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Menu Resources Getting Started Fact Sheets and Materials FAQ CC License Attributes CC License Chooser Issues Open Education Open Access Open Data Open Culture Blog Inquiries About Our Mission Our Team Contact Info Unlocking knowledge to build a more equitable and innovative world Join the movement Our focus Open Education Expanding the use of openly licensed materials in higher education and K-12 classrooms Open Access Removing barriers to the free sharing of scholarly research Open Culture Building the body of cultural and creative works freely available to the public Open Data Facilitating scientific collaboration and innovation through the free flow of data We're creating a series of digital and printable materials on everything from "Understanding Copyright" to "Advocating for Open Education". Check it out LATEST NEWS New Semester, Same Cost of Attendance OER isn’t just beneficial for students seeking to pursue higher education. Colleges and universities can also benefit from immediate and long-term effects of OER. It is no shock that the cost of higher education is rising, both for the students and for the universities that are seeking to educate them. -- Join us for a Twitter Chat on Open Licensing! Next month, Creative Commons USA is hosting a Twitter chat around open licensing, CC, copyright, and other intellectual property issues. -- Textbooks Legislation Introduced in Congress Earlier today, Senators Durbin, King, Smith, and Sinema, along with Congressman Neguse, reintroduced the bicameral Affordable College Textbook Act. -- Open Access & Thoughts for Plan S In September of last year, Plan S launched in Europe as an effort to bring OA to the center of the research conversation within the next two years. -- Previous Next Wait, what is the Commons? Read our History> CC Stories As of today, all images of public-domain works in The Met collection are available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). So whether you’re an artist or a designer, an educator or a student, a professional or a hobbyist, you now have more than 375,000 images of artworks from our collection to use, share, and remix—without restriction. This policy change…is a strong statement about increasing access to the collection and how to best fulfill the Museum’s mission in a digital age. Loic Tallon the Met, 2/7/17 We believe quality information should be accessible to all and that’s why we publish under a Creative Commons license, which allows anyone, anywhere to republish our articles. Debbie Dickinson and Wes Mountain The Conversation, 4/6/17 In the last year, republication of ProPublica stories under our CC license has increased dramatically. Through November, we’ve recorded more than 4.2 million page views this year for authorized reprints of our work, which is up 77 percent over the same period in 2011, and is the equivalent of an additional 29 percent on top of the traffic to our own web site. Richard Tofel and Scott Klein ProPublica, 12/13/2012 Our Team Meredith Jacob Michael Carroll Creative Commons USA Creative Commons USA is a chapter of the CC Global Network. We focus on furthering progress toward open culture, open education, open data, and open access to research in the United States. We provide legal expertise around the CC licenses, support to organizations and institutions that use (or could use) open licensing, and advice for decision-makers on issues and policies that move us toward a more open society. - "US Capitol" cover image credit Andrey Belenko, licensed under CC BY 2.0. 4300 Nebraska Ave NW Washington, DC 20003 info @creativecommonsusa.org (202) 274-4432...