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Big kudos to all European teams who helped out with the translations by the way! 

You are all awesome and it cannot be said enough! :) 

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From: Jane Park <janepark AT creativecommons.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 1:58 AM
Subject: [Staff] Announcing State of the Commons 2015 tomorrow: press and social media heads up
To: staff AT creativecommons.email, "cc-affiliates AT lists.ibiblio.org" <cc-affiliates AT lists.ibiblio.org>

Hi everyone,

The time is finally here! We are publishing the State of the Commons report tomorrow at 8am EST/1pm UTC (Tuesday). Thank you all so much for your feedback, translations, and related contributions. 

Below is pasted the announcement and press release that will go live tomorrow. Here are the actual links that will go live tomorrow at 8am EST (you won't see anything now). Please use these to queue up in your own posts.

• Link to report: https://stateof.creativecommons.org; link to data section: https://stateof.creativecommons.org/data.html
• Link to blog post: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/46651
  
• Link to press release: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/46632
• Link to draft announcement on Medium: https://medium.com/@creativecommons/82a08592e6dd (you can see this draft now, please don't share until tomorrow)
  
• Link to draft data section on Medium: https://medium.com/@creativecommons/86016ee719c4 (you can see this draft now, please don't share until tomorrow)
  

Here is suggested social media text to adapt and use:

• Twitter: Announcing 2015 State of the Commons report: 1.1 billion CC licensed works. Help us keep the commons thriving: https://stateof.creativecommons.org/ #sotc [use graphic 1.1B attached] 
• Facebook: Now released: the 2015 State of the Commons report. Inside we take a look at the growth and diversity of the commons today. 1.1 billion CC licensed works. We need your help to keep the commons thriving. https://stateof.creativecommons.org/ [use graphic 1.1B attached]

Please help keep visibility high, especially immediately following the launch, by sharing on social media, flagging in your email correspondence or adding to your signature. Please also forward our email announcement (which will appear in your inboxes if you're subscribed to CC's mailing list) to your networks, or adapt as works for you. This is our biggest visibility moment of the year; let's maximize it!

Best, 

Rebecca, Matt, and Jane

= BLOG POST =

State of the Commons: 1 Billion Creative Commons Works

Ryan Merkley, December 8th, 2015

I’m proud to share with you Creative Commons’ 2015 State of the Commons report, our best effort to measure the immeasurable scope of the commons by looking at the CC licensed content, along with content marked as public domain, that comprise the slice of the commons powered by CC tools.

Creative Commoners have known all along that collaboration, sharing, and cooperation are a driving force for human evolution. And so for many it will come as no surprise that in 2015 we achieved a tremendous milestone: over 1.1 billion CC licensed photos, videos, audio tracks, educational materials, research articles, and more have now been contributed to the shared global commons.

Our small team continues to work to grow and improve the commons for everyone. We’re proud of our accomplishments, but there’s more to do and we need your help. Our goal is to raise $30,000 over the next week to celebrate the release and accomplishments of our 2015 State of the Commons report. Will you make a contribution of $10, $25, $50 or more today?

As we grow the size and scope of the commons, we are working hard to ensure that it becomes a vibrant, usable commons — full of collaboration and gratitude. We need our contributors to be able to talk to each other, find new content, give feedback, offer their thanks and encouragement, get analytics, and build networks and communities around the content they are creating. We want to light up the commons, and we need you to join us.

CC is a global charity that relies on our generous community of supporters like you. Kick off our year end campaign strong by helping us meet our first benchmark: $30,000 over the next week to celebrate the release and accomplishments of our 2015 State of the Commons report.

Make your contribution to Creative Commons today.

Thank you for being a part of this.

With thanks,

Ryan Merkley
CEO, Creative Commons
@ryanmerkley

Read the full report: stateof.creativecommons.org.
Read the press release.

= PRESS RELEASE =

State of the Commons: 1 Billion Creative Commons Works

Ryan Merkley, December 8th, 2015

Annual State of the Commons Report highlights cultural and policy impact of free and open content

Creative Commons, the global nonprofit that makes it easier for creators to share their work under simple copyright terms, announced a major milestone in the release of its 2015 State of the Commons Report today: over 1 billion works have been licensed using Creative Commons since the organization’s founding.

This milestone was announced along with other significant data points in its State of the Commons report, which covers the growth of CC content on platforms, the globalization of CC tools, and cultural trends in the digitization of creative works. The State of the Commons report can be viewed at stateof.creativecommons.org.

“We started the State of the Commons in 2014 to quantify the impact of creators everywhere who are making the conscious decision to share their content,” said Creative Commons CEO Ryan Merkley. “Our focus now is to create a vibrant, usable commons powered by collaboration and gratitude. Empowering the world to share free and open content and data results in more equity, access and innovation for everyone. We’re thrilled to see the impact fostering this climate is having on the Internet and society.”

Creative Commons works in over 85 countries to lead this expanding global movement. A major factor in growth are official translations of the Creative Commons Version 4.0 license suite. To date, the 4.0 license suite has been translated into 7 languages, with 3 more languages to be published before the new year. In 2015, people viewed content under Creative Commons more than 136 billion times.

More than 50 cultural institutions have made their permanent collections or records available for liberal use around the world under CC licenses or public domain tools. Forms of content shared include photos, videos, research articles, audio tracks, training materials, and other educational resources. Major platform partners including Flickr, Wikipedia, 500px, Medium, Vimeo, and YouTube among others have helped to grow the number of CC licensed works, participating in a worldwide effort to expand the commons, along with millions of individual websites.

There has also been a shift towards sharing in government. The recent #GoOpen initiative launched by the U.S. Department of Education with support from CC and technology giants Amazon and Microsoft signals a strong business case for open education. To date, the open education movement has delivered $174 million in savings to students using open textbooks with an additional $53 million projected through the next academic year — savings that can be used to improve access and equity for all students.

PLACEHOLDER TEXT FOR NOW: QUOTE to COME from Wikipedia or Gates.

Highlights from this year’s report include the following:

1. CC licenses continue to be the global standard for sharing: CC-licensed works passed the 1 billion mark this year, and have nearly tripled in the last 5 years signaling an exciting increase in the number of people choosing to share content.
2. Velocity of change: The CC-marked public domain is growing rapidly and has nearly doubled in size over the last 12 months.
3. Openness is far reaching: People are using CC licenses to share in as many as 34 different languages. Creative Commons now has affiliate institutions located in 85 countries.
4. Advances in Foundation policies: In 2015 a significant number of foundations switch their granting default from “closed” to open, including the Ford Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Vancouver Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. These open funding policies ensure maximum impact of and access to Foundation-funded resources.
5. Momentum in the digitization of culture: The realization that there is a business and societal case for online sharing around culture–even in the presence of extremely divergent points of view–has resulted in museums opening their collections to share with the world under Creative Commons licenses and public domain tools. The Netherlands’ Rijksmuseum is leading the charge by digitizing collections.
6. A shift towards sharing in government: The proposed U.S. Department of Education open licensing policy will ensure government funded educational materials are openly licensed and freely available to the public that paid for them. Access to these materials will be open by default rather than require people to pay twice (or more) for access.
7. Open education movement goes mainstream: To date, the open education movement has delivered $174 million in savings to students through open textbooks.
8. Platforms as partners: continued support and growth of openly-licensed content from platforms such as Wikipedia, Europeana, and Flickr, with new platform partners like Medium and edX.

The report and infographic can be found online in various formats for sharing atstateof.creativecommons.org. The report has been translated into 17 languages by Creative Commons affiliates, with at least 5 more translations to come.

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization at the center of a high-profile, international movement to promote sharing of creativity and knowledge. Our goal is to help realize the full potential of the Internet—universal access to research and education, full participation in culture—to drive a new era of development growth, and productivity. CC provides the well-known suite of licenses and public domain tools that have become the global standard used by leading companies, institutions and individuals across culture, education, government, science, and more to promote digital collaboration and innovation.

The CC licenses are everywhere—1 billion CC licenses in use across 9 million websites—making it easy for anyone to use and re-use content. For example, CC licenses give the world access to NASA’s most iconic images from space, help educators create curriculum that will reduce the cost of college for everyone, and allow scientists to freely share their work with medical professionals around the world. CC also works with foundations and governments to ensure that publicly-funded content, like research and educational materials, are made available for everyone to freely use, share, and improve.

Creative Commons, Report Contact:

press AT creativecommons.org

Press Contact:

Marci Hotsenpiller: marci AT zincpr.com

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Creative Commons | Los Angeles

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