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 billin…

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, Be…

On this episode of CC's Open Minds, CC’s Chief Operating Officer, Anna Tumadóttir, sits down for an interesting conversation with Sam Williams, the co-founder and CEO of Arweave, the company that created the Arweave protocol, a permanent archive of human knowledge and experiences on a blockchain. Creative Commons licenses are the first set of licen…

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 c…

In this episode of CC's Open Minds, we sit 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 artists creativity, the dynamic duo teamed up to create an algorithm that would g…

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 …

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…

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…

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, …

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 beg…

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 co…

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 rec…

In celebration of International Open Access Week, our guest on this episode is Heather Joseph, the Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). Heather is a United States-based advocate for open access and academic journal publishing reform. SPARC is a global advocacy organization that works to make resea…

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, Execu…

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 mo…

Albert Wenger is managing partner at Union Square Ventures, a thesis-driven venture capital firm based in New York City. USV has invested in over 100 companies that use the power of the internet to re-shape markets, including Twitter, Etsy, Stripe, Tumblr, Meetup, and Kickstarter, among others. He is also the author of the book World After Capital,…

Audrey Tang is the Digital Minister of Taiwan, as well as an influential free software programmer and hacker. Tang is a vocal proponent of openness and has worked to manifest a vision for how open data and radical transparency can result in positive, productive collaboration between government and civil society. Tang will be one of the keynote spea…

Lila Bailey is the policy counsel (i.e. the lead lawyer) for the Internet Archive, the nonprofit digital library that makes millions of books, movies, websites, and other cultural works available for free to the public. She's focused on using technology and policy to democratize access to culture and knowledge, and advocates publicly for libraries,…

Coraline Ada Ehmke works at the intersection of open source software and social justice. She's the creator of Contributor Covenant, a code of conduct used by more than 100,000 open source projects and communities. She created the Hippocratic License, which prohibits software from being used in projects that violate human rights. She's also behind t…

Effie Kapsalis is Senior Digital Program Officer at The Smithsonian, where she leads the digital strategy for the Smithsonian's American Women's History Initiative. She also developed and implemented a project called Smithsonian Open Access, which removed copyright restrictions from millions of images and data and made them freely available to the …

In our debut episode, we talk to Creative Commons CEO Catherine Stihler. Catherine started at CC in 2020, after many years as a Member of the European Parliament for Scotland, and then more recently as the CEO of the Open Knowledge Foundation. In our conversation, we hear from CC's new leader about her career and her vision for what's next for the …

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