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Join Us to Celebrate 20 Years of Creative Commons

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During 2021–2022, CC has been celebrating the 20th anniversary of our founding in 2001 and the first release of the CC licenses in 2002, successfully concluding an ambitious fundraising campaign to support programs like Open Culture, Open Climate, and Open Education, and to help ensure CC’s ongoing sustainability. In November 2022, CC will bring the…

Report back: Institute for Open Leadership meeting

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Creative Commons and the Open Policy Network hosted the first Institute for Open Leadership meeting in San Francisco 12-16 January 2015. The Institute for Open Leadership (IOL for short) is a training program to identify and cultivate new leaders in open education, science, public policy, research, data and other fields on the values and implementation…

Institute for Open Leadership kicks off next week

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The Presidio by Mindus under CC BY-NC-SA It’s a new year, and Creative Commons and the Open Policy Network are excited to work with the inaugural group of fellows at the Institute for Open Leadership. The Institute for Open Leadership–or IOL–is an effort  to cultivate new leaders in open education, science, public policy, and other…

We celebrated CC10 in San Francisco with style

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On Saturday, we toasted to 10 years of the Creative Commons licenses, which has enabled the sharing and reuse of roughly half a billion creative, educational, and scientific works. Larry Lessig and guest toast CC10 / DTKindler Photo / CC BY Many others joined in to celebrate at events around the world, and are still…

"Open Education" ccSalon Video Now Online!

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In case you missed this week’s Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco, you can now view it online thanks to our media sponsor, VidSF, who filmed and broadcast the event. We heard from four stellar individuals involved in transforming the education landscape through the power of the internet and digital tools, such as open educational…

Tune in LIVE to tonight's ccSalon at 7pm PDT

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Can’t make it to tonight’s Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco? No problem! You’ll be able to tune in virtually thanks to the talented and generous folks at VidSF, our media sponsors for the event. Watch the salon live at http://parisoma.com from 7-9pm PDT. Use Identi.ca or Twitter to join the conversation with hashtag #ccsalon.…

Web 2.0 Expo: Creating a Culture of Sharing

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Thursday a panel at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco explores an important question for anyone building or participating in a website premised on collaboration among users — Creating a Culture of Sharing — maximizing collaboration and minimizing conflict and other costs. This is an important question not only for entrepreneurs and communities, but for…

ccSalon SF (5/3/10): The power of open education

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If you’re in the SF Bay Area, we hope to see you at our next Creative Commons Salon on the power of open education, featuring: Brian Bridges, Director of the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) Murugan Pal, co-Founder and President of CK-12 Foundation Carolina Rossini, Berkman Fellow, Advocate for OER in Brazil, and Peer2Peer University…

Internships Reminder

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Photo: CC Cupcake by Creative Commons / CC BY The application deadline for the Summer 2010 internships is 11:59 p.m. PDT, Friday, March 26, 2010. Please submit your cover letter and resume (portfolio, as well, for design students) to apply soon! We’ve heard fantastic feedback about our internships over the years. Here’s what a few students had…