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Open Minds … from Creative Commons

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Brigitte Vézina of Creative Commons

Open Minds … from Creative CommonsFeb 01, 2022

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Trudi Radtke on InclusiveAccess.org

Trudi Radtke on InclusiveAccess.org

In this month's episode, Jennryn Wetzler, CC's Director of Learning and Training, talks all things Open Education and Inclusive Access Textbooks with Trudi Radtke, former Open Education Project Manager at SPARC. InclusiveAccess.org is a community-driven initiative that launched in 2021 to raise awareness of the facts about automatic textbook billing. The initiative was developed by SPARC with generous support from the Michelson 20MM Foundation, and Creative Commons is one of the partners. This episode was recorded in June 2022, when Trudi Radtke was the Open Education Project Manager at SPARC. In this role, they spearheaded advocacy and implementation for initiatives to make education more open and equitable, including InclusiveAccess.org. Prior to working at SPARC, Trudi was an Education Technology Specialist, OER Specialist and open consultant in the California community college system. As an Open and OER consultant, they have assisted in the creation of over 120 open textbooks and several Z-Degree pathways. Trudi is passionate about Open and has advocated for OER at the state, regional, and international levels.

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Learn more about InclusiveAccess.org: https://www.inclusiveaccess.org/

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Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Oct 18, 202250:54
Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker of Smarthistory

Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker of Smarthistory

On this episode, we're joined by art historians, Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker, the co-founders and executive directors of Smarthistory. Smarthistory is a center for public art history, with thousands of free and CC licensed videos and essays written by experts who want to share their knowledge with learners around the world. Previously, Beth was dean of art and history at Khan Academy and director of digital learning at The Museum of Modern Art. Before joining MoMA, Beth was Associate Professor of art history and director of distance learning at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she taught both online and in the classroom. Previously, Steven was dean of art and history at Khan Academy. He was chair of history of art and design at Pratt Institute, where he strengthened enrollment and led renewal of curriculum across the Institute. Previously, he was dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY and chair of art history. He has taught at The School of Visual Arts, Hunter College, and at The Museum of Modern Art.

Follow Creative Commons on Twitter: https://twitter.com/creativecommons

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Follow Dr. Beth Harris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bethrharris

Follow Dr. Steven Zucker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drszucker

Learn more about Smarthistory: https://www.smarthistory.org/

Check out Smarthistory’s Reframing Art History “textbook”: https://smarthistory.org/reframing-art-history/

Contact Dr. Beth Harris: beth[at]smarthistory[dot]org

Contact Dr. Steven Zucker: steven[at]smarthistory[dot]org

Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://www.classy.org/give/313412/#!/donation/checkout

Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Oct 04, 202225:00
Sam Williams of Arweave
Aug 11, 202240:22
*Special Episode* CC Roundtable on EU DATA ACT

*Special Episode* CC Roundtable on EU DATA ACT

In this episode, we switch things up from our typical interview style and play back the recording of Creative Commons’ hybrid roundtable on the EU Data Act, which took place in Brussels on 14th June 2022. CC CEO Catherine Stihler kicks things off with welcome remarks, and then Brigitte Vézina, CC’s Director of Open Culture and Policy, moderates a conversation between our distinguished panel of experts on how this new piece of legislation could reshape the rules governing value creation around data and unlock the potential for better sharing of knowledge and culture in the digital space across the EU and globally.


Our speakers in this episode include:
Catherine Stihler | CEO, Creative Commons (Welcome & Closing Remarks)
Brigitte Vézina | Director of Policy, Open Culture and GLAM, Creative Commons (Moderator)
Christel Schaldemose | Member, European Parliament (Panelist)
Anna Ludin | Policy Officer DG CNECT G.1, Data Policy and Innovation, European Commission (Panelist)
Amandine Le Pape | COO/co-founder, Element, Guardian/co-founder, Matrix.org Foundation (Panelist)
Paul Keller | President/founding member, COMMUNIA (Panelist)


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Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Jun 22, 202201:01:29
Damien Riehl & Noah Rubin of All The Music
May 04, 202225:55
Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author, Journalist and Tech Activist

Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author, Journalist and Tech Activist

In this episode, Creative Commons' General Counsel, Kat Walsh, sits down for an hour-long discussion with award winning science fiction author, journalist and technology activist, Cory Doctorow (craphound.com). Cory is a renowned advocate for liberalizing copyright law and a longtime contributor and supporter of CC and the commons, with several of his titles and creative works licensed under CC licenses. He is the author of young adult novels like LITTLE BROTHER and HOMELAND, and novels for adults like ATTACK SURFACE and WALKAWAY, as well as nonfiction books like HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM. His next nonfiction book is CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM, with Rebecca Giblin, about monopoly and fairness in the creative arts labor market. Cory was born in Toronto, Canada, and now lives in Los Angeles.

DISCLAIMER - Listener discretion is recommended. The following episode contains some language that some listeners may find offensive or inappropriate for younger audiences.

Learn more about Cory Doctorow:https://craphound.com/

Visit Cory’s daily blog: https://pluralistic.net/

Follow Cory on Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow

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Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://www.classy.org/give/313412/#!/donation/checkout

Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Apr 06, 202259:10
Angela DeBarger of William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Angela DeBarger of William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Dr. Angela Haydel DeBarger is a Program Officer in Education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Her portfolio addresses Open Education, with the aim of democratizing knowledge, creating inclusive and engaging experiences for learners, and advancing racial equity in education systems. Previously, Angela served as senior program officer for Lucas Education Research at the George Lucas Educational Foundation, where she led elementary and middle school project-based learning initiatives. From 2002 to 2014, she worked as an education researcher at SRI International. Her research focused on improving classroom pedagogy, specifically assessment strategies, to promote student learning and engagement in science. Angela has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University, a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan, and a doctorate in educational psychology from Stanford University. She is a native Californian and enjoys spending time with her two boys.

Learn more about Open Education Week: https://www.openeducationweek.org/

Follow Angela on Twitter: https://twitter.com/angeladebarger

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Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://www.classy.org/give/313412/#!/donation/checkout

Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Mar 07, 202231:42
Brigitte Vézina of Creative Commons

Brigitte Vézina of Creative Commons

Brigitte Vézina is Creative Commons’ Director of Policy, Open Culture, and GLAM. Brigitte is passionate about all things spanning culture, arts, handicraft, traditions, fashion and, of course, copyright law and policy. She gets a kick out of tackling the fuzzy legal and policy issues that stand in the way of access, use, re-use and remix of culture, information and knowledge. In this episode, Brigitte shares everything you need to know about the Creative Commons Open Culture / Open GLAM program and the new and exciting opportunities we have in store. We discuss Brigitte’s path to CC, the role and importance of Open Culture / Open GLAM, the impacts of COVID-19 on the sector, the future of Open Culture and more.

Learn more about CC’s Open Culture Program: https://bit.ly/3Gm3bKH

Learn more about CC's Open Culture VOICES Series: https://bit.ly/3L0Iibe

Complete CC’s GLAM Public Domain Tools Survey: https://bit.ly/3gx50tT

Follow Brigitte on Twitter @Brigitte_Vezina

Creative Commons on Twitter: https://twitter.com/creativecommons

Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/donate

Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Feb 01, 202233:18
Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise & Free Music Archive

Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise & Free Music Archive

Hessel van Oorschot is founder and "Chief of Noise" of the online music business Tribe of Noise, a community that connects artists, fans, and professionals. Founded in 2008 in The Netherlands, its main objective is to create fair and sustainable business opportunities for talented artists. Tribe of Noise are the stewards of the Free Music Archive, an online repository of royalty-free music. During the conversation, Hessel shares his unconventional path to discovering his passion, his insights on the biggest opportunities for music licensing right now, how he got involved with the open movement and Creative Commons, and more.

Learn more about Tribe of Noise: https://www.tribeofnoise.com/

Learn more about the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/

Follow Hessel on Twitter @73553H

Find Hessel on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/hesselvanoorschot/ 

Creative Commons on Twitter: https://twitter.com/creativecommons

Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/donate

Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Jan 12, 202235:01
*Special Episode* CC's 20th Anniversary feat. Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig

*Special Episode* CC's 20th Anniversary feat. Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig

On this milestone episode of CC's Open Minds, join us as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Creative Commons' founding on December 19, 2021. We take you back to Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig's keynote from the 2021 CC Global Summit, originally held in September 2021. Lawrence, fondly referred to by many as Larry, reflects on how CC began, what it has accomplished, and is later joined by Creative Commons CEO, Catherine Stihler, for a fireside chat where he shares his hopes for CC for the next twenty years and beyond. Lawrence is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He's a distinguished attorney, political activist and incredible visionary. 


Follow Lawrence Lessig on Twitter: @lessig

Creative Commons on Twitter: https://twitter.com/creativecommons

Learn more about CC’s  ‘Better Sharing’ 20th Anniversary Campaign: https://creativecommons.org/20-years/

Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/donate

Featured music: "Happy Birthday to You Ska" by Serge Quadrado. Available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License at the Free Music Archive.

Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Dec 19, 202146:12
Yana Buhrer Tavanier and Pavel Kounchev of Fine Acts

Yana Buhrer Tavanier and Pavel Kounchev of Fine Acts

On this episode, we’re joined by two guests, Yana Buhrer Tavanier and Pavel Kounchev, two of three co-founders of Fine Acts, a global creative studio that encourages experimentation and collaboration across disciplines to inspire social change. Fine Acts brings together multidisciplinary teams of artists, activists and technologists to prototype compelling works of art aligned with specific human rights campaigns. They publish all completed works on TheGreats.co, their free platform filled with socially engaged visual content, open to anyone to use or adapt non-commercially under CC licenses.

Yana is the Executive Director of Fine Acts, a TED Senior Fellow, Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and her most recent TED talk, focused on the concept of playtivism: incorporating multidisciplinary creative play and experimentation in activism has been viewed close to 2 million times. Pavel is chair of the board of Fine Acts, an Obama Foundation scholar at Columbia University, and a Royal Society of the Arts fellow. He was born in Bulgaria, where he also co-founded TimeHeroes with Yana – the biggest online volunteering service in the country, with 80,000 registered volunteers – for which he was named among Forbes Bulgaria’s list of 30 Under 30.

Check out Fine Acts’ website: http://fineacts.co/

Follow Fine Acts on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fine_acts

Follow Fine Acts on Instagram: http://instagram.com/fineacts

Visit The Greats platform: https://thegreats.co/

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Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://www.classy.org/give/313412/#!/donation/checkout

Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Nov 17, 202138:07
Tyler Green of The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Tyler Green of The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Tyler Green is an award-winning author, historian and art critic. Tyler is also the producer/host of The Modern Art Notes podcast, described by The Washington Post as "one of the great resources for all art lovers." Tyler is an avid Creative Commoner, and since launching the podcast in 2011, it has been released, licensed CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.

Tyler recently published his latest book ‘Emerson’s Nature and the Artists,’ which brings together a selection of 75 artistic works in dialog with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1836 Nature essay for the first time. All of the artworks in the book were sourced from art museums and libraries with open access policies. Tyler offers his own compelling insights into Nature through new research into how Emerson's art experiences influenced the essay, and in turn how it informed American art well into the twentieth century. In this episode, we discuss Emerson’s understanding of landscape and the public commons, how it shaped American Art, and how it is still relevant to Creative Commons and the broader open movement today. Tyler shares top tips from a decades worth of podcasting experience and much more.

Get a copy of Tyler’s Emerson’s Nature and the Artists: https://tylergreenbooks.com/books/emersons-nature-and-the-artists/

Check out Tyler’s website: https://tylergreenbooks.com/

Follow Tyler on Twitter & IG: @TylerGreenBooks

Creative Commons on Twitter: https://twitter.com/creativecommons

Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://www.classy.org/give/313412/#!/donation/checkout

Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Nov 02, 202149:25
Heather Joseph of SPARC
Oct 25, 202134:08
*Special Episode* Meet 3 of our CC Global Summit Keynotes

*Special Episode* Meet 3 of our CC Global Summit Keynotes

In anticipation of our upcoming virtual CC Global Summit, we’re doing something a little different in this episode. Pack your bags and prepare for a short (audio) tour around the world, join CC’s Ony Anukem as she speaks to three of our wonderful Summit keynote speakers. First up in Nairobi, Kenya, where we sit down with Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director at Ushahidi. Ushahidi is a global non-profit technology company that builds tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering barriers for individuals to raise their voices. Angela was also recently appointed to the Creative Commons Board of Directors.

Next, we'll arrive in Bangalore, India, where you’ll hear from Shuttleworth Fellow and Coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, Achal Prabhala. AccessIBSA is a project set up to expand access and speed up the discovery of new drugs in India, Brazil and South Africa. Our final stop on the tour will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where we will catch up with Cecília Olliveira, Executive Director of Fogo Cruzado. Fogo Cruzado aims to expand a community-driven open data platform and reduce the impact of armed violence to build a more just society. She is also a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation.

Are you ready for an adventure? Get to know our Summit keynote speakers, as we talk about their work, what drives them and what they are most excited about for this year’s CC Global Summit.

Register for the 2021 CC Global Summit: https://www.classy.org/event/cc-global-summit-2021/e347520

Follow Angela on Twitter: @AngieNicoleOD

Follow Cecília on Twitter: @Cecillia

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Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://www.classy.org/give/313412/#!/donation/checkout

Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Sep 10, 202101:06:05
Matt Mullenweg of Automattic

Matt Mullenweg of Automattic

Originally from Houston, Texas, Matt is the co-founder of the open-source blogging platform WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and Jetpack. As an advocate of distributed work, Matt set out to change the way folks work at Automattic. With more than 1,100 employees working from more than 62 countries, it is an entirely distributed company with no physical headquarters.

Matt is a long-time supporter of Creative Commons, and earlier this year, we announced that CC Search, the search engine we built for openly licensed content, had found a new home at WordPress.org.

Check out Matt’s blog: https://ma.tt/

Follow Matt on Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr @PhotoMatt

Creative Commons on Twitter: https://twitter.com/creativecommons

Donate to support the work of Creative Commons: https://www.classy.org/give/313412/#!/donation/checkout

Theme music: "Day Bird" by Broke for Free (brokeforfree.com). Available for use under the CC BY 3.0 license, at the Free Music Archive.

Open Minds … from Creative Commons is licensed to the public under CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Aug 27, 202143:37
Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures
Aug 02, 202128:56
Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan
Jul 13, 202126:40
Lila Bailey of the Internet Archive
Apr 15, 202135:05
Coraline Ada Ehmke of the Organization for Ethical Source
Mar 18, 202128:44
Effie Kapsalis of The Smithsonian
Feb 24, 202124:14
Catherine Stihler of Creative Commons
Feb 18, 202119:12