A new federal copyright tribunal launched in 2022. Stanford Law students analyzed over 1,000 cases. Learn who is using the CCB, why dismissals dominate, and how creators might better navigate the system.

A behind-the-scenes look at the Cookie Jar Collective convening, where artists, technologists, and policy leaders came together to reimagine savings as a shared resource and explore new models of digital public infrastructure.

A behind-the-scenes look at the Cookie Jar Collective convening, where artists, technologists, and policy leaders came together to reimagine savings as a shared resource and explore new models of digital public infrastructure.

Research to Impact Lab's Senior Program Associate, Jennelyn Tumalad Bailon, and Enterprise Development Consultant, Val Elefante, facilitated a co-design for our gig worker savings club incubation project, currently known as "Cookie Jar Collective."

We welcomed 27 participants interested in helping us build a product that could facilitate shared accountability, community, and collective power centered on growing savings for gig workers.

A helpful resource for funders interested in moving ethically in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) space. As Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) transforms various sectors, it is crucial to evaluate both the pros and cons of AI-integrated projects. As arts’ funders, it is our duty to safeguard human creativity, ownership rights, and data privacy for creators and cultural communities in grantmaking processes.

Can arts workers use blockchain technologies to build economic power? What opportunities and challenges do you experience in your own practice?

A guide for creatives to better understand the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). This resource was created through a partnership between The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) and Stanford University’s Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic (JIPIC)

Stanford and CCI Partner to Help Creatives with their Copyright Claims

non-fungible post excerpt: A Report to Congress prepared by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and United States Copyright Office about how intellectual property laws apply to NFTs and specific intellectual property-related challenges arising from the use of NFTs. Public comment gathered and prepared by CCI’s Advocacy program is cited (previously, Sol Center for Liberated Work).

The Gig Worker Learning Project is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to better understand gig workers and the challenges they face.

Bringing together worker advocates and movement leaders to imagine new systems of protection

We worked with arts advocates to define a policy agenda that supports arts workers and microbusinesses.

Bringing together worker advocates and movement leaders to imagine new systems of protection

This summary describes the discussions at a virtual convening titled “Reimagining Social Protections for Independent and Other Traditionally Excluded Workers” and includes an artist's live visual notes taken during the event.

When we started seeing many BIPOC artists moving into the blockchain space several years ago, we started building our own expertise in this area.

Artists’ economic security depends on their ability to own and control their intellectual property rights, but they often lack the means or bargaining power to protect those rights.

For several years now, the conversation about gig work and the future of work has been hampered by the lack of good data. That’s why we’re thrilled that Sol Center’s first grant supports the Gig Worker Learning Project, a participatory research project by The Workers Lab and the Aspen Institute Future of Work Initiative, seeking to understand gig workers’ needs and the solutions that will impact them most.

Can arts workers use blockchain technologies to build economic power? What opportunities and challenges do you experience in your own practice?

The recent political fights over misclassification–whether a worker should be classified as an employee or independent contractor–have been fierce, and a major priority of the labor movement.

What might a truly great paid leave program look like for the self-employed? And, if we can get paid leave working for independent contractors, how might that become the model for delivering other types of safety net protections?

This report outlines the working arrangements of California’s arts workers and sheds new light on the challenges and issues they face, particularly when working as independent contractors.