Creative Commons

In our recently published 2025-2028 Strategy, centering community was noted as one of our top goals. After all, community is central to strengthening the open infrastructure of sharing and defending and advocating for a thriving open commons. 👐 Check out our new blog post written by Jocelyn Miyara, Community and Licensing Program Manager, as she explores next steps in supporting a vibrant, collaborative, and inclusive CC community: https://loom.ly/5XW6b0k

Calling all creatives! 🎨 We’re looking for marketing agencies and service providers to collaborate with us on our communications initiatives. We need partners who can help us develop branded templates, create custom designed assets, produce videos, and provide web design for our communications. If you’re passionate about our brand and what we can achieve together, submit your expression of interest by March 21. See below for more details. 

Be sure to check out this amazing #SXSW lineup from our friends at Siegel Family Endowment!

Recently, CC Open Education community members proposed ideas for CC-funded activities in 2025, and then selected the best project proposals. In honor of #OEWeek, we’re delighted to share the five winning project proposals that aim to advance open education globally! Learn more about the projects and their anticipated outputs: https://loom.ly/Gbto3_8

Please join us in welcoming our new board members: Alwaleed Alkhaja, Melissa Hagemann, Dr. Melissa Omino (LLD), and Colin Sullivan. 🎉 Each of our new Board members brings a unique expertise that will help strengthen CC’s impact and guide our strategic vision forward. We would like to thank outgoing CC board member, Alek Tarkowski who completed his five year term at the end of 2024. Alek is beginning a new chapter in joining the CC Advisory Council. 🙌 Read our new blog and get to know them: https://lnkd.in/ejaybzWC

We are excited to announce the release of the 2024 Creative Commons Annual Report! Here are a few highlights… 🤝 We expanded the Open Infrastructure Circle (OIC) to ensure consistent funding for the technical and legal maintenance of our CC Licenses. 🎓 As of 2024, we have certified 1,890 graduates across 68 countries through our ten-week CC Certificate program. 🤲 Through a collaborative process that involved staff, key stakeholders, and the CC global community, we launched our 2025-2028 strategy. Thank you to the 20 foundations and companies and the 850 individual donors who helped make this work possible! Learn more about our work in 2024 here: https://loom.ly/LhQzCAA

✋ Raise your hand if you’ll be at #SXSW in Austin this weekend. We’re hosting a full day on all things Creative Commons on March 8 as part of the Open House for an Open Future weekend. Thank you to our sponsor, the Knight Foundation for making this event possible. If you want to make your voice heard on sharing in the age of AI, register now! https://loom.ly/Zg06A6c

Great news to be sharing during #OEWeek. We're proud to announce our endorsement of the US Affordable College Textbook Act, a bill that would authorize a competitive grant program to create and expand the sustainable use of open college textbooks with priority given to applications that achieve the highest cost savings for students. We believe this bill is an important step forward in our commitment to making higher education more accessible to students, removing a large barrier to quality educational resources and creating pathways to educational success regardless of economic background. Learn more here: https://loom.ly/rpvXbJ4

Curious about what license to use on your research preprints and journal publications? Join Creative Commons team members Taylor Campbell, Project Lead, Open Science and Kat Walsh, Copyright and Licensing Council for an interactive discussion about navigating journal policies and funder requirements while maintaining the openness and impact of your research. On March 11, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. UTC, we’ll dig into: ❓ Why your licensing choice matters 👥 Why funders encourage the CC BY license on preprints Register now: https://loom.ly/oJbecU8

Need a refresher on CC Licensing? 🔄 On March 6, 2025, Jennryn Wetzler is hosting a Q&A webinar as part of Open Education Week (#OEWeek). In this Q&A, we’ll provide an overview of: 1. Global copyright law and copyright considerations in the US 2. Creative Commons licenses 3. Basic recommendations on how to apply and use CC licenses Learn more and register: https://loom.ly/K5dAL_8