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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66311
title: Pioneers of Open Culture: A look back at how open access happened at three early adopters
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever wondered how it must have been for some of the first cultural heritage institutions to embark on their open access journey? <a href="https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/team/weinberg">Michael Weinberg</a>, Executive Director of the <a href="https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg">Engelberg Center on Innovation Law &amp; Policy at NYU Law</a>, talked to three major institutions that helped shape the early open GLAM / open culture movement to find out. Here’s what he found. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The list of Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) with open access programs gets longer every day. However, those programs don’t just happen. They are the result of work from teams inside and outside of the institution.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Like the commons they create, the open access programs build on one another.  Each open access program launched today uses lessons learned from programs that came before.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Pioneers of Open Culture” contains three case studies of open GLAM early adopters.  It examines some of the institutions that created open access programs in the early days of the movement.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The National Gallery of Art (United States), </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Statens Museum for Kunst</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and New York Public Library are different institutions. They have different funding models, different relationships to government, and different styles of public engagement.  In the years since they started, their open access programs have taken different directions.  However, all three pioneered their own versions of successful open access programs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">None of these institutions would claim to have built their programs alone.  They were part of communities, discussions, and practices that evolved along with them.  At the same time, these institutions navigated their environment with many fewer models than are available today.  That forced them to learn lessons that today’s institutions can take for granted.  These case studies help shed light on that process.   </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pioneers of Open Culture is not a comprehensive analysis of each institution’s open access program.  It also does not explore all of the institutions that contributed to the early days of the open culture movement.  Instead, it is an exploration of how some of the people who created and operated these programs understood their work.  The goal is to provide a window into the process. This window might help those who want to follow similar paths.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While each case study has conclusions specific to the institution, a few points of commonality do begin to emerge:</span></p>
<h3><b>Digital Infrastructure Matters</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.  </span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Successful open access programs are built on digital foundations that directly incorporate rights and rights awareness.  Digital systems redesigns were opportunities to build the possibility of open into an institution’s DNA.  Well designed digital backends also made it easier to experiment with smaller projects that were not true one-offs, but rather closely integrated into the institution’s technology infrastructure.</span></p>
<h3><b>Experimentation is Important.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collections are diverse, as are the users who are interested in them. Open access programs succeed when there is space to try new things, and create multiple points of entry into an institution’s collections. This is true for members of the public who want to explore the collection.  It is also true of internal stakeholders who want to understand how open access can help them achieve their own goals.  Space takes the form of financial support from within and without the institution.  It also takes the space of an institutional environment that is welcoming to experimentation.</span></p>
<h3><b>Make the Easy Things Easy. </b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open access programs can be challenging to construct and sustain.  Technology must be built.  Collections must be designed.  Rights statuses must be documented.  That makes it important to use tools that make things easier whenever they exist.  Those tools include legal tools, such as the CC0 public domain dedication, and technical tools, such as open source software.  The reliability of these tools allows teams to focus on the hard parts of creating open access collections.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Pioneers of Open Culture” brings color and context to the history of open access.  Hopefully, understanding that history can help accelerate open access programs yet to be created, and encourage people to embark on </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of cultural heritage worldwide.</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What to know more or get involved in CC’s open culture program? Reach out: </span><a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">  </span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66330
title: Bringing Better Sharing to Davos
uri: Bringing-Better-Sharing-to-Davos
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/16/bringing-better-sharing-to-davos/
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<p>Creative Commons is in Davos this week for the World Economic Forum (WEF). While CC is not (yet) a formal member of the forum, there is extensive programming available to the public that touches on our work. As we strive to strengthen the voice of civil society and promote better sharing of knowledge and culture in the public interest, we feel it’s critical to ensure CC’s values of openness, access, collaboration, sustainability, creativity, equity, inclusivity, and diversity are taken into account in WEF conversations, especially those around emerging technology. It is imperative that we steer these discussions — and ultimately the development of new technology — to support better sharing.</p>
<p>I’m fortunate to be able to attend this week of public programming, alongside Brigitte Vézina, CC’s Director of Policy and Open Culture. We recognize the privilege of representing CC, and look forward to a week of learning, listening, and partnership. While we are in Davos, CC’s CEO Catherine Stihler is participating in this year’s launch event of the <a href="https://discovermap.org/">Morgridge Acceleration Program</a>, for which she is one of twelve selected mentors.</p>
<p>While we are here we are for critical listening and making new connections, we’ve also got the opportunity to speak about open culture, the importance of strengthening the public domain, and better sharing. Our work is guided by how we see better sharing:</p>
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<li aria-level="1">Sharing that is inclusive, just and equitable — where everyone has a wide opportunity to access content, contribute their own creativity, and receive recognition and rewards for their contributions.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Sharing that is reciprocal — where we rebalance the skewed world we live in now, in which a few produce and profit from works that the many consume.</li>
<li aria-level="1">Sharing that is sustainable — where open participation in the public commons is the default, rather than the exception.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Open Culture: From Web2 to a Better Internet</h2>
<p>Today (Monday 16 January) Brigitte will be joining a panel of experts to discuss the evolution of the web. On Thursday 19 January, Brigitte will take the stage for a Lightning Keynote on Open Culture to discuss the challenges of the current digital space for open culture and concrete actions to shape a better internet, based on CC’s new global <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/19/cc-publishes-global-open-culture-call-to-action-to-policymakers/">open culture call to action</a>.</p>
<p>If we want to address the world’s most pressing problems, enable people to lead richer lives, and build a sustainable future for all, we need to unlock the possibilities of the digital age to preserve, share, and reuse cultural heritage free from undue restrictions. CC’s five key open culture policy actions are:</p>
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<li aria-level="1">Protect the public domain from erosion</li>
<li aria-level="1">Reduce the term of copyright protection</li>
<li aria-level="1">Legally allow necessary activities of cultural heritage institutions</li>
<li aria-level="1">Shield cultural heritage institutions from liability</li>
<li aria-level="1">Ensure respect, equity, and inclusivity</li>
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<h2>Generative AI &amp; Other Emerging Technologies</h2>
<p>In addition to formal speaking engagements, we have a purposeful learning agenda during our time in Davos. There are formal sessions and ad hoc meetings taking place around open and decentralized science, open standards in the metaverse, and the explosion of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Whether chat, image, or video, new AI systems are turning heads and raising thorny questions around creators, users, copyright, and remuneration.</p>
<p>As we build on the AI policy and advocacy work <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/03/our-work-in-policy-at-cc-artificial-intelligence/">we emphasized last year</a>, we’ll work to lead conversations on how we can protect creators and users from harms, while harnessing a new technology to enhance our global digital commons and work in the public interest. Our guiding questions continue to be: How does the proliferation of AI connect to better sharing? And how does AI connect to a public interest vision for a better internet?</p>
<p>If you’d like to catch up while we’re in Davos <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/contact/">please get in touch</a>!</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66335
title: Coming Soon! Season 2 of Open Culture VOICES
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/17/coming-soon-season-2-of-open-culture-voices/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture is a growing sector of the open movement around the world, with museums, galleries, archives and libraries increasingly making collections available and accessible online. The <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/voices-vlog/">Open Culture VOICES</a> series aims to shine a light on the leaders and advocates in the sector to inspire others and increase the accessibility and availability of cultural heritage globally.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As in the first season, we ask each guest only four questions about the benefits, barriers, what inspired them, and what advice they would share with others. Episodes will be released on a weekly basis from 7 February 2023 and until the end of the year. We are delighted to share that this season we have guests from Africa, South America, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and North America.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you have a recommendation for someone we should feature in a future season, please email </span><a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with the subject “OCV Recommendation”</span></p>
<blockquote><p>In the meantime, you can <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">catch up on all 35 episodes from season one here &gt;&gt; </a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66342
title: 2023: The Year of Open Science
uri: 2023-The-Year-of-Open-Science
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/17/2023-the-year-of-open-science/
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<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-66344" src="media/1b208c6c.YOS-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS-300x169.png" alt="" width="350" height="197" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/YOS.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /></p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2023</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the year of the rabbit in the Chinese Lunar calendar, the year </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Voyager 2</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is predicted to overtake </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pioneer 10</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as the second-farthest spacecraft from Earth, and the Year of Open Science. In </span><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2023/01/11/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-advance-open-and-equitable-research/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">an announcement</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), 2023 was declared the Year of Open Science, along with new actions to advance open and equitable research. Creative Commons (CC) congratulates everyone involved in these momentous announcements, which promise to advance open science in the US federal government and bring new investments in open access research. A list of the participating agencies, as well as updates on the initiative, can be found at the newly created </span><a href="https://open.science.gov/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open.science.gov</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">2023 will also be a memorable year for CC and the </span><a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Climate Campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, as we embark on working with national governments, funders and environmental organizations to create, adopt and implement open access policies to promote better sharing of climate change and biodiversity knowledge. We were thrilled to see OSTP emphasize values core to our </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> strategy at CC: “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The principle and practice of making research products and processes available to all, while respecting diverse cultures, maintaining security and privacy, and fostering collaborations, reproducibility, and equity.” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC looks forward to building on our involvement in </span><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/transform-to-open-science"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NASA’s TOPS</span></a> <a href="https://github.com/nasa/Transform-to-Open-Science/tree/main/docs/Area1_Engagement/Community_Panels"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Community Panel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and to forge new connections and provide direct support on best practices for open licensing requirements, as US federal agencies and departments update their public open access plans per </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/26/a-big-win-for-open-access/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OSTP’s new guidance</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are excited to work with additional national governments looking to emulate these leaps forward in making publicly funded knowledge openly licensed and accessible for the common good. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are looking to join the ranks of countries like the Government of Ukraine, which recently approved its</span> <a href="https://www.eifl.net/news/ukraine-launches-national-open-science-action-plan"><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Open Science Action Plan</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/second-national-plan-for-open-science/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">France</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and others, please contact us. We are happy to help.</p>
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<blockquote><p><span>To learn more about the Open Climate Campaign or to connect, <a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/">please visit the Open Climate Campaign </a></span><span>website</span><span>.</span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66357
title: Aparta la fecha: la Cumbre Global de Creative Commons 2023 llegará a la Ciudad de México
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/19/aparta-la-fecha-la-cumbre-global-de-creative-commons-2023-llegara-a-la-ciudad-de-mexico/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-66358 size-large" src="media/71508f5c.CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png" alt="Una foto teñida de azul de la bandera mexicana sobre la Plaza Zócalo de la Ciudad de México decorada con el logotipo de la cumbre global de CC y un texto que dice “Ciudad de México | 3-6 de octubre de 2023” y un enlace directo a la pagina oficial de la cumbre “SUMMIT.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG”" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" />[<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/19/mark-your-calendars-the-2023-cc-global-summit-is-coming-to-mexico-city">Read this post in English &gt;</a>]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">La </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cumbre Global de Creative Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> volverá a ser un evento presencial este 2023, y esta vez se llevará a cabo en una de las ciudades más imponentes y llenas de cultura del mundo:</span><b> ¡la Ciudad de México!</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Del 3 al 6 de octubre de 2023, nos reuniremos en el </span><a href="https://tlatelolco.unam.mx/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México para compartir abiertamente ideas y contribuir en la creación de un futuro más brillante para el movimiento de intercambio abierto (open sharing movement). Este maravilloso evento se logrará en colaboración con </span><a href="https://mx.creativecommons.net/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons México </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">y esperamos que puedas asistir a lo que será una experiencia inolvidable.</p>
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La Cumbre Mundial de Creative Commons no podría llegar en un mejor momento: nunca antes los bienes comunes de interés público habían sido más importantes, más grandes y mayormente esenciales para resolver los principales desafíos mundiales  y ayudarnos a las personas  a llevar vidas más gratificantes y significativas. El tema de la Cumbre se alinea con </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">nuestra estrategia de 5 años</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, “Compartir mejor para un futuro más brillante” (Better Sharing, Brighter Future), estamos muy entusiasmados de explorar un intercambio contextual, inclusivo, justo, equitativo, recíproco y sostenible en una de las principales ciudades de América Latina. El programa de la Cumbre Mundial de Creative Commons incluirá conferencias magistrales, paneles, sesiones comunitarias, talleres, trabajo en red, arte y música. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Los 6 temas de la cumbre serán:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Ciencia/Clima:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> abogar por cómo la investigación abierta y los datos juegan un papel fundamental para abordar los desafíos globales.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Educación:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> destacaremos el trabajo de quienes crean oportunidades y abogan por un acceso más equitativo a los recursos educativos.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Cultura:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> discutiremos cómo la preservación, el acceso, el intercambio, el uso y la reutilización de la cultura son ingredientes esenciales de sociedades prósperas y resilientes.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Periodismo: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">abordaremos los desafíos críticos que enfrentan los periodistas, creadores de contenido y narradores; además exploraremos cómo los bienes comunes abiertos pueden fortalecer el ecosistema de los medios.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Mejor internet (Web3, Datos, IA, Política)</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: explorando cómo podemos trabajar todas las personas juntas para lograr un &#8220;mejor Internet&#8221; y lo que eso significa en el mundo actual de tecnología emergente y un ecosistema de Internet que cambia rápidamente.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Arte y tecnología emergente</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: abordaremos problemas actuales que afectan a las y los artistas y personas creadoras a nivel mundial, y exploraremos oportunidades en la sección transversal de creatividad, acceso abierto y tecnología.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">La Ciudad de México aparte de ser una de las 10 ciudades más grandes del mundo,es una gran mezcla de culturas donde puedes encontrar un equilibrio perfecto entre tradición y modernidad. La Cumbre será la oportunidad perfecta para explorar sus hermosas calles, historia y arquitectura además de variada e incomparable gastronomía mientras aprendes de las personas expertas en el ramo de la tecnología, te relacionas con otros profesionales y contribuyes al Movimiento abierto (Open Sharing Movement).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC reconoce que el idioma puede ser una barrera para la conexión y la comunicación en nuestra comunidad global. Para la Cumbre Global 2023, CC publicará comunicados importantes tanto en inglés como en español, y estamos investigando cómo apoyar mejor tanto en inglés como en español en el programa de la Cumbre. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">¿Le gustaría a tu organización formar parte del futuro de la creatividad y la colaboración digital? ¡Únete a nosotros como patrocinador en la Cumbre Global Creative Commons 2023 en la Ciudad de México! Estamos buscando patrocinadores para hacer posible este evento intercultural y apoyar nuestro trabajo en Creative Commons. Además, tu patrocinio apoyará el Programa de Becas, que permitirá la expansión de oportunidades de representación globales durante la cumbre y dentro del Movimiento Abierto (Open Sharing Movement) ¿Interesado? Comuníquese con Kat Drew al correo: </span><a href="mailto:kat@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">kat@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> para explorar oportunidades de patrocinio.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Para tener una mejor idea de lo que se puede esperar de la Cumbre Global CC en la página de nuestra última cumbre en persona en Portugal 2019:<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/08/27/now-you-can-watch-the-keynotes-from-ccs-2019-global-summit/"> b</a><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/05/29/ccsummit-2019/">log</a><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/08/27/now-you-can-watch-the-keynotes-from-ccs-2019-global-summit/"> y p</a><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/08/27/now-you-can-watch-the-keynotes-from-ccs-2019-global-summit/">resentaciones</a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66356
title: Mark Your Calendars: The 2023 CC Global Summit Is Coming to Mexico City
uri: Mark-Your-Calendars-The-2023-CC-Global-Summit-Is-Coming-to-Mexico-Cit
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/19/mark-your-calendars-the-2023-cc-global-summit-is-coming-to-mexico-city/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-66358 size-large" src="media/71508f5c.CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png" alt="A photo tinted blue of a giant Mexican flag flying over Mexico City’s Zocalo Square with the Cathedral in the background, decorated with CC Global Summit logo and text that says “Mexico City | 3-6 Oct 2023” and “SUMMIT.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" />[<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/19/aparta-la-fecha-la-cumbre-global-de-creative-commons-2023-llegara-a-la-ciudad-de-mexico">Lee esta entrada en español &gt;</a>]</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are thrilled to announce that the </span><a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Global Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will return to an in-person event in 2023, and this time we are heading to one of the most vibrant and culturally rich cities in the world — Mexico City! During 3-6 October 2023, we will be gathering at the </span><a href="https://tlatelolco.unam.mx/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to unite, share ideas, and create a brighter future for open sharing. We are thrilled to be organizing the event in collaboration with </span><a href="https://mx.creativecommons.net/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Mexico</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and hope you will be able to join in what will be an unforgettable experience.</p>
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This opportunity to gather together couldn’t come at a better time: Never before has the public interest commons been richer, larger, or more essential to solving the world’s biggest challenges and helping us all lead rewarding and meaningful lives. The theme of the Summit aligns with our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">5-year strategy, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Better Sharing, Brighter Future</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and we&#8217;re excited to explore sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable in one of Latin America’s major cities. The program will be filled with keynotes, panels, community sessions, workshops, networking, art, and music. The 6 Summit tracks will include:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Science/Climate</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Advocating for how open research and data play critical roles in addressing global challenges.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Education</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Highlighting the work of those creating opportunity and advocating for more equitable access to educational resources.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Culture</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Examining how preservation, access, sharing, use and reuse of culture are essential ingredients of thriving and resilient societies.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Journalism</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Addressing the critical challenges that journalists, content creators and storytellers face, and exploring how the open commons can strengthen the media ecosystem.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Better Internet </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Web3, Data, AI, Policy): Exploring how we can all work together to achieve a “better internet” and what that means in today’s world of emerging technology and a rapidly changing internet ecosystem.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Arts &amp; Emerging Technologies</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Addressing timely issues impacting artists and creators globally, and exploring opportunities at the cross-section of creativity, Open Access, and technology.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">As one of the 10 largest cities in the world, Mexico City is a vibrant, never-ending mix of cultures, where you can find a perfect balance between tradition and modernity. The Summit will be the perfect opportunity to explore the city&#8217;s vibrant streets, rich history, and delicious food, while also learning from experts in the field, network with other professionals, and contribute to the open movement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC recognizes that language can be a barrier to connection and communication in our global community. For the 2023 CC Global Summit, we will be publishing major communications in both English and Spanish, and we are investigating how to best support both English and Spanish in the Summit program. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Does your organization want to shape the future of digital creativity and collaboration? Join us as a sponsor at the 2023 CC Global Summit in Mexico City! We are finalizing sponsors to help make this cross-cultural event possible and support our work at Creative Commons. In addition, your sponsorship will support the Scholarship Fund, which will enable wider community representation at the Summit within open knowledge spaces. Interested? Reach out to Kat Drew at </span><a href="mailto:kat@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">kat@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to explore sponsorship opportunities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get a taste of what to expect at the CC Global Summit by revisiting our last in-person summit in Portugal 2019. Check out the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/05/29/ccsummit-2019/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrap-up blog post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2019/08/27/now-you-can-watch-the-keynotes-from-ccs-2019-global-summit/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">watch all seven keynotes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.<br />
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66375
title: CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | January: Open Palms, Not Clutching Fists
uri: CC-s-BetterSharing-Collection-January-Open-Palms-Not-Clutching
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of #20CC, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> looks like in action. Our #BetterSharing collection of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness with transforming these perspectives into captivating visual pieces available under a CC license.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_66064" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66064" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66064" src="media/8bc15645.Burcu-Koleli-768x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-768x1024.png" alt="An illustration of a person opening their hands toward a group of people interlocking arms and looking at the landscape towards the sun, birds, hills and a rainbow with text that says &quot;OPEN PALMS, NOT CLUTCHING FISTS&quot;" width="350" height="467" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-768x1024.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-225x300.png 225w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-1152x1536.png 1152w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-1536x2048.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-30x40.png 30w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-38x50.png 38w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-116x155.png 116w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli-1200x1600.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burcu-Koleli.png 1782w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66064" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/open-palms-not-clutching-fists"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Palms, Not Clutching Fists</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/burcukoleli/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Burcu Köleli</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For January, we&#8217;re excited to showcase “</span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/open-palms-not-clutching-fists"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Palms, Not Clutching Fists</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by illustrator and visual artist, Burcu Köleli. The piece, licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, was inspired by a quote from </span><a href="https://twitter.com/brainpicker"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maria Popova</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, founder and editor of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings): </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Never forget that an open palm is a greater platform of power than a clutching fist.” </span></p></blockquote>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meet the artist:</span></h3>
<figure id="attachment_66378" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66378" style="width: 283px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66378" src="media/7fb2761f.48ce76814a529551316789184efd0d7c._thumbnail-300x283.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/48ce76814a529551316789184efd0d7c._thumbnail-300x283.jpg" alt="Photo of Burcu Köleli" width="283" height="267" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/48ce76814a529551316789184efd0d7c._thumbnail-300x283.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/48ce76814a529551316789184efd0d7c._thumbnail-42x40.jpg 42w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/48ce76814a529551316789184efd0d7c._thumbnail-50x47.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/48ce76814a529551316789184efd0d7c._thumbnail-165x155.jpg 165w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/48ce76814a529551316789184efd0d7c._thumbnail.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 283px) 85vw, 283px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66378" class="wp-caption-text">Photo courtesy of <span style="font-weight: 400;">Burcu Köleli </span></figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Burcu Köleli is a passionate intersectional environmentalist and feminist. Her work, which includes digital illustrations and gouache paintings, is driven by activism, human relationships, and daily life. Believing in the power of art to create change, Burcu uses her talents to communicate social and environmental issues. She aims to create inclusive artwork that celebrates nature and women, while spreading joy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow Burcu on Instagram: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/burcukoleli/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@burcukoleli</span></a><br />
<span>Follow Burcu on Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/burcukolelii"><span>@burcukoleli</span></a></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The full #BetterSharing collection is available on </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheGreats.co</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to be enjoyed, used and adapted, and then shared again, by anyone, forever. </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing&amp;search="><span style="font-weight: 400;">View the full collection &gt;&gt;</span></a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66389
title: CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks: Join us on 2 February 2023
uri: CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-Join-us-on-2-February-2023
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/25/cc-open-education-platform-lightning-talks-join-us-on-2-february-2023/

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<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-large wp-image-66390" src="media/1f6bc495.-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900-1024x576.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900-1024x576.png" alt="" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023-CC-Open-Education-Platform-Lightning-Talks-1600-x-900.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Creative Commons Open Education Platform community welcomes you to our Lightning Talks, or seven-minute presentations on specific updates or stories in open education.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kicking off our Lightning Talks series for 2023, presenters will highlight: open educational resources (OER) as tools for social justice, work/life balance, climate change and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (</span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SDGs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). Presenters will also focus on particular platforms, such as LibreTexts and Curationist, which provide technical advancements for open education. Learn more about the presentations below. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us via </span><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81264457648"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zoom</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at 4:00 PM UTC on 2 February 2023, ready to learn. </span><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20230202T160000&amp;p1=1440"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Determine the meeting time in your local time zone</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3><b>Reimagining Open Education as Social Justice</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong>Speakers: </strong>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ravon Ruffin, Educational Programs Manager at MHz Foundation. Ruffin is also CEO and co-founder of the creative studio and arts incubator Brown Art Ink. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amanda Figueroa, Community Director at MHz Foundation. Figueroa is also the co-founder of Brown Art Ink.</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Summary:</strong> This session will be an overview and exploration of the Curationist platform, a digital open access tool for publishing materials found in the Creative Commons and public domain. This tool brings together arts and culture communities to find, share, collaborate, and reimagine cultural narratives. Curationist is a response to the urgent call for decolonial methodologies within curation, education, and art, and will exist as a vital resource within openGLAM, OER, and Indigenous data sovereignty.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>LibreTexts 101: Building the Textbook of the Future</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Speaker:</strong> Delmar Larsen, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, and Founder and Director of the LibreTexts project.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Summary:</strong> Larsen will provide a topical overview of the LibreVerse &#8211; the suite of tools and technologies to advance the building and usage of OER textbooks, assessments, and other activities. The overview will include a discussion of the Libraries, ADAPT homework system, jupyter, Commons&amp;Conductor, SOLO, bots and more. The key approach to the LibreVerse is to build and use technology to advance specific goals and avoid its limitations. Hence, a multi-goals effort like LibreTexts requires a multi-technology platform &#8211; the LibreVerse.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Using Machine Translation Algorithms to Effectively generate Non-English language OER Textbooks</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Speaker:</strong> Delmar Larsen, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, and Founder and Director of the LibreTexts project.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Summary:</strong> Larsen’s </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">presentation will outline recent efforts of leveraging the centralized corpus of OER textbooks hosted on the LibreTexts platform toward a greater global impact. Larson will also discuss the implementation and impact of two approaches in building non-English language OER textbooks via modern machine translation algorithms. Key to these approaches is recognizing that while modern machine translation algorithms have developed significantly over the past few years, and they are still 90-95% perfect, their implementation makes them far more useful to students than the alternative human implemented translation effort at 100% implemented at a limited scale and with significant costs.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Integration of Values and Ethics in OER for Climate Change and the SDG&#8217;s</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Speaker:</strong> Dr Suma Parahakaran, head of the Faculty of Education at Manipal Globalnxt University in Malaysia, and serves as a Visiting Professor at the American University of Sovereign Nations. She was also part of the task force for training teachers to integrate Values and Ethics into the Curriculum content for the UNHABITAT water education project. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Summary:</strong> This presentation will highlight options for collaborative OER for learning communities. </span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>OER as a Social Justice tool, the case of digital accessibility</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Speaker:</strong> Nicolas Simon, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, and Social Work at Eastern Connecticut State University. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Summary:</strong> By being cost-free, Open Educational Resources (OER) are electronically available for all students. The economic inclusion of all learners is the first step toward social justice. Another step is to use OER, which are specifically digitally accessible to include all types of learners. By using OER, we educators can promote and teach about digital accessibility. Then we can invite our students to use digital accessibility in the creation of new OER. In this sense, OER are good opportunities to advocate for inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, and social justice.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Get the Balance Right: Using Mindfulness OER for Intentional Work and Life Practices</b></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Speaker:</strong> Dr. Carolyn Stevenson is currently a full-time faculty member and faculty advisor for Purdue University Global, School of General Education, Department of Professional Studies, with over 23 years teaching and administrative experience in higher education at both the undergraduate and graduate level. She completed her Ed.D. from Roosevelt University, M.B.A. from Kaplan University, M.A. in Communications from Governor’s State University and B.A. in English from Northern Illinois University.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong>Summary:</strong> This session will discuss using mindfulness OER to foster a health work/life balance. The session will also provide participants with resources and will include a brief meditation exercise.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join us via </span><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81264457648"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zoom</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> at 4:00 PM UTC on 2 February 2023, ready to learn. </span><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20230202T160000&amp;p1=1440"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Determine the meeting time in your local time zone</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66413
title: Scanning 3D: Cultural Heritage Preservation, Access and Revitalization
uri: Scanning-3D-Cultural-Heritage-Preservation-Access-and-Revitalization
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/30/scanning-3d-cultural-heritage-preservation-access-and-revitalization/

content:
<figure id="attachment_66414" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66414" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66414" src="media/82bd614e.Hypogeum-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum-300x169.jpg" alt="Glowing greenish 2-dimensional view of statues of human figures in a 3-dimensional scan of the interior of in the Hypogeum of the Volumnis in Perugia, Italy." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum-440x250.jpg 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Hypogeum.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66414" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="media/7de9b69b.FileHypogeum_cyark_2.jpg" data-original-source="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hypogeum_cyark_2.jpg">3D view of the Tablinum in the Hypogeum of the Volumnis, Perugia, Italy</a> by <a href="https://cyark.org/">CyArk</a>, via Wikimedia Commons is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>On 7 February 2023, Creative Commons will host a panel discussion on 3D scanning, preservation, access and revitalization of cultural heritage. As 3D technologies advance and cultural heritage institutions around the world seek better ways to enable people to engage with their collections, we also see cultural artifacts threatened by global climate change, armed conflict, and economic instability. At CC, we see building the “3D” commons in this complex moment as an essential activity in enabling a brighter future for all and solving the world’s most pressing challenges. How can 3D technologies and practices support what we call <em>better sharing</em>: sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable?</p>
<p>With experts, we’ll explore the many considerations around 3D scanning as it relates to cultural heritage preservation, revitalization, access and better sharing, as well as the impact on the public domain. Panelists will address:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">the importance of open access to scans of cultural artifacts</li>
<li aria-level="1">the legal issues that can challenge access to 3D scans</li>
<li aria-level="1">policy implications of open licensing 3D scans</li>
<li aria-level="1">cultural and equity considerations around the origins of objects scanned</li>
<li aria-level="1">how museums, artists and organizations put 3D scanning and sharing into practice</li>
</ul>
<p>CC’s Director of Learning and Training, Jennryn Wetzler, will moderate an expert panel with:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/team/weinberg">Michael Weinberg</a>, Executive Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, NYU School of Law</li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.smk.dk/en/contact_person/jonas-heide-smith/">Jonas Heide Smith</a>, Head of Digital at SMK, The National Gallery of Denmark</li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://cosmowenman.com/">Cosmo Wenman</a>, Open Access Advocate and 3D Design and Fabrication Consultant</li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://communia-association.org/author/teresa-nobre/">Teresa Nobre</a>, Legal Director, COMMUNIA</li>
<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://twitter.com/nebulousflynn">Thomas Flynn</a>, Cultural Heritage Lead, Sketchfab</li>
</ul>
<p>As UNESCO’s <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/27/cc-celebrates-30-years-of-unesco-memory-of-the-world/">Memory of the World program enters its fourth decade</a>, questions at the intersection of preservation, access, copyright and new technologies are now more topical than ever. Join us to hear from experts and participate in the conversation!</p>
<p><strong>Date</strong>: 7 February 2023<br />
<strong>Time</strong>: 3:30–5:00pm UTC [<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CC+Webinar%3A+Scanning+3D%3A+Cultural+Heritage+Preservation%2C+Access+and+Revitalization&amp;iso=20230207T1530&amp;p1=1440&amp;ah=1&amp;am=30">see the time in your timezone</a>]</p>
<h2><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtf-2hqz0uHNGN4f_QM0K8a2j9mdNVK4sH">Register now &gt;</a></h2>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66468
title: Ofrecerse para ayudar a dar forma a la Cumbre Global CC en la Ciudad de México
uri: Ofrecerse-para-ayudar-a-dar-forma-a-la-Cumbre-Global-CC-en-la-Ciudad-d
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/01/ofrecerse-para-la-cumbre-global-cc/
content:
<p style="text-align: right;">[<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/01/volunteer-for-ccs-global-summit/">Read this post in English &gt;</a>]</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright" src="media/0e5e2c04.CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png" alt="Una foto teñida de azul de la bandera mexicana sobre la Plaza Zócalo de la Ciudad de México decorada con el logotipo de la cumbre global de CC y un texto que dice “Ciudad de México | 3-6 de octubre de 2023” y un enlace directo a la pagina oficial de la cumbre “SUMMIT.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG”" width="300" height="169" /><br />
¿Ya escuchaste la emocionante noticia de que el CC Global Summit 2023 será en la Ciudad de México? Ahora tiene la oportunidad de ser voluntario para unirse a los comités que ayudarán a dar forma al programa y evaluarán las solicitudes de becas para participantes.</p>
<p>Los voluntarios son esenciales para garantizar que la Cumbre CC refleje la rica diversidad de personas involucradas en el movimiento de bienes comunes abiertos. Los miembros anteriores del comités de la Cumbre informan que el voluntariado es muy gratificante, energiza su compromiso con los bienes comunes y expande sus conexiones en la comunidad de CC. ¡Te animamos a que te involucres para que esta Cumbre brille!</p>
<h2>Ofrecerse para el Comité de Programa</h2>
<p>El Comité de Programa es responsable de ayudar a dar forma al aspecto impulsado por la comunidad del programa de la Cumbre. El comité revisará las respuestas a la convocatoria de propuestas de la Cumbre (CFP, la sigla en inglés) y trabajará en colaboración para invitar a aquellos que mejor se adapten al tema, las vías y el cronograma del programa de la Cumbre.</p>
<h3>Plazo de solicitud: 12 de febrero de 2023</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://forms.gle/hWgKgRtDNJomWrNn7">Ofrecerse para el Comité de Programa &gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Papeles</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Miembros del comité (6–8)
<ul>
<li aria-level="2"><strong>Compromiso de tiempo</strong>: reuniones del comité a continuación (aproximadamente 5 horas) MÁS período de revisión (aproximadamente 5 a 8 horas según la cantidad de solicitudes)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li aria-level="1">Copresidentes (2)
<ul>
<li aria-level="2">Miembro del equipo CC: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/natecreativecommons-org/">Nate Angell</a></li>
<li aria-level="2">Miembro de la comunidad CC: Para ser seleccionado de los miembros del comité comunitario</li>
<li aria-level="2"><strong>Compromiso de tiempo</strong>: igual que otros miembros del comité MÁS dos reuniones de preparación adicionales de 1 hora con el equipo CC (probablemente en mediados de febrero y principios de mayo)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Reuniones y fechas clave (provisional)</h3>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Fecha</th>
<th>Hora</th>
<th>Actividad</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>22 de febrero</td>
<td>Para ser arreglado</td>
<td>REUNIÓN: Bienvenida y resumen del programa</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8  de marzo</td>
<td>Para ser arreglado</td>
<td>REUNIÓN: Revisión del formulario de solicitud de CFP</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16 de marzo–20 de abril</td>
<td></td>
<td>Aplicaciones abiertas</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21 de marzo</td>
<td>Para ser arreglado</td>
<td>REUNIÓN: Resumen del proceso de revisión y estructura del programa</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21 de abril–2 de mayo</td>
<td></td>
<td>El comité revisa las solicitudes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4 de mayo</td>
<td>Para ser arreglado</td>
<td>REUNIÓN: Finalizar envíos aceptados</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8 de mayo</td>
<td></td>
<td>Notificaciones de aceptación enviadas</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10 mayo</td>
<td>Para ser arreglado</td>
<td>REUNIÓN: Reunión final</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15 mayo</td>
<td></td>
<td>Confirmaciones de aceptación vencidas</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Ofrecerse para el Comité de Evaluación de Becas</h2>
<p>CC financia a decenas de personas para que asistan a la Cumbre Global CC para apoyar la participación diversa. Este comité de voluntarios es responsable de revisar las solicitudes para el Fondo de Becas de la Cumbre Global CC.</p>
<h3>Plazo de solicitud: 12 de febrero de 2023</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://forms.gle/fJmUmizJs3J9nLCW9">Ofrecerse para el Comité de Evaluación de Becas &gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Papeles</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Miembros del comité (~6)
<ul>
<li aria-level="2"><strong>Compromiso de tiempo</strong>: reuniones del comité a continuación (aproximadamente 4 horas) MÁS período de revisión (aproximadamente 6 a 8 horas según la cantidad de solicitudes)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li aria-level="1">Copresidentes (2)
<ul>
<li aria-level="2">Miembro del equipo CC: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/maricreativecommons-org/">Mari Moreshed</a></li>
<li aria-level="2">Miembro de la comunidad CC: Para ser seleccionado de los miembros del comité comunitario</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Reuniones y fechas clave (provisional)</h3>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Fecha</th>
<th>Hora</th>
<th>Actividad</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23 febrero</td>
<td>Para ser arreglado</td>
<td>REUNIÓN: Bienvenida y resumen</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9 de marzo–12 de avril</td>
<td></td>
<td>Aplicaciones abiertas</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6 de avril</td>
<td>Para ser arreglado</td>
<td>REUNIÓN: Resumen del proceso de revisión</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15–24 de avril</td>
<td></td>
<td>El comité revisa las solicitudes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27 de avril</td>
<td>Para ser arreglado</td>
<td>REUNIÓN: Finalizar decisiones</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2 de mayo</td>
<td></td>
<td>Notificaciones de aceptación enviadas</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8 de mayo</td>
<td></td>
<td>Confirmaciones de aceptación vencidas</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>¿Necesita ayuda?</h2>
<p>Si tiene preguntas sobre la solicitud del comité, visite <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">el sitio web de la Cumbre Global</a> o comuníquese con nosotros en <a href="mailto:summit@creativecommons.org">summit@creativecommons.org</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66461
title: Volunteer to Help Shape CC’s Global Summit in Mexico City
uri: Volunteer-to-Help-Shape-CC-s-Global-Summit-in-Mexico-City
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/01/volunteer-for-ccs-global-summit/
content:
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<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-66358" src="media/0e5e2c04.CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png" alt="A photo tinted blue of a giant Mexican flag flying over Mexico City’s Zocalo Square with the Cathedral in the background, decorated with CC Global Summit logo and text that says “Mexico City | 3-6 Oct 2023” and “SUMMIT.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG”" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/CC-Global-Summit-Mexico-City-3-6-Oct-2023.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><br />
You’ve heard the exciting news that the 2023 CC Global Summit will be in Mexico City? Now you have the opportunity to volunteer to join the committees  that will help shape the program and evaluate applications for participant scholarships.</p>
<p>Volunteers are essential to ensure that the CC Summit reflects the rich diversity of people engaged in the open commons movement. Past CC Summit committee members report that volunteering is richly rewarding, energizing their engagement with the commons and expanding their connections in the CC community. We encourage you to get involved to make this Summit shine!</p>
<h2>Volunteer for the Program Committee</h2>
<p>The Program Committee is responsible for helping to shape the community-driven aspect of the CC Global Summit program. The committee will review responses to the Summit Call for Proposals (CFPs) and work collaboratively to invite those that best fit the Summit program theme, tracks, and schedule.</p>
<h3>Application Deadline: 12 February 2023</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://forms.gle/hWgKgRtDNJomWrNn7">Volunteer for the Program Committee &gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Roles</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Committee Members (6-8)
<ul>
<li aria-level="2"><strong>Time Commitment</strong>: Committee meetings below (approximately 5 hours) PLUS review period (approximately 5–8 hours depending on number of applications)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li aria-level="1">Co-Chairs (2)
<ul>
<li aria-level="2">CC Staff Member: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/natecreativecommons-org/">Nate Angell</a></li>
<li aria-level="2">CC Community Member: To be selected from community committee members</li>
<li aria-level="2"><strong>Time Commitment</strong>: Same as other committee members PLUS two additional 1-hour preparation meetings with CC staff (likely in mid-February and early May)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Meetings &amp; Key Dates (tentative)</h3>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Date</th>
<th>Time</th>
<th>Activity</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>22 February</td>
<td>To be arranged</td>
<td>MEETING: Welcome and program overview</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8 March</td>
<td>To be arranged</td>
<td>MEETING: CFP application form review</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>16 March–20 April</td>
<td></td>
<td>Applications open</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21 March</td>
<td>To be arranged</td>
<td>MEETING: Overview of review process and program structure</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>21 April–2 May</td>
<td></td>
<td>Committee reviews applications</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4 May</td>
<td>To be arranged</td>
<td>MEETING: Finalize accepted submissions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8 May</td>
<td></td>
<td>Acceptance notifications sent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>10 May</td>
<td>To be arranged</td>
<td>MEETING: Final meeting</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15 May</td>
<td></td>
<td>Acceptance confirmations due</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Volunteer for the Scholarship Evaluation Committee</h2>
<p>CC funds dozens of people to attend the CC Global Summit to support diverse participation. This committee of volunteers is responsible for reviewing the applications for CC’s Global Summit Scholarship Fund.</p>
<h3>Application Deadline: 12 February 2023</h3>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://forms.gle/fJmUmizJs3J9nLCW9">Volunteer for the Scholarship Evaluation Committee &gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<h3>Roles</h3>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">Committee Members (~6)
<ul>
<li aria-level="2"><strong>Time Commitment</strong>: Committee meetings below (approximately 4 hours) PLUS review period (approximately 6–8 hours depending on number of applications)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li aria-level="1">Co-chairs (2)
<ul>
<li aria-level="2">CC Staff Member: Mari Moreshed</li>
<li aria-level="2">CC Community Member: To be selected from community committee members</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Meetings &amp; Key Dates (tentative)</h3>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>Date</th>
<th>Time</th>
<th>Activity</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>23 February</td>
<td>To be arranged</td>
<td>MEETING: Welcome and overview</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9 March–12 April</td>
<td></td>
<td>Applications open</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6 April</td>
<td>To be arranged</td>
<td>MEETING: Review process overview</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>15–24 April</td>
<td></td>
<td>Committee reviews applications</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>27 April</td>
<td>To be arranged</td>
<td>MEETING: Finalize decisions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2 May</td>
<td></td>
<td>Acceptance notifications sent</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>8 May</td>
<td></td>
<td>Acceptance confirmations due</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>Need help?</h2>
<p>For questions about committee application, please visit the <a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/">Global Summit website</a> or reach out to us at <a href="mailto:summit@creativecommons.org">summit@creativecommons.org</a>.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/01/volunteer-for-ccs-global-summit/">Volunteer to Help Shape CC’s Global Summit in Mexico City</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66403
title: CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | February: Sharing Brightens The Future
uri: CC-s-BetterSharing-Collection-February-Sharing-Brightens-The-Fut
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/01/ccs-bettersharing-collection-february-sharing-brightens-the-future/

content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> looks like in action. Our #BetterSharing collection of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness with transforming these perspectives into captivating visual pieces available under a CC license.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_66070" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66070" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66070" src="media/d9028a2e.Teo-Georgiev-732x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-732x1024.png" alt="An illustration of three human figures floating in a circle, each holding a light source: a caveman with a flaming stick, someone in medieval European clothes with a candle, and someone in modern dress with an electric lightbulb, all on a bright yellow background." width="350" height="490" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-732x1024.png 732w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-214x300.png 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-768x1075.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-29x40.png 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-36x50.png 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev-111x155.png 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Teo-Georgiev.png 1072w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66070" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/sharing-brightens-the-future">Sharing Brightens The Future</a>” by <a href="https://thegreats.co/artists/teo-georgiev">Teo Georgiev</a> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For February, we&#8217;re excited to showcase “</span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/sharing-brightens-the-future"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sharing Brightens The Future</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Bulgarian illustrator and graphic designer, Teo Georgiev. The piece, licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, was inspired by a quote from </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/biyanto/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biyanto Rebin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, an open knowledge advocate and Indonesian Wikipedian:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Sedikit demi sedikit, lama-lama menjadi bukit (meaning: many a mickle makes a muckle).<br />
</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An Indonesian proverb with the meaning of collaboration spirit, when we do a continuous effort little by little, it will eventually become bigger in the future. This is what happens when we share our resources, our works to the public, they will have a greater impact, since sharing can empower other people, sometimes the ones who are left behind, the underprivileged.”</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meet the artist:</span></h3>
<figure id="attachment_66404" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66404" style="width: 283px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66404" src="media/4b4946b9.TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="283" height="283" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-768x768.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TeoGeorgiev_Photo-1-e1674751479568.jpg 1335w" sizes="(max-width: 283px) 85vw, 283px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66404" class="wp-caption-text">Photo courtesy of Teo Georgiev</figcaption></figure>
<p><a href="https://teogeorgiev.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teo Georgiev</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a Bulgarian illustrator, designer and artist based in Helsinki, Finland. He has received a BA in Graphic Design from Coventry University (UK) and is currently pursuing an MA in Visual Narrative at Aalto University (Finland), where he explores the intersection of comics and migration studies. From children’s books through to editorial illustrations and advertising, Teo draws playful characters, surreal stories and whimsical environments, which he then intertwines with inspiration collected from nature, culture and history. His style is a combination of naïve shapes, organic forms and bold colors. His list of past clients includes WWF, Habitat for Humanity, Converse, InVision and Ladybird Publishing, as well as boutique businesses and NGOs.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow Teo on Instagram: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/teowithdoodles/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@teowithdoodles</span></a><br />
<span>Follow Teo on Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/teowithdoodles"><span>@teowithdoodles</span></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The full #BetterSharing collection is available on </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheGreats.co</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to be enjoyed, used and adapted, and then shared again, by anyone, forever. </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing&amp;search="><span style="font-weight: 400;">View the full collection &gt;&gt;</span></a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/01/ccs-bettersharing-collection-february-sharing-brightens-the-future/">CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | February: Sharing Brightens The Future</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66487
title: Training: Open Licenses for Artists, Musicians and Creators
uri: Training-Open-Licenses-for-Artists-Musicians-and-Creators
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/03/training-open-licenses-for-artists-musicians-and-creators/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66488" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66488" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66488" src="media/068db4a4.MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-300x169.png" alt="The tip of a ballpoint pen with a smear of bluish ink and a water drop reflecting/containing a pink flower blossom perched on the tip, highly magnified on a glowing pink background." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MacrofotografiaDropsAndFlowers.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66488" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/2ckjGWb">Macrofotografia Drops &amp; Flowers</a> by <a href="https://flickr.com/photos/mario_nicorelli/">Mario Jr. Nicorelli</a>, slightly cropped, is licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0">CC BY-NC 2.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Curious about Creative Commons licenses? Join Creative Commons staff for an overview of the six CC licenses and two public domain tools. We will describe the CC license and tool elements, their legal, machine-readable, and human-readable layers, as well as show practical use cases for each of the licenses and tools. Participants will engage in discussion around contemporary challenges for creators, and have the chance to discuss questions with legal experts in copyright.</p>
<p>Join us for this introduction to CC licenses and tools to get your basic questions answered and practice sharing content to the commons: <strong>10 February 2023, 2–7pm UTC</strong> (<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CC+Training+on+Open+Licenses+for+Artists%2C+Musicians+and+Creators&amp;iso=20230210T14&amp;p1=1440&amp;ah=5">see the schedule in your local timezone</a>).</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://www.classy.org/event/training-on-open-licenses-for-artists-musicians-and-creators/e464835/register/new/select-tickets">Register now &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/03/training-open-licenses-for-artists-musicians-and-creators/">Training: Open Licenses for Artists, Musicians and Creators</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66491
title: Better Sharing for Generative AI
uri: Better-Sharing-for-Generative-AI
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66492" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66492" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66492" src="media/e500b2a4.BetterSharingWithAI-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI-300x169.png" alt="A bluish surrealist painting generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform showing a small grayish human figure holding a gift out to a larger robot that has its arms extended and a head like a cello." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/BetterSharingWithAI.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66492" class="wp-caption-text">“Better Sharing With AI” by <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> was generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt “A surrealist painting in the style of Salvador Dali of a robot giving a gift to a person playing a cello.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Over the last year, innovation and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has exploded, providing new ways for people to create content of all sorts. For example, it’s been used to help <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23332684/ai-generated-artwork-wins-state-fair-competition-colorado">create award winning art</a>, <a href="https://kinnu.xyz/blog/research/from-woman-to-machine/">develop educational materials</a>, <a href="https://hbr.org/2022/11/how-generative-ai-is-changing-creative-work">expedite software development, and craft business materials</a>. Recently, three artists <a href="https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/">filed</a> a class action lawsuit in the USA against StabilityAI and Midjourney, two companies that use the Stable Diffusion tool to enable people to generate images using simple text prompts. It follows on the heels of <a href="https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/">litigation</a> brought by the same attorneys and other plaintiffs against GitHub and OpenAI for their Copilot and Codex tools for generating software code.</p>
<p>AI is an area that Creative Commons has <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/text-and-data-mining/">long</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/">focused</a> on, including most recently in a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/02/experts-weigh-in-ai-inputs-ai-outputs-and-the-public-commons/">webinar series</a> we held last fall. We are going to expand on our views in future posts, including exploring why we think the legal arguments in the US court case against StabilityAI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt are ill-founded. (Getty Images also subsequently filed a similar <a href="https://copyrightlately.com/pdfviewer/getty-images-v-stability-ai-complaint/">suit</a> against StabilityAI in the US, as well as apparently commencing litigation in the UK, but we have yet to see that complaint.)</p>
<p>But before digging into all of the legal issues, we wanted to take a step back and restate our general approach to generative AI.</p>
<h2>CC on Generative AI</h2>
<p>Creative Commons has always sought out ways to harness new technology to serve the public interest and to support better sharing of creative content — sharing that is inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal and sustainable. We support creators to share their works as broadly and openly as they want, so that people can enjoy them globally without unnecessary barriers. We also advocate for policies that ensure new and existing creators are able to build on a shared commons, while respecting creators’ legitimate interests in control and compensation for their creative expressions.</p>
<p>A founding insight of Creative Commons is that <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/videos/building-on-the-past/">all creativity builds on the past</a>. When people learn to play the cello or paint a picture, for instance, they necessarily learn from and train their own skills by engaging pre-existing works and artists — for instance, noticing the style in which cellists like Yo-Yo Ma arrange notes, or building on surrealist styles initiated by artists like Dali. Similarly, while Star Wars invented the character of Luke Skywalker, it built on the idea of the hero’s journey, among many other elements from past works. People observe the ideas, styles, genres, and other tropes of past creativity, and use what they learn to create anew. No creativity happens in a vacuum, purely original and separate from what’s come before.</p>
<p>Generative AI can function in a similar way. Just as people learn from past works, generative AI is trained on previous works, analyzing past materials in order to extract underlying ideas and other information in order to build new works. Image generation tools like Stable Diffusion <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/the-generative-ai-revolution-has-begun-how-did-we-get-here/">develop representations of what images are supposed to look like by examining pre-existing works</a>, associating terms like “dog” or “table” with shapes and colors such that a text prompt of those terms can then output images.</p>
<p>Given how digital technologies function, training AI in this way necessarily involves making an initial copy of images in order to analyze them. As we’ve <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/">explored in the past</a> and will discuss in future posts about these recent lawsuits, we think this sort of copying can and should be permissible under copyright law. There are certainly nuances when it comes to copyright’s interaction with these tools — for instance, what if the tools are later used by someone to generate an output that does copy from a specific creative expression? But treating copying to train AI as per se infringing copyright would in effect shrink the commons and impede others’ creativity in an over-broad way. It would expand copyright to give certain creators a monopoly over ideas, genres, and other concepts not limited to a specific creative expression, as well as over new tools for creativity.</p>
<p>Copyright, and intellectual property law in general, are only one lens to think about AI: It’s still important to grapple with legitimate concerns about this technology and consider what responsible development and use should be. For instance, what impact will these tools have on artists and creators’ jobs and compensation? How can we ensure that AI that is trained on the commons contributes back to the commons as well, supporting all types of creators? What about the use of these tools to develop harmful misinformation, to exploit people’s privacy (eg, their biometric data), or in ways that perpetuate biases? More generally, how can we ensure human oversight and responsibilities to ensure that these tools work well for society?</p>
<p>These are just some of the tricky issues that will need to be worked out to ensure people can harness AI tools in ways that support creativity and the public interest. Along with other <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/13/as-european-council-adopts-ai-act-position-questions-remain-on-gpai/">policy and legal approaches to governing AI</a>, it&#8217;s important to look to community-driven solutions that support responsible development and use. Already, StabilityAI will let artists <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/stability-ai-plans-to-let-artists-opt-out-of-stable-diffusion-3-image-training/">opt-out</a> of its training data set, as well as <a href="https://twitter.com/emostaque/status/1603147709229170695">opt in to provide greater information about their works</a>. While this precise approach raises a variety of views, indexing of the web has functioned well using a similar sort of opt-out approach — set through global technical standards and norms, rather than law. Creators of some generative AI tools are using licenses that constrain how they are deployed, <a href="https://blog.tidelift.com/evaluating-the-rail-license-family">which also carries various trade-offs</a>.</p>
<h2>What’s Next? Community Input</h2>
<p>Supporting community-driven solutions has also always been at the heart of Creative Commons’ approach to creativity. If you’re interested in this subject, we are going to be holding meetings with the Creative Commons community, and we also plan to continue meeting with diverse stakeholders to explore what sorts of solutions may be helpful in this area. As we go along we’ll continue to report on what we’ve learned and seek out more community feedback.</p>
<p>Join the CC team at a community discussion about generative AI: How can we make it work better for everyone and support better sharing in the commons?</p>
<p>To enable participation around the world, we’ve scheduled three times for this conversation. Come to the one that works best for your schedule, or join as many as you like. We’ll be focused on the same questions and issues at each meeting, but different participants will bring different perspectives, reshaping each conversation. To enable participants to speak freely, these meetings will not be recorded, but the CC team will be taking notes to share outcomes from the conversations.</p>
<h3>Community Meetings: Wednesday 22 February 2023</h3>
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<div><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclcuiuqDkiHdEXJHlbYAgQZtxFZ_emjDE9">Register for 2:00–3:00 UTC</a></div>
<div style="font-size: small; font-weight: lighter;">(<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CC+Community%3A+Better+Sharing+%26+Generative+AI&amp;iso=20230222T02&amp;p1=1440&amp;ah=1">check the schedule in your local timezone</a>)</div>
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<div><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ude-opz0uGNIQuueos_ONimri4lsJ60d3">Register for 14:00–15:00 UTC</a></div>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">Better Sharing for Generative AI</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66421
title: Nicole Ferraiolo — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 1
uri: Nicole-Ferraiolo-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-1
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/07/nicole-ferraiolo-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-1/
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<p>Nicole believes that “the greatest advantage of open cultural heritage is digital equity,” which is a guiding principle for many cultural institutions around the world. In this episode Nicole talks about how making collections open greatly increases accessibility across global demographics and interest groups which makes an institution more relevant to a wider audience.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Nicole is at the time of the recording the Director of Global Strategic Initiatives at CLIR which is the Council on Library and Information Resources where she works to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning.</p>
<p><strong>Nicole responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li aria-level="1">What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/07/nicole-ferraiolo-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-1/">Nicole Ferraiolo — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 1</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66517
title: Revisiting the Openverse: Finding Open Images and Audio
uri: Revisiting-the-Openverse-Finding-Open-Images-and-Audio
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/09/revisiting-the-openverse/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66518" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66518" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66518 size-medium" src="media/0cfd610c.art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-300x169.png" alt="Blurry bluish-black image of stars or lights at night seen through a transparent screen marked with smeared human handprints." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/art-is-the-universe-creating-itself-as-it-goes.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66518" class="wp-caption-text"><span class="attribution">&#8220;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/47762460@N06/5106704035" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">art is the universe creating itself as it goes</a>&#8221; by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/47762460@N06" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">submerged~</a>, here slightly cropped, is marked with <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/?ref=openverse" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Public Domain Mark 1.0 <img style="height: 1em; margin-right: 0.125em; display: inline;" src="media/bfdf997e.pd.svg" data-original-source="https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/pd.svg" /></a>.</span></figcaption></figure>
<p>Looking for that perfect picture to illustrate your post? That catchy tune to jazz up your video? Look no further than Openverse, the huge library of free and open stock photos, images, and audio contributed to the public commons by people around the world, now available at its new domain: <a href="https://openverse.org/">openverse.org</a>.</p>
<p>Here at CC we use Openverse daily to explore the public commons and find works to reuse in our communications and projects. Powerful tools like Openverse demonstrate how open technologies and communities like WordPress can build on the rich public commons we all help create to support what we call <em>better sharing</em>: sharing that is inclusive, just and equitable — where everyone has wide opportunity to access content, to contribute their own creativity, and to receive recognition and rewards for their contributions.</p>
<p>Finding and using free and open works has never been easier: Just visit Openverse, enter some keywords, and pick your favorite from the results. You can also filter by content type, sources, aspect ratio, size, open license and public domain statuses, and more, like the <a href="https://openverse.org/search/image?q=art%20universe&amp;license_type=modification&amp;license=pdm,cc0">search for the keywords “art” and “universe”</a> we used to find the image in this post.</p>
<p>Once you’ve picked a work, Openverse provides everything you need to use it: Visit the work in its home collection and copy a well-formed attribution statement to give proper credit for your use.</p>
<p>Openverse was incubated here at CC as “CC Search”, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/05/03/cc-search-to-join-wordpress/">moving to the WordPress community in 2021</a>, and has continued to thrive in its new home, now cataloging over 600 million images and audio tracks, with <a href="https://openverse.org/sources/">new collections of open works</a> being added all the time, like the recent addition of more than <a href="https://twitter.com/WordPress/status/1577632954280452096">15 million images from iNaturalist</a>, the project that enables citizen scientists and researchers to document and understand global biodiversity.</p>
<p>Contributors in the WordPress community continue to add new features and capabilities to Openverse. Coming up next will be new tools to easily use images from Openverse directly in WordPress itself; content safety features that will enable users to blur or opt in/out from specific types of sensitive content; and improvements to search relevancy and the quality of results.</p>
<h2>Can you help expand the Openverse?</h2>
<p>As a creator, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/">share your work to the commons</a> with a CC open license or CC0 dedication to the public domain on <a href="https://openverse.org/sources/">one of sources already cataloged in Openverse</a>.</p>
<p>Do you know a great collection of open works? <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/openverse-catalog/issues/new?assignees=&amp;labels=%F0%9F%9A%A6+status%3A+awaiting+triage%2C%F0%9F%A7%B9+status%3A+ticket+work+required%2C%E2%98%81%EF%B8%8F+provider%3A+any&amp;template=new_source_suggestion.yml&amp;title=%3CSource+name+here%3E">Suggest a new source</a> for Openverse.</p>
<p>Do you have communication and/or technical skills? <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/">Join the Openverse contributor team</a> and help with things like testing new features, writing documentation, contributing code, and amplifying news from the project. Have a look at Openverse’s<a href="https://github.com/search?q=label%3A%22good+first+issue%22+state%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+repo%3Awordpress%2Fopenverse+repo%3Awordpress%2Fopenverse-frontend+repo%3Awordpress%2Fopenverse-api+repo%3Awordpress%2Fopenverse-catalog+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22+state%3Aopen+repo%3Awordpress%2Fopenverse&amp;type=Issues"> good first issues</a> or their<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/openverse/handbook/new-contributor-guide/"> guide for new contributors</a>.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/09/revisiting-the-openverse/">Revisiting the Openverse: Finding Open Images and Audio</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66450
title: Hala Essalmawi — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 2
uri: Hala-Essalmawi-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-2
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/14/hala-essalmawi-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-2/
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<p>Hala says “if it’s open then you give a big opportunity for partnership” because the transparency created by openness makes it clear what you do and what you have and invites others to work with you. In this episode Hala shares some insight on copyright in Egypt and what open culture looks like in the work she does.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage.  Hala is the Head of the Legal Department at the Library of Alexandria. With more than 25 years of experience she has worked on IP and Copyright issues around the world with her work the library and with WIPO.</p>
<p><strong>Hala responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
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<li aria-level="1">What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/14/hala-essalmawi-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-2/">Hala Essalmawi — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 2</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66535
title: CC’s copyright platform 2022 working groups share their highlights
uri: CC-s-copyright-platform-2022-working-groups-share-their-highlights
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2022, two working groups (WGs) of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform-activity-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Copyright Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> collaborated on policy papers tackling issues related to copyright and access to knowledge. In this blog post, we highlight their insightful contributions to the CC copyright reform community.</span></p>
<h3><b>Working Group on Digital Sharing Spaces</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Led by Emine Yildirim, the WG on Digital Sharing Spaces was based on the idea that recent and upcoming legislative and policy instruments are likely to affect freedom to share. In 2022, the WG focused on how data sharing policies concerning publicly available data impact academic research and journalism in the public interest. While the group found that there are some safeguards in place, there are also several barriers for utilizing publicly available data by researchers and journalists. The main output of the WG was a </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/freedom-to-share-how-governments-data-sharing-policies-concerning-publicly-available-data-impact-d09cb736aebf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">position paper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, encompassing two jurisdictions, the European Union and the United States. With this position paper, the group sought to provide some preliminary recommendations and to call for action and engagement to those who may be facing challenges and barriers in their respective jurisdictions. Watch the group’s January 2023 webinar recording. The WG hopes to use this position paper as a conversation starter for a bigger and more geographically inclusive debate. </span></p>
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<h3><b>Working Group on User Rights</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Led by André Houang, the WG on User Rights was based on the idea that these rights are an integral part of the copyright system. As such, the WG focused on exchanging thoughts on how copyright can be reshaped to better balance the interests of authors and rights holders with the public interest, so as to allow for the full exercise of fundamental rights, such as freedom of expression and access to knowledge, culture and information. The main output of the WG are its position papers, in which it puts forward some ideas for a better copyright system. The WG´s </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/working-group-on-user-rights-position-paper-9c5e589f1c9b"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2021 position paper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> focused on different types of user rights, which could help balance the interests of rights holders and of users. The </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/the-global-harmonization-of-user-rights-approaches-towards-an-international-instrument-14e0cad1d86"><span style="font-weight: 400;">2022 position paper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> approached the topic of an international instrument for the global harmonization of user rights, and you can watch the group’s webinar recording to hear more about it. </span></p>
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<blockquote><p>Do you also want to get involved? Don’t hesitate!</p></blockquote>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sign up to the CC Policy </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mailing list</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join the #cc-copyrightreform </span><a href="http://creativecommons.slack.com"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slack channel</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participate in CC Copyright Platform calls — they are announced in the Slack channel and on the mailing list</span></li>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/15/ccs-copyright-platform-2022-working-groups-share-their-highlights/">CC’s copyright platform 2022 working groups share their highlights</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66556
title: Fair Use: Training Generative AI
uri: Fair-Use-Training-Generative-AI
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/17/fair-use-training-generative-ai/
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<div style="background: #e0c93d; font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 1em 2em 1em; padding: 2em;"><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></div>
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<p>While generative AI as a tool for artistic expression isn’t truly new — <a href="https://computerhistory.org/blog/harold-cohen-and-aaron-a-40-year-collaboration/">AI has been used to create art since at least the 1970s</a> and the art auction house<a href="https://www.christies.com/features/A-collaboration-between-two-artists-one-human-one-a-machine-9332-1.aspx"> Christie’s sold its first piece of AI artwork in 2018</a> — the past year launched this exciting and disruptive technology into public awareness.  With incredible speed, the development and widespread availability of amazing tools like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney have engendered excitement, debate, and indeed fear over what the future may hold and what role generative AI should have in the production of creative works.</p>
<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly to anyone who has been paying attention to the conversation around generative AI, the past year also saw the first lawsuits challenging the legality of these tools. First, in November, <a href="https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/">a group of programmers sued Github and OpenAI over the code generation tool, Github Copilot</a>, alleging (among other things) that the tool improperly removes copyright management information from the code in its training data, in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and reproduces code in its training data without following license agreement stipulations like attributing the code to its original author. Then, in January, <a href="https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/">a group of artists (represented by the same attorneys as in the Github lawsuit) sued Stability AI and Midjourney</a> over their text-to-image art generation tools. In this second lawsuit, the artist-plaintiffs made several claims, all of which deserve discussion. In this blog post, I will address one of those claims: That using the plaintiffs’ copyrighted works (and as many as 5 billion other works) to train Stable Diffusion and Midjourney constitutes copyright infringement. As Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">has argued elsewhere</a>, and others agree, I believe that this type of use should be protected by copyright’s fair use doctrine. In this blog post I will discuss what fair use is, what purpose it serves, and why I believe that using copyrighted works to train generative AI models should be permitted under this law. I will address the other claims in both the Github and Stable Diffusion lawsuits in subsequent blog posts.</p>
<h2>Copyright for public good</h2>
<p>It is clear from both the history and origin of copyright law in the United States that copyright’s purpose is to serve the public good. We can see this in the Constitution itself. Article I, section 8, clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to create copyright law. This provision states that copyright law must “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts” and that copyright protection can only last for “limited times.” As such, any copyright law that Congress passes must be designed to support the creation of new creation works and that copyrights must eventually expire so that the collection of works that are free for us all to use — the public domain — will grow and nurture further creative endeavors. However, even while the ultimate beneficiary of copyright may be the public, the law attempts to achieve these goals by giving rightsholders several specific ways to control their works, including the right to control the reproduction and distribution of copies of their works.</p>
<p>With this design, copyright law attempts to strike a balance between the interests of both rightsholders and the public, and when that balance breaks down, copyright cannot achieve its goals. This is where fair use comes from. Shortly after the first copyright law, courts began to realize that it would frustrate copyright’s ability to benefit the public if rightsholders had an unlimited right to control the reproduction and distribution of their works. So, in 1841, Judge Joseph Story first articulated what would become eventually the modern test for fair use in <em>Folsom v. Marsh</em>. As part of that decision, he wrote that downstream uses of copyrighted works that do not “supersede the objects” of the original works should be permitted under the law.</p>
<figure id="attachment_66563" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66563" style="width: 512px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-66563" src="media/ce1fa072.FairUseTrainingGenerativeAI.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FairUseTrainingGenerativeAI.png" alt="Generated by AI: A chrome-skinned robot face with a blue glow behind its eyes and nose, looking out from the inside of a complex black and white machine." width="512" height="512" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FairUseTrainingGenerativeAI.png 512w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FairUseTrainingGenerativeAI-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FairUseTrainingGenerativeAI-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FairUseTrainingGenerativeAI-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FairUseTrainingGenerativeAI-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FairUseTrainingGenerativeAI-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FairUseTrainingGenerativeAI-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66563" class="wp-caption-text">“Fair Use Training Generative AI” by Creative Commons was generated by the Stable Diffusion AI platform with the text prompt “Fair Use Training Generative AI.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>What is fair use?</h2>
<p>Today, fair use, codified at 17 USC 107, is unquestionably an essential part of copyright law in the United States. Courts, including the Supreme Court, have repeatedly emphasized the importance of fair use as a safeguard against the encroachment on the rights of people to use copyrighted works in ways that rightsholders might block. Unfortunately, however, fair use is a famously hard doctrine to apply. Courts repeatedly write that there are no bright lines in what is or is not fair use and each time we consider fair use we must conduct a case-by-case analysis. To that end, the law requires courts to consider four different factors, in light of the purpose and goal of copyright law. These factors are: 1. The purpose and character of the use, or what the user is doing with the original work; 2. The nature of the original work; 3. The amount and substantiality copied by the secondary use; and 4. Whether the secondary use harms the market for the original.</p>
<p>Even though there are no bright lines, there are some principles we can look to when weighing the four fair use factors that courts tend to consider for a finding of fair use and that are particularly relevant for how we may think about fair use and generative AI training data. First, and perhaps most importantly, is whether the secondary use “transforms” the original in some way, or if it “merely supersede[s]” the original. Since 1994, when the Supreme Court adopted “transformativeness” as part of the inquiry about the purpose and character of the secondary use in <em><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16686162998040575773">Campbell v. Acuff Rose Music</a></em>, this question has grown increasingly important. Today, if someone can show that their secondary use transforms the original in some way, <a href="https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3680&amp;context=faculty_scholarship">it is much more likely to be fair use then otherwise</a>. Importantly, however, last October, the Supreme Court heard <em><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/andy-warhol-foundation-for-the-visual-arts-inc-v-goldsmith/">Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith</a></em>, which may change how we approach transformativeness in fair use under U.S. law. Nevertheless, it still seems likely that highly transformative uses will weigh in favor of fair use, even after the decision in that case. Second, when considering the nature of the original work, we need to remember that copyright protects some works a bit more strongly than others. Works that are fiction or entirely the creative products of their authors are protected more strongly than nonfiction works because copyright does not protect facts or ideas. As such, uses of some works are less likely to be fair use than others. Third, we need to think about how much of the original work is copied in the context of the transformativeness inquiry, and whether the amount copied serves the transformative purpose. If the amount copied fits and supports the transformative purpose, then fair use can support copying entire works. Fourth, when we consider market harm, we need to think about whether the secondary use undermines the market for or acts as a market substitute for the original work. And finally, we need to consider whether permitting a secondary use as a fair use would serve the goals of copyright.</p>
<h2>Is AI transformative?</h2>
<p>Given all this background on fair use, how do we apply these principles to the use of copyrighted works as AI training data, such as in the Stable Diffusion/Midjourney case? To answer this question, we must first look at the facts of the case. Dr Andrés Guadamuz has a <a href="https://www.technollama.co.uk/artists-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-stability-ai-deviantart-and-midjourney">couple excellent blog posts</a> that explain the<a href="https://www.technollama.co.uk/copyright-infringement-in-artificial-intelligence-art"> technology involved in this case</a> and that begin to explain why this should constitute fair use. Stability AI used a dataset called LAION to train Stable Diffusion, but this dataset does not actually contain images. Instead, it contains over 5 billion weblinks to image-text pairs. Diffusion models like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney take  these inputs, add “noise” to them, corrupting them, and then train neural networks to remove the corruption. The models then use another tool, called CLIP, to understand the relationship between the text and the associated images. Finally, they use what are called “latent spaces” to cluster together similar data. With these latent spaces, the models contain representations of what images are supposed to look like, based on the training data, and not copies of the images in their training data. Then, user focused applications collect text prompts from users to generate new images based on the training data, the language model, and the latent space.</p>
<p>Turning back to fair use, this method of using image-text combinations to train the AI model has an inherently transformative purpose from the original images and should support a finding of fair use. While these images were originally created for their aesthetic value, their purpose for the AI model is only as data. For the AI, these image-text pairs are only representations of how text and images relate. What the images are does not matter for the model — they are only data to teach the model about <a href="http://www.stablediffusionfrivolous.com/">statistical relationships between elements of the images</a> and not pieces of art.</p>
<p>This is similar to how Google used digital copies of print books to create Google Books, a practice that was challenged in <em>Author’s Guild v. Google</em> (<em>Google Books</em>). In this case, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals found that Google’s act of digitizing and storing copies of thousands of print books to create a text searchable database was fair use. The court wrote that Google’s purpose was different from the purpose of the original authors because Google was not using the books for their content. Indeed, the content did not really matter to Google; rather the books were like pieces of data that were necessary to build Google’s book database. Instead of using the books for their content, Google’s purpose was to create a digital tool that permitted new ways of using print books that would be impossible in the analog world. So, the books as part of Google’s database served a very different purpose from their original purpose, which supported the finding of fair use in this case.</p>
<p>Moreover, it is also similar to how search engine operator Arriba Soft used copies of images in its search engine, which was litigated in <em>Kelly v. Arriba Soft</em>. In this case, a photographer, Leslie Kelly, sued the operator of a search engine, Arriba Soft, for copying and displaying copies of her photographs as thumbnails to users. The court, however, disagreed that this constituted copyright infringement. Instead, the court held that this use served a different and transformative purpose from the original purpose because Arriba Soft only copied Kelly’s photographs to enable its search engine to function and not because of their aesthetic value. Like <em>Google Books</em>, and like AI training data, the images here served a function as data for the tool, not as works of art to be enjoyed as such.</p>
<h2>On the nature of works as AI inputs</h2>
<p>Turning to factor two, the nature of the original works, even though we do not know what specific images are in the LAION dataset used to train Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, it is likely that these images involve a wide range of creativity. While this could weigh against a finding of fair use for Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, given the presumably creative nature of the input works, this factor is rarely determinative. In fact, in <em>Google Books</em>, the court was skeptical that this factor would weigh against fair use even if the books in the database were fiction. This is because using the digitized books as part of the database provided information about the books and did not use them for their creative content.  Similarly in the litigation against Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, these generative AI tools use the works in their dataset as data. In this, anything they extract from their training data might only be unprotectable elements of the works in the training data, such as facts and ideas about how various concepts are visualized.  As such, because this factor is rarely a major factor in fair use decisions, it seems unlikely that this factor should weigh heavily against fair use in this case.</p>
<h2>Is AI making copies?</h2>
<p>Third, because of how the generative AI models work, they use no more of the original works than is necessary when used for training to enable the transformative purpose. The models do not store copies of the works in their datasets and they do not create collages from the images in its training data. Instead, they use the images only as long as they must for training. These are merely transitory copies that serve a transformative purpose as training data. Again, <em>Google Books</em> is helpful to understand this. In that decision, the Court wrote that Google needed to both <em>copy and retain</em> copies of entire books for its database to function. But this was permissible because of Google’s transformative purpose. Furthermore, Google did not permit users to access full copies of the books in the database, but instead, it only revealed “snippets” to the users. On this point, the court wrote that the better question to answer was not how much of the works Google copied, but instead how much was available to users. Similarly, Stability AI and Midjourney would not work unless they used the entire images in their training datasets. Moreover, they do not store images, they do not reproduce images in their data sets, and they do not piece together new images from bits of images from their training data. Instead, they learn what images represent and create new images based on what they learn about the associations of text and images.</p>
<h2>AI in the marketplace</h2>
<p>Fourth, the issue of whether Stable Diffusion and Midjourney harm the market for the works in their training data is difficult, in part because the way that courts think of this question can be a bit inconsistent. In one way, the answer must be yes, this use at least has the potential to harm the market for the original. That is, after all, one likely reason the plaintiffs filed this lawsuit in the first place — they are afraid that AI generated content will cut into their ability to profit off of their art. Indeed, any art has the potential of competing with other art, not necessarily because it fills the same niche, but because attention is limited, and AI generated content has the advantage of being able to be made in a quick, automated fashion. However, this may not be the best way to think about market harm in the context of using images as training data. As mentioned above, we need to think about this question in the context of the transformative purpose. In <em>Campbell v. Acuff Rose</em>, the Supreme Court wrote that the more transformative the purpose, the less likely it is that it will be a market substitute for the original. Given this, perhaps it is better to ask whether this use as training data, not as pieces of art, harms the market for the original. This use by Stability AI and Midjourney exists in an entirely different market from the original works. It does not usurp the market of the original and it does not operate as a market substitute because the original works were not in the data market. Moreover, this use as training data does not “supersede the objects” of the originals and does not compete in the aesthetic market with the originals.</p>
<h2>Training AI as fair use</h2>
<p>Finally, as discussed above, since the purpose of copyright law is to encourage the new creative works, to promote learning, and to benefit the public interest, fair use should permit using copyrighted works as training data for generative AI models like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. The law should support and foster the development of new technologies that can provide benefits to the public, and fair use provides a safeguard against the cudgel of copyright being used to impede these technologies. As <a href="https://texaslawreview.org/fair-learning/">Mark Lemley and Bryan Casey write in a recent paper</a> arguing that this type of use should constitute fair use:  “A central problem with allowing copyright suits against ML [machine learning] is that the value and benefit of the system’s use is generally unrelated to the purpose of copyright.” In fact, the Supreme Court has recognized <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1535389">fair use’s importance in the development of new technologies</a>, first in 1984, in <em><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6351062753601697232">Universal City Studios v. Sony</a></em> and most recently in 2021 in <em><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4050620474768552042">Google v. Oracle</a></em>. In <em>Sony</em>, the Court held that the Betamax videocassette recorder should not be sued out of existence even if it could potentially help people violate copyright law. Instead, because it held “substantial, non infringing uses”, the Court believed copyright law should not be used to stop it. Then in <em>Google</em>, the Court held that Google’s use of Google’s 11,500 lines of Java code was fair use, writing that the courts must consider fair use in the context of technological development.</p>
<p>Altogether, I believe that this type of use for learning purposes, even at scale by AI, constitutes fair use, and that there are ways outside of litigation that can offer authors other ways to control the use of their works in datasets. We can already see an example of this, to a degree, when <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/stability-ai-plans-to-let-artists-opt-out-of-stable-diffusion-3-image-training/">Stability AI announced</a> that it would permit artists to opt out of having their works used for training Stable Diffusion. While this certainly isn’t a perfect solution, and opt-out is just one possible way to approach these issues, it is at least a start, and it highlights that there are ways to address these problems other than through copyright-based solutions. Perhaps by looking at norms and best practices and by engaging people in collaboration and dialogue we can better address the concerns raised by AI training data, instead of falling back on lawsuits that force the different sides of this issue into opposition and that can create unpredictable and potentially dangerous new precedent for future technologies.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66550
title: Panel Recap: 3D Scanning for Cultural Heritage Preservation, Access and Revitalization
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On 7 February 2023, Creative Commons hosted a panel discussion on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/30/scanning-3d-cultural-heritage-preservation-access-and-revitalization/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">3D scanning, preservation, access and revitalization of cultural heritage</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Missed it? Not to worry, it was recorded. </span></p>
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<p><strong>Here are some of our top takeaways from discussion:   </strong></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">To increase access to cultural content, advocacy efforts that appeal to museums’ higher values of making cultural works available to everyone work far better than fear! When you plan programs, think about the “good actors” you want to empower, rather than worrying about the “bad actors.” They will be “bad” regardless of the barriers you put up against them, as </span><a href="https://www.nyuengelberg.org/our-people/michael-weinberg/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael Weinberg</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> shared. Using SMK, The National Gallery of Denmark as an example, </span><a href="https://www.smk.dk/en/contact_person/jonas-heide-smith/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jonas Heide Smith </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">noted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: “We work to make things as accessible as possible. Some plaster casts are in better shape than the statues outside.” Smith also noted how </span><a href="https://www.smk.dk/en/contact_person/jonas-heide-smith/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">engaging with participants improves their digital offerings. </span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have an opportunity as a community to explore how 3D scans might offer greater access to artifacts that are disputed for repatriation. </span><a href="https://cosmowenman.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cosmo Wenman</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was curious to see how institutions might repatriate objects, but possibly retain scans of them. He also noted other tactics with institutions</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: “I used freedom of information laws to release scans of public domain materials… Institutions leverage secrecy of their policies to preserve their commercial interest.”</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no global consensus on the public domain yet, the policies that should govern it, and what the public domain means to different communities. </span><a href="https://communia-association.org/author/teresa-nobre/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teresa Nobre </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">stated</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: “How can we protect public domain works from appropriations from other intellectual property (IP) laws, like trademarks? In Europe, we have addressed the issue of 3D scans, but are still facing issues of cultural heritage laws and IP appropriation of the public domain.” </span><a href="https://www.nyuengelberg.org/our-people/michael-weinberg/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael Weinberg </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">noted additional nuances</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: “The consensus is that 3D scans of public domain material are also in the public domain, but cultural heritage institutions wrestle with questions of copyright.”</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Managing the practices of 3D scans in the context of cultural and equity concerns, policy and law requires intentional collaboration and inquiry. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/nebulousflynn"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thomas Flynn </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">noted the importance of continuing to ask questions not just among groups like this one, but among other groups poking at the same ideas, because “things don’t happen in isolation.” He suggested contacting indigenous community groups and other 3D scanning efforts. Flynn also asked:</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “How can we coordinate and bring data together on this subject?”</span></span></li>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We at Creative Commons look forward to further engaging in these discussions, and including more views, voices and perspectives in the future. If you are interested in the topics mentioned above, please contact us at </span><a href="mailto:info@creativecommons.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">info@creativecommons.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We hope to work with you in the future. </span></p></blockquote>
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title: Félix Nartey — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 3
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<p>Felix feels that “sharing is something that is invited in human nature” and this is something that has inspired part of his own journey within Open Culture and the Open Movement. In this episode we learn about digital and media rights in Ghana and Liberia as well as the ways local initiatives for open access are being fostered by Felix’s work with Wikimedia.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage.  Felix is a Senior Program Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation and also volunteers with Creative Commons and Mozilla to promote the Commons and Open Access.</p>
<p><strong>Félix responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
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<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66571
title: This Is Not a Bicycle: Human Creativity and Generative AI
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<p><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></p>
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<p>“Generative AI” has been the subject of much online conversation over the past few months. “Generative AI” refers to artificial intelligence (AI) models that can create different kinds of content by following user input and instructions. These models are trained on massive datasets of content — images, audio, text — that is harvested from the internet, and they use this content to produce new material. They can create all kinds of things, including images, music, speech, computer programs, and text, and can either work as stand-alone tools or can be <a href="https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2022/10/18/bringing-next-wave-ai-creative-cloud">incorporated into other creative tools</a>.</p>
<p>The rapid development of this technology has caught the attention of many, offering the promise of revolutionizing how we <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/12/when-ai-can-make-art-what-does-it-mean-for-creativity-dall-e-midjourney">create art</a>, <a href="https://hbr.org/2022/11/how-generative-ai-is-changing-creative-work">conduct work</a>, and even <a href="https://www.bundl.com/articles/generative-ai-has-the-world-lost-its-mind-or-found-a-new-one">live our daily lives</a>. At the same time, these impressive new tools have also raised questions about the nature of art and creativity and what role law and policy should play in both fostering the development of AI and protecting individuals from possible harms that can come from AI.</p>
<p>At Creative Commons, we have been <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/20/cautious-approach-to-copyright-and-artificial-intelligence/">paying attention</a> to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/can-machines-write-like-jane-austen/">generative AI</a> for several years. We recently hosted a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/02/experts-weigh-in-ai-inputs-ai-outputs-and-the-public-commons/">pair of panel discussions</a> on AI inputs and outputs, and we have been working with <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/03/our-work-in-policy-at-cc-artificial-intelligence/">lawmakers in the EU</a> and elsewhere as jurisdictions debate the best approach to legal regulation of artificial intelligence. With our focus on better sharing, we have been particularly interested in how intellectual property policy intersects with AI. In this post, we will explore some of the challenges with applying copyright laws to the works created by generative AI.</p>
<p>Recently, text-to-image models like <a href="https://openai.com/dall-e-2/">DALL-E 2</a>, <a href="https://www.midjourney.com/">Midjourney</a>, and <a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion">Stable Diffusion</a> have received significant attention because of their ability to create complex pieces of visual art just by following simple user text prompts. These systems essentially work by connecting user keywords to elements from images in the datasets that were used to train them to create entirely new images. The length and complexity of the prompts that users input can vary dramatically and the models are able to quickly create works across seemingly endless styles and genres.</p>
<figure id="attachment_66573" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66573" style="width: 512px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-66573" src="media/aaca2d8a.Bicycle.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bicycle.png" alt="An image generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform showing a slightly distorted yellowish-white bicycle with a basket, rear rack, and orange chain guard leaning against a brick building with a white stucco base near a gray standpipe." width="512" height="512" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bicycle.png 512w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bicycle-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bicycle-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bicycle-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bicycle-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bicycle-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bicycle-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66573" class="wp-caption-text">“Bicycle” by Stephen Wolfson for Creative Commons was generated by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt “bicycle.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>To better understand the process of creating a piece of visual art using a text-to-image model and how it raises complex intellectual property issues, let’s look at an example. If I ask DALL-E to create an image of a “bicycle”, the AI takes that prompt, compares it to images and text descriptions in its training data, and creates a few examples of what it thinks I mean. I am mostly a spectator in this process, and not meaningfully in control over the end product. Without further instructions, the model produces what it thinks a “bicycle” should look like, and not necessarily what I had in mind when I started the process.</p>
<p>This image from my single prompt may or may not be what I was looking for, and in some circumstances, it may serve my needs. But if I have a particular vision for what I want my bicycle image to look like, I need to work more with DALL-E to bring that to life. I can add more prompts into the system, and the more specific I am, the closer DALL-E may get to what I want. That is, the more description about what I want my image to look like, the more thought I give into what I want my end product to be, the more material the AI has to work with to find elements from its training data to bring out my artistic vision. I’m never entirely in control in this process, since the model does the physical creation of the work. And this doesn’t always work as planned — more specifics can lead to unexpected (and sometimes very strange) new elements added to the image. But ideally the more I work with the tool, the closer I may get to my vision.</p>
<p>The process of creating content using something like DALL-E 2 takes a considerable amount of trial and error, and over time you can develop skills in prompting the AI to generate what you want it to produce. Indeed, there are entire “prompt books” available to give people shortcuts to get the most out of DALL-E 2 without having to get over the learning curve. Yet even without these books, you can learn to use the system to create content that fits your artistic vision, given enough time and experience.</p>
<p>This simple example begins to illustrate how generative AI can blur the line between what is the work of a human artist and what is the work of a machine, and when it involves both, it reveals the difficulty with applying classic copyright laws to AI-generated content. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/10/no-copyright-protection-for-ai-generated-output/">Creative Commons has argued for several years</a> that, absent significant and direct human creative input, AI outputs should not qualify for copyright protection. In part, this is because we believe that copyright law’s fundamental purpose is to foster human creativity. Where human creativity is not involved, the default should be no copyright protection. Freedom from copyright protection offers important benefits, mostly notably, it enables downstream users to build on, share, and create new works without worrying about infringing on anyone&#8217;s rights. Simply stated, autonomously created content produced by AI doesn&#8217;t involve human creative expression and simply isn&#8217;t within the subject matter of copyright. It should be free for all to use.</p>
<p>But what happens when human creativity is more deeply involved in the generative AI process? What then? It would be difficult to argue that adding minimal inputs into DALL-E 2, like my “bicycle” example, is “creative” in any substantial way. However, as I manipulate the tool more by adding in more substantive and creative prompts to get it to produce the work that I have in mind, the more creative input I have in the process and the less that is left to the AI alone. In this way, DALL-E begins to look more an artist’s tool and less like an autonomous or semi-autonomous content generator.</p>
<p>In fact, these generative AI models can be powerful tools to encourage and enhance human creativity. Over the summer, an artist named Jason Allen <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artificial-intelligence-art-wins-colorado-state-fair-180980703/">won the Colorado State Fair</a> digital arts competition with an image generated by Midjourney. Allen spent nearly 80 hours creating his work, adjusting text prompts to create hundreds of images, from which he selected three and manipulated them with other digital tools, until finally printing the works on canvas — certainly this goes beyond simply entering a few keywords into the tool. What is more, AI can give non-artists the ability to create new works. I, for example, do not have much talent or training in the visual arts. I have never been able to draw what I have in my head. But with these generative AI tools, I can make my artistic vision a reality in a way that I have not been able to do in the past. Imagine what someone with deep artistic vision but physical or visual challenges may be able to do with these tools — the possibilities are amazing!</p>
<p>If this is true — if generative AI can be an engine for human creativity instead of a substitute for it — then perhaps we need to consider if, when, and how copyright protection should attach to parts of some AI outputs, separating the unprotectable elements from what may be, on a case-by-case basis, protectable. On the other hand, rights restrictions come with potential downsides. While copyright can help incentivize creation in some circumstances, legal protection should not be granted where it disproportionately harms the public’s right to access information, culture, and knowledge, as well as freedom of expression. The questions for us, then, are when does the creativity that a user puts into a work based on a generative model rise to a level where rights protections should attach and when do the benefits of protection outweigh the costs.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2020/12/16/trends-and-developments-in-artificial-intelligence-challenges-to-copyright/">a blogpost from 2020</a>, P. Bernt Hugenholz, Joao Pedro Quintais, and Daniel Gervais offered an interesting way to look at the generative AI creation process. They divided the process into three parts: Conception (designing and specifying the final output), execution (producing draft versions of the output), and redaction (refining the output). Humans are primarily involved at the conception and redaction phases — coming up with the idea for the output, entering prompts into the system, iterating and refining the final product. AI, on the other hand, is essential to the execution phase — assembling the output following human inputs. The authors wrote that whether copyright should protect a piece of AI-generated content should be a case-by-case determination. By breaking down the process into these parts, we can evaluate what kind and how much human creative input goes into the production of AI outputs. Where human creative choices are expressed in a final output, that output should qualify for copyright protection; where an AI creates without creative choices of the human author in the final product, that should not qualify for copyright.</p>
<p>There are no easy answers here. While we believe that AI-generated content should not be protected by copyright by default, the line between what are the works of human artists and what are the productions of AI algorithms will only become more complex as AI technologies continue to develop and are incorporated into other creative tools.</p>
<p>For over twenty years, Creative Commons has argued for a copyright system that encourages more sharing and a freer use of creative works, because we believe that an open approach to intellectual property rights benefits us all. The law should support and foster human creativity, and right now it is at best unclear how AI-generated content fits into this system. However copyright law applies to this new technology, it is essential for the law to strike a balance between the rights of people to use, share, and express themselves using creative works and incentivizing creativity through exclusive rights.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/21/this-is-not-a-bicycle-human-creativity-and-generative-ai/">This Is Not a Bicycle: Human Creativity and Generative AI</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66579
title: CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks February 2023: Recordings and Slides
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On 2 February 2023, the Creative Commons Open Education Platform community held Lightning Talks, where presenters shared innovative ideas and technologies in the field of Open Education. Each speaker brought unique expertise to the table, sparking conversations and inspiring new ideas. You can watch the replay below.</span></p>
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<h3>The Lightning Talk Presenters:</h3>
<h5><strong>Reimagining Open Education as Social Justice</strong></h5>
<p><b>Ravon Ruffin</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Educational Programs Manager at MHz Foundation, and </span><b>Amanda Figueroa</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Community Director at MHz Foundation, showcased the Curationist platform for decolonial methodologies in curation, education, and art.</span></p>
<h5><strong>LibreTexts 101: Building the Textbook of the Future</strong></h5>
<p><b>Delmar Larsen, </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, and Founder and Director of the LibreTexts project, provided an overview of LibreVerse, a suite of tools and technologies to advance OER textbooks and assessments.</span></p>
<h5><strong>Using Machine Translation Algorithms to Effectively Generate Non-English Language OER Textbooks</strong></h5>
<p><b>Delmar Larsen</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> also discussed machine translation algorithms for non-English language OER textbooks.</span></p>
<h5><strong>Integration of Values and Ethics in OER for Climate Change and the SDGs</strong></h5>
<p><b>Dr. Suma Parahakaran</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Head of the Faculty of Education at Manipal Globalnxt University in Malaysia, highlighted options for collaborative OER for learning communities focused on climate change and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.</span></p>
<h5><strong>OER as a Social Justice Tool, the Case of Digital Accessibility</strong></h5>
<p><b>Nicolas Simon</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, and Social Work at Eastern Connecticut State University, discussed the use of OER for digital accessibility and promoting inclusion, diversity, equity, and social justice.</span></p>
<h5><strong>Get the Balance Right: Using Mindfulness OER for Intentional Work and Life Practices</strong></h5>
<p><b>Dr. Carolyn Stevenson</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Full-time faculty member and Faculty Advisor for Purdue University Global, School of General Education, Department of Professional Studies, provided resources for using mindfulness OER for a healthy work/life balance.</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keep track of what CC Open Education Platform is doing by </span><a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y183bzRpbzJ1YnUwYzk0NDB0b2FhaGxhbGwyY0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t"><span style="font-weight: 400;">subscribing to our calendar</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and learn more about the CC Open Education Platform</span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-open-education-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on our website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/22/cc-open-education-platform-lightning-talks-february-2023-recordings-and-slides/">CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks February 2023: Recordings and Slides</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66592
title: CC Needs Assessment Report on Public Domain Tools in Cultural Heritage Sector Unveils Key Insights
uri: CC-Needs-Assessment-Report-on-Public-Domain-Tools-in-Cultural-Heritage
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today Creative Commons is proud to release our report on the Needs Assessment entitled </span><a href="media/7b44306c.Creative-Commons-Public-Domain-Tools-Needs-Assessment-Report.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Creative-Commons-Public-Domain-Tools-Needs-Assessment-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><b>Are the Creative Commons Public Domain Tools Fit-For-Purpose in the Cultural Heritage Sector?</b></a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From 1 January (</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/09/public-domain-2022-join-us-20-january-for-a-celebration-of-sound/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Public Domain Day</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) to 15 February 2022, we </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/01/17/assessing-cultural-heritage-institutions-needs-related-to-ccs-public-domain-tools/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ran a multilingual online survey</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> using Google Forms to share a 50-question questionnaire in English, French and Spanish. We received responses from 133 field practitioners — working in libraries, museums and archives and other areas of open culture — from 44 different countries on five continents. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This report showcases one of the many ways in which we at CC strive to support our global Open Culture community in realizing a vision for </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">of cultural heritage: we develop and steward a legal, social, and technical infrastructure that supports open sharing that is impactful, generative, equitable and resilient. The insights gained from this report are crucial in guiding our efforts to improve the accessibility and usability of our public domain tools for the cultural heritage community. At CC, we are committed to improving our response to the needs of our global community and supporting better sharing, and the maintenance of our licenses and tools, focused on the communities they serve, takes center stage. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With this report, we gain valuable insight into the unique needs and challenges of the cultural heritage community with regard to our public domain tools: the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">public domain mark (PDM)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">public domain dedication tool (CC0)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Key findings include: </span></p></blockquote>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The top reason to release content openly is to “increase the institution&#8217;s presence, visibility, reach and relevance online.”</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">While about a little less than a third share a small part of the collection with CC0 or PDM, only about 4% share their entire collection with either tool. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC website is by far the number one source of information on CC public domain tools.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">About one third do not know which of CC0 or PDM is better to use to release digital reproductions of items in collections.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">72% see how CC public domain tools can make a difference in how the institution shares its collection.</span></span></li>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also define pathways to address those needs, with strategic recommendations to guide future actions in four steps: </span></p></blockquote>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Step 1: Get to know and understand our global community better</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Step 2: Raise awareness, offer guidance and build capacity</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Step 3: Explore legal and technical improvements to the tools</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Step 4: Probe unmet needs </span></li>
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<p>With the recommendations outlined in this report, we are well-positioned to address the unique needs and challenges of the cultural heritage community, and to further our mission of promoting better sharing and equitable access to cultural heritage.</p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you also want to get involved? Don’t hesitate!</span></p></blockquote>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMXU5Sb6ATDZx-alTvf9DCfs3jzDlX-AKCY7sowjb3vqW0HA/viewform"><span style="font-weight: 400;">member</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the CC Open Culture Platform</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sign up to the CC Open Culture </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-open-culture"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mailing list</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join 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;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participate in CC Open Culture Platform calls — they are announced in the Slack channel and on the mailing list</span></li>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/23/cc-needs-assessment-report-on-public-domain-tools-in-cultural-heritage-sector-unveils-key-insights/">CC Needs Assessment Report on Public Domain Tools in Cultural Heritage Sector Unveils Key Insights</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66576
title: CC’s open culture platform 2022 five working groups share their highlights
uri: CC-s-open-culture-platform-2022-five-working-groups-share-their-high
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2022, five working groups of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons Open Culture Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> collaborated on a diverse range of topics related to better sharing of cultural heritage. In this blog post, we highlight their incredible contribution to the open culture community.</span></p>
<h3><b>Digital Community Heritage</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Led by Bettina Fabos and Mariana Ziku, the Digital Community Heritage Working Group focused on</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">international community-related heritage initiatives in the context of open access and inclusive digital transformation. The collaborative research carried out in the course of a year aimed to map and analyze the openness spectrum and typology of digital community heritage initiatives, which included collecting international cases, performing data analysis and visualization, providing insights into patterns and trends, and identifying good practices and common challenges in the field. The output of this research includes the publication of a </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.21428/9eb74dbf.0c46e6be"><span style="font-weight: 400;">data-driven multilingual study</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> discussing digital community heritage and open-access, and a published machine readable dataset of 27 international digital community heritage initiatives with information structured into several categories. Read a summary of the study on CC’s Medium in </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/digital-community-heritage-and-open-access-7e3477ef2131"><span style="font-weight: 400;">English</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/rapport-cc-patrimoine-communautaire-num%C3%A9rique-et-acc%C3%A8s-libre-13da337dce4a"><span style="font-weight: 400;">French</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/informe-cc-patrimonio-comunitario-digital-y-acceso-abierto-af314c33be7"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spanish</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/cc%E5%A0%B1%E5%91%8A-%E6%95%B8%E4%BD%8D%E7%A4%BE%E7%BE%A4%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E8%B3%87%E7%94%A2%E8%88%87%E9%96%8B%E6%94%BE%E8%BF%91%E7%94%A8-c8fb74f68873"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chinese</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F-%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B2-%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95-%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A4-%E0%A4%94%E0%A4%B0-%E0%A4%96%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%AE-f338dde5ec9b"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hindi</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/ripoti-urithi-wa-jamii-ya-kidijitali-na-ufikiaji-wazi-1ef312dd1708"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Swahili</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can find out more about the WG on <a href="https://cc-digital-community-heritage.pubpub.org">their PubPub website</a>.<br />
</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7384693"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Access the dataset </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NldU_eFaiB74qNdTSDOonPwhT98_tnOn?usp=share_link"><span style="font-weight: 400;">data visualizations folder</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><strong>Watch the webinar recording for an overview of the project and its outputs.</strong></p>
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<h3><b>Traditional Knowledge and Copyright Intersections</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Led by Connor Benedict and Alhassan Mohammed Awal, the Traditional Knowledge and Copyright Intersections Working Group was created on the acknowledgement that the needs and circumstances of groups and resources that fall under the broad category of indigenous knowledge are both varied and specific. To determine the value and applicability of CC licenses and CC principles to these varied groups requires knowledge and understanding that only the members of those groups hold. The WG sought to gain a better sense of the important issues pertaining to the relationship between traditional knowledge, groups, and resources and the CC licenses and CC principles and copyright. The</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> output of the WG includes a webinar series featuring three speakers with lived experience, as well as experts who have worked with impacted groups, as well as an </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/traditional-knowledge-and-copyright-intersections-d8cb78375e40"><span style="font-weight: 400;">article on CC’s Medium</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> which includes a summary and recordings of the webinars.</span></p>
<p><strong>Watch the webinar recording for an overview of the project and its outputs.</strong></p>
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<h3><b>Archiving New and Emergent Media </b></h3>
<p>Led by Connor Benedict and Abdul Dube, the working group was created based on the recognition that the majority of open GLAM work had been focused on big institutions and traditional heritage, with little support and knowledge available for smaller organizations and their contemporary archiving and documenting needs. The working group believed that traditional and larger heritage institutions could significantly benefit from collaborating with smaller organizations and private collections. In the future digital culture and the growing digitization of cultural heritage, one of the main challenges would be the vast amount of heritage material in the digital realm, which would be unmanageable for big institutions without cooperation from other players in the field of digital cultural heritage. The group&#8217;s goals were to (1) highlight the archiving practices, innovations, and needs of a variety of contemporary organizations and (2) create a resource for anyone interested in contemporary archiving to explore and gain knowledge from.</p>
<p>A series of interviews with cultural organizations was conducted by the working group, and a co-created zine was produced, which is available for download and will be available at CC events in 2023. <a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/archiving-emerging-cultural-heritage-8665f1c2731c">More information about the group&#8217;s work can be found on Medium</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Watch the webinar recording for an overview of the project and its outputs.</strong></p>
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<h3><b>Public domain collections referenced by CC BY to designate collections holders</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Led by Deborah De Angelis and Tomoaki Watanabe,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">this Working Group discussed a particular use of CC licenses, typically a CC BY license by cultural heritage institutions (CHIs). In digital archives, we sometimes see collections provided under a CC BY license, or other CC licenses,even when the original work is in the public domain, and the digitization does not generate any new copyright. The provider of such work, typically a CHI, is presumably not a copyright holder, and their license is technically invalid. The working group discussed causes, a range of potential interventions, and pros and cons of the interventions. They recommended Creative Commons and other similar entities the following: 1) change the content of the CC0 pages to facilitate communication of CHIs to make a legally non-binding, courtesy request to receive credit, 2) not develop a new legal tool which obligates attribution to CHIs, and 3) promote giving credits to CHIs. Their output includes 1) </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/report-of-the-working-group-to-investigate-use-of-cc-by-to-designate-holders-of-public-domain-679e75c05e8f"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a brief report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 2) illustrated version of the report’s highlights (available from the above-mentioned report), and 3) a webinar. </span></p>
<p><strong>Watch the webinar recording for an overview of the project and its outputs.</strong></p>
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<h3><b>Open GLAM Resources</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Led by Revekka Kefalea and Jesse Carson, this working group aimed to develop practical resources for the open culture / open GLAM sector. As resources dealing with copyright, open licensing, and GLAMs proliferate in the form of academic and gray literature, reports, magazine articles, blogs, etc., it becomes increasingly important to ensure that they are discoverable and accessible. Gathering literature together in the form of a bibliography that can be added to by the global community is one way to encourage the sharing and use of these resources. Similarly, as terms and concepts related to open licensing and GLAMs grow in usage, there is value in gathering definitions and establishing relationships between concepts, and facilitating their translation into many languages. For these reasons, they considered it important to start collecting information about these resources, and making them easily discoverable — not only for those already working, researching, and advocating in the field, but also for newcomers interested in exploring and contributing to the Open Culture/GLAM world. Similarly, they thought it was important to gather working definitions and descriptions of terms relevant to Open Culture/GLAM, establish relationships between those concepts, and facilitate their translation into other languages. With these two goals in mind, they decided to co-create a bibliography to capture Open Culture/GLAM literature, and a glossary to capture Open Culture/GLAM terminology. You can </span><a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/creating-a-bibliography-and-a-glossary-on-open-culture-open-glam-b855ffe1059a"><span style="font-weight: 400;">read more about the group’s work</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in their article on CC’s Medium. The group’s resources can be found as follows: </span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture/GLAM Resources Zotero Group Library: </span><a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/4612906/open_culture__glam_resources/library"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.zotero.org/groups/4612906/open_culture__glam_resources/library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture/GLAM Resources Zotero Group: </span><a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/4612906/open_culture__glam_resources"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.zotero.org/groups/4612906/open_culture__glam_resources</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zotero Library &#8211; “How to contribute” guide on Meta-Wiki: </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Culture/GLAM_Glossary/Zotero_Library"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Culture/GLAM_Glossary/Zotero_Library</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture/GLAM Glossary Meta-Wiki page: </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Culture/GLAM_Glossary"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Culture/GLAM_Glossary</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li>
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<p><strong>Watch the webinar recording for an overview of the project and its outputs.</strong></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you also want to get involved? Don’t hesitate!</span></p></blockquote>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMXU5Sb6ATDZx-alTvf9DCfs3jzDlX-AKCY7sowjb3vqW0HA/viewform"><span style="font-weight: 400;">member</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the CC Open Culture Platform</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sign up to the CC Open Culture </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-open-culture"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mailing list</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join 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;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participate in CC Open Culture Platform calls — they are announced in the Slack channel and on the mailing list</span></li>
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<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/24/ccs-open-culture-platform-2022-five-working-groups-share-their-highlights/">CC’s open culture platform 2022 five working groups share their highlights</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66628
title: Zarya of the Dawn: US Copyright Office Affirms Limits on Copyright of AI Outputs
uri: Zarya-of-the-Dawn-US-Copyright-Office-Affirms-Limits-on-Copyright-of
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/27/zarya-of-the-dawn-us-copyright-office-affirms-limits-on-copyright-of-ai-outputs/

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<div style="background: #e0c93d; font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 1em 2em 1em; padding: 2em;"><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></div>
<figure id="attachment_66633" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66633" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66633" src="media/c2475056.Zarya-of-the-Dawn-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn-300x169.jpg" alt="Close up of the face of Zarya, from the comic Zarya of the Dawn, looking intent in a dark urban landscape with glowing lights." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn-440x250.jpg 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Zarya-of-the-Dawn.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66633" class="wp-caption-text">“Zarya of the Dawn”: detail of an image generated by Midjourney AI from <a href="”https://aicomicbooks.com/book/zarya-of-the-dawn-by-kristina-kashtanova-download-now/”">the full graphic novel</a> by <a href="”https://www.kris.art/”">Kristina Kashtanova</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/21/this-is-not-a-bicycle-human-creativity-and-generative-ai/">In a recent post</a>, we explained why, absent significant and direct human creative input, generative AI outputs should not qualify for copyright protection. We noted that exactly what constitutes enough human input is not entirely clear; while a simple text prompt shouldn’t be enough, other areas will present more complex questions.</p>
<p>Just this week, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) <a href="media/a74281bb.AI20COPYRIGHT20decision.pdf" data-original-source="https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/klpygnkyrpg/AI%20COPYRIGHT%20decision.pdf">provided</a> a bit more clarity, at least as to its views about US law and works generated by AI. While it affirms some of the limits that we articulated, it leaves open many questions about where exactly the boundaries of copyrightability lie.</p>
<p>This case involves an artist named <a href="https://www.kris.art/">Kristina Kashtanova</a> who used the Midjourney platform to create their graphic novel, <em><a href="https://aicomicbooks.com/book/zarya-of-the-dawn-by-kristina-kashtanova-download-now/">Zarya of the Dawn</a></em>. and their application for copyright registration over their work. Kashtanova claims that they used “hundreds or thousands” of text prompts and went through “hundreds of iterations” to create their artistic vision. They also note that in some instances, they edited the images that Midjourney produced, and altogether put hours of time and care into what became <em>Zarya of the Dawn</em>.</p>
<p>However, even considering the work that Kashtanova put into producing the graphic novel, the Copyright Office ultimately held that the images produced by Midjourney lacked sufficient human involvement in the creation process to qualify for copyright protection. The USCO held that, even if a human enters text prompts into Midjourney and iterates an image until it becomes what they want, they are still at some level out of control over what the generative AI produces. And for this reason, it is not truly the work of a human author. The Copyright Office wrote that “A person who provides text prompts to Midjourney does not ‘actually form’ the generated images and is not the ‘master mind’ behind them. Instead [&#8230;] Midjourney begins the image generation process with a field of visual ‘noise,’ which is refined based on tokens created from user prompts that relate to Midjourney’s training database. The information in the prompt may ‘influence’ the generated image, but prompt text does not dictate a specific result.”</p>
<p>As part of its decision, the Copyright Office compared Kashtanova’s use of Midjourney with the work of a photographer and their camera. The agency wrote that, unlike a photographer, users of Midjourney do not have the same degree of control over the final images. Photographers can control many parts of their photographs — the framing, the lighting, the subject, the presentation of the subject, the exposure time, the depth of field, etc — even though the camera ultimately captures the image. Midjourney users, on the other hand, cannot truly control what the AI creates. “The process by which a Midjourney user obtains an ultimate satisfactory image through the tool is not the same as that of a human artist, writer, or photographer […] the initial prompt by a user generates four different images based on Midjourney’s training data. While additional prompts applied to one of these initial images can influence the subsequent images, the process is not controlled by the user because it is not possible to predict what Midjourney will create ahead of time.”</p>
<p>When it comes to a ruling like this, it’s all too easy to think of it in terms of which party won or lost. But that’s too simplistic. For one thing, limitations on copyright can be helpful to creativity, growing the commons by enabling artists to build freely on these works.</p>
<p>What’s more, though Kashtanova lost their registration for the full work, the Office also made clear that there were ways for artists to add creativity such that they do have a copyrightable work incorporating AI-generated content. The Office concluded that Kashtanova’s original text, as well as the selection and arrangement of the text and the images together, are copyrightable. Furthermore, the Office noted that it “will register works that contain otherwise unprotectable material that has been edited, modified, or otherwise revised by a human author,” although it did not have evidence in this case of sufficient changes to reach this threshold. Determining those boundaries will have to be evaluated in future instances.</p>
<p>With that in mind, it’s also important to note that neither the artist involved nor Midjourney viewed this as a ‘loss’ per se. While the artist criticized the decision, they <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Co-aYkQumio/">stated</a> it is a “great day for everyone that is creating using Midjourney and other tools&#8230;. This covers a lot of uses for people in the AI art community.&#8221; Similarly, Midjourney’s general counsel <a href="https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2023/02/23/us-copyright-office-refuses-to-issue-protections-for-ai-generated-illustrations/">declared</a> that the decision is “a great victory for Kris, Midjourney, and artists” because the Office “clearly [is] saying that if an artist exerts creative control over an image-generating tool like Midjourney” then copyright may apply.</p>
<p>Looking ahead, the exact boundaries of copyrightability for AI-generated works will no doubt continue to evolve. The Office’s statements were based on only one type of tool, Midjourney and its “diffusion” model. Other tools may construct images differently, and some generative AI tools give humans more control over the works that they produce, making it more difficult to determine where in the final output the human creativity ends and the AI begins.</p>
<p>Additionally, the copyrightability of fully autonomously created works is currently being debated in <em><a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63356475/thaler-v-perlmutter/">Thaler v. Perlmutter</a></em>, a case brought against the Copyright Office for refusing to register a work where the claimed author is a machine. That case may offer some guidance on these questions in the relatively near future.</p>
<p>Finally, a Copyright Office decision on registration is not the final determination on the copyrightability of works. Copyright in the United States (and other countries covered by the Berne Convention) does not require registration and the federal courts are not bound by any Copyright Office decision. It is, however, a valuable datapoint on how judges may think about works produced by generative AI when these issues end up before the courts. Certainly this is not the last we will hear about this issue and we will continue watching to see what happens.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/27/zarya-of-the-dawn-us-copyright-office-affirms-limits-on-copyright-of-ai-outputs/">&lt;i&gt;Zarya of the Dawn&lt;/i&gt;: US Copyright Office Affirms Limits on Copyright of AI Outputs</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66542
title: Charles Riondet — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 4
uri: Charles-Riondet-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-4
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/28/charles-riondet-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-4/
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<p>Charles shares that “open access [in cultural heritage] allows institutions to shine a light on lesser known works” that would otherwise go unnoticed. In this episode we get to learn about how a major French cultural institution creates value by making incredibly detailed data of collections available to the public online.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Charles is the Digital and Open Data Project Manager at Mucem where he works to increase the usability and engagement of the museums collection.</p>
<p><strong>Charles responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
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<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
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<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/28/charles-riondet-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-4/">Charles Riondet — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 4</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66656
title: CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | March: Better Sharing, Brighter Future
uri: CC-s-BetterSharing-Collection-March-Better-Sharing-Brighter-Fut
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<p>As part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what better sharing looks like in action. Our #BetterSharing collection of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness with transforming these perspectives into captivating visual pieces available under a CC license.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-66067" src="media/e8d593f7.David-Espinosa-731x1024.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-731x1024.png" alt="" width="350" height="490" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-731x1024.png 731w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-214x300.png 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-768x1075.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-29x40.png 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-36x50.png 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa-111x155.png 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/David-Espinosa.png 857w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For March, we&#8217;re excited to showcase “</span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/better-sharing-brighter-future"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Better Sharing, Brighter Future</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Mexican illustrator and cartoonist, David Espinosa. The piece, licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, was inspired by a quote from </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/catherine/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Catherine Stihler</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Creative Commons CEO:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Better Sharing, Brighter Future is happy and joyous open sharing where creativity, knowledge and innovation can prosper.”<br />
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<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meet the artist:</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-66657" src="media/e578841e.aec480f7f5735a0499f80b03cc47923e._thumbnail-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/aec480f7f5735a0499f80b03cc47923e._thumbnail-300x300.png" alt="" width="283" height="283" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/aec480f7f5735a0499f80b03cc47923e._thumbnail-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/aec480f7f5735a0499f80b03cc47923e._thumbnail-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/aec480f7f5735a0499f80b03cc47923e._thumbnail-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/aec480f7f5735a0499f80b03cc47923e._thumbnail-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/aec480f7f5735a0499f80b03cc47923e._thumbnail-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/aec480f7f5735a0499f80b03cc47923e._thumbnail-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/aec480f7f5735a0499f80b03cc47923e._thumbnail.png 500w" sizes="(max-width: 283px) 85vw, 283px" /></p>
<p><a href="https://thegreats.co/artists/david-espinosa"><span style="font-weight: 400;">David Espinosa</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, also known as El Dee, is an illustrator and cartoonist based in Cholula, México. With an impressive track record of success, his graphic novel &#8220;Nido de Serpientes&#8221; was awarded Tierra Adentro&#8217;s Young Graphic Novel of the year in 2018, cementing his position as one of Mexico&#8217;s most promising emerging artists. David’s work is characterized by its intricate details, bold colors, and thoughtful storytelling. Drawing inspiration from Mexican culture, pop art, and underground comics, his illustrations and comics are visually stunning and emotionally resonant. Whether he&#8217;s creating a new masterpiece or collaborating with fellow artists, David is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of his craft and inspiring the next generation of Mexican artists.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow David on Instagram: ​​</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/el.dee/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@el.dee</span></a><br />
<span>Follow David on Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/eltwitilustrado?lang=en"><span>@eltwitilustrado</span></a></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The full #BetterSharing collection is available on </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheGreats.co</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to be enjoyed, used and adapted, and then shared again, by anyone, forever. </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing&amp;search="><span style="font-weight: 400;">View the full collection &gt;&gt;</span></a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66676
title: Open Education Week 2023: Creative Commons Celebrates Community Members
uri: Open-Education-Week-2023-Creative-Commons-Celebrates-Community-Member
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/03/open-education-week-2023-creative-commons-celebrates-community-members/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-large wp-image-66677" src="media/c57f6d9c.OE-Week-2023-CC-1024x576.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OE-Week-2023-CC-1024x576.png" alt="An illustration with doodles of a laptop, puzzle, microphone, mug with steam, a box with papers coming out of it, and text that says &quot;Join the global event, OEWEEK March 6-10, 2023 #oeweek and Creative Commons logo‎.&quot;" width="840" height="473" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OE-Week-2023-CC-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OE-Week-2023-CC-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OE-Week-2023-CC-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OE-Week-2023-CC-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OE-Week-2023-CC-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OE-Week-2023-CC-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OE-Week-2023-CC-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OE-Week-2023-CC-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/OE-Week-2023-CC.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" />As we gear up for Open Education Week 2023 (6 &#8211; 10 March), Creative Commons wants to recognize the contributions of our open education and related open communities. In the past several, our community members have shared their knowledge and inquiry through lightning talks, panel discussions, presentations, and working groups. The list below offers a glimpse into some of the areas of knowledge shared, and is not exhaustive. While most events focus directly on open education topics, we recognize the rich areas of overlap with our open culture and copyright communities, and have shared a glimpse into some related efforts as well.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Community-Led Efforts</span></h2>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>CC Open Education Lightning Talks: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seven-minute presentations that offer glimpses into our open education community’s expertise. Over the last year, community members have presented on topics ranging from OER and the “work for hire” doctrine, building OER into capstone courses, funding opportunities within open education, open educational resources (OER) as tools for social justice, work/life balance, climate change and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the LibreTexts and Curationist platforms. Learn about open licensing and OER, copyright, the public domain, and more in these pithy tutorials! </span>&nbsp;
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/10/cc-open-education-platform-lightning-talks-recordings-and-request-for-speakers/"><b>August 2022 CC Open Education Lightning Talks</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Included discussions on building OER into capstone courses, funding opportunities within open education, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.</span>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_mDd2PSBE"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Syllabus: UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by Jennifer Miller, civic technologist and open knowledge advocate.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3an_lJ0pmxM"><span style="font-weight: 400;">More OER for Free!</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by Jonathan Poritz, former mathematics faculty member and OER Coordinator at a public university in Colorado, USA, and ongoing facilitator for the CC Certificate course.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wbfp2-FNWs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Climate Campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/cablecreativecommons-org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Cable Green</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Director of Open Knowledge at Creative Commons, and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/monicacreativecommons-org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Monica Granados</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Assistant Director for Creative Commons Open Climate program.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7PGaxgArgY"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building OER into Capstone Courses</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by </span><a href="https://www.purdueglobal.edu/degree-programs/general-education/faculty-leadership/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Carolyn Stevenson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, faculty member and faculty advisor for Purdue University Global, School of General Education, Department of Professional Studies.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06NrPp61cg&amp;t=1s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Improve It Challenge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by Jamison Miller, Open Education advocate and PhD candidate at William and Mary School of Education.</span>&nbsp;</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/22/cc-open-education-platform-lightning-talks-february-2023-recordings-and-slides/"><b>February 2023 CC Open Education Lightning Talks</b></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Topics included reimagining open education as social justice, using machine translation algorithms for non-English language OER textbooks, and integrating values and ethics in OER for climate change and the SDGs. </span>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXPSp-suqHU&amp;t=68s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reimagining Open Education as Social Justice</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by </span><a href="https://www.mhzfoundation.org/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ravon Ruffin</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Educational Programs Manager at MHz Foundation, and </span><a href="https://www.mhzfoundation.org/about/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amanda Figueroa</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Community Director at MHz Foundation.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXPSp-suqHU&amp;t=579s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">LibreTexts 101: Building the Textbook of the Future</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by </span><a href="https://chemistry.ucdavis.edu/people/delmar-larsen"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Delmar Larsen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, and Founder and Director of the LibreTexts project.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXPSp-suqHU&amp;t=2065s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using Machine Translation Algorithms to Effectively generate Non-English language OER Textbooks</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by Delmar Larsen, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, and Founder and Director of the LibreTexts project.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXPSp-suqHU&amp;t=1458s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Integration of Values and Ethics in OER for Climate Change and the SDGs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by </span><a href="https://www.globalnxt.edu.my/gnxt/experience-us/faculty-research/dr-suma.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Suma Parahakaran</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, head of the Faculty of Education at Manipal Globalnxt.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXPSp-suqHU&amp;t=2419s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">OER as a Social Justice tool, the case of digital accessibility</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by</span><a href="https://www.easternct.edu/faculty-directory/simon.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Nicolas Simon</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology, and Social Work at Eastern Connecticut State University.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="3"><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXPSp-suqHU&amp;t=2925s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get the Balance Right: Using Mindfulness OER for Intentional Work and Life Practices</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8221; by </span><a href="https://www.purdueglobal.edu/degree-programs/general-education/faculty-leadership/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Carolyn Stevenson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">, faculty member and faculty advisor for Purdue University Global, School of General Education, Department of Professional Studies.</span></span>&nbsp;</li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Anticolonial Knowledge: Discussion with Stacy Allison-Cassin:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a Q&amp;A discussion led by moderator </span><a href="https://postmodgirl.wixsite.com/portfolio"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jen Hughes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, CC Certificate Facilitator and Archives, New Media and Educational Initiatives Librarian at Salt Lake Community College, and featured </span><a href="https://stacymallison.ca/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stacy Allison-Cassin, PhD</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Assistant Professor at the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University. The discussion focused on the challenges and considerations for anti-colonial knowledge efforts within knowledge institutions. </span><a href="media/584f7305.af34d5f8abb711edb151a9e396aafe94.mp4" data-original-source="https://meetings.dialpad.com/getmp4/af34d5f8abb711edb151a9e396aafe94.mp4"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watch the recording</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span>&nbsp;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>February 2023 SDSN US Summit on Transformative Education, Panel Discussion: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sustainability Education: Nonformal and Informal Education (</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dYomKU9i57NBG-q8TFwUbCw_UZQvLbhbMCMjZiF3Si0/edit#slide=id.g16d3d9303ca_0_6"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Green’s slides</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">): The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) spans six continents and draws upon the knowledge and educational capacity of over 1,600-member institutions. The panel speakers included CC’s Dr. Cable Green, Amlata Persaud of Childhood Education International, Karen Robinson of Human Rights Org, </span><a href="https://www.sdsnusa.org/toland-kister"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Toland Kister</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of Hudron Riverpark.org, and </span><a href="https://www.sdsnusa.org/tim-mahoney"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tim Mahoney</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (moderator). </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l0eKfUaUWc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watch the recording</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additional community efforts from the fields of open culture, open climate and copyright </span></h2>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>CC’s copyright platform 2022 working groups share their highlights: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Led by </span><a href="https://twitter.com/andrehouang?lang=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">André Houang</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/eozgeyildirim"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emine Yildirim</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the two working groups presented their position papers on international user rights and data sharing policies. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/15/ccs-copyright-platform-2022-working-groups-share-their-highlights/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">View their highlights</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>&nbsp;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>CC’s open culture platform 2022 five working groups share their highlights: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2022, CC&#8217;s open culture platform had five working groups, each focused on different areas of interest. These included the Digital Community Heritage Working Group led by </span><a href="https://twitter.com/bettinafabos"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bettina Fabos</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/marianaziku"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mariana Ziku</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; the Traditional Knowledge and Copyright Intersections Working Group led by </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/connorbenedict/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Connor Benedict</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Alhassa51457950?t=gad7xAvs146Q2XVt4jwzrQ&amp;s=09"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alhassan Mohammed Awal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; the Open GLAM for Smaller Organizations Working Group led by Connor Benedict and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/abduldube/?originalSubdomain=dk"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Abdul Dube</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; the CC Licenses for Cultural Heritage Institutions Working Group led by </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-de-angelis-172a346/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deborah De Angelis</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://twitter.com/tomo_wt"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tomoaki Watanabe</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">; and the Practical Resources for the Open Culture Sector Working Group led by </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/06/03/cc-certificate-alumni-interview-with-revekka-kefalea/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Revekka Kefalea</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-carson-519b29145/?originalSubdomain=ca"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jesse Carson</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/24/ccs-open-culture-platform-2022-five-working-groups-share-their-highlights/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">View their highlights</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>&nbsp;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>Open Culture VOICES Archives:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">series of short interviews</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) experts from around the world. CC asks each guest four questions about the benefits, barriers, inspiration, and advice to share about open culture. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watch the latest episode from season 2</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span>&nbsp;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><b>February 2023 Scanning 3D: Cultural Heritage Preservation, Access and Revitalization:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In February 2023, we hosted a global Q&amp;A and panel discussion on 3D scanning for cultural heritage preservation, access, and revitalization. The discussion focused on the legal, policy, cultural, and ethical considerations surrounding this topic. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The speakers included </span><a href="https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/team/weinberg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michael Weinberg</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Executive Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at the NYU School of Law; </span><a href="https://cosmowenman.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cosmo Wenman</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, an open access advocate and 3D design and fabrication consultant; </span><a href="https://communia-association.org/author/teresa-nobre/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teresa Nobre</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Legal Director of COMMUNIA; </span><a href="https://twitter.com/nebulousflynn"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thomas Flynn</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Cultural Heritage Lead at Sketchfab; </span><a href="https://www.smk.dk/en/contact_person/jonas-heide-smith/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jonas Heide Smith</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Head of Digital at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen (Statens Museum for Kunst); and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/jennryncreativecommons-org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jennryn Wetzler</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Director of Learning and Training at Creative Commons, who served as the moderator. </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/20/panel-recap-3d-scanning-for-cultural-heritage-preservation-access-and-revitalization/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watch the recording</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></span>&nbsp;</li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC is grateful to community members in these conversations and others. Their thoughtful presentations enrich Open Education Week, and our broader open knowledge and open culture work. </span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To find out what else Creative Commons is doing to celebrate Open Education, visit the </span><a href="https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Education Week</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> website. </span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66696
title: New official translations of CC legal tools published in Danish, Frisian, and German
uri: New-official-translations-of-CC-legal-tools-published-in-Danish-Frisi
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https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/06/new-official-translations-of-cc-legal-tools-published-in-danish-frisian-and-german/

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are thrilled to announce that the Creative Commons 4.0 License Suite and deeds have been officially translated into two new languages: Danish and Frisian, bringing the total number of official translations of the legal codes to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">30</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">! This achievement wouldn&#8217;t have been possible without the dedication and hard work of our community volunteers. We want to express our gratitude to all the volunteers who have helped us with translation. If you would like to get involved in future translation efforts, contact <a href="mailto:legal@creativecommons.org">legal@creativecommons.org</a>.<br />
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<p>The addition of these translations is a significant milestone, as it enables even more people to access and use Creative Commons licenses in their native tongue. The Danish translation of CC 4.0 licenses and deeds was first started in 2019 by a team of official translators from the European Commission, coordinated by Pedro Malaquias. In 2022, the Danish Agency for Digital Government requested the translation to be completed, with the aim of recommending the use of CC licenses to public authorities and administrations. Peter Leth led the effort to complete the Danish translation.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.da"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here is the CC BY 4.0 deed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p></blockquote>
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In addition, the Western Frisian language is now available for CC 4.0 licenses and deeds. Spoken by about 350,000 people in Friesland, a province in the north of the Netherlands, the Western Frisian language is closer to English than Dutch or German, making it a unique language on the European mainland. This translation was made possible thanks to the initiative of Friduwih Riemersma, a poetry translator, with help from CC Netherlands volunteer and copyright lawyer Maarten Zeinstra. This translation allows for greater inclusivity and accessibility for the Frisian-speaking community.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.fy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here is the CC BY 4.0 deed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, the CC0 public domain release and deed are now available in German. The lack of an official German translation of CC0 was a significant barrier to the adoption of Creative Commons legal tools in Germany, and the translation will now enable the German-speaking community to use CC0 as a standard legal tool for their work. The German translation was made possible thanks to the hard work of Till Jaeger, Ruth Oppenheimer, Paul Klimpel, Stefan Kaufmann, Maximilian Gausepohl, and John Weitzmann. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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<blockquote><p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.de"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here is the</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> CC0 deed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We hope these translations will allow more people to understand and use the Creative Commons licenses and other legal tools, leading to a more open and accessible world. Congratulations to all the teams involved in these efforts, and a big thank you to all the supporters and contributors who made these translations possible.<br />
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<blockquote><p><b>Contributing to the translation of CC licenses is an excellent way to show your support for our work and help make the world a more open and accessible place. To get involved with our future translation projects, please reach out to <a href="mailto:legal@creativecommons.org">legal@creativecommons.org</a>.</b></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66707
title: CC Community Input: Better Sharing for Generative AI
uri: CC-Community-Input-Better-Sharing-for-Generative-AI
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/07/cc-community-input-better-sharing-for-generative-ai/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66708" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66708" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-66708" src="media/62073b35.Input-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input-300x169.jpg" alt="Veins of hot glowing orange lava flowing through vein-like channels in dark black volcanic rock." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input-440x250.jpg 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Input.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66708" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/44662774@N00/268634720/">Input</a>” by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/44662774@N00/">jputman</a>, here slightly cropped, is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Over the last year, innovation and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has proliferated, providing new ways for people to create content from art to zines, and everything in between. At CC, we’ve been watching these experiments in creativity while considering what it all means for what we call <em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em>: sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable. What will generative AI mean for CC’s mission to overcome legal obstacles in sharing knowledge and creativity to address the world’s most pressing challenges?</p>
<div style="background: #e0c93d; font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 1em 2em 1em; padding: 2em;"><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></div>
<p>Supporting community-driven solutions has always been at the heart of CC’s approach to sharing and creativity. In February, we held open meetings with our community to start to explore what CC might do new or differently in a world filling with AI-generated creations. Over 65 people registered to participate in the conversation from all over the world, including artists, educators, lawyers, librarians, policymakers, scholars, scientists, students, technologists, and more.</p>
<p>To get the conversation started, we asked participants to consider some framing questions:</p>
<ul>
<li aria-level="1">How can CC and its community help to ensure AI participates in <em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> for all and contributes to a public interest commons?</li>
<li aria-level="1">How can CC best enable creators to shape how their works contribute to training AI?</li>
<li aria-level="1">How can CC clarify the copyright status of works generated using AI?</li>
</ul>
<p>The conversations were wide ranging, touching on some of the specifics of how generative AI actually works, how current copyright laws intersect with AI inputs and outputs, and ideas around where CC and our community might focus, including expanding CC’s educational offerings and policy advocacy on AI topics, mechanisms for rightsholders to opt in and/or out of AI training datasets, and mechanisms to better record and cite the provenance of works generated both by humans and AI. You can read and comment on <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/19SlctSYCpr5a2Bhr49VYa6I9pAFnYp5XxfsXN0J-_RY/edit?usp=sharing">the raw notes from all three community meetings</a>.</p>
<p>Going forward, CC will house community conversation about generative AI within our <a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform/">Copyright Platform</a>, where you can learn more about how anyone can join and contribute to work at the intersection of generative AI, <em>better sharing</em>, and CC’s mission.</p>
<p>We thank everyone who has contributed to the discussion so far, not only in these meetings, but in <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/02/experts-weigh-in-ai-inputs-ai-outputs-and-the-public-commons/">the AI webinars we held during Nov 2022</a>, and all the other ways we’ve been in touch. We encourage you to keep helping us think through the complex questions that AI technologies and practices raise for all of us who are working to support a commons in the public interest.</p>
<p>Stay in touch with CC: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/creativecommons/subscribe">subscribe to our mailing list</a>, follow us on social media (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/creativecommons/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/creative-commons">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons">Mastodon</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">Twitter</a>), or join CC on <a href="https://slack-signup.creativecommons.org/">Slack</a>.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66604
title: Angie Cervellera — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 5
uri: Angie-Cervellera-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-5
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/07/angie-cervellera-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-5/
content:
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Angie Cervellera — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 5" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xecp6rVtJi8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>Angie shares that “&#8230;if memory does not pass from one person to another then it is forgotten.” In this episode we learn about the unique barriers faced by institutions and organizations in an Argentinian and South American context as well as the unique ways Wikimedia Argentina supports efforts to open up collections of cultural heritage and memory.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Angie Cervellera is the Program Manager of Open Culture and Knowledge at Wikimedia Argentina and works with local organizations and institutions to open up collections.</p>
<p><strong>Angie responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66737
title: Creative Commons Bootcamp for California Community Colleges
uri: Creative-Commons-Bootcamp-for-California-Community-Colleges
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/08/creative-commons-bootcamp-for-california-community-colleges/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Education Week offers a global festival of open education efforts. As we take stock of the offerings, it’s heartening to look at how individual efforts can feed into larger system’s change. In </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/03/open-education-week-2023-creative-commons-celebrates-community-members/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">our Open Education Week 2023 blog post</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we highlight community members’ approaches and tools, opening access to education and knowledge. Below, we share how a recent CC Certificate Bootcamp strengthens open education in California Community Colleges. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This January, Creative Commons led a </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Certificate Bootcamp</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or condensed training for 12 faculty and staff from 11 California Community Colleges implementing Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) degree programs. Building on a successful pilot ZTC Pathways program, the California Legislator invested $115 million to expand Zero Textbook Cost degrees and OER within the California community college system. The California ZTC programs reduce the overall cost of education and reduce the time to degree completion for California community college students. With the average costs of course textbooks </span><a href="https://openoregon.org/is-the-average-cost-of-a-textbook-100/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">estimated at $100/student/course</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, ZTC programs have the potential to save students nearly a billion dollars in the coming years, offering a more than 800% return on investment, </span><a href="https://sparcopen.org/news/2021/california-approves-115-million-investment-in-zero-textbook-cost-degrees/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">according to SPARC</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC Certificate Bootcamp </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">provided needed training and tools for ZTC program staff to legally and effectively implement the open licensing requirements of the $115 investment. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But, beyond open licensing lessons, the CC training strengthened a network of open advocates.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The week offered engagement with copyright lawyers, and open advocates, space for collaborative brainstorming, play, and iterative problem solving. From participant-focused brainstorms emerged three clear interventions to address needs in the ZTC program development and expansion. Participant work kickstarted (1) a guide to support faculty in using and integrating LibreTexts OER in Canvas; (2) a ZTC Conversion Faculty Resource guide, sharing resources for both OER liaisons and interested faculty supporting the process of ZTC course development; and (3) the outline of wholistic considerations and needs for roadmapping ZTC programs efficiently and effectively, as the Michelson 20MM Foundation </span><a href="https://20mm.org/2023/02/03/creative-commons-bay-area-bootcamp/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">highlighted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.  In less than two months since the bootcamp, faculty and staff have continued to collaborate and champion for OER in their institutions, by:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Presenting </span><a href="https://collegeofthedesert.libguides.com/c.php?g=1294901&amp;p=9510622"><span style="font-weight: 400;">simple guides and presentations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for faculty and administrators to absorb to mitigate overwhelm with the program;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">P</span><a href="https://otan.us/Resources/WebBasedClassActivity#gsc.tab=0"><span style="font-weight: 400;">resenting </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons License tutorials</span> </a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> as well as additional needs for adjacent networks, at professional development days, to the Academic Senate and Deans of various departments;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Planning OER conferences;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Launching a survey for the ZTC program;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Setting up mapping to the degrees in smartsheets, which can pull survey data to courses and identify what courses have been converted to ZTCs;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sharing a guide about what the ZTC funding (with legislation definitions, how is the funding working and more) </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Bootcamp collaborations moved beyond the initial goals of supporting cost savings for students&#8211;faculty and staff worked toward interventions addressing barriers to teaching and learning in their systems. As </span><a href="https://20mm.org/2023/02/03/creative-commons-bay-area-bootcamp/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cailyn Nagle notes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, OER</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">are worth more than their cost savings. “They have the power to free, to be liberatory. When educators are able to craft the ideal materials their students can use without barriers, and librarians are able to curate that knowledge for everyone’s benefit, we come closer to the promise of Open.” We applaud California Community Colleges increased collaborative work&#8211;strengthening a foundation for that freedom. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As we revel in the offerings of Open Education Week and our collaborations, I hope we can draw from the energy of California Community Colleges’ faculty and staff, striving toward increasingly liberatory structures in the future. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC thanks the </span><a href="https://20mm.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Michelson 20MM Foundation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for generously funding the bootcamp. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Special thanks also go to </span><a href="https://www.asccc.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Academic Senate for California Community Colleges</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for their liaison work, expertise and support, to </span><a href="https://www.skylinecollege.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Skyline College</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for hosting the event, and to </span><a href="https://www.fresno.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fresno Pacific University</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for providing professional development credits to faculty.</p>
<p></span></p>
<blockquote><p><span>At Creative Commons, we offer an array of learning and training opportunities to support our global community in developing open licensing expertise and a deeper understanding of recommended practices for better sharing. <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/cc-trainings/">Visit the CC Trainings page</a> to learn about our workshops, consulting options, lectures, and our </span><a href="https://certificates.creativecommons.org/"><span>CC Certificate</span></a><span> courses.</span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66612
title: Siobhan Leachman — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 6
uri: Siobhan-Leachman-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-6
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/14/siobhan-leachman-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-6/
content:
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Siobhan Leachman — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 6" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3kZTKoE2mt0?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>“Open Culture gives joy!” What a great message from Siobhan. In this episode we learn about Open Culture in public institutions in New Zealand, how public works are reused in a variety of ways, and what governments can do to promote open policies and copyright laws around the world.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Siobhan is a volunteer for various Wikimedia projects including Wikicommons, Wikidata, and Wikipedia.</p>
<p><strong>Siobhan responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66774
title: Calling All Copyright Advocates: CC Copyright Platform Now Accepting Funding Proposals
uri: Calling-All-Copyright-Advocates-CC-Copyright-Platform-Now-Accepting-F
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/15/calling-all-copyright-advocates-cc-copyright-platform-now-accepting-funding-proposals/

content:
<p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/brigittevezina/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brigitte Vézina</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the Director of Policy and Open Culture, has facilitated the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-copyright-platform-activity-fund/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Copyright Platform </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">for the past three years since the Platform’s relaunch in 2020. This year, the CC legal team—</span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/katwalshcreativecommons-org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kat Walsh</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/xucreativecommons-org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yuanxiao Xu</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">—is taking over the facilitator role for the Copyright Platform. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Creative Commons Copyright Platform is a collaborative space for people who are interested in copyright policy issues. We work in a transparent, professional, ethical and public manner to undertake projects and activities aimed at fulfilling agreed-upon, collaboratively developed goals and principles. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2023, we have a fund of $20,000 to support copyright advocates and practitioners to identify, plan and coordinate copyright law and policy-related activities. We are especially excited about receiving community proposals for funded-activities this year, because it is the first year since 2020 that we are able to support in-person activities. To submit a proposal, please request to join the </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Policy Mailing List</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnOop6DsWhhkpAZJ79jE85kTKdLH2-nqaBbwkr8J67-wV2Gw/viewform"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fill out the proposal form</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by March 20.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to the funded activities, the Copyright Platform hosts monthly meetings where guest speakers are invited to lead discussions on topics of interest, and Platform members share copyright-related news/announcements from across the globe.</p>
<p></span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you also want to get involved? Don’t hesitate!</span></p></blockquote>
<ul>
<li style="list-style-type: none;">
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sign up to the CC Policy </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/a/creativecommons.org/g/cc-policy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mailing list</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Join the #cc-copyrightreform </span><a href="https://creativecommons.slack.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Slack channel</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Participate in CC Copyright Platform calls—they are announced in the Slack channel and on the mailing list</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66786
title: CC Supports the Case for Controlled Digital Lending
uri: CC-Supports-the-Case-for-Controlled-Digital-Lending
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/20/cc-supports-the-case-for-controlled-digital-lending/
content:
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="CC Supports the Case for Controlled Digital Lending" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YhSaJMkwxvo?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>My name is Catherine Stihler, and I’m the CEO of Creative Commons.</p>
<p>As a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the sharing and reuse of creativity and knowledge, we strongly support the Internet Archive in its defense of Controlled Digital Lending. Free, equitable, and open access to all knowledge stimulates creativity, is essential for research and learning, and constitutes a bedrock principle of free and democratic societies.</p>
<p>The Internet Archive is leading the fight for establishing permanent access to historical collections that exist in digital format. With Controlled Digital Lending, libraries like the Internet Archive can lend one copy of digitized material from their collection to one borrower for a limited time, just like they would a physical book.</p>
<p>While publishers argue that CDL decreases their profits, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3339524">studies show</a> that in fact library digitization increases sales of physical editions by about 34% and increases the likelihood of any sale by 92%, particularly for less popular or out-of-print works. At Creative Commons, we believe copyright should encourage Controlled Digital Lending and ensure that legal mechanisms are in place to support this practice that benefits all.</p>
<p>This isn’t a position that we just came to on our own; instead, it came from working hand in hand with cultural and knowledge institutions across the world. Like Communia’s <a href="https://communia-association.org/policy-recommendation/libraries-should-be-enabled-to-fulfil-their-mission-in-the-digital-environment/">policy recommendations state</a>: “libraries should be enabled to fulfill their mission in the digital environment.” As libraries modernize their services, we need to protect the legal frameworks that support their digital lending practices.</p>
<p>Permitting and protecting Controlled Digital Lending is a key way to help ensure copyright is fit for the modern age. Guided by our strong belief in <em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em>, CC will continue to support the Internet Archive’s crucial efforts to ensure the public can access knowledge and culture on a global level.</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66641
title: Christian Dawson — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 7
uri: Christian-Dawson-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-7
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/21/christian-dawson-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-7/
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<p>“Open Culture creates a level playing field by making knowledge accessible to everyone regardless of geography.”  In this episode we get more insight into the role technology can play for Open Culture and how society benefits from the curation of open access collections. Our media often keeps information siloed but Open Access and Open Culture can bridge cultures and perspectives.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Christian Dawson is the Executive Director of the MHz Foundation which provides technology tools for GLAM institutions and organizations to improve their open access programs. Christian has worked with numerous organizations which now share their collections openly thanks to the work of the MHz Foundation and Curationist.</p>
<p><strong>Christian responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
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<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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title: The Complex World of Style, Copyright, and Generative AI
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url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/23/the-complex-world-of-style-copyright-and-generative-ai/
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In my previous posts on generative AI, I discussed </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/17/fair-use-training-generative-ai/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">fair use and AI training data</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/21/this-is-not-a-bicycle-human-creativity-and-generative-ai/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">copyright over AI outputs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and a recent U.S. Copyright Office decision on </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/27/zarya-of-the-dawn-us-copyright-office-affirms-limits-on-copyright-of-ai-outputs/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">registration for a work produced by generative AI</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In the next posts in our series, I will look at claims (</span><a href="https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">exemplified in a recent case against Stable Diffusion and Midjourney</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) that generative AI (GAI) tools should be held liable under copyright law for their ability to output works in the style of specific, named artists.</span></p>
<div style="background: #e0c93d; font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 1em 2em 1em; padding: 2em;"><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></div>
<figure id="attachment_66807" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66807" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66807 size-medium" src="media/b0eae7a9.Midjourney-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Midjourney-300x300.png" alt="An image of an artist using a mechanical tool to create a painting with a realistic 4K resolution" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Midjourney-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Midjourney-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Midjourney-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Midjourney-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Midjourney-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Midjourney-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Midjourney.png 593w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66807" class="wp-caption-text">“Art Meets Technology” by Stephen Wolfson for Creative Commons was generated by the midjourney AI platform with the text prompt “an artist using a mechanical art tool to create a painting realistic 4k.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The issue in a nutshell: Artists have raised legal claims against particular users who prompt a GAI and generate an output that copies from their original expressions. However, style is not generally protected by copyright, and that’s a good thing; if one artist were given a monopoly over anime, grunge music, or other styles, that would frustrate copyright’s core purpose of supporting creativity. What’s more, GAI tools provide myriad legitimate uses, and creators of those tools generally don’t directly control the actions of their users or financially benefit from uses that may infringe on pre-existing works. As such, they generally should not be held liable when actions of their user cross over the line into infringement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this blog post, I address the first issue — whether copyright should protect artistic style. In my next post, I will look at whether GAI tools should be liable if users create works that may infringe on works by other artists.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">What’s the issue?</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Before looking at the legal issues involved, it’s important to start with the concerns animating artists’ claims here. One part of these concerns seems to be related to the more general worry about AI disrupting the market for human work. Several months ago, an</span><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/16/1059598/this-artist-is-dominating-ai-generated-art-and-hes-not-happy-about-it/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> MIT Technology Review article wrote that Greg Rutkowski’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> name was used at least 93,000 times to produce images using Stable Diffusion. </span><a href="https://www.artstation.com/rutkowski"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Greg Rutkowski</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is an artist from Poland who is known for producing epic fantasy scenes, having created illustrations for things like Dungeons and Dragons and Magic the Gathering. If Stable Diffusion can create Rutkowski-like works by being instructed to “produce an epic fantasy scene with a fire breathing dragon fighting a noble warrior in the style of Greg Rutkowski,” why would anyone hire Rutkowski for his art any more? This AI generated content could be produced much more quickly and at a lower cost than commissioning Rutkowski for a custom piece. And, of course, this could apply to any artist and any style.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even if the ability to generate similar works with AI doesn’t affect artists’ income or the economic value of the original artists’ works, artists still may feel that this devalues their work and their efforts in a more fundamental way. Artists spend time and effort establishing, developing, and refining their styles. If, all of a sudden, anyone could produce works in that style simply by adding some keywords into an AI text prompt box, it may appear to devalue the human creative effort and the integrity of their works.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Does copyright protect artistic style?</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Concerns about devaluing the works created by human artists are important considerations — but are there problems that copyright law can and should fix? That is, can and should artists be able to claim copyright protection over the general style and feeling of their works, as opposed to the specific design elements expressed in their specific works?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One fundamental principle of copyright law is that copyright does not protect ideas, but instead protects the specific expressions of ideas that artists create through their art. As the Supreme Court wrote in </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=4050620474768552042"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google v. Oracle</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">: “copyright protection cannot be extended to ‘any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery &#8230;.’ </span><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102"><span style="font-weight: 400;">[17 U.S.C.] § 102(b)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. These limitations … have often led courts to say, in shorthand form, that, unlike patents, which protect novel and useful ideas, copyrights protect ‘expression’ but not the ‘ideas’ that lie behind it.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Looking at this in the context of style, </span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/27/the-current-legal-cases-against-generative-ai-are-just-the-beginning/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">style alone is not usually considered the subject matter of copyright.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Consider, for example, music genres. Copyright does not extend to something like genre. So, copyright doesn’t protect the style of music “grunge,” and in fact, many bands who work in the same genre have similar sounds. Genres are, in fact, </span><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genre"><span style="font-weight: 400;">defined by stylistic similarities</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. So, for instance, early 1990s grunge bands had sounds that were, in many ways, alike: sludgy, heavy electric guitars, intense vocals, elements of both punk rock and heavy metal music. At the same time, however, copyright does protect specific expressions of that style: Nirvana’s </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5ghIJDpPoe3CfHMGu71E6T?si=9356a9ed5e274d7b"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smells Like Teen Spirit</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Pearl Jam’s </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6QewNVIDKdSl8Y3ycuHIei?si=eb445cdf757b421b"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Even Flow</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Silverchair’s </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/24tO365YW6lcZr1hN4Ukzj?si=9fd9e24f3d9b4aef"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tomorrow</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Similarly, copyright doesn’t protect animation style. The American-made animated television show </span><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/70142405"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Avatar: The Last Airbender</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> shares a similar animation and storytelling style with </span><a href="https://gamerant.com/is-avatar-anime-nickelodeon-show-inspiration/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">many Japanese anime shows</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Indeed, people often think </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Avatar: The Last Airbender </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is, itself, a Japanese show. However, it is not a copy of any other show, even if it appears similar to anime.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Copyright doesn’t protect things like style and genre, because doing so would limit the ways that others can create other works, thereby chilling their ability to express themselves through their works. If the law allows artists to extend the scope of their copyright monopolies beyond their works to include elements outside their specific expression, it would compromise the ability of future artists to be inspired by and build from the art that they experience and love. A band like Silverchair, which sounds (at times) a bit like a </span><a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/oct/04/grunge-ii-it-looks-like-pearl-jamnirvana-it/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">mix of Nirvana and Pearl Jam</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, might have run into copyright problems if those bands had a copyright over their grunge sounds. Or a show like </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Avatar</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> might never have been able to exist if the anime style itself was the subject of copyright.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the same time, however, the line between style and expression can be fuzzy. Artists often work to develop idiosyncratic styles that differentiate their works from other artists. I think of the example of artists who illustrate superhero comic books. These artists often tell stories with the same characters, but present those characters in their own styles, such that you can easily tell one artist’s work from another. </span><a href="https://www.skottieyoung.com/books/amazingspiderman"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scotti Young’s version of Spiderman</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is very different from </span><a href="https://www.marvel.com/comics/collection/82300/spider-man_by_todd_mcfarlane_the_complete_collection_trade_paperback"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Todd McFarlane’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><a href="https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/101358/amazing_spider-man_facsimile_edition_2022_1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jack Kirby’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Each shares some similarities with the others — the character itself and the red and blue super suit — but are also very different. Indeed, they are so different, and have such strong styles, that you can recognize </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnAkDZ1vlFi/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">other works</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by the </span><a href="https://mcfarlane.com/publishing/spawn-1/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">same artists</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, even without being </span><a href="https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/105915/avengers_facsimile_edition_2023_8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told it’s them</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Jack Kirby is one of the most influential comic artists of all time; if </span><a href="media/c6af2641.savage-dragon-archive-cover-09.jpg" data-original-source="http://www.savagedragon.com/wp-content/uploads/savage-dragon-archive-cover-09.jpg"><span style="font-weight: 400;">other artists</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> create works that evoke </span><a href="https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/20608/marvel_treasury_special_captain_americas_bicentennial_battles_1976_1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">his work</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, does that mean they are copying him? Moreover, while a character like Spiderman may be protected by copyright, it is not clear how the style in which he is portrayed is part of that. Where does the style end and the expression begin?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally, some case law recognizes a degree of copyright protection over style. </span><a href="https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2023/01/15/the-trial-of-ai-preliminary-thoughts-on-the-copyright-claims-in-sarah-andersen-v-stability-ai-midjourney-deviantart/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Professor Ed Lee, director of the program on intellectual property law at Chicago-Kent College of law, </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">points to two cases on style and copyright: </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2685259763869458878"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Malden Mills, Incorporated. v. Regency Mills</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=75500237070421047"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. In </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Malden Mills</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals held that two works were “substantially similar” because they shared a “style of representation” among other similarities. In </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Steinberg</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the Southern District of New York wrote that “style is one ingredient of ‘expression.’”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a similar vein, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5515551642319378575"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Williams v. Gaye</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> upheld a jury verdict, finding that Robin Thicke and Pharell Williams copied Marvin Gaye’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Got to Give it Up</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with their song </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blurred Lines</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Notably, Thicke mentioned in several interviews that he was directly inspired by Marvin Gaye’s song. In fact, the dissenting judge in the case wrote that: “The majority allows the Gayes to accomplish what no one has before: copyright a musical style. ‘Blurred Lines’ and ‘Got to Give It Up’ are not objectively similar. They differ in melody, harmony, and rhythm. Yet by refusing to compare the two works, the majority establishes a dangerous precedent that strikes a devastating blow to future musicians and composers everywhere.” Notably, the majority in that case denied these claims made by the dissent, calling them “hyperbole” and writing specifically that the decision “does not grant license to copyright a musical style.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I believe that the best way to think about style’s position in copyright law is that design elements like style, design, and look are all parts of artistic expression, but cannot alone belong to a single artist. When two works are stylistically similar, that is part of the bigger question of whether the later work is “substantially similar” to the former — but it is only part. Under copyright law, a secondary work does not need to be a verbatim or identical copy to constitute copyright infringement. Instead, the secondary work only needs to be “substantially similar” to infringe on the first. While substantial similarity is </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9231476468218996995"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“an elusive concept, not subject to precise definition”</span></a>,<span style="font-weight: 400;"> we know that two works have to be both </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10951629719121113416"><span style="font-weight: 400;">extrinsically similar (based on their objective features) and intrinsically similar (based on what an ordinary person would subjectively think) </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">for one to infringe on the other. Stylistic similarity can be part of these questions — are there objectively similar elements of the two works, more than standard elements that belong to a particular genre, and would an ordinary person think they are similar? — but it cannot be determinative of “substantial similarity” by itself.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Style and artistic expression are certainly linked, but they are not the same thing. In some instances, mimicking an artist&#8217;s style may constitute copyright infringement, but when this is true will necessarily require a case-by-case analysis. Simply working in a style that is similar to another artist does not automatically mean the work is a copy. Moreover, there may be legitimate reasons to produce works in another artist’s style. The law should allow artists to be inspired by each other, even if that means having similar styles. Doing otherwise would chill expression, ultimately harming human creativity and the purposes of copyright law itself.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/23/the-complex-world-of-style-copyright-and-generative-ai/">The Complex World of Style, Copyright, and Generative AI</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


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title: Style, Copyright, and Generative AI Part 2: Vicarious Liability
uri: Style-Copyright-and-Generative-AI-Part-2-Vicarious-Liability
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/23/the-complex-world-of-style-copyright-and-generative-ai/">my last blog post</a>, I looked at whether copyright protects artistic style, particularly in the context of generative AI (GAI) art tools like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. However, in the class action litigation against Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, the plaintiffs are not only concerned that people can use the GAI tools to produce works that mimic the works and/or styles of other artists, but they also argue that the tools should be liable for infringement conducted by their users. In this blog post, I look at this second issue — should GAI tools be held responsible for potential copyright infringement conducted by users of these tools?</span></p>
<div style="background: #e0c93d; font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 1em 2em 1em; padding: 2em;"><strong>Like the rest of the world, CC has been watching generative AI and trying to understand the many complex issues raised by these amazing new tools. We are especially focused on the intersection of copyright law and generative AI. How can CC’s strategy for <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> support the development of this technology while also respecting the work of human creators? How can we ensure AI operates in a <em style="font-style: italic;"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/25/a-better-internet-for-better-sharing-join-the-movement-for-a-better-internet/">better internet</a></em> for everyone? We are exploring these issues in a series of blog posts by the CC team and invited guests that look at concerns related to AI inputs (training data), AI outputs (works created by AI tools), and the ways that people use AI. Read <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/02/06/better-sharing-for-generative-ai/">our overview on generative AI</a> or see <a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/ai/">all our posts on AI</a>.</strong></div>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">What is vicarious liability? </span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the claims raised in the suit against Stable Diffusion and Midjourney is that AI tools should be held vicariously liable for copyright infringement because their </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">users</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> can use the systems to create infringing works. Typically, legal liability arises where someone directly commits an act that harms another person in such a way that the law can hold that person responsible for their actions. This is “direct liability.” If a distracted driver hits a cyclist, the cyclist might ask the court to make the driver pay any damages, because the driver is directly liable for the accident. Normally, third parties are not considered responsible for the acts of other people. So, the law would probably not hold anyone but the driver liable for the accident — not a passenger, and not even one who was helping to navigate or who had asked the driver to make the trip. And unless the car was faulty, the manufacturer of the car would not be liable either, even though if no one had made the car the accident would not have happened: the car could have been used without harming anyone, but in this case it was the driver who made it cause harm. </span></p>
<figure id="attachment_66810" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66810" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66810 size-medium" src="media/b856e746.Art-meets-technology-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Art-meets-technology-300x300.png" alt="An image of an artist using a mechanical tool to create a painting with a realistic 4K resolution" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Art-meets-technology-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Art-meets-technology-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Art-meets-technology-768x768.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Art-meets-technology-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Art-meets-technology-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Art-meets-technology-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Art-meets-technology-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Art-meets-technology.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66810" class="wp-caption-text">“Art Meets Technology” by Stephen Wolfson for Creative Commons was generated by the Midjourney AI platform with the text prompt “an artist using a mechanical art tool to create a painting realistic 4k.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain via<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"> CC0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Under some circumstances, however, U.S. law may hold third parties liable for the harmful acts committed by other people. One such legal doctrine is “vicarious liability” — when a third party has essentially used another party to commit the harmful act. Courts in the United States have found vicarious liability in copyright law when two conditions are met: (1) the third party has the ability to supervise and control the acts of the person who committed the direct infringement, and (2) the third party has an “obvious and direct” financial benefit from the infringing activity. Notably, vicarious liability for infringement only occurs where another party has become directly liable for copyright infringement. If there was no direct liability for infringement at all, a third party cannot be held responsible. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vicarious liability requires a relationship between the third party and the person committing the direct infringement, where the third party retains some control over the other person’s actions and where the third party economically benefits from those actions — for example, an employer/employee relationship. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the US, the 9th Circuit examined the issue of control and technology-enabled vicarious copyright infringement in the specific context of search engines and credit card payment processors in </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9280547131690965273"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfect 10 v. Amazon.com</span></i></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15405734604218338562"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfect 10 v. Visa</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfect 10 v. Amazon.com</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> involved Google image search linking to images owned by Perfect 10 on third-party websites. The court held that Google did not have the ability to control what those third-party websites were doing, even though it had control over its website index and its search results. Similarly, in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfect 10 v. Visa</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the 9th Circuit held that Visa was not liable for infringement committed by websites that hosted content belonging to Perfect 10, even though Visa processed credit card payment for those websites. The court wrote that “just like Google [in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfect 10 v. Amazon.com</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">], Defendants could likely take certain steps that may have the indirect effect of reducing infringing activity on the Internet at large. However, neither Google nor Defendants has any ability to directly control that activity.” In both cases, the relationship between the third party and the potential infringement was not close enough to sustain a vicarious infringement claim because of a lack of control. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Turning to the second element, obvious and direct financial benefit, the 9th Circuit has written that this is satisfied where infringement acts as a draw for users to the service, and that there is a direct causal link between the infringing activities at issue and the financial benefit to the third party. In another case involving Perfect 10, </span><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=971967023054227327"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfect 10 v. Giganews</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the 9th Circuit held that Usenet provider, Giganews, did not derive a direct financial benefit from users who distributed Perfect 10’s content on their servers, even though Giganews charged a subscription fee to those users. Because it wasn’t clear that users were drawn to Giganews for its ability to distribute Perfect 10’s content, the court was unwilling to hold Giganews vicariously liable for the actions of its users.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Should generative AI tools be liable for the actions of their users?</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How do these elements of control and financial benefit apply in the context of generative AI? Normally, no one would argue that the creators of art tools like paintbrushes or digital editing tools like Photoshop or Final Cut Pro should be responsible when their users use their tools for copyright infringement. Their creators cannot directly control how people use them and they do not clearly benefit from copyright infringement conducted with them. That seems uncontroversial. The question, however, is more complex with GAI because these platforms have the ability to deny service to users who misuse their services and may derive their profits/funding based on how many people use them. That said, tools like Stable Diffusion or Midjourney do not have the practical ability to prevent infringing uses of their tools. Like in </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfect 10 v. Amazon.com </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Perfect 10 v. Visa</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, they do not directly control the ways people use their tools. While they could deny access to users who misuse the tools, it seems impossible to stop users from entering generic terms as text prompts to ultimately recreate copyrighted works. Furthermore, as I discussed in my previous post on style and copyright, there are legitimate reasons for people to use other artists’ copyrighted works, such as fair use. So, banning users from prompting tools with “in the style of” or “like another copyrighted work” would be overbroad, harming legitimate uses while trying to stop illegitimate ones, because we can only tell what is legitimate or not based on the facts of individual situations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As with any other general purpose art tool, there simply doesn’t seem to be a way to prevent all users from using GAI in ways that raise concerns under copyright, without shutting down the tools themselves, and stopping all uses, legitimate or not. Compare with something like automatic content filtering tools. These tools may be good at finding and automatically removing access to copyrighted material that is posted online, but </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/07/15/cc-still-opposes-mandatory-filtering-and-so-should-you/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">even the best systems identify many false positives</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, removing access to </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/22/copyright-filtering-mechanisms-dont-cant-respect-fair-use/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">permissible or authorized uses along with the infringing ones.</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> In doing so, they can harm legitimate and beneficial uses that copyright law’s purpose is designed to support.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moreover, GAI tools like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney do not necessarily have an “obvious and direct financial benefit” from copyright infringement conducted by users of their platforms. In the case of Stable Diffusion and Midjourney specifically, that link doesn’t appear to exist. They make the same amount of money from users, regardless of how they put the tools to use. Since neither platform advertises itself as a tool for infringement, both </span><a href="https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/terms-of-service"><span style="font-weight: 400;">discourage copyright-infringing</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> uses as </span><a href="https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/terms-of-service"><span style="font-weight: 400;">parts of the terms of service</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and neither profits directly from copyright infringement, there does not seem to be a direct causal link between these hypothetical infringing users and Stable Diffusion or Midjourney’s funding. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Furthermore, it is not clear that copyright infringement is a draw for users to these services. As mentioned above, simply creating works in the style of another artist does not necessarily mean those works are infringing. Moreover, there may be legitimate reasons to use artists’ names as text prompts. For example, a parody artist may need to use the name of their subject to create their parodies, and these works would have a strong argument that they are permissible under fair use in the United States. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For other GAI tools, the question of whether there is obvious and direct financial benefit from copyright infringement will be case-dependent. Nevertheless, the link between the ability to use the tools for copyright infringement and whether this is a draw for users to the GAI tools will likely be, at best, unclear in most circumstances. And without a causal link between the financial benefit to the GAI creator and infringement conducted by users, this element will not be met. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ultimately, while it’s easy to understand why artists would feel threatened by generative AI tools being able to mimic their artistic styles, copyright law should not be a barrier to the legitimate use and development of these tools. While it may make sense for the law to step in and prevent specific instances of infringement, copyright should not prevent the legitimate use and development of generative AI technologies, especially when they can help to expand and enhance human creativity. And while there may not be any perfect solutions to these issues, we need to figure out norms and best practices that can allow these promising new technologies to develop and thrive, while also respecting the rights and concerns of artists and the public interest in access to knowledge and culture. For now, we will watch and see what happens in the courts, and continue to encourage dialog and discussion in this area.</span></p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/24/style-copyright-and-generative-ai-part-2-vicarious-liability/">Style, Copyright, and Generative AI Part 2: Vicarious Liability</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66791
title: CC at WIPO SCCR 43 – Progress made on exceptions and limitations and draft
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From 13 to 17 March 2023, Creative Commons (CC) participated in the </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=75412"><span style="font-weight: 400;">43rd session</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) in Geneva, Switzerland. In this blog post, we look back on the highlights of the SCCR/43 week.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Excited to be <a href="https://twitter.com/WIPO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WIPO</a> in Geneva to attend the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SCCR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SCCR</a> on behalf of <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@creativecommons</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/copyright?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#copyright</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/publicdomain?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#publicdomain</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/exceptions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#exceptions</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/culturalheritage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#culturalheritage</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bettersharing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bettersharing</a> <a href="https://t.co/bW6F6ynVsW">pic.twitter.com/bW6F6ynVsW</a></p>
<p>— Brigitte Vézina (@Brigitte_Vezina) <a href="https://twitter.com/Brigitte_Vezina/status/1635929955052732416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<h5><b>Wikimedia denied observer status…again</b></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/05/10/creative-commons-condemns-rejection-of-wikimedia-chapters-as-observers-at-wipo-sccr/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">once again</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> support the Wikimedia Foundation, who have yet again been denied accreditation as an observer to WIPO&#8217;s standing committee on copyright and related rights (SCCR). </span></p>
<h5><b>CC’s policy agenda at WIPO</b></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We generally drive copyright reform towards better sharing of copyright content in the public interest and in tune with the sharing possibilities of the digital environment. We promote better sharing and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">open culture</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and recently published a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/19/cc-publishes-global-open-culture-call-to-action-to-policymakers/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Call to Action</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to policymakers that offers a basis for a shared vision on better sharing in the cultural context. We also share many of the views co-developed by our partners in the </span><a href="https://www.a2k-coalition.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A2K coalition</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, including </span><a href="https://communia-association.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communia</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://centrumcyfrowe.pl/en/homepage/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Centrum Cyfrowe</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and Intellectual Property Institution. </span></p>
<h5><b>Our views on the draft broadcasting treaty</b></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Regarding the discussions on a draft broadcasting treaty, we voiced our opposition to the </span><a href="https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=597061"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Second Revised Draft Text</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of the Broadcasting Treaty. While we agree that broadcast content plays a key role in today’s society, the Draft would deal a severe blow to the public domain, threaten to unduly curtail the possibilities offered by open licensing, and is antithetical to people’s freedom to share and right to equitable access to knowledge.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our two main concerns were that the Draft (1) lacks robust, mandatory exceptions and limitations to guarantee access to broadcast content for purposes of research, education, journalism, cultural preservation and creativity; (2) threatens to unduly curtail the possibilities offered by open licensing and </span><a href="media/ba8aeb3b.SCCR25_CC_statement_on_broadcasting_treaty.pdf" data-original-source="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/0/01/SCCR25_CC_statement_on_broadcasting_treaty.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">restrict access to or distribution of works already licensed under a Creative Commons license</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, as noted in the past. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is particularly concerning, given the way that open licenses like Creative Commons licenses are one way to improve distribution, allow for remix creativity, and enrich the resources available on popular free knowledge platforms such as Wikipedia. For example, in 2020, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/06/16/german-public-broadcaster-zdf-releases-dozens-of-videos-under-cc-licenses/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">German public broadcaster ZDF released dozens of videos of its documentary series Terra X under CC licenses</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, leading to a massive increase in the amount of content available under open licenses for the benefit of users across the world. The videos 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;"> 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;">, leading to hundreds of thousands of views. </span></p>
<h5><b>Our views on exceptions and limitations</b></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Preservation, access, sharing, use, and reuse of cultural heritage are essential ingredients of thriving and resilient societies and are demonstrated contributors to sustainable development. Alas, overly restrictive or outdated copyright laws continue to raise unnecessary barriers around cultural heritage. CC stewards legal tools to enhance the sharing of a wide variety of creative content, including cultural heritage. But while they advance global sharing, they are not designed to establish a general, permissive framework for everyone — that is the role of clear, effective, and consistent limitations and exceptions</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We welcomed the </span><a href="media/555ca12c.sccr_43_4.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_43/sccr_43_4.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Toolkit on Preservation</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (SCCR/43/4); it is a valuable resource that provides important guidance. However, this document fails to consider the crucial aspect of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">access</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in preservation efforts. Preservation is not just about storage, it is about how our heritage lives on in the interpretations of researchers, in the recreations of creators, and in the minds and hearts of every member of the public enjoying their fundamental right to access cultural heritage. Access is a precondition for preservation that is meaningful, inclusive and sustainable. Moreover, this document is not a substitute for an international normative instrument that would guarantee clear and certain exceptions for preservation at the international level. </span></p>
<h5><b>Conclusions and next steps</b></h5>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Overall, we are pleased with the many steps forward taken by the Committee at this session. First, on exceptions and limitations, we welcome the SCCR’s adoption of a work program based on the </span><a href="media/86c35bfa.sccr_43_8.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_43/sccr_43_8.pdf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proposal by the African Group for a Draft Work Program on Exceptions and Limitations</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (SCCR/43/8), which we supported. The program calls on the Committee to discuss “priority issues” including:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">to promote the adaptation of exceptions to ensure that laws at the national level enable the preservation activities of libraries, archives, and museums, including the use of preserved materials;</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">to promote the adaptation of exceptions to the online environment, such as by permitting teaching, learning and research through digital and online tools; and</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">to review implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty and how to ensure that people with other disabilities (also covered by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities) can benefit from similar protections, in particular in order to benefit from new technologies.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The program also proposes that discussions be facilitated by the Committee on the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) and its implications for international copyright laws and policies, an initiative that we support, given </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/12/02/unesco-recommendation-on-open-science-ratified/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC’s involvement in the development of this important UNESCO instrument</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are also pleased with its decision to start negotiations with a view to “preparing objectives and principles and options for implementation” on exceptions and limitations. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Second, regarding the draft broadcasting treaty (SCCR/43/3), we commend the Committee for its decision to revise the document, including its limitations and exceptions provisions, and look forward to the Chair’s Third Revised Draft Text, which will be used as a basis for discussion at the next SCCR session. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Third, the Committee agreed that there should be a three-day session of the SCCR (SCCR/44) during the week of November 6, 2023. We welcome this opportunity to intensify substantive discussions and look forward to actively participating in shaping a fairer and more balanced copyright system that supports better sharing in the public interest. </span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66645
title: Eric Luth — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 8
uri: Eric-Luth-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-8
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/28/eric-luth-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-8/
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<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTff32WBlO8</p>
<p>“Creativity does not happen in a vacuum” is how Eric Luth introduces his take on Open Culture in the GLAM sector. Our creativity is inspired by others which is why being able to enjoy our shared cultural heritage is so important. Platforms like Wiki-commons and others work to support these efforts and encourage sharing.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Eric Luth is a Project Manager at Wikimedia Sweden where he organizes collaborations, events, and exchanges of practices in the cultural sector. Wikimedia Sweden also organizes edit-a-thons for Wikipedia articles.</p>
<p><strong>Eric responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
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<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
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<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/03/28/eric-luth-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-8/">Eric Luth — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 8</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66829
title: Creative Commons Open Education Platform: 2022 in Review
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<p>The Creative Commons Open Education Team is pleased to provide a snapshot of progress made toward opening access and equity in education, through a look at our collective efforts in 2022.<a href="#footnote1"><sup>1</sup></a> We laud the CC open education community for its important work throughout 2022. CC and community members’ open education efforts in 2022 included, but were not limited to:</p>
<figure id="attachment_66839" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66839" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66839 size-medium" src="media/cacd44d3.CC-Open-Education-300x169.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education-300x169.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education-768x432.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education-71x40.jpg 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education-50x28.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education-270x152.jpg 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education-440x250.jpg 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CC-Open-Education.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66839" class="wp-caption-text"><span>&#8220;</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/47691521@N07/8249753855" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Creative Commons a vessel ideas</a><span>&#8221; by </span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/47691521@N07" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">opensourceway</a><span> is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/?ref=openverse" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-SA 2.0</a><span>.</span>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We ran a successful </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/01/06/creative-commons-cc-certificate-available-in-french-and-spanish/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">French translation, as well as the first ever Spanish language sprint</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for the CC Certificate course reading content. Thanks to the efforts of CC Certificate graduates and additional translators,<a href="#footnote2"><sup>2</sup></a> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">569 million more people will have access to CC Certificate open educational resources (OER) in their native languages. These published works enable 493 million native Spanish speakers and 76 million native French speakers to access translations in their languages — not to mention others who have Spanish or French as a second language.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC continued its partnership with </span><a href="https://www.inclusiveaccess.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">InclusiveAccess.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a community-driven initiative that launched in 2021, to raise awareness of the facts about textbook sales models that add the cost of digital course materials into students’ tuition and fees. Learn more about it in our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/09/06/open-minds-podcast-trudi-radtke-on-inclusiveaccess-org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Minds Podcast interview with Trudi Radke</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We interviewed Jennifer Miller about her </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/02/cc-certificate-alumni-interview-with-jennifer-miller/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Syllabus for Open Science</span> </a><span style="font-weight: 400;">project (see lightning talk below), which provides a complete but flexible way for early career researchers to learn about open science.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We ran CC Open Education Lightning Talks in </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/11/open-education-week-2022-lightning-talks-recordings-and-slides/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">March</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/08/10/cc-open-education-platform-lightning-talks-recordings-and-request-for-speakers/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">August</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Lightning talks are concise presentations that provide a specific update or story. During the talks, open education practitioners highlighted OER into capstone courses, discussed funding opportunities within open education, and explored how the CC Network can provide support for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Practitioners also discussed leveraging tax legislation for open education funding, theories and practices around OER, fireside stories of open sharing, and even led a Texas Sing-a-long! </span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_mDd2PSBE"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Syllabus: UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Jennifer Miller. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3an_lJ0pmxM"><span style="font-weight: 400;">More OER for Free!</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Jonathan Poritz.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wbfp2-FNWs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Climate Campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/cablecreativecommons-org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Cable Green</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/author/monicacreativecommons-org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Monica Granados</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7PGaxgArgY"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building OER into Capstone Courses</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by </span><a href="https://www.purdueglobal.edu/degree-programs/general-education/faculty-leadership/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Carolyn Stevenson</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K06NrPp61cg&amp;t=1s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Improve It Challenge</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Jamison Miller</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMjiZHxxE4&amp;t=165s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Enabling OERs at no additional cost”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Kathryn Kure</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMjiZHxxE4&amp;t=623s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Promoting Educational Equity through OERs and Open Degree Plans</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Carolyn Stevenson </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMjiZHxxE4&amp;t=1351s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Venn Diagram of OEP and Ungrading is a Circle</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Sybil Priebe </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMjiZHxxE4&amp;t=1909s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Still Amazing: True Stories of Openness</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Alan Levine </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMjiZHxxE4&amp;t=2519s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Student Scholars: Publishing Student OER Work</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Liza Long </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMjiZHxxE4&amp;t=3164s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evolution of a state-wide OER Initiative</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Suzanne Wakim</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMjiZHxxE4&amp;t=3756s"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Deep in the Open Heart of Texas</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Judith Sebesta </span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC continued to engage global partners and stakeholders in our work on Open Education.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC staff and network colleagues presented at six regional UNESCO hosted meetings to support national governments and NGOs in understanding and implementing the </span><a href="https://www.unesco.org/en/legal-affairs/recommendation-open-educational-resources-oer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UNESCO Recommendation on Open Education Resources</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. We highlighted the importance of using standard international CC open copyright licenses in open education policies and open educational resources (</span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LLLOFAHdgXx9fnFXccCOUNyH8JmnuTxhaQcSzV26LHk/edit#slide=id.g132d691b94b_2_84"><span style="font-weight: 400;">slides</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC participated in the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/transforming-education-summit"><span style="font-weight: 400;">United Nations Transforming Education Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, presenting sessions on </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">effective educational ecosystems, approaches to implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on OER, and our recently launched </span><a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Climate Campaign</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC is working with UNICEF and others to find OER curriculum and openly licensed psycho-social support materials to help Syrian and Turkish children and their teachers who have been displaced by the devastating earthquakes.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The CC team expanded our Certificate program. We ran 16 online courses in 2022, raising the total number of graduates to over 1255 from 65 countries by the end of 2022. We piloted two open pedagogy CC Certificate courses in September, which encouraged participants’ greater agency in the course and also as contributions to their larger communities.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also launched the CC Certificate for GLAM with three courses and 93 participants. With Evelin Heidel (nickname: Scann), we were able to also </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">offer a </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">facilitator training for this program, thereby certifying additional instructors to teach the course. We also offered 38 scholarships to Certificate participants, expanding the program’s global reach. The CC Certificate program also continued facilitation and evaluation measures, ensuring the CC Certificate program is on a trajectory of continuous improvement. Thanks to Jonathan Poritz’s analysis, we learned </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/06/22/here-are-four-key-takeaways-from-evaluating-the-cc-certificate/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">four key takeaways from evaluating the CC Certificate</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aside from the CC Certificate courses, CC continued its training, including a workshop for the U.S. Department of State’s </span><a href="https://techcamp.america.gov/techcamps/techcamp-morocco/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TechCamp Morocco</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, thanks to facilitation from Shanna Hollich; a workshop for the </span><a href="https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">UK National Lottery Heritage Fund</span></a>, <span style="font-weight: 400;">and training for Open Education Fellows at </span><a href="https://www.lafayette.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lafayette College</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, among others. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition to these efforts, many more community members noted their work advancing open education in CC Open Education Platform meetings, ongoing conversations and collaborations. While we cannot cite everyone’s efforts here, we are honored to work with and learn from this community. Interested in joining us? If you are not yet a member, </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-open-education-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">learn more about the CC Open Education Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8211; we hope to hear from you! </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This work is essential. While Open Education Week has ended, our efforts in support of open education march on as strong as ever.  We believe access to knowledge is a human right, and CC is working hard to ensure that open educational opportunities are available to all.</span></p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<div id="footnote1">
<p>[1] While CC celebrates the wonderful contributions our open education community members have made, we recognize even more advancements were made than we can highlight, from collective open education work, spanning multiple communities, networks and continents.</p>
</div>
<div id="footnote2">[2] Translators included Nicolas Simon, Carlos E. Ferrero, Emma Miliani, Hector Teran Torres, Talia Méndez Mahecha, and Jackeline Bucio.</div>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66649
title: Nkem E. Osuigwe — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 9
uri: Nkem-E-Osuigwe-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-9
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/04/04/nkem-e-osuigwe-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-9/
content:
<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZv7RKoRvY</p>
<p>“When the culture of openness is part of society it helps knowledge to grow” is what Nkem says to introduce her perspective on Open Culture. In this episode we learn about how the walls around culture discourage growth and discovery and how opening up knowledge and culture encourages inclusivity and fosters growth.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Nkem has been working with open access and open culture at Libraries and institutions across Africa for more than 20 years. She works to increase engagement with public knowledge and promote open access across the continent through her work at the African Library and Information Association.</p>
<p><strong>Nkem responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66858
title: CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | April: The More We Share, The More We Have
uri: CC-s-BetterSharing-Collection-April-The-More-We-Share-The-More
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/04/04/ccs-bettersharing-collection-april-the-more-we-share-the-more-we-have/

content:
<figure id="attachment_66861" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66861" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66861" src="media/aea38c98.IMG_2119-732x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2119-732x1024.jpg" alt="An illustrated graphic depicting a diverse group of seven individuals collaborating and exchanging ideas through a continuous cycle of sharing papers, accompanied by the message &quot;The more we share, the more we have.&quot;" width="350" height="490" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2119-732x1024.jpg 732w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2119-214x300.jpg 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2119-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2119-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2119-29x40.jpg 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2119-36x50.jpg 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2119-111x155.jpg 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2119.jpg 1143w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66861" class="wp-caption-text"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/the-more-we-share-the-more-we-have-series-22"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The More We Share, The More We Have (series 1/2)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artists/pietro-soldi"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pietro Soldi</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for Creative Commons &amp; Fine Acts is licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a></figcaption></figure>
<p>As part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what better sharing looks like in action. Our <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/">#BetterSharing collection</a> of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness with transforming these perspectives into captivating visual pieces available under a CC license.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For April, we&#8217;re excited to showcase “</span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/the-more-we-share-the-more-we-have-series-22"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The More We Share, The More We Have (series 1/2)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Brazilian illustrator and cartoonist, </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artists/pietro-soldi"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pietro Soldi</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The piece, licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, was inspired by a quote from </span><a href="https://craphound.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cory Doctorow</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, science fiction author, journalist and tech activist:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In my utopia, we figure out how to create and keep separate rules that regulate the relationships between creators and their industry (e.g. writers and publishers, musicians and labels, etc); and rules that regulate the relationships between creators and their *audiences*. The things an audience does with a work — and the way that they relate to its creator — shouldn’t be a free-for-all; nor should the way that creators relate to those audiences. But whatever those rules should be, they will necessarily be very different from the way that the creative industries regulate interactions among their constituent actors.”</span></p></blockquote>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meet the artist:</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-66859 size-medium" src="media/63ef0a07.IMG_2118-300x200.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2118-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2118-300x200.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2118-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2118-768x512.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2118-60x40.jpg 60w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2118-50x33.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2118-233x155.jpg 233w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2118-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2118.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="http://www.pietrosoldi.com/">Pietro Soldi</a> is a Brazilian illustrator and cartoonist hailing from São Paulo and currently based in London, UK. Born in 1990, Pietro has made a name for himself in the world of illustration and comics. Immensely inspired by the world of newspaper comic strips, Pietro&#8217;s work is distinguished by its fluid linework, vibrant colors, and delightful humor. While he has a passion for black ink on paper, Pietro revels in opportunities to experiment with diverse materials and techniques, such as animation. Pietro is 6′ 4″ which makes him easily spottable from a distance or in a crowded place.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow David on Instagram:</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/pietro.soldi/?hl=en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@pietro.soldi</span></a><br />
<span>Follow David on Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/pietrosoldi"><span>@pietrosoldi</span></a></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The full #BetterSharing collection is available on </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheGreats.co</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to be enjoyed, used and adapted, and then shared again, by anyone, forever. </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing&amp;search="><span style="font-weight: 400;">View the full collection &gt;&gt;</span></a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66871
title: Sandra Soster — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 10
uri: Sandra-Soster-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-10
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/04/11/sandra-soster-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-10/
content:
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Sandra Soster — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 10" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g6SS86MS_us?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>Sandra notes that “the collections being present online, helps to reduce theft of works of art.” When the information about collection is available to the public then the public will also help to recover works that are sold on marketplaces illegally. Sandra shares insights about working with Open GLAM in Brazil, in museums, and other institutions, and with support from Wikimedia.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Sandra is the GLAM &amp; Culture Manager at Wiki Movemento Brasil and recently worked with a CC Open Culture Working Group to create a <a href="https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/creating-a-bibliography-and-a-glossary-on-open-culture-open-glam-b855ffe1059a">GLAM/Open Culture glossary and bibliography</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Sandra</strong> <strong>responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66929
title: State of the Commons 2022
uri: State-of-the-Commons-2022
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/04/11/state-of-the-commons-2022/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66957" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66957" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66957 size-medium" src="media/d1e73132.State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-300x169.png" alt="Detail of the cover of the Creative Commons State of the Commons 2022 in black text on a yellow background over details from three illustrations with text: THE MORE WE SHARE, OPEN IS BEAUTIFUL, and OPEN PALMS, NOT CLUTCHING FISTS." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-Cover-Detail.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66957" class="wp-caption-text">“CC State of the Commons 2022 Cover Detail” © 2023 by <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>We are pleased to present the 2022 Creative Commons State of the Commons annual report. This report highlights key innovations, achievements, collaborations, conversations, and partnerships from CC and our global community over the past year.</p>
<p>In 2022 we were incredibly proud to mark twenty years of CC licensing and all the groundbreaking collaboration it has enabled as we closed our successful 20th anniversary campaign, which raised over $16 million dollars to support CC programs and our ongoing sustainability. As we look back on this remarkable journey, time seems to pass more quickly than ever — yet our gratitude for each milestone remains unwavering, as do words of thanks towards everyone who helped make it possible. I invite you to <a href="https://creativecommons.org/timeline/">revisit important moments in CC’s history</a> in our interactive timeline. If something is missing, you’ll see a way to suggest other events to include in the history.</p>
<p>In 2022, we met our 20th Anniversary fundraising goal, we launched two new programs — the <a href="https://openclimatecampaign.org/">Open Climate Campaign</a> and the <a href="https://www.movementforabetterinternet.org/">Movement for a Better Internet</a> — and were involved in policy deliberations in ways we have never been before. Our signature <a href="https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/arts-culture/">Open Culture</a> program continued to make great strides in the global cultural heritage space. In 2023, we want to build on this success with our first in-person<a href="https://summit.creativecommons.org/"> CC Global Summit</a> in four years, which will be held in Mexico City the first week of October. This landmark event will explore emerging technologies and CC’s role in creating a more open world where everyone can thrive — the call for proposals and registration will open soon.</p>
<figure id="attachment_66062" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66062" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66062 size-large" src="media/d33ca929.Posters-1024x483.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-1024x483.png" alt="Thumbnails of 12 illustrations inspired by the question: What does better sharing for a brighter future look like to you?" width="840" height="396" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-1024x483.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-300x141.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-768x362.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-1536x724.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-2048x965.png 2048w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-85x40.png 85w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-50x24.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-270x127.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Posters-1200x566.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66062" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;<a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/">#BetterSharing Illustrations</a>&#8221; assembled by Creative Commons from the works of <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/">12 illustrators</a> is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-NC 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p>The front and back covers of this year’s report showcase some very special artworks. In 2022 we collaborated with Fine Acts to commission the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/">#BetterSharing collection of illustrations</a>, inspired by quotes about <a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">our strategic theme of <em>better sharing</em></a> from 12 prominent global open advocates. These CC-licensed visual pieces were created by 12 internationally renowned artists and shared on TheGreats.co, an open repository of free illustrations focused on social justice issues.</p>
<p>As we step into the future, we are grateful for your continued commitment and support of CC. Our work would not be possible without YOU in our community. I hope you’ll read our full report to learn more about key accomplishments across the CC community in 2022. We look forward to engaging with you more in 2023!</p>
<p>You can view the full report here below, or also <a href="https://creativecommons.org/state-of-the-commons-2022/">in accessible web format</a>, or download it in a PDF optimized <a href="media/46fc8ab3.State-of-the-Commons-2022-for-Digital-Sharing-1.0.pdf" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/State-of-the-Commons-2022-for-Digital-Sharing-1.0.pdf">for sharing online</a> (1.5MB) or <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BKR8glYNjex-WwmqSiPQTYl1Wwm8ZHL6/view?usp=sharing">for printing</a> (35.9MB).</p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67009
title: Elevating Emerging Audiences: Share Your Experience
uri: Elevating-Emerging-Audiences-Share-Your-Experience
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/04/12/elevating-emerging-audiences-share-your-experience/
content:
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Calling all AI developers, NFT creators, and entrepreneurs</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As our world faces increasingly complex and interconnected challenges, it becomes clear that innovation and collaboration are essential to finding viable solutions. Creative Commons is proud of the thousands who make our global community. And this year, we’re expanding. We’re endeavoring to connect with groups who we’ve identified as emerging audiences: </span><b>AI developers, NFT creators, and entrepreneurs.</b></p>
<p><b>If you are involved in any of these fields, we invite you to participate in our </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4iyfjH4dZ0g9lvXbbFhbSuEdB0nITcBP8EB1C4td3c4xrCg/viewform?usp=sf_link"><b>survey</b></a><b> and share your experiences with us.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Your contributions will help us to gain a deeper understanding of the unique perspectives, needs, and aspirations of these communities that we’re eager to engage with and serve. </span></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-67013 size-full" src="media/25247310.Read-the-full-document--1.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Read-the-full-document-→-1.png" alt="Button with text that says &quot;take the survey now --&gt;&quot;" width="440" height="70" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Read-the-full-document-→-1.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Read-the-full-document-→-1-300x48.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Read-the-full-document-→-1-140x22.png 140w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Read-the-full-document-→-1-50x8.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Read-the-full-document-→-1-270x43.png 270w" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 85vw, 440px" /></p>
<h3>AI developers</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-67014" src="media/46336802.AIImage.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AIImage.png" alt="Icon of a brain with connectors coming out of it " width="200" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AIImage.png 500w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AIImage-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AIImage-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AIImage-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AIImage-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AIImage-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AIImage-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" />Generative AI has become increasingly prevalent in our daily lives. With these developments, it&#8217;s important these advancements are developed responsibly and ethically. By engaging with AI developers, Creative Commons hopes to provide valuable resources and tools to help AI developers navigate the complex landscape of copyright and licensing in the digital age. Moreover, AI developers bring a wealth of expertise and perspective to the Creative Commons community. As experts in machine learning, data analytics, and other cutting-edge technologies, they are uniquely positioned to help develop innovative solutions to some of the world&#8217;s most pressing challenges.<br />
</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">NFT Creators</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-67015" src="media/d531dd77.NFTImage.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NFTImage.png" alt="icon of the three polaroid style photos with the central photo overlapping the other two and the central photo contains an illustration of the sky, sun, two birds and two mountain peaks" width="200" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NFTImage.png 500w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NFTImage-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NFTImage-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NFTImage-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NFTImage-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NFTImage-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NFTImage-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" />Connecting with NFT creators is essential to creating empowering licensing standards in the landscape of digital creativity. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are digital assets that represent ownership of unique, one-of-a-kind pieces of content, such as art, music, or videos. Our open licenses, by providing a flexible and customizable way to license work, foster autonomy, collaboration, and innovation. We believe this can help NFT creators gain further visibility and sustainability for their work.  By working together, Creative Commons and NFT creators can help shape the future of digital content creation and distribution.<br />
</span></p>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Entrepreneurs</span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-67016" src="media/fdd362cb.EntrepreneurImage.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EntrepreneurImage.png" alt="Icon of a bulb that looks like a rocket taking flight with smoke below" width="200" height="200" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EntrepreneurImage.png 500w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EntrepreneurImage-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EntrepreneurImage-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EntrepreneurImage-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EntrepreneurImage-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EntrepreneurImage-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EntrepreneurImage-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px" />Entrepreneurs play a significant role in driving innovation, pushing the boundaries of what&#8217;s possible and driving new developments in the business sector.  We believe that through Creative Commons licenses, entrepreneurs can safeguard their intellectual property rights while also facilitating the free exchange of ideas and creativity. Contrary to the popular belief that competition is the driver of success in business, we believe business is more fruitful when we can unlock the full range of our collective creativity.</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Connecting with these emerging audiences is vital to our mission of developing a more creative and interconnected world. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
Following the insights of this survey, we’ll dive deep into other forms of research and connect with individuals who have expressed interest in 1:1 interviews.  Through deep engagement with AI developers, NFT creators, and entrepreneurs, Creative Commons hopes to tap into a reservoir of creativity and ingenuity that will propel collaboration and innovation forward. We look forward to learning more about how we can serve you.</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For questions, or to get further involved in this research, please reach out to <a href="mailto:nailynevarez@gmail.com">Naily Nevarez</a>.</span></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66882
title: Killian Downing — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 11
uri: Killian-Downing-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-11
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/04/18/killian-downing-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-11/
content:
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Killian Downing — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 11" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p9vxw6UG5_4?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>In this episode Killian Downing tells us how “[Open Culture] is about inclusivity and inspiring people and involving them more deeply…” in stories through digital cultural heritage. He is passionate about creating community and engagement through digital cultural heritage initiatives.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Killian is an Archivist at Dublin City University in Ireland where he works to innovate the universities’ digital cultural heritage practices.</p>
<p><strong>Killian responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
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<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=66886
title: Jessemusse Cacinda — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 12
uri: Jessemusse-Cacinda-Open-Culture-VOICES-Season-2-Episode-12
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/04/25/jessemusse-cacinda-open-culture-voices-season-2-episode-12/
content:
<div class="jetpack-video-wrapper"><iframe title="Jessemusse Cacinda - Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 12" width="840" height="473" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x-aiqANr25E?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>“Open culture creates conditions for us to know ourselves, but above all to eachother.” Jessemusse shares this insight with us and talks about what open culture and open access in GLAM institutions has done for his writing work and how it has shaped his views about language representation. Open Culture has provided a way to reframe histories of his culture and community.</p>
<p>Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos that highlight the benefits and barriers of open culture as well as inspiration and advice on the subject of opening up cultural heritage. Jessemusse is a Mozambican author who previously co-founded a publishing house in Mozambique focused on underrepresented languages and cultures in publishing. His work has evolved into more creative writing where his true passion lies.</p>
<p><strong>Jessemusse responds to the following questions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>What are the main benefits of open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">What are the barriers?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Could you share something someone else told you that opened up your eyes and mind about open GLAM?</li>
<li aria-level="1">Do you have a personal message to those hesitating to open up collections?</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><em>Closed captions are available for this video</em></strong>, you can turn them on by clicking the CC icon at the bottom of the video. A red line will appear under the icon when closed captions have been enabled. Closed captions may be affected by Internet connectivity — if you experience a lag, we recommend watching the videos directly on YouTube.</p>
<blockquote><p>Want to hear more insights from Open Culture experts from around the world? <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">Watch more episodes of Open Culture VOICES</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/open-culture-voices/">here &gt;&gt;</a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67040
title: CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | May: The Future Is Open
uri: CC-s-BetterSharing-Collection-May-The-Future-Is-Open
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/01/ccs-bettersharing-collection-may-the-future-is-open/
content:
<figure id="attachment_66073" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-66073" style="width: 350px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-66073" src="media/b3dad9fb.Preeti-Singh-731x1024.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-731x1024.jpg" alt="An illustration of diverse people leaning out of computer screens collaborating and sharing as another group of people watches with interest, all on a pink background with the text: The future is open." width="350" height="490" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-731x1024.jpg 731w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-214x300.jpg 214w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-768x1075.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-29x40.jpg 29w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-36x50.jpg 36w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-111x155.jpg 111w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-1200x1680.jpg 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Preeti-Singh-scaled.jpg 1829w" sizes="(max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-66073" class="wp-caption-text">“<a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/the-future-is-open">The Future Is Open</a>” by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/preeeti____/">Preeti Singh</a> for <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> and <a href="https://fineacts.co/">Fine Acts</a> is licensed via <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">better sharing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> looks like in action. Our </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2022/11/21/introducing-the-better-sharing-illustrations-a-creative-commons-fine-acts-collaboration/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">#BetterSharing collection</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness with transforming these perspectives into captivating visual pieces available under a CC license.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For May, we&#8217;re excited to showcase “</span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks/the-future-is-open"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Future Is Open</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” by Mumbai-based fashion and graphic designer, Preeti Singh. The piece, licensed under </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC BY-SA 4.0</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, was inspired by a quote from </span><a href="https://twitter.com/EbenezarWikina"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ebenezar Wikina</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Founder, Policy Shapers, and Advocacy Coordinator, Foundation for Partnerships Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND Foundation):</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Better Sharing, Brighter Future means that as we continue to find better ways to share ideas, products and solutions on the internet, we’d directly be working towards a brighter future for ourselves and generations to come.”</span></p></blockquote>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meet the artist:</span></h3>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright wp-image-67042 size-medium" src="media/119d0420.Preeti--207x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Preeti--207x300.jpg" alt="" width="207" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Preeti--207x300.jpg 207w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Preeti--706x1024.jpg 706w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Preeti--768x1113.jpg 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Preeti--28x40.jpg 28w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Preeti--34x50.jpg 34w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Preeti--107x155.jpg 107w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Preeti-.jpg 963w" sizes="(max-width: 207px) 85vw, 207px" /></p>
<p><a href="https://thegreats.co/artists/preeti-singh-1">Preeti Singh</a> is a talented visual communication designer and passionate artist, known for her captivating artworks that convey compelling stories. Based in Mumbai, India, she has made a name for herself as a skilled fashion and graphic designer. Since she was a child, Preeti has been fascinated by art, culture, and history, and has always had a keen interest in illustration and literature. Her creative journey began with these interests, which have greatly influenced her work. Preeti&#8217;s pieces reflect her extensive searches in art, culture, history, and mythology.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow Preeti on Instagram: </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/preeeti____/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@preeeti____</span></a><br />
<span>Follow Preeti on Behance: </span><a href="https://www.behance.net/PreetiSingh__"><span>@PreetiSingh__</span></a></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The full #BetterSharing collection is available on </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing"><span style="font-weight: 400;">TheGreats.co</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to be enjoyed, used and adapted, and then shared again, by anyone, forever. </span><a href="https://thegreats.co/artworks?theme=better-sharing&amp;search="><span style="font-weight: 400;">View the full collection &gt;&gt;</span></a></p></blockquote>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67081
title: Open Culture Platform Activity Fund Winners 2023
uri: Open-Culture-Platform-Activity-Fund-Winners-2023
url: https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/03/open-culture-platform-activity-fund-winners-2023/
content:
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of the </span><a href="https://network.creativecommons.org/cc-openculture-platform/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Culture Platform</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s work this year, we accepted proposals and invited the community to vote on community funded activities. Here are the six proposals that have been funded. We look forward to sharing more about the projects when they are complete. </span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Archiving History of Ghana: Case Study of Forts and Castles</span></h2>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-67083" src="media/fb5c40d1.image7-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image7-300x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image7-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image7-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image7-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image7-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image7-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image7-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image7.png 750w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />        </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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<h3><b>Francis Quasie</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ghana attained its independence in 1957, prior to that the country was colonized by a number of European countries like the Portuguese, Danish, British and others.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most of them built forts and castles that are still existent in today&#8217;s Ghana. Unfortunately, stories about the history of these structures are not well digitally represented on the internet, specifically Wikimedia Commons. It is important that our history and heritage is preserved and documented well enough for the next generation to be connected to their roots. Forts such as Fort Ruychaver, Fort Saint Anthony and Fort Elize Carthago have no images attached to their Wikipedia articles and this is because there are no images of these forts on Wikimedia Commons either.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fortunately with the current age of Open and Creative Commons, we have the opportunity to capture all these historical monuments with the right use of licensing. Most of these forts and castles were the final destinations of our forefathers who were taken ashore.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This project seeks to tell and archive the stories of our heritage, the toils of our forefathers through photos and videos of that part of our history that contributed to the liberation of Ghana.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This will be done through two main ways.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First off, uploading them on Wikimedia Commons with the right CC license and linking these images to their respective articles on Wikipedia to be made openly available.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Secondly, engaging institutions under GLAM in Ghana like the National Museum of Ghana and some libraries with the aim of archiving these images that will be taken to tell our heritage stories now and in the future.</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building a sustainable social, technical &amp; legal infrastructure for Open GLAM in Pakistan; the quantitative analyses for the development of open heritage science for Pakistani heritage</span></h2>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-67088" src="media/23d46c39.image5-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image5-300x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image5-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image5-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image5-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image5-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image5-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image5-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image5.png 750w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />            </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />
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<h3><b>Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani, PhD. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">         </span></h3>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-67084" src="media/86bcf1b8.image1.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1.png" alt="" width="265" height="265" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1.png 265w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image1-155x155.png 155w" sizes="(max-width: 265px) 85vw, 265px" /></h3>
<h3><b>Amber Osman</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This study will be an attempt to develop and build a sustainable social, technical &amp; legal infrastructure for Open GLAMs in Pakistan while deploying the quantitative method and analyses for the development of framework for open GLAMs of Pakistan and open heritage science for Pakistani heritage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The project will work to develop the sustainable social, technical and legal infrastructure for Open GLAMs of Pakistan through providing an easy-to-use platform for GLAMs to share their collections and resources, thus this infrastructure will be an attempt to promote the CC agenda of preservation and sustainability of heritage with the open accessibility for commons.The quantitative method will be used, and qualitative analyses will be done for developing the framework for open GLAMs of Pakistan and for the development of open heritage science for Pakistani heritage.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The key outcomes of this project will be to develop sustainable social, technical and legal infrastructures and frameworks for open GLAMs of Pakistan for the better sharing of heritage and culture of the region; to serve a quantifiable approach for the better share of heritage content will be served; and to develop he open heritage science for Pakistani heritage.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">GLAM institutions in Colombia open to their citizens</span></h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-67086" src="media/546e15f7.image3-300x300.jpg" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image3-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image3-300x300.jpg 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image3-150x150.jpg 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image3-40x40.jpg 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image3-50x50.jpg 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image3-350x350.jpg 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image3-155x155.jpg 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image3.jpg 638w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></p>
<h3><b>Viviana Rangel</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Libraries, galleries, museums and houses of culture are the spaces that guarantee cultural rights for the majority of society in Colombia, a country where the scarcity of economic resources means that the investment that the population can make to access culture and knowledge is quite restricted. In addition, delays in copyright legislation do not allow the opening of many contents necessary to guarantee the public interest. With this project we seek to understand the needs of GLAM institutions through a collaborative dialogue with involved actors, expose tools that can strengthen their management and create a roadmap to integrate the needs and perspectives of institutions, users and decision makers. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With this project we will bring together the GLAM community of four cultural centers in the country, will create methodologies to strengthen its management based on the documents previously developed by the members of Creative Commons.  With the identified needs we will cooperate and formulate an action path for the GLAM community and a series of recommendations to strengthen the capacities of decision makers. </span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digitization and Protection of Specialized Heritage Institutions</span></h2>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-67087" src="media/cac111d9.image4-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image4-300x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image4-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image4-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image4-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image4-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image4-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image4-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image4.png 616w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></span></h3>
<h3><b>Seyi Osunade</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) serve as educational resources for communities and also preserve the arts and culture. The patronage of GLAMs has reduced in recent times due to lack of information about their existence, poor physical state, lack of digital services to the mainly youth population and no photography rules. Content creation for social media purposes and the re-introduction of history into primary and secondary school curriculum has re-ignited interest in resources available in GLAMs. The University of Ibadan plays hosts to a number of specialized cultural heritage institutions that are not visible online but used for teaching and research. This project seeks to identify such centers across the three campuses, 16 faculties and numerous centers so as to encourage digitization and the use of Creative Commons (CC) licenses and tools. The project will produce a draft institutional policy and an e-book with available artifacts/displays/exhibits and location of the specialized cultural heritage institutions . </span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Public Domain Database of Digitized Creative Works in Nigeria</span></h2>
<h3><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-67085" src="media/8b7cc2a8.image2-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image2-300x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image2-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image2-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image2-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image2-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image2-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image2-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image2.png 685w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></h3>
<h3><b>Isaac Oloruntimilehin</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Nigerian Public Domain Database being developed by Free Knowledge Africa is being built to facilitate knowledge sharing and transfer. The Public Domain is the material from which society derives knowledge and fashions new cultural works. Having a rich and thriving Public Domain is essential to the social-cultural and economic well-being of society.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In January 2022, we celebrated the Public Domain Day in Nigeria and also organized a mini contest where participants were trained to identify and document works that are in the Public Domain. At the end of the contest, we were able to document 1744 works in the database of which we are currently creating Wikidata items for. The major challenge was getting access to these works to digitize them, and because of the limited manpower and funding we couldn’t go ahead.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The proposed activity  continues the Nigerian Public Domain Database project. The goal is to document and digitize works that are in the public domain in the jurisdiction of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The expected outcome is to make these works easily accessible to the public, to promote the use of these materials in creating new knowledge and cultural works, and to educate the Nigerian public about the importance of the Public Domain. By doing so, we hope to contribute to the social-cultural and economic well-being of society by facilitating knowledge sharing and transfer.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building Open GLAM Community for Sustainable Open Licensing Practices in Nigeria</span></h2>
<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-67089" src="media/538ac488.image6-300x300.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image6-300x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image6-300x300.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image6-150x150.png 150w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image6-40x40.png 40w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image6-50x50.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image6-350x350.png 350w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image6-155x155.png 155w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image6.png 750w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" /></span></h3>
<h3><b>Bukola James</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Nigeria, there is a low awareness of open practices in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs), and this is a result of several factors such as skepticism, lack of awareness, bureaucratic bottlenecks, legal constraints, and technical support. Therefore, the project&#8217;s goal is to build a community of GLAMs for open licensing in Nigeria by promoting open access and open licensing of GLAM collections using Creative Commons licenses. This project aims to increase awareness and understanding of open practices, adoption of open access policies and practices, digitization of GLAM collections, and online visibility and accessibility of GLAM collections. The project activity will include online advocacy, establishment of a Network of Open GLAM advocates in Nigeria, 1 roundtable discussion, and 2 in-person and 3 online workshops/trainings among 50 Librarians in Nigeria.</span></p>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=67104
title: Generative AI: Opportunities, Concerns & Solutions from MozFest 2023
uri: Generative-AI-Opportunities-Concerns-Solutions-from-MozFest-2023
url:
https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/04/generative-ai-opportunities-concerns-solutions-from-mozfest-2023/

content:
<p><img loading="lazy" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-67105" src="media/362480c6.Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-300x169.png" data-original-source="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-300x169.png" alt="Mozilla Festival icon and wordmark and Movement for a Better Internet wordmark on a background of multicolored, differently-sized carets pointing in different directions." width="300" height="169" srcset="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-300x169.png 300w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-1024x576.png 1024w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-768x432.png 768w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-1536x864.png 1536w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-71x40.png 71w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-50x28.png 50w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-270x152.png 270w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-440x250.png 440w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest-1200x675.png 1200w, https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Movement-for-a-Better-InternetMozFest.png 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px" />CC has been exploring what artificial intelligence means for our strategy to support <em><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/">better sharing</a></em> and the public interest commons that we help steward. In March, we joined with our partners in the <a href="https://www.movementforabetterinternet.org/">Movement for a Better Internet</a> to discuss generative AI with the <a href="https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/NAEYFE-1">MozFest 2023</a> community: What opportunities does AI offer? What are its risks? And where might we work to address them?</p>
<p>Known as a “premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world,” MozFest provided a great opportunity to bring together over 50 people to generate insights into what we should be thinking about generative AI as we work to help shape policy to build a better internet.</p>
<p>Overall, our session participants saw substantial opportunities in generative AI, including how it could enhance human creativity and efficiency, democratize creative expression, and offer new insights to difficult problems. But they also had several concerns: AI is moving too fast and it’s not clear what impacts it will have. Generative AI could have negative economic impacts, may be developed or implemented in harmful or biased ways, and raises concerns about intellectual property.</p>
<p>Imagining how their concerns could be addressed, our participants looked at both big picture solutions — systemic changes in society and economy — and more specific solutions — public investment in AI for all, policy and regulation, practices to help ensure ethical development, and education about generative AI.</p>
<p>Last, but not least, participants explored the idea that we might change how we think about AI: Rather than seeing AI as either an unparalleled revolution or a world-ending crisis, we might instead see it as a collection of varied technologies and practices with risks and benefits that are within our power to shape and control. As a part of our work to support better sharing and a better internet, that’s exactly what we’ll be focused on at CC.</p>
<p><a href="https://movementforabetterinternet.org/resources/mozfest2023">Read the full report</a> to learn more about how people in the MozFest community are thinking about generative AI, and add your comments to get involved in the discussion.</p>
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