“Open Educational Resources Policy in Europe” is a project that brings together a coalition of international experts to strengthen the implementation of open education policies across Europe. It aims to take advantage of the current high profile of open education in Europe, demonstrated by developments such as the explicit mention of Open Educational Resources (OER) […]

Ryan Merkley is CEO of Creative Commons, a global non-profit organization with chapters in 85 countries that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. We need to talk about sharing. Much has been written about the “sharing economy” – web-enabled services like Uber and Airbnb that allow people to […]

It is frequently interesting, and sometimes appalling, to see how a court that does not usually deal with copyright issues reacts when confronted with one.  Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is certainly not a complete novice regarding copyright, but the issue she confronted in Drauglis V. […]