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“A Turn in the Road” by Alfred Sisley (1873), CC0, Art Institute of Chicago, remixed with “TAROCH balloon” by Creative Commons/Dee Harris, 2025, CC0. The (Under-Realized) Potential of Open Heritage To understand our present, we need to know our past: our memories, our history, our heritage. Over the last two decades, pioneers of open heritage…
New channel guidelines & requirements New channels should: Serve a community need not met by existing channels New channels must: Have a minimum of one designated moderator The number of moderators should scale with channel activity Be public, unless reasonable justification is provided for channel being private Align with Creative Commons’ mission or build community…
Overview A thriving community requires feelings of connection, safety, and utility. We help can achieve this through moderation. Moderators As we move towards a more community-led model for this platform, we are seeking community moderators! Potential moderators can express their interest by emailing conduct@creativecommons.org with “Zulip Moderation” in the subject line. In your email, please…
Creative Commons is making an important change: we are transitioning our community chat from Slack to Zulip. After considering three platforms—Matrix, Discourse, and Zulip—and gathering input from the community, Zulip came out as the clear favorite. We’d like to warmly invite everyone who sees themselves as part of the CC global community to join us on Zulip.
“Watering Place at Marley” by Alfred Sisley, 1875, CC0, Art Institute of Chicago, remixed with “TAROCH balloon” by Creative Commons/Dee Harris, 2025, CC0. Open Heritage and Contemporary Creativity Apollo or Venus in your living room? This is the proposition made by Denmark’s Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) upon openly sharing its vast collection of 3D…
“Landscape along the Seine with the Institut de France and the Pont des Arts” by Alfred Sisley, 1875, CC0, Art Institute of Chicago, remixed with “TAROCH balloon” by Creative Commons/Dee Harris, 2025, CC0. We’re kicking off a three-part series leading up to the launch of the Open Heritage Statement in October. The Statement, developed by…
Community © 2022 by Dunk is licensed under CC BY 2.0 As we’ve been talking about on the blog, we are intentionally seeking ways to reengage with the global community, which will likely entail making changes to the current CC Global Network (CCGN). We recently surveyed the CC global community to help inform next steps. …
Distorted Forest Path © by Lone Thomasky & Bits&Bäume is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Here at CC, we have the goal of defending and sustaining the digital commons in the face of developments in artificial intelligence. We’ve recently introduced a new framework, CC signals, to offer a new way for stewards of large collections…
Jack Hardinges is an independent consultant specialising in complex data infrastructures and responsible data governance. Jack is working with CC to help document and understand the impacts of advances in artificial intelligence on the digital commons, as well as provide strategic input to its response. Jack was previously Head of Research & Programmes at the Open Data Institute, and…
Signals © 2021 by Hugo Parasol is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In June we kicked off a public feedback period on our proposal for CC signals. CC signals is a preference signals framework designed to sustain the commons and ensure the continued sharing of knowledge in the age of AI. The goal is to…