Open Minds … from Creative Commons
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCreative Commons presents conversations with people working to make the Internet and our global culture more open and collaborative.
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Trudi Radtke on InclusiveAccess.org
October 18, 2022 16:09 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBIn 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 billing. The initiative was developed by SPARC with generous support from the Michelson 20MM Foundation, and Creative Commons is one of the partners. Th...
Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker of Smarthistory
October 04, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBOn 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, Beth was dean of art and history at Khan Academy and director of digital learning at The Museum of Modern Art. Before joining MoMA, Beth was Associa...
Sam Williams of Arweave
August 11, 2022 12:35 - 40 minutes - 37 MBOn 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 licensing standards to be deployed on Arweave. Sam has been immersed in open source since he was a kid, and started learning to code when he was nine. ...
*Special Episode* CC Roundtable on EU DATA ACT
June 22, 2022 13:38 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBIn 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 conversation between our distinguished panel of experts on how this new piece of legislation could reshape the rules governing value creation aroun...
Damien Riehl & Noah Rubin of All The Music
May 04, 2022 12:15 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBIn 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 generate and save every possible melody, in order to claim the copyright, and then release it again to the public domain under CC0, which means the...
Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author, Journalist and Tech Activist
April 06, 2022 08:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBIn 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 his titles and creative works licensed under CC licenses. He is the author of young adult novels like LITTLE BROTHER and HOMELAND, and novels for ...
Angela DeBarger of William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
March 07, 2022 05:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBDr. 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 Lucas Education Research at the George Lucas Educational Foundation, where she led elementary and middle school project-based learning initiative...
Brigitte Vézina of Creative Commons
February 01, 2022 23:29 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBBrigitte 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, information and knowledge. In this episode, Brigitte shares everything you need to know about the Creative Commons Open Culture / Open GLAM prog...
Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise & Free Music Archive
January 12, 2022 14:28 - 35 minutes - 64.1 MBHessel 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, an online repository of royalty-free music. During the conversation, Hessel shares his unconventional path to discovering his passion, his insight...
*Special Episode* CC's 20th Anniversary feat. Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig
December 19, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 84.6 MBOn 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 began, what it has accomplished, and is later joined by Creative Commons CEO, Catherine Stihler, for a fireside chat where he shares his hopes for CC...
Yana Buhrer Tavanier and Pavel Kounchev of Fine Acts
November 17, 2021 22:29 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBOn 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 compelling works of art aligned with specific human rights campaigns. They publish all completed works on TheGreats.co, their free platform filled w...
Tyler Green of The Modern Art Notes Podcast
November 02, 2021 20:41 - 49 minutes - 67.9 MBTyler 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 recently published his latest book ‘Emerson’s Nature and the Artists,’ which brings together a selection of 75 artistic works in dialog with Ralph W...
Heather Joseph of SPARC
October 25, 2021 14:18 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBIn 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 research and education open and equitable by design—for everyone. Under Heather's stewardship, SPARC has become widely recognized as the leading intern...
*Special Episode* Meet 3 of our CC Global Summit Keynotes
September 10, 2021 17:08 - 1 hour - 90.8 MBIn 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, Executive Director at Ushahidi. Ushahidi is a global non-profit technology company that builds tools for democratizing information, increasing transpar...
Matt Mullenweg of Automattic
August 27, 2021 17:11 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBOriginally 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 more than 1,100 employees working from more than 62 countries, it is an entirely distributed company with no physical headquarters. Matt is a long-...
Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures
August 02, 2021 20:14 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBAlbert 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, an evolving digital book project that explores a set of megatrend shifts as the global economy moves from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age...
Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan
July 13, 2021 20:56 - 26 minutes - 36.6 MBAudrey 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 speakers at this year's CC Global Summit (happening September 20-24, 2021), which is Creative Commons' annual event that brings together leading acti...
Lila Bailey of the Internet Archive
April 15, 2021 17:01 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBLila 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, archives, and the people they serve. Episode transcript: https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/openmindsEP4.txt Internet Archi...
Coraline Ada Ehmke of the Organization for Ethical Source
March 18, 2021 20:19 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBCoraline 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 the Organization for Ethical Source, an initiative that aims to ensure that the work of open source developers is being used for social good. Epis...
Effie Kapsalis of The Smithsonian
February 24, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 33.3 MBEffie 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 public. This week marks the one year anniversary of the launch of Smithsonian Open Access. Smithsonian Open Access: https://www.si.edu/openaccess...
Catherine Stihler of Creative Commons
February 18, 2021 19:05 - 19 minutes - 26.4 MBIn 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 Creative Commons movement. Catherine Stihler on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Stihler Catherine Stihler on Twitter: https:/...