#open-culture — Public Fediverse posts

@gutenberg_org From the Wikipedia page: "World Book and Copyright Day...is an annual event organized by [the] United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote reading, publishing, and copyright."

I'm all in on the former two planks and 100% opposed to the latter plank. Copyright chills the spread of knowledge. Sounds like the publishing cartel got UNESCO to promote their propaganda.

"Copyright is brain damage."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc

#OpenCulture

RE: https://social.servus.at/@servus/116409389430472166

#event #festival #kunst #art #hacktivism #openculture #linz #österreich #oberösterreich #austria

🕰️ Archives & Public Domain
For those who love the "golden age" and silent films:
• WikiFlix: browse public domain films hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
• Internet Archive: you know that, it's like the wild west of cinema. Everything from film noir to silent expressionism is parked here for eternity. Might need a good digging attitude.

📌 Many of these sites operate on a "rotating" basis (films stay up for 30 days, or more). Sign up for their newsletters so you don't miss the good stuff.

Do you have any favorite "secret" place to watch great movies?

#OpenCulture #FilmHistory #WorldCinema #Fediverse

Nice chunky update on the #zine page I am creating, a combination of resources and my own zines. I am open to suggestions if you have them: https://hpkomics.com/zines/

#amWriting #zines #openCulture

It's important to use licenses on the works we do, because that communicates clearly how we want our work to be used and shared. And these sites can help us select them:

Choose a License: https://choosealicense.com/

Joinup Licensing Assistant: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/solution/licensing-assistant/find-and-compare-software-licenses

Various Licenses and Comments about Them: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

#Licensing #FreeCulture #OpenCulture

Love this.

https://www.openculture.com/2019/07/happy-birthday-played-on-the-piano-with-16-increasing-levels-of-complexity.html

#music #piano #complexity #openculture #nahresol

¡Hola mundo libre! 🌎 🎹

Somos un proyecto musical online que cree en la cultura compartida. Transmitimos desde las montañas de Medellín, Colombia 🇨🇴 bajo filosofía #Copyleft.

Aquí no hay muros: la música es para descargar, compartir y transformar. 🚀

Escúchanos aquí: https://tunein.com/radio/Martin-Stereo-s346066/

#Presentacion #NuevoEnMastodon #MusicaLibre #OpenCulture #Medellin #Colombia #Artivismo #CopyleftMusic

As many of the AI stories on Walled Culture attest, one of the most contentious areas in the latest stage of AI development concerns the sourcing of training data. To create high-quality large language models (LLMs) massive quantities of training data are required. In the current genAI stampede, many companies are simply scraping everything they can off the Internet. Quite how that will work […]

More open: On National Gallery of Denmark's online collection 'SMK Open' (https://open.smk.dk/en) we're swapping out Google Maps for @openstreetmap to show artwork locations. 🗺️
#openaccess #openculture #openstreetmap #musetech #dkmuseum

The recording from our Public Domain Day virtual event is now available!

🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works entered the public domain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks.

Watch the full recording ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/the-case-of-the-disappearing-copyright

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #OpenCulture @AuthorsAlliance

I've talked a lot about our toys, and why we make them, but I figure I should explain again.

I make the toys that I want to see in the world.

I've been collecting toys for years, but those toys are so often made by or in service of corporations that want to lock up our culture and burn our planet.

So I created my own characters, started writing, mined the public domain, and started making my own toys and telling my own stories.

Stories that don't enrich some far off corporation or overstuffed capitalist, toys that are made sustainably, by people who are being paid a reasonable amount of money.

We tell stories that reflect our values, it's #CommunityMedia, and we're making toys that reflect those values too.

It's one part #anticapitalism, on part #openculture, and a small dose of #smallThings

We can't do it without your support, so if you see something you like in the toys that we make, boost it. If you want something, and you can afford it, buy it.

Ask questions, help us tell stories.

Thanks.

The recording from our Public Domain Day virtual event is now available!

🕵️ Investigate THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING COPYRIGHT to learn which works just entered the public domain—and why copyright is more complicated than it looks.

Watch the full recording ➡️ https://archive.org/details/the-case-of-the-disappearing-copyright

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #OpenCulture @AuthorsAlliance

#Culture #OpenCulture #Film #Music #Books

Just before Christmas, @ilkayholt and I published the fully updated v2.0 of the Risk Management Toolkit for Open GLAM: https://oa2ch.gitbook.io/risk-management

This blog post on the @creativecommons Medium publication "We Like to Share" explains the key changes and updates: https://medium.com/creative-commons-we-like-to-share/risk-management-toolkit-for-open-glam-v2-0-is-here-d33cb2e32d18

#OpenGLAM #OpenCulture #CulturalHeritage #DigitalCollections #DigitalPreservation #RiskManagement

Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact

Watchout for the bad youtube link.

https://www.openculture.com/2025/12/was-the-baghdad-battery-actually-a-battery.htmlhttppv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZBsNGPVK2s

#OpenCulture #Archaeology

"Bernard, you're my closest friend; are you listing to me ? You can't win this way. Follow the rules !"
Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, Brave New World | Open Culture
https://www.openculture.com/2022/03/hear-aldous-huxley-narrate-his-dystopian-masterpiece-brave-new-world.html
#openculture #SF #OpenNewESR #OpenNewBUfr

I've said it before, but The Internet Archive is doing The Lord's Work(TM). I need to set aside a bit of time to really poke through the collection in their DLARC College Radio archive:

https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/03/happy-college-radio-day-explore-student-radios-past-and-present-in-the-dlarc-college-radio-collection/

That's what the Internet was really made for -- making bits of history available to everybody to share and enjoy. #Radio #OpenCulture

🎉 Wikimédia France est fier d'annoncer la signature de l’Open Heritage Statement !

En rejoignant ce mouvement mondial, nous réaffirmons notre rôle d’acteur du plaidoyer pour une culture libre et collaborative.

📢 Chaque signature compte !

Cliquez pour lire l'article sur notre blog et découvrir la déclaration !

#WikimediaFrance #OpenCulture #TAROCHCoalition #OpenGLAM #CreativeCommons #OpenAccess #LibrePartage #OpenHeritageStatement
https://www.wikimedia.fr/signature-open-heritage-statement-wikimediafrance/

@Longwing All the #opensource #openculture #floss communities feel like the Promised Future to me. the commercial proprietary ones feel like dystopias

✨ Neue Version der Minimaldatensatz-Empfehlung (v1.1) ist online!
Viele Detailverbesserungen & Ergänzungen: neue LIDO v1.1-Codeblocks, erweiterte Standards (CCC-LIDO, CDWA Lite, Spectrum u. a.), aktualisierte FAQs & Ressourcen zu FAIR / CARE.

🔗 Zur Version 1.1: www.minimaldatensatz.de

#Minimaldatensatz #MDSmuseen #LIDO #Metadaten #Museumsinformatik #FAIRdata #CAREprinciples #OpenCulture #Standardisierung #Kulturerbe #Sammlungen

📸 A equipa da Wikimédia Portugal esteve presente na Fiesta de las Lhénguas, em Picote!

Dia 20 de setembro juntámo-nos à festa com a “Apresentaçon de 1 Projecto Lhengua Base”.

Foi uma oportunidade única de celebrar o mirandês e todas as línguas que nos aproximam, num encontro cheio de comunidade e diversidade! 🌍

#FiestadelasLhénguas #LinguaCulturaMirandesa #Picote #MirandadoDouro #Wikimedia #WikiLovers #WikimediaPortugal #WMPT #OpenKnowledge #OpenCulture

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📸 Aí está parte do COT – Core Organizing Team do GLAM Wiki 2025, reunido em Lisboa para preparar todos os detalhes deste grande encontro internacional! 🌍

De 30 de outubro a 1 de novembro com:
🎤 Painéis e apresentações
🛠️ Oficinas práticas
💻 Hackathon
🧭 Sessões de estratégia
🏛️ Tours culturais

👉 Nota: as inscrições terminam a 30 de setembro.

#GLAMWiki2025 #Lisboa #COT #GLAM #Wikimedia #WikiLovers #WikimediaPortugal #WMPT #OpenKnowledge #OpenCulture

Any live-streaming Creative Commons, open source and/or Fediverse bands/musicians out there? 

Here's an open call from @lorenzosmusic for an online event celebrating all of those things, along with a form to apply! Check it out:

https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/09/call-out-for-creative-commons-musicians.html

🎥🎺🐸🐦‍⬛ 

#Submissions #Music #CreativeCommons #OpenSource #Fediverse #Live #Livestream #Events #Ubuntu #UbuntuSummit #MusicCommunity #LorenzosMusic #OpenCulture #CC #NewMusic #LiveEvents #Musicians #Musician #Experimental #IndieMusic

The Earliest Known Appearance of the F‑Word (1310) https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/the-earliest-known-appearance-of-the-f-word.html #ICYMI #OpenCulture