A lack of access to cultural, artistic, and scientific knowledge stifles creativity and progress, ultimately hindering our collective growth and understanding of the universe. Geography or economic circumstances should never restrict someone's learning journey. The Internet Archive Europe aims to defend the rights of memory institutions to protect public access to knowledge through their campaign, “Our Future Memory.” As stated in their Statement on Digital Rights for Protecting Memory Institutions Online, memory institutions must have the right and ability to: 1. Collect materials in digital form 2. Preserve digital materials 3. Provide controlled access to digital materials 4. Cooperate with other memory institutions We’re proud to endorse their Statement. Read it in full and consider urging your organization to sign it: https://lnkd.in/ebNttErn
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The nonprofit behind the licenses and tools the world uses to share. 🌍 Follow us for all things open access.
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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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In 2019, UNESCO member states took a bold step by adopting the UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Recommendation! This decision gives national governments a list of recommendations to foster open education and collaborate across borders 🌐. Key objectives include: 🏗️ Building the capacity of stakeholders to create, access, reuse, adapt, and redistribute OER 🤲 Developing supportive policy 👏 Encouraging inclusive and equitable quality OER 🌿 Nurturing the creation of sustainability models for OER 🌏 Facilitating international cooperation What does this have to do with CC? Our open licenses and public domain tools help provide different options for opening up your educational resources. With clear, standard legal permissions, CC-licensed content can be reused globally, encouraging widespread OER reuse. We know that navigating the world of open can be overwhelming if you’re not familiar with it. That’s why we’ve compiled some valuable resources to improve your understanding of OER, our organization, and CC licenses, as well as how to utilize these licenses according to the 2019 UNESCO Recommendation on OER. Explore these tools here: https://buff.ly/54DbZuX
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In collaboration with Colin J. Carlson, Timothée Poisot, Alexandra Phelan, and Nithin Ramakrishnan, Monica Granados, our Director of Open Science, contributed to a new publication titled “The LISTEN Principles for Genetic Sequence Data Governance and Database Engineering”, which has been published in Nature Portfolio Genetics. We’re pleased to have contributed to this critical work! Learn more about the report below and read the preprint version here: https://lnkd.in/e8APwgxn
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health; Executive Director, Verena
Alright stop - collaborate and LISTEN. 👂🧬🎉 We're back with a brand new invention in Nature Portfolio Genetics: the LISTEN principles, a FAIR-compatible set of technical specifications that will allow genetic sequence databases to seamlessly participate in new multilateral access and benefit-sharing systems, such as the Cali Fund (established by Convention on Biological Diversity decision 16/2) and the World Health Organization PABS System (created by the new Pandemic Agreement). We spent the last couple years talking to negotiators and civil society advocates in both CBD and WHO world, and realized that a few common misconceptions about scientific culture and data sharing were holding back negotiations: ❌ "Open science means no rules and no logins" ❌ "Updating existing databases will be slow and expensive" ❌ "You can't stop people from stealing data" To find a way forward, Timothée Poisot and I worked with three of our favorite experts on international law, data governance, and licensing: Alexandra Phelan, Nithin Ramakrishnan, and Monica Granados. (It was particularly special to be able to work with Creative Commons on this, and think about how the licenses we encounter on the Internet every day can work for sequence data!) The LISTEN principles (Licensed, Identified, Supervised, Transparent, Enforced, and Non-Exclusive) propose a simple path forward. The LISTEN framework ensures that data generators can share their data anywhere; data users agree to share benefits and understand their obligations; and database managers can track data access history. All of this will be essentially un-noticeable in the day-to-day workflow of scientists; creates minimal red tape for commercial use of sequence data; and supports other important objectives of the open science movement, such as ensuring credit for data producers. We believe that if databases follow the process we outlined, they can easily participate in these systems - and ensure that everyone benefits from the scientific process! Access the paper: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/enUWSSct 🔓 https://lnkd.in/eu-9zKYT 🔓 https://lnkd.in/eBgyRn3w
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We're looking to fill two open positions at CC! We're hiring for a new Development Manager and a new Communications Manager. Links to job postings in the comments. 💫 Now is an especially exciting time to join the CC team - particularly in development and communications - as we create new tools for sharing in the age of AI and look ahead to celebrating our 25th anniversary in 2026. Please share with anyone in your networks who may be interested! #hiring #DevelopmentManager #CommunicationsManager https://lnkd.in/eiDrG3QV
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If you're looking to pursue a professional development opportunity this summer, Library Juice Academy is offering a 4-week course on Creative Commons licenses and copyright running from August 4-31. Designed for librarians at all levels, the course provides an introduction to open licensing concepts and practices. By taking this course, you’ll learn foundational concepts in open licensing, open access, and open education, including how to make the most of our 6 different CC licenses and 2 public domain tools. The course consists of readings, discussions, quizzes, and a cumulative project, and is offered by CC’s very own, Shanna Hollich. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ePTHJsxd
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The EU has now released the final version of the #AIAct Code of Practice. While we're still reviewing the text, we're heartened by the way it incorporates feedback from CC and other public interest organizations regarding transparency and copyright provisions. In particular, the text makes changes that support #OpenSource and #OpenScience, as well as the development of open datasets.
We've now submitted our comments on the third draft of the EU #AIAct Code of Practice (CoP). The good news is that the third draft: ✔️ Appropriately clarifies that content should be “lawfully accessible” and that developers need not confirm whether the publication of the work was lawful. 📋 Defines and lists “piracy domains” in a proportionate way, rather than expecting developers to make subjective legal judgments. ✏️ Makes diligence on use of third party datasets more feasible, related to the robots.txt standard. 📌 Does foreclose the application of limitations and exceptions to outputs. While that version now broadly addresses our key concerns & better aligns with relevant EU legislation, there remains areas for improvement. We call on the drafters to: 🚫 Remove reference to “any subsequent version of the [robots.txt] standard" in Measure 1.2.3(1)(a). ⚠️ Remove the word “manifestly” and the implication that Signatories should follow “unfounded” requests in Measure I.2.6. We look forward to continuing to engage in this critical policy development. Read our full response below. You can also review how we contributed to the first and second drafts: https://lnkd.in/eid2cucA
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Last week, the European Parliament's Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee released a new own-initiative report on #generativeAI and #copyright. Learn more about our immediate reflections in this short article.
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When access to cultural heritage is open, everyone benefits. By leveraging the CC licenses and public domain tools, cultural heritage institutions can effectively share valuable materials and metadata, promoting widespread use and reuse with little to no copyright restrictions. Let’s ensure that faithful digital reproductions of public domain materials stay in the public domain. Learn how to navigate the right licenses and tools for your cultural heritage collection here: https://lnkd.in/eBnFWyv9
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Our policy work is gaining momentum, and this quarter, we’ve made significant progress. We engaged with the implementation of the EU’s AI Act and participated in the 46th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). We also continued to work with coalitions to support effective data governance for cultural works and institutions.