6b48f389.MariMoreshead-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Mari Moreshead." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-768x768.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MariMoreshead.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Mari Moreshead (she/her)</h3>
<p><strong>Chief of Staff, Creative Commons</strong></p>
<p>Mari came to CC in 2015 after three years at the Mozilla Foundation. Prior to that, she held similar administrative roles at a legal technology start up and the Playful Invention Company. She leads staff engagement, hiring, and other CC operations. She’s lived in a few Canadian cities but now calls Toronto home where she lives with her cats.  When she&#8217;s not at her desk, she&#8217;s quilting.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67540" src="media/4c7ead92.MaxWardeh-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Max Wardeh." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MaxWardeh.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Max Wardeh (he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>Founder and CEO, Open Knowledge Connective</strong></p>
<p>Interested in finding ways to get people in different areas of open culture (education, software, hardware, media, archives) to collaborate and grow the movement. Helping build <a href="https://www.internetofproduction.org/">Internet of Production Alliance</a>, <a href="https://okconnect.org/">Open Knowledge Connective</a>, and <a href="https://lessimpact.org/">Less Impact</a>. Teaching at <a href="https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/">Loughborough University London</a> and <a href="https://openclassrooms.com/">OpenClassrooms</a>.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67523" src="media/1cb34826.OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Olalekan Isaac Olatunde." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OlalekanIsaacOlatunde.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Olalekan Isaac Olatunde (he/him)</h3>
<p><strong>Executive Secretary, Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation</strong></p>
<p>Olatunde Isaac is a Nigerian scientist, food safety specialist, open knowledge advocate and social entrepreneur. He’s a long-term Wikipedia editor and Wikimedia community manager in Nigeria. Isaac is a versatile personality whose works in the open movement, specifically on Wikipedia, have been extensively covered by national and international media and have received numerous accolades for his contributions. He is one of the most prolific contributors to Wikipedia in Africa, and in 2015, he founded Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (now a charitable organization in Nigeria) that focuses on promoting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Nigeria.</p>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-67524" src="media/12c61378.SamiMlouhi-150x150.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-150x150.jpg" alt="Head shot of Sami Mlouhi." width="150" height="150" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SamiMlouhi.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px" />Sami Mlouhi</h3>
<p><strong>CC Global Network Member</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m Sami Mlouhi, a CC network member living in Tunis, Tunisia. I&#8217;m a Wikimedian and an advocate for open knowledge all over the world.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/04/meet-ccs-2023-global-summit-committee-members/">Meet CC’s 2023 Global Summit Committee Members</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67570
title: Somos El Bien Común: La Obra de Arte Oficial para la Cumbre Global 2023 de CC
uri: Somos-El-Bien-Común-La-Obra-de-Arte-Oficial-para-la-Cumbre-Global-20
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/06/somos-el-bien-comun-cumbre-global-2023-cc/
content:
<figure id="attachment_67481" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67481" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/06/we-are-the-commons-2023-cc-global-summit/somoselbiencomun/"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67481 size-large" src="media/a651d4fe.SomosElBienComun-1024x715.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-1024x715.png" alt="A colorful illustration of a wall of windows, each showing a different figure, including an axolotl and humans engaged in various activities, one wearing a blue luchador mask, and others holding a slender blue line hung with a light blue CC Global Summit banner, all surrounded by butterflies, birds, vines, and flowering plants." width="840" height="587" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-1024x715.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-300x209.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-768x536.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-1536x1072.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-2048x1429.png 2048w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-57x40.png 57w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-50x35.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-222x155.png 222w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-1200x838.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67481" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/somoselbiencomun/">Somos El Bien Común</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.erendiraderbez.com/">Eréndira Derbez</a> for Creative Commons, licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/06/we-are-the-commons-2023-cc-global-summit/">[read this post in English &gt;]</a></p>
<p>¡El equipo de CC y los voluntarios de la comunidad han estado trabajando arduamente en los preparativos para la Cumbre Global 2023, y estamos encantados de anunciar la obra de arte oficial para este evento! “Somos El Bien Común” es una representación de la cultura vibrante y la rica historia de México y también la estrategia de CC para compartir mejor: compartir que sea contextual, inclusivo, justo, equitativo, recíproco y sostenible.</p>
<p>Trabajamos con una artista local, <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Er%C3%A9ndira_Derbez">Eréndira Derbez</a>, para reflejar el tema de &#8220;IA y los bienes comunes&#8221; y combinar las esencias del movimiento abierto y México. En “Somos El Bien Común”, una sinfonía de color, comunidad y cultura se une para encapsular el espíritu de nuestra comunidad global y nuestras conexiones con las nuevas tecnologías y prácticas.</p>
<p>Eréndira reside en la Ciudad de México, donde trabaja como autora, artista e historiadora del arte. Es cofundadora de Plumbago Design and Illustration Studio, que se enfoca en proyectos educativos, editoriales y culturales a nivel mundial y, a menudo, se involucra en la justicia social y las políticas de género. Puedes conocer más sobre Eréndira en <a href="https://www.erendiraderbez.com/">su sitio web personal</a>.</p>
<p>Cada ventana de esta obra de arte cuenta una historia. Desde el amado axolotl, una salamandra en peligro de extinción que se encuentra solo en la Ciudad de México, hasta la máscara de luchador, hay muchos elementos que muestran la energía de México y evocan un sentido de comunidad, colaboración, e intercambio abierto. ¡Lo invitamos a elegir su panel favorito y estar atento a los lanzamientos individuales de cada ventana en <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/get-involved/social-media/">nuestros canales de medios sociales</a>!</p>
<p>Eréndira ha compartido “<a href="https://creativecommons.org/?attachment_id=67481">Somos El Bien Común</a>” con una licencia CC BY 4.0, por lo que siempre que acredite al artista, lo alentamos a compartir y reutilizar este trabajo abierto para hacer conexiones con la Cumbre de este año. También puede <a href="https://creativecommons.org/?attachment_id=67481">descargar una versión SVG con capas</a>.</p>
<h2>Sobre la Cumbre Global de CC</h2>
<p>Del 3 al 6 de octubre de 2023, nos reuniremos en el Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco para unirnos, compartir ideas, y crear un futuro más brillante para el intercambio abierto. Estamos encantados de organizar el evento en colaboración con CC México y esperamos que pueda unirse a lo que será una experiencia inolvidable. Mientras hacemos la cuenta regresiva para este evento, ¡esperamos que esta obra de arte oficial pueda servir como un símbolo emocionante de lo que está por venir!</p>
<blockquote><p>¡Únase a nosotros en la Cumbre en la Ciudad de México! Visite nuestro <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">sitio web Summit</a> para obtener más información y registrarse hoy.</p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/06/somos-el-bien-comun-cumbre-global-2023-cc/">Somos El Bien Común: La Obra de Arte Oficial para la Cumbre Global 2023 de CC</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67548
title: “We Are the Commons”: Art for the 2023 CC Global Summit
uri: We-Are-the-Commons-Art-for-the-2023-CC-Global-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/06/we-are-the-commons-2023-cc-global-summit/
content:
<figure id="attachment_67481" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67481" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="media/cafe19ff.SomosElBienComun.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún.png"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67481 size-large" src="media/a651d4fe.SomosElBienComun-1024x715.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-1024x715.png" alt="A colorful illustration of a wall of windows, each showing a different figure, including an axolotl and humans engaged in various activities, one wearing a blue luchador mask, and others holding a slender blue line hung with a light blue CC Global Summit banner, all surrounded by butterflies, birds, vines, and flowering plants." width="840" height="587" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-1024x715.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-300x209.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-768x536.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-1536x1072.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-2048x1429.png 2048w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-57x40.png 57w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-50x35.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-222x155.png 222w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SomosElBienComún-1200x838.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67481" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/somoselbiencomun/">Somos El Bien Común</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.erendiraderbez.com/">Eréndira Derbez</a> for Creative Commons, licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/06/somos-el-bien-comun-cumbre-global-2023-cc/">[lee esta entrada en español]</a></p>
<p>The CC team and community volunteers have been working hard on preparations for the 2023 Global Summit, and we are thrilled to announce the official artwork for this event! “Somos El Bien Común” is a representation of Mexico&#8217;s vibrant culture and rich history.</p>
<p>We worked with a local artist, <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Er%C3%A9ndira_Derbez">Eréndira Derbez</a>, to reflect the theme of &#8220;AI &amp; the Commons&#8221; and combine the essences of the open movement and Mexico. In “Somos El Bien Común”, a symphony of color, community, and culture comes together to encapsulate the spirit of our global community and our connections to the new technologies and practices.</p>
<p>Eréndira is based in Mexico City, where she works as an author, artist, and art historian. She is co-founder of the Plumbago Design and Illustration Studio, which focuses on educational, editorial, and cultural projects globally, and often engages in social justice and gender politics. You can learn more about Eréndira on her <a href="https://www.erendiraderbez.com/">personal website</a>.</p>
<p>Each window of this artwork tells a story. From the beloved axolotl, an endangered salamander found only in Mexico City, to the luchador wrestling mask, there are many elements that showcase the energy of Mexico and evoke a sense of community, collaboration, and open sharing. We invite you to pick your favorite panel and be on the lookout for individual releases of each window on our <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/get-involved/social-media/">social media channels</a>!</p>
<p>Eréndira has released “<a href="https://creativecommons.org/?attachment_id=67481">Somos El Bien Común</a>” with an CC BY 4.0 license, so as long as you credit the artist, we encourage you to reshare and reuse this open work to make connections with this year’s Summit. You can also <a href="https://creativecommons.org/?attachment_id=67481">download a layered SVG version</a>.</p>
<h2>About the CC Global Summit</h2>
<p>During 3–6 October 2023, we will be gathering at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco to unite, share ideas, and create a brighter future for open sharing. We are thrilled to be organizing the event in collaboration with CC Mexico, and hope you will be able to join in what will be an unforgettable experience. As we count down to this event, we hope this official artwork can serve as an exciting symbol for what is to come!</p>
<blockquote><p>Join us at the Summit in Mexico City! Visit our <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">Summit website</a> for more information and to register today.</p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67577
title: CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | August: Sharing Is Growing
uri: CC-s-BetterSharing-Collection-August-Sharing-Is-Growing
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/07/ccs-bettersharing-collection-august-sharing-is-growing/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66065" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66065" style="width: 335px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66065" src="media/8b592da6.Olga-Mrozek-212x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-212x300.png" alt="An illustration of a violet face speaking SHARING IS GROWING in stylized speech bubbles that tiny violet human figures climb across, all on a grayish-green background." width="335" height="474" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-212x300.png 212w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-724x1024.png 724w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-768x1086.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-28x40.png 28w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-35x50.png 35w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-110x155.png 110w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Olga-Mrozek-1200x1697.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 335px) 85vw, 335px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66065" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/sharing-is-growing">Sharing Is Growing</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/omrozill/?hl=en">Olga Mrozek</a> for <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> and <a href="https://fineacts.co/">Fine Acts</a> is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>As part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what <em>better sharing</em> looks like in action. Our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/">#BetterSharing collection</a> of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness with transforming these perspectives into captivating visual pieces available under a CC license.</p>
<p>Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For August, we&#8217;re excited to showcase “Sharing Is Growing” by Olga Mrozek. The piece, licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a>, was inspired by a quote from <a href="https://twitter.com/MedhaviGandhi">Medhavi Gandhi</a>, founder of The Heritage Lab:</p>
<blockquote><p>“To me, with better (open) sharing, comes the promise of equality.”</p></blockquote>
<h2>Meet the artist:</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67578 size-medium alignleft" src="media/9aad291e.171cf853a3792b816435078fabff46be._thumbnail-297x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/171cf853a3792b816435078fabff46be._thumbnail-297x300.png" alt="Headshot of Olga Mrozek" width="297" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/171cf853a3792b816435078fabff46be._thumbnail-297x300.png 297w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/171cf853a3792b816435078fabff46be._thumbnail-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/171cf853a3792b816435078fabff46be._thumbnail-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/171cf853a3792b816435078fabff46be._thumbnail-153x155.png 153w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/171cf853a3792b816435078fabff46be._thumbnail.png 500w" sizes="(max-width: 297px) 85vw, 297px" /></p>
<p><a href="https://thegreats.co/artists/olga-mrozek">Olga Mrozek</a> is a multidisciplinary designer and an illustrator who finds interest in issues, development, structure, and functioning of human society. She enjoys creating concepts that challenge and provoke the viewer as she believes that the change begins with the thought.</p>
<p>Follow Olga on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/omrozill/">@omrozill</a></p>
<blockquote style="clear: both;"><p>The full #BetterSharing collection is available on <a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing">TheGreats.co</a> to be enjoyed, used and adapted, and then shared again, by anyone, forever. <a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing">View the full collection &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67493
title: A Special Episode of the Open Culture Voices Series, Part 2
uri: A-Special-Episode-of-the-Open-Culture-Voices-Series-Part-2
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/08/a-special-episode-of-the-open-culture-voices-series-part-2/
content:
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Open Culture Voices — Special Episode Part 2" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BC1KPgUjHEo?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>Watch A Special Episode of the Open Culture Voices Series, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/13/a-special-episode-of-the-open-culture-voices-series-part-1/">Part 1</a></p>
<p>In this Special Episode of the Open Culture Voices series, CC hosts a conversation among five open culture experts from around the world:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Dr. Andrea Wallace</strong>, Professor, University of Exeter Law School, United Kingdom</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Dr. Nkem Osuigwe</strong>, Director, African Library and Information Associations and Institutions, Ghana</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Medhavi Gandhi</strong>, Founder, The Heritage Lab, India</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Evelin Heidel (Scann)</strong>, Program Lead at Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Uruguay</li>
<li aria-level="1"><strong>Michael Peter Edson</strong>, Founding Director, Museum of Solutions, USA/India</li>
</ul>
<p>This second part of the conversation revolves around several topics related to open culture, such as digital interactions, the climate crisis, and the challenges faced by the open culture movement. Our guests discuss the potential of open knowledge and culture in addressing environmental concerns, promoting diversity and access, and influencing policy changes.</p>
<p><strong>Some of the other key points discussed include:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">The material impact of digital technologies on the climate crisis and the need for more sustainable approaches to other societal challenges and the position that cultural institutions — like galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, or GLAMs — should not shy away from digital for fear of the digital footprint.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The pivotal role of cultural institutions as actors of change to promote open culture — as well as the huge cultural participation culture outside institutions. The universal fundamental right to participate in cultural life can be very hard to enjoy — openness can be a tool to help people engage with culture.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The importance of collaboration and organization across institutions to achieve common goals — sharing and comparing experiences can lead to institutional standards that can in turn influence policy in meaningful ways to advance open culture.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The challenges and ethical considerations surrounding the participation of individual creators and artisans in open culture — it is also important to reflect on who open culture might be pushing away and whose livelihoods it might threaten.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The importance of funding for institutions and the need to support open culture initiatives financially.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The potential for working with platforms to incorporate licensing options and improve copyright awareness.</li>
<li aria-level="1">The potential impact of open culture in shaping and influencing society during times of change, such as the climate crisis.</li>
</ul>
<p>These points reflect our guests’ perspectives on the challenges and opportunities within the open culture movement and their suggestions for realizing its potential.</p>
<p>Here’s what our guests believe needs to change if we want to realize open culture:</p>
<p>“I think that cultural heritage institutions need to move away from a risk-based approach into a transformational one…They have a lot of leverage on changing the conversation around copyright and I think that they need to use it.” — <strong>Evelin Heidel (Scann)</strong></p>
<p>“Making sure that we elect people who fund the public sector, fund institutions, set up funding schemes for artists, for creatives, for people to do research and really cool projects around some of these things.” — <strong>Andrea Wallace</strong></p>
<p>“One could take the point of view that the toolkits are there, that there doesn&#8217;t need to be some massive intervention. It can be used, reapplied, remixed, to solve local problems, policy problems, execution problems at any scale… I still see this as a point of inflection. We’ve built two thirds of a bridge, and we’re curious why people haven’t crossed that bridge.” — <strong>Michael Peter Edson</strong></p>
<p>“Support in funding, especially for institutions which do grapple with whether to open, whether it will take away from their monetization practices…It’s nice to have web monetization going and maybe support that” — <strong>Medhavi Gandhi</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>For more information on CC&#8217;s Open Culture work head to our<a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"> information page</a> or <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/">join the platform.</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67597
title: Surveying the Open Climate Data Landscape
uri: Surveying-the-Open-Climate-Data-Landscape
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/08/surveying-the-open-climate-data-landscape/
content:
<figure id="attachment_67600" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67600" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="media/6e59b925.VolgaRiverCaspianSea.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea.png"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67600" src="media/1cc44ab2.VolgaRiverCaspianSea-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea-300x169.png" alt="A satellite image of the Volga River delta at the Caspian Sea, showing scattered white ice floating in greenish water around patches of brownish land." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/VolgaRiverCaspianSea.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67600" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://flic.kr/p/2oDSnhb">Volga River. Caspian Sea (7-03-2023)</a>” by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/migmasat/">Miguel Masegosa</a> is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a> and contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2023 processed by <a href="”https://www.sentinel-hub.com/”">Sentinel Hub</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>At CC we believe that to solve big problems, the knowledge and culture about those problems needs to be open and freely accessible. In line with our <a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/">Open Climate Campaign</a>, which focuses on opening up climate research, we recently launched the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/open-science/open-climate-data/">Open Climate Data project</a>, to facilitate better sharing of climate data on a global scale. Making climate data more open and easily accessible is a crucial step towards addressing the climate crisis.</p>
<p>We started this project by asking a fundamental question: &#8220;What climate data exists, and what can I do with it?&#8221; To reach an answer, we conducted a landscape analysis to better understand the permissible uses of existing large climate data sets. We surveyed a range of organizations that provide climate data on behalf of national, intergovernmental and/or global populations and are both publishers and sources of climate data. This approach enabled us to assess the current status of major sources of climate data and propose practical ways in which it can be shared more effectively. We hope this initial analysis provides clarity to researchers, policymakers, educators, civil society organizations and advocates.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGyTbAA1yoAg8qoKoZBVoUudJa-AXaO4lyoY6X3dsI0/edit">Read our Landscape Analysis report to learn more about how we analyzed large climate data sources, </a>in accordance with the <a href="https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/">FAIR data principles</a><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGyTbAA1yoAg8qoKoZBVoUudJa-AXaO4lyoY6X3dsI0/edit">:</a> findability, accessibility, technical interoperability, and reusability (as dictated by licensing terms).</p></blockquote>
<p>As the primary aim of the Open Climate Data project is to facilitate <em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> of climate data, we analyzed a range of data-sharing approaches from multiple sources including: US government, global NGOs, regional international governments, European governments, and global intergovernmental alliances.</p>
<h2>Landscape Data Sources</h2>
<h3>US Government</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Data Center (ARM)</li>
<li aria-level="1">Envirofacts</li>
<li aria-level="1">Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE)</li>
<li aria-level="1">National Centers for Environmental Information at NOAA</li>
<li aria-level="1">NASA Earth Science Data Systems</li>
</ul>
<h3>Global NGOs</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">GEOSS Portal</li>
<li aria-level="1">International Energy Agency</li>
<li aria-level="1">Sensor.Community</li>
<li aria-level="1">The World Bank Group Climate Change Knowledge Portal</li>
<li aria-level="1">WRI Data</li>
</ul>
<h3>Regional International Governments</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">3CN Climate Database: Latin America</li>
<li aria-level="1">Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center (APDRC): Asia</li>
<li aria-level="1">Chinese Academy of Science Earth: China</li>
<li aria-level="1">IGAD Climate Predictions and Applications Centre: Africa</li>
</ul>
<h3>European Governments</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Atmosphere Data Store (ADS)</li>
<li aria-level="1">CEDA Archive</li>
<li aria-level="1">Climate Data Store</li>
<li aria-level="1">European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative</li>
<li aria-level="1">Met Office</li>
</ul>
<h3>Global Intergovernmental Alliances</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)</li>
<li aria-level="1">European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)</li>
<li aria-level="1">The Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. Geographic Network</li>
<li aria-level="1">International Renewable Energy Agency</li>
<li aria-level="1">OECD Data</li>
<li aria-level="1">UN Environment Programme Global Resource Information Database (GRID) &#8211; Geneva</li>
</ul>
<h2>FAIR Data Principles</h2>
<p>Given the diverse range of climate data sponsors, publishers, and sources from around the world, we found a wide variety of methods for accessing climate data. Our goal was to understand how their climate data can be accessed in accordance with the <a href="https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/">FAIR data principles</a>: findability, accessibility, technical interoperability, and reusability (as dictated by licensing terms). We examined how these climate data providers share their data today, and established a baseline of open climate data information by assessing each of these variables.</p>
<table>
<caption>
<h3>FAIR Data Characteristics</h3>
<p>The left column lists four principles of FAIR data, Rows in the right column list characteristics associated with each principle.</p>
</caption>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th rowspan="4">Findability</th>
<td>Has its own search function</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Appears in external federated searches</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Uses DOIs or some standard PID on all its datasets</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Relevant metadata available for each dataset</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th rowspan="3">Accessibility: Public Access</th>
<td>Available to the public</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All datasets are offered for free</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>No registration/information required</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th rowspan="4">Technical Interoperability</th>
<td>Every dataset is downloadable</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>No special software required</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>All their data is hosted on their site; none of the data requires getting it from an external site</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Machine-readable file types</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th rowspan="3">Reusability: Legal Permissions</th>
<td>Licensed for public domain</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Okay for commercial purposes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Specific license reference(s)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>This project is dedicated to improving the sharing of climate data, and we place great importance on pursuing this goal collaboratively with the diverse range of stakeholders involved in addressing climate change. Our next step is to establish a dedicated working group of expert practitioners and representatives from regional and global climate data publishers and data source entities, and collectively, to develop a community sharing standard for open climate data. We hope to offer guidance to stewards of large open climate datasets and the broader climate data community — including those not involved in the original data creation — on best practices for sharing climate data in standardized ways that maximize accessibility, reuse and sharing.</p>
<p>We invite you to join us in our ongoing journey of learning and collaboration as we develop policies and practices to open up data for the advancement of climate research and innovation. Stay connected with us by emailing openclimatedata@creativecommons.org and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/contact/newsletter/">subscribing to our newsletter</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67609
title: NYC Symposium: Generative AI & the Creativity Cycle
uri: NYC-Symposium-Generative-AI-the-Creativity-Cycle
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/08/nyc-symposium-generative-ai-the-creativity-cycle/
content:
<figure id="attachment_67607" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67607" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="media/552a81dc.AIOutputsDetail16x9.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9.png"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67607" src="media/c6501b53.AIOutputsDetail16x9-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9-300x169.png" alt="Generated by AI: A white robot with a look of concentration on their face, wearing a red cap and robe, painting an empty gold picture frame with a brush that has an abstract flower growing up from its handle." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AIOutputsDetail16x9.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67607" class="wp-caption-text">Detail from “<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/31/webinars-ai-inputs-outputs-and-the-public-commons/aioutputs/">AI Outputs</a>” by <a href="&quot;https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> was generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt “a robot painting its own self portrait in the style of Artemisia Gentileschi.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Are you thinking about how generative artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with creativity? Or how it draws from existing works and collections? Or enables new understandings of culture?</p>
<p>Join Creative Commons in NYC on 13 September 2023 for a full-day symposium focused on the intersection of generative artificial intelligence, cultural heritage, and contemporary creativity.</p>
<p>Bringing together cultural heritage experts, contemporary creators working with AI tools, and platform builders: Our focus will be on the relationship between access and reuse of cultural heritage and contemporary creativity, and an exploration of AI tools as a new means of creative expression building on the commons.</p>
<p>Hosted at NYU’s Engelberg Center, the symposium will feature a series of panels tackling critical questions, including:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Can AI propel cultural heritage institutions through their digital transformation?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Can AI help everyone enjoy culture as a global public good?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Open sharing of heritage collections and data: bounty or bane for creativity in the age of AI?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Fair remuneration of creators — Can AI be an answer?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Diversity, inclusivity, sustainability, and cultural identity — What role for AI?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Creativity, machines and the heritage commons — What collaboration opportunities are there?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Users as creators and users — Is AI blurring the lines of creativity?</li>
</ul>
<blockquote><p>Spots are limited! <a href="https://www.classy.org/event/generative-ai-and-the-creative-cycle/e507994">Register now</a> to make sure you are part of the live conversation.</p></blockquote>
<p>Note: Proceedings will be recorded for later viewing online after the event.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67711
title: CC at Wikimania 2023
uri: CC-at-Wikimania-2023
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/16/cc-at-wikimania-2023/
content:
<figure id="attachment_67712" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67712" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67712" src="media/3c259d72.Wikimania2023CC-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC-300x169.png" alt="A graphic with white text &quot;It's time for Wikimania 2023&quot; and yellow text &quot;Wikimania Singapore | 16–19 August 2023&quot; with white Wikimedia and Creative Commons icons and a colorful illustration of flowers and leaves, all on a red background." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Wikimania2023CC.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67712" class="wp-caption-text">The CC icon in white next to “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hY7Kr6HLzcIFOjzlgYRDgcAZJG9d0cWU/view">Wikimania 2023 Red</a>” all on top of “<a href="media/3503b07d.FileWikimania_2023_Background_1920x1080_-_Red.png" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2023_Background_1920x1080_-_Red.png">Wikimania 2023 Background 1920&#215;1080 &#8211; Red.png</a>”, both by Adien Gunarta and Naila Rahmah for Wikimedia Foundation and dedicated to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0 1.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>CC is thrilled to be partnering with the Wikimedia Foundation to make <a href="http://wikimania.org/">Wikimania 2023</a> a reality. The gathering takes place 16–19 August both in Singapore and online. Whether you can make it to Singapore or not, register now to attend, participate, and access recorded sessions.</p>
<p>The CC and Wikimedian communities overlap in many ways and share common values and activities dedicated to building and sustaining open culture and knowledge. As a part of the program, CC team members are leading four sessions, outlined below. Many Wikimania attendees are also part of CC’s Global Network and platforms for copyright, open education, and open culture, or support CC in other ways. We celebrate this global gathering of people all working with shared values to realize common goals. Tune in to Wikimania with us!</p>
<h2>Better Sharing in a World with AI: Creative Commons Looks Ahead</h2>
<p>CEO Catherine Stihler and General Counsel Kat Walsh will kick off CC’s sessions with a joint keynote to guide participants through the journey CC has been on to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with CC&#8217;s 20-plus-year history of supporting open knowledge and culture globally with our licenses and legal tools. Then they will help participants look ahead to see how we can all advocate for policy and practices that ensure a world with AI will continue to support CC&#8217;s strategy of <em>better sharing</em>: sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable. <strong>Tune in: <a href="https://eventyay.com/e/8f889410/session/8540">2:00 UTC/10:00 SGT on Fri 18 Aug</a></strong></p>
<h2>Why Tackling Climate Change Needs Open Science and Open Culture</h2>
<p>Open Climate Campaign Manager Monica Granados and Director of Policy and Open Culture Brigitte Vézina are leading a workshop about why tackling climate change needs both open science and culture. They describe: To arrive at solutions to climate change we need open access to knowledge. But climate change is caused by human activities, as such we also need open culture to understand why humans have caused climate change. In this workshop, we will remix public domain culture to raise climate awareness and highlight the need for both open climate and culture to solve climate change. <strong>Tune in: <a href="https://eventyay.com/e/8f889410/session/8669">3:15 UTC/11:15 SGT Fri 18 Aug</a></strong></p>
<h2>Building an Initiative for a Global Recommendation on Open Culture</h2>
<p>CC’s open culture team will present how CC is building an initiative for a global recommendation on open culture. Team members Brigitte Vézina, Jocelyn Miyara, and Connor Benedict will report on what’s happening with the recommendation so far, including the May 2023 Lisbon meeting with global culture experts, and look to engage Wikimania’s broader and more diverse global participants in the initiative. <strong>Tune in: <a href="https://eventyay.com/e/8f889410/session/8670">6:55 UTC/14:55 SGT Fri 18 Aug</a></strong></p>
<h2>Exploring the Values That Will Shape AI for a Better internet</h2>
<p>AI is deeply connected to networked digital technologies — from the bazillions of works harvested from the internet to train AI to all the ways AI is shaping our online experience, from generative content to recommendation algorithms and simultaneous translation. Representing the <a href="https://www.movementforabetterinternet.org/">Movement for a Better Internet</a>, co-founded by CC and other public-interest organizations, CC’s Director of Communications &amp; Community Nate Angell is teaming up with consultant <a href="https://www.shannonhong.com/">Shannon Hong</a> to lead a workshop that will engage Wikimania participants directly in helping to shape how AI fits in to the Movement’s people-powered policy agenda. <strong>Tune in: <a href="https://eventyay.com/e/8f889410/session/8474">3:15 UTC/11:15 SGT Sat 19 Aug</a></strong></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67725
title: Back to Basics: Open Culture for Beginners
uri: Back-to-Basics-Open-Culture-for-Beginners
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/17/back-to-basics-open-culture-for-beginners/
content:
<p>On 27 July 2023 we hosted the first webinar in our new Open Culture Live series. In this session about the basics of Open Culture, we led a presentation that answers some of the key questions for beginners hoping to understand more about Creative Commons, and how we work closely with the cultural heritage sector to support the open sharing of digital collections. In this session we answered some basic questions including:</p>
<ul>
<li>What is Creative Commons?</li>
<li>What is Open Culture?</li>
<li>Where can you find CC licenses out in the world?</li>
<li>How can you get involved in the CC Open Culture movement?</li>
</ul>
<p>In the next episodes of the series we will be inviting panelists to speak about some other topics important to the Open Culture landscape including: Decolonization, Indigenization and Restitution; Open Culture &amp; Artificial Intelligence; and Respectful Terminologies &amp; Changing the Subject, and more.</p>
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Back to Basics: Open Culture for Beginners" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/y3vV-yvMfF0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>Interested in getting more involved? Here are some ways you can stay up to date:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sign up for our newsletter, <a href="https://loom.ly/IyVkzlE">Open Culture Matters</a>.</li>
<li>Join the <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/">Open Culture Platform</a>, where we provide a space to share resources, enhance collaboration and raise awareness on open access to digital cultural heritage, working with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) professionals and open advocates.</li>
<li>Volunteer to <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSee4sV4CJG-XK3lM6v9jvlhmb33wkSKyvRgwWYYMT4f8B9Phw/viewform">help translate our resources into other languages</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>We also welcome you to suggest other webinar topics you’d like to see — please reach out to <a href="mailto:culture@creativecommons.org">culture@creativecommons.org</a> with any ideas.</p>
<p>After two years of virtual summits, we are also excited to be hosting our first in person <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">CC Summit</a> in Mexico City from October 3–6. Please join us for more sessions on the intersections of Open Culture and topics like AI, traditional knowledge, and more.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67737
title: Understanding CC Licenses and Generative AI
uri: Understanding-CC-Licenses-and-Generative-AI
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/18/understanding-cc-licenses-and-generative-ai/
content:
<figure id="attachment_67736" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67736" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="media/7650f31e.CCIconStatue.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue.png"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-67736 size-medium" src="media/8ece507c.CCIconStatue-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-300x169.png" alt="A black and white illustration of a group of human figures in silhouette using unrecognizable tools to work on a giant Creative Commons icon." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CCIconStatue.png 1820w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67736" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://creativecommons.org/?attachment_id=67736">CC Icon Statue</a>” by <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a>, generated in part by the DALL-E 2 AI platform. CC dedicates any rights it holds to this image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Many wonder what role CC licenses, and CC as an organization, can and should play in the future of generative AI. The legal and ethical uncertainty over using copyrighted inputs for training, the uncertainty over the legal status and best practices around works produced by generative AI, and the implications for this technology on the growth and sustainability of the open commons have led CC to examine these issues more closely. We want to address some common questions, while acknowledging that the answers may be complex or still unknown.</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="ltr">We use “artificial intelligence” and “AI” as shorthand terms for what we know is a complex field of technologies and practices, currently involving machine learning and large language models (LLMs). Using the abbreviation “AI” is handy, but not ideal, because we recognize that AI is not really “artificial” (in that AI is created and used by humans), nor “intelligent” (at least in the way we think of human intelligence).</p>
</blockquote>
<h2>CC licensing and training AI on copyrighted works</h2>
<h3>Can you use CC licenses to restrict how people use copyrighted works in AI training?</h3>
<p>This is among the most common questions that we receive. While the answer depends on the exact circumstances, we want to clear up some misconceptions about how CC licenses function and what they do and do not cover.</p>
<p>You can use CC licenses to grant permission for reuse in any situation that requires permission under copyright. However, the licenses do not supersede existing limitations and exceptions; in other words, as a licensor, you cannot use the licenses to prohibit a use if it is otherwise permitted by limitations and exceptions to copyright.</p>
<p>This is directly relevant to AI, given that the use of copyrighted works to train AI may be protected under existing exceptions and limitations to copyright. For instance, we believe there are strong arguments that, in most cases, using copyrighted works to train generative AI models would be <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/17/fair-use-training-generative-ai/">fair use</a> in the United States, and such training can be protected by the text and data mining exception in the EU. However, whether these limitations apply may depend on the particular use case.</p>
<p>It’s also useful to look at this from the perspective of the licensee — the person who wants to use a given work. If a work is CC licensed, does that person need to follow the license in order to use the work in AI training? Not necessarily — it depends on the specific use.</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">To the extent your AI training is covered by an exception or limitation to copyright, you need not rely on CC licenses for the use.</li>
<li aria-level="1">To the extent you are relying on CC licenses to train AI, you will need to follow the relevant requirements under the licenses.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Another common question we hear is “Does complying with CC license conditions mean you’re always legally permitted to train AI on that CC-licensed work?”</h3>
<p>Not necessarily — it is important to note here that CC licenses only give permission for rights granted by copyright. They do not address where other laws may restrict training AI, such as privacy laws, which are always a consideration where material contains personal data and are not addressed by copyright licensing. (Many kinds of personal data are not covered by copyright at all, but may still be covered by privacy-related regulations.)</p>
<p>For more explanation and a flowchart regarding the CC licenses in this context, please see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses">our FAQ on AI and CC licenses</a>.</p>
<h2>CC Licenses and outputs of Generative AI</h2>
<p>In the current context of rapidly developing AI technologies and practices, governments scrambling to regulate AI, and courts hearing cases regarding the application of existing law, our intent is to give our community the best guidance available right now. If you create works using generative AI, you can still apply CC licenses to the work you create with the use of those tools and share your work in the ways that you wish. The CC license you choose will apply to the creative work that you contribute to the final product, even if the portion produced by the generative AI system itself may be uncopyrightable. We encourage the use of <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a> for those works that do not involve a significant degree of human creativity, to clarify the intellectual property status of the work and to ensure the public domain grows and thrives.</p>
<h2>Beyond copyright</h2>
<p>Though using CC licenses and legal tools for training data and works produced by generative AI may address some legal uncertainty, it does not solve all the ethical concerns raised, which go far beyond copyright — involving issues of privacy, consent, bias, economic impacts, and access to and control over technology, among other things. Neither copyright nor CC licenses can or should address all of the ways that AI might impact people. There are no easy solutions, but it is clear we need to step outside of copyright to work together on governance, regulatory frameworks, societal norms, and many other mechanisms to enable us to harness AI technologies and practices for good.</p>
<h2>We must empower and engage creators</h2>
<p>Generative AI presents an amazing opportunity to be a transformative tool that supports creators — both individuals and organizations — provides new avenues for creation, facilitates <em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em>, enables more people to become creators, and benefits the commons of knowledge, information, and creativity for all.</p>
<p>But there are serious concerns, such as issues around author recognition and fair compensation for creators (and the labor market for artistic work in general), the potential flood of AI-generated works on the commons making it difficult to find relevant and trustworthy information, and the disempowering effect of the privatization and enclosure of AI services and outputs, to name a few.</p>
<p>For many creators, these and other issues may be a reason not to share their works at all under any terms, not just via CC licensing. CC wants AI to augment and support commons, not detract from it, and we want to see solutions to these concerns to avoid AI turning creators away from contributing to the commons altogether.</p>
<h2>Join us</h2>
<p>We believe that trustworthy, ethical generative AI should not be feared, but instead can be beneficial to artists, creators, publishers, and to the public more broadly. Our focuses going forward will be:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">To develop and share principles, best practices, guidance, and training for using generative AI to support the commons. We don’t have all the answers — or necessarily all the questions — and we will work collaboratively with our community to establish shared principles.</li>
<li aria-level="1">To continue to engage our community and broaden it to lift up diverse, global voices and find ways to support different types of sharing and creativity.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Additionally, it is imperative that we engage more with AI developers and services to increase their support for transparency and ethical, public-interest tools and practices. CC will be seeking to collaborate with partners who share our values and want to create solutions that support a thriving commons.</li>
</ul>
<p>For over two decades we have stewarded the legal infrastructure that enables open sharing on the web. We now have an opportunity to reimagine sharing and creativity in this new age. It is time to build new infrastructure that supports better sharing with generative AI.</p>
<p>We invite you to join us in this work, as we continue to openly discuss, deliberate, and take action in this space. Follow along with our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">blog series</a> on AI, <a href="https://mail.creativecommons.org/subscribe">subscribe</a> to our newsletter, <a href="http://donate.creativecommons.org/">support</a> our work, or join us at one of our upcoming <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/events/">events</a>. We’re particularly excited to welcome our community back in-person to Mexico City in October for the CC Global Summit, where the theme is focused squarely on AI &amp; the commons. Consider attending and being part of the conversation: <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">Registration is open now</a>.</p>
<div style="background: #e0c93d; font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 1em 2em 1em; padding: 2em;"><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></div>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67430
title: Sumona Chakravarty — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 21
uri: Sumona-Chakravarty-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-21
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/22/sumona-chakravarty-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-21/
content:
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Sumona Chakravarty — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 21" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jU4k69Os46U?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>“Accessibility means putting art out there!” Sumona tells us in this episode about how Delhi’s Art Gallery (DAG) approaches open access from various perspectives. Sumona shares insight into creating exhibitions that inform the public and shed light on recent history in digital and physical spaces.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Sumona is the Vice President of Museum Programs at DAG where she has worked with museum collections and the institutions own collection to increase access to cultural heritage.</p>
<p><strong>Sumona responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67434
title: Rina Pantalony — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 22
uri: Rina-Pantalony-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-22
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/29/rina-pantalony-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-22/
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<p>“The key to enjoying the benefits of Open Culture is to use the tools available to us” says Rina Pantalony. In this episode we learn about the national and global networks that support open access in the GLAM sector and how education is crucial to leveraging the power of open licenses. Copyright is a tool open licensing with attribution can accelerate the spread of information and knowledge.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Rina Pantalony is the Dirctor of Copyright Services at Columbia University and is also on the advisory board of OCEAN, the Open Copyright Education Advisory Netowrk which advocates for open licensing around the world.</p>
<p><strong>Rina responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67784
title: How CC Will Advance Open Licensing Understanding Within 25 California Community Colleges
uri: How-CC-Will-Advance-Open-Licensing-Understanding-Within-25-California
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/29/how-cc-will-advance-open-licensing-understanding-within-25-california-community-colleges/

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<blockquote><p>Crossposted with permission from The Michelson 20MM Foundation <a href="https://20mm.org/2023/08/23/creative-commons-open-licensing-california-community-colleges/">23 Aug 2023 blog post</a>.</p></blockquote>
<figure id="attachment_67785" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67785" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67785" src="media/2bb7b363.OER_2023-SG-Funding-Cycle_20230423-3-300x168.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OER_2023-SG-Funding-Cycle_20230423-3-300x168.png" alt="A teal and light purple graphic of lines and arrows with the text: Open Educational Resources 2023 Spark Grantees next to the Creative Commons and The Michelson 20MM Foundation logos and wordmarks." width="300" height="168" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OER_2023-SG-Funding-Cycle_20230423-3-300x168.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OER_2023-SG-Funding-Cycle_20230423-3-768x430.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OER_2023-SG-Funding-Cycle_20230423-3-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OER_2023-SG-Funding-Cycle_20230423-3-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OER_2023-SG-Funding-Cycle_20230423-3-270x151.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OER_2023-SG-Funding-Cycle_20230423-3.png 840w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67785" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://20mm.org/2023/08/23/creative-commons-open-licensing-california-community-colleges/">Open Educational Resources 2023 Spark Grantees</a>” used with permission from <a href="https://20mm.org/">The Michelson 20MM Foundation</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Creative Commons licenses enable much of the open content across the arts, sciences, and academia, including open educational resources (OER). Creative Commons (CC) offers <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/">CC Certificate courses</a>, or training on CC licensing and open tools, which have become a key tool for open communities around the world. Currently, 1,459 people from 65 countries have been  <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> (CC) Certified, having taken and passed one of the CC Certificate courses. Given <a href="https://20mm.org/2022/07/29/students-to-california-community-colleges-board-of-governors-implement-governor-newsoms-115-million-for-zero-textbook-cost-programs/">Governor Gavin Newsom’s historic investment in California Community Colleges</a>’ (CCCs) Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) degree programs, it is critical to ensure faculty, students, and staff have the capacity they need to create, use, and share the open resources supported by this funding. For this reason, The Michelson 20MM Foundation is elated to award a 2023 OER <a href="https://20mm.org/spark-grants/">Spark Grant</a> to Creative Commons.</p>
<p>“Creative Commons likes to say we put the open in open educational resources,” Jennryn Wetzler, Creative Commons Director of Learning and Training shared. “We have six different licenses and two public domain tools that enable creators to legally share their copyrighted content much more flexibly than traditional, ‘all rights reserved’ copyright. They’re applied to over 2.5 billion works online and enable sharing, enable adaptation, and remix — and so much innovation and learning.”</p>
<p>The Creative Commons Bootcamp is a proven model in California and beyond. CC has found that just one CC graduate on a campus can have a ripple effect — increasing open education awareness, acceptance, and use within their community. In January, Creative Commons, in partnership with the CCC Academic Senate’s OER Initiative, helped 12 individuals from the CCC system <a href="https://20mm.org/2023/02/03/creative-commons-bay-area-bootcamp/">receive their CC Certification</a> through a Michelson Spark Grant. Less than eight months later, the 12 graduates have hosted OER tutorials, planned OER conferences, developed LibreTexts training for faculty, and mapped ZTC conversions courses — further exemplifying the value of having a CC Certified individual on campus.</p>
<p>Building upon the success of the Bay Area Bootcamp, and acutely aware of the importance of an impactful ZTC funding implementation throughout the CCC system, CC is partnering with the CCC Academic Senate’s OER Initiative again to host a Bootcamp for 25 Southern California CCC faculty. Not only does the expanded training further the goal of bringing more CC Certified experts to the 116 CCCs, but also it provides key stakeholders within the CCC system the opportunity to be connected with OER and ZTC experts throughout the world, providing support as the newly CC Certified individuals work on creating, adopting, and maintaining ZTC programs on their campuses.</p>
<p>True to the nature of open access, CC Certificate courses are openly licensed, which enables graduates to not only reuse, but also remix the material within their institutions if other faculty and staff members are interested. This means that the investment in individuals from 25 community colleges has the potential to impact at least 22% of the CCC system.</p>
<p>As OER gains momentum throughout the state and nation, CC anticipates that the Bootcamp will fill up quickly. In order to ensure it has the intended impact, CC and the CCC Academic Senate will share registration information; they will focus on priority registration, but also establish a wait-list to maximize the number of CCC campuses involved. It will be exciting to see how the 25 campuses leverage the training and inspire other CCCs to embrace OER.</p>
<p>“OER lets students have access to the materials they need to succeed free of cost, largely due to open copyright and Creative Commons licenses,” Cailyn Nagle, OER Program Manager stated. “Creative Commons has been an invaluable resource to the state — and beyond — and we are thrilled to extend CC Bootcamp participation to an additional 25 California Community Colleges.”</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/2023-cc-certificate-course-registration/e421240">Register now</a> to earn a CC Certificate in 2023 or <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/">learn more</a> about the CC Certificate Program.</p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67798
title: Exploring Preference Signals for AI Training
uri: Exploring-Preference-Signals-for-AI-Training
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/31/exploring-preference-signals-for-ai-training/
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<figure id="attachment_67808" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-67808" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-67808" src="media/08c56396.choices-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-300x169.png" alt="Close up photo of three round metal signs lying haphazardly on a stony path, each with a big white arrow pointing in a different direction, embossed on a greenish-blue background." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/choices.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-67808" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="&quot;https://www.flickr.com/photos/derekbruff/5583561290/">Choices</a>” by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/derekbruff/">Derek Bruff</a>, here cropped, licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC BY-NC 2.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>One of the motivations for founding Creative Commons (CC) was offering more choices for people who wish to share their works openly. Through engagement with a wide variety of stakeholders, we heard frustrations with the “all or nothing” choices they seemed to face with copyright. Instead they wanted to let the public share and reuse their works in some ways but not others. We also were motivated to create the CC licenses to support people — artists, technology developers, archivists, researchers, and more — who wished to re-use creative material with clear, easy-to-understand permissions.</p>
<p>What’s more, our engagement revealed that people were motivated to share not merely to serve their own <em>individual</em> interests, but rather because of a sense of <em>societal</em> interest. Many wanted to support and expand the body of knowledge and creativity that people could access and build upon — that is, the commons. Creativity depends on a thriving commons, and expanding choice was a means to that end.</p>
<p>Similar themes came through in our community consultations on generative artificial intelligence (AI*). Obviously, the details of AI and technology in society in 2023 are different from 2002. But the challenges of an all-or-nothing system where works are either open to all uses, including AI training, or entirely closed, are a through-line. So, too, is the desire to do so in a way that supports creativity, collaboration, and the commons.</p>
<p>One option that was continually raised was preference signaling: a way of making requests about some uses, not enforceable through the licenses, but an indication of the creators’ wishes. We agree that this is an important area of exploration. Preference signals raise a number of tricky questions, including how to ensure they are a part of a comprehensive approach to supporting a thriving commons — as opposed to merely a way to limit particular ways people build on existing works, and whether that approach is compatible with the intent of open licensing. At the same time, we do see potential for them to help facilitate better sharing.</p>
<h2>What We Learned: Broad Stakeholder Interest in Preference Signals</h2>
<p>In our recent posts about our community consultations on generative AI, we have <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/20/update-and-next-steps-on-ccs-ai-community-consultation/">highlighted</a> the wide range of views in our community about generative AI.</p>
<p>Some people are using generative AI to create new works. Others believe it will interfere with their ability to create, share, and earn compensation, and they object to current ways AI is trained on their works without express permission.</p>
<p>While many artists and content creators want clearer ways to signal their preferences for use of their works to train generative AI, their preferences vary. Between the poles of “all” and “nothing,” there were gradations based on how generative AI was used specifically. For instance, they varied based on whether generative AI is used</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">to edit a new creative work (similar to the way one might use Photoshop or another editing program to alter an image),</li>
<li aria-level="1">to create content in the same category of the works it was trained on (i.e., using pictures to generate new pictures),</li>
<li aria-level="1">to mimic a particular person or replace their work generally, or</li>
<li aria-level="1">to mimic a particular person and replace their work to commercially pass themselves off as the artist (as opposed to doing a non-commercial homage, or a parody).</li>
</ul>
<p>Views also varied based on who created and used the AI — whether researchers, nonprofits, or companies, for instance.</p>
<p>Many technology developers and users of AI systems also shared interest in defining better ways to respect creators’ wishes. Put simply, if they could get a clear signal of the creators’ intent with respect to AI training, then they would readily follow it. While they expressed concerns about over-broad requirements, the issue was not all-or-nothing.</p>
<h2>Preference Signals: An Ambiguous Relationship to a Thriving Commons</h2>
<p>While there was broad interest in better preference signals, there was no clear consensus on how to put them into practice. In fact, there is some tension and some ambiguity when it comes to how these signals could impact the commons.</p>
<p>For example, people brought up how generative AI may impact publishing on the Web. For some, concerns about AI training meant that they would no longer be sharing their works publicly on the Web. Similarly, some were specifically concerned about how this would impact openly licensed content and public interest initiatives; if people can use ChatGPT to get answers gleaned from Wikipedia without ever visiting Wikipedia, will Wikipedia’s commons of information continue to be sustainable?</p>
<p>From this vantage point, the introduction of preference signals could be seen as a way to sustain and support sharing of material that might otherwise not be shared, allowing new ways to reconcile these tensions.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if preference signals are broadly deployed just to limit this use, it could be a net loss for the commons. These signals may be used in a way that is overly limiting to expression — such as limiting the ability to create art that is inspired by a particular artist or genre, or the ability to get answers from AI systems that draw upon significant areas of human knowledge.</p>
<p>Additionally, CC licenses have resisted restrictions on use, in the same manner as open source software licenses. Such restrictions are often so broad that they cut off many valuable, pro-commons uses in addition to the undesirable uses; generally the possibility of the less desirable uses is a tradeoff for the opportunities opened up by the good ones. If CC is endorsing restrictions in this way we must be clear that our preference is a “commons first” approach.</p>
<p>This tension is not easily reconcilable. Instead, it suggests that preference signals are by themselves not sufficient to help sustain the commons, and should be explored as only a piece of a broader set of paths forward.</p>
<h2>Existing Preference Signal Efforts</h2>
<p>So far, this post has spoken about preference signals in the abstract, but it’s important to note that there are already many initiatives underway on this topic.</p>
<p>For instance, <a href="https://spawning.ai/">Spawning.ai</a> has worked on tools to help artists find if their works are contained in the popular LAION-5B dataset, and decide whether or not they want to exclude them. They’ve also created an API that enables AI developers to interoperate with their lists; StabilityAI has already started accepting and incorporating these signals into the data they used to train their tools, respecting artists’ explicit opt-ins and opt-outs. Eligible datasets hosted on the popular site Hugging Face also now show a data report powered by Spawning’s API, informing model trainers what data has been opted out and how to remove it. For web publishers, they’ve also been working on a generator for “ai.txt” files that signals restrictions or permissions for the use of a site&#8217;s content for commercial AI training, similar to robots.txt.</p>
<p>There are many other efforts exploring similar ideas. For instance, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is working on <a href="https://www.w3.org/community/tdmrep/">a standard</a> by which websites can express their preferences with respect to text and data mining. The EU’s copyright law expressly allows people to opt-out from text and data mining through machine-readable formats, and the idea is that the W3C’s standard would fulfill that purpose. Adobe has created a <a href="https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/03/21/responsible-innovation-age-of-generative-ai#:~:text=Respecting%20creators'%20choice%20and%20control,-Creators%20want%20control&amp;text=Using%20provenance%20technology%2C%20creators%20can,as%20part%20of%20a%20dataset.">“Do Not Train”</a> metadata tag for works generated with some of its tools, Google has <a href="https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-web-publisher-controls-sign-up/">announced</a> work to build an approach similar to robots.txt, and OpenAI has provided <a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot">a means</a> for sites to exclude themselves from crawling for future versions of GPT.</p>
<h2>Challenges and Questions in Implementing Preference Signals</h2>
<p>These efforts are still in relatively early stages, and they raise a number of challenges and questions. To name just a few:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ease-of-Use and Adoption: For preference signals to be effective, they must be easy for content creators and follow-on users to make use of. How can solutions be ease-to-use, scalable, and accommodate different types of works, uses, and users?</li>
<li>Authenticating Choices: How best to validate and trust that a signal has been put in place by the appropriate party? Relatedly, who should be able to set the preferences — the rightsholder for the work, the artist who originally created it, both?</li>
<li>Granular Choices for Artists: So far, most efforts have been focused on enabling people to opt-out of use for AI training. But as we note above, people have a wide variety of preferences, and preference signals should also be a way for people to signal that they are OK with their works being used, too. How might signals strike the right balance, enabling people to express granular preferences, but without becoming too cumbersome</li>
<li>Tailoring and Flexibility Based on Types of Works and Users: We’ve focused in this post on artists, but there are of course a wide variety of types of creators and works. How can preference signals <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-smart-intellectual-property-laws-for-artificial-intelligence/">accommodate scientific research</a>, for instance? In the context of indexing websites, commercial search engines generally follow the robots.txt protocol, although institutions like archivists and cultural heritage organizations may still crawl to fulfill their public interest missions. How might we facilitate similar sorts of norms around AI?</li>
</ul>
<p>As efforts to build preference signals continue, we will continue to explore these and other questions in hopes of informing useful paths forward. Moreover, we will also continue to explore other mechanisms necessary to help support sharing and the commons. CC is committed to more deeply engaging in this subject, including at our Summit in October, whose theme is “AI and the Commons.”</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">Register for the CC Global Summit &gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>If you are in  New York City on 13 September 2023, join our symposium on <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/08/08/nyc-symposium-generative-ai-the-creativity-cycle/">Generative AI &amp; the Creativity Cycle</a>, which focuses on the intersection of generative artificial intelligence, cultural heritage, and contemporary creativity. If you miss the live gathering, look for the recorded sessions.</p>
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<div><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></div>
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<div><strong><em>* Note: We use “artificial intelligence” and “AI” as shorthand terms for what we know is a complex field of technologies and practices, currently involving machine learning and large language models (LLMs). Using the abbreviation “AI” is handy, but not ideal, because we recognize that AI is not really “artificial” (in that AI is created and used by humans), nor “intelligent” (at least in the way we think of human intelligence).</em></strong></div>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67438
title: Hardiansyah — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 23
uri: Hardiansyah-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-23
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/09/05/hardiansyah-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-23/
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<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Hardiansyah — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 23" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2tEKVxJGHao?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>“Culture is something that should be shared among many people.” Hardi talks about the work he is doing with Wikipedia to make collections in Indonesia accessible to the wider world. He explains how the internet makes unique cultures more visible and promotes dialogue between cultures.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Hardi is the Deputy General Secretary for Internal Affairs and Partnership Manager of Wikimedia Indonesia and has been working in open culture since he started with Wikipedia.</p>
<p><strong>Hardi responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, 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.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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