iRights e.V. unterzeichnet "Open Heritage Statement" Der iRights e.V. unterzeichnet das Open Heritage Statement für einen gerechten Zugang zu gemeinfreien Kulturgütern.

🌎Der iRights e.V. hat das Open Heritage Statement der Open Heritage Coalition und Creative Commons unterzeichnet, um eine weltweite Forderung nach gerechtem Zugang zum öffentlichen Kulturerbe im digitalen Umfeld zu unterstützen! #OpenHeritageStatement #CreativeCommons
urlr.me/!OHS

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

Kamu Malı Kültürel Mirasa Açık Erişim Toplantısı’na davetlisiniz! #AçıkMiras Bildirisi'ni Türkiye bağlamında değerlendireceğimiz toplantıya sizleri de bekliyoruz. #OpenHeritageStatement
📍 Ankara, Milli Kütüphane
📅 17 Şubat 2026
🕐 13:00–17:00
🔗 Kayıt: creativecommons.org.tr/acik-miras-t...

Open Heritage Statement

The National Library of Finland has signed the #OpenHeritageStatement ✍️ 🔓

OHS aims to promote openness in cultural heritage and seeks to influence UNESCO to recommend that cultural heritage that is no longer protected by copyright be shared under open licenses.

@creativecommons.bsky.social

🌍 We are now an official signatory of the #OpenHeritageStatement driven by @creativecommons.bsky.social!
Looking ahead to co-organising a joint #OurFutureMemory and Open Heritage event in Amsterdam on 2 March 2026.
More info: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/12/08/i...
#OpenHeritageCoalition

🎈We’ve signed the Open Heritage Statement, a global call to action to advance equitable access to public domain heritage and inform future international policy. @creativecommons.bsky.social

➡ Add your signature: openheritagestatement.org

#OpenHeritageStatement #TAROCHCoalition #CreativeCommons

This is why it is important for WMAU and other Australian organisations to show our support for international communities that do not benefit from the same certainly in their copyright law.
#OpenHeritageStatement #PublicDomain #GLAM #CreativeCommons @creativecommons.bsky.social

Arguably, most of what is included in the Statement already applies in Australia – in best practice and/or in law. But copyright law is not experienced equitably around the world and it favours the global north.
#OpenHeritageStatement #PublicDomain #GLAM #CreativeCommons @creativecommons.bsky.social

I am proud that Wikimedia Australia has signed the Open Heritage Statement.
#OpenHeritageStatement #PublicDomain #GLAM #CreativeCommons @creativecommons.bsky.social

Webinar — Open Heritage Statement

#AçıkMirasBildirisi #OpenHeritageStatement lansman webinar kaydı yayınlandı #kamumalı #kültürelmiras #açıkerişim openheritagestatement.org/webinar

#OpenHeritageStatement Launch webinar recording is now available #OpenGLAM #CHOSN #CulturalHeritage #https://openheritagestatement.org/webinar

Webinar — Open Heritage Statement Watch the launch of the Open Heritage Statement from 14 October 2025.

The recording from the Open Heritage Statement Launch is now available! Watch how experts from around the world came together to shape a shared vision for equitable access to public domain heritage. openheritagestatement.org/webinar

#OpenHeritageStatement #TAROCH #UNESCO

We’ve signed the Open Heritage Statement to support a global call for equitable access to public domain heritage in the digital environment.

Join us by adding your signature:
openheritagestatement.org

#OpenHeritageStatement
@creativecommons.bsky.social

and Wikimedia Australia (@wmau.bsky.social), of which I am the President, is a member of the TAROCH Coalition.
#OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain
10/10

with and support of international communities that do not benefit from the same certainly in their copyright law.

Disclosure: I participated in TAROCH Coalition activities leading up to the Statement
#OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain
9/10

Even so, I strongly encourage Australian GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) and cultural heritage organisations to consider signing in solidarity
#OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain
8/10

such as where it incorporates Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP).

Arguably, most if not all of what is included in the Statement already apply in Australia – in best practice and/or in law.
#OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain
7/10

a digital divide and geographic inequalities.

- identifies that there are legitimate instances where access to digitised public domain material should be withheld,
#OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain
6/10

- takes into account the legal rules, resources, skills and technology needed to undertake digitisation of public domain material, and that these are experienced asymmetrically, contributing to
#OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain
5/10

technical protection measures are often used to limit legitimate access to and reuse of public domain materials which conflict with the right to participate in cultural life and with other public interest objectives.
#OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain
4/10

The statement (my summary):

- flags claims of copyright (by way of an open licence or otherwise) in digitised reproductions of public domain material, contractual restrictions and the application of #OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain
3/10

The statement (my summary):

- rightfully declares cultural heritage in the public domain as a public good, while acknowledging that the ability to access it and reuse it is not experienced equitably by everyone.
#OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain
2/10

Today Creative Commons released the Open Heritage Statement
openheritagestatement.org
#OpenHeritageStatement #CulturalHeritage #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain
1/10

The Benefits of Open Heritage in the Digital Environment - Creative Commons “Watering Place at Marley” by Alfred Sisley, 1875, CC0, Art Institute of Chicago, remixed with “TAROCH balloon” by Creative Commons/Dee Harris, 2025, CC0. Open Heritage and Contemporary Creativity Apo...

We’re counting down to the launch of the #OpenHeritageStatement with a 3-part blog series. Read part 2 here: creativecommons.org/2025/09/18/t...

Join us for the Statement launch webinar on 14 October, 14:00 UTC. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We’re counting down to the launch of the #OpenHeritageStatement from the CC-led TAROCH Coalition with a 3-part blog series.

Part 1 of the series, published today, explores the barriers that stand in the way of open access to digital cultural heritage: creativecommons.org/2025/09/10/u...