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CC at SCCR 42: A Look Back at the WIPO Copyright Meeting
by Brigitte Vézina CopyrightFrom 9 to 13 May 2022, Creative Commons (CC) participated in the 42nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) in Geneva, Switzerland. In this blog post, we look back on the highlights of the SCCR/42 week. Super happy to represent @creativecommons at @WIPO #SCCR42 #copyright…
Open Minds Podcast: Damien Riehl & Noah Rubin of All The Music
by Ony Anukem About CCHello Creative Commoners! We are back with a brand new episode of CC’s Open Minds … from Creative Commons podcast. In this episode, we sat down with programmer, musician, and copyright attorney, Damien Riehl, and fellow musician and programmer, Noah Rubin—the creators of the All The Music project. Frustrated by accidental copyright infringement lawsuits stifling…
Join us at ‘The Future of Open’ Webinar on 9 November!
by Brigitte Vézina, Ony Anukem Copyright, EventsCC Policy Working Groups In May this year, we announced that four working groups of the Creative Commons Copyright Platform would examine policy issues affecting the open ecosystem. For the past five months, they have worked vigorously to provide clearer articulation of the issues and consider possible solutions in four areas: Working Group 1 —…
Six Projects Get Funding from the Creative Commons Copyright Platform Activities Fund
by Brigitte Vézina CommunityWe’re delighted to announce the six selected projects that will receive funding from the CC Copyright Platform Activities Fund in 2020! The CC Copyright Platform is an active space for copyright advocates and experts to coordinate copyright law and policy-related activities. This year, CC launched an Activities Fund to support copyright-related activities by Platform members.…
Introducing the CC Global Network Platforms!
by Julia Brungs About CC, CommunityWe’re excited to introduce the three Creative Commons Global Network (CCGN) Platforms: Open Glam, Copyright, and Open Education! These Platforms are created with our community in mind, and everyone is free to join. Open GLAM Network Platform Following the work that started in 2017, the Open GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) Platform is currently…
Does WIPO’s New Leadership Have the Vision to Shake Up Global Copyright Policy-Making?
by Brigitte Vézina CopyrightNew beginnings at WIPO On March 4, Daren Tang was nominated director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency dealing with intellectual property matters. Tang is currently the chief executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) and his six-year term as top WIPO official will start on October…
U.S. Appellate Court Enforces CC’s Interpretation of NonCommercial
by Diane Peters Licenses & Tools, Open EducationUpdate: On February 7, 2020, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied Great Minds’ petition for rehearing (opinion (PDF)). As a result, the decision (PDF) of the panel in favor of CC’s interpretation of the licenses remains final. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reaffirmed Creative Commons’ interpretation of activities that are permissible under the…
What’s next with WIPO’s ill-advised broadcast treaty?
by Timothy Vollmer CopyrightSix years ago we wrote a blog post titled WIPO’s Broadcasting Treaty: Still Harmful, Still Unnecessary. At the time, the proposed treaty — which would grant to broadcasters a separate, exclusive copyright-like right in the signals that they transmit, separate from any copyrights in the content of the transmissions — had already been on WIPO’s docket for…
New NAFTA Would Harm Canadian Copyright Reform and Shrink the Public Domain
by Timothy Vollmer CopyrightLate yesterday the U.S., Canada, and Mexico reached an agreement on a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The agreement (now rebranded as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or “USMCA”) obligates Canada to increase its copyright term by an additional 20 years if the deal is passed. Canada currently observes the minimum term of copyright as…
The Commons Opens Up the World
by Loup EventsI first got involved with Creative Commons last year when the Creative Commons Global Summit happened in Toronto. I had just moved to Toronto, so it seemed like a great opportunity to see what the organization did firsthand.