Knowledge & Cultural Institutions Defend Net Neutrality in EU

“The EU Flag and Castor and Pollux” by waldopics is licensed under CC BY 2.0 . Earlier this year, the European Commission started a new consultation on “The future of the electronic communications sector and its infrastructure.” On the one hand, it’s good that...

Michal Čudrnák — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 15

  “If you’re considering opening up, start small” says Michal Čudrnák, the Head of Digital Collections at the Slovak National Gallery. When you open up just a small part first you will see what unfolds and can learn in the process what works for your community and...

CC Supports Trans Rights

SVG file Dlloyd based on Monica Helms design, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. At Creative Commons, we vehemently condemn the extensive violations of trans rights that are occurring across the world, and the current climate of fear and violence directed at trans...

Laksmi Sugiri — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 14

Laksmi says that “open access…makes it possible to collaborate and reconstruct cultural heritage.” In this episode we learn about cultural heritage in Indonesia and how open access has made it possible for organisations to work together and build out data sets and...

Shanna Hollich — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 13

Shanna shares  how “keeping content locked up and isolated keeps us separate from one another” so opening up collections brings people together and bridges our shared humanity, across cultures and continents. In this episode we learn about how publicly funded...