Welcome & Keynote Session - How Open Licences Help Sustain the Open Ecosystem
Tuesday May 13, 2025
From 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Out of 118 elements on the planet, nitrogen is the most abundant. It is crucial for the existence of life on our planet, yet plants can’t use it in its most abundant form. Bacteria play a crucial role by fixing nitrogen into an available form for plants. Nearly 3 million research papers are published each year. Knowledge is abundant, yet so much of it is inaccessible. Open licences are the tools that help make this knowledge available to researchers, librarians, policymakers and the public. In this presentation, we’ll discuss how open licences from Creative Commons have enabled the mobilization of knowledge for decades and how in light of the proliferation of artificial intelligence organizations like CRKN can work with Creative Commons to ensure that the open ecosystem is sustained.
