Creative Commons

🗣️ We are thrilled to share our support for the Access To Knowledge (A2K) Coalition"s call to the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO"s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (#SCCR) for: ⚡️ Progress on copyright exceptions and limitations for libraries, archives and museums, educational and research institutions ⚡️ Significant changes in the draft of the Broadcasting Treaty to ensure it includes sufficient limitations and exceptions ⚡️ Further work on the Copyright in the Digital Environment white paper ⚡️Concluding the agenda items on public lending rights and theater directors rights We look forward to participating in SCCR46 in Geneva this April to reinforce upholding a balanced copyright system that supports access to knowledge and a thriving commons, which all creativity depends on.

How can open culture and open educational resources bring cultural heritage to life? Explore the possibilities through three incredible global case studies that showcase the power of collaboration, innovation, and storytelling. Bridging Open Culture and Education: Case Studies in Cultural Heritage Education will examine these cases studies that include: 🏛️ Interactive museum gaming experiences from Argentina 🔌 A global program reconnecting young people with their culture 📚 Inspiring storytelling and historical preservation efforts in Nigeria Join us on February 13, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. UTC on Zoom for this engaging discussion. Register now: https://loom.ly/jZIO_ek Image: Ole Worm"s Cabinet of Wonder: Natural Specimens and Wondrous Monsters by Old Worm is marked with CC0 1.0. Public Domain.

New year, new strategy 🧭 For the last year, we’ve been deep in the process of refining our strategy guided by strengthening open infrastructure that empowers sharing and access in the public interest. Today, we’re excited to share that the strategy is complete and our path forward is available for you to explore in our new blog post. Please read, share, and we hope you engage in this work with us. Read more to find out how: https://loom.ly/GmhB51Y

Amazing work! This policy will change the future of conservation knowledge and action. We are excited to have worked on the development of this with IUCN and are excited to see what CC licenses can do as a tool in this new policy.

With registration closing on the 20th, the time is now to register for the upcoming CC Certificate course! 🚨📚 We regularly update the CC Certificate materials based on direct feedback from our community of participants, facilitators, and alumni. So we are excited to not only offer a fresh and revitalized upcoming Certificate course, but to remind you that all the course content in licensed via CC BY 4.0 and is an Open Educational Resource (OER) available here: https://loom.ly/eXtkFaQ. If you"re ready to join us to learn in-depth knowledge about CC licenses and the world of open, you can register below until January 20th. If you"re already CC Certified, we encourage you to share your experiences with your colleagues and to become an active participant in our alumni community. Contact us at [email protected] to be added to the list. See you in class 🤓: https://loom.ly/9Z-36X0

Last year, the Open Culture Platform took bold steps toward our vision of “25 for 2025”—inspiring 25 institutions to embrace open access by 2025. Together, we celebrated incredible progress, launching three powerful resources from our dedicated working groups and advancing digitization and open access through Activity Fund projects across Ghana, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Brazil. You can read more about the Platform, its accomplishments, and other notable moments in the Open Culture Platform 2024 Year in Review here: https://loom.ly/ayx01u4 #OpenAccess #CulturalHeritage

Using CC licenses and public domain tools can be confusing at times. That"s why we have office hours with Kat Walsh, an expert on open licensing and copyright, on the third Friday of each month. Register below to join in and ask questions about how to implement CC licenses and public domain tools. The next session is January 17, 2025 at 18:00 UTC, we"ll see you there: https://loom.ly/EllhTlY

We"ve now submitted our comments on the second draft of the #AIAct Code of Practice. We believe it remains critical to: 🌳 Preserve room for #openscience, #opensource, and other types of #openaccess and collaborative projects 🌠 Support and encourage the production and use of open datasets  ⚖️ Uphold copyright’s exceptions and limitations We are proud to add our voice to other public interest organizations and partners participating in this process. 💪

🚨 The countdown is in full effect: there are only 6 days left to register for next cohort of the CC Certificate course! 🚨 With certificates for Educators, Academic Librarians, and those working in Open Culture/GLAM, the course is an excellent opportunity to learn in-depth information about CC licenses and how they apply to your respective field for further professional development. Sessions start on January 27th with registration closing on January 20th, so we invite you to register now to secure your spot. Read more about the courses here: https://loom.ly/XlPRnAo. Register: https://loom.ly/Wdaoliw

So much interesting and inspiring Public Domain Day #EPDD25 organized by meemoo, Flemish Institute for Archives at Royal Library of Belgium. As a freelance, web designer and multimedia director the topic of the meeting was very interesting for my work. I joined Brussels with Octavia de Larroche unique representative of a french museum : Musées de Marseille newly involved in open-data. To celebrate a free internet where the education is essential and the reuse of no-copyrights documents is promoted like in website such as Europeana archive.org OpenCulture Wikimedia Foundation Very interesting talks : - Introduction and of open source documents by Séverine Dusollier - About TAROCH by Brigitte Vézina Creative Commons - How to soft-bind metadata and open source documents to keep them free ! by Paul Keller Open Future Foundation and Sebastian Posth from Liccium - Workshops with Maarten Zeinstra from IPsquared to calculate if the work of your public institution is in public domain and introduction to the GLAM-E Lab in order to share the documents of an institution on free platforms like Wikimedia Commons Great meetings and chat with Josie Fraser Camille Françoise Bart Magnus Marc van OENE What a pleasure to meet activists in the field of a non-commercial internet. New works of artists with no copyrights / open for re-use in 2025 : Dziga Vertov Claude Cahun André Derain Robert Capa Alain LeRoy Locke Lumière brothers Henri Matisse