Sarah Hinchliff Pearson is the General Counsel at Creative Commons. Her multi-disciplinary toolkit includes law, journalism, and an MBA.
Sarah found her way to the open movement through a lifelong interest in the future of media. She has a long history with Creative Commons, beginning as a member of the legal team that created the Version 4.0 license suite. She was most recently a lawyer at DuckDuckGo, returning to Creative Commons in 2024.
Sarah lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with her husband, two kids, and 100-pound lap dog.
Guest post by Ioanna Tzagaraki from the University of Cyprus. All six of the Creative Commons licenses v4.0 are now available in Greek as a result of the joint and volunteer effort of the University of Cyprus, the Pedagogical Institute of Cyprus, and the legal firm Ioannides Demetriou LLC. The multi-year process began when the first draft…
Creative Commons is proud to announce the release of the official translations of the Latvian 4.0 licenses and Basque 4.0 licenses, as well as the Basque CC0 translation.
Like the rest of the internet, it seems, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) that comes into effect today has given us a good opportunity to pause and do a comprehensive review of the ways in which Creative Commons collects and uses the personal information of its community.
Today marks day one of the beta version of the Creative Commons Certificates program, a project designed to provide people the skills and expertise they need to implement and advocate for open licensing around the world.
The CC 4.0 licenses are now translated into Italian The official Italian translation of the Creative Commons 4.0 Licenses and CC0 waiver is now available! Led by CC Italy, the translations also benefited from the collaboration with CC Switzerland. The working group was hosted and coordinated by the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at…