Where do you go online to follow your curiosity and share what you know? For our Commons Stories series, celebrating CC’s 25th anniversary, Jocelyn Miyara reflects on the value of open spaces. What’s a space for open sharing you wish more people knew about? Read more: https://buff.ly/OsbhMfA
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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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- copyright, public domain, internet, web, semantic web, rdf, legal, licenses, licensing, open content, free culture, publishing, open access, and education
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What becomes possible when access to knowledge doesn’t depend on where you live or whom you know? For Commons Stories, celebrating CC’s 25th anniversary, Vito Quaglia reflects on access, cooperation, and participation. “To me, the commons means democracy. The commons nurtures the sharing of ideas, solutions, and creativity.” What’s something you think everyone should have the opportunity to learn, experience, or create? Read more: https://buff.ly/OsbhMfA
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The recording of the COMMUNIA Salon discussing the “Rodin Case” and its implications for access to cultural heritage is available! Below, you can watch the recording featuring CC's Director of Policy Brigitte Vézina.
🤔 Must the Musée Rodin in Paris release 3D scans of sculptures from its collection in response to a freedom of information request? After a years-long legal battle, the French Council of State said no. The ruling raises fundamental questions about public access to cultural heritage and the freedom to reuse digitisations. Two weeks ago, we brought together Cosmo Wenman, Alexis Fitzjean ó Cobhthaigh, Benjamin Jean and Brigitte Vézina for an online COMMUNIA Salon, moderated by Camille Françoise, to explore the court’s reasoning and its implications. 🎥 The recording is now available, alongside an analysis of the case by Justus Dreyling and Camille Françoise. 👀 Watch and read: https://lnkd.in/dJeHa2Uk ✍ Never miss an update and sign up for our newsletter now: https://lnkd.in/ezUvAz8c
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What does the Commons mean to you? Glad you asked! For Creative Commons’ 25th anniversary, we asked some of the people behind CC: What does the commons mean to you? Their answers became this four-part series of personal reflections. We’re kicking things off with four perspectives. Continue to follow along this week as we release more stories. And share what the commons means to you in the comments!
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“Society benefits enormously from shared resources, yet we have failed to build the institutions, financing, and public commitments necessary to sustain them.” Anna Tumadóttir, Creative Commons The cost of knowledge that #OAWeek asks about includes the people and institutions that keep open resources running. In REACH’s new Appeal section, Anna Tumadóttir reflects on OPEN@UNGA 81, the symposium Creative Commons convened on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, and argues that openness gives communities real choices only when the maintainers, infrastructure and public knowledge behind it are recognized and funded. 📖 Read in REACH Issue 5 (link in first comment) #OpenAccess #DigitalCommons #OpenSource #ResearchIntegrity #REACHmag
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My journey with Creative Commons began in 2015, and over the years, I’ve come to appreciate just how much open licensing can do to make knowledge more accessible, encourage collaboration and empower people to build on one another’s work. Working within the open knowledge movement has reinforced one important belief for me: how can we truly call something open if it isn’t shared? At the heart of openness is the ability to share, access, reuse and build upon knowledge. It’s how we create opportunities for more people to participate, contribute, and benefit from the knowledge we collectively produce. For 25 years, Creative Commons has helped make this possible, providing tools that enable creators, researchers, educators and communities to share their work and make it available for others to learn from and build upon. Happy to be part of the CC at 25 Nigeria celebration in Ilorin, representing Wikimedia Nigeria, as we reflect on the journey so far and explore how we can further strengthen the culture of sharing and open knowledge in Nigeria and beyond. What does an open future look like when more of us are empowered to share? I look forward to the conversations, ideas and possibilities that this milestone will bring. If you’re passionate about creativity, digital rights, open knowledge or making information more accessible, this is a conversation worth being part of. Join us as we celebrate 25 years of Creative Commons and imagine what the next chapter of openness can look like🫶🏽
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Now available in Spanish: Guidance for Indigenous Collections and Indigenous Data Creative Commons and Local Contexts’ guidance is now available in Spanish! This practical resource helps museums, libraries, and archives navigate access to and reuse of Indigenous heritage and data, with respect for Indigenous rights, cultural authority, and community protocols. Explore how CC licenses and tools can work alongside Local Contexts Labels to support communities in sharing on their own terms. Read the guidance in Spanish: https://buff.ly/T8dAZE0
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This year’s Open Access Week theme, “The Cost of Knowledge,” raises a question: who sustains the knowledge we all depend on? Access to knowledge is a human right. Keeping it open and accessible takes investment in people, institutions, and shared infrastructure. Recently at OPEN @ UNGA, we explored what that responsibility looks like in an increasingly AI-mediated world. “We want a future where openness is not simply an aspiration, but a sustainable practice.” –Anna Tumadóttir, CEO of Creative Commons To kick off #OAWeek2026, share your favorite open resource in the comments! Image: “Eight windows wrapped in plastic” by W.carter, 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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In you missed our License Guidance in the Age of AI webinars, the event recording is now up! We have combined the best of the presentation with both Q&A sessions into one video. This guidance is just one part of our ongoing work, where we will be continuing to work towards tools that give more agency, and clear rules for the AI era. Watch our blog for more to come! https://buff.ly/cDreJZs
License Guidance In the Age of AI | 14 Oct 2026
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Who gets to use cultural data for AI—and on what terms? During Oslo Innovation Week, CC will join leading experts at MUNCH to discuss consent, rights, access and public value during the talk "When Culture Becomes Data for AI" on 22 October. Learn more and get tickets: https://buff.ly/R5YPzxD