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Policy and open culture at Creative Commons

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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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
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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, oh my! 🖼️ The Open Culture program at CC works to support the development of a thriving open culture ecosystem among cultural heritage institutions and their users. Look back at 2024 in Open Culture with us in our latest blog post: loom.ly/Nz6dZ2w
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CC Open Culture: 2024 Year in Review - Creative Commons
Interesting Story by Laura Muntz Lyall. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. With new publications, events, and the launch of a new coalition, the CC Open Culture Program accomplished a lot! Here are ...
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
What a backdrop for the #PublicDomain celebration in snow-dusted Brussels ❄️ Lovely to connect with Bartolomeo Meletti fellow member of the Europeana copyright community steering group as today we celebrate the launch of the Europeana Public Domain Charter, which Maarten Zeinstra and I presented✨
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🎉 What a year it was for us in the Creative Commons #OpenCulture community! Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this year a success 🙏
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communia @communia.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In our latest blogpost, @brigittevezina.bsky.social addresses the issue of ©️ protection of AI-generated outputs. ▶️ The criteria to establish whether something generated with the help of #AI is worthy of copyright protection already exist! Check it out: communia-association.org/2024/12/12/a...
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AI outputs and Copyright
Artificial intelligence (AI), and generative AI in particular, holds great potential as a tool to assist, support and enhance human creativity. How can this positive potential be unlocked and what rol...
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Openness can remove unfair barriers to access to heritage so people can connect and engage with digital heritage. It builds digital bridges across heritage collections and gives rise to new narratives in new contexts for digital equity. ⬆️ My talk at the TaNC conference in Manchester yesterday.
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 01/12/2023
It was an honor to speak at this DukeLaw LALSA & NALSA event and share insights on copyright and CulturalAppropriation in fashion. law.duke.edu/events/legal... My talk was based on my paper: t.co/t76GNMU6rX
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The Legal Contours of Cultural Appropriation in Fashion
Join LALSA and NALSA in a discussion about the legal contours of cultural appropriation in fashion in celebration of Native American History Month. Brian Lewis, the lead attorney on Navajo Nation v. U...
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
I’m in Montevideo 🇺🇾 for ⁦‪GLAM WIKI‬⁩ 2023 with the ⁦‪⁦‪Creative Commons‬⁩ Open Culture team! Really looking forward to discussing access to cultural heritage and meeting people from the community 🌎🌏🌍 Thank you ⁦‪Wikimedistas de Uruguay for organizing🌟
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
This week I took part on behalf of Creative Commons in the WIPO #copyright norm-building body #SCCR44 In this blog post we share our position on broadcasting, exceptions for preservation access & use of cultural heritage, and GenerativeAI & copyright creativecommons.org/2023/11/09/c...
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CC’s Key Insights from WIPO's Meeting on Copyright - Creative Commons
From 6 to 8 November 2023, Creative Commons (CC) participated remotely in the 44th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SC...
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
It was an honor to be a guest on the @the_info_labs' podcast to share @creativecommons' current thinking on #AI, #copyright, #creativity, the commons and the public interest informationlabs.org/podcasts/ai-...
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1:1 with Brigitte Vézina
Listen to this AI lab podcast episode with Brigitte Vézina (Director of Policy & Open Culture, Creative Commons)
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
📣 Here's the latest episode of #OpenCulture Voices, Episode 28! Here we meet Michael Weinberg, Executive Director, NYU Engelberg Center, to learn about about how GLAMs innovate access to cultural heritage! Check out the full episode here: loom.ly/RPgnf6o
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Michael Weinberg — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 28 - Creative Commons
Michael has discovered a lead-by-example way of working in Open GLAM which is that “friction and barriers that are faced are actually resolved by Open Access and Open GLAM which can be passed down t...
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
This week I’m attending my first ever ⁦‪Creative Commons‬⁩ summit in Mexico City 🇲🇽 Getting ready for an intense week where we’ll talk #OpenCulture and #AI, Indigenous heritage, and the shared values underpinning our heritage commons 💫
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 23/09/2023
At the WIPO conversation on generative AI and IP I had the honor to deliver our Creative Commons statement calling attention to the need to promote #bettersharing and uphold the #commons on which all #creativity depends. Read the full statement on the CC blog creativecommons.org/2023/09/22/c...
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CC Defends Better Sharing and the Commons in WIPO Conversation on Generative AI - Creative Commons
Today Creative Commons (CC) delivered a statement to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Conversation on Generative AI and Intellectual Property, as part of our engagement in global po...
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Artists and cultural heritage professionals filled the room at CC’s symposium on Generative #AI & the Creativity Cycle at NYU last week and I was lucky to be there. Follow emerging considerations around #BetterSharing at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the commons: loom.ly/Pg9sy4c
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
❓What are the issues at the nexus of #generativeAI, #culturalheritage and #creativity? 👉Join me and @creativecommons colleagues today for an all-day symposium at NYU. creativecommons.org/2023/08/08/n...
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
🌟Excited to be attending my first #IFLA #WLIC here in Rotterdam🌷 At @creativecommons our work intersects with #libraries on many levels as they play a key role in supporting #BetterSharing of knowledge and culture. #OpenCulture #OpenGLAM #CCCertificate #SDGs
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
Thanks Johanna Lilja and @MattVoigts for your thoughtful piece about @creativecommons' #OpenCulture event in Lisbon and our #AI roundtable at #MozFest House in Amsterdam! bit.ly/43NP6kQ
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Brigitte Vézina @brigittevezina.bsky.social · 12/07/2023
Learn more about the basics of #OpenCulture on 27 July in our new webinar series: Open Culture Live, where we will bring experts together to have conversations about the benefits and challenges of Open Culture. creativecommons.org/2023/07/11/intr…
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Introducing Open Culture Live: A Webinar Series - Creative Commons
The CC Open Culture Team is excited to announce a new webinar series, Open Culture Live. Join us for our first webinar on the Basics of Open Culture.
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