2025:Program/Give Me A Beat! Creative Commons licensing, and ethical considerations for cultural heritage collections
Session title: Give Me A Beat! Creative Commons licensing, and ethical considerations for cultural heritage collections
- Session type: Workshop - 85 minutes
- Track: GLAM
- Language: en
đ„ Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3BFx7qS7vU&list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJtMBKTkOdmzfP3ENS24BJ-&t=22518 đ„
In this workshop, Creative Commons will (1) share an overview, as well as key takeaways and considerations from the CC Certificate for Open Culture, a professional development training that builds expertise in open licensing and open practices for cultural heritage professionals; (2) Put the teaching into practice, as we lead participants through a fun exercise of collectively creating and curating music. Through syncing drum beats to public domain music, this workshop should inspire discussion around the challenges, opportunities and ethical considerations of copyright and stewardship of digitized cultural works. While the workshop will focus on collectively creating and openly licensing a music collection, participants will have a chance to explore broader considerations around collection stewardship for any cultural heritage collection.
Description
As more museums adapt to increasingly online audiences and users, they often seek Creative Commons legal tools, expertise and community support related to opening access to their digital collections. From the Smithsonian, Rijksmuseum, Statens Museum for Kunst, to thousands of others around the world, museums recognize the need for increased access to their collections online.
This workshop provides a crash course in CC licenses and public domain tools, demonstrating how and why using them helps increase public awareness and access to museumsâ vital cultural heritage resources. While the workshop will focus on collectively creating and openly licensing a music collection, participants will have a chance to explore the considerations around broader collection stewardship, which apply to any cultural heritage collection.
In particular: Creative Commons will (1) share an overview, as well as key takeaways and considerations from the CC Certificate for Open Culture, a professional development training that builds expertise in open licensing and open practices for cultural heritage professionals; (2) Put the teaching into practice, as we lead participants through a fun exercise of creating music, then making a digital collection out of the clips. As many museums hold music collections, creating and curating our own music can help participants think through what museums might also consider with their music recordings, sheet music, AV files, pictures from performances, or other artistic collections, more broadly. We will also help participants evaluate any challenges and benefits of releasing collections more openly.
From creating drum beats and syncing them to public domain music, to organizing them in a digital collection, this activity is meant to inspire discussion around the challenges, opportunities and ethical considerations around copyright and stewardship of digitized cultural works. Participants will come away from this workshop with their own song, as well as a better understanding of the public domain, open licensing and copyright considerations with digitization projects.
- How does your session relate to the event theme, Wikimania@20 â Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability?
Creative Commons and Wikimedia share the goal of enriching our shared knowledge commons, open to all. This training will strengthen more community membersâ understanding of the tools we wield, to ensure a more effective, inclusive and sustainable open knowledge community.
- What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?
Everyone can participate in this session
Resources
Speakers
- jennryn
- Recognized as a Catalyst in Open Education, Jennryn is Creative Commonsâ Director of Learning and Training. Jennryn enjoys forming collaborative partnerships focused on opening access to knowledge and culture in the public interest. She oversees and runs open licensing training for over 70 countries, and engages with partners such as WMF. Jennryn has some experience editing and having articles edited, but more experience collaborating with WMF colleagues on educational webinars and projects.
- Jennryn has a Masters in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs from American University. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, a Boren Fellow in Thailand, and a Critical Language Scholar in Egypt. Jennryn was most impacted by her work with rehabilitation and education efforts for homeless children in Thailand, as well as under-resourced farming communities in Niger. Seeing the extreme obstacles learners faced while trying to access knowledge impelled some of Jennrynâs current work today.