Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity. Its licenses and public domain tools enable a free, simple, and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for creative and academic works; ensure proper attribution; and allow others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works. This grant provides support for dedicated programming on open journalism issues at the 2023 Global Summit, which is an annual event that brings together an international group of educators, artists, technologists, legal experts, and activists to promote the power of open licensing and global access.

This proposed award will provide travel and other support for attendees of the Creative Commons Global Summit in Seoul, South Korea in October, 2015. Participants in the Summit will develop new legal tools that encourage open access scholarship, and work with the Authors Alliance (a MacArthur grantee) and other open access advocates to assist authors who wish to share their work broadly under Creative Commons licenses. Workshops and technical sessions concerning the next set of services for Creative Commons licenses, including global search of Creative Commons materials, will produce prototypes for further development. This award will ensure diverse representation of participants from lower income regions including India, Kenya, Egypt, and Panama, among many others throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America w​here a substantial funding network simply does not exist to support development of open access tools and practices. The Summit is expected to draw 300 to 400 attendees from over 75 countries; notable attendees include Yochai Benkler, author and law professor at Harvard Law School; Julia Reda, Member of the European Parliament and rapporteur of the Parliament’s review of the EU Copyright Directive; and Lila Tretikov, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. The meeting is funded in part by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the Gates Foundation, and by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism ($25,000), Mozilla ($10,000), Wikimedia Foundation ($10,000).

In support of general operations and the planning of an endowment campaign (over three years).

In support of Science Commons (over two years).

In support of general operations (over three years).