At a time of geopolitical uncertainty and tightening resources, digital public goods showed what is possible through shared, open approaches. The 2025 State of the Digital Public Goods Ecosystem Report captures a year of real-world impact and renewed collective action.
Image: "Software Boxes" by Atomic Taco, here cropped and remixed by Creative Commons, is licensed with CC BY-SA 2.0.
New approaches to governing machine access are emerging, but they all rely on being able to distinguish between different forms of machine use. Our newest issue brief describes why categorizing machine use of the web is proving difficult to achieve, and where we stand now. bit.ly/categorizing...
If you're headed to SXSW, we'd love to see you! Catch us at two events in Austin:
AI & Creative Capital: Consent, Governance, and the Future of the Open Web
March 13 | 2-6 CT
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The Knowledge Paradox: When Does Sharing Become Theft?
March 14 | 2:30-3:30 CT
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Another week, another #PublicDomainFriday!
"Leonid Meteor Shower over Niagara Falls" by Anonymous, 1892, National Digital Library of Poland.
CC and Internet Archive Europe, with the support of Open Nederland, hosted an event entitled “Ensuring equitable access to heritage in the digital environment: A leading role for the Netherlands on the global stage.” In our blog post, we recap the event and share the impact for CC.
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CC is heading to SXSW, and we'd love to see you at these events!
AI & Creative Capital: Consent, Governance, and the Future of the Open Web
March 13 | 2:00-6:00 CT
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The Knowledge Paradox: When Does Sharing Become Theft?
March 14 | 2:30-3:30 CT
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Also check out this excellent summary of the Summit from CC Board Member Jeni Tennison! buff.ly/tk7xOJo
Recently, CC attended the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, and what became clear is that AI governance is shifting from high-level principles and into harder, more structural questions about infrastructure, stewardship, and power. Read our reflection on the biggest takeaways from Delhi.
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Did you know that less than 1% of the world’s institutions share heritage in open access? In this article, our Open Culture team makes the case for openness as a key principle in the preservation and dissemination of documentary heritage.
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Be a part of our commemorative 25th Aanniversary CC zine! We're looking for personal, political, playful, critical, messy, poetic, or practical works that explore the theme "Remix is Resistance."
Submissions are open until the end of the month: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CC Community Office Hours | March 20 | 12:00 EST
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CC Legal Office Hours | March 30 | 11:00 EST
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Upcoming Events in March!
AI & Creative Capital: Consent, Governance and the Future of the Open Web | March 3 | 16:00 EST
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Open Education Week Live: Open Conversation on Online Communities | March 5 | 11:00 EST
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For this #PublicDomainFriday, we're sharing an ink painting on silk of a horse and willow tree by an unidentified Chinese artist, created during the Ming Dynasty. This work is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 210 and in their digital archives: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Thank you to Vukosi Marivate, Chijioke Okorie, and Melissa Omino, as well as members of the CC board of directors for convening these dialogues and sharing their perspectives with us at Creative Commons.
Images: Textile fragments, 3rd–4th century, CC0, The Met.
Over the past year, we've engaged in a series of conversations about what CC licensing means in African contexts today. Our newest blog post discusses the themes that emerged from those conversations and asks: how must "open" evolve to remain just, relevant, and community centered?
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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
"The Stars Are Us" by Alina Marinescu for Fine Acts is licensed with CC BY NC SA, remixed by Creative Commons, CC BY NC SA.
In 2026, we want to deepen our community engagement, strengthening connections and creating more meaningful ways for everyone to engage. Read our new blog post for a peek at some of our community plans for the coming year:
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For our anniversary this year, we're creating a special zine to commemorate our community's contributions, achievements, and memories from 25 years of CC. Our theme? Remix is resistance!
Submit your work (art, photography, stories, poems, comics, and more!) by March 31. buff.ly/WjuAB2T
Use this free to remix template to create a valentine for your forever crush: open education!
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If you are at the AI Impact Summit, catch CC's CEO, Anna Tumadóttir, during these upcoming sessions!
In our newest blog post, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson discusses the new stories we must imagine to keep the internet human and how to rethink our must fundamental assumptions about open knowledge in order to meet the current moment.
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In November 2025, we had the privilege of supporting and participating in Semana de la Cultura Libre in Montevideo, Uruguay: a week-long celebration of open culture organized by CC Uruguay. Read our full recap on the event and some of our biggest takeaways in our new blog post!
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🎉We had a great time co-hosting this year's Public Domain Day in Brussels.
In case you couldn't join us or if you simpy want to reminisce, an overview of the day as well as the recordings are now available on our blog.
👀Have a look: communia-association.org/2026/02/05/l...
For #PublicDomainFriday, we're sharing this banner used by the Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, founded 1910. This image is part of the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/init...
If you're in Delhi, you can connect with the CC team at:
-CivicSabha 2.0
-PAIRS India
-OpenMind Community Meetup
-Strengthening Data and AI Collaboratives for Economic Growth and Social Good as part of the main Impact Summit Sessions
-And more!
This month, CC will be represented at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi to discuss the future of AI policy and practice. CC will be focused on areas where our experience, infrastructure, and global community position us to make a contribution to AI governance in the public interest.
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The National Library of Finland has signed the #OpenHeritageStatement ✍️ 🔓
OHS aims to promote openness in cultural heritage and seeks to influence UNESCO to recommend that cultural heritage that is no longer protected by copyright be shared under open licenses.
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