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This year, Creative Commons marks 25 years of powering the world’s sharing—a quarter century of building the legal, technical, and social infrastructure that enables open knowledge, creativity, and collaboration worldwide. Today, as artificial intelligence reshapes how we create, connect, and communicate, a new challenge faces us: how to keep the internet human and reclaim humanity in our digital future.
Through the rest of the year, we will be reflecting on CC’s legacy and envisioning the next 25 years through events, storytelling, community activities, and more. We invite you to celebrate with us—and to help shape the next chapter of the commons.
CC is a nonprofit and relies on the generosity of those who share a passion for equity, reciprocity, and openness. Help power the next 25 years of sharing with a gift today.
While supplies last, donors who give $125 or more will receive a signed copy of Cory Doctorow’s exclusive art book, Canny Valley!
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Community Voices on AI: Attribution as the Norm
October 1 | 10 am EDT
Join practitioners from Creative Commons, NISO, AXM, and the Wikimedia Foundation for a grounded community conversation about why attribution should be the norm in AI systems, and how the field is actually building solutions for the future.
"Most Detailed Image of the Crab Nebula" taken by NASA is in the public domain.
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How did you begin getting involved with Creative Commons? What was your CC origin story? We’ll compile these stories and share some highlights as a part of our anniversary celebrations.
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"Play, Learn, Serve, Work Summer Camp Program - Ecosystem activity" from the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area is in the public domain.
Creative Commons has been exploring questions around artificial intelligence for a long time: how this profound technological shift might affect people’s motivations to share, whether the intentions behind sharing work before AI became mainstream still hold when we consider how those works are being used now, and how we sustain a thriving commons when the fundamental bargain of the open web has shifted.
