Skip to content
Creative Commons
  • Share your work
  • Use & remix
  • What We Do
  • Blog
  • Creative Commons Global Network
  • Search the Commons
  • Share your work
  • Use & remix
  • What We Do
  • Blog
  • Search for CC images
  • Global Network
  • Newsletter
  • Store
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Mail

Help us build a vibrant, collaborative global commons

Donate Now

When we share, everyone wins

Image: “State Public Health Laboratory in Exton Tests for COVID-19” by Governor Tom Wolfe (CC BY)

Open access to knowledge is critical—especially during a global health emergency.

Creative Commons calls on organizations around the world to make their patents and copyrights freely available in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

CC’s Response to COVID-19

What's
Happening

Announcing Our New Strategy: What’s Next for CC

I am delighted to announce the launch of Creative Commons’ new strategy for 2021-2025. This strategy is the result of over three months of stakeholder engagement, dozens of consultations, and hundreds of conversations held among Creative Commons’ multiple collaborators, including staff, funders, the CC Board of directors, as well as a wide range of individuals … Read More “Announcing Our New Strategy: What’s Next for CC”

About CC
CC Global Summit Image of Presenters

The 2020 CC Global Summit Keynotes Are Here!

Community

Spreading Joy and Giving Gratitude: A Toast to This Year’s Silver Linings

About CC

We’re Against Digital Rights Management. Here’s Why.

Policy / advocacy / copyright reform

Open Education Lightning Talks: Recordings and Slides

Education / OER
More News
  • Donate to help keep the internet free and open!

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

The growing commons

1.6 billion works and counting. Explore these featured Creative Commons Licensed resources below — from literary works, to videos, photos, audio, open education, scientific research and more! Or you can share your work, and help light up the global commons!

Creative Commons
  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Policies
  • Terms
We'd love to hear from you!
Creative Commons
PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042
  • info@creativecommons.org
  • 1-415-429-6753
  • Frequently Asked Questions

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Icons by The Noun Project.

Website by Affinity Bridge.