Creative Commons held a one-day workshop before kickstarting the CC Global Summit 2023 in Mexico City. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss issues related to Artificial Intelligence, creators, and the commons, and to help Creative Commons and the…
Repost from IFLA It can often feel like governments are playing catch-up with the internet. As digital technologies play an increasingly indispensable role in everything we do, the risks that they also bring are becoming clearer. As a result, there…
By Rachael G Samberg rsamberg@berkeley.edu and Timothy Vollmer tvollmer@berkeley.edu In August 2022, the UC Berkeley Library and Internet Archive were awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to study legal and ethical issues in cross-border text…
By Andres Izquierdo In the political declaration of the high-level political forum on sustainable development convened under the auspices of the General Assembly of the United Nations, it is stated that there will be a continued increase in investment in…
Members of the Access to Knowledge Coalition released an analysis of the major agenda items of the 44th session of WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights that will take place in Geneva from 6-8 November 2023 (SCCR/44). The…
Kakooza explores the progress Uganda has made in implementing the objectives of the 2013 Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled (“Marrakesh Treaty”), one year after it ratified…
By Andres Izquierdo On September 20 and 21, 2023, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) hosted its Eighth Session of the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Frontier Technologies. Central to the discourse was the pivotal role of training…
Amidst the copyright reform debate in South Africa, the Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of South Africa (CCIFSA) recently initiated its #NationalShutDownMarch campaign, in opposition of the reform. The article highlights how the CCIFSA has positioned itself as a quasi-political…
Creative Commons (CC) has engaged with a wide variety of stakeholders such as artists and content creators, as part of its ongoing community consultation on generative AI, to explore ways of addressing the artists’ concerns. CC has published an open…
This book examines the numerous adverse and unintended consequences of the shift to ed-tech as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It documents the consequences of widespread educational technologies, specifically how technology-first solutions left a global majority of learners behind…
On the 18th and 19th of September 2023 the Heads of State and Government and high representatives, met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, at the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, to review progress and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda…
In a recent decision of the D.C. Circuit, in American Society for Testing and Materials v. PublicResource.org, the Court affirmed the District Court’s finding that the publishing of the Code of Federal Regulations online constituted fair use by Public Resource.…