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Greetings Open Education Colleagues: With all the bad COVID-19 news (my Governor declared a "state of emergency <https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/485303-inslee-declares-emergency-in-washington-state-after-first-us-coronavirus>" yesterday), I want to share some good news. Creative Commons (+Wikimedia, Google Labs, Smithsonian's OA team and more) helped the Smithsonian adopt an open access policy and dedicate 2.8 million works into the public domain using CC0 <https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/>. ... and it was good fun to meet and discuss <https://twitter.com/cgreen/status/1232646144452374528> the Smithsonian's Open Access Initiative with Secretary Bunch. - CC Blog post <https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/27/smithsonian-releases-2-8-million-images-data-into-the-public-domain-using-cc0/> - Twitter <https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1233042667157819392> Warm regards, Cable -- Cable Green, PhD Interim CEO Director of Open Education Creative Commons @cgreen <http://twitter.com/cgreen> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the OER-DISCUSS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=OER-DISCUSS&A=1