A couple years ago, we identified five actions to advance open culture and better sharing of cultural heritage: 🤲 Protect the public domain from erosion. 👇 Reduce the term of copyright protection. 🧑‍⚖️ Legally allow necessary activities of cultural heritage institutions.

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What does equitable access mean to your country? Alwaleed Alkhaja, the Head of Open Access & Copyright at the Qatar National Library, shares the profound effects that open heritage would have on his region. ✍️ Sign the Statement: openheritagestatement.org

🎈We’ve signed the Open Heritage Statement, a global call to action to advance equitable access to public domain heritage and inform future international policy. @creativecommons.bsky.social ➡ Add your signature: openheritagestatement.org #OpenHeritageStatement #TAROCHCoalition #CreativeCommons

We participated in the World Intellectual Property Organization Conversation on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence to discuss the threats that AI poses to the commons. Watch the brief statement: webcast.wipo.int/video/WIPO_I...

I am proud that Wikimedia Australia has signed the Open Heritage Statement. #OpenHeritageStatement #PublicDomain #GLAM #CreativeCommons @creativecommons.bsky.social

Arts Professional highlights some of the existing hurdles to open heritage that our Open Heritage Statement seeks to solve! www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/newsree...

When cultural heritage institutions share items online, they are often accompanied by biased, outdated, or offensive narratives. During a webinar in 2023, we convened experts to discuss their approaches to reparative metadata practices.

Join us and help shape the future of reuse in modular science!

CC's Director of Strategic Communications, Rebecca Ross, is representing Creative Commons today at the Responsible Tech Summit! We're excited to connect with leaders across industries on AI governance and human-centered tech future. If you're attending, find Rebecca and say hi!

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has just launched its newly updated policy for Immediate Access to Research! When HHMI scientists share CC BY licensed preprints, it allows others to immediately access and share cutting-edge science. @asapbio.bsky.social

After almost 15 years, CC's Director of Open Education, Dr. Cable Green, is moving on from Creative Commons. Join us in thanking Cable and wishing him well in all that is to come! Read more about Cable's work at CC and his impact on the open movement: creativecommons.org/2025/10/22/a...

✍️Here's something worth a read today! ✍️ Patricia Diaz-Rubio, the Executive Director of Wikimedia Chile, wrote an article on the Open Heritage Statement and what open access to cultural heritage could mean for Latin America. medium.com/@pdiazrubio/... En español: medium.com/@pdiazrubio/...

When shared openly, cultural heritage collections… 👁️‍🗨️ …are easier to find 👥 …reach broader and more diverse audiences 🤲 …can be preserved, safeguarded and refined in digital form 💯… can be (re)used with more legal certainty

The recording from the Open Heritage Statement Launch is now available! Watch how experts from around the world came together to shape a shared vision for equitable access to public domain heritage. openheritagestatement.org/webinar #OpenHeritageStatement #TAROCH #UNESCO

Currently, cultural heritage is not open. With that, there are some limitations... 🧵

The Museum Journal (@museumsassociation.org ) featured the launch of our Open Heritage Statement in their latest article, delving into the barriers to open access identified in the Statement as well as our commitments to action. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

Open Newswire is an aggregator of news articles available for free use under CC licenses! Their goals are to boost readership, expand coverage (they include articles in over 90 languages!), and free up resources. Check out this amazing new resource: www.opennewswire.org @opennewswire.bsky.social

We’ve signed the Open Heritage Statement to support a global call for equitable access to public domain heritage in the digital environment. Join us by adding your signature: openheritagestatement.org #OpenHeritageStatement @creativecommons.bsky.social

Today Creative Commons released the Open Heritage Statement openheritagestatement.org #OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain 1/10

Register for the launch of the Open Heritage Statement on Zoom on 14 October! 🎈 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Halloween is on the way! Do you like the International Phonetic Alphabet but wish it was... spooOOOoookier? I present... The INTERRED⚰️national FANG🧛etic AlphaBEAST 👹 r.jyu.fi/IPAspooky Free to use/adapt! (@creativecommons.bsky.social) Repost or I will send zombies to eat your braaaaains. 🧟‍‍ 🧠🍽️

When using CC-licensed material, one condition of all CC licenses is attribution—users must credit the author and note the source and license 🙌.

Today we launch the Open Heritage Statement, a global call to action to break down barriers and shape the future of access to heritage in the public domain. Sign the Statement: buff.ly/CfNFufB Then, register for the launch webinar on 14 October buff.ly/UnD5yTJ

When collections of images, music, videos, artifacts, and their related data are shared openly, teachers, educators, and learners can... 🧵

We recently published a video titled Open Licensing for Research with Creative Commons. It explains how CC licenses work, why CC BY is the most open option, and how openly licensing your research with CC can strengthen the power of the scientific community. Watch it here: youtu.be/_IBTfklg8q0?....

Part 3 of our blog series is live! This final piece outlines the path forward: a collective global vision through the Open Heritage Statement. creativecommons.org/2025/09/25/f... Then register for the Statement launch webinar on 14 October, 14:00 UTC! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Pioneers of Open Culture, a report by Creative Commons published in 2023, a couple of years ago, contains three case studies of early adopters of open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums): The National Gallery of Art, Statens Museum for Kunst, and New York Public Library.

In January 2025, life science preprint servers @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social and @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social updated their license selector, placing CC BY at the top of the list. Just six months later, the number of CC BY-licensed preprints has increased for the first time in five years.

👋 Goodbye Slack 💬 Hello Zulip Creative Commons is making the move! Learn more about why + how to join: bit.ly/4pvb1cz

We’re counting down to the launch of the #OpenHeritageStatement with a 3-part blog series. Read part 2 here: creativecommons.org/2025/09/18/t... Join us for the Statement launch webinar on 14 October, 14:00 UTC. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Last year, we held a webinar on maximizing the value of open access in cultural heritage institutions 🎨🖼️.

CC Certificate alums have applied their course knowledge in a number of ways to positively impact their community. Read our alumni interview with Revekka Kefalea to learn how she's used her learnings: creativecommons.org/2022/06/03/c... Learn more about the program: bit.ly/3J1D2rA

Graduates of the CC Certificate program often become the go-to experts in open licensing initiatives within their institutions, as highlighted during our alum panel discussion in January. Watch it here ➡️ buff.ly/iDJqz4F. Enroll in the September 29 - December 7 session: buff.ly/22CGV8z

We’re counting down to the launch of the #OpenHeritageStatement from the CC-led TAROCH Coalition with a 3-part blog series. Part 1 of the series, published today, explores the barriers that stand in the way of open access to digital cultural heritage: creativecommons.org/2025/09/10/u...

In partnership with @asapbio.bsky.social, we worked with 14 open science funders to develop a model policy framework for open preprints, aiming to inform their policies and practices while encouraging others to follow suit.

A huge thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts and feedback on CC in our community survey back in June! Read about what we heard and get the scoop on some exciting plans we’re developing, including a new community chat platform: creativecommons.org/2025/09/04/w....

📣 We are calling on research funders who wish to engage in more equitable sharing of scientific research! 📝 ASAPbio and @creativecommons.bsky.social developed a standard Preprint Policy Framework that aims to further policy alignment regarding open practices for preprints.

Thinking about registering for a CC Certificate course? 👀 Hear from those who have completed the course about the skills they developed and how they continue to use them on our testimonials page: buff.ly/Ubs8LYq Register here for the September 29 - December 7 term: bit.ly/3J1D2rA

What have you been reading over the last few months? Our new blog outlines some articles we’ve been reading on all things AI and the Commons: creativecommons.org/2025/09/03/a.... We’d love it if you read along with us. Let us know what else we should be adding to this list! #CCAIReadingClub

Exploring the intersection of cultural rights and the digital environment, a panel of experts will discuss how access to cultural heritage in the digital realm can advance human rights and shape a more open and equitable future for cultural heritage. Register here: lnkd.in/euBziHtG.

CC and @openrxiv.bsky.social collaborated on a new Wikipedia resource to help researchers who want to post preprints, but are unsure of their funder’s preprint licensing policy. Check it out! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Register for our Certificate for Open Culture course beginning September 29 to explore open licensing and copyright considerations with CC licenses, digitization projects, working with the public domain, and how these interact with other topics: bit.ly/3J1D2rA.

Thanks to the generosity of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, CC recently led librarians and educators from 15 higher education institutions across the state in a virtual CC Bootcamp. Learn more about what took place at the CC Bootcamp: medium.com/creative-com....

In 2021, CC Certificate alum and Learning Developer at the Delft University of Technology, Bea de los Arcos, started a project called “We Like Sharing”, a bank of over 1,000 photos taken by TU Delft staff, students, and alums under a CC license. Check it out: www.flickr.com/people/welik....

When we kicked off our CC signals event, we asked for feedback, and you delivered! Your voices are crucial in shaping how CC signals develops. Our Director of Strategic Communications, Rebecca Ross, summarizes what we heard and how this feedback is being implemented here: buff.ly/AHQaj6J.

Become #CCCertified. The next semester of our CC Certificate program starts on September 29. In completing a CC Certificate, you join over 2000 graduates from 70 countries worldwide who took a step towards championing open practices and CC licensing. Enroll here: bit.ly/3J1D2rA

This week, West Texas A&M University president Walter Wendler wrote about the burden expensive textbooks place on students and how campuses using CC openly licensed #OER see fewer students dropping or avoiding courses because of textbook costs. Learn more: www.amarillo.com/story/opinio...

The CC Certificate empowers you with the knowledge to better advise your colleagues and community on creating and engaging with openly licensed works. Register for the September 29 - December 7 session: bit.ly/3J1D2rA

CC is elated to announce that we have officially become an NGO partner with @unesco.org 👏! Learn more about what this means for our organization: creativecommons.org/2025/08/21/c...