Here we are, another International Day Against DRM, and of course there are still countless stories about how DRM — digital rights management — continues to frustrate users who should be able to access, enjoy, and repurpose the media and content they’ve already paid for. …

European lawmakers are drafting new copyright rules that will require online platforms to automatically monitor and filter all user-uploaded content. Their intention is to stop copyright infringement, but the reality will go so far beyond that it will risk breaking the internet. This means that nearly every platform — from…

As part of our work at Creative Commons to help creators make better/more human connections when they share their creative work, we are trying to dissect what makes online collaboration thrive. We are calling this our prosocial work, and you can read the details of what we are planning and…

Jessamyn West is a famous librarian, a former Metafilter admin, and a Vermont information technologist with a passion for open knowledge. West has been blogging about library technology since 1999 at librarian.net and on her blog jessamyn.com since 1999. She also has a prolific Medium presence and an entertaining and…

Happy Summer Solstice! — This week the Northern Hemisphere is celebrating the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. In honor of the holiday, here are beautiful images of fairies from a variety of CC licensed sources. Discover more fairies in the collections of Europeana, Met Museum, NYPL, and more with our CC Search tool, and don’t forget to sign up for our email list for more great content and announcements from the commons!

The new book Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science, edited by Rajiv Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener, features the work of open advocates around the world, including Cable Green, Director of Open Education at Creative Commons. …

This week, we’ll be featuring stories from this year’s State of the Commons report, which highlights the impact of our global community by exploring the wide array of creativity and knowledge that is freely available to the world under under CC licenses. …

Today marks another milestone for the commons: the release of the 2016 State of the Commons, our annual deep dive and celebration of the global community working to further collaboration, creativity, and access to creativity and knowledge. This year’s report goes beyond data and metrics to focus on the people…

Our new book was released to Kickstarter backers today and will be available at the CC Global Summit and in wide release May 5. — For the last year and a half, Creative Commons staff Sarah Hinchliff Pearson and Paul Stacey have been writing a Kickstarter backed book about sharing and open business models called Made With Creative Commons. Here’s a short excerpt: “When we began this project in August 2015, we set out to…