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Make a difference in your community! Sign up for a CC Certificate course here: www.classy.org/event/2026-c...

Open Horizons: Creative Commons for Indonesia’s Educators A grassroots training movement empowers educators to create and share knowledge ethically and openly.

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....

Semana de la Cultura Libre Festival de Cultura Libre de Uruguay

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 J. Paul Getty Museum Collection Explore the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa.

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 🖼️

Learn more about how these actions will allow better sharing of cultural heritage by reading our report titled “Towards Better Sharing of Cultural Heritage - A Call to Action to Policymakers” here: buff.ly/EotlPsj

Image: Los Dedos © 2021 by Mariano Mantel is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

🛡️ Shield cultural heritage institutions from liability.
🫂 Ensure respect, equity, diversity, and inclusivity.

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.

21 Nov | CC Legal Office Hours
Join Kat Walsh, an expert on open licensing and copyright, to ask questions about how to interpret and implement CC licenses and public domain tools. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

19 Nov | AI and the Commons: Creative Commons and Copyright in a New Era
Hear the latest thoughts about the relationship between AI, copyright, and the existing CC licenses and legal tools, both in the US and also globally.
my.lyrasis.org/event-inform...

Semana de la Cultura Libre Festival de Cultura Libre de Uruguay

18-22 Nov | Semana de la Cultura Libra
La Semana de la Cultura Libre vuelve con conciertos, debates y talleres de creación colectiva. Aprenderás sobre el licenciamiento abierto de las obras, modelos alternativos de producción cultural y acceso a la cultura.
festival.creativecommons.uy

12 Nov | Open Data Week: License to Share - Open Data Data and Creative Commons
Liverpool John Moores University invites researchers, staff, and anyone involved in producing or managing research outputs for this session on open research data licensing and sharing.
unical.ljmu.ac.uk/Event.aspx?E...

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

WIPO Webcast The WIPO Webcast is a portal for video conferences in live streaming and video on demand

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

Inconsistent copyright laws cited among hurdles to open heritage - Arts Professional Organisations wrongly claiming copyright restrictions over faithful digital reproductions of public domain heritage are preventing cross-border cultural

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...

On 22 November, we organized a webinar with a group of experts to discuss their unique approaches to reparative metadata practices: considering the ways that... Respectful Terminologies & Changing the Subject

Discussion participants navigated the complicated balance between preserving legacy terminology as a historical record and facilitating a more respectful discovery experience for users today ⚖️.

Watch here: youtu.be/089z1qfSHcQ?....

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!

Rebecca also participated in the morning panel on AI's effects on creative industries, discussing the challenges of enforcing copyright in the age of AI, CC signals, and more!

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

A Heartfelt Farewell to Dr. Cable Green - Creative Commons After almost 15 years of dedicated service, Dr. Cable Green, our Director of Open Education, will be moving on from Creative Commons.

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...

The Power of #OpenHeritage: Towards an International Framework for Equitable Access Over the last 18 months, more than 60 organizations worldwide -including Wikimedia Chile- have collaborated in TAROCH, a global coalition…

✍️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/...

Learn more about what openness does for cultural heritage here: buff.ly/DUe2hf7

Image: Library - Staircase © 2022 by Traveller_40 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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

Webinar — Open Heritage Statement Watch the launch of the Open Heritage Statement from 14 October 2025.

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

📖 Learners are deprived of knowledge resources essential to their program.

Cultural heritage is a part of everything from research to education. Learn more here: creativecommons.org/wp-content/u...