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In the face of rapid technological advancements, many legislative proposals seek to regulate the information sphere from different perspectives. One of the recent initiatives is the European Union’s proposed Data Act. This proposal promises to bring many opportunities for effective data sharing, but it also has the potential to neglect the opportunity for better data value creation for the public good. Our Working Group, which is established under the Creative Commons Copyright Platform, has been working on analyzing policy issues that would impact better sharing online. We’d like to use the proposed Data Act as a case study to identify our concerns regarding digital sharing spaces, access and better sharing of knowledge and culture data especially regarding information shared concerning Creative Commons licenses, as well as identifying why these concerns have a direct impact on data governance, data commons,and people’s fundamental freedom to share and ability to participate in the data economy.