2025 was a big year for CC's efforts to expand the accessibility and interoperability of climate data globally. This Open Climate Data project, generously funded by the McGovern Foundation, focused on building the tools and guidance needed to ensure that knowledge flows freely and openly. 🧵

This year, Creative Commons became a UNESCO NGO partner and launched its Open Heritage Statement, two huge steps forward in our work to make culture accessible to everyone and preserve it for future generations. This momentum shows what’s possible, but we need you to keep it going. buff.ly/hHt9R7h

Creative Commons is joining @archive.org to celebrate new works entering the public domain! Registration is open for events on January 21: Virtual event, The Case of the Disappearing Copyright: buff.ly/U6N6Wrl In-person celebration, 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest & Party: buff.ly/HNldaNi

The end of the year always marks an opportunity to reflect on all that we've achieved this past year. Read our wrap-up blog post for more on this big year: buff.ly/0kpZKbj Thank you to everyone who has supported us and been an invaluable part of this work. What do you want to see from CC in 2026?

Proud to partner with @creativecommons.bsky.social on some incredible work with @mozdatacollective.bsky.social 👏 datacollective.mozillafoundation.org

New blog post! What have we been working on with CC signals in 2025? Get involved: 📝 Read the blog post: buff.ly/GC0ZkYn 🙋‍♀️ Express interest in participating in the Mozilla Data Collective pilot project: buff.ly/MGCl1b3 🎁 Support CC signals with a gift: buff.ly/tEg1IkU

With AI bots flooding their online repositories, it’s getting harder for libraries to keep knowledge open and accessible to everyone. We want to help them have a say in how their collections are used in AI training. Join us in this work with a donation today. www.classy.org/give/313412/...

The TAROCH Coalition is now the Open Heritage Coalition, a clearer, more accessible name that puts the Open Heritage Statement at the center our global advocacy advancing equitable access to heritage in the public domain. Learn more and sign the Statement buff.ly/ZyplbNX

We've shared a primer on pay-to-crawl in our latest issue brief, and details on our collaboration with the RSL collective, incorporating elements of CC signals into their new standards. But where does CC stand on pay-to-crawl? Read our full blog post for all of the details: buff.ly/AUFJwqL

How does Global Open Initiative's work preserving and sharing cultural knowledge in Ghana connect to the Open Heritage Statement? Harriet Bayel, the organization's community lead, shares her thoughts. Hear her full remarks and then sign the Statement yourself: openheritagestatement.org.

We love a good remix, but we sure wish licensing deals and (alleged) contribution back to creators weren’t solely a reality for Big Content & Big Tech.

🌍 We are now an official signatory of the #OpenHeritageStatement driven by @creativecommons.bsky.social! Looking ahead to co-organising a joint #OurFutureMemory and Open Heritage event in Amsterdam on 2 March 2026. More info: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/12/08/i... #OpenHeritageCoalition

Today, the Real Simple Licensing (RSL) Collective releases the RSL 1.0 standard. CC worked with the RSL Collective ahead of this release to integrate components of the CC signals framework into the new standard. 🧵 creativecommons.org/2025/12/10/i...

CC will be speaking at the Museum Association's Open Minds conference about copyright and open heritage in museums! The event will explore the latest approaches to and trends in collections copyright, the impact of technological developments and AI on copyright, and more. Register: buff.ly/rmDVXLb

We’re in the final hours of #GivingTuesday, and we are less than 5% of the way toward our ambitious $100,000 goal for the end of this year. Will you stand with us and make a gift to Creative Commons? www.classy.org/give/313412/...

This Giving Tuesday, please join me in supporting @creativecommons.bsky.social! With major disruptions to the ecosystem of online sharing, CC has ambitious work ahead to protect the commons, preserving the values of openness and access in the digital age. Join me in giving a gift today!

With AI companies exploiting our collective knowledge for profits, we fear that people and platforms will stop sharing openly. We’re building a solution to protect the commons and create checks and balances on AI. Support this ambitious project with a gift today. www.classy.org/give/313412/...

I've written up a briefing note for @creativecommons.bsky.social on pay-to-crawl: new systems being used by websites to automate compensation for when their content is accessed by AI bots and other machines

Pay-to-crawl systems have emerged as a possible way to help sustain the creation of content online in the wake of AI. However, overbroad use of pay-to-crawl could represent a shift towards a more tightly controlled and monetised content ecosystem. Read the full brief for more! buff.ly/h0wdhXS

Next week is #GivingTuesday and we need your help to raise $100,000 before the end of this year! Support our large-scale response to unchecked AI development. Join us with a gift! www.classy.org/give/313412/...

How would equitable access to heritage change life for future generations in your region? Patricia Diaz Rubio, the Executive Director of Wikimedia Chile explains the lasting effects of open heritage. ✍️ Sign the Statement: lnkd.in/geJ3-uWJ

Earlier this year, CC Certificate for Educators alumni launched "Open Horizons: Creative Commons for Indonesia's Educators," a training initiative to promote openness, CC licenses, and ethical practices in sharing/creating digital content. Learn more about their journey: medium.com/creative-com....

We’re celebrating free culture in Uruguay! 🇺🇾 @CC_Uruguay is hosting a vibrant festival full of panels, creative workshops, and live music. If you’re in Montevideo, join in next week — and stay tuned for highlights! 🔗 festival.creativecommons.uy

The CC Certificate for Open Culture/GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) is a 10-week virtual professional development training course designed for institutions and community groups dedicated to cultural heritage preservation. Register for 2026: www.classy.org/event/2026-c...

The Getty Museum has made 88,000 artworks available for free under CC0 licenses! This is a huge win for open culture—for art lovers, creators, educators, learners, researchers, and all future generations. Huge congratulations to the Getty for this big step! getty.edu/art/collection 🖼️

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.

Find Creative Commons this month!

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... 🧵