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“This is my time and I’m recording it”: Carol Highsmith and the nature of giving
Carol M. Highsmith at Big Creek Ranch in Encampment, WY Photographer Carol Highsmith has donated her life’s work of tens of thousands of photos to the Library of Congress during her decades long...
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Open Access to Research Critical to Advance Progress Against Cancer
The National Cancer Moonshot Initiative seeks to make ten years of progress on cancer research in half that time, with a goal to end cancer in our lifetime. The project—led by U.S. Vice President Joe...
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A politics of cooperation: Caroline Woolard on free culture, fine art, and...
Caroline Woolard, Capitoline Wolves, rendering of work in progress, 2016. Courtesy of the artist. Rendering, CC-BY-ND 4.0 The interdisciplinary artist Caroline Woolard engages with political economy...
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Free the Reviews: Why Free Culture Needs Free Opinions
Free Your Stuff screencap by Erik Moeller This guest post is by Erik Moeller, former Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, from 2008 to 2015. He co-organized...
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Leaked European Commission Copyright Plans Ignore the Public Interest
Creative Commons has been actively engaged in efforts to support copyright reforms aligned with the commons and the public interest, including the copyright reform consultations in the European Union....
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Defending Noncommercial Uses: Great Minds v Fedex Office
Classroom images by Jeff Peterson, CC-BY-2.0 Diane Peters and Michael Carroll August 30, 2016 Creative Commons has requested permission to file an amicus brief in litigation between Great Minds and...
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“This had the potential to be big”: an interview with #wocintechchat
The shiny glass and metal world of the average technology stock photo too often displays a homogenous representation of tech workers. When the Women of Color in Tech chat (#wocintechchat) began last...
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Cultivating a Culture of Knowledge Sharing
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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Collaboratively generating more knowledge: Public Lab’s approach to citizen...
Citizen science is the powerful idea that communities should be empowered to participate in the process of scientific inquiry, investigating the world around them and creating societal change in the...
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Announcing the 2017 Creative Commons Global Summit
We’re pleased to announce that the next Creative Commons Global Summit will take place in Toronto, Canada from April 28-30, 2017. This vital event will gather a global community of technologists,...
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