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The TAROCH Coalition continues to grow, uniting organizations dedicated to expanding access to cultural heritage in the public domain 🌎. We’re recognizing some of our 50+ members in the order they joined, highlighting their contributions to this important work: COMMUNIA, Latin American Center for Internet Research, Wikimedistas de Uruguay, Creative Commons Rwanda, Wikimedia Indonesia, Free Knowledge Africa, AvoinGLAM, Flickr Foundation, Local Contexts, CT Humanities, Create Centre See more members, get involved, and stay up to date by following the TAROCH Coalition page. We are grateful for their leadership and collaboration in shaping the future. Stay tuned as we continue recognizing more members.

Creative Commons recently attended the 46th World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) Session in Geneva. We had the opportunity to participate, and we focused our attention on limitations and exceptions in the framework of broadcast rights, in addition to libraries and archives. Read our statements and learn more about the session in our most recent article, authored by Brigitte Vézina:

FYI: you don’t need to register with CC before obtaining a license for your work. We offer our licenses, code, and tools to the public for free and without obligation! 🙌 Your CC license is legally valid as soon as you apply it to any material you have the legal right to license. 💪 Any other pressing questions? Check out our FAQ page: https://buff.ly/2gfdale Image: "Sharing" © 2009 by Marcus Johnstone is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

If you’re looking to stay connected to global actions in open education resources, practices, and policies, consider joining the CC Open Education Platform! The group is made up of around 1000 members from over 90 countries working together on the following goals: 👥 Build and sustain community. 📈 Increase educational access and equity. 👐 Use policy to open education opportunities for all. Learn more here:

Thinking about registering for a CC Certificate course? 👀 Hear directly from those who have completed the course about the skills they developed and how they continue to use those skills in their work on our testimonials page: https://buff.ly/Ubs8LYq Register here to save your spot for the June 2 - August 10 term: https://buff.ly/47ZHCB9 🚨PSA🚨 Do not wait to register! We are currently offering a limited number of scholarship tickets for the Open Culture Certificate. Y4GLAMSCHOLAR60 will get you 60% off, valid through May 30, 2025 or while supplies last 🙌.

At Rollins College, Creative Commons licensed open educational resources don't just save students money. Faculty in enhance student learning by modifying their resources to be more current and support diverse learning styles. Read: https://lnkd.in/gaqpSPPQ #OpenEd

CC’s Director of Technology, Timid Robot Zehta, represented CC at the latest IETF #AI Preferences meeting this week. A priority for us is ensuring that a CC protocol for AI preferences extends a broadly accepted system, like the IETF AI Preferences Vocabulary. In other words, we are working toward interoperability. We’re excited to engage with the IETF and provide recommendations on how to maximize openness & the protection of the commons (and, of course, #reciprocity) within the adoption of an IETF vocabulary. CC is working toward a June launch of our preference signals framework (v.0 with a more robust ‘plug and play’ version later in 2025). If you haven’t already, check out our Reciprocity in the Age of AI blog to read about our approach to infusing the AI ecosystem with reciprocity. https://buff.ly/EBhIjju

As more galleries, libraries, archives, and museums adapt to increasingly online audiences and users, they often seek Creative Commons legal tools, expertise, and community support. Our CC Certificate for Open Culture course helps participants learn the skills they need to: 👐 Develop capacity in opening access to cultural heritage. 🧑🎓 Develop a deeper understanding of open licensing and copyright considerations with digitization projects, Rights Statements, Traditional Knowledge Labels, working with the public domain, and more. If you’re thinking about registering, now is the perfect time! We’re currently offering a limited number of scholarship tickets for the Open Culture course! Valid through May 30, 2025, use code Y4GLAMSCHOLAR60 to get 60% off your ticket for either the June or September course here:

Lately, we’ve been thinking a lot about the future of open and what that looks like, especially in this uncertain age of AI⚡️. How can we best protect and defend the commons? Last month, we hosted the Open House for an Open Future, a weekend-long event at SXSW focusing on the future of open, AI, the role of CC licenses, and more. During this gathering, we had the opportunity to discuss these pressing topics with other thought leaders in the open movement. Read about our time at SXSW in a new blog post. We’d like to sincerely thank our event sponsor, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for making this event and these conversations possible.

The Towards a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage (TAROCH Coalition) is a growing network of 53 organizations advocating for equitable access to cultural heritage in the public domain 👏. To recognize their dedication, we’ll be sharing more about TAROCH and celebrating our members in the order they joined. These organizations were among the first to commit to this collective effort: Musiikkiarkisto · Music Archive Finland, Biblioteca Nacional Aruba, Wikimedia Deutschland e. V., Global Open Initiative, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Youth Tech Organisation, Curationist, Creative Commons Italy, Kansalliskirjasto - The National Library of Finland, Fundacja Centrum Cyfrowe, Authors Alliance We are grateful for their leadership and collaboration in shaping the future 🤝. Learn more and get involved: bit.ly/tarochcoalition Stay tuned as we continue highlighting more members in the weeks ahead.