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
This year, Creative Commons became a UNESCO NGO partner and launched its Open Heritage Statement, two huge steps forward in our work to make culture accessible to everyone and preserve it for future generations. This momentum shows what’s possible, but we need you to keep it going.
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The Getty Museum has made 88,000 artworks available for free under CC0 licenses! This is a huge win for open culture—for art lovers, creators, educators, learners, researchers, and all future generations. Huge congratulations to the Getty for this big step!
getty.edu/art/collection 🖼️
I'm thrilled to be part of CTRL + ART + APPLY at the 2025 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. How do we protect artistic integrity and labor while acknowledging accessibility? What's a funder's responsibility as AI tools become part of creative work?
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