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Hello John!

July arrived with a flurry of exciting happenings at Creative Commons. We’re eager to share our recent highlights and forthcoming opportunities with you.

Here are some key highlights we're celebrating:

🎉 A Warm Welcome: We're thrilled to welcome Marta Belcher, James Grimmelmann, and Luis Villa to the Creative Commons Board of Directors.

🎙️ Key AI Panel in Brussels: Creative Commons proudly represented civil society at a pivotal AI panel discussion, chaired by MEP Dragos Tudorache at the European Internet Forum.

🔗 License Upgrade: Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have adopted version 4.0 of the Creative Commons BY-SA license!

🇪🇺 AI Act Approval: The European Parliament's green light to the AI Act represents a major stride towards establishing the world's foremost AI regulations.

🔬 Open Climate Campaign Support: Recent commitments to open access knowledge reaffirm the Open Climate Campaign's mission to normalize open sharing of research outputs in climate science.

Here are some upcoming opportunities you can engage in:

🌎 2023 CC Global Summit: Register now for our upcoming summit in Mexico City during 3–6 October. Can't join us in person? Sign up for our Virtual Access Registration.
🔬Open Climate Research Training: Along with the Open Research Funders Group, Open Climate Campaign is offering training and support to enable opening of climate research for non-government funders (foundations and institutes) who fund climate change research. Interested in participating? Sign up by 17 July.
✨ Volunteers Needed: The CC Open Culture Program seeks volunteers to translate key resources. Join us in our mission to make our work more accessible globally.

Keep scrolling for the latest from CC’s Generative AI series, and explore more exciting opportunities and valuable resources we've curated for you.

Sincerely,

The CC Team

➤ Better Sharing in the Age of AI

🤖 As generative AI advances rapidly, we at CC are keeping an eye on the associated complexities of these groundbreaking tools. Our focus remains on the interface of copyright law and generative AI, as we advocate for #BetterSharing, respect for human creators, and support for innovation.

📝 Our AI blog series, with contributions from our team and guest authors, tackles issues surrounding AI, from the source of training data to the impact of AI-created results. Check it out and explore crucial topics like copyright protection for artistic style and accountability of generative AI tools for possible user infringements.

➤ CC Resources and Updates

Check out Our CEO Catherine Stihler's Masterclass!

📺 Watch CC CEO Catherine Stihler's insightful masterclass on open access, copyright, and the decentralized web in her quick, 12-minute talk from Consensus 2023. A must-watch for anyone interested in the evolving digital landscape!

Join Us: A Call to Rethink the Online Safety Bill!

⚖️ The Online Safety Bill risks endangering the best parts of the internet, while trying to weed out the worst parts. Join CC Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia UK, and fellow public interest projects in a call for the exemption of such projects from the Bill.

Register now for Back to Basics: Open Culture for Beginners!

🗓️ The CC Open Culture Team is excited to announce Open Culture Live, a new webinar series featuring conversations with experts on a wide array of topics. Join us for “Back to Basics: Open Culture for Beginners!” on 27 July at 2pm UTC.

Stay up-to-date on our work by following @creativecommons or visiting the CC blog. You can also support our work by donating here!

👋 Other updates:

🎥 Discover how Bay Area Community Colleges are leveraging Zero-Textbook-Cost Degrees and Open Educational Resources (OER) and how you can too in this inspiring video by Michelson 20MM, featuring Jennryn Wetzler, CC's Director of Learning & Training.
💌 Check out the second edition of CC Open Culture Matters from last month and subscribe to our newest newsletter. Stay connected with the latest updates from the CC Open Culture Program, news, and feature stories on Open GLAM Collections. Sign up now and be part of the conversation!
🏳️‍⚧️ Creative Commons stands in solidarity with the trans community in denouncing the alarming violations of trans rights happening globally. Protecting the rights of all individuals is central to our mission of openness, inclusivity, and access to knowledge & culture.
🌍 Do you know about the impactful Open Climate Campaign partnership between Creative Commons, SPARC, and EIFL? We launched the Open Climate Campaign, an initiative committed to making knowledge and data on climate change solutions freely accessible. Be part of this vital mission.
📺 Looking for a binge-worthy edutainment series? Tune into Open Culture VOICES Season 2! With 20 episodes already available, it's an enlightening journey into the world of GLAM, featuring conversations with global experts on making cultural heritage universally accessible. Dive in and catch up today.
🔓Unlock your open licensing potential with Creative Commons' array of learning and training opportunities. From workshops and consulting to lectures and CC Certificate courses, we offer something for everyone.
🔍Do you want to learn more about how Creative Commons licenses work? Check out our informative FAQ page.

➤ Eye Candy 🍭

Each month, we change our social media headers to a new CC-licensed image. This year, we are spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from our #BetterSharing collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For July, we're excited to showcase “Better Sharing For Brighter Future” by Janice Chang. The piece, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, was inspired by a quote from Tyler Green, Author, Historian, Art Critic and Producer/Host, The Modern Art Notes Podcast.

🎨 Learn more about the illustration and the artist.

📥 Download the eye candy.

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