Here's what's happening at CC this month...

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** Hello John!
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August is well and truly in motion 💨

Here at CC, we just got back from a full week off that we spent resting, recharging, and doing things that we love outside of work. We are back with renewed zeal and excitement for all the amazing things CC has in the pipeline for the rest of the year.

This month marks the second anniversary of CEO Catherine Stihler at Creative Commons. To celebrate the occasion, Catherine penned a reflection on Better Sharing and CC's challenges and opportunities (available on the CC blog ([link removed]) ). Here is a short excerpt:
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We hope you’ll continue to join us in building a commons of knowledge and culture that is accessible to everyone, everywhere.
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Sincerely,

The CC Team love_cc


** ➤ *NEW* Open Minds 🎧
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New Episode of “Open Minds…from Creative Commons” ([link removed])

CC's Open Minds podcast is a series of conversations with people working to make the Internet and our global culture more open and collaborative. This month's episode features an interesting conversation between CC COO Anna Tumadóttir and Sam Williams, co-founder and CEO at Arweave.

▶️ Listen to Episode 19 featuring Sam Williams ([link removed])


** ➤ CC Resources and Updates
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** What are the barriers to open culture? Here’s what the CC community has to say ([link removed])
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What are the barriers to open culture? In search of answers, we looked at past research and asked more than 30 experts in the open culture movement.

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** CC still opposes mandatory filtering and so should you ([link removed])
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As part of our key strategic goal of Better Sharing, we've taken a firm stance against mandatory content filtering on the internet, as the effects would be devastating to free speech, as well as the sharing of culture and knowledge.

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** CC Open Education Platform Lightning Talks: Recordings and Request for Speakers! ([link removed])
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The CC Open Education Platform community completed our latest round of Lightning Talks, or seven-minute presentations on compelling stories in open education. Check out the recordings and summaries.

👋 Other updates:
* 🎧 ICYMI: Listen to Episode 18 of Open Minds ([link removed]) featuring CC’s EU Data Act Roundtable.
* 🗳 Do you know someone doing amazing things to make our global culture more open & collaborative? Nominate a guest for CC's Open Minds podcast ([link removed]) .
* 🇮🇹 Together with CC’s Italian Chapter, we prepared a statement addressing crucial points of concerns ([link removed]) raised in the Italian Ministry of Culture's National Cultural Heritage Digitization Plan for 2022-2023 that was published last month.
* 🏛️ Did you know we host the ✨CC Open Culture Platform Call✨ with an exciting new speaker every 3rd week of the month! To stay in the know, sign up for the CC Open Culture Platform ([link removed]) .
* 🎓 Register for one of our upcoming CC Certificate cohorts. The CC Certificate program ([link removed]) provides courses to build capacity in open licensing, open practices and engagement in our global, shared knowledge commons. Register for our next online course ([link removed]) starting 26 September.
* 📊 Are you interested in the impact of the CC Certificate on our global community? Read our blog post evaluating our baseline & endline surveys ([link removed]) .

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


** ➤ Eye Candy 🍭
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Every month, we change our social media headers to a new openly licensed image.

World Humanitarian Day ([link removed]) is on 19 August. To mark the theme of WHD 2022 'The Human Race' for this month's header, we chose "We Is Me Spelled Differently (series 2/2)" by Alex Tait for Fine Acts ([link removed]) licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ([link removed]) .

Download it here ([link removed]) .


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