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Support us: http://creativecommons.org/donate "Japanese Dream" by Taymaz Valley (CC BY 2.0)
Even with CC licensing, fair use is key 🔑 to free expression — everything builds on other works, and copyright depends on limitations and exceptions. We hope SCOTUS recognizes this in the Warhol case, which will affect all transformative works. #BetterSharing
A copyright dispute at the Supreme Court pits a celebrity photographer against the Andy Warhol Foundation over a photo she shot of Prince that Warhol used as the basis for a series of silk-screen prints https://on.wsj.com/3SZIHyy
2/ Cultural heritage institutions can better serve their missions by supporting the #PublicDomain. This ties back to a statement we published earlier this year with
1/ Botticelli’s masterpiece painting The Birth of Venus is in the #PublicDomain, a reservoir of creative content that we must cherish and celebrate so that everyone can access, reuse and recreate culture, our global public good. #BetterSharing
Our new policy on data licensing was signed on Sept 9! All Coast Survey #bathymetry will be dedicated to the public domain under an open data license, making our data as free, open, and accessible as possible.
Learn more: https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/data/data-licensing.html…
📢 Check out the NEW CC Trainings page 🌐
We've launched a new page with all sorts of learning and training opportunities for the CC global community to develop their open licensing expertise and understanding of recommended practices for #BetterSharing.
We need open access to climate change research now. The Open Climate Campaign is embarking on a 4-year mission to make open sharing of research outputs the norm in climate science. #OpenClimate👋 Join us and help us achieve this goal ⬇️
👋 Join us in San Francisco on 17 Nov 2022 for CC's 20th Anniversary Celebration. We will toast to the past & mobilize support for the future! 👉https://bit.ly/3CG5zNw
Can’t be in San Francisco? Join one of our virtual CC community celebration events ➡️https://bit.ly/3T34cOy
#MAPFellowship is fast approaching on Friday 14 October.
💡 If you’re a problem-solver at heart and want to drive social change, this opportunity is for you!
🌐 APPLY NOW ➡️http://discovermap.org
1/ @creativecommons is officially joining the 2022 #MAPFellowship and CC CEO @C_Stihler will participate as a mentor! Are you a problem-solver at heart that wants to drive social change? The @thinkmff#MAPFellowship might be for you! Keep reading for how to apply
Centrum Cyfrowe is a part of a group of civil society organizations that promotes access to, and use of, knowledge - the #A2K Coalition.
This week, we are launching our website with demands for education, research and cultural heritage! 🚀👉https://a2k-coalition.org
are celebrating an epic 20 years since the first release of CC licences! Share a digital artefact and promote 'better sharing' of open projects. Congrats
Education International is part of a group of civil society organizations from all around the world that promotes access to, and use of, knowledge - the #A2K Coalition. We are launching a website with demands for education, research and cultural heritage.
http://a2k-coalition.org
O InternetLab faz parte de um grupo global de organizações da sociedade civil que promove o acesso e o uso do conhecimento - a Coalizão #A2K. Esta semana, estamos lançando o nosso site com demandas para a educação, a pesquisa e o patrimônio cultural. 1/4
COMMUNIA is part of a group of civil society organizations from all around the world that promotes access to, and use of, knowledge - the #A2K Coalition. Today, we are launching our website with demands for education, research and cultural heritage:
http://a2k-coalition.org
Wikimedia is part of a group of civil society organizations from all around the world that promotes access to, and use of, knowledge - the #A2K Coalition. Today, we are launching our website with demands for education, research and cultural heritage:
COMMUNIA is part of a group of civil society organizations from all around the world that promotes access to, and use of, knowledge - the #A2K Coalition. Today, we are launching our website with demands for education, research and cultural heritage:
🔔 OPPORTUNITY 🔔
CC Open Culture Platform's Open GLAM Resources Working Group is building a bibliography of resources on topics relating to Open GLAM and they have opened a call for a Bibliography Coordinator position.
Find out more & apply by 15 Oct ➡️https://bit.ly/3CiDUAS
What a great evening with the leading tech companies of the world - Thanks to the CEO of the Center for Democratic & Technologies Alexandra Reeves Givens for that opportunity to exchange and to the CEO of Creative Commons Catherine Stihler for good discussions #techpromcdt
The CC community is at the heart of our work to support #BetterSharing for an open commons so we are inviting you to join us this November in celebrating two decades of CC!
There are several ways you can join the celebration — pick one or all! https://creativecommons.org/2022/10/05/join-us-to-celebrate-20-years-of-creative-commons/…
The CC community is at the heart of our work to support #BetterSharing for an open commons so we are inviting you to join us this November in celebrating two decades of CC!✨
There are several ways you can join the celebration — pick one or all! 👇
on its new Open Science Policy, making research open and accessible for everyone. We’re thrilled CERN publications will be #CCBY & metadata #CC0 in line with FAIR principles. Open knowledge leads to more discovery & #BetterSharing!
📬 You've got mail! And not just any old mail — the CC October newsletter! ✨
If you missed it; we've got you covered ➡️https://bit.ly/3RI4aKU
Keep up to date with what's happening at Creative Commons and the global CC community. Subscribe today 👉https://bit.ly/3whopWq
) says this new framework is an opportunity to show how an open internet can work.
Having EU and US collaborate on this challenge is worth celebrating.
This is key for a #BetterInternet!🌐
Data privacy, data governance, data security, and data policy - all critical to getting right to ensure democratic principles are upheld - are key points being made by Ruth Berry at
"People want to know their information is safe and protected while being able to access services and information from anywhere in the world." — Kate Charlet at
CC CEO @C_Stihler will speak at @i2Coalition's "Reawakening Digital Trade" today at 10:30 AM EDT. She will bring #BetterSharing to this important conversation, exploring how we can make the Internet economy work for everyone on both sides of the Atlantic. https://i2coalition.com/transatlantic-dialogue-2022-two-events-on-the-current-state-of-trans-atlantic-data-flows/…
's "Reawakening Digital Trade" today at 10:30 AM EDT. She will bring #BetterSharing to this important conversation, exploring how we can make the Internet economy work for everyone on both sides of the Atlantic.
CC supports better sharing goals in the EU’s AI Act — it’s vital that AI serves the public interest and the capacity to develop and use AI not be concentrated in the hands of a small number of large commercial operators. Read more about our engagement: