Help Us Build CC Certificates

[logo] We want your input. With over 1 billion works licensed using Creative Commons, the pool of CC-licensed content has nearly tripled in last 5 years. We’re thrilled to see such rapid growth, but we need to do more to ensure broad understanding of open content and to encourage its widespread use. Creative Commons is working on a CC certification program to increase understanding and access to open and public domain materials — and we want your input! The goal of CC’s certificate program is to provide core training around CC and open content to help organizations and individuals access and use the digital commons. Our first series of custom certificates will be directed primarily toward 1) educators, 3) governments, and 3) librarians. We’ve recently proposed CC’s certificate for librarians to the Knight Foundation’s challenge brief [“How might libraries serve 21st century information needs?”] We hope you’ll join us by sharing your comments on our proposal — [Creative Commons (CC) Certificate for Librarians] — before the review period closes on Wednesday (April 13). [Seattle Public Library](Photo of Seattle Public Library: [Santhosh Rajangam], [CC BY 2.0]) Additionally, we are actively seeking to engage the entire open community in the development of all CC certificates. Each certificate will be designed openly on the web in a way that allows for public input and contribution, and developed in collaboration with key community stakeholders. You can learn more about CC’s certification program in our [recent blog post]. And if you’d like to be actively involved, or share your thoughts, resources, or ideas, please [let us know]. As CC embarks on its renewed strategy to “foster a vibrant, usable, and collaborative global commons,” Creative Commons certificates will play a critical role in ensuring participation scales in informed and skilled ways. [Made With Creative Commons] Sharing Is Good for Business Check out our Medium publication: [Made With Creative Commons], where we document what we're learning as we write our [Kickstarter-funded book about business models]. (Photo: [Got Credit], [CC BY 2.0]) [Support Creative Commons] Donate to Creative Commons Creative Commons is working to keep the Internet free, creative, and open. Invest in a more open future by [supporting our work]. [Creative Commons License] This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]. To unsubscribe from the Creative Commons newsletter: [ To opt-out of any future mailings from Creative Commons, simply visit this URL: [ Creative Commons PO Box 1866 Mountain View, CA 94042 United States [ Contact CC at info@creativecommons.org.