A thriving and connected community is key to building a stronger open movement. That’s why, as part of our 2025–2028 strategic plan, we’re placing community at the center of everything we do. Our vision is clear: a world where communities actively leverage CC’s open infrastructure to share knowledge in the public interest. This year, we’re…
Josie Fraser’s work focuses on equitable and inclusive digital transformation. She has worked across the education, government, and cultural sectors. She has advised and represented major organisations and governments nationally and internationally. She is currently Head of Digital Policy at the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the UK’s largest funder of heritage. She leads on the…
Curiosity, social justice, and a need for gender equity drive my interest in digital technology. My work focuses on digital and data rights through research to influence public interest policy and civil society engagement; advisory to technologists to think of how their technology affects women and gender diverse people, and philanthropic interventions to support leadership…
Moeed Ahmad is a digital media executive and strategist with over two decades of experience leading media transformation across global organizations. He currently serves as Head of AJ+ English, Al Jazeera Media Network’s award-winning digital channel, where he has led major strategic shifts pivoting to audience-focused platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram and guided the…
Creative Commons is a set of legal tools and a nonprofit organization, as well as a global network and a movement — all inspired by people’s willingness to share their creativity and knowledge, and enabled by a set of open copyright licenses. Creative Commons began in response to an outdated global copyright legal system. CC…
SXSW by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0
SXSW by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 If you’ve been following along on the blog this year, you’ll know that we’ve been thinking a lot about the future of open, particularly in this age of AI. With our 2025-2028 strategy to guide us, we’ve been louder about a renewed call for reciprocity…
Reciprocal Roof (Shed) by Ziggy Liloia is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 A lot has changed in the past few years, and it is high time for Creative Commons (CC) to be louder about our values. Underpinning our recently released strategic plan is a renewed call for reciprocity. Neutrality serves only the status quo and…
General What is the CC Certificate? The CC Certificate is a rigorous 10-week online course, which requires an average of 6-10 hours of work per week. While this course is mostly asynchronous, you will have graded materials due every week and a minimum of four optional webinars. You will have direct contact with an expert…
CC Certificate content is available in 10 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, English, French, Italian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, and Yoruba! CC Certificate translations are done by community volunteers who help to make open licensing training more accessible to over one billion people in their native languages. Thank you! If you are a CC Certificate graduate and…