Musician Marisa Anderson looks for the new in the old
Marisa Anderson performs “Chimes” at the Into the Light album release show in Portland, OR. Photo by Jody Darby CC BY NC I have been a fan of Marisa Anderson’s music since discovering her albums at the...
View ArticleCopyright reform in Colombia should focus on supporting users’ rights
Today Creative Commons, CC Colombia, and over a dozen other CC affiliates and partners sent a letter to the Colombian government calling for user-friendly copyright reform. Colombia’s copyright law is...
View ArticleAnnouncing the CC Europe meeting!
Next weekend, 30 participants from 15 different countries will meet for a regional meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. In this packed weekend, we will work on a variety of subjects such as Copyright Reform...
View ArticleEmbedding openness in everything we do: Freedom of the Press Foundation
As connectivity continues to increase globally, more people than ever live in a ubiquitous and nonstop media environment. In light of these changes, the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s work has...
View ArticleSecuring the right to read for the visually impaired
Braille soon coming to Visual Libraries Project by Claire Sambrook, CC BY-NC 2.0. Today the Marrakesh Treaty—the international agreement to improve access to copyrighted works for the blind and...
View Article2016 State of the Commons: Call for submissions
Pinheads ( #cc ) by Martin Fisch / CC BY-SA Since 2014, CC has published an annual State of the Commons report that tracks the growth of CC-licensed content on the web. Last year, we reported a...
View ArticleCancer Moonshot Should Prioritize Open Access to Publicly-funded Research
18FDG Synthesis by Brookhaven National Laboratory, BY-NC-ND 2.0. Vice President Biden is leading the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, which seeks to make ten years’ worth of progress on cancer...
View ArticleUnited Nations Report Calls for Open Access to Research to Improve Global Health
Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel on Unsplash, CC0. Last month the United Nations released a report with recommendations on how to improve innovation and access to health technologies. The panel’s charge...
View Article‘School of Rock(ing) Copyright’ at the CC Europe meeting
This post was written by Natalia Mileszyk and Lisette Kalshoven of COMMUNIA. Photo by Saša Krajnc, CC BY 4.0. Last week at the Creative Commons Europe Meeting in Lisbon, COMMUNIA organised a “School of...
View ArticleBlender Institute’s Ton Roosendaal on open licensing and artistic success
As the producers of the world’s first open movie project, Ton Rosendaal and his team at the Blender Institute “work open” in every aspect of their production, from code to licensing to distribution....
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