Creative Commons

By adopting CC licenses, governments, organizations, and individuals will align with the 2019 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER), which emphasizes the need for accessible, high-quality educational materials. Our tools provide an internationally recognized means to allow the community to reuse, repurpose, adapt, and redistribute educational resources and other digital public goods. Additionally, our licenses are offered in 48 languages to maximize accessibility 🙌. To better understand OER and the role of our organization, as well as CC licenses and their application in implementing the 2019 UNESCO Recommendation on OER, we’ve developed some helpful resources. Check them out here:

Since the beginning of the TAROCH Coalition, we’ve seen tremendous growth of supporting organizations. We’ve spent the last few weeks highlighting our members and bringing attention to the work they are doing to advance open access to cultural heritage in the public domain. The TAROCH Coalition continues to grow, with 58 organizations having joined just since we started this series! In this final post of highlighted organizations, we recognize the most recent members to join this shared mission: Internet Archive Open Nederland International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium Europeana GLAM-E Lab Smarthistory Wikimedia Brasil Qatar National Library R3D: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales Digital Republic School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool European Fashion Heritage Association Fundación Openlab Ecuador Wikimedia Chile We are grateful for their leadership and collaboration in shaping the future. Learn more and get involved: https://lnkd.in/eCmqgySU Thank you to all our members for their dedication and collaboration. #TAROCHCoalition

Cultural heritage institutions are under increasing pressure to do more with less—digitize collections, expand access, and still find a path to financial sustainability. Can open licensing help? 👀 Join us for The Economics of Open, a conversation on the findings of Open Licensing Models in the Cultural Heritage Sector, a new study led by CREATe —in collaboration with Creative Commons. During this webinar, we’ll explore the real-world economics of open licensing in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums. Drawing on case studies across the UK, EU, USA, and Brazil, the authors examine when and how open models can complement institutional missions—and when they might fall short. Join us on June 24, 2205 at 2pm UTC by registering at the link: https://buff.ly/dgivFxa Plate 53: Southern Hawker Dragonfly by Joris Hoefnagel, CC0 1.0. National Gallery of Art

🚨 Community-created resource alert! 🚨 As a part of Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.'s work, Till Kreutzer authored an excellent resource that is a detailed guide to using Creative Commons licenses. Download, share, and use! The author invites translations of this work as well 💡. https://buff.ly/KWZIFy8

A couple of years ago, CC hosted a panel discussion on 3D scanning as it relates to cultural heritage preservation, revitalization, access, and better sharing: 📂 The importance of open access to scans of cultural artifacts 🧑⚖️ The legal issues that can challenge access to 3D scans 🤔 Policy implications of open licensing 3D scans 🟰 Cultural and equity considerations around the origins of objects scanned 🎨 How museums, artists, and organizations put 3D scanning and sharing into practice This information is still useful today, watch here:

Have you heard about the CC Certificate 🤔? It is a 10-week long online course, requiring about 6-10 hours of work per week. While you can work mostly on your own time, there are graded materials due every week and a minimum of four optional webinars to attend. Participants have direct access to an expert facilitator, the opportunity to ask questions to copyright lawyers in Q&A discussions, and are able to connect with a global community of activists and experts 🌏. Our June courses are full, but the good news is that September courses are still available for registration. Learn more here: https://buff.ly/YscnJR5 Image: Studying © 2022 by Dr. Matthias Ripp is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Wouldn’t it be terrible if people couldn't meaningfully and intentionally connect with each other around heritage? Experience social injustices related to culture? What if misinformation was unable to be corrected? These are all possibilities if culture continues to remain behind metaphorical (and sometimes literal) lock and key. Learn more about how open culture leads to more just, democratic, diverse, and free societies: https://buff.ly/ewljjcv Image: Love of Winter © 2012 by George Wesley Bellows is marked with CC0 1.0

Just in case you missed it, we are currently surveying YOU 🫵. We want to hear what your vision is for the CC Community. To learn more about this next chapter and take the survey, visit below:

By joining the TAROCH Coalition, your organization will: 👥Contribute to meaningful change: Work with leading experts and organizations to develop solutions and influence policies, including encouraging UNESCO to adopt frameworks that benefit cultural institutions and their users worldwide. 🗣️ Share expertise: Engage and exchange insights with a network of peers through conferences, events, and meetings. 💪 Be a recognized leader: Demonstrate your organization’s commitment to open culture on a global stage. Get involved here: https://buff.ly/bRitF2I Image: Illustration of a Balloon Ascending (Fūsen shōyō no zu) by Utagawa Yoshitora is marked with CC0 1.0

To ensure that people can read, find, and build on it, climate and biodiversity knowledge MUST be accessible and easy to share. 🔬 In 2023, CC published a landscape analysis to assess the openness of key large climate data providers from around the world, detailing how their climate data could be found, accessed, and reused. Read it here: https://buff.ly/uGq9zD0 Image: Keys © 2012 by Patrick McFall is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0