When cultural heritage institutions share items online, they are often accompanied by biased, outdated, or offensive narratives. During a webinar in 2023, we convened experts to discuss their approaches to reparative metadata practices. Discussion participants navigated the complicated balance between preserving legacy terminology as a historical record and facilitating a more respectful discovery experience for users today ⚖️. Watch here: https://buff.ly/dpDKKcF.
Creative Commons
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The nonprofit behind the licenses and tools the world uses to share. 🌍 Follow us for all things open access.
About us
CC is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture we need to address the world’s most pressing challenges and create a brighter future for all. Together with our global community and multiple partners, we build capacity and infrastructure, we develop practical solutions, and we advocate for better sharing: sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable.
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http://creativecommons.org/
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- Internet Publishing
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- 11-50 employees
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- Mountain View, CA
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- Nonprofit
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- 2001
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- copyright, public domain, internet, web, semantic web, rdf, legal, licenses, licensing, open content, free culture, publishing, open access, and education
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P.O. Box 1866
Mountain View, CA 94042, US
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We’re excited to share that Creative Commons has transitioned our community chat from Slack to Zulip! Zulip offers improved organization, accessibility, and openness — helping our global community connect and collaborate more effectively. Read about the move and learn how to join here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gtTBngBe #CreativeCommons #CommunityEngagement #DigitalCommons
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Join us and help shape the future of reuse in modular science!
Creative Commons + Continuous Science Foundation are teaming up to make reuse the default for modular science. The Reuse Incentives Working Group will explore what drives researchers to share and reuse modular outputs—from figures and code to data and methods and how we can design better systems and incentives to make it worthwhile. Join the cohort working to shape incentives for reuse in modular science. The group will kick off in January 2026. Apply by Sunday, Nov 30 https://lnkd.in/gQkDtFWn #openscience #composablescience #reusescience #modularscience
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CC's Director of Strategic Communications, Rebecca Ross, is representing Creative Commons today at the Responsible Tech Summit! This year's theme is Centering Humanity in our Tech Future, and we're excited to connect with leaders across industries on AI governance and aligning a tech future with joy, creativity, and human connection. As part of the gathering, Rebecca also participated in a panel on the effects of AI on the creative industries to discuss CC Signals, the challenges of enforcing copyright in the age of AI, and more. If you're attending, find Rebecca and say hi! All Tech Is Human
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has just launched its newly updated policy for Immediate Access to Research! CC is proud to have worked with HHMI as part of our Preprint Policy Framework. When HHMI scientists share CC BY licensed preprints, students, educators, and researchers can: 🔬 Adapt cutting-edge science into educational materials. 🌍 Rapidly share research in many languages. 🌐 Immediately access initial and revised preprints without the delays of traditional journal publishing 📰 Participate in more transparent and equitable peer review
HHMI have announced a new open access policy: their scientists must post preprints. https://lnkd.in/emjDKak3 This very much an implementation of our Plan U proposal https://lnkd.in/eNM4qyuK A couple of noteworthy aspects: 1) HHMI scientists must post the initial version and a revised preprint responding to reviewers' comments. So peer review is still valued but not necessarily a form in which it is completed and certified by journals. i.e. clearly a drive for peer review as a service not an endorsement. 2) Non-profit community preprint servers like bioRxiv and chemRxiv are. recommended. 3) They are imposing restrictions on journal APCs and clearly want to drive the system away from these.
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After almost 15 years, CC's Director of Open Education, Cable Green, PhD, is moving on from Creative Commons. Cable's leadership, vision, and passion for access to knowledge have left an indelible mark on CC and the broader open movement, and we are grateful that he will always be a part of the Creative Commons community! Join us in thanking Cable and wishing him well in all that is to come! Read more about Cable's work at CC and his impact on the open movement: https://lnkd.in/gkBpXwDS
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✍️Here's something worth a read today! ✍️ Patricia Diaz Rubio, the Executive Director of Wikimedia Chile and TAROCH participant, wrote a Medium article on the Open Heritage Statement and what open access to cultural heritage could mean for Latin America. En español: https://buff.ly/8GFk4MV
The power of #OpenCulturalHeritage lies in ensuring that culture, memory, and creativity remain accessible to everyone, everywhere. Over 60 organizations worldwide —including Wikimedia Chile— have joined TAROCH Coalition, a global initiative calling on #UNESCO to adopt an international framework for equitable access to public domain heritage. For Chile and South America, this means rebalancing a long-standing asymmetry: bringing our cultural memory back into local hands and empowering new generations of cultural workers, educators and, of course, Wikimedians. Let’s open cultural heritage, share our stories, and build a fairer future together. Read and sign this Statement here: https://lnkd.in/dWCmgmhy https://lnkd.in/db5sJbCM
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CC's CEO Anna Tumadóttir spoke with the World Economic Forum about the need for reciprocity in the new digital age of AI.
Is AI threatening the dream of an open web? Large language models are trained on huge volumes of text, much of it lifted from the searchable internet. But there is a lack of reciprocity here, argues the CEO of Creative Commons, Anna Tumadóttir. She says that tech companies are taking what they need and monetizing the results – and this imbalance is disincentivizing writers and creators from sharing their work openly. Fewer than 1% of organizations have taken action to ensure their use of #AI is grounded in responsible governance. A new World Economic Forum report details 9 ways organizations can start to do just that. Find out more here: https://ow.ly/nYaj50XcYRI In a year of complex global challenges, collaboration has never mattered more. This October, the Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils brought more than 500 experts from its interdisciplinary knowledge network to share insights and decode emerging trends for a safer, more sustainable future. Follow the conversation at #AMGFCC25
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We're honored to collaborate with the Consulate General of Canada in New York | Consulat général du Canada à New York for an upcoming curated gathering on AI's impact on the creative industries. We're also thrilled to announce our panel, which will include Prithy A. (Senior Analyst, Standards Council of Canada), Sarah Robertson (Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP), Avijit Ghosh, PhD (Technical AI Policy Researcher, Hugging Face), Rebecca Ross (Director of Strategic Communications, Creative Commons), and moderator Madhavi Singh (Deputy Director, Thurman Arnold Project at Yale University). We'll be sharing learnings from this gathering with the community here and in future newsletters and reports. #ResponsibleTech #AllTechIsHuman
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The recording from the Open Heritage Statement Launch is now available! Watch how experts from around the world came together to shape a shared vision for equitable access to public domain heritage in the digital environment. 📹 Watch now: https://buff.ly/dVBAvXs 🎈 Learn more & sign the Statement: openheritagestatement.org #OpenHeritageStatement #TAROCH #UNESCO