Integrating Choices in Open Standards: CC Signals and the RSL Standard
https://creativecommons.org/2025/12/10/integrating-choices-in-open-standards/
#CCsignals
How could #datastewards deal #AIbots? #CCSignals might show a way towards a new social contract in the era of #AI.
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New preprint on arXiv: “Who Owns the Knowledge? Copyright, GenAI, and the Future of Academic Publishing”. I discuss CC Signals, recent court cases, and argue that training GenAI on scholarly outputs should not be treated as a fair use exception.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.21755
#GenerativeAI #Copyright #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #ScholComm #AIpolicy #LLM #FairUse #CreativeCommons #CCSignals
🔎 Aktuell: Auf das immer lauter werdende Bedürfnis, #kitraining mit fremden Inhalten zu regulieren, hat Creative Commons eine Antwort vorgelegt: Die so genannten "CC Signals". Unser Autor Fabian Rack erklärt im neuen Artikel, was es mit diesen #CCSignals auf sich hat, an wen sie sich richten und was dabei zu beachten ist. Hier geht's zum Artikel:
https://irights.info/artikel/cc-signals-ki/32652
“CC signals are designed to sustain the commons in the age of AI,” said Anna Tumadóttir, CEO, Creative Commons. “Just as the CC licenses helped build the open web, we believe CC signals will help shape an open AI ecosystem grounded in reciprocity.”
I had the opportunity to join the Human Intelligence Institute podcast hosted by Ned Hayes and Kira Cleveland. Hear me wax on and off about open content in a world with #AI — or what I like to call ✨sparkling intelligence✨ https://www.humanintelligence.news/p/human-intelligence-nate-angell
We also talked about efforts to mark content for authorship, provenance, and use like @creativecommons #CCSignals, the developing ISO standard International Standard Content Code #ISCC, and the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity #C2PA.
@lfa it sounds like people can express they DON'T want their works to be used in Al training via #AIPreferences , and that #CCSignal is for people that do want their work to be used in specific ways.
A great many people already post their work to the public domain, or creative commons: #AllRightsReversed , #CopyLeft or via similar licenses.
If #AiPreferences already supports the #NoAI preference then it makes sense to me to offer content creators #CcSignals for more fine tune control.
@lfa
" #CCsignals doesn't include its own opt-out preference because the foundation of CC signals, the #IETFAIPreferences, already does. Like CC signals, the #AIPreferences are still a draft. For more information see the IETF [AI Preferences (aipref)](https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/aipref/about/) working group. There are also technologies designed to prevent AI from accessing content. See this [comment](https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/discussions/24#discussioncomment-13587753) for examples."
The public consultation for the @creativecommons (preference) signals for AI use of content is now open: https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/. The proposed signals are in the image. #creativecommons #ccsignals
Nach dem #CCsignals desaster auch hier eine interessante info in sachen "freie" musik #mobygratis #lizenz
Neue Klage gegen #Microsoft 📚 Autoren werfen Microsoft vor, das #Megatron-Modell mit 200.000 #Raubkopien trainiert zu haben.
#GettyImages verlagert Fokus 🖼️ In UK wurde die Hauptklage gegen #StabilityAI fallen gelassen.
#CreativeCommons reagiert 🌐 Mit #CCsignals will Creative Commons einen Standard schaffen, um maschinenlesbar die Nachnutzung von Daten rechtssicher zu regeln.
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At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not free as in “freedom”) but at least their original licenses (non-commercial, share-alike, no derivatives, and yes, sometimes even just attribution) were genuinely useful for people as well as for corporations.
I like to think (perhaps naïvely, I don’t know) that Lawrence Lessig had his heart in the right place when he came up with it all. But I’m biased. I learned how to present from him (including how to use my presentation display) and we even presented a session together back in the day when I was running Open Source Flash. I’m also a big fan of his concept of “institutional corruption”. But I have no illusions that we see eye to eye on all things and I haven’t spoken to him in over a decade.
Anyway, that’s neither here nor there.
This is Creative Commons jumping the shark (is jumping the shark the original enshittification?) and destroying their credibility with a scheme that doesn’t benefit people, only their corporate donors.
Keep using the existing licenses, as they have value, but don’t help them legitimise this latest land grab by the same trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires who are busy destroying our habitat, human rights, and democracy.
In fact, if they go ahead with this, it might be an idea to fork the original Creative Commons licenses and publish them under a different name in an effort to counter the use of their legitimacy to whitewash Big AI.
#CreativeCommons #SiliconValley #BigTech #BigAI #AI https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert/114754532045016792
@stk Hashtagging this: #CCSignals
Thx. for the interesting Blogpost.
Given the recent @creativecommons silliness, I hastily added a bit to the 4.4 section of my essay "Why Free-Culture: Art, Knowledge and Culture as Commons": "4.4 Free-Culture is not dependent on the entities that provide the licenses"
https://codeberg.org/jectoons/Why-Free-Culture/src/branch/main/versions/english/WhyFreeCulturev0.7.pdf
#ccsignals are a weird idea being implemented weirdly. It puts projects like Fodongo in a weird spot because it makes me feel complicit in the poor choices of an organization that actually doesn't seem to care as much about the Commons as I was led to believe, and instead seems to want us to just accept the fact that AI is here to stay and scrape and dilute Culture.
It is a shame and I am very upset about it.
#CCsignals just adds unnecessary legal nonsense. As someone who has previously used the CC-BY license for their works, the last thing I want to have to do is go back and add signals to my works in order to protect them from being used recklessly by LLMs/generative AI. https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals/discussions/44
My take on the #CCSignals thing:
The idea itself is sensible but @creativecommons is the wrong organisation to push it. This should have been part of an @ietf working group result. If industry pushback was to strong to get this in @creativecommons could have cried foul and people mad at it now would likely be on its site but creative commons already under threat of legitimacy due to AI shouldn't have been seen as cowtowing to said "industry".
Ich habe eine kurze Notiz zu #CCsignals im Kontext von #OER geschrieben.
https://ebildungslabor.de/blog/kurz-notiert-cc-signal/
#CreativeCommons somehow thought it was a good idea to float a set of licences that allows (but doesn't disallow) use for #AISlob and weirdly people (including yours truly) are not amused:
https://mastodon.social/@creativecommons/114745246845213731
Did they really think that after AI megacorps used CC (among other bs) as an excuse to steal copyrighted material this would go down well? Baffling.
I wrote down my thoughts about the CC Signals (regarding re-use through TDM and generative AI) proposed by Creative Commons and the side effects I see with them:
https://stefan.bloggt.es/2025/06/licenses-signals-and-genai-scrapers/
tl;dr: This looks like a foot gun to me that has the potential to wind back the clock for decades. And I find it interesting how the proposal is being discussed right now.
Hey @creativecommons, how’s this for a CC signal for AI, you clowns?
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