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Twenty Years of Creative Commons (in Sixty Seconds)” by Ryan Junell and Glenn Otis Brown for Creative Commons is licensed via CC BY 4.0 and includes adaptations of the multiple open and public domain works. View full licensing and attribution information about all works included in the video on Flickr.

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For over 20 years, Creative Commons has supported a global movement built on a belief in the power of open access to knowledge and creativity. From Wikipedia to the Smithsonian, organizations and individuals rely on our work to share billions of historic images, scientific articles, cultural artifacts, educational resources, music, and more!

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    55+ million articles

    Every one of Wikipedia's 55 million plus articles are shared openly and freely using a CC license.

  • The Met

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    All images of public-domain works in the Met's collection are openly available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

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    Many of the lessons found on Khan Academy are openly licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA.

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Getty Museum releases 88K+ images of artworks with CC0

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Close up of vivid orange flowers and blue irises growing above red-ochre soil. Irises, 1889” by Vincent van Gogh, The J. Paul Getty Museum is dedicated to the public domain by CC0.

The J. Paul Getty Museum just released more than 88 thousand works under Creative Commons Zero (CCØ), putting the digital images of items from its impressive collection squarely and unequivocally into the public domain. This is in line with our advocacy efforts at Creative Commons (CC): digital reproductions of public domain material must remain in the public domain. In other words, no new copyright should arise over the creation of a digitized “twin.”