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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61259
title: Does WIPO’s New Leadership Have the Vision to Shake Up Global Copyright Policy-Making?
uri: Does-WIPO-s-New-Leadership-Have-the-Vision-to-Shake-Up-Global-Copyri
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/16/wipo-leadership-shake-up-global-copyright-policy-making/
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<h1><b>New beginnings at WIPO </b></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On March 4, Daren Tang was </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/dgo/news/2020/news_0017.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">nominated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> director general of the </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/portal/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">World Intellectual Property Organization</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (WIPO), the United Nations agency dealing with intellectual property matters. Tang is currently the chief executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and his six-year term as top WIPO official will start on October 1, 2020. He will replace Francis Gurry, who has led the organization since 2008. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61262" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61262" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img data-attachment-id="61262" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/16/wipo-leadership-shake-up-global-copyright-policy-making/wipo-singapore-office-hosts-regional-roundtable-on-the-global-innovation-index-2016-wipo-cc-by-nc-nd/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND.jpg" data-orig-size="2048,1365" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="WIPO Singapore Office Hosts Regional Roundtable on The Global Innovation Index 2016, WIPO, (CC BY-NC-ND)" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-image-61262 size-medium" src="media/368773bf.-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-300x200.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-300x200.jpg" alt="Mr. Daren Tang, Chief Executive, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-300x200.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-768x512.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-60x40.jpg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-50x33.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-233x155.jpg 233w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22WIPO-Singapore-Office-Hosts-Regional-Roundtable-on-The-Global-Innovation-Index-201622-WIPO-CC-BY-NC-ND.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61262" class="wp-caption-text">Mr. Daren Tang, nominated director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), at the Global Innovation Index in 2016. Source: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wipo/30877220556/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WIPO via Dean Studio</a>, licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC-ND</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This change in leadership opens the way for bold new perspectives and a sharpened focus on much needed global copyright policy reform that has been urged for decades. With Tang at the helm, WIPO and its member states will have a unique opportunity to recalibrate an outdated, unbalanced copyright system, embrace on equal terms the </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2020/03/12/hope-wipo-new-leadership-neutrality-fairness-transparency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">views and opinions of civil society</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> organizations, and create a new order where rules are fit for the digital environment in which we all learn, create, and share.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this post, we outline what needs to be done to drive copyright policy in the right direction, with a special focus on the three main substantive issues under discussion at WIPO: broadcasting rights, limitations and exceptions, and copyright and the digital environment.</span></p>
<h1><b>Time for sweeping changes in the SCCR</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From 2018 to 2019, Tang served as chair of WIPO’s </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/policy/en/sccr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (SCCR), the international forum where discussions on copyright and related rights take place. As a permanent observer to the SCCR, Creative Commons (CC) </span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/WIPO" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">actively contributes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to shaping global </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/get-cc-savvy/copyright-creativecommons-are-friends/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">copyright</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> policy with a view to upholding strong user rights and a robust and thriving public domain within a balanced ecosystem conducive to creativity, collaboration, and cultural interaction. Here are some of the initiatives pending before the SCCR where CC and other civil society organizations have taken a stance in support of the modernization of copyright.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><i>Broadcasting</i></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Discussions over a potential new treaty for the protection of </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/briefs/broadcasting.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">broadcasting organizations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have been taking place for more than a decade within the SCCR. CC has time and again made the case that such </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2012/11/14/wipos-broadcasting-treaty-still-harmful-still-unnecessary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a treaty is clearly not needed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. C</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">urrent legal frameworks provide more than enough enforcement mechanisms and remedies for so-called “</span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/briefs/broadcasting.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">signal piracy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Promoting and delivering content via a broadcast signal should not convey rights to control access and use of the content itself. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the creation of new rights atop copyright to “protect” a broadcast signal would severely compromise users’ right to make certain uses of the underlying creative work, either thanks to exceptions, limitations or via public licenses, such as CC Licenses or even to material in the public domain. At a minimum, broad exceptions and limitations should append to any new rights to allow wide use and reuse of works by the public so that underlying uses of works by the public that currently exist are not blocked by any new rights granted. There is significant risk that granting this new broadcasting right will limit access to information and culture. Instead of keeping this item on the agenda where, clearly, there is no outcome in sight, WIPO should halt the proceedings of the broadcast treaty.</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><i>Exceptions and limitations</i> </strong></li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/limitations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exceptions and limitations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (E&amp;L) are also a long-standing item on the SCCR agenda that need a complete reshuffle. While some interest groups proselytize licensing over E&amp;L, licensing simply cannot uphold fundamental rights such as the right to information, the right to access to culture and freedom of expression, as noted in CC’s </span><a href="media/89c33877.WIPO_SCCR_39_CC_short_statement.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/f/fd/WIPO_SCCR_39_CC_short_statement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">latest submission</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the SCCR. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/cc-licenses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC licenses</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are an excellent way to share culture, information and knowledge—our licenses are the international standard for open licensing and the broadest, best understood and recognizable way to signal an intention to share. However, licensing (especially collective licensing) falls short of addressing the problems that libraries, museums, archives, educational and research institutions, as well as persons with disabilities, face on a daily basis. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s why we fully support a </span><a href="http://infojustice.org/tera" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">treaty on educational and research activities</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and for international copyright law to enshrine clear, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">mandatory, and flexible E&amp;L</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for educational uses both offline and online, such as </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2016/11/24/creative-commons-wipo-supporting-fair-copyright-teaching-learning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">teaching and learning</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We are also in favor of E&amp;L for cultural heritage institutions, including for the preservation of cultural heritage by galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs).</span></p>
<ul>
<li><strong><i>Copyright and the digital environment</i></strong></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">New technologies and the internet have forced many countries to reform their copyright laws. Despite those efforts, we are still faced with a global copyright system that </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/policy-advocacy-copyright-reform/reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fails to keep up with digital advancements</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Old rules that were designed for the analog world cannot be tweaked slightly to address the new realities of the digital world. What we need is a complete redesign of the legal and policy architecture supporting the creation, sharing and reuse of creative works. This new copyright architecture needs to be simple, efficient, targeted, effective, and realistic. WIPO was </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Texgpm520" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">challenged</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> more than ten years ago to serve as a leader in reforming copyright, and to date has done extremely little by our estimation. For copyright to be fit for the digital environment, where millions of copies of copyright works can circulate within seconds of their publication and be used by millions of users, policy action is urgently needed. Copyright needs to embrace and bolster the novel business models and interaction patterns emerging around creativity and online participation in culture. On that point, we champion the fundamental recognition that digital </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/11/20/reproductions-of-public-domain-works/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reproductions of works in the public domain should stay in the public domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the support of an extensive </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of experts from all over the world, including </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/network-platforms/blob/master/copyright-reform.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">copyright reform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> experts, CC is </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2013/10/16/supporting-copyright-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">driving policy change</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to bring copyright in line with the realities of creation and online dissemination of creative works. This copyright upheaval is necessary to tear down the barriers that copyright erects around creative content and allow everyone to freely enjoy the benefits of access to culture, information, and knowledge. </span></p>
<h1><strong>Fairness, transparency, and neutrality</strong></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We expect WIPO to facilitate a healthy and meaningful debate in the SCCR among all stakeholders, including those representing the public interest. This also holds true for all normative activities at WIPO, including those taking place in the </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/policy/en/cdip/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Committee on Development and Intellectual Property</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CDIP), which plays a vital role in making sure the voices of developing countries are taken into account in discussions shaping global copyright law. Our expectations of fairness, transparency, and neutrality extend to WIPO’s capacity-building and </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/cooperation/en/technical_assistance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">technical assistance</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> activities as well. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We urge Tang and his senior management team to rise to the challenge of creating a copyright framework befitting 21st century technologies and sharing customs, including providing leadership in the global policy-making arena, with the goal of achieving a balanced and modern copyright system. To this end, we stand ready to break new ground and catapult copyright into the future, because the future is already here. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61282
title: Tech Giants Join the CC-Supported Open COVID Pledge
uri: Tech-Giants-Join-the-CC-Supported-Open-COVID-Pledge
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/20/tech-giants-join-the-cc-supported-open-covid-pledge/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img data-attachment-id="61289" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/20/tech-giants-join-the-cc-supported-open-covid-pledge/opencovidpledgebanner/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner.jpg" data-orig-size="1200,630" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="opencovidpledgebanner" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner-300x158.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner-1024x538.jpg" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-61289" src="media/49212d90.opencovidpledgebanner.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner.jpg" alt="" width="1200" height="630" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner-300x158.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner-768x403.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner-76x40.jpg 76w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner-50x26.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/opencovidpledgebanner-270x142.jpg 270w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Momentum continues to swell in support of the </span><a href="https://www.opencovidpledge.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open COVID Pledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with the <a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/2020/04/20/tech-innovators-join-open-covid-pledge-to-make-patents-freely-available-in-the-fight-against-covid-19">announcement</a> today by Amazon, Facebook, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Microsoft, and Sandia National Laboratories, that they are pledging their patents to the public to freely use in support of solving the COVID-19 pandemic. Following in the footsteps of Intel, Fabricatorz Foundation, and many others, these companies join as Founding Adopters of the Pledge by releasing hundreds </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">of thousands of</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> patents for use worldwide by researchers, scientists, and others who are working to end the and minimize the impact of the disease, including through research, diagnosis, prevention, and containment.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/07/open-covid-pledge-removing-obstacles-to-sharing-ip-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> its formal support for the project earlier this month, joining forces with legal experts, researchers, and scientists to create the pledge and licenses. This included the publication of </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/2020/04/17/open-covid-coalition-publishes-new-license/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">two new licenses</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> last week. The licenses now give adopters the ability to choose between licensing all of their copyrights and patents, and licensing only their patents. You can learn more about the licenses on </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/license/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">the website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC’s involvement in this coalition is a natural fit given our goal of supporting and promoting the sharing of intellectual property freely with the public in order to advance the dissemination of knowledge. Our work since the announcement has focused on building informational resources including a new set of </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/faq/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FAQs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, drafting and updating the licenses, connecting with those wishing to adopt the pledge and license their IP, and strategizing with other members of the coalition about how the project can best connect adopters with those using the licensed IP to maximize impact. We look forward to continuing this work and sharing these success stories.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Companies, universities, organizations, and individuals can make or support the Open COVID Pledge by visiting </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://opencovidpledge.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or contacting </span><a href="mailto:opencovidpledge@gmail.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">opencovidpledge@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/20/tech-giants-join-the-cc-supported-open-covid-pledge/">Tech Giants Join the CC-Supported Open COVID Pledge</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61274
title: Why Sharing Academic Publications Under “No Derivatives” Licenses is Misguided
uri: Why-Sharing-Academic-Publications-Under-No-Derivatives-Licenses
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/21/academic-publications-under-no-derivatives-licenses-is-misguided/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/19/now-is-the-time-for-open-access-policies-heres-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">benefits of open access</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (OA) are undeniable and increasingly evident across all academic disciplines and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/27/what-scientists-should-know-about-open-access/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">scientific research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: making academic publications</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a title="Jump to notes at end of page" href="#notes"><sup>1</sup></a> freely and openly accessible and reusable provides broad visibility for authors, a better return on investment for funders, and greater access to knowledge for other researchers and the general public. And yet, despite OA’s </span><a href="https://sparceurope.org/what-we-do/open-access/oa-benefits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">obvious advantages</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, some researchers choose to publish their research papers under restrictive licenses, under the mistaken belief that by doing so they are safeguarding </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_integrity" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">academic integrity</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Academic fraud, whether in the guise of cheating, copying, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/01/20/open-access-easy-access-for-plagiarists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">plagiarism</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or using the services of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essay_mill" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">essay mills</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, is no doubt a serious issue for the academic community the world over. This age-old problem has been happening since long before digital technologies and open licenses (such as CC Licenses) were on the scene, however. Clearly, OA is neither to blame for academic fraud nor does it invite it or make it worse. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this blog post, we explain that applying restrictive licenses to academic publications is a misguided approach to addressing concerns over academic integrity. Specifically, we make it clear that using Creative Commons “No Derivatives” (ND) licenses on academic publications is not only ill-advised for policing academic fraud but also and more importantly unhelpful to the dissemination of research, especially publicly-funded research. We also show that the safeguards in place within truly open licenses (like </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) are well-suited to curbing</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> malicious </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">academic behavior, above and beyond other existing recourses for academic fraud and similar abuses. </span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><b>No Derivatives licenses </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">(</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-ND</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-NC-ND</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">allow people to copy and distribute a work but </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">prohibit</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> them from adapting, remixing, transforming, translating, or updating it, in any way that makes a derivative. In short, people are not allowed to create “derivative works” or </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#when-is-my-use-considered-an-adaptation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">adaptations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<h1><strong>Researchers are the ultimate remixers</strong></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Researchers publish to be read, to have impact, and to make the world a better place. To accomplish these important goals, researchers</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> need to enable reuse and adaptations of their research publications and data. They also need to be able to reuse and adapt the publications and data of others. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Isaac Newton</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, one of the most influential scientists of all time, famously declared: “If I have seen further it is by </span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Concepts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">standing on the shoulders of Giants</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,” meaning the production of new knowledge can only be achieved if researchers can rely on the ideas and publications of their peers and predecessors and revisit, reuse, and transform them, adding layer upon layer of new insights. Researchers are the ultimate remixers—OA is the ultimate way to make remixing possible. </span></p>
<h1><strong>ND licensed publications are <i>not</i> Open Access</strong></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Articles published under an ND license are </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span></i> <span style="font-weight: 400;">considered OA, as first defined in the </span><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Budapest Open Access Initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and in its 2012 </span><a href="https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai-10-recommendations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recommendations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ND licenses overly restrict reuse of content by fellow researchers and thus curtail their opportunity to contribute to the advancement of knowledge. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is the main reason why it is inadvisable to apply ND licenses to academic publications. Although ND licenses are used for certain types of content, such as official documents that are not meant to be substantively modified, using them to forbid adaptations of academic publications flies in the face of the ethos of academic research. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If anything, the ND element harms researchers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For instance, ND licenses prevent translations. Hence, given that English is the dominant language of academia, ND licenses place barriers to accessing knowledge by non-English speakers and limit the outreach of research beyond the English-speaking world. ND licenses also prevent the adaptation of the graphs, images or diagrams included in academic articles (unless separately licensed under a license permitting their adaptation), which are essential to achieve wider dissemination of the ideas expressed therein. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reusers might also be discouraged by how differently “adaptations” might be defined under copyright law in different jurisdictions and how differently exceptions and limitations (E&amp;L) might apply. A notable</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> example is the use of </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/?s=tdm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">text and data mining</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">TDM</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">) processes to generate new knowledge. Some laws are very clear about the ability of researchers to do TDM as an exception to copyright even when an adaptation is arguably made </span><b><i>during</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the TDM process, and even when the output can almost never be said to constitute an adaptation of any one input. The use of an ND license might be erroneously interpreted to discourage such perfectly lawful activity altogether, and therefore present another hurdle to the progress of science.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><a title="Jump to notes at end of page" href="#notes"><sup>2</sup></a></p>
<h1><strong>Some remixes are still possible under ND licenses</strong></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be that as it may, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ND licenses do not completely bar the possibility of reusing and adapting academic publications. First, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the licenses do not limit the rights that users have by virtue of the application of copyright’s </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#do-creative-commons-licenses-affect-exceptions-and-limitations-to-copyright-such-as-fair-dealing-and-fair-use" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">exceptions and limitations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, such as quotation, review, criticism or under the general doctrines of </span><a href="https://libguides.exeter.ac.uk/c.php?g=654434&amp;p=4597110" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fair dealing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="https://guides.nyu.edu/fairuse" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fair use</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Further, our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FAQ</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> clarifies that, generally, no derivative work is made of the original from which an excerpt is taken when the portion is used to illustrate an idea or provide an example in another larger work. This is solely an act of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">reproduction</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, not of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">improving</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> upon the pre-existing work in a way that could create an adaptation in violation of the ND license. All CC licenses grant the right to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">reproduce</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a CC-licensed work for noncommercial purposes (at a minimum). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moreover, anyone wishing to adapt ND-licensed publications can seek authorization from the author, who may grant an individual license.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">This, however, adds unnecessary transaction costs for reusers, who might choose to use different sources rather than go through the often tedious process of requesting permission. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the ways other researchers are legally able to reuse ND-licensed works, they leave much to be desired in the academic context.</span></p>
<h1><strong>All CC Licenses require attribution </strong></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Multiple protections against reputational and attribution risks are embedded in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">all</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> CC licenses, which have a </span><a href="https://labs.creativecommons.org/caselaw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">strong legal history</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of enforcement actions against reusers that violate the licenses’ terms. These safeguards, that are in addition to and not in replacement of academic norms and practices, are in place to provide an additional layer of protection for the original authors’ reputation and to alleviate their concerns over changes to their works that might be wrongly attributed to them, such as:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Attribution</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a requirement for all six CC licenses. Attribution (often called a “citation” in the academe) must be provided to the extent reasonable with regard to the means, medium and context of the reuse, absent a request by the author not to do so (in cases where the author believes the use is one from which s/he wishes to distance him/herself, licensees must remove attribution to the extent reasonable). </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reusers are prohibited from using attribution in any way that suggests the author endorses the views of the reuser.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Changes made to the original licensed works must be indicated by the reuser and a link back to the original must be provided. This allows further reusers to see what was modified and, thus, what can only be attributed to the reuser and not the original author. For details, see section 3.a of the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Legal Code for CC BY 4.0 licenses</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></li>
</ul>
<h1><strong>Copyright is not the best framework to uphold academic integrity</strong></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Overall, copyright law and CC Licenses are not the most appropriate frameworks to address problems of academic integrity. Better results can certainly be achieved through compliance with and enforcement of relevant, well-established and enduring institutional and social norms, ethics policies, and moral codes of conduct. All told, researchers are not doing themselves or the global academe a favor when they share their publications under ND licenses. To optimize their dissemination and increase their social impact, we recommend sharing academic publications under the most open terms possible, i.e. by applying a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> license to the article and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to the data.</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>We&#8217;re happy to provide further assistance and support in the interpretation of CC licenses, as well as in understanding <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/open-access/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">open access</a> for researchers. If you need help, get in touch <img src="media/3fa4a847.1f449.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f449.png" alt="👉" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /><a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">info@creativecommons.org</a>.</strong></p>
<p id="notes"><em><strong>Notes</strong></em></p>
<ol>
<li><em>Academic publications broadly include scholarly, academic, scientific and research books, journals, and articles/papers. Academic publications are often publicly funded.</em></li>
<li><em>All 4.0 ND licenses permit text and data mining even if adaptations are created during the process, or as an output; however, adaptations may not be shared further and may only be used for internal or personal purposes.</em></li>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/21/academic-publications-under-no-derivatives-licenses-is-misguided/">Why Sharing Academic Publications Under “No Derivatives” Licenses is Misguided</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


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title: Open Access in Practice: A Conversation with President Larry Kramer of The Hewlett Foundation
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since the founding of Creative Commons (CC) in 2001, we’ve been supported by like-minded organizations and individuals who value open access, the open community, and the global commons as much as we do. As we near our 20th anniversary, we are reflecting on the past and planning for the future. What better way to do that than to hear from the supporters who have made our work possible over the last 20 years?</span></p>
<p><img data-attachment-id="61290" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/23/open-access-in-practice-larry-kramer-hewlett-foundation/the-hewlett-foundation/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Hewlett-Foundation.png" data-orig-size="512,152" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="The Hewlett Foundation" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Hewlett-Foundation-300x89.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Hewlett-Foundation.png" class=" wp-image-61290 alignright" src="media/71874489.The-Hewlett-Foundation-300x89.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Hewlett-Foundation-300x89.png" alt="The Hewlett Foundation" width="364" height="108" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Hewlett-Foundation-300x89.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Hewlett-Foundation-135x40.png 135w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Hewlett-Foundation-50x15.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Hewlett-Foundation-270x80.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/The-Hewlett-Foundation.png 512w" sizes="(max-width: 364px) 85vw, 364px" /><a href="https://hewlett.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has been a longtime CC supporter and thought partner. We reached out to the Foundation’s President, Larry Kramer, for his thoughts on the value of open access in the Foundation’s philanthropic work and the future he envisions for the open movement. </span></p>
<p><em>Our conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length. </em></p>
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<p><b>CC: The Hewlett Foundation has been a funder and partner of CC for over a decade. Can you talk about the value the Foundation has found in CC’s work, and why open access is so important?</b></p>
<p><b>Larry Kramer:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Openness is one of our core guiding principles. We believe that sharing our knowledge and experiences—our challenges as well as our successes—with others can both build trust and invite their ideas for how we can improve. We are committed to continuous learning, and we see open access as a key part of that goal. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Creative Commons was founded, the notion that content creators would routinely allow others to use or modify their work seemed far-fetched. Today, Creative Commons stewards a large and growing movement to make knowledge more freely available, to foster collaboration, and to spur advances and improvements that make the world a better place for everyone. At the most basic level, the sharing that Creative Commons facilitates increases the chances that good ideas will be heard and have an impact. We care a lot about that, which is why Creative Commons has been such a longstanding partner. </span></p>
<p><b>CC: In 2014, the Hewlett Foundation extended its open licensing policy to all grantees, </b><b>writing</b><b>: &#8220;</b><b>Solving the kinds of challenges the Hewlett Foundation chooses to address requires good ideas, but ideas are not enough. Asking grantees to make sure their ideas are shared, so others can learn from and build on them, will help those ideas go further, be challenged and strengthened, and, in the end, do more good.&#8221; </b></p>
<p><b>Can you take us through the process behind this decision?</b></p>
<p><b>Larry Kramer: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Hewlett Foundation has long had a policy of making information related to our grantmaking available under an open license so that others can learn from our experience. We share evaluations that our organization commissions, as well as our strategy papers and non-confidential information about individual grants. In 2014, we </span><a href="https://hewlett.org/helping-good-ideas-go-further/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">extended our commitment to open licensing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to include, under most circumstances, materials created with our grant dollars. The basic decision was not difficult: we believe in openness and the benefits it produces, and it seemed straightforward to apply that principle to things produced with our funding as well as to things we produce ourselves. But we also knew that a blanket rule would not work, because we support diverse areas of work, produced in many different contexts, by organizations with different operational models. For example, a policy like this would affect researchers at a think tank quite differently from artists in a performing arts organization. So we thought this through carefully and only acted after conversations internally and with grantees, crafting a policy to ensure that it did not inadvertently hurt or burden grantees. At the end of the consultation process, we emerged with a new language for project grants and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">a <a href="https://hewlett.org/library/hewlett-foundation-open-licensing-toolkit-for-staff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">toolkit for grantees</a> to understand how to implement these requirements. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Happily, the shift has worked out very well. In fields with very scant resources, understanding how to actually go about openly licensing something can be confusing. We have tried to build an understanding amongst our grantees and peer funding partners of what open licensing is, and how it can contribute to their goals. Where necessary, we sometimes provide legal counsel to grantees who are trying to figure out the best way to do this. </span></p>
<p><b>CC: Advocates of open access believe that it can lead to a more accessible, equitable, and innovative world. Can you share any examples of how the Foundation has seen this idea at work? </b></p>
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<p><b>Larry Kramer: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">One concrete example is our </span><a href="https://www.imagesofempowerment.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Images of Empowerment</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> collection of 2,000 openly licensed images of women in 11 countries around the world. It’s well established that visuals can both create and change our biases and inspire action. Several years ago, one of our program officers in our Global Development and Population portfolio wanted to change how we “see” women in developing countries. Working with Getty Images, we funded a new set of stock photos that show women making decisions, earning income, and accessing reproductive health care and services to care for themselves and their families. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our purpose was twofold: provide a more accurate, positive representation of women’s lives and make the images a public good, free for any nonprofit to use. We knew that open licensing would be a necessary component to help encourage use and reuse. Nonprofits seldom have affordable or easy access to images that tell their stories or show their impact. The photographs were intended to fill that gap for both advocates doing this work and newsrooms that cover these issues. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation have since added to the collection, and the full set now </span><a href="https://www.imagesofempowerment.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">includes 2,000 high-quality, editorial images</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of women working and acting in their communities in Colombia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and the United States.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another example is our long-term investment in free, remixable, revisable learning materials, termed as </span><a href="https://hewlett.org/exploring-the-future-of-open-educational-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open educational resources</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (OER). Like CC, Hewlett has been investing in OER since its inception in 2001. We believe that access to knowledge should never be a barrier to learning, and OER provides a stream of high-quality educational opportunities for students around the world. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons was among our first OER grantees because it provides the backbone of OER’s infrastructure. As OER has grown in usage and as a field, Creative Commons has provided consistent support to our grantees. That work is now benefiting countless students all over the world who have been forced abruptly to switch to </span><a href="https://hewlett.org/resources-for-distance-learning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">distance learning</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are lessons being learned about how well these materials can work that will carry over once the pandemic ends. </span></p>
<p><b>CC: What challenges and/or barriers exist that may be stopping other philanthropic foundations from adopting open access policies? </b></p>
<p><b>Larry Kramer: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are at least two sources of hesitation when it comes to embracing open access policies, both of which may apply more broadly than just to philanthropic foundations. First, there’s a lack of understanding about open licensing—what it is, why it matters, and how it works. Open access is an entirely new topic for many organizational leaders. Second, there is also hesitation to impose a new priority of this sort onto the culture of an organization or its grantees. A truly impactful open access policy has implications for every department in the organization—from technical assistance required from a legal team to the Communications Department’s choosing of images for the organization’s website. Change management is always difficult, and something this far-reaching can be a heavy undertaking. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To encourage open access policies, Creative Commons <span>could build on initiatives like the <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Certificate</a> that approach the topic of open access from different perspectives</span>. While the work itself is about legal licensing, open access can help solve a variety of problems, and it’s important to show that to organizational leaders—to offer stories about what works and how open access can help. It would also help to connect open access policies to other change management efforts that are undertaken at periodic intervals in philanthropic organizations. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61302" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61302" style="width: 397px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img data-attachment-id="61302" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/23/open-access-in-practice-larry-kramer-hewlett-foundation/middle-school-group-presentation/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-scaled.jpg" data-orig-size="2560,1706" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Allison Shelley\/The Verbatim Age&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;A middle school student explains the inspiration for his art project to classmates. &lt;br&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Photo by Allison Shelley\/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action&lt;\/strong&gt;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1487944347&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Allison Shelley&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Middle school group presentation&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Middle school group presentation" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-image-61302" src="media/09c9e248.n-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-300x200.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-300x200.jpg" alt="Students talk about a presentation" width="397" height="264" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-300x200.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-768x512.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-60x40.jpg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-50x33.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-233x155.jpg 233w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22AMERICANED_CAPCITY_077-222-by-Courtesy-of-Allison-ShelleyThe-Verbatim-Agency-for-American-Education-Images-of-Teachers-and-Students-in-Action-CC-BY-NC-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 397px) 85vw, 397px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61302" class="wp-caption-text">A middle school student explains the inspiration for his art project to classmates. Image by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for <a href="https://deeperlearning4all.org/images/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC</a>), an open-access image collection commissioned by The Hewlett Foundation.</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>CC: As we look forward five to ten years, what do you think “success” looks like in regards to open access policy and advocacy?</b></p>
<p><b>Larry Kramer: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The global COVID-19 pandemic has deepened and highlighted longtime inequities that have plagued access to education and basic healthcare around the world. It has also shown how important it is for people to be able to collaborate, learn together, and build on each other’s thinking. It would be wonderful if, in the wake of everything happening in 2020, nations around the world adopt policies that require all publicly funded research and learning resources to be openly licensed. Given the crisis of access to learning materials exposed by the need to use distance learning, we should see an increase in educational institutions’ support for creating and using OER. We would also welcome commitments from other foundations to join us in adopting open access policies so that efforts and products intended to benefit the public good can be owned and freely used by the public. </span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>Please consider <a href="https://www.creativecommons.org/donate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">donating to Creative Commons</a> so that we can continue stewarding the CC licenses and building the open access tools and platforms individuals and organizations, like The Hewlett Foundation, use to share. If you’d like to learn more about implementing open access policies and utilizing open licenses, check out the <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Certificate course</a> or this <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w2Kz8c7xpf-fRIqRvkUjqt9drSRl7MRG/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">free ebook</a>. </strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you to Larry Kramer for offering his time and thoughtful words, Neha Gohil for helping us pull this piece together, and the entire staff of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for their support. </span></i></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/23/open-access-in-practice-larry-kramer-hewlett-foundation/">Open Access in Practice: A Conversation with President Larry Kramer of The Hewlett Foundation</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


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title: Using CC Licenses and Tools to Share and Preserve Cultural Heritage in the Face of Climate Change
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the occasion of both </span><a href="https://www.earthday.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earth Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/ip-outreach/en/ipday/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">World Intellectual Property Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which this year centers on the theme of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Innovation for a Green Future</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we’d like to underline the importance of cultural heritage preservation as a response to the threats posed by climate change. In this post, we’ll also share some insights on how Creative Commons (CC) licenses and tools, especially the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain Mark 1.0 (PDM)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication tool (CC0 1.0)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, can be used to help preserve, share, and enjoy cultural heritage. </span></p>
<h1><b>Climate change poses serious threats to cultural heritage </b></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heavy rainfalls, floods, rising sea levels, untamable wildfires, droughts, and other calamities are some of the dire consequences of climate change, possibly one of the greatest challenges of our time. Besides the disastrous impacts on the environment and biodiversity, climate change also poses significant threats to cultural heritage the world over, in both direct and indirect ways.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61316" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61316" style="width: 376px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img data-attachment-id="61316" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/26/cc-licenses-tools-share-and-preserve-cultural-heritage-in-the-face-of-climate-change/4231617306_574469222f_k-by-colin-pdx-cc-by-nc-via-flickr/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr.jpg" data-orig-size="2048,1536" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Flooded Venice" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-1024x768.jpg" class="wp-image-61316" src="media/bc3f70a8.7306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-300x225.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-300x225.jpg" alt="Flooded Venice " width="376" height="281" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-300x225.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-768x576.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-53x40.jpg 53w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-50x38.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-207x155.jpg 207w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/224231617306_574469222f_k22-by-Colin-PDX-CC-BY-NC-via-Flickr.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 376px) 85vw, 376px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61316" class="wp-caption-text">The city of Venice, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is under significant threat due to several factors, including rising sea levels. Image: &#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/colin-pdx/4231617306/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Flooded Venice</a>&#8221; by Colin PDX (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC</a>).</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because of global warming, cultural monuments and sites, as well as objects hosted in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs), face the very real threat of being irremediably damaged or lost. In 2015, the </span><a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/climatechange/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UNESCO World Heritage Committee</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> acknowledged  that “World Heritage properties are increasingly affected by climate change.” Climate change has also been shown to contribute to drastic cuts in public funding for culture as well as to lead to a rise in armed conflicts, with the catastrophic knock-on effects of the destruction of cultural heritage. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>As the risk of natural disasters due to climate change increases, many institutions will face a damning reality: when cultural heritage is lost, a part of humanity vanishes.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Of course, climate change is not the only trigger for the loss or destruction of cultural treasures. All too often human error or negligence is to blame for heartrending losses, such as the 2009 collapse of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Archive_of_the_City_of_Cologne" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Historical Archive of the City of Cologne</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, in which</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 90% of archival records were buried </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">in the rubble. Thankfully, they were partly rescued later</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Another tragic example is the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">2018 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Brazil#2018_fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fire in the National Museum of Brazil</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, in which </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">92.5% of its archive of 20 million items went up in flames</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the risk of natural disasters due to climate change increases and as governments shift their funding priorities away from the cultural sector, many institutions will likely face a damning reality: when cultural heritage is lost, a part of humanity vanishes.</span></p>
<h1><b>Preservation can mitigate the risk of loss</b></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is why preservation efforts by GLAMs are crucial. At the heart of their mission is to preserve and provide access to cultural heritage to the public. Digitization is nowadays the most trustworthy, effective, and efficient way to ensure cultural heritage can continue to exist for all of us to enjoy, as recognized in the </span><a href="media/b00c4b22.2015_mow_recommendation_implementation_guidelines_en.pdf" data-original-source="https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/2015_mow_recommendation_implementation_guidelines_en.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2015 UNESCO Recommendation concerning the preservation of, and access to, documentary heritage including in digital form</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as well as under the </span><a href="https://perma.cc/8MTV-QPNZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">European Commission’s Report on Digitisation, Online Accessibility and Digital Preservation of Cultural Material</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.  </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61320" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61320" style="width: 395px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img data-attachment-id="61320" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/26/cc-licenses-tools-share-and-preserve-cultural-heritage-in-the-face-of-climate-change/49655810103_c546fe860c_k-by-phil-roeder-cc-by-via-flickr/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr.jpg" data-orig-size="2048,1367" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="49655810103_c546fe860c_k by Phil Roeder (CC BY) via Flickr" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-1024x684.jpg" class="wp-image-61320" src="media/fb2d676f.10103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-300x200.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="395" height="264" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-300x200.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-768x513.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-60x40.jpg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-50x33.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-232x155.jpg 232w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2249655810103_c546fe860c_k22-by-Phil-Roeder-CC-BY-via-Flickr.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 395px) 85vw, 395px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61320" class="wp-caption-text">GLAMs, like the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., are embarking on digitization projects to help preserve and share cultural heritage. Image: &#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/tabor-roeder/49655810103/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">National Gallery of Art</a>&#8221; by Phil Roeder (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY</a>).</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, most copyright laws give GLAMs major headaches when it comes to digitizing the works restricted by copyright in their collections for both preservation and online accessibility. Why? Digitization is an act of reproduction, and under copyright law, this act is the prerogative of the copyright owner, unless an exception applies. Unfortunately, exceptions are all too narrow, unclear, and rare. A recent World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2019/international_conference_copyright.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">International Conference on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Educational &amp; Research Institutions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> made evident the unacceptably skewed balance of the copyright system towards the copyright owner to the detriment of those institutions that care for and help interpret, understand, and share cultural heritage. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is the reason CC signed the </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q2C5sKaDGcxZhm7Q6zdsexRF0iTEVlYETuuK7qFM_E4/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open letter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> prepared by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), among others, calling on WIPO to urgently create </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">an international legal instrument with clear rules allowing the preservation of cultural heritage collections.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<h1><b>Openly sharing collections online with CC’s licenses and tools</b></h1>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digitized cultural heritage material should be held for preservation purposes but should also be made available online as widely as possible, in order to allow the broadest and most unfettered access to culture. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC is engaged in groundbreaking work in the </span><a href="https://openglam.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OpenGLAM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> space, helping cultural heritage institutions achieve their public interest mission by releasing their content through standard open licenses and tools, as well as offering training on their use, such as through the </span><a href="http://certificates.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Certificate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61312" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61312" style="width: 505px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="61312" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/26/cc-licenses-tools-share-and-preserve-cultural-heritage-in-the-face-of-climate-change/blue-mosque-by-konevi-cc0-via-pexels/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-scaled.jpg" data-orig-size="2560,1707" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="The Sultan Ahmed Mosque" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-image-61312" src="media/aaf38a22.22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-300x200.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-300x200.jpg" alt="The Sultan Ahmed Mosque" width="505" height="337" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-300x200.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-768x512.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-60x40.jpg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-50x33.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-232x155.jpg 232w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/22Blue-Mosque22-by-Konevi-CC0-via-Pexels-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 505px) 85vw, 505px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61312" class="wp-caption-text">The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, known as the &#8220;Blue Mosque&#8221; in Istanbul, Turkey is just one UNESCO World Heritage Site threatened by climate change. Image: &#8220;<a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/photography-of-brown-concrete-dome-building-2159549/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sultan Ahmed Mosque</a>&#8221; by Konevi (CC0).</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC licenses and tools, including </span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, are the easiest and simplest means to communicate to the public what uses can be made of the digital cultural heritage objects and to facilitate wide dissemination of culture. They are becoming the standard for GLAMs that are “opening up” their collections on the internet, helping overcome barriers erected by copyright law and enabling broad reuse.<strong>*</strong></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> For material in the public domain, CC offers the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PDM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which makes it easy for GLAMs to indicate to users the public domain status of the digital objects made available online. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>GLAMs are entrusted by the world’s population with a vast amount of humanity’s memory—digitizing that memory and using the right legal tools can and should be done.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In connection with the launch of the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/27/smithsonian-releases-2-8-million-images-data-into-the-public-domain-using-cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smithsonian Open Access</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> initiative in February 2020, CC recalled that GLAMs, as repositories of creative works worldwide, are entrusted by the world’s population with a vast amount of humanity’s memory. Therefore, digitizing that memory and using the right legal tools can and should be done. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has a solid background in supporting the creation, adoption, and implementation of open policies and projects with cultural heritage institutions, including the </span><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/digital-underground/2017/open-access-at-the-met" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MET</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://pro.europeana.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Europeana</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/about-us/policies-and-procedures/creative-commons-licences-tate"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tate</span></a>, the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/01/23/cleveland-museum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cleveland Museum of Art</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><a href="https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/collections/using-our-images" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Auckland Museum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2014/07/30/rijksmuseum-case-study-sharing-free-high-quality-images-without-restrictions-makes-good-things-happen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rijksmuseum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/08/state-of-commons-out-now/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikimedia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2010/02/05/the-brooklyn-museum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brooklyn Museum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will continue to explore how best to support GLAMs across the world as they open up their collections, helping them navigate the multiple layers of legal and policy issues with the aim of enabling universal access and participation in culture on the broadest terms possible. We will also keep on pushing for copyright policy change to ensure GLAMs can legally and freely preserve the cultural heritage in their collections, notably as a means to confront the risks posed by climate change. </span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>For guidance on implementing an open access policy or using CC’s legal tools including CC0, PDM, and our licenses for the preservation and sharing of cultural heritage, please contact us at <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">info@creativecommons.org</a>—we’re here to help.</strong></p>
<p><em><strong>*</strong>Creative Commons licenses (including CC0) should only be applied to digitized cultural heritage material by or with authorization of the copyright owner(s). Doing so ensures the public that both the underlying work and the digital surrogate (in which the digitizing institution may hold copyright) are free for reuse worldwide. CC licenses should only be applied to works under copyright, not to those whose term of protection has lapsed worldwide. The PDM should only be applied to very old works that are out of copyright and in the public domain worldwide. </em></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/26/cc-licenses-tools-share-and-preserve-cultural-heritage-in-the-face-of-climate-change/">Using CC Licenses and Tools to Share and Preserve Cultural Heritage in the Face of Climate Change</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


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title: Just One Giant Lab Co-Founder Leo Blondel on the Power of Community and Open Source During COVID-19
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thousands of strangers working together, almost entirely online, to effectively solve an urgent, global challenge is remarkable—and it’s happening, right now. Recently, we published a post titled, “</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/15/open-source-medical-hardware-what-you-should-know-and-what-you-can-do/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open-Source Medical Hardware: What You Should Know and What You Can Do</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” examining the collaborative efforts by volunteer groups, universities, and research centers to solve the medical supply shortage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic through open-source medical hardware. While researching that story, we stumbled on the work of <a href="https://jogl.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Just One Giant Lab</a> (</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">JOGL</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">). </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61341" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61341" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img data-attachment-id="61341" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/28/just-one-giant-lab-blondel-on-the-power-of-community-open-source-during-covid-19/leo-blondel/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel.jpg" data-orig-size="2048,2048" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-7M3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1562589567&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\u00a9 Thomas LANDRAIN&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}" data-image-title="Leo Blondel" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-300x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-1024x1024.jpg" class="wp-image-61341 size-medium" src="media/d73eee1a.Leo-Blondel-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-300x300.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-150x150.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-768x768.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-350x350.jpg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-155x155.jpg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Leo-Blondel.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61341" class="wp-caption-text">JOGL Co-Founder and CTO <a href="https://app.jogl.io/user/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Leo Blondel</a>. Image by Thomas Landrain (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY</a>).</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">JOGL is a research and innovation laboratory based in Paris, France that operates as an open and distributed mobilization platform for collaborative task solving. When the pandemic started, JOGL’s team recognized that their knowledge of community organizing and their open platform could help create and support many open-source projects. In response, they launched the </span><a href="https://app.jogl.io/program/opencovid19" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OpenCovid19 Initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which now includes over 4000 <span>healthcare workers, engineers, designers, scientists, technologists, and everyday citizens</span>. The vibrant, global community exchanges thousands of daily messages on hundreds of </span><a href="https://app.jogl.io/program/opencovid19#projects" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">projects</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> they hope will help save lives; from an open-source syringe to an algorithm that calculates the probability of infection. </span></p>
<p><strong>To get a better understanding of JOGL’s mission, its community, and open source work, we reached out to Co-Founder and CTO <a href="https://app.jogl.io/user/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Leo Blondel</a> via email.</strong></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length.</span></em></p>
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<p><b>Q: What’s Just One Giant Lab’s (JOGL) mission? </b></p>
<p><b>Blondel:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Our mission from the beginning has been to become the first full-fledged virtual laboratory where users can collaborate and innovate in order to solve problems and answer research questions—we want to be a central hub for open science and innovation. On the social side, we aim to help humanity fix its most urgent and important problems using open science, responsible innovation, and continuous learning. To that end, we partner with academic labs, companies, startups, foundations, NGOs, and public services to create participatory research programs for understanding and solving health, environmental, social, and humanitarian issues. On the technical side, we create and utilize a series of open-source applications to support the research and innovation activities generated by our users. To this aim, we have created </span><a href="https://app.jogl.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> where users can launch their projects and collaborate openly with others to solve pressing needs.</span></p>
<p><b>Q: What are some initiatives JOGL is working on in regards to the medical supply shortage? </b></p>
<p><b>Blondel:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Currently, multiple initiatives are being developed. We quickly identified that many factories, maker spaces, and citizens had a production capacity that could be put to use. Due to the beauty of open-source projects, the number of available prototypes was staggering—over 70 designs for open masks, for example. Therefore a project was created to review, test, and select the designs that were the most relevant, safe, compliant, and easily manufactured by a panel of medical experts. Armed with this idea, we created a partnership with the Paris Hospital Network (APHP) to organize a </span><a href="https://app.jogl.io/challenge/EvaluationValidation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">validation challenge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and identified four essential needs: face masks and face shields, syringe pumps, consumables for intubation, and ventilators. So far, the </span><a href="https://app.jogl.io/project/185" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open-Source Syringe Pump</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> project has been selected, and a team composed of medical doctors, engineers, and manufacturers are working to get the device refined with a foolproof user experience (UX) design and fail proof delivery system. Finally, a long-running </span><a href="https://app.jogl.io/project/184" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open-source respirator</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> project is currently in the testing phase to prove that the design is applicable in a medical setting.  </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61343" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61343" style="width: 590px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img data-attachment-id="61343" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/28/just-one-giant-lab-blondel-on-the-power-of-community-open-source-during-covid-19/a-screenshot-of-jogl-open-source-syringe-pump/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-screenshot-of-JOGL-Open-Source-Syringe-Pump.png" data-orig-size="2448,1180" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="A screenshot of JOGL Open Source Syringe Pump" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-screenshot-of-JOGL-Open-Source-Syringe-Pump-300x145.png" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-screenshot-of-JOGL-Open-Source-Syringe-Pump-1024x494.png" class="wp-image-61343" src="media/a711cf27.A-screenshot-of-JOGL-Open-Source-Syringe-Pump-300x145.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-screenshot-of-JOGL-Open-Source-Syringe-Pump-300x145.png" alt="" width="590" height="286" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-screenshot-of-JOGL-Open-Source-Syringe-Pump-300x145.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-screenshot-of-JOGL-Open-Source-Syringe-Pump-1024x494.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-screenshot-of-JOGL-Open-Source-Syringe-Pump-83x40.png 83w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-screenshot-of-JOGL-Open-Source-Syringe-Pump-50x24.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-screenshot-of-JOGL-Open-Source-Syringe-Pump-270x130.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 590px) 85vw, 590px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61343" class="wp-caption-text">An image of the <a href="https://app.jogl.io/project/185" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open-Source Low-Cost Syringe Pump</a> design adapted to hospital uses under development at JOGL.</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Q: How is JOGL working across its entire community to help fill the medical supply shortage? </b></p>
<p><b>Blondel: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">JOGL acts as the central hub that connects citizens, amateurs, medical doctors, researchers, and policymakers. By creating a central repository of knowledge where people can not only document, but also discuss, and collaborate on open research and innovation we accelerate what would normally require established professional networks. An example is the aforementioned Open-Source Syringe Pump project, where JOGL connected the knowhow of the medical doctors at the Paris Hospital Network to engineers in the United States and manufacturers in China. JOGL not only provides the technical tools necessary for this to happen, but also the coordination team necessary to establish relationships between humans and ideas. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are also creating and implementing a new open governance scheme so that communities can self organize more easily. For this, we are working with wonderful community members who specialize in management, sociocracy, holacracy, and other new and exciting forms of open governance. We hope that this beta test will help us establish new and clear guidelines and models to create better UX and user flows in order to fast track similar collaborations in the future.</span></p>
<p><b>Q: Have you been surprised at the willingness of your community to volunteer their time and resources to help with these initiatives? </b></p>
<figure id="attachment_61269" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61269" style="width: 419px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img data-attachment-id="61269" data-permalink="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/28/just-one-giant-lab-blondel-on-the-power-of-community-open-source-during-covid-19/jogl_team/" data-orig-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team.jpg" data-orig-size="2048,1366" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-7M3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1562589316&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\u00a9 Thomas LANDRAIN&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="JOGL_Team" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-300x200.jpg" data-large-file="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-1024x683.jpg" class="wp-image-61269" src="media/3a077ad3.JOGL_Team-300x200.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="419" height="279" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-300x200.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-768x512.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-60x40.jpg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-50x33.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-232x155.jpg 232w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JOGL_Team.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 419px) 85vw, 419px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61269" class="wp-caption-text">Members of the <a href="https://jogl.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">JOGL team</a>. Image by Thomas Landrain (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY</a>).</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Blondel: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">I was not surprised. From a historical perspective, times of crisis have more often than not created enormous solidarity movements. Most recently, Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico saw the regeneration of community links long lost. People flying back to help and thousands of people rebuilding infrastructure for free—a great read on this would be Naomi Klein’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Battle For Paradise</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. As an evolutionary biologist, I think that because we have evolved to be a social species and have empathy, it’s hard for us to stand inactive when we see misery. So I wasn’t surprised that people organized to help. Open communities are the foundational structure of JOGL, and we have always believed in their power to change the world. What did surprise us was the willingness of large institutions to trust initiatives like ours in a time of crisis and to try to establish partnerships with us to strengthen the community effort. We are now seeing a shift in how large actors are seeing open initiatives and I believe it’s for the best! </span></p>
<p><b>Q: What impact do you think the COVID-19 pandemic will have on open source and open science?</b></p>
<p><b>Blondel: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think that this pandemic happened at a time where open communities were “ripe.” What I mean by that is for a long time the open world was not very inclusive to the general public. However, thanks to, in part, the citizen science movement, there is general public enthusiasm for open research and innovation. It’s hard to predict the future, but I hope that big institutions like the World Health Organization (WHO) will start funding open science initiatives. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, the open science movement still needs to prove itself to the world. By nature, computer code lends itself to being openly accessible more easily; you really only need a computer to work on open-source coding projects. Science, on the other hand, is much harder because there is a lack of access, particularly in regards to physical access to laboratories and resources. The validation process can also serve as a barrier. Therefore, figuring out how to break down these barriers to scientific resources and increase the production of scientific work that is open access is something we are incentivized to work on right now—and something we will continue to work on for many years to come.</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>If you have a question regarding CC Licenses and how they apply to open-source hardware designs or other projects, please feel free to contact us at <a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org">info@creativecommons.org</a>.</strong></p>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/28/just-one-giant-lab-blondel-on-the-power-of-community-open-source-during-covid-19/">Just One Giant Lab Co-Founder Leo Blondel on the Power of Community and Open Source During COVID-19</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61358
title: Creative Commons Welcomes Our 2020 CC Certificate Scholarship Recipients!
uri: Creative-Commons-Welcomes-Our-2020-CC-Certificate-Scholarship-Recipien
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https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/29/creative-commons-welcomes-our-2020-cc-certificate-scholarship-recipients/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> aims to increase our global community’s expertise in open licensing and awareness of our shared, digital commons.  Our first goal is to train at least one person interested in open licensing in every country and territory, around the world. So far, we have CC Certificate graduates from 44 countries and counting!</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61371" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61371" style="width: 256px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61371" src="media/f71970d0.ns-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--300x300.jpg" alt="Portrait of CC Certificate Scholarship recipient Hildah Nyakwaka" width="256" height="256" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--300x300.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--150x150.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--768x768.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--350x350.jpg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--155x155.jpg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Faces-of-the-Commons-Hildah-Nyakwaka-by-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2.0--1200x1200.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 256px) 85vw, 256px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61371" class="wp-caption-text">CC Certificate Scholarship recipient, Hildah Nyakwaka from Kenya. Image by Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY 2.0</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One way to bring the CC Certificate to more people is through the Certificate scholarship program, which launched with 18 scholarships in 2019. I’m pleased to announce we’ve awarded 28 scholarships in 2020 to our CC Global Network members who are passionate about developing their open licensing expertise and contributing to our vibrant global community. </span></p>
<p><strong>While we prioritize offering scholarships to CC Global Network members, anyone is welcome to <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/">join the network</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong> (it’s free).</strong> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year, s</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">cholarship recipients hail from </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">26 countries: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Finland, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Rwanda, Slovenia, South Africa, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, and Venezuela.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Please welcome the following CC Certificate scholarship recipients!</strong><br />
Algeria: Hanae Lrhoul<br />
Argentina: Maximiliano Marzetti<br />
Australia: Prodip Roy<br />
Bangladesh: Mohammed Galib Hasan<br />
Benin: Adebayo Fawaz Ludovic Tairou<br />
Brazil: Chico Venancio<br />
Chile: Werner Westermann<br />
Finland: Susanna Ånäs<br />
Ghana: Felix Nartey<br />
India: Omshivaprakash Hodigere Lakshmeshvaradavaru<br />
India: Savithri Singh<br />
Indonesia: Dian Eka Indriani<br />
Kenya: Hildah Nyakwaka<br />
Mexico: Ken Bauer<br />
Nepal: Kshitiz Khanal<br />
Netherlands: Sebastiaan ter Burg<br />
Nigeria: Felix Olakulehin<br />
Portugal: Teresa Cardoso<br />
Rwanda: Boris Bahire Kabeja<br />
Slovenia: Maja Bogataj Jančič<br />
South Africa: Derek Moore<br />
South Africa: Kathryn Kure<br />
South Africa: Wynand van der Walt<br />
Taiwan: Rock Hung<br />
Tanzania: Hamis Juma<br />
Tunisia: Sami Mlouhi<br />
Uruguay: Ileana Silva<br />
Venezuela: Jose Luis Mendoza</p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>To learn more about these scholarship recipients or to register for an upcoming course, visit the <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Certificate website</a>!</strong></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/29/creative-commons-welcomes-our-2020-cc-certificate-scholarship-recipients/">Creative Commons Welcomes Our 2020 CC Certificate Scholarship Recipients!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61433
title: Welcome Our Interns from Google Summer of Code and Outreachy!
uri: Welcome-Our-Interns-from-Google-Summer-of-Code-and-Outreachy
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/11/welcome-interns-google-summer-of-code-and-outreachy/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re pleased to announce the selection of our mid-year 2020 interns from <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google Summer of Code</a> (GSoC) and <a href="https://www.outreachy.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Outreachy</a>! Both of these programs aim to support students and early career professionals as they venture into open source software development. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the next three months, these interns will work with members of the Creative Commons&#8217; team on projects that support our mission and community. We can’t wait to get started! </span></p>
<h3><b>Meet our interns!</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_61437" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61437" style="width: 188px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class="wp-image-61437" src="media/344a6dc4.dhruvi-300x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/dhruvi-300x300.jpeg" alt="" width="188" height="188" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/dhruvi-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/dhruvi-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/dhruvi-40x40.jpeg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/dhruvi-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/dhruvi-350x350.jpeg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/dhruvi-155x155.jpeg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/dhruvi.jpeg 400w" sizes="(max-width: 188px) 85vw, 188px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61437" class="wp-caption-text">Photo credit: Shraddha Agarwal</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Dhruvi Anand Butti (Outreachy)</b></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am Dhruvi, a third-year undergrad from IIIT Surat. I beautify things and even break them. I am very much into user experience as a concept and I would love to excel in that area. I have worked on JavaScript and it’s various frameworks, I am comfortable with various designing tools and I look forward to learning more on my journey. I love cooking, watching movies, trying, and reading about different cuisines.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dhruvi will work on converting CC’s websites to our new design system, </span><a href="https://cc-vocabulary.netlify.app/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vocabulary</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, starting with </span><a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Open Source</span></a>. S<span style="font-weight: 400;">ee the new designs <a href="https://www.figma.com/file/mttcugI1UxvCJRKE5sdpbO/Mockups?node-id=266%3A0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>. Dhruvi will be mentored by CC&#8217;s Web Developer Hugo Solar and previous GSoC intern </span>Dhruv Bhanushali. <span style="font-weight: 400;"></span>You can follow the progress of this project through the<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io-source" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub repo</a> and <span>#<span style="font-weight: 400;">cc-developers</span> channel on our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.github.io/community/">Slack community</a><span>.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61438" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61438" style="width: 183px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class="wp-image-61438 " src="media/96394f4e.ayan-251x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ayan-251x300.jpg" alt="" width="183" height="219" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ayan-251x300.jpg 251w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ayan-857x1024.jpg 857w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ayan-768x917.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ayan-33x40.jpg 33w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ayan-42x50.jpg 42w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ayan-130x155.jpg 130w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ayan.jpg 1120w" sizes="(max-width: 183px) 85vw, 183px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61438" class="wp-caption-text">Photo credit: Ayan Choudhary</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Ayan Choudhary (GSoC)</b></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hello, I am Ayan Choudhary, an electrical engineering undergrad at IIT Roorkee. I have been involved with coding quite heavily for the past couple of years which is one of my numerous hobbies. Some of the sectors which really fascinate me include network security, blockchain, and data science. Apart from this I love reading and painting and am quite interested in PC gaming and binge-watching online shows.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ayan will be working on adding internationalization to CC Search, which means the CC Search interface will be easily translatable and thus, available in multiple languages. Ayan will also work on improving accessibility for all users to CC Search. Ayan will be mentored by CC&#8217;s Front End Engineer Breno Ferreira and O<span>pen Source Community Coordinator</span> <span>Ari Madian</span>. </span>You can follow the progress of this project through the<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog-frontend" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub repo</a> and <span>#cc-search channel on our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.github.io/community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slack community</a><span>.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61444" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61444" style="width: 191px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class="wp-image-61444 " src="media/bec381ac.srinidhi-krishna-296x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/srinidhi-krishna-296x300.jpg" alt="" width="191" height="194" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/srinidhi-krishna-296x300.jpg 296w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/srinidhi-krishna-1009x1024.jpg 1009w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/srinidhi-krishna-768x779.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/srinidhi-krishna-1513x1536.jpg 1513w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/srinidhi-krishna-2018x2048.jpg 2018w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/srinidhi-krishna-39x40.jpg 39w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/srinidhi-krishna-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/srinidhi-krishna-153x155.jpg 153w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/srinidhi-krishna-1200x1218.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 191px) 85vw, 191px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61444" class="wp-caption-text">Photo credit: K S Srinidhi Krishna</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>K S Srinidhi Krishna (GSoC)</b></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am Srinidhi Krishna, a computer science undergraduate student from Govt Model Engineering College, in India. My field of interest is in data science and have experience working with data analytics and data quality checking on a small scale. I also have experience in writing automation scripts in Python. I spend my free time watching TV series and movies, and like listening to music. I&#8217;m also part of the university cricket team and love swimming.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Srinidhi will work on adding new sources to the CC Catalog, which in turn will make them show up in the CC Catalog API and CC Search. Sources are tracked <a href="https://github.com/orgs/creativecommons/projects/12" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>. He may also work on some infrastructural improvements to the CC Catalog, as well as add audio sources. Srinidhi will be mentored by CC&#8217;s Data Engineer Brent Moran and Director of Engineering Kriti Godey. </span>You can follow the progress of this project through the<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub repo</a> and <span>#<span style="font-weight: 400;">cc-dev-catalog</span> channel on our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.github.io/community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slack community</a><span>.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61440" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61440" style="width: 203px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class="wp-image-61440 size-medium" src="media/69a6941d.mayank-203x300.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/mayank-203x300.png" alt="" width="203" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/mayank-203x300.png 203w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/mayank-27x40.png 27w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/mayank-34x50.png 34w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/mayank-105x155.png 105w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/mayank.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 203px) 85vw, 203px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61440" class="wp-caption-text">Photo credit: Rohit Motwani (CC BY)</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Mayank Nader (GSoC)</b></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am Mayank Nader, a junior computer science student from India. Currently, my main area of interest is Python scripting, JavaScript development, backend, and API development. I have also recently grown interested in algorithms and data structures and have therefore started to do some competitive programming. apart from that, I like listening to music and watching movies, documentaries, and tv shows. I am very much inspired by open source and try to contribute whenever I can.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mayank is a returning GSoC intern from last year and will work on extending the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/01/06/cc-search-browser-extension/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Search browser extension</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to have even more features, including adding related images and image tags, and caching and organizing bookmarks better.  Additionally, he will be updating the extension UI to use CC’s design system, <a href="https://cc-vocabulary.netlify.app/">Vocabulary</a>, and extending the supported browsers to Microsoft Edge in addition to currently supported Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. Mayank will be mentored by CC&#8217;s Software Engineer Alden Page and Director of Engineering Kriti Godey. </span>You can follow the progress of this project through the<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/ccsearch-browser-extension" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub repo</a> and <span>#</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">cc-dev-browser-extension</span><span> channel on our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.github.io/community/">Slack community</a><span>.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61442" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61442" style="width: 199px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class="wp-image-61442" src="media/b4c4935d.charini.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/charini.jpg" alt="Charini Nanayakkara" width="199" height="199" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/charini.jpg 240w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/charini-150x150.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/charini-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/charini-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/charini-155x155.jpg 155w" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 85vw, 199px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61442" class="wp-caption-text">Photo credit: Charini Nanayakkara</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Charini Nanayakkara (GSoC)</b></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am a third-year Ph.D. student from the Australian National University</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where my research area of focus is record linkage. I experiment on novel algorithms that can improve the quality of linking records, whereas I extensively use Python and related data analytics libraries for algorithm implementation. Prior to starting my Ph.D. I was employed as a software engineer at the WSO2 Sri Lanka branch for two years where I did open source development in Java.  I have a first-class honors BSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) in Sri Lanka. Reading, playing the organ, and exploring Buddhism are few things I like to do in my free time. I recently resumed taking piano lessons after several years and started following a program customized for amateur runners.  I am excited to be part of GSoC 2020!</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Charini will work on adding new sources and making infrastructural improvements to the CC Catalog alongside Srinidhi. Charini will also be mentored by CC&#8217;s Data Engineer Brent Moran and Director of Engineering Kriti Godey. </span>You can follow the progress of this project through the<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub repo</a> and <span>#<span style="font-weight: 400;">cc-dev-catalog</span> channel on our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.github.io/community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slack community</a><span>.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61439" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61439" style="width: 197px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class="wp-image-61439 " src="media/0b9d30d7.subham-300x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-300x300.jpeg" alt="" width="197" height="197" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-40x40.jpeg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-50x50.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-350x350.jpeg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-155x155.jpeg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham-1200x1199.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/subham.jpeg 1622w" sizes="(max-width: 197px) 85vw, 197px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61439" class="wp-caption-text">Photo credit: Subham Sahu</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Subham Sahu (GSoC)</b></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am Subham Sahu, an undergraduate student at IIT Ropar. As an electrical engineering student, I am fortunate to have exposure to domains related to both circuits and programming and developed interests in both. I love problem-solving, and I am familiar with mobile app development in Flutter, and web development in  NodeJS and Django. I have worked on many projects which include pipeline enabled RISC V web simulator, a mobile application which automates the filling of bank forms efficiently and a twitter sentiment analysis model using deep learning. I am fond of discussions and love constructive debates on practically every topic.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Subham will be working to add more features to </span><a href="http://dataviz.creativecommons.engineering/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Linked Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/01/23/introducing-the-linked-commons/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">previous blog post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), including better ways to search for specific data, better metrics, and key takeaways, as well as general improvements to the user experience and code. Subham will be mentored by CC&#8217;s Data Engineer Brent Moran and previous GSoC intern Maria Belen Guaranda. </span>You can follow the progress of this project through the<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/cccatalog-dataviz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub repo</a> and <span>#<span style="font-weight: 400;">cc-dev-cc-catalog-viz</span></span><span> channel on our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.github.io/community/">Slack community</a><span>.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61441" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61441" style="width: 202px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class="wp-image-61441" src="media/77b66796.krystle-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/krystle-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="202" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/krystle-300x300.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/krystle-150x150.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/krystle-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/krystle-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/krystle-350x350.jpg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/krystle-155x155.jpg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/krystle.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 202px) 85vw, 202px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61441" class="wp-caption-text">Photo credit: Krystle Salazar</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>Krystle Salazar (Outreachy)</b></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am Krystle Salazar, a computer scientist and software developer from Venezuela. Mostly focused on web technologies, data modeling, and more recently on open-source software. I consider myself a curious person and avid learner, who wants to make a positive impact in the world. Apart from code, I like to watch anime, reading, chocolate, and dogs. I am happy to have this opportunity to work with CC and aim to share my learning of the process.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Krystle will work on modernizing CC’s </span><a href="https://labs.creativecommons.org/caselaw/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Legal Database</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with a new backend and integrating CC’s design system, <a href="https://cc-vocabulary.netlify.app/">Vocabulary</a>, on the frontend. This will improve workflow and user experience for both CC’s internal team and for the public. Krystle will be mentored by CC&#8217;s Director of Engineering Kriti Godey and Core Systems Manager <span>Timid Robot Zehta</span>. </span>You can follow the progress of this project through the<span> </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/caselaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub repo</a> and <span>#<span style="font-weight: 400;">cc-dev-legal-database</span> channel on our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.github.io/community/">Slack community</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/11/welcome-interns-google-summer-of-code-and-outreachy/">Welcome Our Interns from Google Summer of Code and Outreachy!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61466
title: An Update on the (Revisioned) CC Global Summit
uri: An-Update-on-the-(Revisioned)-CC-Global-Summit
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/13/an-update-on-the-revisioned-cc-global-summit/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week is bittersweet. Bitter because instead of welcoming you to the <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Global Summit</a> in Lisbon, I’m at my home in Toronto wishing we were together. Sweet because we have been given the opportunity to revision the CC Global Summit—to turn this annual, in-person gathering into something uniquely digital that will, hopefully, address the current needs of our community. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In March, after officially <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/05/important-cc-global-summit-update/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">canceling</a> the in-person CC Summit, we began this revisioning process by gathering insightful feedback from members of the <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Global Network</a> and working with the Program Committee. Committee members have proven invaluable during this process and we’re grateful for their hard work, vision, and flexibility. Although there are still many things we need to figure out, I’m excited to provide a brief update on what we have so far, and what we’re working on. </span></p>
<p><b>Here’s what we know so far</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The revisioned version of the CC Summit will be entirely online, free of cost, and held over a few days during September and/or October 2020. Based on feedback from the CC Global Network obtained via a short survey sent out in April, we will try our best to ensure the event features:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Programming in languages other than English</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Programming in a variety of time zones</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opportunities to meet in small interactive groups to work on projects and goals together</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some fun surprises!</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Here’s what’s coming up </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’ve already submitted a proposal, don’t worry. We’ll be in touch with you to confirm that you still have the capacity to engage with the CC Global Summit. If yes, we’ll then ask you to tell us what changes you’ll make to your proposal so that it’s more suitable for digital. <em>Check your email for the next steps! </em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, in June, we’ll launch a new call for proposals to reflect the dynamics of our world today, as well as the changing medium of the CC Global Summit. We’ll ask for proposals that are better suited for a digital environment, as well as encourage proposals that address issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the role of open licensing during times of crisis. This is something our team has been working on as part of the </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open COVID Pledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We’ll also welcome proposals that promote CC Global Network-specific issues and projects—we want to ensure this event remains globally-focused. </span></p>
<p><strong>Thank you again for your support throughout this process. Stay tuned for more updates! </strong></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61482
title: Grant for the Web’s Call for Proposals Is Open Now
uri: Grant-for-the-Web-s-Call-for-Proposals-Is-Open-Now
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/14/grant-for-the-webs-call-for-proposals-is-open-now/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve got great news for content creators and innovators interested in new ways of doing business online. <a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/">Grant for the Web</a>—the $100 million initiative by Coil, Creative Commons, and Mozilla (previously discussed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/09/16/grant-for-the-web/">here</a>) to fund projects that utilize and build upon the Web Monetization standard—has issued its <strong><a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/apply">first public call for proposals</a>.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/apply"><img class="alignright wp-image-56438" src="media/bc3e1b20.gftw-1.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1.png" alt="" width="460" height="259" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1.png 1606w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-300x169.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-768x432.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-71x40.png 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-270x152.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-1200x675.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 460px) 85vw, 460px" /></a>The <a href="https://webmonetization.org/">Web Monetization</a> ecosystem includes wallets, providers, and tools.  Grant for the Web was established to encourage, support, and promote ambitious projects that use and experiment with Web Monetization, and this CFP is a big step towards making the dream of better web business models a reality.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From Grant for the Web&#8217;s <a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/post/announcing-first-public-call-for-proposals">announcement</a>:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With $100 million to distribute globally over five years, Grant for the Web will seed an online monetization and payment ecosystem to challenge the web’s most urgent issues: loss of privacy, centralization of power, and inequalities in online participation. … No longer can earning revenue online be tied to proprietary platforms, companies that abuse our privacy, and 20th century revenue models. We&#8217;re ready to start building what&#8217;s next.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/apply"><img class=" wp-image-61483 alignright" src="media/7aba165d.applynow.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/applynow.png" alt="" width="373" height="210" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/applynow.png 1920w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/applynow-300x169.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/applynow-1024x576.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/applynow-768x432.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/applynow-1536x864.png 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/applynow-71x40.png 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/applynow-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/applynow-270x152.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/applynow-1200x675.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 373px) 85vw, 373px" /></a>There are two award tracks that applicants can submit their projects to: Creative Catalyst (content projects that use Web Monetization) and Foundational Technology (projects that innovate around the tech side of Web Monetization). A particularly exciting aspect of this CFP, as well as the entire Grant for the Web initiative, is that at least 50% of all grant dollars will go towards funding openly licensed projects.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The deadline for applications is Friday, June 12, 2020 at 12:00pm (PST). <span>The program team is providing <a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/post/community-support-for-call-for-proposals" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">support to the community</a> during the application period.</span> For all the information you’ll need in order to prepare your submission, visit Grant for the Web’s detailed </span><a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/apply"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Call for Proposals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> page.<br />
</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61491
title: Copyright Law Must Enable Museums to Fulfill Their Mission
uri: Copyright-Law-Must-Enable-Museums-to-Fulfill-Their-Mission
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/18/copyright-law-must-enable-museums-to-fulfill-their-mission/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today is </span><a href="http://imd.icom.museum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">International Museum Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and we at Creative Commons (CC) are thrilled to celebrate the institutions that curate, care for, and provide access to the world’s rich diversity of cultures, ideas, and forms of knowledge. This year’s theme, dedicated to the universal values of </span><a href="http://imd.icom.museum/international-museum-day-2019/museums-as-cultural-hubs-the-future-of-tradition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">equality, diversity, and inclusion</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, is a testament to museums’ ability to act as intercultural bridge-builders and powerful engines of social change.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61497" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61497" style="width: 293px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61497" src="media/bb94ff04.IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-296x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-296x300.jpg" alt="IMD Poster 2020" width="293" height="297" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-296x300.jpg 296w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-1012x1024.jpg 1012w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-768x777.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-1518x1536.jpg 1518w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-2024x2048.jpg 2024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-153x155.jpg 153w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMD2020-affiche-OK_ENG-Cropped-1200x1214.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 293px) 85vw, 293px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61497" class="wp-caption-text">International Museum Day 2020 <a href="http://imd.icom.museum/international-museum-day-2019/the-poster/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">poster designed</a> by the International Council of Museums.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we share these values and we’re glad to support museums in nurturing the cultural fabric of societies around the globe. We do that through our work on </span><a href="https://openglam.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">openGLAM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, where we help cultural institutions make the most out of the possibilities offered by </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC licenses and tools to share their collections</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of </span><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/janeatcc/cc-cultural-heritage" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">cultural heritage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> online as openly as possible. We’re also busy promoting the interests of museums in the copyright law and policy arena. Central to CC’s copyright policy agenda is making sure museums’ concerns and needs are treated on equal footing with those of copyright owners, in a balanced and fair manner. In this blog post, we focus on the importance of copyright limitations and exceptions (L&amp;Es) as the pillars on which museums can rest to fulfill their mission free of any undue legal encumbrances.</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><b>Limitations and exceptions (L&amp;Es)</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to copyright exist to ensure a fair balance between the rights of creators and the rights and legitimate interests of users and the general public. L&amp;Es allow uses without authorization from the copyright owner, most often without payment. In countries of common law tradition, they often take the form of “fair use” or “fair dealing,” and in countries of civil law tradition, L&amp;Es are usually circumscribed and precisely defined in the law.</span></p>
<h3><b>Museums’ invaluable mission: sharing their collection with the public</b></h3>
<p><a href="https://icom.museum/en/resources/standards-guidelines/museum-definition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museums</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> collect, preserve, research, interpret, exhibit, educate, and offer spaces for visitors (both on-site and online) to interact and participate in an incredible variety of histories, artifacts, and experiences. They are entrusted with the public interest mission of providing access to knowledge and culture, thereby contributing to economic, social, and cultural development. Together with galleries, libraries, and archives (known collectively as “</span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/GLAM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GLAMs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">”), many museums strive to take advantage of digital technologies to preserve and provide access to their collections for the benefit of present and future generations. For example, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/01/10/paris-musees-releases-100000-works-into-the-public-domain/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Paris Musées</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> recently released over 100,000 works in the public domain under Creative Commons Zero (</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CCØ</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), adding their name to the growing list of GLAMs that recognize the importance of open access to artistic and cultural artifacts. This is especially important to address the risks of loss and degradation presented by </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/26/cc-licenses-tools-share-and-preserve-cultural-heritage-in-the-face-of-climate-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">global challenges such as climate change</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_57162" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-57162" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-57162 size-medium" src="media/4071fc0d.29_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-300x176.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image_cardon_paul_dit_dornac_ou_paul_marsan_portrait_de_lecrivaine_libertaire_et_feministe_caroline_remy_dite_severine_1855-1929_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-300x176.jpg" alt="Portrait de l'écrivaine libertaire et féministe Caroline Rémy dite Séverine (1855-1929), sur son balcon." width="300" height="176" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image_cardon_paul_dit_dornac_ou_paul_marsan_portrait_de_lecrivaine_libertaire_et_feministe_caroline_remy_dite_severine_1855-1929_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-300x176.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image_cardon_paul_dit_dornac_ou_paul_marsan_portrait_de_lecrivaine_libertaire_et_feministe_caroline_remy_dite_severine_1855-1929_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-1024x599.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image_cardon_paul_dit_dornac_ou_paul_marsan_portrait_de_lecrivaine_libertaire_et_feministe_caroline_remy_dite_severine_1855-1929_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-768x450.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image_cardon_paul_dit_dornac_ou_paul_marsan_portrait_de_lecrivaine_libertaire_et_feministe_caroline_remy_dite_severine_1855-1929_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-1536x899.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image_cardon_paul_dit_dornac_ou_paul_marsan_portrait_de_lecrivaine_libertaire_et_feministe_caroline_remy_dite_severine_1855-1929_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-2048x1199.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image_cardon_paul_dit_dornac_ou_paul_marsan_portrait_de_lecrivaine_libertaire_et_feministe_caroline_remy_dite_severine_1855-1929_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-68x40.jpg 68w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image_cardon_paul_dit_dornac_ou_paul_marsan_portrait_de_lecrivaine_libertaire_et_feministe_caroline_remy_dite_severine_1855-1929_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-50x29.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image_cardon_paul_dit_dornac_ou_paul_marsan_portrait_de_lecrivaine_libertaire_et_feministe_caroline_remy_dite_severine_1855-1929_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-265x155.jpg 265w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/image_cardon_paul_dit_dornac_ou_paul_marsan_portrait_de_lecrivaine_libertaire_et_feministe_caroline_remy_dite_severine_1855-1929_sur_son_balcon_boulevard_montmatre._ph9047_649636-1200x702.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-57162" class="wp-caption-text">A portrait by Paul Cardon of French feminist journalist Caroline Rémy (1855-1929) in the public domain. Made available by the <a href="http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/portrait-de-l-ecrivaine-libertaire-et-feministe-caroline-remy-dite-severine" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Paris Musées</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For museums dedicated to cultural heritage, broadly disseminating online the world’s shared heritage is directly aligned with their public mission. Also key is the sharing with visitors and the general public of information and content—ranging from digital images to information about works, including bibliographical information and metadata. </span></p>
<h3><b>Copyright should not stand in the way of museums&#8217; basic functions</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alas, for museums on all continents, basic functions like making copies of works under copyright for preservation or making available online are hampered by a </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2016/03/article_0005.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">jumble of entangled copyright issues</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This is especially the case in the digital environment, where legal uncertainty is rife. One troubling gray area is the claiming of rights over slavish reproductions of works. On that point, CC adamantly asserts that digitized public domain works must </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/11/20/reproductions-of-public-domain-works/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">remain in the public domain</span></a>.<span style="font-weight: 400;"> The world over, outdated, and misaligned copyright rules fail to accommodate the legitimate activities of museums, exacerbate inequalities by curtailing efforts of museums to provide access to knowledge and culture, and carve a </span><a href="https://pro.europeana.eu/post/the-missing-decades-the-20th-century-black-hole-in-europeana" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">black hole</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> into our shared digital heritage. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Copyright should be limited where it serves a public interest. Stronger, clearer, and more effective limitations and exceptions are necessary to allow museums to fulfill their mission. </strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At CC, we firmly support the view that copyright laws should </span><a href="http://infojustice.org/archives/40935" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">not stand in the way</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of preservation and access to education, scientific and cultural works, as well as other legitimate, public-interest activities of museums. In fact, we believe that </span><a href="media/2632442e.for_Copyright_Limitations_and_Exceptions_-_Pamuela_Samuelson.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/Justications_for_Copyright_Limitations_and_Exceptions_-_Pamuela_Samuelson.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">copyright should be limited where it serves a public interest</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. That’s why we fully agree with the International Council of Museums (</span><a href="https://icom.museum/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ICOM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) that stronger, clearer, and more effective </span><a href="media/219648f5.ICOM_LEAC_note_01.pdf" data-original-source="http://network.icom.museum/fileadmin/user_upload/minisites/icom-europe/pdf/Copyright/ICOM_LEAC_note_01.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">L&amp;Es are necessary to allow museums to fulfill their mission</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Indeed, last month we signed the </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q2C5sKaDGcxZhm7Q6zdsexRF0iTEVlYETuuK7qFM_E4/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open letter</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> co-prepared by ICOM and others, calling on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to urgently create an international legal instrument with clear rules allowing the preservation of cultural heritage. </span></p>
<h3><b>A clear way forward for international law and policy on limitations and exceptions </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the European level, the 2019 Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (</span><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L0790" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CDSM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) contains several mandatory L&amp;Es aimed at supporting museums and facilitating the digitization and online sharing of cultural heritage. For example, article 6 provides an exception for the preservation of cultural heritage while article 14 states that faithful copies of works of visual art that are in the public domain must remain in the public domain. CC-sister organization </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is offering </span><a href="https://www.notion.so/Guidelines-for-the-Implementation-of-the-DSM-Directive-45233be9c0e143338860ae5a03118bf3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">guidelines</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and assistance in the </span><a href="https://www.communia-association.org/2020/05/05/communia-salon-copyright-dsm-directive-one-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">implementation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the CDSM. The EU Member States have until June 2021 to seize this unprecedented opportunity to recognize and support the pivotal roles of museums in society and write clear E&amp;Ls into their national copyright laws. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Internationally, there is currently no clear international framework providing for mandatory L&amp;Es for the benefit of museums. That means that countries are not obligated to have museum-friendly L&amp;Es in their national copyright law, and many, indeed, don’t. A 2015 WIPO </span><a href="media/639a6a77.museum_study.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/copyright/en/limitations/pdf/museum_study.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">study</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on copyright L&amp;Es for museums prepared by </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/27/what-scientists-should-know-about-open-access/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Lucie Guibault</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and Jean-François Canat shows that L&amp;Es vary greatly across jurisdictions. Less than a third of WIPO Member states provide specific L&amp;Es for museums, while two-thirds allow museums to rely on general L&amp;Es and/or licensing solutions. Specific exceptions include reproduction for preservation purposes, use of works in exhibition catalogs, the exhibition of works, use of orphan works; general exceptions comprise use for educational or private purposes. According to WIPO’s 2019 </span><a href="media/22192367.sccr_38_5.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_38/sccr_38_5.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Revised Report on Copyright Practices and Challenges of Museums</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, E&amp;Ls are not frequently well understood or used due to legal uncertainty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hence, it’s essential to create an international treaty that clearly enshrines the rights of museums to conduct their legitimate activities without the burden of having to abide by out-of-touch, impractical, and sometimes straight-out unfair copyright rules. We recently said on this blog that it’s high time to establish an expeditious </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/16/wipo-leadership-shake-up-global-copyright-policy-making/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">way forward on L&amp;Es</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> within the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (</span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/policy/en/sccr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SCCR</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), with a view to safeguarding the interests of museums and GLAMs in general. Building on the adoption of the 2013 </span><a href="http://www.wipo.int/dc2013/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Marrakesh Treaty</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on access to works for visually impaired people, the SCCR should now concentrate on creating clear and mandatory L&amp;Es for GLAMs. </span></p>
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title: Welcome Our Summer 2020 Policy Intern
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re pleased to announce that Alexis Muscat returns to Creative Commons (CC) as our Legal and Policy Intern this summer. Over the next 10 weeks, Alexis will work closely with our Open Policy Manager, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/brigittevezina/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brigitte Vézina</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on law and policy research projects that support our mission and community. We can’t wait to get started! </span></p>
<p><strong>Meet Alexis!</strong></p>
<figure id="attachment_61514" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61514" style="width: 238px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img class="size-medium wp-image-61514" src="media/9beba2a8.Alexis-Muscat-Photo-credit-Eric-McKelvie-238x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Alexis-Muscat-Photo-credit-Eric-McKelvie-238x300.jpg" alt="Headshot of Alexis Muscat" width="238" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Alexis-Muscat-Photo-credit-Eric-McKelvie-238x300.jpg 238w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Alexis-Muscat-Photo-credit-Eric-McKelvie-32x40.jpg 32w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Alexis-Muscat-Photo-credit-Eric-McKelvie-40x50.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Alexis-Muscat-Photo-credit-Eric-McKelvie-123x155.jpg 123w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Alexis-Muscat-Photo-credit-Eric-McKelvie.jpg 406w" sizes="(max-width: 238px) 85vw, 238px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61514" class="wp-caption-text">Photo credit: Eric McKelvie</figcaption></figure>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am entering the third and final year of my law (JD) degree at Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I have always been interested in the idea of storytelling. I have an honours BA in English Literature, and have worked in public relations and communications for a number of years prior to entering law school. My interest in intellectual property law, particularly copyright, comes from a desire to learn about how law and policy influence storytelling, sharing and communication. I love to read, take care of my house plants, watch movies, and hike.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">My research this summer will focus on the intersections between traditional cultural expression issues and Creative Commons licenses and tools. I will be looking at the policies and practices of cultural institutions with regard to online access, sharing and use of the traditional cultural expressions in their collections. I will also be considering the concept of the public domain in relation to rights and interests in traditional cultural expressions.</span></em></p>
<p><strong>Keep an eye on our blog to stay updated on Alexis’s research outcomes towards the end of July. </strong></p>
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title: Grant for the Web Announces Early Grantees
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/21/grant-for-the-web-announces-early-grantees/
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<p><a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/post/250000-in-funding-to-early-grantees"><img class=" wp-image-56438 alignnone" src="media/bc3e1b20.gftw-1.png" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1.png" alt="" width="538" height="303" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1.png 1606w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-300x169.png 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-768x432.png 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-71x40.png 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-50x28.png 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-270x152.png 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/gftw-1-1200x675.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 538px) 85vw, 538px" /></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/">Grant for the Web</a>, the $100 million fund for efforts that utilize and build upon the <a href="https://webmonetization.org/">Web Monetization</a> standard, today <strong><a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/post/250000-in-funding-to-early-grantees">announced $250,000 in funding</a></strong> for a small group of projects: <a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/post/free-music-archive">Free Music Archive</a>, <a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/post/coronavirus-tech-handbook">Coronavirus Tech Handbook</a>, <a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/post/dev">DEV</a>, and <a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/post/ambassadors-hj-chen-and-cris-beasley">Grant for the Web Ambassadors</a>. These &#8220;early grantees&#8221; represent the wide array of endeavors that this project is designed to support. From today&#8217;s announcement:</p>
<blockquote><p><span>From an urgent COVID-19 response project that monetizes collaborative documents for charitable relief to a hackathon offering developers a chance to learn about open standards in Web Monetization, to an artist exploring ways to generate revenue from her original work, these awardees demonstrate that there is a fierce appetite and enormous talent for exploring new ways &#8211; and motivations &#8211; to exchange money on the web using open standards.</span></p></blockquote>
<p>Creative Commons is proud to work alongside <a href="https://coil.com/">Coil</a>, <a href="https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/">Mozilla</a>, and <a href="https://loup.design/">Loup</a> on Grant for the Web, which is is working to &#8220;fund individuals, projects, and global communities that contribute to a privacy-centric, open, and accessible Web Monetization ecosystem.&#8221; We&#8217;re especially excited that Grant for the Web is committed to awarding at least 50% of all grant dollars to projects that will be openly licensed.</p>
<p>Grant for the Web&#8217;s <a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/apply">first open call for proposals</a> is open now through June 12, 2020 at 12:00pm (PST). <a href="https://www.grantfortheweb.org/post/announcing-first-public-call-for-proposals">Learn more</a> and consider applying.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61534
title: In Memory of Muid Latif
uri: In-Memory-of-Muid-Latif
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/22/in-memory-of-muid-latif/
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<figure style="width: 503px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="" src="media/262a2cde.Muid_Latif2C_Malaysia_Digital_Artist.jpg" data-original-source="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Muid_Latif%2C_Malaysia_Digital_Artist.jpg" alt="" width="503" height="378" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ml/8244215062">Muid Latif self portrait</a> (CC <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">BY-SA</a>)</figcaption></figure>
<p class="p1">We were incredibly saddened to learn recently that our friend and Creative Commons (CC) community member <a href="http://www.muidlatif.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Muid Latif</a> had passed away.</p>
<p class="p1">Muid was the Project Lead of <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/malaysia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Malaysia</a> and was an extremely talented <a href="https://www.behance.net/muidlatif" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">digital artist and designer</a> who released his work openly. He believed passionately in the ideals of the CC community—openness, access, and collaboration. He was especially interested in how open approaches to creation and distribution could benefit artists (and the world generally).</p>
<p class="p1">He was also an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B71UIAnFXfa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">awesome dancer (!)</a> and one of the warmest, funniest, and genuinely nicest people I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of meeting through my work at CC. I know many others feel this same way.</p>
<p class="p1">To celebrate Muid&#8217;s life and creative spirit, we&#8217;d like to share a couple of his beautiful works and encourage you to explore his portfolio on <a href="https://www.behance.net/muidlatif" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Behance</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/muidlatif" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/24760517/Melati"><img class="size-full wp-image-61538 alignleft" src="media/f70d40c5.muid1.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/muid1.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="424" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/muid1.jpg 600w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/muid1-300x212.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/muid1-57x40.jpg 57w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/muid1-50x35.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/muid1-219x155.jpg 219w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /></a></p>
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<p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7vJEqulkvZ/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">Repost: Spot how many Kijang coins in this artwork! Did you know that you can actually see the actual Kijang coin in @bnmmag Numismatics Gallery? Come and visit @bnmmag. We are open on Chinese New Year holiday. Gong Xi Fa Cai! <img src="media/7f02f528.2796.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/2796.png" alt="➖" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> Artwork Title: Festive Delicacy (CNY) Creative Direction: @yeenoreen  Illustration: @muidlatif  Year Produced: 2019 Year Published: 2020 <img src="media/7f02f528.2796.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/2796.png" alt="➖" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> #bnmmag #sasanakijang #Repost</a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61545
title: From Historic Images to Galactic Datasets: A Look at NASA’s Mission to Be Open
uri: From-Historic-Images-to-Galactic-Datasets-A-Look-at-NASA-s-Mission
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https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/25/from-historic-images-to-galactic-datasets-a-look-at-nasas-mission-to-be-open/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s July 20, 1969. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Along with 600 million people, nine-year-old Chris Hadfield is glued to his television—watching intently as American astronaut Neil Armstrong glides down the ladder of the Lunar Module, and in one swift pounce, touches the dust of a familiar yet alien world. His words forever immortalized, “That&#8217;s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61551" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61551" style="width: 296px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61551 size-medium" src="media/c818f568.0125022-MSFCNASA-Public-Domain-Saturn-Apollo-Program-296x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22690125022-MSFCNASA-Public-Domain-Saturn-Apollo-Program-296x300.jpg" alt="Boot print on the Moon's surface from the Apollo 11 mission." width="296" height="300" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22690125022-MSFCNASA-Public-Domain-Saturn-Apollo-Program-296x300.jpg 296w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22690125022-MSFCNASA-Public-Domain-Saturn-Apollo-Program-1011x1024.jpg 1011w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22690125022-MSFCNASA-Public-Domain-Saturn-Apollo-Program-768x778.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22690125022-MSFCNASA-Public-Domain-Saturn-Apollo-Program-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22690125022-MSFCNASA-Public-Domain-Saturn-Apollo-Program-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22690125022-MSFCNASA-Public-Domain-Saturn-Apollo-Program-153x155.jpg 153w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22690125022-MSFCNASA-Public-Domain-Saturn-Apollo-Program-1200x1215.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22690125022-MSFCNASA-Public-Domain-Saturn-Apollo-Program.jpg 1264w" sizes="(max-width: 296px) 85vw, 296px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61551" class="wp-caption-text">A close-up of an astronaut’s footprint in the lunar soil, photographed by a 70 mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 mission. <a href="https://images.nasa.gov/details-6901250" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This image</a> is in the public domain via NASA.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“To see that successfully carried out against what seemed like impossible odds for the first time in human history,” Hadfield </span><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/astronaut-hadfield-recalls-neil-armstrong-s-inspiration-1.1238309" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recalled</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2012, “was hugely inspiring.&#8221; That moment sparked his lifelong journey to become an astronaut; which </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">he did</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, becoming the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hadfield" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">first Canadian to walk in space</a> in 2001. In the 1990s, Haley Harrison first heard Armstrong’s words on an educational tape about space. “I was very young, probably 4 or 5 years old,” she recollected, “I just listened to the tape over and over. I would imagine myself on the shuttle…and I would pretend I was going up to space.” Harrison is now a <a href="https://twitter.com/__Stellaaaar" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ph.D. candidate studying nanoscience</a> at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with goals of working in the space industry.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>NASA is not only required by law (e.g. the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976) to give the public access to many of its materials, the Agency <i>really</i> wants people to use them.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Footage and audio of the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apollo 11</a> Commander Neil Armstrong and <span>lunar module pilot </span>Buzz Aldrin hopping on the Moon’s surface in 1969 have been remixed, remastered, and reshared countless times—inspiring generations of everyday citizens, like Hadfield and Harrison, to engage with space science and exploration. In fact, the use of materials created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create new works for the public doesn’t end with Armstrong’s history-making first steps. For example, Alex G. Orphanos, a science communicator, engineer, and host of the </span><a href="https://t.co/SotknDEM5Q?amp=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today in Space</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> podcast, has put NASA’s materials to use for over six years. In particular, he has used images from the </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hubble Space Telescope</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and information from </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/office/procurement/latest-contract-releases" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA Procurement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to better explain space-related issues to his audience. Rachael Eidson, a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">business development specialist for Trenton Systems and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/cosmicrachael" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">social media influencer</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> also routinely uses NASA’s images in her collaborations with eco-fashion and accessory companies. In fact, it’s hard to miss the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">resurgence of space-themed items, including t-shirts, mugs, bags, etc. featuring NASA’s “meatball” logo. As the L.A. Times </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-07-19/nasa-logo-shirts-swimsuits-everything" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">reported</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2019, “The NASA logo is having a moment.” </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61550" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61550" style="width: 448px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-61550" src="media/a9b27193.22Space-Moon22-NASA-via-Giphy-Public-Domain.gif" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Space-Moon22-NASA-via-Giphy-Public-Domain.gif" alt="Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin unfurl the American flag on the Moon's surface" width="448" height="252" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61550" class="wp-caption-text">Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin unfurl the American flag on the Moon&#8217;s surface on July 20, 1969. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/how-nasa-protects-astronauts-from-space-radiation-at-moon-mars-solar-cosmic-rays" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This animation</a> is in the public domain via NASA.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From documentaries to basketball shoes, works utilizing NASA’s materials are everywhere; and at some point, while browsing NASA-themed goods online or watching clips of launches on Youtube, you may have wondered why and how these materials are used so widely and freely. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Isn’t there some sort of intellectual property (IP) infringement going on?</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The short answer is, no. In fact, NASA is not only required by law to give you access to many of those materials, it actually </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">really</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> wants you to use them—here’s why.  </span></p>
<h3><b>NASA’s openness is intrinsically linked to its mission </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA’s commitment to sharing its work openly with the public has, arguably, been there since its creation in 1958. <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nasa-created" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NASA was </a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">established</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the midst of a galactic battle for scientific and innovation dominance between the Soviet Union and the United States (U.S.) during the Cold War. Within this context, the Agency’s <a href="https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/ch2.htm#32" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">primary function</a> was </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">civilian</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in nature, unlike the Advanced Research Projects Agency (later, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DARPA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) also created in 1958. Under the National Aeronautics and Space Act, NASA was tasked with encouraging “peaceful applications in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_science" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">space science</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” and “expanding the frontiers of knowledge, advancing the understanding of the universe, and serving the American public.” Of course, at the time, generating public interest in space exploration was necessary to “win” the Space Race. Space exploration, especially when publicly funded, only happens if people are interested and willing to dedicate resources. In fact, one of the reasons NASA stopped going to the Moon in the 1970s was waning public and political interest, which led to the Agency </span><a href="https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4012/vol4/ch1.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">drastically cutting</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> its programs and activities.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61555" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61555" style="width: 210px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61555" src="media/e904003d.22as17-134-2038622-NASA-1972-Public-Domain-300x287.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22as17-134-2038622-NASA-1972-Public-Domain-300x287.jpg" alt="Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, is photographed next to the deployed United States flag during lunar surface " width="210" height="201" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22as17-134-2038622-NASA-1972-Public-Domain-300x287.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22as17-134-2038622-NASA-1972-Public-Domain-1024x980.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22as17-134-2038622-NASA-1972-Public-Domain-768x735.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22as17-134-2038622-NASA-1972-Public-Domain-42x40.jpg 42w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22as17-134-2038622-NASA-1972-Public-Domain-50x48.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22as17-134-2038622-NASA-1972-Public-Domain-162x155.jpg 162w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22as17-134-2038622-NASA-1972-Public-Domain-1200x1148.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22as17-134-2038622-NASA-1972-Public-Domain.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 210px) 85vw, 210px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61555" class="wp-caption-text">Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan is photographed next to the U.S. flag in 1972—marking NASA&#8217;s final mission to the Moon. <a href="https://images.nasa.gov/details-as17-134-20386" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This image</a> is in the public domain via NASA.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Openness is therefore linked to the Agency’s mission, one that requires transparency to generate public support. “As a government agency, NASA wants to tell taxpayers what we’re doing with their money and why we think it’s important. We do that through everything from scientific papers to our social media feeds and NASA TV coverage of live events,” explained Brian Dunbar, internet services manager/COMIT task order manager at the NASA Office of Communications, over email. “That’s also true for researchers, as openly shared data is the best way to increase the amount of research for any mission.” </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Space exploration only happens if people are interested and willing to dedicate resources. Openness is therefore linked to the Agency’s mission, one that requires transparency to generate public support.</strong></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, we can’t ignore the very real and rather dry legal instruments that underpin this openness, particularly to NASA-produced images, research, and publications. Under the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. Copyright Act of 1976</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a work by the U.S. federal government is defined as “a work prepared by an officer or employee as part of that person’s official duties.” These works are generally not subject to domestic copyright protection under section 105 of the Copyright Act and are therefore released into the public domain. Therefore, the footage and audio captured during Apollo 11, or during any of NASA’s missions by NASA itself should, in theory, be released into the public domain. This also includes NASA-funded research.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To make matters complicated, it’s not always clear what works fall under section 105 of the Copyright Act. For example, if a government publication includes works that are developed by a third party contractor or grantee, then it may be subject to copyright. In addition, the U.S. government can still assert copyright in other countries. To help create clarity and open access to all public research, in particular, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued an </span><a href="media/4f85b3e0.ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf" data-original-source="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">executive order</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2013. This memorandum aimed to ensure that federally funded research would be made publically accessible within one year of publication. In response to the 2013 executive order, NASA created an agency-wide plan titled, “</span><a href="media/6f92e6c4.20150020926.pdf" data-original-source="https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20150020926.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA Plan for Increasing Access to the Results of Scientific Research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,” and a </span><a href="http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?t=NPD&amp;c=2230&amp;s=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">specific policy</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Ultimately, the plan served as a reaffirmation of NASA’s existing “open-access culture” by “promoting the full and open sharing of data with research communities, private industry, academia, and the general public…[including] data and publications for all of the scientific research that the Agency sponsors.” Over the last decade, NASA has also created several iterations of an “</span><a href="https://open.nasa.gov/open-gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Government Plan</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” to apply the principles of open government, including “participation, transparency, and openness.” </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61558" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61558" style="width: 330px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61558" src="media/11e5480f.LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved-240x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22EYi1LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved-240x300.jpg" alt="Rachael wearing a NASA-themed outfit." width="330" height="413" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22EYi1LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved-240x300.jpg 240w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22EYi1LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved-819x1024.jpg 819w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22EYi1LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved-768x960.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22EYi1LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22EYi1LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved-32x40.jpg 32w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22EYi1LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved-40x50.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22EYi1LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved-124x155.jpg 124w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22EYi1LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22EYi1LnuXQAwJ49e22-by-Rachael-Eidson.-All-Rights-Reserved.jpg 1439w" sizes="(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61558" class="wp-caption-text">Business Development Specialist and influencer Rachael Eidson wears space-themed outfits for her Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cosmicrachael/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@cosmicrachael</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In cases where a work is not clearly and/or automatically placed into the public domain, NASA often uses </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC licenses</span></a> or <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">public domain </a><span style="font-weight: 400;">tools to indicate the work is free to reuse. Of course, it’s preferred that the Agency utilize more open licenses, like  </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA</span></a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">rather than the more restrictive Non-Commercial (NC) or No Derivatives (ND) licenses to allow more opportunities for others to reuse, remix, or reshare their work. Other space agencies have also utilized CC licenses to share their work, including the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/21/esa-oa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">European Space Agency</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which published its open access policy in 2017 and opted for CC BY-SA. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As far as NASA’s logos and insignia are concerned (e.g. the “meatball” logo), those fall under a complex mix of trademark law and regulations. As a government entity, NASA doesn’t license out their logos or receive profit from merchandise, but they do have strong usage restrictions and clear guidelines when it comes to </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/Merchandising_Guidelines.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">merchandising</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">media</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Therefore, users must submit their designs to the Multimedia Division of NASA&#8217;s Office of Communications for approval. </span></p>
<h3><b>For citizen scientists, researchers, and innovators, NASA is an invaluable resource</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A core theory of the open movement is that the ability to access, remix, and share creative works and knowledge leads to further innovation, discovery, and creativity. NASA’s work has routinely proven that theory correct. The Agency actively makes its research, data, and content more accessible through a variety of </span><a href="https://earthdata.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">data platforms</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://software.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">software catalogs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/solve/opportunities/citizenscience/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">citizen science programs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. These include the </span><a href="https://www.sti.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scientific and Technical Information Program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> site and the </span><a href="https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20050189209" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA Technical Report Server</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, as well as </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/open/researchaccess/nasa-data-portal" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA’s Data Portal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/open/researchaccess/pubspace" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PubSpace</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which house results from NASA’s scientific research and published papers. For coders and developers, NASA has several repositories at </span><a href="https://open.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open NASA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://api.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">{NASA APIs}</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; and for creatives, </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA HQ Photo on Flickr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><a href="https://images.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA Image and Video Library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Planetary Photojournal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earth Observatory</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are great resources for openly licensed content.  </span></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Using publicly accessible data </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>from NASA’s Kepler telescope, citizen scientists and university students recently discovered a new planet “roughly twice the size of Earth.”</strong> </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These efforts by NASA have led to important breakthroughs and collaborations in unexpected places. For instance, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">using publicly accessible data </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">from NASA’s Kepler telescope, citizen scientists and university students recently <a href="https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1543/citizen-scientists-find-new-world-with-nasa-telescope/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">discovered a new planet</a> “roughly twice the size of Earth.” In fact, many students studying space science and technology use NASA’s resources for their work, routinely tapping into their publicly shared and easily accessible research papers, patents, and archived presentations. Harrison, for instance, said she has NASA to thank for a portion of her dissertation topic on </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/aerogel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">aerogels</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Also known as “frozen smoke,” these lightweight, synthetic, and porous materials have a density close to that of air, and thanks to work by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1990s, aerogels are now used in space exploration. To achieve the required low density, explained Harrison, “aerogels are delicately dried using a special process that involves a supercritical dryer.” Unable to get access to this unique piece of equipment at her university, she was granted access to one at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, “It would have been impossible for me to do this work without their help!”</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61560" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61560" style="width: 514px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-61560" src="media/2a99b084.he-Hubble-20th-Anniversary-Team-STScI-Public-Domain--300x232.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Carina-Nebulas-Mystic-Mountain22-NASA-ESA-M.-Livio-and-the-Hubble-20th-Anniversary-Team-STScI-Public-Domain--300x232.jpg" alt="Carina Nebula's 'Mystic Mountain'" width="514" height="397" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Carina-Nebulas-Mystic-Mountain22-NASA-ESA-M.-Livio-and-the-Hubble-20th-Anniversary-Team-STScI-Public-Domain--300x232.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Carina-Nebulas-Mystic-Mountain22-NASA-ESA-M.-Livio-and-the-Hubble-20th-Anniversary-Team-STScI-Public-Domain--1024x791.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Carina-Nebulas-Mystic-Mountain22-NASA-ESA-M.-Livio-and-the-Hubble-20th-Anniversary-Team-STScI-Public-Domain--768x593.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Carina-Nebulas-Mystic-Mountain22-NASA-ESA-M.-Livio-and-the-Hubble-20th-Anniversary-Team-STScI-Public-Domain--52x40.jpg 52w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Carina-Nebulas-Mystic-Mountain22-NASA-ESA-M.-Livio-and-the-Hubble-20th-Anniversary-Team-STScI-Public-Domain--50x39.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Carina-Nebulas-Mystic-Mountain22-NASA-ESA-M.-Livio-and-the-Hubble-20th-Anniversary-Team-STScI-Public-Domain--201x155.jpg 201w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Carina-Nebulas-Mystic-Mountain22-NASA-ESA-M.-Livio-and-the-Hubble-20th-Anniversary-Team-STScI-Public-Domain-.jpg 1041w" sizes="(max-width: 514px) 85vw, 514px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61560" class="wp-caption-text">Carina Nebula&#8217;s &#8216;Mystic Mountain,&#8217; imaged by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope in 2010, is one of the most viewed images in NASA&#8217;s library. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/carina-nebulas-mystic-mountain" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This image</a> is in the public domain via NASA, ESA, M. Livio, and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STSc).</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, Dunbar was eager to point out </span><a href="https://technology.nasa.gov/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA’s Technology Transfer Program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, which is designed to “put NASA technology into wider use” through its patent licensing program. “NASA is well-known for </span><a href="https://spinoff.nasa.gov/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">spinoffs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: commercial products that use technology created or further developed by or for NASA,” he explained. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think memory foam and emergency blankets, but not Tang or Velcro.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> More recently, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) signed onto the </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/2020/05/06/nasa-jpl-supports-the-open-covid-pledge-makes-respirator-designs-freely-available/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open COVID Pledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and released the </span><a href="https://github.com/nasa-jpl/COVID-19-respirators"><span style="font-weight: 400;">designs for three respirators</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> so they can be used by anyone, anywhere.</span></p>
<h3><b>Does NASA prove the power of</b> <b>open? </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a critical moment for NASA. In just a few days, the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/specials/dm2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Demo-2 mission</a> (a.k.a. “Launch America”) is set to mark the </span><a href="https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/05/02/nasa-and-spacex-preview-historic-spacex-demo-2-mission/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">first time</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> NASA will launch astronauts to the ISS from American soil since 2011. In just a few years, NASA also plans to return to the Moon through the </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Artemis program</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and eventually, venture further to Mars. A “new era of human spaceflight” is coming and not since the 1960s has NASA needed and sought after such political and public support. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA is well aware that by opening access to its activities and research it promotes its mission and work, but Orphanos argues the Agency’s openness is also vital for space exploration and science more generally. “NASA still holds a unique position of respect and brand to people as a resource,” he explained. Therefore, it helps dismantle disinformation or misinformation about space and space-related endeavors. Harrison agreed, “Many people still believe the moon landing was fake&#8230;We live in a world where it is easier to read and share stories from Facebook than it is to access historical footage and dynamic scientific data that is easy for our community at large to understand.” That’s why, she emphasized, it’s the job of those active in the sciences to openly and clearly share information with the public. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61565" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61565" style="width: 670px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-61565" src="media/55df0a0c.photo.jpgresize1500_-300x137.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/photo.jpgresize1500_-300x137.jpeg" alt="Senior Project Manager for Space Crop Production explains plans for food in outer space" width="670" height="306" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/photo.jpgresize1500_-300x137.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/photo.jpgresize1500_-1024x467.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/photo.jpgresize1500_-768x350.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/photo.jpgresize1500_-88x40.jpeg 88w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/photo.jpgresize1500_-50x23.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/photo.jpgresize1500_-270x123.jpeg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/photo.jpgresize1500_-1200x547.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/photo.jpgresize1500_.jpeg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61565" class="wp-caption-text">Ralph Fritsche, senior project manager for Space Crop Production at NASA, explains the future of food in deep space during a NASA Social tour. <a href="https://planetarynomad.exposure.co/the-space-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">This image</a> is licensed CC BY via Victoria Heath.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s also no secret that space is becoming more commercialized, evident in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and thus more competitive, crowded, and to some, exclusive. “I once heard someone say, ‘Space belongs to the rich,’” Eidson explained, “It made me cringe a bit because I could see the truth in it.” This points to an increasingly important result of unfettered access to resources from publicly funded space agencies: it helps maintain the original ethos expressed in the 1967 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Outer Space Treaty</span></a>—that <span style="font-weight: 400;">space belongs to everyone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Without public access to space science and activities, we risk making outer space the province of only the privileged. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">More than it already is.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We risk discouraging everyday citizens to look towards the cosmos with curiosity, hope, and pride. Ultimately, we risk never inspiring individuals like Chris Hadfield to become astronauts or Haley Harrison to become students of space science. “Knowing that humans had achieved such a feat, to walk on the Moon, was a huge source of inspiration for me,” she expressed, “I learned very young that the sky was not a limit and there was endless potential beyond what my eyes could see.” </span>Boiled down to its simplest essence, the power of “open” lies in its ability to create a better world through sharing. In the past, NASA has routinely illustrated this power—the hope is that it continues to do so.</p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>This post is one in a series exploring openness “in the wild&#8221; to understand the tangible outcomes of implementing open policies and practices. So far, we&#8217;ve written about open access to scientific research (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/19/now-is-the-time-for-open-access-policies-heres-why/">here</a> and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/27/what-scientists-should-know-about-open-access/">here</a>) and open-source medical hardware during the COVID-19 pandemic (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/15/open-source-medical-hardware-what-you-should-know-and-what-you-can-do/">here</a>); and interviewed the President of The Hewlett Foundation to understand how they&#8217;ve implemented an open licensing requirement for grantees (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/23/open-access-in-practice-larry-kramer-hewlett-foundation/">here</a>). More to come!</strong></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/25/from-historic-images-to-galactic-datasets-a-look-at-nasas-mission-to-be-open/">From Historic Images to Galactic Datasets: A Look at NASA’s Mission to Be Open</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61606
title: CC Search Celebrates Its First Birthday!
uri: CC-Search-Celebrates-Its-First-Birthday
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/29/cc-search-celebrates-its-first-birthday/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the end of April, <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Search</a> officially celebrated its first birthday! After releasing the search tool last year on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/04/30/cc-search-images/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">April 30</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we eagerly watched as it was put to use. Now, with a year behind us and over 2.8 million users across 230 countries and territories, we’re gathering and examining search data to better understand what content our users value and how we can serve them better. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Here&#8217;s a look at the top 25 queries this past year:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">dog(s)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">cat(s)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">music</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">amphibian(s)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">book(s)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">flower(s)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">food</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">frog</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">car</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">computer</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">school</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">football</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">beach</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">nature</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">people</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">basketball</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">money</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">video</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">art</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">tree</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">space</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">soccer</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">animals</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fish</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fortnite</span></li>
</ol>
<p><b>Animal lovers and nature buffs</b></p>
<figure id="attachment_61607" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61607" style="width: 348px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61607 " src="media/6dc2c3d7.22WOW-Nature-THe-World-of-Web22-TheWOWClub-CC0-300x223.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22WOW-Nature-THe-World-of-Web22-TheWOWClub-CC0-300x223.jpg" alt="Butterfly in nature" width="348" height="259" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22WOW-Nature-THe-World-of-Web22-TheWOWClub-CC0-300x223.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22WOW-Nature-THe-World-of-Web22-TheWOWClub-CC0-54x40.jpg 54w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22WOW-Nature-THe-World-of-Web22-TheWOWClub-CC0-50x37.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22WOW-Nature-THe-World-of-Web22-TheWOWClub-CC0-209x155.jpg 209w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22WOW-Nature-THe-World-of-Web22-TheWOWClub-CC0.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 348px) 85vw, 348px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61607" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/95899585@N04/32169486910" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WOW Nature &#8211; The World Of Web</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/95899585@N04" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TheWOWClub</a> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/CC0/1.0/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC0 1.0</a>. This image was found via <a href="https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/f7ff36eb-78af-410b-baad-0f8f04667e1b" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Search</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The top two search queries were <em>dog</em> and <em>cat;</em> users were 25% more likely to look for a photo of a dog than a cat. (We found this surprising since the internet was obviously invented for cats&#8230;) Other popular queries in the animal family included <em>amphibian(s)</em>, <em>frog</em>, <em>fish</em>, and <em>animals</em> more generally. In fact, perusing the <a href="https://search.creativecommons.org/collections/animaldiversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Animal Diversity Web collection</a> is a great way to get an at-home natural science lesson! Coming in sixth place were searches for <em>flowers</em>, with <em>beach</em>, <em>nature</em>, <em>tree</em>, and <em>space</em> on the list as well. Since we&#8217;re all traveling less and staying closer to home, how about living vicariously through imagery on CC Search! Imagine observing <a href="https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/f7ff36eb-78af-410b-baad-0f8f04667e1b" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this beautiful butterfly</a> while out for a hike in nature!</p>
<p><b>Music, books, and videos</b></p>
<p>With dogs and cats winning gold and silver, you might be wondering what query won bronze? Well, it was <em>music</em>! This is a strong indicator that our community of educational and creative users is ready for CC Search to provide audio content—and we’re happy to share that we’re working on it! However, this is no small undertaking, so the update won’t be available until later this year. In the interim, we are building a bridge to CC-licensed audio directly within the CC Search interface that will be available in the next few months. (Can’t wait that long? The <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Free Music Archive</a> is a good alternative!)</p>
<p>We also saw plenty of users looking for <em>books</em> and <em>videos</em>. Once we provide support for audio search, we’ll move forward with plans to serve up more types of media you can confidently reuse. Until then, we recommend visiting <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gutenberg</a> for downloadable versions of books in the public domain, or <a href="https://librivox.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LibriVox</a> if you’d like to be read to instead.</p>
<p><b>We serve educators</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lucky number eleven on the list is none other than the query <em>school</em></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>. </strong>We were not surprised to see that school was a top search query, given that one-third of our users identify as “educators,” and one quarter as “students.” Recently, a CC Search user, who is a professor at a North American university, told us, “As an educator, I value and am grateful for the free and open exchange of creative efforts and materials, which I believe helps to empower all persons in furthering their education.&#8221; We’re glad to be of service, professor!</span></p>
<p><b>People, sports, and dancing bananas</b></p>
<p>Turns out us humans like each other too! Our fifteenth most common search query was none other than <em>people</em>, and we also served up a lot of results for some popular sports, like <em>football</em>, <em>basketball</em>, and <em>soccer</em>. Coming in at number twenty-five is <em>Fortnite</em>, and these days, that’s considered an athletic endeavor. If we can’t go outside to play sports together, at least the internet can bring us closer together to look at sports, write about sports, and play electronic sports. (At the very least, we can <a href="https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/4d912206-938f-4c2a-8640-fee0ef273fcf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">floss</a> six feet apart!)</p>
<figure id="attachment_61610" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61610" style="width: 403px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61610" src="media/5e1a3ed4.22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0-300x169.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0-300x169.jpeg" alt="Banana Fortnite" width="403" height="227" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0-71x40.jpeg 71w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0-50x28.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0-270x152.jpeg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0-1200x675.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/22Banana-Fortnite22-by-Jesus-Dorado-CC-BY-4.0.jpeg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 403px) 85vw, 403px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61610" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/01e6998b904c4136b9626aa7cd115d97" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Banana Fortnite</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://sketchfab.com/chuchodorado416" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jesús Dorado</a> is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY 4.0</a>. This image was found via <a href="https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/4d912206-938f-4c2a-8640-fee0ef273fcf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Search</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking for more CC-licensed 3D models and animations? Check out </span><a href="https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/sketchfab-launches-public-domain-dedication-for-3d-cultural-heritage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sketchfab</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!</span></p>
<p><b>Galleries and museums</b></p>
<p>Coming in the nineteenth place is <em>art</em>. For us, that’s great news! Since the beginning, artistic collections have been a major focus of CC Search, from <a href="https://search.creativecommons.org/collections/met" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a> to the <a href="https://search.creativecommons.org/collections/clevelandmuseum" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cleveland Museum of Art</a>! In the coming weeks, we’ll unveil the addition of some stellar collections from major cultural heritage institutions. Until then, take a look at the <a href="https://search.creativecommons.org/collections" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">museum collections</a> we’ve already made discoverable.</p>
<p><b>Food, cars, computers, and money</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This last batch of queries makes us think that <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Search</a> is often used for daydreaming. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Who doesn’t want a delicious meal, a fast car, a good computer, and piles of money?</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> With this in mind, we’re challenging you to find us one picture on CC Search that features </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">all four </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">queries (<em>food</em>,<em> car</em>,<em> computer</em>, and <em>money</em>) and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">tag us on Twitter </span><a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@creativecommons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with your result. We expect at least one image of someone ordering drive-thru in a Tesla!</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>This next year of <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Search</a> is going to be a big one, and we can&#8217;t wait to share some of the exciting updates we&#8217;re working on! Be sure to follow the <a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Open Source website</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/cc_opensource" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@cc_opensource</a> for regular updates. You can also help fund CC Search by becoming a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/donate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC supporter</a>. Thank you! </strong></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/29/cc-search-celebrates-its-first-birthday/">CC Search Celebrates Its First Birthday!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61653
title: Leveraging OER for COVID-19 Response Efforts and Long-Term International Partnerships
uri: Leveraging-OER-for-COVID-19-Response-Efforts-and-Long-Term-Internation
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/01/leveraging-oer-for-covid-19-response-efforts-and-long-term-international-partnerships/

content:
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This post was written in collaboration with</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jangondol/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jan Gondol</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebbaossiannilsson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ebba Ossiannilsson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/karolinaszczepaniak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Karolina Szczepaniak</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencerellis03/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spencer Ellis</span></a>.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Currently, we face both a swell of support for open educational resources (OER) and devastating upheaval of our traditional education systems. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, </span><b>over 1.5 billion youth are out of school</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, countless teachers and parents are pivoting to online teaching and education systems face immense financial strain. While OER is not a magic cure for the current education crisis, there are opportunities to work with open education efforts to build </span><b>greater resiliency within our learning ecosystems</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and also support cross-national partnerships. </span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><em><strong>Open educational resources</strong> <strong>(OER)</strong> are teaching, learning, and research materials that are either (a) in the public domain or (b) <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">licensed</a> in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the <a href="https://opencontent.org/definition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">5R activities</a>. OER is one facet of open education, or efforts to make education more affordable, accessible, and effective—providing unfettered access to learning to as many people as possible. Open education involves open practices, open policies, and open educational resources.</em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we have a </span><b>stronger need </b><b><i>and</i></b><b> established international frameworks to use OER to fuel our education efforts and collective commitments</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This pandemic highlights the effects closing access to information and communication has on communities; conversely, it demonstrates how essential open practices (e.g. free sharing of information, unfettered access to education materials, etc.) are to our collective human security.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Examples of leveraging OER in COVID-19 response efforts</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">OER offers a more agile solution to our contemporary times of flux. </span>OER enables educators to adapt learning resources to meet the needs of the growing populations of online learners<span style="font-weight: 400;">, whether those needs are for translation into first languages, accessibility, or lower cost. </span></p>
<h5><strong>So how does one leverage OER in COVID-19 response efforts? Below is a list of examples.</strong></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most examples can be initiated but not fully realized in the short term. Rather, they set the framework for realizing more resilient education practices in the future. </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exemplifying the benefit of open educational practices, Slovakia’s most recent </span><a href="https://www.opengovpartnership.org/es/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Government Partnership</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (OGP) commitments include </span>mapping the available open educational resources in the Slovak language. When schools closed with the COVID-19 quarantine, the OGP Slovakia team promptly released a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/splnomocnenec-vl%C3%A1dy-sr-pre-rozvoj-ob%C4%8Dianskej-spolo%C4%8Dnosti/otvoren%C3%A9-vzdel%C3%A1vacie-zdroje-ako-n%C3%A1stroj-podpory-vzdel%C3%A1vania-%C5%BEiakov-a-%C5%A1tudentov-p/4254160794609856/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">work-in-progress version</a> of the resources overview through social media, which became the most popular of its Facebook posts, ever. Teachers and parents found it very helpful to immediately access, adapt, and reuse the resources freely, and the impact may last well beyond the current crisis.</li>
</ul>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><strong>Open Government Partnership </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>(OGP)</strong> is an international organization of government leaders and civil society advocates united to promote more transparent, accountable, and responsive governance and services for citizens. The OGP includes 78 National governments (representing 2 billion people) and additional local governments working closely with thousands of civil society organizations. Together, OGP governments and civil society members co-create two-year action plans with concrete commitments addressing a broad range of issues, which enables civil society organizations to help shape and oversee government work.</span></em></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Poland rapidly transitioned 24,000 schools with 600,000 teachers and 4.8 million students to a distance learning model, NGOs were able to strengthen teaching efforts with open educational resources, immediately. While previously underused among teachers, the Polish Ministry of National Education’s </span><a href="https://epodreczniki.pl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Education Platform for e-textbooks</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (an OER) became an important, well-used resource, because it was available immediately and without restrictions. Lessons on the Web (</span><a href="https://lekcjewsieci.pl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lekcje w sieci</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), a web service, created over 200 OER lesson scenarios in three weeks for all levels of education. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.wikimedia.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikimedia Deutschland</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and</span><a href="https://edu-sharing-network.org/?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">edu-sharing.net</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> launched</span><a href="http://www.wirlernenonline.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Wir lernen online</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (we learn online), in April. The open education platform strengthens digital infrastructure to support schools in digital home teaching and organizers welcome collaboration with stakeholders in the education sector. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Norwegian government, UNESCO, UNHCR, multiple private and non-profit organizations established a collaboration supporting translation efforts of open-licensed children’s reading books (OER) into new languages. The project is called </span><a href="https://translateastory.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Translate a Story</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and aims to help children continue reading, during, and after this pandemic.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">International frameworks supporting OER</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Numerous countries have recognized the powerful intersection between OER and open government efforts. In the last 10 years, many countries such as Chile, Greece, and Romania have leveraged OER efforts to address OGP goals of transparency, accountability, public participation, and inclusion in their education systems, fiscal accountability, and improvement of public services. Read how nine OGP commitments are supporting OGP’s goals through open educational resources </span><a href="https://sparcopen.org/our-work/opengoveducation/countries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The 2019 </span><a href="https://www.opengovpartnership.org/campaigns/global-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OGP Global Report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> states that at the end of 2018, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">there have been at least 160 education commitments (page six of the </span><a href="media/c59ef22c.Global-Report_Education-.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.opengovpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Global-Report_Education-.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Education section</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">)</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The Education section also highlights cases made for OER (page 23), which include: potential prohibitive costs of traditional materials, the ability to keep open-source materials updated, and higher student performance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to open government work, national governments, international and local organizations recognize the potential of OER—and the opportunity to partner under international frameworks that support open education goals. In November 2019, UNESCO unanimously passed the </span><a href="http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=49556&amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;URL_SECTION=201.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Recommendation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to advance the </span><a href="https://en.unesco.org/news/new-unesco-recommendation-will-promote-access-educational-resources-all" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">construction of open, inclusive, and participatory knowledge societies</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and established a </span><a href="https://en.unesco.org/themes/building-knowledge-societies/oer/dynamic-coalition" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dynamic Coalition</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of government, civil society, and private sector experts connected to support the recommendations. The OER Recommendation dovetails with </span><a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SDG4</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> efforts, emphasizing that open education can support “inclusive and equitable quality education” and “lifelong learning opportunities for all.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">National government counterparts currently seek partnerships and open projects to help actualize SDG4 aims, the OER Recommendation actions, and OGP commitments. Now is the ideal time to leverage OER efforts to meet SDG, UNESCO OER Recommendation, and OGP goals at the same time. It is also time to build more resilience into education systems, in response to COVID-19.</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get involved</span></h3>
<p><b>OER is often linked to networks of open education enthusiasts, passionate about sharing educational resources</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open education networks have provided outreach for teachers, parents, students, and advocates—offering “how-to” webinars, supports for emotional wellbeing, and lists of open resources. View </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_education&amp;section=24#Open_Education_Community_response" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">this</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Wikipedia article section collecting just a few of the resources and responses.  And join the Creative Commons </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-platform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open education listserv or Slack community </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">or discuss opportunities for engagement in open education efforts.</span></p>
<p><span><img src="media/86b59589.1f44b.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f44b.png" alt="👋" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> </span><a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>Stop the spread of COVID-19 by<span> </span></b><b>taking</b><b> these steps</b><b><span> </span>outlined by the WHO, including washing your hands for at least 20 seconds and social distancing.</b></a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61670
title: Our Community is Reducing the Impact of COVID-19 on Science, Education, and Culture
uri: Our-Community-is-Reducing-the-Impact-of-COVID-19-on-Science-Education
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/04/our-community-is-reducing-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-science-education-and-culture/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">COVID-19 has changed many things about how we all learn, work, and play. In fact, it has drastically changed how we lead our lives. But in these exceptionally distressing times, one thing that hasn’t changed is the dynamism and resilience of the Creative Commons (CC) community. In this blog post, we’re thrilled to share some of the work that the amazing individuals and organizations that are part of the </span><a href="http://network.creativecommons.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have been up to, upholding CC’s values and pursuing our goals </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/creative-commons-response-to-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">in the face of COVID-19</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over the past months, we’ve talked on the Creative Commons blog about the effect of the pandemic on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/19/now-is-the-time-for-open-access-policies-heres-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">science</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/03/31/education-in-times-of-crisis-and-beyond-maximizing-copyright-flexibilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">education</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and asserted how important it is to share knowledge and culture as openly as possible, now more than ever. We also launched the </span><a href="https://opencovidpledge.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open COVID Pledge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a groundbreaking initiative founded on the idea that relevant scientific resources and intellectual property owned or developed in relation to COVID-19 should be made freely available to anyone in the world to use and build upon to end the pandemic.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61672" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61672" style="width: 334px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class=" wp-image-61672" src="media/63f02860.33962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-300x166.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2233962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-300x166.jpg" alt="CC community at CC Global Summit 2020" width="334" height="185" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2233962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-300x166.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2233962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-1024x566.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2233962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-768x424.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2233962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-1536x848.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2233962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-2048x1131.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2233962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-72x40.jpg 72w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2233962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-50x28.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2233962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-270x149.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2233962822768_a6f5d169b8_o22-Sebastiaan-ter-Burg-CC-BY-1200x663.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 334px) 85vw, 334px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61672" class="wp-caption-text">Credit: &#8220;33962822768_a6f5d169b8_o&#8221; Sebastiaan ter Burg (CC BY)</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Members of the CC community launched remarkable initiatives across the globe to support open education, open science and open GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). From New Zealand to Poland, from Brazil to the Netherlands and Italy, all over the world they have been leading inspiring actions to ensure the public interest continues to be promoted and protected in the midst of this global crisis.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We asked our community members to share what they were doing so we could contribute to Wikipedia’s effort to document the impact of the pandemic on different aspects of everyone’s lives and the measures taken to mitigate that impact. </span></p>
<p><strong>You can read about the activities carried out in the field of:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Impact_of_the_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_on_education&amp;oldid=951374801#Distance_learning" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Education</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; for example, several initiatives were taken to facilitate access for students and teachers to openly licensed educational resources, and many organizations helped clarify how to navigate copyright rules related to teaching and learning activities (especially online) under such exceptional circumstances. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_science_and_technology&amp;oldid=954912624" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Science</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; for example, we shared different projects that highlight how open access to scientific research resources is key to quickly finding a cure for the disease. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_the_arts_and_cultural_heritage#Copyright" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Culture</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; for example, some of our network members carried online training workshops and </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/copyright-open-access-for-glams-in-the-age-of-covid-3a35e67f7a1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">webinars</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for cultural heritage professionals to learn about relevant risks and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_exceptions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">exceptions to copyright</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> when providing online services. Other organizations, e.g. in Australia, organized </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_the_arts_and_cultural_heritage#cite_note-371" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fact sheets</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to provide libraries and archives with basic guidance on how to deal with copyright challenges. </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Truth be told, the global health emergency triggered by the spread of COVID-19 brought into stark relief the belief that Creative Commons has been holding all along: by openly sharing knowledge and culture, we can better support scientists, researchers, teachers, students, cultural institutions, and society at large. The crisis also magnified the power of CC’s thriving community members, who continue to spin on a dime and quickly and directly support practitioners on the ground.</span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>Interested in joining or supporting the CC Global Network? <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Learn more here.</a> To support our work more generally, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/donate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">please donate here</a>. </strong></p>
<p><span><img src="media/86b59589.1f44b.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f44b.png" alt="👋" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> </span><a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>Stop the spread of COVID-19 by<span> </span></b><b>taking</b><b> these steps</b><b><span> </span>outlined by the WHO, including washing your hands for at least 20 seconds and social distancing.</b></a></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61692
title: A Statement of Solidarity and Work to Be Done
uri: A-Statement-of-Solidarity-and-Work-to-Be-Done
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/05/a-statement-of-solidarity-and-work-to-be-done/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons offers solidarity and joins the millions around the world who are mourning the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Ahmaud Arbery, and others. We recognize that they are the latest victims of systemic racism and institutionalized violence not only in the United States but globally, prompting anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests in over 30 countries; from Australia to Mexico to Turkey. CC stands with those grieving and protesting against these injustices against Black people, and with those fighting for justice, representation, and equality around the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our community continually challenges us to be more critical of the social, political, legal, and economic systems in which we work. At last year’s CC Global Summit, open community members Adele Vrana and Siko Bouterse encouraged us to ask, “</span><a href="https://whoseknowledge.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whose Knowledge?</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” This simple yet important question challenged us to face the persistent injustices and inequalities that have infected the internet since its creation, leading to some voices being raised and others being silenced. Of course, this digital world is a reflection—and sometimes a magnification—of our physical world, and the issues and barriers people regularly encounter online often mirror their realities offline. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a leader in the open internet and open access movement, we recognize our responsibility to counter discrimination and racism within ourselves, our organization, our global network, and the communities in which we participate. We must do more to lend our allyship and resources to help end the centuries of injustice that have led to the murder and oppression of Black, Indigenous, and people of color across the globe.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61697
title: The CC License Suite 4.0 and CC0 Are Now Available in Slovenian!
uri: The-CC-License-Suite-4-0-and-CC0-Are-Now-Available-in-Slovenian
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/08/the-cc-license-suite-4-0-and-cc0-are-now-available-in-slovenian/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are very excited to announce the publication of the official translations of the CC License Suite 4.0 and CC0 into Slovenian. These legal code translations are the products of years of painstaking work by a team of volunteers at the Intellectual Property Institute in Slovenia, led by Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič. The first drafts were finished in November 2018, and the public comment period for the translations was held in April 2019. Once the substance of the translations was finalized, the team then worked closely with the internal team at CC to perfect the HTML versions of the translations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During this time, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Matija Šuklje translated all of </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the deeds associated with these legal tools. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We want to give a special thanks to Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, Saša Krajnc, and Tilen Zonta for their persistence and patience throughout this lengthy process. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can see the translations here:</span></p>
<p><strong>Version 4.0:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.sl"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.sl</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.sl"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.sl</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.sl"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.sl</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.sl"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.sl</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.sl"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.sl</span></a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode.sl"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode.sl</span></a></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>CC0</strong>: </span> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.sl"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.sl</span></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61710
title: Sharing Openly Licensed Content on Social Media: A Conversation with GLAM
uri: Sharing-Openly-Licensed-Content-on-Social-Media-A-Conversation-with-G
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/15/sharing-openly-licensed-content-on-social-media/
content:
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The following is a summary of “</span></i><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/glam-collections-on-social-media-navigating-copyright-questions-7a4065332f39" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">GLAM Collections on Social Media: Navigating Copyright Questions—a conversation with Aleksandra Strzelichowska, Mikka Gee Conway and Anne Young</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">” published on 31 May 2020 by Scann (licensed CC BY). </span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How often do you debate whether to share an openly licensed work on social media? If you do share a work, how often do you fret over whether you&#8217;ve provided proper attribution? </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ll answer first: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">All the time!</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sharing openly licensed works (e.g. images, GIFs, videos, etc.) on social platforms can feel like a fraught space to venture into—and as we’ve learned over the last few years, this is especially true for GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums). To answer some of the recurring questions these institutions have about sharing openly licensed works on their social media platforms, including works from their own collections, the copyright community at </span><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Europeana</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://openglam.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the Special Interest Group on Intellectual Property at the </span><a href="https://mcn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museum Computer Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> organized a digital panel featuring Aleksandra Strzelichowska (Senior Online Marketing Specialist at Europeana Foundation), Mikka Gee Conway (General Counsel, the Getty Museum), and Anne Young (Director of Legal Affairs and Intellectual Property at Newfields) on 30 April 2020. </span></p>
<p>In this post, I briefly summarize a few notes from this discussion to help inform your decisions on <i>what</i> and <i>how</i> to share on social media.</p>
<h3><b>Copyright policies and guidance for sharing on social media accounts</b></h3>
<p><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Europeana</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> follows a four-page </span><a href="https://pro.europeana.eu/post/recommendations-about-sharing-content-online-for-professionals" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">document</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that includes clear guidelines for sharing content online. Essentially, the organization only shares media that is deemed “freely re-usable,” which means it’s in the public domain (e.g. through </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) or licensed </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. If a piece of content has a “no reuse statement” then Europeana will seek individual permissions from the copyright holder—but that’s a rare occurrence. The </span><a href="https://www.getty.edu/museum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Getty Museum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s general policy is to only share copyrighted content if Getty holds the copyright license or if it can make a strong “fair use” case. Otherwise, Getty tends to focus on sharing material found in the public domain. Finally, </span><a href="https://discovernewfields.org/newfields-at-home?mc_cid=040df22316&amp;mc_eid=1ee0a9d1d6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Newfields</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> follows a similar policy as Getty. In particular, it focuses on seeking permission for reusing works from donors, affiliated artists, and/or estates. </span></p>
<h3><b>Policies in practice: Attribution on social media</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_61743" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61743" style="width: 359px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61743" src="media/78d13041.CCs-Twitter-Screenshot-231x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CCs-Twitter-Screenshot-231x300.jpg" alt="" width="359" height="467" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CCs-Twitter-Screenshot-231x300.jpg 231w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CCs-Twitter-Screenshot-787x1024.jpg 787w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CCs-Twitter-Screenshot-768x1000.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CCs-Twitter-Screenshot-1180x1536.jpg 1180w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CCs-Twitter-Screenshot-31x40.jpg 31w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CCs-Twitter-Screenshot-38x50.jpg 38w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CCs-Twitter-Screenshot-119x155.jpg 119w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CCs-Twitter-Screenshot.jpg 1194w" sizes="(max-width: 359px) 85vw, 359px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61743" class="wp-caption-text">An example from Creative Commons on giving attribution for a GIF with a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC-ND</a> license on Twitter. See the full <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1271072384951484417" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">example here</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Due to the nature of social media platforms, including the limited character counts, it can be difficult to provide detailed attribution for shared media. However, it’s important to make a concerted effort, particularly if the content being shared is done so under a “fair use” claim. On Twitter, for example, the best practice is to utilize the “reply” function to provide detailed attribution when necessary. On Instagram, it’s more difficult to provide proper attribution since there is no linking function in the description of posts, therefore it may be best to stick with content that is in the public domain or that the organization holds the copyrights to. To overcome this issue, Europeana created </span><a href="https://linkin.bio/europeana_eu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a landing page</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that is linked to in its biography description on Instagram. This page houses all of the images the organization posts on its </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/europeana_eu/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram account</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, providing source and attribution information. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For editorial pieces, like blog posts, that are housed on a website and then shared through social media, it’s important to provide attribution for openly licensed works in the body of that post. For example, the caption of an image can contain the attribution information and/or it can be added to the image’s metadata. If the image is in the public domain, it’s best practice to also identify </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">provenance</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">—where the work is stewarded</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">—this includes listing the GLAM the image was sourced from. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">For more guidance, check out </span></i><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Guidelines" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">this page</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p>
<h3><b>CC licenses and terms of service: What about NC-licensed content?</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This can be a sticky issue for GLAM institutions, complicated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service#:~:text=Terms%20of%20service%20(also%20known,to%20use%20the%20offered%20service." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">terms of service</a> for each individual social media platform. Some assume that if a social media platform’s terms require or indicate that a user gives the platform the license to use their content for commercial purposes (like marketing) then the spirit of the <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/NonCommercial_interpretation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NonCommercial</a> (NC) license is violated. Thus, the conservative approach is to avoid posting NC-licensed content. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, there is some basis for thinking otherwise. CC Legal Counsel Sarah Pearson explained that CC licenses don’t allow sub-licensing so uploaders are not granting the platform any rights directly to content that isn’t theirs under copyright. Most social media terms of service require that a user either a) owns the copyright to their posted content or b) has the right to use that content. When that’s the case, openly licensed content is appropriate to share on the social media platform as long as the license requirements are followed by the uploader. As for NC-licensed content specifically, so long as the uploader is sharing the content for noncommercial purposes, the NC restriction is likely more of an issue for the platform, if at all, to the extent the platform must rely on the NC license. </span></p>
<h3>The important role of digital asset management systems</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many organizations, especially GLAM institutions, have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_asset_management" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">digital asset management systems</a> (DAMS) that contain object metadata, including rights information, that everyone within the organization has access to. At Getty, for example, the DAMS is directly supported by a Rights and Reproduction team member that is responsible for entering objects into the system and ensuring the rights information for each object is included. Their system also includes separate folders that specify what an object can be used for, whether it’s for a blog post or a social media post. In some cases, objects are approved for use on the website or for distribution by the media but not for social media platforms, so the DAMS is crucial for ensuring those objects are not used improperly. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Newfields, which also has a DAMS, and Getty offer training to team members on how to use the system since the metadata can be complicated to read and interpret. This is particularly true when other, non-copyright issues come up for a particular object, such as privacy and/or publicity considerations. Since Europeana aggregates data, its process is more straightforward. Put simply, if the object is on the website then it should be OK to use for any purpose by the marketing and communications team.  </span></p>
<h3><b>Guidelines and strategies on how users can reuse shared content</b></h3>
<figure id="attachment_61711" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61711" style="width: 449px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61711" src="media/93762a93.e-Gabriel-Rossetti-via-Birmingham-Museums-Trust-CC0-300x191.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/22La-Donna-Della-Finestra-188122-by-Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-via-Birmingham-Museums-Trust-CC0-300x191.jpeg" alt="La Donna Della Finestra" width="449" height="286" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/22La-Donna-Della-Finestra-188122-by-Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-via-Birmingham-Museums-Trust-CC0-300x191.jpeg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/22La-Donna-Della-Finestra-188122-by-Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-via-Birmingham-Museums-Trust-CC0-1024x652.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/22La-Donna-Della-Finestra-188122-by-Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-via-Birmingham-Museums-Trust-CC0-768x489.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/22La-Donna-Della-Finestra-188122-by-Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-via-Birmingham-Museums-Trust-CC0-63x40.jpeg 63w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/22La-Donna-Della-Finestra-188122-by-Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-via-Birmingham-Museums-Trust-CC0-50x32.jpeg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/22La-Donna-Della-Finestra-188122-by-Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-via-Birmingham-Museums-Trust-CC0-244x155.jpeg 244w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/22La-Donna-Della-Finestra-188122-by-Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-via-Birmingham-Museums-Trust-CC0-1200x764.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/22La-Donna-Della-Finestra-188122-by-Dante-Gabriel-Rossetti-via-Birmingham-Museums-Trust-CC0.jpeg 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 449px) 85vw, 449px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61711" class="wp-caption-text">Image credit: <a href="http://dams.birminghammuseums.org.uk/asset-bank/action/viewAsset?id=6859" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">La Donna Della Finestra</a>, 1881 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti via Birmingham Museums Trust (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC0</a>). The featured version of this image has icons by <a href="https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=chat&amp;i=3392511" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Samsul Rizzai</a>, <a href="https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=smile&amp;i=70971" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Austin Condiff</a>, <a href="https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=like%20button&amp;i=901800" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Maxim Kulikov</a>, and <a href="https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=heart%20button&amp;i=1884524" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kendedes</a> licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY</a> via the Noun Project.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Europeana has been educating users on reusing its content through engagement initiatives. For example, during the annual </span><a href="https://gifitup.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GIF IT UP!</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> contest, it routinely educates people on open licensing and attribution requirements. If someone submits a GIF based on a work that is not openly licensed, they receive an email explaining why their submission wasn’t accepted and are given instructions on what they can do to rectify the situation. At Getty, following the launch of its open content program in 2013, the organization published a clear set of terms of use and provided additional educational resources on its website. Today, it’s looking at dedicating many of its open content to the public domain using CC0 so that there’s less confusion for users. </span></p>
<h3><b>Open access in the age of COVID-19</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The panelists agreed that due to the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">COVID-19 pandemic</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a <a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/copyright-open-access-for-glams-in-the-age-of-covid-3a35e67f7a1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">conversation around copyright</a> has emerged that feels especially urgent as it’s tied to this moment—specifically regarding what GLAMs </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">should</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">shouldn’t</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> do. In some cases, boundaries are definitely being pushed. However, the panelists urged institutions to take a more cautious and measured approach when embarking on new digital projects and initiatives. “I definitely feel that it’s important to be measured about all this, and think about what it is exactly about our changed situation that might merit pushing boundaries of copyright?,” Mikka argued. “That is absolutely true,” Anne replied, “&#8230;at the end of the day, while there might be pushing some boundaries we still need to proceed cautiously because the laws [themselves] haven’t changed.”</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">P.s. I highly recommend </span></i><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/glam-collections-on-social-media-navigating-copyright-questions-7a4065332f39" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">reading the full conversation</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for more insights and examples from Europeana, Getty, and Newfields—and bookmarking it for future reference! </span></i></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>Our friends over at <a href="https://openglam.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open GLAM</a> want to hear from you! How do you attribute openly licensed works on social media? What challenges are you facing in this area? What training or education are you looking for? Let them know by sending an <a href="mailto:info@openglam.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a>, tweeting at <a href="https://twitter.com/openglam" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenGlam</a>, or joining their <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-ooRioOKMgLJo5s9IB-kDmmq5ZXUsiAPGRBzMMJ6KM/edit#" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">monthly calls</a>!  </strong></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/15/sharing-openly-licensed-content-on-social-media/">Sharing Openly Licensed Content on Social Media: A Conversation with GLAM</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


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title: German Public Broadcaster ZDF Releases Dozens of Videos Under CC Licenses
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In theory, publishing publicly funded television content under open licenses should be a no-brainer. As with publicly funded research, open licenses improve distribution, allow for remix creativity, and unlock access to popular free knowledge platforms such as Wikipedia. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In practice, however, advocates of open licenses in the realm of public-service media face several hurdles, such as:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Standard licensing procedures in the world of public-service media do not include open licensing options and are typically limited in time and in scope.</strong> </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Therefore, releasing material under an open license requires renewed rights clearing efforts with all right holders involved to reflect the conditions set out in open licenses—given the often high number of creators and right holders involved in video content production, this is a difficult, time-consuming, and costly task.</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Standard remuneration rules can make open licensing unattractive for creators.</strong> </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One common provision, for example, requires public service broadcasters to pay repeated fees any time material is broadcast. With an open license, there are usually no required payments. As a result, remuneration schemes have to be changed to avoid or mitigate the loss of income for creators.</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>European Union competition law prohibits state subsidies that may distort competition.</strong> </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Usually, free and open licenses don&#8217;t pose a problem in terms of competition law as long as no special advantage for an individual market actor is associated with using an open license. Generally, public broadcasters act with great caution when it comes to competition rules and many have concerns regarding licensing arrangements that could potentially set off competition issues.</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>There are fears of information manipulation.</strong> </span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In light of recent debates on disinformation and &#8220;fake news&#8221;, public-service media fear that the content they release might be deceivingly and fraudulently manipulated so as to misrepresent facts. </span>While Creative Commons licenses generally permit the creation of derivative works or <a href="https://creativecommons.org/faq/#when-is-my-use-considered-an-adaptation"><span>adaptations</span></a><span> (unless the licensor chooses to release content under a NoDerivatives license) and </span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution"><span>attribution</span></a><span> is a requirement for all CC licenses as is a link back to the original so users can see any changes made, they do not govern defamation, disinformation or fabrication of information, which are violations dealt with outside the scope of copyright. Still, there is a reticence in public media television to openly publish content due to such threats despite the aforementioned safeguards within the CC licenses.  </span></p>
<h3>German public broadcaster ZDF chooses open licensing</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Given these hurdles, the recent initiative by the German national public-service television broadcaster ZDF (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZDF"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen&#8221;, literally translated as &#8220;Second German Television&#8221;</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) and its documentary series </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Terra X</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is remarkable. After a test run with five CC-licensed videos on issues related to climate change in the fall of 2019, the ZDF just launched</span><a href="https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/terra-x-creative-commons-cc-100.html"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">a platform with 50 explainer videos</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and promised to add three additional videos each week. All videos are licensed under either CC BY or CC BY-SA, making them compatible with the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia (see the</span><a href="https://presseportal.zdf.de/pressemitteilung/mitteilung/zdf-terra-x-stellt-kurzclips-unter-creative-commons-lizenz-zur-freien-nutzung/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">ZDF press release</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, in German). </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61761" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61761" style="width: 579px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-61761" src="media/4b780f2e.Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-300x130.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-300x130.jpg" alt="" width="579" height="251" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-300x130.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-1024x443.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-768x332.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-1536x665.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-2048x886.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-92x40.jpg 92w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-50x22.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-270x117.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Screenshot-of-TerraX-Website-1200x519.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 579px) 85vw, 579px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61761" class="wp-caption-text">A screenshot of the &#8220;Terra X&#8221; webpage featuring a catalog of CC-BY and CC-BY-SA explainer videos. <a href="https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/terra-x-creative-commons-cc-100.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Access the videos here.</a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The videos on climate change published in 2019</span><a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2019/terra-x-redaktion-zu-freien-lizenzen-oeffentlich-rechtlicher-bildungsauftrag/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">soon found their way into prominent Wikipedia articles</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, such as this one on</span><a href="media/925874c5.DateiDie_Temperaturkurve_der_Erde_ZDF_Terra_X_720p_HD_50FPS.webm" data-original-source="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Die_Temperaturkurve_der_Erde_(ZDF,_Terra_X)_720p_HD_50FPS.webm"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">climate change</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, leading to hundreds of thousands of views. This illustrates how important the posting of content on Wikipedia, which requires the use of a CC BY or CC BY-SA license, is for public service-media, as it can considerably increase the size of the audience and the media’s reach. Earlier experiments by public broadcasters with open licenses had used restrictive license modules such as the Non-Commercial (NC) or NoDerivatives (ND) CC licenses, which reached a very limited audience.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With </span><a href="https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/terra-x/terra-x-creative-commons-cc-100.html"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Terra X</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> leading the way, it will be interesting to see how the &#8220;first&#8221; German public-service television broadcaster</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARD_(broadcaster)"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">ARD</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will respond. Hopefully, we will see productive competition between these two public-service broadcasters that will ultimately increase the amount of content available under open licenses produced by public-service media for the benefit of users in Germany and across the world.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">This blog post was written by </span></i><a href="http://dobusch.net"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leonhard Dobusch</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a </span></i><a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/iol/organisation/team/leonhard-dobusch/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Professor of Organization at the University of Innsbruck</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Austria and a member of the supervisory council of the ZDF “Fernsehrat”, representing the societal interests of the internet. He blogs about his work at </span></i><a href="https://netzpolitik.org/neues-aus-dem-fernsehrat/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">netzpolitik.org</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (in German only).</span></i></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/16/german-public-broadcaster-zdf-releases-dozens-of-videos-under-cc-licenses/">German Public Broadcaster ZDF Releases Dozens of Videos Under CC Licenses</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61779
title: The CC Global Summit Is Going Virtual—See Our Latest Call for Proposals!
uri: The-CC-Global-Summit-Is-Going-Virtual-See-Our-Latest-Call-for-Propos
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/23/cc-global-summit-is-going-virtual-call-for-proposals/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s official, the </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2020 CC Global Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, to be held 19-24 October 2020, will be entirely online and free of cost! After consulting with our community, we’ve also decided to hold the event in a variety of timezones and include programming in five languages: Arabic, English, French, Mandarin, and Spanish. By doing so, we hope this virtual version of the CC Global Summit will provide the open community with an intimate and localized space to gather and connect.</span></p>
<h3><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/2020-call-for-proposals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>Send us your proposals!</b></a><b>  </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class=" wp-image-61784 alignright" src="media/ff1061d7.C-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-300x180.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="390" height="234" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-300x180.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-768x460.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-1536x920.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-2048x1226.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-67x40.jpg 67w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-50x30.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-259x155.jpg 259w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CC-Global-Summit-Update-Feature-scaled-e1592852349243-1200x718.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 390px) 85vw, 390px" />After revising the CC Global Summit, we’ve decided to once again open our </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/2020-call-for-proposals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Call for Proposals</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CFP) to better reflect the dynamics of our world today, including proposals that address issues regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the global movement against racial injustice. This CFP also welcomes proposals that take into account the changing medium of the CC Global Summit, from an in-person gathering to a virtual event. Finally, while the official language of the event is English, we highly encourage proposals in any of the five languages we’re supporting this year: Arabic, English, French, Mandarin, and Spanish.</span></p>
<p><strong>In this CFP, we’re asking for proposals that address the topics and issues outlined in the tracks below with a focus on actionable insights and outcomes—from case studies to workshops and storytelling sessions. </strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Creators of the Commons </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; The faces, work, and stories of those building the Commons </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Powering the Commons</b><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exploring the tools, technology, and communities that power the Commons</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Open Education and Open Scholarship</b> <i><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Supporting communities that practice open access to education and scholarship</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Open Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; Improving and expanding open access to cultural heritage</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Policy and Advocacy promoting the Commons</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; Strategies for legal action and copyright reform</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re very excited to host the CC Global Summit virtually this year and for the opportunity to once again gather the open community under the umbrella of learning, sharing, and creating to begin an exercise of internal reflection on how to build a more equitable, inclusive and accessible world. </span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><b>The deadline for proposals is 17 July 2020. Please </b><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/2020-call-for-proposals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>review the guidelines</b></a><b> before submitting your proposal!</b></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img src="media/86b59589.1f44b.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f44b.png" alt="👋" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> <em>As part of our initiative to support multiple languages, you can view this blog post in </em></span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="media/125722f9.cc-summit-post-june-2020-.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cc-summit-post-june-2020-عربى.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">عربى</a> </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="media/186d2b5e.francais-cc-summit-post-june-2020.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/francais-cc-summit-post-june-2020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Français</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="media/1bec121a.espanol-cc-summit-post-june-2020.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/espanol-cc-summit-post-june-2020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Español</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="media/0243e150.-cc-summit-post-june-2020.pdf" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/简体中文-cc-summit-post-june-2020.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">简体中文</a>. </span></em></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61787
title: Introducing the CC Global Network Platforms!
uri: Introducing-the-CC-Global-Network-Platforms
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/24/introducing-the-cc-global-network-platforms/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re excited to introduce the three </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Global Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CCGN) Platforms: Open Glam, Copyright, and Open Education! These Platforms are created with our community in mind, and everyone is free to join.</span></p>
<h3><b>Open GLAM Network Platform</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following the work that started in 2017, the Open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) Platform is currently working to provide a space to share resources, enhance collaboration, and raise awareness on open access to digital cultural heritage, working with GLAM professionals and open advocates. The plan for 2020 includes the publication of the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Declaration on Open Access for Cultural Heritage</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and a White Paper that informs the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Declaration</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We also plan on providing the community with different channels to engage, network, and discuss issues regarding open GLAM.</span></p>
<p><strong>With this year’s funding, we have put together a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17-gOtMKtDCEUy-PuxsuZhZQTGzKHX94rmZTdibqq2eI/edit#">plan</a> that sets out to:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build a map and visualization of GLAM institutions that are implementing open access policies and initiatives around the world</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Document case studies and stories of open GLAM, with a special focus on countries in Africa, as well as underrepresented communities across the world</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">An open call for projects</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Anyone can engage with this Platform by:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joining the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/archives/C57MTL8F7"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#cc-openglam</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Slack channel</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following (and curating) the </span><a href="https://twitter.com/openglam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@openglam</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Twitter account (more info </span><a href="https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/are-you-working-in-the-openglam-arena-tweet-about-it-461b8b859c42"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FZh45vDFHdZYe3Nodr3G9yYjoq005_MkzpR54wHWGAw/edit#"><span style="font-weight: 400;">instructions for participants</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Writing for the </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM Medium</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> publication</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participating in the </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y-ooRioOKMgLJo5s9IB-kDmmq5ZXUsiAPGRBzMMJ6KM/edit#"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM community calls</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! They take place on the second Thursday of every month at 2 PM UTC via </span><a href="https://www.uberconference.com/room/openglam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Uberconference</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coming to the webinars and proposing subjects to discuss</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Copyright Network Platform</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Copyright Platform brings together experts in copyright law and policy to push for policy, legislative, and regulatory change in copyright at the international and national levels that upholds the public interest, as well as enriches and protects the public domain. For details on the Platform’s goals, principles, objectives, and rationale, click </span><a href="https://github.com/creativecommons/network-platforms/blob/master/copyright-reform.md"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In 2020, this Platform will undertake projects and activities aimed at fulfilling these goals and principles. </span></p>
<p><strong>For example, the Platform could act as:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A forum to exchange good practices, case studies and practical examples</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A network of contacts, local focal points, and experts</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A place to collaborate on projects and activities</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Priorities and activities for this year will be proposed, discussed, and agreed upon collectively by the Platform members. The current </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PLyOITuJyhFXs7tnVrYn1BE4b3ywXxhcP1OpMOamyII/edit#"><span style="font-weight: 400;">plan</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> serves as a wellspring of ideas and proposes a process to allocate $20,000 USD for selected activities.</span></p>
<p><strong>Anyone interested in joining the Platform and taking part in its activities can:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/archives/C5B3EE4G6"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#cc-copyrightreform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Slack channel</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join the CC Copyright Platform </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://creativecommons.email/mailman/listinfo/copyright-reform">mailing list</a></span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Open Education Network Platform</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Open Education Platform brings together a global open education community (1000+ members from 75+ countries) to support and facilitate multinational, collaborative open education content, practices, and policy activities. We envision a world in which everyone has universal access to effective open education resources and meaningful learning opportunities. For details on the Platform’s goals, principles, and objectives, click </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-HPog_7pPUXrECzne1t6X7eKwo8TzpYBZ8iC8FfASoE/edit"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2020, this Platform will undertake projects and activities aimed at fulfilling these collaboratively developed goals and principles. Activities will be proposed and decided by Platform members and funded with $20,000 USD. We’re currently finalizing the Platform&#8217;s activities </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aXpCFQfd_2O0hEzFrjoIJzbgk7eUGkM4JmkcqIZjkWI/edit"><span style="font-weight: 400;">timeline</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><strong>Anyone interested in open education is most welcome to join the Platform and take part in its activities by:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joining the </span><a href="https://app.slack.com/client/T2BQ14ZC6/C2S2MFAJW"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#cc-openedu</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Slack channel</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joining the Open Education Platform </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cc-openedu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mailing list</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participating in Platform meetings (past and future meetings listed </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-HPog_7pPUXrECzne1t6X7eKwo8TzpYBZ8iC8FfASoE/edit"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">)</span></li>
</ul>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>Have questions? Please <a href="network-support@creativecommons.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email us</a> for more information or check out the Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/">website</a>! </strong></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">This announcement was a collaborative effort with contributions from </span></i><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/scann/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scann</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span></i><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/brigittevezina/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brigitte Vézina</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span></i><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/jennryncreativecommons-org/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jennryn Wetzler</span></i></a>. <em>Thank you! </em></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61800
title: Say What? Jonathan Poritz Records All CC Certificate Content As Openly Licensed Audio!
uri: Say-What-Jonathan-Poritz-Records-All-CC-Certificate-Content-As-Openly
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/25/say-what-jonathan-poritz-records-all-cc-certificate-content-as-openly-licensed-audio/

content:
<figure id="attachment_61808" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61808" style="width: 219px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61808" src="media/cad1faa0.JP_headshot-277x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JP_headshot-277x300.jpg" alt="" width="219" height="237" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JP_headshot-277x300.jpg 277w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JP_headshot-37x40.jpg 37w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JP_headshot-46x50.jpg 46w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JP_headshot-143x155.jpg 143w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/JP_headshot.jpg 680w" sizes="(max-width: 219px) 85vw, 219px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61808" class="wp-caption-text">Image: Jonathan Poritz, Director of Teaching and Learning and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Physics, both at Colorado State University-Pueblo.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons provides educators and the expertise they need to harness Open Educational Resources (OER). We strive to make education more accessible to more people around the world. One way we do this is through our </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> training, which is licensed CC BY 4.0 and available for use. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we’re delighted to announce our training materials are now available as </span><a href="https://poritz.net/jonathan/cc/cert/audiobook/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">audio files</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> licensed CC BY 4.0. Thanks to the fantastic work of </span><a href="https://www.poritz.net/jonathan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jonathan Poritz</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we can now offer materials in another format for learners. Jonathan Poritz has been contributing to open education efforts for nearly a decade<strong>*</strong> and facilitates CC Certificate courses regularly. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>To celebrate the recent additions to our open licensed CC Certificate resources, we asked Jonathan a few questions. </strong></span><strong>Our interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length.</strong></p>
<hr size="10" />
<p><b>CC: Thank you for your hours of work making the CC Certificate OER available in a new format, and improving the accessibility of our resources. What a gift. Can you tell us about your process for this? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Poritz: </strong>So the process was pretty simple: I just went into my clothes closet and read the whole thing to my laptop.  The clothes closet seems to be the place with the best acoustics in my house. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Editor&#8217;s note: Jonathan elaborated in a conversation with </span></i><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate </span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">participants, noting: “I would go in there, close the door, and record for a while. &#8230; when I was too hot&#8230;I&#8217;d take a break out in the world!&#8221;</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m actually not being facetious here. I work a lot in Open Educational Resources (OER) at my university and in my home state (Colorado, USA).  When I talk to people about making and using OER, one thing I like to emphasize is that only </span>OER gives teachers and learners real <i>agency</i>:<span style="font-weight: 400;"> because of the open licensing—Creative Commons licensing, which enables OER—a teacher can retain, reuse, redistribute, revise, and remix OER.  In other words, only OER allows for real pedagogical academic freedom, real autonomy, and agency for teachers and learners. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think of myself as a “Z-professor,” in that I only use OER in my teaching. The “Z-this” and “Z-that” terminology is used in the OER world to describe things like zero textbook cost degree programs, also called “Z-Degrees” or “Zed Creds.” These programs use entirely OER or other zero-cost resources, so I’m used to having that kind of agency.  When it occurred to me that an audio version of the CC Certificate materials should be made and that it would enable more learners to access this fantastic resource, I just went into my closet and recorded it! </span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><em><strong>A Zed Cred/Z-Degree</strong> is a &#8220;set of courses in a specific program area that allows a student to earn a credential, such as an associate degree or certificate program, with zero textbook costs by way of using open educational resources and/or free library materials.&#8221; Source: <a href="https://open.bccampus.ca/zed-credz-degree-grants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BCcampus Open Education program</a>.</em><br />
<b></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I knew I didn’t need to ask permission to do this because the CC Certificate materials are licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY 4.0</a>, so I have all the permissions I need. Regarding the technical process, I happened to already have a pretty good external microphone, and the Audacity audio editing software, which is FLOSS (free/libre/open-source software).</span></p>
<p><b>CC: Do you have other ideas for how CC might increase the accessibility of our training resources? Or, ideas for people who are curious about accessing the CC Certificate course content? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Poritz: </strong>Another version of the audiobook! When I got to the end of the full reading, I had more experience doing this than when I started, so I will do a better job the next time.  Fortunately, the CC team around the CC Certificate course regularly revises and improves the course materials, so I will have a chance to do a new audio version in a few months.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a larger sense, it might be a good idea to get a real accessibility expert to look over the materials—I certainly do not have such expertise!  I knew about reading books out loud because I used to read math books for </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reading for the Blind</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> when I was a university student myself (100,000 years ago), but a real accessibility expert might have things to say.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61809" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61809" style="width: 285px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61809" src="media/a4155c9a.in_the_closet-4-200x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="285" height="428" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-200x300.jpg 200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-27x40.jpg 27w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-33x50.jpg 33w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-103x155.jpg 103w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-1200x1800.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/in_the_closet-4-scaled.jpg 1707w" sizes="(max-width: 285px) 85vw, 285px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61809" class="wp-caption-text">Image: Jonathan Poritz recording audio in his closet at home! This image is licensed CC BY 4.0.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It seems to me that another thing CC can do is along the lines of that periodic revisit and improvement of the CC Certificate course materials.  It means that the materials are always tracking the best and most current knowledge about law, practices, policies, resources, etc</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">  I know that there are also discussions about how to improve the course in other ways (e.g. to use more methods of open pedagogy, to make it more relevant to a very international audience, etc.). This is a highly non-trivial task!  There are so many different legal systems around the world, and so many local traditions of educational and cultural production and consumption, it is hard for CC to make something that is localized to every one of those situations.  But (as you know!) there are some steps in this direction already.  For example, facilitators accept assignments from participants in their local languages, when the facilitators can read the languages, or when the participant attaches an automatic translation which they have checked for reasonable accuracy.  And, I understand, there are some additional translations of the course materials into other languages coming out soon!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To your second question: CC has given the world an amazing gift by releasing these materials with a CC BY license. It should go a long way to making this knowledge more widely accessible, across geographic and economic barriers.  The cost of formally taking the CC Certificate course does remain an obstacle, although the scholarship program has made tremendous inroads into that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I do believe that taking the course provides benefits that just reading the CC BY licensed materials does not. Aside from the direct interaction with the other participants (and the section facilitator), </span>there is always a sense of joining an absolutely amazing global community around openness that comes from working together on the course. <b> </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m humbled by the privilege of meeting and learning about these truly amazing groups of people and what they are doing, every single time I facilitate a course.</span></p>
<p><b>CC: After so many hours sweating in your clothes closet, what’s next? What do you hope to see in Open Education efforts given the “great pivot&#8221; to online teaching we’ve seen? </b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Poritz: </strong>I have great hope, but also great fear about what’s happening right now in this great pivot.  As should be clear from the things I’ve said above, I think Open Education has a lot of solutions to offer to many issues in education.  In fact, as a “Z-professor,” I think &#8220;open&#8221; is the only way to go with education!</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This crisis could help educators work (</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">rush!</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">) toward more open practices, or move in the opposite direction.  We in open communities must work to clarify and promote the solutions that open education offers—and a great many of us already are. We also need to highlight how problematic the closed approaches are to learners.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If I had to list the issues which bedevil open education right now, my list might include: </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">General lack of knowledge of open practices with which things like the CC Certificate course can help enormously. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lack of ancillary materials (automatic homework systems, test banks, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">etc.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">) for many OER, which many people are working to overcome.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Difficulty in finding existing OER for particular purposes, which again, people are improving. For example, there are various OER search tools, and CC Search is getting better all the time. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Complex platforms to create and remix OER: also an area of rapid work and improvement.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spotty record on accessibility for OER, although commercial resources are actually not all that much better!</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think the community can step up to improve accessibility, similar to how a random person with a quiet clothes closet can record any work with an open license and make it accessible to more people.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’m headed back to the closet to record!  Maybe I’ll tackle </span><a href="media/4f212ea4.yaintt.pdf" data-original-source="https://poritz.net/j/share/yaintt.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a math OER textbook</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> I wrote next—it should be an interesting challenge to try to describe all the equations, graphs, and diagrams!</span></p>
<p><b>CC: Thank you so much, Jonathan!</b></p>
<h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>You can access the audio files on the<a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/about/certificate-resources-cc-by/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> CC Certificate website, </a>or on <a href="https://poritz.net/jonathan/cc/cert/audiobook/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Jonathan&#8217;s website!</a></strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>*</strong><em>In addition to his work with the CC Certificate, Jonathan is the Director of Teaching and Learning and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Physics, both at Colorado State University-Pueblo. He is also a member of the Colorado Department of Higher Education’s Open Educational Resources Council. Learn more about Jonathan </em></span><em><a href="https://www.poritz.net/jonathan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></em></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>The <a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Certificate</a> is an in-depth course about CC licenses, open practices, and the ethos of the Commons. The course is composed of readings, quizzes, discussions, and practical exercises to develop learners’ open skills. We provide personalized engagement with expert facilitators and copyright lawyers in the field. </strong></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/25/say-what-jonathan-poritz-records-all-cc-certificate-content-as-openly-licensed-audio/">Say What? Jonathan Poritz Records All CC Certificate Content As Openly Licensed Audio!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61918
title: Announcing Creative Commons’ New CEO, Catherine Stihler
uri: Announcing-Creative-Commons-New-CEO-Catherine-Stihler
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/09/announcing-creative-commons-new-ceo-catherine-stihler/
content:
<p>I’m delighted to announce that Creative Commons has selected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Stihler">Catherine Stihler</a> to be its next CEO.</p>
<p>Catherine has been a champion for openness as both a legislator and practitioner for more than 20 years. She currently serves as CEO of the <a href="https://okfn.org/">Open Knowledge Foundation</a>, an organization whose work is fully aligned with the values and mission of Creative Commons. During her tenure, she has successfully redefined OKF’s vision and mission, reengaged its global chapters, and increased its international profile.</p>
<figure id="attachment_61921" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61921" style="width: 285px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61921" src="media/fbf998f2.Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-scaled.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="285" height="427" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-200x300.jpg 200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-27x40.jpg 27w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-33x50.jpg 33w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-103x155.jpg 103w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Catherine_Stihler_-Diliff-1200x1800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 285px) 85vw, 285px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61921" class="wp-caption-text">Photo by <a href="media/1c6516ad.FileCatherine_Stihler_MEP_Strasbourg_-_Diliff.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catherine_Stihler_MEP,_Strasbourg_-_Diliff.jpg">David Iliff</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA</a>)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Prior to her work with OKF, Catherine was a longtime <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4545/CATHERINE_STIHLER/history/8">Member of the European Parliament</a>. As one of Scotland’s most respected legislators, she was active on digital policy issues including copyright reform, citizen privacy and data protection, and improving public access to digital tools. Among her many achievements, she founded the Parliament’s All-Party Library Group, promoting and advocating for the importance of libraries in the digital age.</p>
<p>It’s been a pleasure getting to know Catherine, and hearing her ideas for how Creative Commons can make a meaningful and long-lasting impact in a moment of tremendous global change. The CC Board has been so impressed by her inclusive and collaborative leadership skills, her vision for the future of our organization, and her passion for CC’s mission of eliminating legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges. We, along with the CC staff, are truly thrilled to begin working together with her.</p>
<p>Next year we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Creative Commons. That’s two decades of making the world a more open and equitable place through sharing. It’s a huge milestone for CC and the perfect time to welcome a new leader to guide us into our next era. It coincides with events that make the need to remove unnecessary obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity clearer and more urgent than ever. Our current health and environmental emergencies, including the emergency of systemic racism and inequality, are global crises that require collective action and wisdom. CC’s modest but critical role in addressing these crises is to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and creativity that empower that collective action and nourish that collective wisdom.</p>
<p>We enter this next chapter at Creative Commons with gratitude to our Interim CEO Cable Green, who will resume his critical leadership role as Director of Open Education; to former CEO Ryan Merkley, now a key collaborator in his role at the Wikimedia Foundation; and to the Open Knowledge Foundation, with whom we look forward to continued collaboration. Thanks also to the Creative Commons staff, CC Global Network, funders, and Board of Directors; as well as Kathleen Yazbak and her team at Viewcrest Advisors. All of their insights shaped our search process and will lay the foundation for our future success.</p>
<p>Catherine will officially join us on August 17. Until then, please join me in welcoming her to Creative Commons.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/09/announcing-creative-commons-new-ceo-catherine-stihler/">Announcing Creative Commons’ New CEO, &lt;br&gt; Catherine Stihler</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61931
title: Meet CC Italy, Our First Feature for CC Network Fridays!
uri: Meet-CC-Italy-Our-First-Feature-for-CC-Network-Fridays
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/10/cc-network-fridays-cc-italy/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did you know that the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Global Network</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (CCGN) consists of 43 CC Country Chapters? Spread across the globe, these CC Chapters are the home for a community of advocates, activists, educators, artists, lawyers, and users who share CC’s vision and values. They work to implement and strengthen open access policies, copyright reform, open education, and open culture in the communities in which they live.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To help showcase their work, we’re excited to introduce our blog series and social media initiative: </span>CC Network Fridays<span style="font-weight: 400;">. At least one Friday a month, we’ll travel around the world through our blog and on Twitter (using </span><a href="https://twitter.com/i/events/1281214811687305217?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>#CCNetworkFridays</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) to a different CC Chapter, introducing their teams, discussing their work, and celebrating their commitment to open! </span></p>
<h3><b>First up is CC Italy!</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Italian Chapter was formed in December 2018. Its Chapter Lead and representative to the CC Global Network Council is lawyer </span><a href="https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/deborah-de-angelis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deborah De Angelis</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. From the beginning, the Chapter has been involved in many fields of the open movement but over the last year, in particular, it has enhanced its activities covering almost all </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/24/introducing-the-cc-global-network-platforms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CCGN Platforms</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">To learn more about their work, we reached out to CC Italy to ask a few questions. They responded in both English and Italian! </span></p>
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<p><b>CC: What open movement work is your Chapter actively involved in? What would you like to achieve with your work?</b></p>
<p><b>CC Italy:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The Italian Chapter is involved in advocating for CC licenses, in the process of the DSM Directive implementation in Italy, and has formed an Open GLAM group and an Open Education group. Our goal is to achieve more openness and the widespread adoption of CC licenses in Italy.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Il Capitolo italiano divulga le licenze CC, è coinvolto nel processo di implementazione della Direttiva DSM e recentemente ha costituito al suo interno due gruppi di lavoro, uno dedicato all’Open GLAM e uno dedicato all’Open Education.</span></i></p>
<p><b>CC: What exciting project has your Chapter engaged in recently?</b></p>
<p><b>CC Italy:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The Chapter participated in the hearing at the Italian Senate for the </span><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L0790" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DSM Directive implementation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. It is working on a common appeal for the free re-use of cultural heritage images in the European Union and writing a proposal to the Italian Ministry for the Open Education </span><a href="http://www.senato.it/leg/18/BGT/Schede/Ddliter/52774.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">policies implementation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Il Capitolo italiano ha partecipato alle audizioni al Senato per l’implementazione della </span></i><a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L0790" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Direttiva DSM</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Attualmente sta lavorando ad un appello per il libero riuso delle immagini dei beni culturali nell’Unione Europea e ad una proposta indirizzata al Ministero italiano dell’Istruzione e dell’Università e della ricerca per l’implementazione di </span></i><a href="http://www.senato.it/leg/18/BGT/Schede/Ddliter/52774.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">politiche di Open education</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p>
<p><b>CC: What projects in your country are using CC licenses that you’d like to highlight?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can find some Italian private and public organizations that share their works with CC licenses, </span><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons#In_Italia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We would like to mention that the </span><a href="http://digitale.bnc.roma.sbn.it/tecadigitale/licenzeuso" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National and Central Library of Rome</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (not present in the list above) shares its digital content under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Potete trovare </span></i><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons#In_Italia" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">qui</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> alcune realtà italiane pubbliche e private che condividono le proprie opere con le licenze CC. Vorremmo citare anche la </span></i><a href="http://digitale.bnc.roma.sbn.it/tecadigitale/licenzeuso" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biblioteca nazionale Centrale di Roma</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (non presente nell’elenco) tra coloro che condividono i propri contenuti digitali con licenza CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.</span></i></p>
<p><b>CC: What do you find inspiring and rewarding about your work in the open movement?</b></p>
<p><b>CC Italy:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We strongly believe in the importance of sharing knowledge and culture in order to create a fairer world through a democratic and safe digital space. We work very hard for this purpose and we are rewarded by every small step forward we’re able to achieve.  </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Crediamo fortemente che la condivisione della cultura e della conoscenza siano fondamentali per la creazione di un mondo più equo anche attraverso uno spazio digitale  sicuro e democratico. Lavoriamo molto in questa direzione e ci sentiamo pienamente ricompensati da ogni passo avanti che riusciamo a raggiungere con il nostro lavoro.</span></i></p>
<p><b>CC: What are your plans for the future? </b></p>
<p><b>CC Italy: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">The future is now! We are deeply involved in so many projects and we really hope to achieve even just a part of our goal, and to enlarge and strengthen the Italian CC community. For updates about the CC Italian Chapter’s activities, visit </span><a href="https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">our website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="mailto:info-ccit@creativecommons.it" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">contact us</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Il futuro è adesso! Stiamo lavorando su tantissimi progetti e speriamo di raggiungere anche solo una parte dei nostri obiettivi e di ingrandire e rafforzare la comunità italiana di Creative Commons. Per aggiornamenti sulle attività del Capitolo italiano CC, visita il </span></i><a href="https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">nostro sito</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Web o </span></i><a href="mailto:info-ccit@creativecommons.it" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">contattaci</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">!</span></i></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>Thank you to the <a href="https://creativecommons.it/chapterIT/index.php/il-team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Italy team</a>, especially Laura Sinigaglia and Deborah de Angelis for contributing to the first CC Network Fridays feature, and for all of their work in the open community! To see this conversation on Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1281601947838091266" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">click here</a>. To become a member of the CCGN, <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">visit our website</a>! </strong></p>
<p><img src="media/ed0a273d.1f4f8.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f4f8.png" alt="📸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />: Featured image has icons by <a href="https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=world%20&amp;i=2676720" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Guilherme Furtado</a> and <a href="https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=convertible%20car&amp;i=3268361" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vectors Point</a> via Noun Project (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/legalcode" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY 3.0</a>).</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61840
title: The Increasingly Open World of Photography: A Conversation With Exposure’s Luke Beard
uri: The-Increasingly-Open-World-of-Photography-A-Conversation-With-Exposu
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/13/open-world-of-photography-with-exposures-luke-beard/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over 300 million images </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/05/21/how-much-data-do-we-create-every-day-the-mind-blowing-stats-everyone-should-read/#6801aef660ba" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">are uploaded</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to Facebook a day. Yes, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">just</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Facebook. Once other social media and photo-sharing platforms like Flickr, Unsplash, Instagram, etc. are taken into account, that number quickly grows into the billions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A lot has changed since the dawn of photography in the 19th century—when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic%C3%A9phore_Ni%C3%A9pce" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nicéphore Niépce</a> (a.k.a. the “Father of Photography”) peered through his camera obscura from his upstairs window in France and created the oldest surviving photographic image in 1826. At that time, and for over a century, photography was restricted to (primarily white and Western) wealthy hobbyists and career professionals. However, photography has become more democratized, digitized, and open over time. This process began in the 1940s with Kodak&#8217;s &#8220;Brownie&#8221; camera, then quickened with the invention of the digital camera in the late 1980s, and finally culminated with the smartphone in the early 2000s. In 2019, the Pew Research Center <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/02/05/smartphone-ownership-is-growing-rapidly-around-the-world-but-not-always-equally/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">estimated</a> that 1/3rd of the world’s population has a smartphone. This means that billions of people have access to a camera! </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61843" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61843" style="width: 549px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-61843" src="media/bc35a10b.by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-300x123.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/222880px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020_new22-by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-300x123.jpg" alt="Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras (1826 or 1827)" width="549" height="225" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/222880px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020_new22-by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-300x123.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/222880px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020_new22-by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-1024x419.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/222880px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020_new22-by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-768x314.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/222880px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020_new22-by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-1536x629.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/222880px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020_new22-by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-2048x838.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/222880px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020_new22-by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-98x40.jpg 98w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/222880px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020_new22-by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-50x20.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/222880px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020_new22-by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-270x111.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/222880px-View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras_colorized_2020_new22-by-Niepce-1827-and-Jonnychiwa-2020-licensed-CC-BY-SA-1200x491.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 549px) 85vw, 549px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61843" class="wp-caption-text">Niépce&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="media/da84db8d.NicC3A9phore_NiC3A9pce" data-original-source="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nic%C3%A9phore_Ni%C3%A9pce" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View from the Window at Le Gras</a>&#8221; (1826 or 1827), the world&#8217;s oldest surviving photographic image, made using a camera obscura. Original plate (left) by Niépce; colorized reoriented enhancement (right) by Nguyen. Licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-SA</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Along with the democratization and digitization of photography came the rise of open licensing (the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC License Suite</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was first released in 2002) and “free” photo-sharing and stock photography websites (</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flickr</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was founded in 2004). Although these trends have many benefits, they’ve generally made professional photographers feel uneasy. As photographer and filmmaker Erin Jennings </span><a href="https://medium.com/exposure-magazine/the-democratization-of-the-photographic-image-db7049c9a19c" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in a 2019 essay, “Not only has accessible digital photography threatened the commercial photography industry, it has also thrown into question the very self-worth of many photographers whose identities were mired in the exclusivity of the analog process.” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">photographer, I understand this uneasiness as well as the apprehension that comes with publishing images under open licenses. I’ve certainly wondered: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Is it OK that I&#8217;m willingly handing organizations and companies the ability to use my work for “free”? Will this lead to the expectation that photography should always be free? Does this devalue professional photography?</span></i></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Along with the democratization and digitization of photography came the rise of open licensing </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and “free” photo-sharing and stock photography websites; although these trends have many benefits, they’ve also made professional photographers feel uneasy. </span></p></blockquote>
<figure id="attachment_61849" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61849" style="width: 228px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class=" wp-image-61849" src="media/78addfee.Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-200x300.jpeg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-200x300.jpeg" alt="Luke Beard" width="228" height="342" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-200x300.jpeg 200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-27x40.jpeg 27w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-33x50.jpeg 33w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-103x155.jpeg 103w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-1200x1800.jpeg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Luke-Beard-Headshot-copyright-scaled.jpeg 1706w" sizes="(max-width: 228px) 85vw, 228px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61849" class="wp-caption-text">Luke Beard, Photographer and Designer; CEO and Founder of Exposure.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Over time, I’ve learned more about the purpose of open licenses and the rights photographers are guaranteed under them.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">For instance, the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/use-remix/attribution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">attribution requirement</a> under CC licenses can actually help maintain the connection between photograph and photographer because the photographer’s name must be attributed if their work is reused. In the age of image theft and image overload, that’s significant. The range of licenses available also gives photographers more freedom to determine </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">how</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> their photography can be used beyond “all rights reserved,” and clarify that to potential users. For up-and-coming photographers, this can be especially useful for building a personal brand and an audience of potential clients.  </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Personally, I try to always openly license my work—something I recently learned was possible on </span><a href="https://exposure.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exposure</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a storytelling platform for photographers and visual storytellers. After using the platform for years, it was a pleasant surprise to learn that the company had enabled </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-ND</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a licensing option. It also made me curious: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why did a platform that serves as a creative outlet for professional photographers and storytellers decide to allow open licensing as an option? </span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To find out, I contacted Exposure Founder and CEO </span><a href="https://www.luke.so/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Luke Beard</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> via email. A photographer himself, I also wanted to know his personal thoughts about open licensing and the democratization of photography. <em>Our conversation below has been lightly edited for clarity and length. </em></span></p>
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<p><b>VH: The growing democratization of photography has led to a plethora of images online, </b><b>primarily through free photo-sharing and stock photography websites.</b><b> Has this trend impacted your identity as a professional photographer? Do you think it&#8217;s harming the industry? </b></p>
<p><b>LB:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> I’d argue that Instagram has done more to change photography in the last decade than legacy and fledgling photo communities built around free sharing or stock [photography]. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram has a fairly large conversion rate. Its scale, reach, and impact on photography still feels unprecedented. It&#8217;s effectively one of the biggest stewards of the medium the world has ever seen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “professional photographer” part of my identity has a strong feeling around giving anything away for “free.&#8221; There are both potentially good and potentially negative outcomes, but it also depends on the context. You certainly learn a lot about what feels right or worth it by exploring free avenues. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The communities that grow around services like Flickr can be incredible, and I’m sure many working photographers today got their start there. The proliferation of ways to discover photography though free, stock, or sharing [platforms] has certainly raised the bar both competition-wise and creativity-wise, and I’d say it has been a net positive.  </span></p>
<p><b>VH: There&#8217;s an ongoing debate within photography circles about open licensing and whether or not it harms professional photographers. What do you see as the benefits and drawbacks?</b></p>
<p><b>LB:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The value of photography has simultaneously been raised and lowered as the internet economy has grown. As a visual medium—with amazing screens in the hands of ~3.5 billion people—photography has so much to offer for the foreseeable future.  </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61870" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61870" style="width: 372px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61870" src="media/33e7339e.Exposure-1-300x212.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-1-300x212.jpg" alt="Exposure's Homepage" width="372" height="263" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-1-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-1-768x543.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-1-57x40.jpg 57w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-1-50x35.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-1-219x155.jpg 219w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-1-1200x848.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-1.jpg 1382w" sizes="(max-width: 372px) 85vw, 372px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61870" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://exposure.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Exposure</a> houses creative works from individual photographers, non-profit organizations, governments, and more.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open licensing also has a lot to offer photographers who are looking for new and interesting ways to share their craft and earn work. On the one hand, you have platforms with a huge reach that take on the hard work of distributing and hosting your photos in exchange for an open license (e.g. Unsplash). The long-tail upside might be that someone thinks your style of photography is perfect and hires you for a shoot. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The flip side is that free and openly licensed photos may lose all concept that there is a photographer behind the photo. This devalues both the photographer and the photo. I personally struggle with the idea of normalizing good photography as something that has no cost or doesn’t require credit—although, it’s important to point out that CC licenses do require attribution. A comparison would be this one: it’s hard to make good software, but free applications normalize the idea that software should cost nothing. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is still lots of work to be done to reap the benefits of open licensing, and the majority of this work falls to the stewards of the platforms and tools.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Without openly licensed photos, however, we wouldn’t have visually rich Wikipedia pages or great collections like </span><a href="https://images.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA’s image gallery</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. For individual photographers, I think there still has to be a better way. Maybe the answer is a blockchain solution through micropayments or maybe just a better marketplace platform. There is still lots of work to be done to reap the benefits of open licensing, and the majority of this work falls to the stewards of the platforms and tools. I’m hopeful the benefits will greatly outweigh the negatives. </span></p>
<p><b>VH: Can you explain why Exposure decided to offer an open licensing option and if there were any specific challenges when making and implementing that decision?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have taken baby steps into offering an open license as a feature. For context, it’s a toggle you can switch &#8220;on&#8221; or &#8220;off&#8221; for specific stories. As the creator, you agree to a CC BY-ND license for your photography within that story. This idea initially came about because we wanted to give Exposure members the ability to allow their family, friends, or clients to download their photos. Since the launch, however, we have seen it used for academic and non-profit purposes too, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">so we plan on expanding it this year by adding more licenses and the ability to license entire stories (including written content) and not just the individual photos. Our non-profit customers have expressed how helpful this would be to share their cause.</span></p>
<p><b>VH: Does Exposure educate users on this open licensing option or advertise it in any way?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The photo downloads feature is advertised as a paid feature because there is an infrastructure cost associated with allowing photos to be downloaded. When the feature is enabled by the member, we give a full legal description of how the license works and also a “basic” description in simpler terms. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">When a visitor downloads any photo that is under the open license they also see a similar dialog and download agreement that indicates the requirements of the license, including attribution to the photographer/source. This way, they know how and where they can use the photo before they actually download it.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61865" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61865" style="width: 552px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-61865" src="media/ea50ba28.Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-1024x531.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-1024x531.jpg" alt="Exposure Screenshot of Download Agreement" width="552" height="286" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-1024x531.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-300x156.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-768x399.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-1536x797.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-2048x1063.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-77x40.jpg 77w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-50x26.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-270x140.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exposure-Screenshot-of-Download-Agreement-1200x623.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 552px) 85vw, 552px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61865" class="wp-caption-text">An example of Exposure&#8217;s Download Agreement and use of CC BY-ND. Source: &#8220;<a href="https://planetarynomad.exposure.co/the-space-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Space People</a>&#8221; by Victoria Heath (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-ND</a>).</figcaption></figure>
<p><b>VH: Taking a step back from open licensing, can you share with us one or two of the most impactful stories that have been shared on your platform?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s a tough one, as there have been thousands over the years, but right now I’m extra proud to host and share stories on climate change, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, this story from </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Doctors without Borders</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (MSF) which shares the struggle to get the supplies needed to <a href="https://msf.exposure.co/yemen-nbspcovid19-supply-challenges-shortterm-alternative-solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fight COVID-19 in Yemen</a>; this piece by the United Nations Development Programme’s Climate Office telling the story of </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://undp-climate.exposure.co/the-ocean-is-our-store-keeper" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">climate-resilient farming</a> and food security in the outer islands of Kiribati</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">; and this story of </span><a href="https://laczkoart.exposure.co/marchonmarietta" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black Lives Matter protests</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in Cobb County, Georgia by a local photographer.  </span></p>
<p><b>VH: The goal of the open movement is to build a more equitable, inclusive, and innovative world through sharing—do you believe sharing photography, and creative content more broadly, has a role in achieving that goal?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Openly sharing information has always happened within communities. I strongly believe the open movement has achieved great things since the first few days of ARPANET and the birth of the modern internet. Creative content still has room to mature to be a truly accessible, inclusive, and equitable medium as more people get access to the internet. But as a whole, visual content has had a huge impact by engaging most of the world—now more than any other time in history. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are things that worry me about our ability to achieve any sort of &#8220;open web&#8221; goal, these include the consolidated power of &#8220;Big Tech,&#8221; eroding net neutrality, and the disparity of access to reliable and affordable (if not free) internet connections—as recently seen with the impact of COVID-19 on students without a reliable internet connection at home.</span></p>
<p><b>VH: Photography as a profession has suffered from a lack of racial, ethnic, and gender diversity which has led to a mirrored lack of diversity in the images created (e.g. stock photos). What actions do you think individual photographers like yourself, and platforms like Exposure, can take to help increase diversity in the industry?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A quote mentioned in Ibram X. Kendi’s book, </span><a href="https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>How to Be an Antiracist </em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">has recently been very impactful in my thinking about just this. The quote is credited to Harry A. Blackmun from the 1978 Supreme Court case, <span>Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Blackmun <a href="https://www.landmarkcases.org/regents-of-the-u-of-california-v-bakke/regents-of-the-u-of-california-v-bakke-classifying-arguments-in-the-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote</a>, </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">“&#8230;in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no progress without change and the status quo of taking a neutral stance does not allow for oppressed voices to be heard.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I think about how this could be implemented in photography and the platforms that support it, I see several paths to a more equitable community: actively raising, promoting, and empowering the work of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and gender diverse photographers; giving resources to those same communities to enhance their ability to work, and; public platforms taking a zero-tolerance policy for hate speech and racism of any kind. There is no progress without change and the status quo of taking a neutral stance does not allow for oppressed voices to be heard. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Exposure, as a platform, can do more on all these fronts, but the future looks bright for more giving and more empowering initiatives. Our </span><a href="https://changes.exposure.co/black-lives-matter-153088" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Black Lives Matter support statement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> outlines what we are doing right now, and there is more to come in the future. </span></p>
<p><strong><b>VH</b>: Luke, thank you for speaking with me! By the way, there are a growing number of openly licensed collections that are working to increase diversity in stock photography. These include <a href="https://www.nappy.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nappy</a>, the <a href="https://genderphotos.vice.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gender Spectrum Collection</a>, <a href="https://affecttheverb.com/collection/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Disabled and Here Collection</a>, and <a href="https://www.wocintechchat.com/blog/wocintechphotos" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Women in Tech</a>. Check them out!</strong></p>
<p><img src="media/ed0a273d.1f4f8.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f4f8.png" alt="📸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />: Featured image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/21133841@N03/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kollage Kid</a>, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/21133841@N03/5169051592/in/album-72157604541054461/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lighthouse</a>&#8221; and licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</a>.</p>
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/15/cc-license-and-cc0-available-in-romanian/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons is excited to announce the publication of the Romanian language translations of version 4.0 of the CC License Suite and of the CC0 public domain dedication. These translations will enable approximately 30 million people to understand our licenses in their first or second language! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-61957 alignright" src="media/ac403712.Romanian-License-Translation-300x157.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Romanian-License-Translation-300x157.jpg" alt="CC BY in Romanian" width="300" height="157" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Romanian-License-Translation-300x157.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Romanian-License-Translation-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Romanian-License-Translation-768x402.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Romanian-License-Translation-76x40.jpg 76w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Romanian-License-Translation-50x26.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Romanian-License-Translation-270x141.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Romanian-License-Translation.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />We could not be more pleased to see this effort reach a successful conclusion after one year of collaboration among experts from the European Commission. The translations were provided by official translators of the European Commission, coordinated by Pedro Malaquias (Legal Officer – Intellectual Property). The translations were reviewed by George Hari Popescu, our Translation Assistant.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The translations followed the guidelines set in the 3.0 version and kept the same translations for most of the legal words and phrases. The most important change in the 4.0 version is for the word “Share.” The 4.0 suite is an exact translation of the English original version, without adaptations to national laws. Since “Distribuire” is a word used in the Romanian copyright law, the word “Partajare” was chosen for the 4.0 version.</span></p>
<p><strong>You can find the translations below:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.ro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY 4.0</a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.ro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.ro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.ro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC 4.0</a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode.ro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode.ro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-ND 4.0</a></li>
<li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.ro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC0</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Congratulations to everyone who worked on these translations! For more details and links, check out the <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Legal_Tools_Translation/4.0/Romanian" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dedicated Wiki page</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/15/cc-license-and-cc0-available-in-romanian/">CC License Suite 4.0 and CC0 Are Now Available in Romanian!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=61971
title: From Educators to Illustrators: Meet the Users of CC Search
uri: From-Educators-to-Illustrators-Meet-the-Users-of-CC-Search
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/07/23/meet-the-users-of-cc-search/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you ever wondered who looks for openly licensed images? Or how those images are used? Before we launched <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Search</a> in April 2019, we assumed that the search engine would serve three broad groups of creators:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those making designs, imagery, and art</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those illustrating text, such as bloggers, journalists, or educators</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those creating videos</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s been over a year since CC Search moved out of beta (we just celebrated its </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/29/cc-search-celebrates-its-first-birthday/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">first birthday</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">!), and we now have a better idea of who we serve and their needs thanks to user feedback and insights derived from anonymized data. We’re excited to share with you what we’ve learned!</span></p>
<h3><strong>Who are our users?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thanks to extensive feedback and user interviews, we have a better sense of the broad groupings our core users fall into, including 1) educators, 2) students, 3) creators, 4) illustrators, or 5) professionals. By collecting examples indicating how CC-licensed content is used, we also have a clearer picture as to how these groups use the content they find and what they need from us to ensure an even better experience. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_61981" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61981" style="width: 514px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-61981 " src="media/25fead5d.677271842_18974681b2_b22-by-WOCinTech-Chat-CC-BY-2.0-300x200.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2225677271842_18974681b2_b22-by-WOCinTech-Chat-CC-BY-2.0-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="514" height="342" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2225677271842_18974681b2_b22-by-WOCinTech-Chat-CC-BY-2.0-300x200.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2225677271842_18974681b2_b22-by-WOCinTech-Chat-CC-BY-2.0-768x513.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2225677271842_18974681b2_b22-by-WOCinTech-Chat-CC-BY-2.0-60x40.jpg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2225677271842_18974681b2_b22-by-WOCinTech-Chat-CC-BY-2.0-50x33.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2225677271842_18974681b2_b22-by-WOCinTech-Chat-CC-BY-2.0-232x155.jpg 232w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2225677271842_18974681b2_b22-by-WOCinTech-Chat-CC-BY-2.0.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 514px) 85vw, 514px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61981" class="wp-caption-text">Image: &#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wocintechchat/25677271842/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wocintech stock &#8211; 148</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/wocintechchat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WOCinTech Chat</a> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY 2.0</a>, found via <a href="https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/753a92b9-6349-4fba-95c2-e5cffe15f559" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Search</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<ul>
<li><b>The Educator</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is someone who teaches, trains, or coaches at any level of schooling, from early childhood through adult education. They use CC Search to create or illustrate </span>educational materials<span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">such as presentations, handouts, worksheets, and videos. The Educator can be a creator, or an illustrator, but identifies as an educator first, and so the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">purpose and impact </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">of their work is explicitly defined as for education. Approximately 30% of our users identify as educators. The size and impact of this group is deeply compelling as we structure our ongoing efforts.</span></li>
<li><b>The Student</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is most commonly someone who is instructed to use CC Search as part of a defined curriculum (such as Code.org) or as part of a class assignment. They are directed to CC Search when learning about copyright or creating something to turn in to their teacher. Teachers using CC Search tell us it is their first choice because they see it as the safest, most comprehensive collection of openly licensed images. Approximately 30% of our users identify as students. One user, a Digital Creativity Advisor at a university in the United Kingdom told us, “I use the Creative Commons search engine with students to help them find great resources for use in their digital artworks but also to help explain the tricky concepts behind Creative Commons licensing. I&#8217;m so glad it&#8217;s there to make both so much easier.”</span></li>
<li><b>The Creator </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">is a musician getting cover art for their album or a filmmaker adding images to videos or a designer getting inspiration or material for adaptation. They’re not mainstream creators with large budgets, but rather artists pursuing passion projects. This group makes up about 10% of our users. We see this group as distinct from those with an explicit education focus.</span></li>
<li><b>The Illustrator </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">is an author, writer, journalist, blogger, or editor who is looking for a visual accompaniment to a written work. They’re looking for something they can freely use for personal and professional projects alike, some of which may be commercial. About 10% of our users fall into this group.</span></li>
<li><b>The Professional </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">is someone who is using CC Search for business purposes, most commonly for marketing materials, website assets, or merchandise creation. They need content that can be freely used for commercial purposes. The filter mechanisms on CC Search and clear explanations of license restrictions allow this group to reuse with great confidence. About 10% of our users fall into this group.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The remaining 10% or so of our users self-report as other types, often planning to use the work they’ve found for personal reasons, like social media backgrounds, internal decorations, or birthday cards.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While we’ve been able to broadly group our users, which helps us understand their needs and motivations, we’ve also learned that the use cases of openly licensed images are wider than we can possibly imagine or represent through these groupings. We find it particularly heartwarming when a grandparent reports that they are making a picture card for their grandchild and inspiring when a teacher shares a link to a slide deck being used for a history lesson. We’re sincerely grateful to the users who share with us how they’re using the images they find.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Where are they based?</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our goal is to serve a global audience, and we’re actively working to make CC Search more usable in languages besides English. Despite our current limitations, we’re thrilled to see that CC Search is crossing borders. Here are the top 10 countries that users access CC Search from:</span></p>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">United States (40%)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Israel (6%)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">United Kingdom (4%)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Canada (4%)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spain (3%)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Australia (3%)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Germany (3%)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brazil (2%)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">France (2%)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">India (2%)</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In total, we’ve had visitors from 200+ countries and territories. Over 65% of our users were searching in English, with Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian making up over 20% combined. Over the next few months, we&#8217;ll be working to internationalize CC Search so that we can more effectively serve the growing number of users from non-English speaking countries. </span></p>
<h3><strong>What have they taught us?</strong></h3>
<figure id="attachment_61984" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-61984" style="width: 355px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-61984" src="media/c12042b0.22Student-Studying22-by-UGA-CAESExtension-CC-BY-NC-300x200.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/22Student-Studying22-by-UGA-CAESExtension-CC-BY-NC-300x200.jpg" alt="Student studying" width="355" height="236" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/22Student-Studying22-by-UGA-CAESExtension-CC-BY-NC-300x200.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/22Student-Studying22-by-UGA-CAESExtension-CC-BY-NC-768x512.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/22Student-Studying22-by-UGA-CAESExtension-CC-BY-NC-60x40.jpg 60w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/22Student-Studying22-by-UGA-CAESExtension-CC-BY-NC-50x33.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/22Student-Studying22-by-UGA-CAESExtension-CC-BY-NC-232x155.jpg 232w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/22Student-Studying22-by-UGA-CAESExtension-CC-BY-NC.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 355px) 85vw, 355px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-61984" class="wp-caption-text">Image: &#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51400742@N07/33172893304" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Student Studying</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51400742@N07" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UGA CAES/Extension</a> is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=rich" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC 2.0</a>, found via <a href="https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/26793c42-0726-46a9-b876-fd16ce024301" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC Search</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are several ways we keep in touch with the users of CC Search. Some folks send us emails or submit feedback forms, while others chat with us on Twitter or through our </span><a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Community Slack</span></a>.<span style="font-weight: 400;"><em> Which we welcome you to join!</em> We also have a </span><a href="https://opensource.creativecommons.org/contributing-code/usability/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">standing invitation for user interviews</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to help improve the usability of CC Search and other products we’re building. Our favorite conversations are with users, as we work to understand their pain points and collect candid feedback. These conversations inform what features we focus our efforts on.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In recent months, we’ve had the chance to dig into the myriad of ways that openly licensed images are used, what other types of content would be useful to our current users, and what users miss most about the old search portal for CC-licensed content. We’re happy to report that we’re working on meeting the needs of those who want other </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">sources</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of content and other </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">types</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of content.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ll soon be rolling out a meta-search feature, both for additional image sources as well as audio and video. This will look familiar to those users who’ve used the old search portal to confidently put the necessary filters in place before searching for CC-licensed content on the broader web. This new feature will allow for a quick jump to results from the likes of Google Images, SoundCloud, YouTube, and more directly from the CC Search interface. We’re also working hard to prepare for the indexing and discovery of CC-licensed audio, which we expect we’ll be able to support by the end of 2020—stay tuned! </span></p>
<p style="border: 3px; border-style: solid; border-color: #05b5da; padding: 1em;"><strong>To stay up-to-date on the technical updates that we’ll be making to CC Search throughout 2020, be sure to follow Creative Commons <a href="https://twitter.com/cc_opensource" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open Source on Twitter</a>, join #cc-usability in the Creative Commons Slack, or keep an eye on the <a href="https://github.com/orgs/creativecommons/projects/7">Active Sprint</a> and <a href="https://github.com/orgs/creativecommons/projects/10">Backlog</a> in GitHub! If you want to share your thoughts on CC Search with us directly, fill out <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfb_6yq2Md0v6S-XzsyT7p1QVhqr7MWHqInKdyYh4ReaWn4FQ/viewform">this feedback form</a> or <a href="https://calendly.com/cc-product-design/user-interview-30">schedule a user interview</a> with one of our team members. We’d be thrilled to hear from you!</strong></p>
<p><img src="media/ed0a273d.1f4f8.png" data-original-source="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/12.0.0-1/72x72/1f4f8.png" alt="📸" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />: Featured image has icons by <a href="https://thenounproject.com/my__valerie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Valerie Lamm</a> from the &#8220;<a href="https://thenounproject.com/my__valerie/collection/person/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Person</a>&#8221; collection licensed CC BY via Noun Project.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62001
title: Nearly 500 CC-licensed Education Images are Now Available!
uri: Nearly-500-CC-licensed-Education-Images-are-Now-Available
url: https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/04/nearly-500-cc-licensed-education-images-are-now-available/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) just released the second edition of their openly licensed digital image collection, “</span><a href="http://all4ed.org/images" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” This edition features nearly 500 high-quality images of teachers and students licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-NC 4.0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">).</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_62002" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62002" style="width: 345px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class=" wp-image-62002" src="media/bdbc6521.Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-300x166.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="345" height="191" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-300x166.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-768x426.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-1536x852.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-2048x1136.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-72x40.jpg 72w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-50x28.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-270x150.jpg 270w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Alliance-for-Excellent-Education-Screenshot-1200x666.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 345px) 85vw, 345px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62002" class="wp-caption-text">A screenshot of the digital collection from the Alliance for Excellent Education.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Captured by Allison Shelly (photojournalist and co-founder of </span><a href="https://www.womenphotojournalists.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Women Photojournalists of Washington</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) and funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, these images portray “deep learning” both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic at the UCLA Community School in Los Angeles and Sutton Middle School in Atlanta. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“These are some of the final images we have of classroom-based instruction prior to the coronavirus sending students and teachers home for months of online instruction,” said Deborah Delisle, All4Ed president and CEO. “The idea of deeper learning is evolving as schools across the country rethink how they deliver instruction, and we are excited to see what that shift produces in thoughtful, innovative ways of engaging students.”</span></p>
<h3><strong><a href="http://all4ed.org/images" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Browse the free collection!</a></strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here at Creative Commons, we’re especially excited to use these images in relation to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/education-oer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">our work in Open Education</a>. As we continue advocating for and supporting the development of OER policies globally, the images we use should accurately illustrate the messages we send. That’s why openly licensed stock photography collections (like this one!) that are inclusive and representative is imperative. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Congratulations to the Alliance for Excellent Education on a great collection! </strong></span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/04/nearly-500-cc-licensed-education-images-are-now-available/">Nearly 500 CC-licensed Education Images are Now Available!</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=62021
title: Sharing Indigenous Cultural Heritage Online: An Overview of GLAM Policies
uri: Sharing-Indigenous-Cultural-Heritage-Online-An-Overview-of-GLAM-Polic
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/08/sharing-indigenous-cultural-heritage-online-an-overview-of-glam-policies/

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<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">This post was co-authored by CC&#8217;s Open Policy Manager Brigitte Vézina and Legal and Policy Intern Alexis Muscat.</span></i></p>
<figure id="attachment_62027" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62027" style="width: 219px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-62027" src="media/620856a4.IDWIP_identifier_E-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-300x300.jpg" alt="Logo for International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples" width="219" height="219" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-300x300.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-150x150.jpg 150w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-768x768.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-40x40.jpg 40w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-50x50.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-350x350.jpg 350w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-155x155.jpg 155w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDWIP_identifier_E-1200x1200.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 219px) 85vw, 219px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62027" class="wp-caption-text">Logo for the International Day of the World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations. Access it <a href="https://trello.com/c/jjyKHGAz/394-logo-in-8-languages" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tomorrow is </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/events/indigenousday/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a day that seeks to raise awareness of and support Indigenous peoples’ rights and aspirations around the world. We at Creative Commons (CC) wish to highlight this important celebration and acknowledge that, internationally, measures need to be taken to protect Indigenous peoples’ rights and interests in their unique cultures. One measure, which intersects with our policy work at CC on </span><a href="https://openglam.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open GLAM</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, addresses the open, online sharing of Indigenous cultural heritage cared for within cultural heritage institutions. </span></p>
<h3><b>Creative Commons and the Open GLAM movement</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (known collectively as “</span><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/GLAM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GLAMs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">”) work hard to make cultural heritage collections available to the public. For these institutions, providing access to knowledge and culture is a core aspect of their duty and public interest </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/18/copyright-law-must-enable-museums-to-fulfill-their-mission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mission</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Many institutions are digitizing and making </span><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/janeatcc/cc-cultural-heritage" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">cultural heritage</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> collections available online in an effort to both preserve and openly share cultural heritage materials. The Open GLAM movement acknowledges this mission and actively promotes this premise, helping GLAMs make the most out of CC licenses and tools to communicate what users can do with digitized material. At CC, we strongly advocate for open access to public domain material held in GLAM collections for the benefit of all. CC firmly believes that digital reproductions of public domain material within these collections should </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/11/20/reproductions-of-public-domain-works/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">remain in the public domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and be accessible online as openly as possible.</span></p>
<h3><b>Indigenous cultural heritage and Open GLAM</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reuse freedoms associated with public domain materials, and fostered through digitization, can create tension when it comes to Indigenous cultural heritage. Existing copyright law, steeped in Western concepts and values, does not adequately protect Indigenous traditional cultural expressions, nor does it sufficiently reflect or account for Indigenous cultural values. By default, many forms of Indigenous heritage or “traditional cultural expressions” (which may include secret, sacred, or sensitive content) </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2018/09/18/traditional-knowledge-and-the-commons-the-open-movement-listening-and-learning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">are inequitably deemed public domain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> under conventional copyright law.<a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn1"><sup>1</sup></a> One of the challenges is that the copyright system does not properly account for the ways in which traditional cultural expressions are created, collectively held, and transmitted through the generations. The copyright eligibility criteria, such as originality and authorship, are often at odds with Indigenous notions of creativity and custodianship over a community’s cultural heritage.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> As a result, it may seem that such heritage is freely available for use and reuse, when in truth this may not be the case. Permitting this level of access and use raises ethical concerns which must be fully considered.</span><a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn2"><sup>2</sup></a></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Existing copyright law, steeped in Western concepts and values, does not adequately protect Indigenous traditional cultural expressions, nor does it sufficiently reflect or account for Indigenous cultural values.</strong> </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The notion of the “public domain” is relevant within the confines of the copyright system.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> So, while Indigenous cultural heritage may be regarded as public domain under copyright rules, and thus free to use, other rights and interests may still attach to it, stemming from various sources. These include other legal </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">restrictions like privacy rights, other intellectual property rights (including </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">sui generis</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> rights to protect traditional cultural expressions), and personality rights, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">as well as Indigenous customary laws and protocols. In practice, this means that access to and use of Indigenous materials may be limited, and justified, on grounds found outside of the copyright system. Because these rights and interests are not protected under copyright law, they are not licensed under CC’s licenses and tools, which operate solely within the copyright system. This means that specific terms or conditions on access and use that are based on Indigenous rights, interests, or wishes are not fully addressed when applying CC licenses and tools only and that additional measures might be advisable to correctly reflect the conditions associated with access and use of traditional cultural expressions. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/01/30/jane-anderson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Local Contexts</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a labeling system inspired by Creative Commons, was designed to address this issue by alerting reusers to local protocols established by communities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">GLAMs are in a pivotal position to take active steps in support of Indigenous cultural interests and values. Through thoughtful, intentional, and respectful decision making, GLAMs can enable the ethical treatment of cultural heritage materials, going beyond the application of conventional copyright law and the determination of a work’s public domain status. GLAMs should take account of Indigenous peoples’ rights and interests, particularly regarding digitization, access, and reuse of Indigenous cultural heritage. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_62026" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62026" style="width: 547px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-62026" src="media/b6d9a517.Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0--300x203.jpg" data-original-source="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2215318215771_72c527508c_k22-Photo-of-the-Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0--300x203.jpg" alt="Ndebele Tribe in South Africa" width="547" height="370" srcset="https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2215318215771_72c527508c_k22-Photo-of-the-Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0--300x203.jpg 300w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2215318215771_72c527508c_k22-Photo-of-the-Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0--1024x694.jpg 1024w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2215318215771_72c527508c_k22-Photo-of-the-Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0--768x520.jpg 768w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2215318215771_72c527508c_k22-Photo-of-the-Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0--1536x1040.jpg 1536w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2215318215771_72c527508c_k22-Photo-of-the-Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0--59x40.jpg 59w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2215318215771_72c527508c_k22-Photo-of-the-Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0--50x34.jpg 50w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2215318215771_72c527508c_k22-Photo-of-the-Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0--229x155.jpg 229w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2215318215771_72c527508c_k22-Photo-of-the-Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0--1200x813.jpg 1200w, https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2215318215771_72c527508c_k22-Photo-of-the-Ndebele-Tribe-in-South-Africa-by-UN-CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0-.jpg 1971w" sizes="(max-width: 547px) 85vw, 547px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-62026" class="wp-caption-text">A South African woman from the Ndebele tribe stands in front of a house in 1983. This picture was provided by the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/15318215771/in/album-72157614476504440/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UN Photo/P Mugubane</a> and shared via Flickr under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<h3><b>A study of GLAM policies on Indigenous cultural heritage</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In an effort to better understand how GLAMs are tackling this tension, we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/05/21/welcome-our-summer-2020-policy-intern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">undertook desk-based research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> aimed at surveying and analyzing GLAM policies and practices dealing with the treatment of Indigenous cultural materials.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn3"><sup>3</sup></a> After collecting a diverse range of resources from various GLAMs located in different world regions, we studied them to find common trends, best practices, strategies and rationales.<span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><a title="Jump to Footnote on footnote styles" href="#fn4"><sup>4</sup></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We found that some institutions attempt to strike a balance between their aim to share collections openly and the need to prioritize Indigenous peoples’ interests in their cultural heritage. The policies in place at </span><a href="https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/collections/using-our-images/requesting-images/guide-to-requesting-maori-images" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Auckland War Memorial Museum</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (discussed </span><a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/mana-taonga-mana-tangata-faf314d05556" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with Open GLAM on Medium), </span><a href="https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/collections-online/about-collections-online" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="media/d9f9d05d.us-Cultural-and-Intellectual-Cultural-Property-Protocol-v1.0.pdf" data-original-source="https://maas.museum/app/uploads/2016/08/Australian-Indigenous-Cultural-and-Intellectual-Cultural-Property-Protocol-v1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are great examples of institutions working to strike this balance. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally, we were able to identify three key themes in the surveyed policies: </span></p>
<ol>
<li><b>Acknowledgment</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—GLAMs should recognize and affirm the interests Indigenous peoples have in their cultural and intellectual property, existing both inside and outside conventional copyright law.</span></li>
<li><b>Consultation</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—GLAMs should form authentic and meaningful relationships with source communities, understanding customary law and protocols, and determining community needs and wishes with regard to their cultural heritage. </span></li>
<li><b>Guardianship</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">—GLAMs should actively respect community decisions regarding digitization, access, and use, giving Indigenous communities full agency over how their cultural material is treated.</span></li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While this research provides us with initial insight, it is only the first step in understanding the important but complex interrelations between the goals of the Open GLAM movement and the celebration of the public domain on the one hand, and the ethical, and at times legal, obligation to respect Indigenous cultural heritage. Looking at institutional policies probes a narrow aspect of a much larger conversation. More work needs to be done, and CC will continue to explore ways to bring attention to this issue. In the meantime, we remain convinced that as far as Indigenous cultural heritage is concerned, GLAMs should acknowledge that access and reuse restrictions might be justified in certain situations. With continued efforts, we hope to better inform the Open GLAM movement of best practices when digitizing and making material available online, accounting for more than just the “public domain” status of Indigenous cultural heritage. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>We remain convinced that as far as Indigenous cultural heritage is concerned, GLAMs should acknowledge that access and reuse restrictions might be justified in certain situations.</strong> </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moving forward, we at Creative Commons intend to explore paths to find ways to resolve this tension in the GLAM space and beyond. Ideally, we would like to conduct further research to develop informed policy options, hold open conversations and consultations with relevant stakeholders on these important issues based on the principles of collaboration, inclusivity, and transparency, and continue to clarify how CC licenses and tools work and develop ways to better reflect and account for Indigenous rights and interests in their cultural heritage.</span></p>
<h4 id="footnote">Notes</h4>
<p>1. <a id="fn1"></a>Some countries have sui generis (tailor-made) systems of protection in place designed specifically to protect traditional cultural expressions from misappropriation and misuse. For further information, see WIPO’s “<a href="https://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/tk/en/resources/pdf/compilation_sui_generis_regimes.pdf?utm_source=WIPO+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=3f1afe4971-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_24_01_20&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_bcb3de19b4-3f1afe4971-256848429" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Compilation of Information on National and Regional Sui Generis regimes for the Intellectual Property Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions</a>.” However, no such regime exists at the international level. The <a href="https://www.wipo.int/tk/en/igc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Intergovernmental Committee</a> of the World Intellectual Property Organization is the forum in which negotiations take place to develop a sui generis international legal instrument for the protection of traditional cultural expressions.<br />
2. <a id="fn2"></a>In the case of museums, the <a href="media/ce0c3efa.ICOM-code-En-web.pdf" data-original-source="https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ICOM-code-En-web.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">International Council of Museums (ICOM) Code of Ethics</a> provides one basis for recognizing Indigenous cultural interests as an ethical consideration.<br />
3. <a id="fn3"></a>For the sake of compatibility, we modeled our approach on the <a href="https://medium.com/open-glam/uncovering-the-global-picture-of-open-glam-af364aadeeee" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open GLAM survey</a>.<br />
4. <a id="fn4"></a>Note that the sample of policies reviewed was relatively small next to the large number of GLAMs. As such, the results are not comprehensive nor are they necessarily representative of GLAM practices more broadly.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/08/sharing-indigenous-cultural-heritage-online-an-overview-of-glam-policies/">Sharing Indigenous Cultural Heritage Online: An Overview of GLAM Policies</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


