Thanks to everyone who attended our CC signals project kickoff last week. We’re receiving plenty of feedback, and we appreciate the insights. We are listening to all of it and hope that you continue to engage with us as we seek to make this framework fit for purpose.

Some of the input focuses on the specifics of the CC signals proposal, offering constructive questions and suggesting ideas for improving CC signals in practice. The most salient type of feedback, however, is touching on something far deeper than the CC signals themselves – the fact that so much about AI seems to be happening to us all, rather than with or for us all, and that the expectations of creators and communities are at risk of being overshadowed by powerful interests.

This sentiment is not a surprise to us. We feel it, too. In fact, it is why we are doing this project. CC’s goal has always been to grow and sustain the thriving commons of knowledge and culture. We want people to be able to share with and learn from each other, without being or feeling exploited. CC signals is an extension of that mission in this evolving AI landscape.

We believe that the current practices of AI companies pose a threat to the future of the commons. Many creators and knowledge communities are feeling betrayed by how AI is being developed and deployed. The result is that people are understandably turning to enclosure. Eventually, we fear that people will no longer want to share publicly at all. 

CC signals are a first step to reduce this damage by giving more agency to those who create and hold content. Unlike the CC licenses, they are explicitly designed to signal expectations even where copyright law is silent or unclear, when it does not apply, and where it varies by jurisdiction. We have listened to creators who want to share their work but also have concerns about exploitation. CC signals provide a way for creators to express those nuances.  The CC signals build on top of developing standards for expressing AI usage preferences (e.g., via robots.txt). Creators who want to fully opt out of machine reuse do not need to use a CC signal. CC signals are for those who want to keep sharing, but with some terms attached.

The challenge we’re all facing in this age of AI is how to protect the integrity and vitality of the commons. The listening we’ve been doing so far, across creator communities and open knowledge networks, has led us here, to CC signals. Our shared commitment is to protect the commons so that it remains a space for human creativity, collaboration, and innovation, and to make clear our expectation that those who draw from it give something in return. 

Our goal is to advocate for reciprocity while upholding our values that knowledge and creativity should not be treated as commodities. 

Our goal is to find a path between a free-for-all and an internet of paywalls.

Copyright will not get us there. Nor should it. And we don’t think the boundaries of copyright tell us everything we need to know about navigating this moment. Just this week, Open Future released a report that calls for going beyond copyright in this debate, on the path to a healthy knowledge commons.

This is the beginning of the conversation, not the end. We are listening. From what we have heard, CC signals, or something like it, is the best practical mechanism to avoid the dual traps of total exploitation or total enclosure, both of which damage the commons. We have shared our current progress because we want to learn how to design it to meet your needs. We invite you to continue sharing feedback so we can shape CC signals together in a way that works for diverse communities.

In the months ahead, we’ll be providing more detail about how CC signals are developing, including key themes we are hearing, along with the questions we are exploring and our next steps.

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Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons in the age of AI. The development of CC signals represents a major step forward in building a more equitable, sustainable AI ecosystem rooted in shared benefits. This step is the culmination of years of consultation and analysis. As we enter this new phase of work, we are actively seeking input from the public. 

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms how knowledge is created, shared, and reused, we are at a fork in the road that will define the future of access to knowledge and shared creativity. One path leads to data extraction and the erosion of openness; the other leads to a walled-off internet guarded by paywalls. CC signals offer another way, grounded in the nuanced values of the commons expressed by the collective.

Based on the same principles that gave rise to the CC licenses and tens of billions of works openly licensed online, CC signals will allow dataset holders to signal their preferences for how their content can be reused by machines based on a set of limited but meaningful options shaped in the public interest. They are both a technical and legal tool and a social proposition: a call for a new pact between those who share data and those who use it to train AI models.

“CC signals are designed to sustain the commons in the age of AI,” said Anna Tumadóttir, CEO, Creative Commons. “Just as the CC licenses helped build the open web, we believe CC signals will help shape an open AI ecosystem grounded in reciprocity.”

CC signals recognize that change requires systems-level coordination. They are tools that will be built for machine and human readability, and are flexible across legal, technical, and normative contexts. However, at their core CC signals are anchored in mobilizing the power of the collective. While CC signals may range in enforceability, legally binding in some cases and normative in others, their application will always carry ethical weight that says we give, we take, we give again, and we are all in this together. 

“If we are committed to a future where knowledge remains open, we need to collectively insist on a new kind of give-and-take,” said Sarah Hinchliff Pearson, General Counsel, Creative Commons. “A single preference, uniquely expressed, is inconsequential in the machine age. But together, we can demand a different way.”

Now Ready for Feedback 

More information about CC signals and early design decisions are available on the CC website. We are committed to developing CC signals transparently and alongside our partners and community. We are actively seeking public feedback and input over the next few months as we work toward an alpha launch in November 2025. 

Get Involved

Join the discussion & share your feedback

To give feedback on the current CC signals proposal, hop over to the CC signals GitHub repository. You can engage in a few ways: 

1. Read about the technical implementation of CC signals
2. Join the discussion to share feedback about the CC signals project
3. Submit an issue for any suggested direct edits

Attend a CC signals town hall

We invite our community to join us for a brief explanation of the CC signals framework, and then we will open the floor to you to share feedback and ask questions. 

Tuesday, July 15
6–7 PM UTC
Register here.

Tuesday, July 29
1–2 PM UTC
Register here.

Friday, Aug 15
3–4 PM UTC
Register here. 

Support the movement

CC is a nonprofit. Help us build CC signals with a donation. 

The age of AI demands new tools, new norms, and new forms of cooperation. With CC signals, we’re building a future where shared knowledge continues to thrive. Join us.

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The application of copyright law to AI training is complex. The CC licenses are copyright licenses, so it follows that applying CC licenses to AI training is just as complex. 

The short answer is: AI training is often permitted by copyright. This means that the CC license conditions have limited application to machine reuse. This also means that using a more restrictive CC license in an effort to prevent AI training is not an effective approach. In fact, restrictive licensing may actually end up preventing the kind of sharing you want (like allowing for translation, for example), while not being effective to block AI training. 

For the long answer, read our new guide that provides a legal analysis and overview of the considerations when using CC-licensed works for AI training. 

  For an at-a-glance overview, head over to the Using CC-Licensed Works for AI training webpage. 

  For a more in-depth analysis, check out our handy PDF download. 

For those who love a visual, take a look at our supplementary flowchart. 

If the CC licenses have limited application to machine reuse, what agency do creators have in the AI ecosystem? 

This is an important question. As you’ve heard us talk about before, we’re actively developing a CC preference signals framework to help bridge this gap. The framework is designed to offer new choices for stewards of large collections of content to signal their preferences when sharing their works, using scaffolding inspired by the architecture of the CC licenses. This is not mediated through copyright or the CC licenses. It is governed by something that tends to be even more widely adopted: a social contract. Stand by for the release of the paper prototype of CC preference signals framework at the end of June 2025. 

While you are here, please consider making an annual recurring donation via our Open Infrastructure Circle. This work will require a large amount of resourcing, over many years, to make happen. 

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At the intersection of rapid advancements in generative AI and our ongoing strategy refresh, we’ve been deeply engaged in researching, analyzing, and fostering conversations about AI and value alignment. Our goal is to ensure that our legal and technical infrastructure remains robust and suitable in this rapidly evolving landscape.

In these uncertain times, one thing is clear: there is an urgent need to develop new, nuanced approaches to digital sharing. This is Creative Commons’ speciality and we’re ready to take on this challenge by exploring a possible intervention in the AI space: preference signals. 

Understanding Preference Signals

We’ve previously discussed preference signals, but let’s revisit this concept. Preference signals would empower creators to indicate the terms by which their work can or cannot be used for AI training. Preference signals would represent a range of creator preferences, all rooted in the shared values that inspired the Creative Commons (CC) licenses. At the moment, preference signals are not meant to be  legally enforceable. Instead, they aim to define a new vocabulary and establish new norms for sharing and reuse in the world of generative AI.

For instance, a preference signal might be “Don’t train,” “Train, but disclose that you trained on my content,” or even “Train, only if using renewable energy sources.”

Why Do We Need New Tools for Expressing Creator Preferences?

Empowering creators to be able to signal how they wish their content to be used to train generative AI models is crucial for several reasons:

• The use of openly available content within generative AI models may not necessarily be consistent with creators’ intention in openly sharing, especially when that sharing took place before the public launch and proliferation of generative AI. 
• With generative AI, unanticipated uses of creator content are happening at scale, by a handful of powerful commercial players concentrated in a very small part of the world.
• Copyright is likely not the right framework for defining the rules of this newly formed ecosystem. As the CC licenses exist within the framework of copyright, they are also not the correct tools to prevent or limit uses of content to train generative AI. We also believe that a binary opt-in or opt-out system of contributing content to AI models is not nuanced enough to represent the spectrum of choice a creator may wish to exercise.  

We’re in the research phase of exploring what a system of preference signals could look like and over the next several months, we’ll be hosting more roundtables and workshops to discuss and get feedback from a range of stakeholders. In June, we took a big step forward by organizing our most focused and dedicated conversation about preference signals in New York City, hosted by the Engelberg Center at NYU.

Six Highlights from Our NYC Workshop on Preference Signals

• Creative Commons as a Movement

Creative Commons is a global movement, making us uniquely positioned to tackle what sharing means in the context of generative AI. We understand the importance of stewarding the commons and the balance between human creation and public sharing. 

• Defining a New Social Contract

Designing tools for sharing in an AI-driven era involves collectively defining a new social contract for the digital commons. This process is essential for maintaining a healthy and collaborative community. Just as the CC licenses gave options for creators beyond no rights reserved and all rights reserved, preference signals have the potential to define a spectrum of sharing preferences in the context of AI that goes beyond the binary options of opt-in or opt-out. 

• Communicating Values and Consent

Should preference signals communicate individual values and principles such as equity and fairness? Adding content to the commons with a CC license is an act of communicating values;  should preference signals do the same? Workshop participants emphasized the need for mechanisms that support informed consent by both the creator and user.

• Supporting Creators and Strengthening the Commons

The most obvious and prevalent use case for preference signals is to limit use of content within generative AI models to protect artists and creators. There is also the paradox that users may want to benefit from more relaxed creator preferences than they are willing to grant to other users when it comes to their content. We believe that preference signals that meet the sector-specific needs of creators and users, as well as social and community-driven norms that continue to strengthen the commons, are not mutually exclusive. 

• Tagging AI-Generated vs. Human-Created Content

While tags for AI-generated content are becoming common, what about tags for human-created content? The general goal of preference signals should be to foster the commons and encourage more human creativity and sharing.  For many, discussions about AI are inherently discussions about labor issues and a risk of exploitation. At this time, the law has no concept of “lovingly human”,  since humanness has been taken for granted until now. Is “lovingly human” the new “non-commercial”? Generative AI models also force us to consider what it means to be a creator, especially as most digital creative tools will soon be driven by AI. Is there a specific set of activities that need to be protected in the process of creating and sharing? How do we address human and generative AI collaboration inputs and outputs? 

• Prioritizing AI for the Public Good

We must ensure that AI benefits everyone. Increased public investment and participatory governance of AI are vital. Large commercial entities should provide a public benefit in exchange for using creator content for training purposes. We cannot rely on commercial players to set forth industry norms that influence the future of the open commons. 

Next Steps

Moving forward, our success will depend on expanded and representative community consultations. Over the coming months, we will:

• Continue to convene our community members globally to gather input in this rapidly developing area;
• Continue to consult with legal and technical experts to consider feasible approaches;
• Actively engage with the interconnected initiatives of other civil society organizations whose priorities are aligned with ours;
• Define the use cases for which a preference signals framework would be most effective;
• Prototype openly and transparently, seeking feedback and input along the way to shape what the framework could look like;
• Build and strengthen the partnerships best suited to help us carry this work forward.

These high-level steps are just the beginning. Our hope is to be piloting a framework within the next year. Watch this space as we explore and share more details and plans. We’re grateful to Morrison Foerster for providing support for the workshop in New York.

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The intersection of AI, copyright, creativity, and the commons has been a focal point of conversations within our community for the past couple of years. We’ve hosted intimate roundtables, organized workshops at conferences, and run public events, digging into the challenging topics of credit, consent, compensation, transparency, and beyond. All the while, we’ve been asking ourselves:  what can we do to foster a vibrant and healthy commons in the face of rapid technological development? And how can we ensure that creators and knowledge-producing communities still have agency?

History and Evolution

When Creative Commons was founded over 20 years ago, sharing on the internet was broken. With the introduction of the CC licenses, the commons flourished. Licenses that enabled open sharing were perfectly aligned with the ideals of giving creators a choice over how their works were used.

Those who embrace openly sharing their work have a myriad of motivations for doing so. Most could not have anticipated how their works might one day be used by machines: to solve complex medical questions, to create other-wordly pictures of dogs, to train facial recognition systems – the list goes on.

Can we continue to foster a vibrant and healthy commons in today’s technological environment? How can we think innovatively about creator choice in this context?

Preference Signals

Preference signals for AI are the idea that an agent (creator, rightsholder, entity of some kind) is able to signal their preference with regards to how their work is used to train AI models. Last year, we started thinking more about this concept, as did many in the responsible tech ecosystem. But to date the dialog is still fairly binary, offering only all-or-nothing choices, with no imagination for how creators or communities might want their work to be used.

Enabling Commons-Based Participation in Generative AI

What was once a world of creators making art and researchers furthering knowledge, has the risk of being reduced to a world of rightsholders owning, controlling, and commercializing data. In this bleak future, it’s no longer a photo album, a poetry book, or a family blog. It’s content, it’s data, and eventually, it’s tokens.

We recognize that there is a perceived tension between openness and creator choice. Namely, if we  give creators choice over how to manage their works in the face of generative AI, we may run the risk of shrinking the commons. To potentially overcome, or at least better understand the effect of generative AI on the commons, we believe  that finding a way for creators to indicate “no, unless…” would be positive for the commons. Our consultations over the course of the last two years have confirmed that:

• Folks want more choice over how their work is used.
• If they have no choice, they might not share their work at all (under a CC license or strict copyright).

If these views are as wide ranging as we perceive, we feel it is imperative that we explore an intervention, and bring far more nuance into how this ecosystem works.

Generative AI is here to stay, and we’d like to do what we can to ensure it benefits the public interest. We are well-positioned with the experience, expertise, and tools to investigate the potential of preference signals.

Our starting point is to identify what types of preference signals might be useful. How do these vary or overlap in the cultural heritage, journalism, research, and education sectors? How do needs vary by region? We’ll also explore exactly how we might structure a preference signal framework so it’s useful and respected, asking, too: does it have to be legally enforceable, or is the power of social norms enough?

Research matters. It takes time, effort, and most importantly, people. We’ll need help as we do this. We’re seeking support from funders to move this work forward. We also look forward to continuing to engage our community in this process. More to come soon.

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“Creative Commons Summit 2023” by ProtoplasmaKid is licensed via CC BY 4.0.

Después de años de reunirse en línea, la comunidad de CC claramente está lista para reunirse en persona para la Cumbre Global de CC 2023 del 3 al 6 de octubre en la Ciudad de México, mostrando que el trabajo para abrir el conocimiento y la cultura es más popular e importante que nunca. Recibimos 184 respuestas de calidad a nuestra convocatoria de propuestas y más de 300 solicitudes de ayuda financiera para asistir. Ahora las personas reciben notificaciones sobre el éxito de sus propuestas de sesiones y solicitudes de becas y comienzan a planificar su viaje.

El interés inmenso en la Cumbre Global de este año generó grandes desafíos para los voluntarios que se unieron a la comunidad de CC para dar forma al programa y la participación de la Cumbre. Si bien hubiera sido maravilloso aceptar cada propuesta y solicitud, los límites de financiamiento, tiempo y espacio significaron que los miembros del comité tuvieron que tomar decisiones difíciles para tratar de formar una Cumbre que esperamos sea diversa, enriquecedora y práctica.

En todo momento, los comités trabajaron para tratar de hacer posible que todos tuvieran algún conexión con la Cumbre. Si bien decidimos que no sería práctico tratar de realizar un evento totalmente híbrido en el que tanto los participantes remotos como los presenciales pudieran participar de manera sincrónica, reconocimos que también era imposible reunir a todos los que quisieran asistir en un solo lugar.

En consecuencia, solicitamos sesiones en vivo en la Ciudad de México y experiencias a las que la gente pueda acceder en línea, cuando y donde pueda. Además de los paneles, talleres, charlas relámpago, carteles, y reuniones de la Cumbre misma, los participantes grabarán videos para verlos a pedido y reunirse en sesiones en línea antes y después de las sesiones en persona que tendrán lugar del 3 al 6 de octubre. En resumen, hay una manera de que cada sesión interesante llegue a una audiencia, ya sea solo los presentes en la Ciudad de México o el público mundial en línea. Dados los altos costos, las molestias de las restricciones de viaje, y los impactos ambientales de realizar eventos globales en ubicaciones únicas, más allá de la Cumbre de este año, esperamos continuar explorando prácticas tan variadas para unir a las personas.

En todas sus decisiones, los comités priorizaron la inclusión, trabajaron para equilibrar a los becarios e invitaron a sesiones para reflejar la diversidad de la comunidad de CC. Mientras tomamos en consideración factores como la calidad de la propuesta, la contribución anterior, y la necesidad financiera, también nos esforzamos por equilibrar el programa y los participantes por país, región, idioma, género, formato de entrega — enfatizando las sesiones que son colaborativas, interactivas y/o rompen el molde de la presentación clásica de un orador — y el tema — basándose en el tema de la Cumbre de IA y los bienes comunes, y temas que incluyen una mejor internet, creatividad contemporánea, cultura y patrimonio, educación, periodismo, y investigación y ciencia.

¡Únase a nosotros para agradecer a los miembros del comité del programa y de becas por su servicio! Se reunieron de todo el mundo — y en todo momento del día y de la noche — para refinar los procesos y revisar las presentaciones para ayudar a tantas personas como sea posible con fondos para asistir a la Cumbre y para dar forma a un programa que represente muchas actividades diversas en los bienes comunes que esperamos que inspire, pero no abrumar.

Si aún no se ha registrado en la Cumbre, regístrese para unirse a nosotros en la Ciudad de México, o si no está seguro de poder viajar allí, regístrese como participante virtual para asegurarse de enterarse y poder unirse a todas las actividades en línea.

Nota: Los miembros de los comités presentaron sus biografías en inglés.

Comité de Programa

Amber Osman (she/her)

Ambassador, DOAJ

I am an open science advocate and my greater interests are in scholarly content and the publication ethics. I am actively involved in different international academic, research & publishing organizations and with the Higher Education Commission (Govt. of Pakistan). An award-winning journal editor for advancing the publishing process by adopting innovative research and publishing solutions.

Aysa Ekanger (she/her)

Open Access Advisor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

I am based at the library of UiT The Arctic University of Norway and work mainly with Open Access-related topics. Giving advice about copyright and licensing issues is one of my tasks.

Brian Ssennoga (he/him)

CEO, Guild Digital

Brian is passionate mostly about 2 things: developing young leaders and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development. Brian currently serves as Director, Digital Health, for Last Mile Health’s Liberia Country Program, overseeing the adoption of the eCBIS (Community Based Information System) powered by the OpenSRP, a digital public good choice for public and private sector Community health digitization programs in Liberia. He is a founding member of the ICT Association of Uganda, and holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, a Postgrad diploma in Information Technology and an MBA (International Business). When not exploring the world through technology events and adventure, Brian loves to cook meals for family and friends, enjoy a good book, post a blog or play the guitar.

Carlo Joseph Moskito (co-chair; he/him)

Teacher, Instructional Designer, e-Learning Developer, Wikimedian, Philippines

Carlo is an educator and a free culture and open movement advocate from the Philippines. He has worked for several print publishing companies and an educational technology (edtech) company focusing on the content development of K to 12 instructional materials. Currently, he works for a USAID project on developing early grades reading materials in selected mother tongues in the Philippines. He is the lone member from the Philippines of the Creative Commons Global Network, a volunteer to several Wikimedia projects such as the Encyclopedia of Philippine Heritage, and a member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Elections Committee.

Irene Soria (she/her)

Embajadora, Creative Commons México

Irene is a PhD in the Feminist Studies Department at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. She is a part-time faculty member, academic, consultant, graphic designer and activist for the free software / free culture movement since 2009. Irene decided to explore and study her own practices when migrating to the exclusive use of free software as a graphic designer, which led her to the in-depth analysis of open knowledge, free access, the Commons and above all: social sciences crossed by feminism and decolonial studies. Around these topics, she has written a degree thesis, academic and general interest articles, books and compilations, as well as attended and presented at conferences in many countries. In 2018, she was invited to re-found the Creative Commons Mexico Chapter, which she represents at the Global Network Council, in addition to being a member of the CC Global Network Council Membership Committee and, lately, part of the ExCom.

Jennifer Miller (she/her)

Independent Open Knowledge Advocate

As an independent civic technologist and open knowledge advocate, my activities currently focus on organizing civic tech volunteers at Code for the Carolinas, service on the board of FORCE11, and planning a sustainable future for Translate Science. My academic background is in public policy and technical communication, and I have completed the Creative Commons Certificate Program for Educators.

Lía Rodríguez (she/her)

Socióloga, TEDIC

Estudiante de Sociología, militante feminista de las ciencias sociales. Cuento con experiencia laboral en organizaciones sociales rurales y urbanas. Activista en ámbitos de la comunicación popular e inclusión digital de comunidades en situación de vulnerabilidad.

Marcela Basch (she/her)

Nexialist, LAIA

I am a journalist, educator and nexialist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 2013, I am focused on collaborative, free, and open culture. I founded El Plan C, the first website in Spanish focused on these issues. I co-founded Encuentro Comunes (Commons Conference) with the goal of spreading awareness about those initiatives. I write a newsletter, Diez palabras: new tendencies from a linguistics nerd perspective. I have been part of CCGN since 2017, the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) since 2018, and Laboratorio Abierto de Inteligencia Artificial (LAIA) since 2023.

Nate Angell (co-chair; he/him)

Director of Communications & Community, Creative Commons

I’m an evangelist connecting people, ideas, and technologies to try to make things better, now leading communications and community at Creative Commons. I’ve worked across a wide variety of public and private institutions, focusing on community development, digital communications, meaningful education, open technologies, and sustainable growth. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA with some other cats and humans.

Nyirahabihirwe Clementine

General Secretary, Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda

Nyirahabihirwe Clementine is Rwandese and holds a Bachelor’s degree from National University of Rwanda, in the faculty of Economics and Management, Economics Department. ​She started contributing on Wikimedia projects in 2019 and is one of the four founders of Rwanda Wikimedia community user group, acting as General Secretary in the executive team. She used to organize and coordinate many different Wikimedian projects in my community (eg, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Wiki Loves Monuments , Wiki Loves Women, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Folklore).

Prodip Roy

Library Officer. RMIT University

I have been a library professional in local and state Governments and the tertiary education sector in Australia and Bangladesh for nineteen years. As the founder and Editor in Chief, I lead The Librarian Times team in implementing its vision and mission. I was the founder and President of the Bangla Language and Cultural School in Adelaide, South Australia, from 2013 -2015. I served as a Co-Chair for Special Interest Group-International Information Issues (SIG-III) of The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for three consecutive years from 2018 to 2021. I am serving as an ASIS&T Governance Committee member for 2022-2023. I have been a Creative Commons Global Network and CC Australia chapters member for the last few years.

Thalia Rahme (co-chair; she/her)

Independent Communications Consultant

A city goat, originally from Beirut, but currently living in Marseille. A former journalist, yet an unrepentant storyteller. A versatile comms person who’s into management. I’m interested in bridging between languages and technology and making information accessible to whomever needs it in the appropriate format. Currently learning 한국어 My Achilles heel is design but I haven’t lost hope yet

Comité de Becas

Eunice Mercado-Lara (she/her)

Civic Science Fellow, The Open Research Funders Group

I’m a Civic Science Fellow at the Open Research Funders Group, where I lead the Open & Equitable Model Funding Program, a research funders’ community of practice to pilot interventions to make grantmaking practices more equitable and incentivize open and collaborative scholarly practices. I have worked in the public sector to help government funding agencies in North and Latin America align incentives and policies to advance open research. I have served as a board and committee member in several international organizations and initiatives advocating for open scholarship practices, such as CERN’s SCOAP3 initiative, the Open Access Week, and the OpenCon LATAM.

Ivan Martínez (he/him)

Creative Commons México and R3D

Human rights defender and long-time free and open knowledge activist. Currently Creative Commons México Coordinator.

Lia P. Hernández Pérez (she/her)

Co-Founder, Creative Commons Panama Chapter

I am the founder of the Panamanian chapter of Creative Commons. Since 2014, I have been a very active actor promoting the use of CC licenses in the local and regional community.

Mari Moreshead (she/her)

Chief of Staff, Creative Commons

Mari came to CC in 2015 after three years at the Mozilla Foundation. Prior to that, she held similar administrative roles at a legal technology start up and the Playful Invention Company. She leads staff engagement, hiring, and other CC operations. She’s lived in a few Canadian cities but now calls Toronto home where she lives with her cats.  When she’s not at her desk, she’s quilting.

Max Wardeh (he/him)

Founder and CEO, Open Knowledge Connective

Interested in finding ways to get people in different areas of open culture (education, software, hardware, media, archives) to collaborate and grow the movement. Helping build Internet of Production Alliance, Open Knowledge Connective, and Less Impact. Teaching at Loughborough University London and OpenClassrooms.

Olalekan Isaac Olatunde (he/him)

Executive Secretary, Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation

Olatunde Isaac is a Nigerian scientist, food safety specialist, open knowledge advocate and social entrepreneur. He’s a long-term Wikipedia editor and Wikimedia community manager in Nigeria. Isaac is a versatile personality whose works in the open movement, specifically on Wikipedia, have been extensively covered by national and international media and have received numerous accolades for his contributions. He is one of the most prolific contributors to Wikipedia in Africa, and in 2015, he founded Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (now a charitable organization in Nigeria) that focuses on promoting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Nigeria.

Sami Mlouhi

CC Global Network Member

I’m Sami Mlouhi, a CC network member living in Tunis, Tunisia. I’m a Wikimedian and an advocate for open knowledge all over the world.

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“Creative Commons Summit 2023” by ProtoplasmaKid is licensed via CC BY 4.0.

After years of gathering online, the CC community is clearly eager to gather in person for CC’s 2023 Global Summit during 3–6 October in Mexico City, demonstrating that the work to open knowledge and culture is more popular and important than ever. We received 184 compelling responses to our call for proposals and over 300 requests for funding assistance to attend. Now people are receiving notifications about the success of their session proposals and scholarship applications and starting to plan their travel.

The overwhelming interest in this year’s Global Summit generated big challenges for the volunteers who stepped up from the CC community to shape the Summit’s program and participation. While it would have been wonderful to accept every proposal and application, the limits of funding, time, and space meant committee members had to make difficult decisions to try to form a Summit that we hope is diverse, enriching, and practical.

Throughout, the committees worked to try to make it possible for everyone to have some engagement with the Summit. While we decided it would be impractical to try to hold a fully hybrid event where both remote and in-person participants could engage together synchronously, we recognized that it was also impossible to bring everyone who might want to attend together in a single location.

Accordingly, we called for sessions to be held live in Mexico City and for experiences that people can access online, when and where they can. In addition to the panels, workshops, lightning talks, posters, and meetups that will happen at the Summit itself, participants will be recording videos for on-demand viewing and gathering in live online sessions both before and after the in-person sessions that will take place during 3–6 October. In short, there is a way for every compelling session to reach an audience — whether that’s just those present in Mexico City, or the worldwide public online. Given the high costs, travel restriction hassles, and environmental impacts of holding global events in single locations, beyond this year’s Summit we expect to continue to explore such varied practices to bring people together.

In all their decisions, the committees prioritized inclusion, working to balance scholarship recipients and invited sessions to reflect the diversity of the CC community. While taking factors like proposal quality, past contribution, and financial need into consideration, we also strived to balance the program and participants by country, region, language, gender, delivery format — emphasizing sessions that are collaborative, interactive, and/or break the mold of the classic speaker presentation — and subject matter — drawing on the Summit’s theme of AI & the Commons and topics including Better Internet, Contemporary Creativity, Culture & Heritage, Education, Journalism, and Scholarship & Science.

Please join us in thanking the program and scholarship committee members for their service! They gathered from all over the world — and all times of the day and night — to refine processes and review submissions to assist as many people as possible with funding to attend the Summit and to shape a program to represent many diverse activities in the commons that we hope will inspire, but not overwhelm.

If you haven’t registered for Summit yet, sign up to join us in Mexico City, or if you’re not sure you can travel there, register as a virtual participant to make sure you hear about and can join in all the online activities.

Program Committee

Amber Osman (she/her)

Ambassador, DOAJ

I am an open science advocate and my greater interests are in scholarly content and the publication ethics. I am actively involved in different international academic, research & publishing organizations and with the Higher Education Commission (Govt. of Pakistan). An award-winning journal editor for advancing the publishing process by adopting innovative research and publishing solutions.

Aysa Ekanger (she/her)

Open Access Advisor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

I am based at the library of UiT The Arctic University of Norway and work mainly with Open Access-related topics. Giving advice about copyright and licensing issues is one of my tasks.

Brian Ssennoga (he/him)

CEO, Guild Digital

Brian is passionate mostly about 2 things: developing young leaders and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development. Brian currently serves as Director, Digital Health, for Last Mile Health’s Liberia Country Program, overseeing the adoption of the eCBIS (Community Based Information System) powered by the OpenSRP, a digital public good choice for public and private sector Community health digitization programs in Liberia. He is a founding member of the ICT Association of Uganda, and holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, a Postgrad diploma in Information Technology and an MBA (International Business). When not exploring the world through technology events and adventure, Brian loves to cook meals for family and friends, enjoy a good book, post a blog or play the guitar.

Carlo Joseph Moskito (co-chair; he/him)

Teacher, Instructional Designer, e-Learning Developer, Wikimedian, Philippines

Carlo is an educator and a free culture and open movement advocate from the Philippines. He has worked for several print publishing companies and an educational technology (edtech) company focusing on the content development of K to 12 instructional materials. Currently, he works for a USAID project on developing early grades reading materials in selected mother tongues in the Philippines. He is the lone member from the Philippines of the Creative Commons Global Network, a volunteer to several Wikimedia projects such as the Encyclopedia of Philippine Heritage, and a member of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Elections Committee.

Irene Soria (she/her)

Embajadora, Creative Commons México

Irene is a PhD in the Feminist Studies Department at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. She is a part-time faculty member, academic, consultant, graphic designer and activist for the free software / free culture movement since 2009. Irene decided to explore and study her own practices when migrating to the exclusive use of free software as a graphic designer, which led her to the in-depth analysis of open knowledge, free access, the Commons and above all: social sciences crossed by feminism and decolonial studies. Around these topics, she has written a degree thesis, academic and general interest articles, books and compilations, as well as attended and presented at conferences in many countries. In 2018, she was invited to re-found the Creative Commons Mexico Chapter, which she represents at the Global Network Council, in addition to being a member of the CC Global Network Council Membership Committee and, lately, part of the ExCom.

Jennifer Miller (she/her)

Independent Open Knowledge Advocate

As an independent civic technologist and open knowledge advocate, my activities currently focus on organizing civic tech volunteers at Code for the Carolinas, service on the board of FORCE11, and planning a sustainable future for Translate Science. My academic background is in public policy and technical communication, and I have completed the Creative Commons Certificate Program for Educators.

Lía Rodríguez (she/her)

Socióloga, TEDIC

Estudiante de Sociología, militante feminista de las ciencias sociales. Cuento con experiencia laboral en organizaciones sociales rurales y urbanas. Activista en ámbitos de la comunicación popular e inclusión digital de comunidades en situación de vulnerabilidad.

Marcela Basch (she/her)

Nexialist, LAIA

I am a journalist, educator and nexialist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 2013, I am focused on collaborative, free, and open culture. I founded El Plan C, the first website in Spanish focused on these issues. I co-founded Encuentro Comunes (Commons Conference) with the goal of spreading awareness about those initiatives. I write a newsletter, Diez palabras: new tendencies from a linguistics nerd perspective. I have been part of CCGN since 2017, the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) since 2018, and Laboratorio Abierto de Inteligencia Artificial (LAIA) since 2023.

Nate Angell (co-chair; he/him)

Director of Communications & Community, Creative Commons

I’m an evangelist connecting people, ideas, and technologies to try to make things better, now leading communications and community at Creative Commons. I’ve worked across a wide variety of public and private institutions, focusing on community development, digital communications, meaningful education, open technologies, and sustainable growth. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA with some other cats and humans.

Nyirahabihirwe Clementine

General Secretary, Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda

Nyirahabihirwe Clementine is Rwandese and holds a Bachelor’s degree from National University of Rwanda, in the faculty of Economics and Management, Economics Department. ​She started contributing on Wikimedia projects in 2019 and is one of the four founders of Rwanda Wikimedia community user group, acting as General Secretary in the executive team. She used to organize and coordinate many different Wikimedian projects in my community (eg, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Wiki Loves Monuments , Wiki Loves Women, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Folklore).

Prodip Roy

Library Officer. RMIT University

I have been a library professional in local and state Governments and the tertiary education sector in Australia and Bangladesh for nineteen years. As the founder and Editor in Chief, I lead The Librarian Times team in implementing its vision and mission. I was the founder and President of the Bangla Language and Cultural School in Adelaide, South Australia, from 2013 -2015. I served as a Co-Chair for Special Interest Group-International Information Issues (SIG-III) of The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for three consecutive years from 2018 to 2021. I am serving as an ASIS&T Governance Committee member for 2022-2023. I have been a Creative Commons Global Network and CC Australia chapters member for the last few years.

Thalia Rahme (co-chair; she/her)

Independent Communications Consultant

A city goat, originally from Beirut, but currently living in Marseille. A former journalist, yet an unrepentant storyteller. A versatile comms person who’s into management. I’m interested in bridging between languages and technology and making information accessible to whomever needs it in the appropriate format. Currently learning 한국어 My Achilles heel is design but I haven’t lost hope yet

Scholarship Committee

Eunice Mercado-Lara (she/her)

Civic Science Fellow, The Open Research Funders Group

I’m a Civic Science Fellow at the Open Research Funders Group, where I lead the Open & Equitable Model Funding Program, a research funders’ community of practice to pilot interventions to make grantmaking practices more equitable and incentivize open and collaborative scholarly practices. I have worked in the public sector to help government funding agencies in North and Latin America align incentives and policies to advance open research. I have served as a board and committee member in several international organizations and initiatives advocating for open scholarship practices, such as CERN’s SCOAP3 initiative, the Open Access Week, and the OpenCon LATAM.

Ivan Martínez (he/him)

Creative Commons México and R3D

Human rights defender and long-time free and open knowledge activist. Currently Creative Commons México Coordinator.

Lia P. Hernández Pérez (she/her)

Co-Founder, Creative Commons Panama Chapter

I am the founder of the Panamanian chapter of Creative Commons. Since 2014, I have been a very active actor promoting the use of CC licenses in the local and regional community.

Mari Moreshead (she/her)

Chief of Staff, Creative Commons

Mari came to CC in 2015 after three years at the Mozilla Foundation. Prior to that, she held similar administrative roles at a legal technology start up and the Playful Invention Company. She leads staff engagement, hiring, and other CC operations. She’s lived in a few Canadian cities but now calls Toronto home where she lives with her cats.  When she’s not at her desk, she’s quilting.

Max Wardeh (he/him)

Founder and CEO, Open Knowledge Connective

Interested in finding ways to get people in different areas of open culture (education, software, hardware, media, archives) to collaborate and grow the movement. Helping build Internet of Production Alliance, Open Knowledge Connective, and Less Impact. Teaching at Loughborough University London and OpenClassrooms.

Olalekan Isaac Olatunde (he/him)

Executive Secretary, Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation

Olatunde Isaac is a Nigerian scientist, food safety specialist, open knowledge advocate and social entrepreneur. He’s a long-term Wikipedia editor and Wikimedia community manager in Nigeria. Isaac is a versatile personality whose works in the open movement, specifically on Wikipedia, have been extensively covered by national and international media and have received numerous accolades for his contributions. He is one of the most prolific contributors to Wikipedia in Africa, and in 2015, he founded Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (now a charitable organization in Nigeria) that focuses on promoting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Nigeria.

Sami Mlouhi

CC Global Network Member

I’m Sami Mlouhi, a CC network member living in Tunis, Tunisia. I’m a Wikimedian and an advocate for open knowledge all over the world.

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Luego de nuestro anuncio inicial para la Cumbre Global Creative Commons 2023, ahora nos complace abrir la siguiente fase de preparación para este evento tan esperado, que tendrá lugar del 3 al 6 de octubre de 2023 en el corazón de la Ciudad de México. Hoy comienza el registro, la convocatoria de propuestas, y solicitudes de becas.

Tema de la Cumbre: IA y los bienes comunes

Dentro de la preparación de la Cumbre, hemos estado perfeccionando el enfoque para que sea inteligencia artificial (IA) y los bienes comunes.

El creciente uso de la IA ha llegado a dominar las conversaciones y actividades en nuestras comunidades. Incluso el término “IA” es demasiado simplificado y cuestionado, ya que representa una amplia variedad de prácticas y herramientas de aprendizaje automático con diferentes orígenes y usos que no son necesariamente artificiales (ya que la IA es creada por humanos) o inteligentes (en la forma en que los humanos son). Mientras tanto, los autores están incorporando herramientas de IA a su trabajo, los investigadores están aprovechando la IA para explorar grandes conjuntos de datos y los educadores están usando la IA para ayudar a crear nuevos recursos educativos abiertos. Pero al mismo tiempo, los artistas y escritores se preguntan cómo la IA se basa en sus creaciones, las publicaciones como Wikipedia y las revistas académicas están luchando con las presentaciones automatizadas impulsadas por la IA, y los legisladores están adoptando nuevas regulaciones de la IA como las que vemos en la Unión Europea, quizás sin tener en cuenta las preocupaciones globales.

La intersección entre la IA y los bienes comunes es compleja, pero una cosa está clara: la IA crea importantes oportunidades y desafíos tanto a los bienes comunes como a la estrategia de CC para apoyar mejor compartir, que sea contextual, inclusivo, justo, equitativo, recíproco y sostenible.

En CC, hemos estado explorando asuntos relacionados con la IA durante algún tiempo; por ejemplo, nuestra serie de publicaciones de blog 2023 y nuestra publicación de blog de 2021: Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends. Pero el camino a seguir aún no está claro. Necesitamos seguir adelante y explorar la complejidad de la IA como comunidad, por lo que estamos entusiasmados de poder tener la Cumbre como una oportunidad para promover la conversación, la exploración y la comprensión.

Vendremos a la Cumbre buscando ampliar nuestra comprensión de la IA y los bienes comunes, además de que se ofrecerá una amplia combinación de sesiones, incluirá temas clásicos de CC que pueden no estar relacionados con la IA y reunirá a personas de toda la comunidad de CC para conectarse en vivo en la Ciudad de México y también de forma virtual en línea para quienes no puedan asistir de manera presencial.

Regístrese (en persona)

Únase a nosotros en el Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco del 3 al 6 de octubre de 2023, asistirán entusiastas del conocimiento y cultura abierta de todo el mundo para intercambiar ideas, desarrollar soluciones y dar forma colectiva al futuro de la creatividad y la colaboración digital.

Espere una reunión vibrante y diversa en la Cumbre de este año, con una variedad de sesiones que incluyen conferencias magistrales, paneles, sesiones comunitarias, talleres, oportunidades para establecer contactos, así como arte y música. Entonces, ya sea que sea un entusiasta de la tecnología, un creador digital, un experto en políticas o un ferviente miembro de la comunidad CC, habrá sesiones y conversaciones que lo involucrarán.

REGÍSTRESE AHORA >>

Regístrese (acceso virtual)

Si no puede unirse a nosotros en la Ciudad de México, aún puede participar en la Cumbre en línea. Estamos comprometidos a hacer que la Cumbre sea accesible para nuestra comunidad global. Sobre la base del éxito de nuestras pasadas cumbres virtuales y nuestro compromiso continuo con la inclusión, estamos encantados de ofrecer una opción de registro virtual para la Cumbre Global CC 2023.

Como asistente virtual, tendrá la oportunidad de mirar presentaciones seleccionadas de la Cumbre — tantos grabadas y transmitidas en vivo — y participar en la plataforma de networking de la Cumbre. También estamos planeando sesiones adicionales en vivo en línea/virtuales que pueden reunir a quienes asisten en persona y a quienes no para conversar sobre la Cumbre. Esto les da a aquellos que no pueden viajar a la Ciudad de México la oportunidad de participar en la conversación global.

Es importante tener en cuenta que, si bien nos esforzamos por hacer que la Cumbre sea lo más accesible posible, el registro virtual no brindará la experiencia completa del evento en persona. Este no es un evento híbrido; en cambio, estamos ofreciendo una vía para la conexión y el aprendizaje virtual, brindando una muestra de las ofertas de la Cumbre.

Independientemente de dónde se una a nosotros, la Cumbre promete ser una exploración fascinante de la IA y los bienes comunes, con información valiosa de una diversa gama de experiencias.

REGÍSTRESE COMO ASISTENTE VIRTUAL >>

Proponer una sesión

También estamos encantados de anunciar nuestra convocatoria de propuestas. El comité del programa comunitario invita propuestas que aborden la IA y los bienes comunes u otros temas relevantes para la comunidad CC, especialmente propuestas que van más allá de las sesiones de conferencias estándar para explorar experiencias interactivas, trabajos culturales y resultados colaborativos. Invitamos a todos los activistas, creadores, defensores, bibliotecarios, estudiantes, educadores, abogados, tecnólogos, y otros de todo el mundo para presentar sus ideas, proyectos y experiencias. Damos la bienvenida a una gran variedad de formatos de presentación, que incluyen conferencias magistrales, paneles, sesiones comunitarias, talleres, creación de redes, arte y música.

La fecha límite para enviar propuestas era la medianoche, hora del Pacífico (UTC-7) del 4 de julio de 2023.

Solicitar una beca

Ahora estamos aceptando solicitudes para el fondo de becas de la Cumbre Global CC 2023 la fecha límite es el 26 junio 2023. El fondo de becas existe para ayudar a cubrir el costo de asistencia a la Cumbre para aquellos que no puedan asistir de otra manera. Queremos asegurarnos de que tantas personas como sea posible tengan la oportunidad de participar y beneficiarse de la CC comunidad, independientemente de su situación financiera. Un objetivo principal de las becas es garantizar la diversidad, la equidad y la inclusión entre los participantes de la Cumbre. En las cumbres anteriores de CC, casi el 25% de todos los asistentes recibieron algún apoyo de becas. Nuestros beneficiarios de becas provienen de todas las regiones del mundo de CC, con un enfoque en garantizar que las personas de África, Asia-Pacífico y América Latina estén bien representadas.

La fecha límite para solicitar una beca era la medianoche, hora del Pacífico (UTC-7) del 26 de junio de 2023.

Mantente conectado

¡No te pierdas esta experiencia incomparable en la Cumbre Global CC 2023 en la Ciudad de México! Para mantenerte informado sobre las noticias y actualizaciones de la Cumbre:

• Únete a nuestra lista de correos: ¡Mantente al día! Suscríbete a nuestra lista de correo y recibe las últimas noticias sobre la Cumbre de manera inmediata.
• Síguenos en redes sociales: Manténte al día con todo lo relacionado con la Cumbre siguiéndonos en tu plataforma social preferida. Estamos activos en Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, LinkedIn, y Twitter.
• Involúcrate con CC en Slack: Interactúe directamente con nuestro equipo y otros entusiastas de CC. Únete a nuestra comunidad de Slack para discusiones y actualizaciones en tiempo real.

¿Estás interesado en convertirte en patrocinador de la Cumbre Global CC 2023? Obtén más información sobre nuestras oportunidades de patrocinio comunicándote con Javaher Nooryani en javaher@creativecommons.org.

Únete a nosotros en la Ciudad de México del 3 al 6 de octubre para la Cumbre Global CC 2023 para conectarte con otros creadores, innovadores y agentes de cambio que están impulsando el futuro de #BetterSharing. Regístrese hoy y asegure su lugar >>

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Following our initial announcement for the 2023 Creative Commons Global Summit, we are now excited to open the next phase of preparation for this much-anticipated event, set to take place during 3–6 October 2023 in the heart of Mexico City. Today, we are opening up registration, initiating the call for proposals, and starting to accept scholarship applications.

Summit theme: AI & the commons

As preparations have evolved, we’re also honing the thematic focus for this year’s Summit to be AI & the Commons.

The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) has come to dominate conversations and activities across our communities. Even the term “AI” is oversimplified and contested, as it stands for a wide variety of machine learning practices and tools with different origins and uses that are not necessarily artificial (as AI is made by humans) nor intelligent (in the way that humans are). Meanwhile, creators are bringing AI tools into their work, researchers are harnessing AI to explore large datasets, and educators are using AI to help build new open educational resources. But at the same time, artists and writers are questioning how AI builds on their creations, publications like Wikipedia and scholarly journals are struggling with automated submissions powered by AI, and policymakers are adopting new AI regulations like those we see in the European Union, perhaps without considering global concerns.

The intersection between AI and the commons is complex, but one thing is clear: AI brings significant opportunities and challenges both to the commons and to CC’s strategy to support better sharing, sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and sustainable.

At CC, we’ve been exploring issues around AI for some time — for example, see our 2023 blog post series and our 2021 blog post: Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends. But the way forward is still not clear. We need to keep going and explore AI’s complexity as a community, so we are excited to be able to have the Summit as an opportunity to further conversation, exploration, and understanding.

We will come to Summit looking to extend our understanding of AI and the commons, but the Summit will also have a wide mix of sessions, include classic CC topics that may not relate to AI, and bring together people from across the CC community to connect live in Mexico City and also virtually online for those who are not able to attend in person.

Register (in-person)

Join us at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco during 3–6 October 2023, as we convene open knowledge and culture enthusiasts from around the world to exchange ideas, develop solutions, and collectively shape the future of digital creativity and collaboration.

Expect a vibrant and diverse gathering at this year’s Summit, featuring an array of sessions including keynotes, panels, community sessions, workshops, networking opportunities, as well as art and music. So, whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a digital creator, a policy expert, or a fervent member of the CC community, there will be sessions and conversations that will engage you.

REGISTER NOW >>

Register (virtual access)

If you can’t join us in Mexico City, you can still participate in the Summit online. We are committed to making the 2023 Creative Commons Global Summit accessible to our global community. Building on the success of our past virtual CC Global Summits and our ongoing commitment to inclusivity, we are delighted to offer a Virtual Registration option for the 2023 CC Global Summit.

As a virtual attendee, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with selected streamed and recorded presentations from the Summit, as well as our networking platform. This gives those unable to travel to Mexico City the chance to participate in the global conversation.

It’s important to note that while we strive to make the Summit as accessible as possible, Virtual Registration will not provide the full experience of the in-person event. This is not a hybrid event; instead, we’re offering an avenue for virtual connection and learning, providing a taste of the Summit’s offerings.

Regardless of where you are joining us from, the 2023 CC Global Summit promises to be a compelling exploration of AI and the Commons, with valuable insights from a diverse array of sessions.

REGISTER AS A VIRTUAL ATTENDEE >>

Propose a session

We are also thrilled to announce our call for proposals. The community program committee invites proposals that address AI and the commons and/or other topics relevant to the CC community, especially proposals that go beyond standard conference sessions to explore interactive experiences, cultural works, and collaborative outcomes. We invite all activists, creators, advocates, librarians, students, educators, lawyers, technologists, and others across the globe to submit their ideas, projects, and experiences. We welcome a myriad of presentation formats, including keynotes, panels, community sessions, workshops, networking, art, and music.

The deadline for submitting proposals was midnight Pacific Time (UTC-7) on 4 July 2023.

Apply for a scholarship

We are now accepting applications for the 2023 CC Global Summit scholarship fund until 26 June 2023. The scholarship fund exists to help cover the cost of attendance for the Summit for those who may not be able to attend otherwise. We want to make sure that as many people as possible have a chance to participate in and benefit from the CC community, regardless of their financial situation. A primary goal of the scholarships is to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion among Summit participants. At past CC Summits, nearly 25% of all attendees received some CC scholarship support. Our scholarship recipients come from every CC world region, with a focus on ensuring that individuals from Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America are well-represented.

The deadline for applying for a scholarship was midnight Pacific Time (UTC-7) on 26 June 2023.

Stay connected

Don’t miss this unparalleled experience at the 2023 CC Global Summit in Mexico City! To stay informed about CC Summit news and updates:

• Join Our Mailing List: Never miss an update! Subscribe to our mailing list and get all the latest CC Summit news delivered straight to your inbox.
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• Get Involved with CC on Slack: Engage directly with our team and fellow CC enthusiasts. Join our Slack community for real-time discussions and updates.

Interested in becoming a sponsor for the 2023 CC Global Summit? Learn more about our sponsorship opportunities by contacting Javaher Nooryani at javaher@creativecommons.org.

Join us in Mexico City during 3–6 October for the 2023 CC Global Summit to connect with fellow creators, innovators, and changemakers who are driving the future of #BetterSharing. Register today and secure your spot >>

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