This week, CC’s Brigitte Vézina, Dee Harris and Beverley Francis are at UNESCO in Paris attending a meeting of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions to raise awareness about the #OpenHeritageStatement. Learn more: openheritagestatement.org

Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, oh my! 🖼️ The Open Culture program at CC works to support the development of a thriving open culture ecosystem among cultural heritage institutions and their users. Look back at 2024 in Open Culture with us in our latest blog post: loom.ly/Nz6dZ2w

What a backdrop for the #PublicDomain celebration in snow-dusted Brussels ❄️ Lovely to connect with Bartolomeo Meletti fellow member of the Europeana copyright community steering group as today we celebrate the launch of the Europeana Public Domain Charter, which Maarten Zeinstra and I presented✨

🎉 What a year it was for us in the Creative Commons #OpenCulture community! Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this year a success 🙏

In our latest blogpost, @brigittevezina.bsky.social addresses the issue of ©️ protection of AI-generated outputs. ▶️ The criteria to establish whether something generated with the help of #AI is worthy of copyright protection already exist! Check it out: communia-association.org/2024/12/12/a...

Openness can remove unfair barriers to access to heritage so people can connect and engage with digital heritage. It builds digital bridges across heritage collections and gives rise to new narratives in new contexts for digital equity. ⬆️ My talk at the TaNC conference in Manchester yesterday.

It was an honor to speak at this DukeLaw LALSA & NALSA event and share insights on copyright and CulturalAppropriation in fashion. law.duke.edu/events/legal... My talk was based on my paper: t.co/t76GNMU6rX

I’m in Montevideo 🇺🇾 for ⁦‪GLAM WIKI‬⁩ 2023 with the ⁦‪⁦‪Creative Commons‬⁩ Open Culture team! Really looking forward to discussing access to cultural heritage and meeting people from the community 🌎🌏🌍 Thank you ⁦‪Wikimedistas de Uruguay for organizing🌟

This week I took part on behalf of Creative Commons in the WIPO #copyright norm-building body #SCCR44 In this blog post we share our position on broadcasting, exceptions for preservation access & use of cultural heritage, and GenerativeAI & copyright creativecommons.org/2023/11/09/c...

It was an honor to be a guest on the @the_info_labs' podcast to share @creativecommons' current thinking on #AI, #copyright, #creativity, the commons and the public interest informationlabs.org/podcasts/ai-...

📣 Here's the latest episode of #OpenCulture Voices, Episode 28! Here we meet Michael Weinberg, Executive Director, NYU Engelberg Center, to learn about about how GLAMs innovate access to cultural heritage! Check out the full episode here: loom.ly/RPgnf6o

This week I’m attending my first ever ⁦‪Creative Commons‬⁩ summit in Mexico City 🇲🇽 Getting ready for an intense week where we’ll talk #OpenCulture and #AI, Indigenous heritage, and the shared values underpinning our heritage commons 💫

At the WIPO conversation on generative AI and IP I had the honor to deliver our Creative Commons statement calling attention to the need to promote #bettersharing and uphold the #commons on which all #creativity depends. Read the full statement on the CC blog creativecommons.org/2023/09/22/c...

Artists and cultural heritage professionals filled the room at CC’s symposium on Generative #AI & the Creativity Cycle at NYU last week and I was lucky to be there. Follow emerging considerations around #BetterSharing at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the commons: loom.ly/Pg9sy4c

❓What are the issues at the nexus of #generativeAI, #culturalheritage and #creativity? 👉Join me and @creativecommons colleagues today for an all-day symposium at NYU. creativecommons.org/2023/08/08/n...

🌟Excited to be attending my first #IFLA #WLIC here in Rotterdam🌷 At @creativecommons our work intersects with #libraries on many levels as they play a key role in supporting #BetterSharing of knowledge and culture. #OpenCulture #OpenGLAM #CCCertificate #SDGs

Thanks Johanna Lilja and @MattVoigts for your thoughtful piece about @creativecommons' #OpenCulture event in Lisbon and our #AI roundtable at #MozFest House in Amsterdam! https://bit.ly/43NP6kQ

Learn more about the basics of #OpenCulture on 27 July in our new webinar series: Open Culture Live, where we will bring experts together to have conversations about the benefits and challenges of Open Culture. https://creativecommons.org/2023/07/11/introducing-open-culture-live-a-webinar-series/