👋 Please join us in welcoming Catherine Stihler as the next CEO of Creative Commons!

Catherine has been a champion for openness as both a legislator and practitioner for more than 20 years, and we're thrilled to have her on board!

✍️ Europeana has put together a great summary of the challenges faced by the cultural heritage sector in regards to #copyright. The biggest challenge? “The lack of copyright knowledge among cultural heritage professionals and an absence of training opportunities."

Learn more below. ⬇️ #OpenGLAM

🤷‍♂️ Providing attribution for CC-licensed content on Facebook (or any other social media platform) can be confusing. Here's an example of attribution that we're trying to consistently include:

"Hubble's Slice of Sagittarius" by the European Space Agency, NASA Hubble, and NASA, licensed CC BY-NC. Find this image at go.nasa.gov/3g6Ug3v.

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☝️ What we try to do when sharing on Facebook:

✅ Include the attribution at the end of the post
✅ Include the name of the image
✅ Tag the creators or list them
✅ Link out to the original source
✅ Identify the license
✅ Provide a description

We know sharing openly licensed images on social media can be difficult and confusing. Check out this blog post (bit.ly/39zlzAV), made in collaboration with Open GLAM, for a bit more on this subject.

If you have additional suggestions, let us know! #openaccess #content #images #socialmedia #glam #oer

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👋 We're testing a new version of the CC License Chooser, have you tried it out yet? Let us know what you think! ⤵️ #opensource #openaccess

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beta-chooser.creativecommons.org

It’s been over a year since CC Search launched (🎉), and we're excited to share with you what we've learned about our core users that include:

👨‍🏫 Educators
👩‍🎓 Students
👩‍🎨 Creators...
👨‍💻 Illustrators
👩‍💼 Professionals

Meet them below!

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Check out this fabulous resource from the Digital Public Goods Alliance for parents, teachers, and students! 📚 The goal of the Alliance is "to facilitate the discovery, development, use of, and investment in, openly licensed technologies, data models, and content of high relevance for attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)." #OER #digitalpublicgoods

Well, this is important news...👀

"Publishers commonly require authors to sign exclusive publishing agreements which restrict what authors can do with their research findings, including making articles Open Access in line with their funders’ requirements. To address this problem, cOAlition S has developed a **Rights Retention Strategy,** which will empower their funded researchers to publish in their journal of choice, including subscription journals, and provide Open Access in compliance with Plan S."

#openaccess #openscience #research #publishing

One of the three Plan S routes to achieve full and immediate Open Access is via repositories, where, as a minimum, the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is made openly available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence or equivalent, without any embargo.
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cOAlition S develops “Rights Retention Strategy” to safeguard researchers’ intellectual ownership rights and suppress unreasonable embargo periods | Plan S
One of the three Plan S routes to achieve full and immediate Open Access is via repositories, where, as a minimum, the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is made openly available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence or equivalent, without any embargo.
One of the three Plan S routes to achieve full and immediate Open Access is via repositories, where, as a minimum, the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) is made openly available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence or equivalent, without any embargo.

Coloring is cool. 🎨😎

Check out this collection of openly licensed coloring books from the Biodiversity Heritage Library featuring some of their favorite #SciArt! Including "Female Illustrators in Natural History." 🦋

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Color Our Collections - Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

😮 This musician just released 174 songs and sound effects under CC BY, so you can use them for free with attribution! Learn more about the library they're building, and how you can support it below! #music #openaccess

(So far, this is our favorite 🚀 : bit.ly/30fdCN7)

☝️ Did you know that DuckDuckGo has a fantastic feature for #CCSearch?! Add "!cc" before your search query on DuckDuckGo (see the image), and you'll be taken directly to CC Search for the results!

Try it out: https://duckduckgo.com/

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🥳 The Romanian #translations are finally here after one year of collaboration with the European Commission! Thank you Pedro Malaquias for coordinating and George Hari Popescu for reviewing! #openaccess

👋 A friendly reminder: All CC-licensed works require attribution. Here's a simple guide! #openaccess

FYI: CC0, our public domain dedication tool, doesn't require attribution. However, it’s best practice to identify provenance—where the work is stewarded—this includes listing the institution the image was sourced from.

You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. Here is an example of an ideal attribution of a CC-licensed image: “Furggelen afterglow” by Lukas Schlagenhauf is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0. This is an ideal attribu...
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How to give attribution - Creative Commons
You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. Here is an example of an ideal attribution of a CC-licensed image: “Furggelen afterglow” by Lukas Schlagenhauf is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0. This is an ideal attribu...
You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions. One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. Here is an example of an ideal attribution of a CC-licensed image: “Furggelen afterglow” by Lukas Schlagenhauf is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0. This is an ideal attribu...

📸 Billions of images are uploaded to the internet every day thanks to the increasingly #digital and #open nature of #photography. Despite the benefits, however, this trend has made professional photographers feel uneasy.

In this post, we talk with Luke Beard—founder and CEO of Exposure, a #storytelling platform for photographers and visual storytellers—about open licensing in photography, and why Exposure decided to make CC BY-ND an option for users.

🌍 Introducing #CCNetworkFridays!

We want you to get to know the CC Country Chapters (there's 43!) so we're featuring a new Chapter one Friday a month!

First up, CC Italy! 🇮🇹 #openmovement

Our post on the importance of #openaccess policies during #COVID19 has surpassed 60,000 views. Guess we were on to something...🤔

👀 Search for #collage on CC Search.

You'll find yourself in a weird and wonderful place, stumbling on unique, openly licensed #artwork like this: a collage called "Low Flying Chickens" by Kollage Kid (CC BY-NC-SA).

➡️ http://bit.ly/2VY3jeK

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👋 ATTN: Only 10 days left to submit your proposal to the CC Global Summit! We're accepting proposals in Arabic, English, French, Mandarin, and Spanish focused on the following themes:

✅ Creators of the Commons
✅ Powering the Commons
✅ Open Education and Open Scholarship...
✅ Open Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
✅ Policy and Advocacy promoting the Commons

Learn more below! #openaccess #event #proposal

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Another fantastic guide! 🙌 This one is on publishing #opendata in times of crisis by the Open Data Institute (licensed CC BY-SA). This guide includes case studies, best practices, and key questions for organizations to consider when making publishing decisions.