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If you're headed to SXSW, we'd love to see you! Find Anna Tumadóttir and hear more about CC's work at two events while you're in Austin:

AI & Creative Capital: Consent, Governance, and the Future of the Open Web
March 13 | 2:00-6:00 CT
Register: https://buff.ly/feHE4d1

The Knowledge Paradox: When Does Sharing Become Theft?
March 14 | 2:30-3:30 CT
Register: https://lnkd.in/gmxFApXG

Do you want to be more involved with CC? Connect with others who share your passion for sharing? Geek out on data governance? Stay up to date on conversations in the open movement? Join the CC community! Fill out this easy form to be added to our community platform, Zulip, and subscribe to CC's newsletter.

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Another week, another #PublicDomainFriday!

"Leonid Meteor Shower over Niagara Falls" by Anonymous, 1892, National Digital Library of Poland.

On March 2, CC and Internet Archive Europe, together with the support of Open Nederland, hosted an event entitled “Ensuring equitable access to heritage in the digital environment: A leading role for the Netherlands on the global stage.”

In our newest blog post, we offer a recap of the dynamic discussions from the event and share the importance and impact for CC.

https://creativecommons.org/2026/03/06/open-heritage-statement-event-amsterdam-march-2026/

CC is heading to SXSW! If you'll be there as well, we'd love to see you at these events:

AI & Creative Capital: Consent, Governance, and the Future of the Open Web
March 13 | 2:00-6:00 CT

https://notifications.pillsburylaw.com/45/6338/compose-email/sxsw-event--ai-and-creative-capital---invite--co-sponsor-.asp

The Knowledge Paradox: When Does Sharing Become Theft?
March 14 | 2:30-3:30 CT

https://schedule.sxsw.com/2026/events/PP1163013

The infrastructure phase of AI governance has begun. Recently, CC attended the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, and what became clear is that AI governance is shifting. The conversation is moving beyond high-level principles and into harder, more structural questions about infrastructure, stewardship, and power.

Read our reflection on the biggest takeaways from Delhi and what we believe is CC's critical role in filling a global implementation gap.

https://creativecommons.org/2026/03/04/ais-infrastructure-era/

Did you know that less than 1% of the world’s institutions share heritage in open access? In this article, our Open Culture team provides an overview of the main barriers to equitable access to public domain heritage in the digital environment, makes the case for openness as a key principle in the preservation and dissemination of documentary heritage, and shares examples of positive reuse enabled by open heritage.

https://www.ijodh.org/0201-09/

Be a part of our commemorative 25th Anniversary CC zine! We're looking for personal, political, playful, critical, messy, poetic, or practical works that explore the theme "Remix is Resistance." Photos, poems, comics, collage, QR codes that link to music...we want it all!

Submissions are open until the end of the month: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVpc0z0G9B534AJZLKldyIxb6FrhPPBgSEIuAF8w0MMcwQdw/viewform

Upcoming Events in March!

AI & Creative Capital: Consent, Governance and the Future of the Open Web | March 3 | 16:00 EST
https://www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-insights/ai-creative-capital-sxsw-2026.html

Open Education Week Live: Open Conversation on Online Communities | March 5 | 11:00 EST
https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/oeweek-live-online-communities/

CC Community Office Hours | March 20 | 12:00 EST
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FtgmpqjSQUifL38EwAS87w

CC Legal Office Hours | March 30 | 11:00 EST
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/CW2-sLtWSiizEgn_nirjJg

For this #PublicDomainFriday, we're sharing an ink painting on silk of a horse and willow tree by an unidentified Chinese artist, created during the Ming Dynasty. This work is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 210 and in their digital archives: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/36039

Over the past year, we've been engaged in a series of conversations with a small group of researchers specializing in IP, AI policy, and data governance about what CC licensing means—and does—in African contexts today. Our newest blog post discusses the themes that have emerged from those conversations and asks a broader question: how must "open" evolve to remain just, relevant, and community centered?

https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/18/cc-licenses-data-governance-and-the-african-context/

This week, CC's Brigitte Vézina, @dharris@mastodon.world, and Beverley Francis are at UNESCO in Paris attending a meeting of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions to raise awareness about the Open Heritage Statement, a global call to action to ensure equitable access to heritage in the digital environment.

Learn more and add your voice: openheritagestatement.org

Over the past year, Creative Commons communities around the world have continued to show what’s possible when people come together around shared values of openness, collaboration, and care. In 2026, we want to deepen our community engagement, strengthening connections and creating more meaningful ways for everyone to engage.

Read our new blog post for a peek at some of our community plans: https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/17/building-what-comes-next-community-engagement-at-creative-commons/

For our anniversary this year, we're creating a special zine to commemorate our community's contributions, achievements, and memories from 25 years of CC. Our theme? Remix is resistance!

We are looking for creative works that reflect how remix, reuse, adaptation, and sharing can challenge power, build community, preserve culture, and imagine more just futures.

Submit your work (art, photography, stories, poems, comics, and more!) by March 31. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVpc0z0G9B534AJZLKldyIxb6FrhPPBgSEIuAF8w0MMcwQdw/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Use this free to remix template to create a valentine for your forever crush: open education!

https://www.canva.com/design/DAHA19XRL08/3y6PIHPtNCsPHU-DaMWuVg/view?utm_content=DAHA19XRL08&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink&mode=preview

If you are at the AI Impact Summit, catch CC's CEO, Anna Tumadóttir, during these upcoming sessions:

It is time to update our mental models about open knowledge. In our newest blog post, Sarah Hinchliff Pearson discusses the new stories we must imagine to keep the internet human and how to rethink our must fundamental assumptions about open knowledge in order to meet the current moment.

https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/12/how-to-keep-the-internet-human/

Photo by Dmitry Ryzhkov, 2014, licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Flickr, remixed by Creative Commons, 2026, CC BY 4.0.

In November 2025, we had the privilege of supporting and participating in Semana de la Cultura Libre in Montevideo, Uruguay: a week-long celebration of open culture organized by CC Uruguay. The week offered a powerful reminder that free culture is not an abstract idea but a living practice shaped by local communities, histories, and needs.

Read our full recap on the event and some of our biggest takeaways in our new blog post!

https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/10/semana-de-la-cultura-libre-with-cc-uruguay/

For #PublicDomainFriday, we're sharing this banner used by the Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, founded 1910. This image is part of the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/initiatives/nmaahc-open-access

This month, CC will be represented at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi to discuss the future of AI policy and practice. CC will be focused on areas where we can make a distinctive contribution to AI governance in the public interest.

If you'll be in Delhi, you can connect with Rebecca Ross and Anna Tumadóttir, at:

-CivicSabha 2.0
-PAIRS India
-OpenMined Community Meetup
-And more!

https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/06/cc-at-the-ai-impact-summit-2026/

Happy Birthday, Wikipedia! A quarter-century of keeping knowledge free and human for everyone—we'll toast to that! Join us in celebrating by sharing your favorite random Wiki article! 🗞️ #Wikipedia25

Image: Adam Jenkins licensed with CC BY 2.0