On 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 with socially engaged visual content, open to anyone to use or adapt non-commercially under CC licenses.

Yana is the Executive Director of Fine Acts, a TED Senior Fellow, Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and her most recent TED talk, focused on the concept of playtivism: incorporating multidisciplinary creative play and experimentation in activism has been viewed close to 2 million times. Pavel is chair of the board of Fine Acts, an Obama Foundation scholar at Columbia University, and a Royal Society of the Arts fellow. He was born in Bulgaria, where he also co-founded TimeHeroes with Yana – the biggest online volunteering service in the country, with 80,000 registered volunteers – for which he was named among Forbes Bulgaria’s list of 30 Under 30.

Check out Fine Acts’ website: http://fineacts.co/

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Tyler 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 Waldo Emerson’s 1836 Nature essay for the first time. All of the artworks in the book were sourced from art museums and libraries with open access policies. Tyler offers his own compelling insights into Nature through new research into how Emerson's art experiences influenced the essay, and in turn how it informed American art well into the twentieth century. In this episode, we discuss Emerson’s understanding of landscape and the public commons, how it shaped American Art, and how it is still relevant to Creative Commons and the broader open movement today. Tyler shares top tips from a decades worth of podcasting experience and much more.

Get a copy of Tyler’s Emerson’s Nature and the Artists: https://tylergreenbooks.com/books/emersons-nature-and-the-artists/

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In 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 international force for effective open access policies and practices.

Open Access Week is a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research that is taking place from October 25-31 this year.  International Open Access Week was established by SPARC and partners in the student community in 2008. Find out more about the week’s activities at openaccessweek.org.

Learn more about Internation Open Access Week: http://www.openaccessweek.org/

Visit SPARC’s website: http://sparcopen.org/

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In 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 transparency and lowering barriers for individuals to raise their voices. Angela was also recently appointed to the Creative Commons Board of Directors.

Next, we'll arrive in Bangalore, India, where you’ll hear from Shuttleworth Fellow and Coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, Achal Prabhala. AccessIBSA is a project set up to expand access and speed up the discovery of new drugs in India, Brazil and South Africa. Our final stop on the tour will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where we will catch up with Cecília Olliveira, Executive Director of Fogo Cruzado. Fogo Cruzado aims to expand a community-driven open data platform and reduce the impact of armed violence to build a more just society. She is also a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation.

Are you ready for an adventure? Get to know our Summit keynote speakers, as we talk about their work, what drives them and what they are most excited about for this year’s CC Global Summit.

Register for the 2021 CC Global Summit: https://www.classy.org/event/cc-global-summit-2021/e347520

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Originally 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-time supporter of Creative Commons, and earlier this year, we announced that CC Search, the search engine we built for openly licensed content, had found a new home at WordPress.org.

Check out Matt’s blog: https://ma.tt/

Follow Matt on Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr @PhotoMatt

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Albert 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. The book is free and available at worldaftercapital.org under a Creative Commons license.

Albert Wenger on Twitter: https://twitter.com/albertwenger

Access 'World After Capital' by Albert Wenger (l: https://worldaftercapital.org/

Visit Albert's Blog: https://continuations.com/

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Audrey 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 activists, artists, technologists, educators, lawyers, librarians, and others for discussion, panels, workshops, and community building. You can find out more about the event at summit.creativecommons.org.

Audrey Tang on Twitter: https://twitter.com/audreyt

WIRED | "How Taiwan’s Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic": https://www.wired.com/story/how-taiwans-unlikely-digital-minister-hacked-the-pandemic

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Lila 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 Archive: https://archive.org

Lila Bailey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lilabailey

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Coraline 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.

Episode transcript: https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/openmindsEP3.txt

Organization for Ethical Source: https://ethicalsource.dev/

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Effie 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

Effie Kapsalis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/digitaleffie

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