It is hard to believe that it is almost a month since the Creative Commons Global Summit took place at the Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco in Mexico City. It was amazing to gather and (re)connect with the creators, advocates, librarians, educators, lawyers, and technologists that engage with CC. …

Why arts organisations should include ‘Update preferences’ links in their mass email footers — I get a lot of emails from arts organisations. Yesterday alone more than 25 new emails appeared in the ‘Promotions’ tab in my inbox. For years I have created a filter for each arts newsletter I receive. That’s a whole lot of filters. One filter to manage all the arts…

On Friday 25 February the Creative Commons Australia Chapter (CC Australia) made a submission to the Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications in response to their consultation on the exposure draft of the Copyright Amendment (Access Reform) Bill 2021 and a review of the technological protection…

An updating list of backgrounds for Zoom meetings If you’re looking for the right virtual background for your Zoom meetings, there is plenty of pop culture that has you covered. Here’s a (regularly updated) list of backgrounds from movies, television, games, comics and more: Movies & TV Studios & networks Australian Broadcasting Corporation — Triple J released a set of backgrounds, including the studio…

Mozilla has acquired Pocket app. That may not seem like news, but it could be a bigger deal than you might think. Mozilla Acquires Pocket We are excited to announce that the Mozilla Corporation has completed the acquisition of Read It Later, Inc. the…blog.mozilla.org TL;DR Mozilla’s acquisition isn’t just sensible strategy – it’s political. Represents a focus on mobile as well as content. For content makers Pocket may become an even more attractive…