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    19 Dec 2021

    20 years ago today was founded! 🎉 Thanks to all the Creative Commoners around the world 🌎 who have joined us along the way. Cheers to another 20 awesome years! Join us as we celebrate with our Better Sharing campaign ➡️

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  2. 7 hours ago

    🔔 Opportunity Alert! — the world’s 🌎 1st global network of stakeholders that fosters a holistic and innovative approach to data governance, is hiring a ! Find out more & apply before 31 January ➡️

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  3. 10 hours ago

    Tomorrow, CC's will be presenting at Copyright & Legal Group - Winter Conference. Brigitte will discuss promoting access & reuse of cultural heritage and Creative Commons' agenda for copyright reform. 🎟 Register here ➡️

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    11 hours ago

    Wikimedia Foundation is hiring: Communications Project Manager. Please check out our job posting & share with your networks:

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  5. 11 hours ago

    During 2021, we held workshops on creating a . In the breakout conversation on “Access to Information and Knowledge,” participants talked about problems, generated ideas & formulated solutions for re-imagining the internet.

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    12 hours ago

    Great thread by scholars on the ways digital materials make their research easier and more accessible. 👇 has 6 million digitized books available online for you to borrow.

    Indeed. And thanks to national libraries & great non-profits like it seems that each time I am compiling footnotes the scholarship I can freely access has multiplied. For example, these foundational works on Sino-European exchanges & cultural :
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    Jan 25

    Love enables Burns' manuscripts to be made available on line 🎉🎊🎉

    [Thread] Did you know that has an extensive archive of Robert Burns' manuscript papers in the Laing Collection, many of which are available online under CC BY licence.
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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 25

    Fifty years ago today, Shirley Chisholm officially announced her candidacy for President of the United States, the first woman and first Black American to run for a major party’s nomination. This poster is in our 's collection.

    Poster with a photo of Shirley Chisholm and text: Bring U.S. together / Vote Chisholm 1972 / Unbought and unbossed.
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  9. Jan 25

    🔔 ICYMI - the shared a recap & recording of last week's 'Celebration of Sound' 🎶 party! We had some amazing musical acts, dancers, historians, librarians, academics, activists and other leaders from the Open world 👇

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  10. Jan 25

    📢 Do you work in or a cultural institution (, or )? We want to hear from you! 🗣 📌 What do you need from Creative Commons' tools, CC0 & the PDM? 📌 How could they be improved? 📌 Could a new tool better meet these needs? Tell us 👇

    🏛 Are you a practitioner or expert working in galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs)? 👋 We need your help to create a clearer picture of how CC's public domain tools, CC0 and the Public Domain Mark (PDM), are being used. (1/5)
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  11. Jan 25

    📢 EXCITING OPPORTUNITY — is hiring their 1st Community Fellow! Help to energize their coalition & support new models for community sustainability + accountability in service of their mission of equitable access to knowledge ➡️

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  12. Jan 24

    2/ This three-year, general operating support will help foster CC’s commitment to by addressing equity gaps and unequal balances of power in the open ecosystem.

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  13. Jan 24

    1/ We are thrilled and grateful to announce that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation () recently allocated a $1M grant to Creative Commons to advance in honor of CC’s 20th Anniversary. Read more on the CC blog 👇

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  14. Jan 24

    YES 🙌 To achieve universal access to education 📚 we MUST recognize education as a global public good.

    On , retweet if you really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really want recognized as a global public good! 📚
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  15. Jan 24

    📚 EDUCATION = ⚖️ POWER 24 January is It’s time to transform learning to for future generations! & are key to this transformation. Learn about CC's Open Education program ➡️

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    Jan 21

    To address students’ basic needs, released guidance on how a new $198 million grant can be used for licensed open educational resources () and other efforts to support student success. Learn more:

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  17. Jan 21

    📢 Do you work in the field of libraries, archives, museums or other cultural heritage institutions? Do you use ' public domain tools & to release content? Do they fit your needs? ✅ ❌ Let us know, take this quick survey👇

    🏛 Are you a practitioner or expert working in galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMs)? 👋 We need your help to create a clearer picture of how CC's public domain tools, CC0 and the Public Domain Mark (PDM), are being used. (1/5)
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  18. Jan 21

    This is adorable 😍

    It's , so forgive us if we go a little nuts. This illustration originally appeared as "Common Flying Squirrel" in "Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1856 Agriculture": We took some liberties with the cape 🐿️ 🦸
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    Jan 20

    LIVE NOW: At 2022 is , creator of Citizen DJ that uses PD music for on-the-spot remixing. But that's not all! mixes images w/ his tool PaperKingdom, as well:

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    Playing around with digital collage using public domain scientific illustrations from the + open source painting software . I made custom brushes to try for yourself!
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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 20

    Celebrating our Public Domain. Thanks to all the sponsors 🎉🎊🎉

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    Jan 20

    LIVE NOW: Who loves the ? Educators & students like 's & his students who use public domain music to create podcast histories for The Phono Project. Training a new generation of music researchers w/ the public domain!

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