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A long-awaited new look for our website
One of the projects I knew I wanted to take on when I joined Creative Commons as CEO was a major website redesign. The CC site has always been a valuable source of information about our mission, our...
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Lights, camera, web standards! Netflix releases algorithmic film “Meridian”...
Photo by Bryan Gosline CC BY-SA 2.0 While it will probably not be the next Netflix hit original, the twelve minutes of Creative Commons licensed content that make up “Meridian” will have a major impact...
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Building an Institutional Open Access Policy In Nepal
In March we hosted the second Institute for Open Leadership. In our summary of the event we mentioned that the Institute fellows would be taking turns to write about their open policy projects. This...
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Call for photographers! (US based)
On Thursday, February 17, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited the Judy Hoyer Early Learning Center at Cool Springs Elementary School in Adelphi, Maryland. HHS photo by Chris Smith, US Government...
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Giving away your art for FREE again??
The artist Patrick Hochstenbach is a comic artist, programmer, and digital architect at University of Ghent libraries. Check out more of his work on Instagram and Twitter. The post Giving away your...
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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...
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Copyright 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...
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Announcing 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...
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Embedding 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...
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Securing 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...
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