Creative Commons Hires New CEO

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Ryan Merkley is the new CEO of Creative Commons.

Creative Commons plays a huge role in the world of OER. Merkley’s focus, for now, seems to be on making Creative Commons content more accessible. From The New York Times:

Still, one of the principal challenges for the organization is to keep tabs on its licensees, Mr. Merkley said. The 500 million total “is an estimate, not an actual number,” he said. “It is hard to track them.”

That technical problem, he said, speaks to a larger concern: how to organize Creative Commons content so that the public can easily find and use it in their own projects.

It’ll be interesting to see how Merkley’s outreach on behalf of Creative Commons translates to OER exposure.

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