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, to 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!
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RightsCon 2026
May 07 | 3:15pm
This session will invite participants to explore legal, technical, and social challenges, test early ideas, and co-design practical applications of CC signals.
"Spectrum Dance Theater in Dhaka" from the U.S. Embassy Dhaka, here cropped, is in the public domain.
To commemorate our anniversary, CC is creating a zine featuring submissions from the CC community! The theme is “Remix is resistance,” and will contain creative works that reflect how remix, reuse, adaptation, and sharing challenge power, build community, preserve culture, and imagine more just futures. Submit your own work, from a poem to a photograph to a comic-style illustration!
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Support CC in style with brand-new CC merch! Wear your love for sharing on your sleeve with a CC hat, t-shirt, tote, and more.
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What got you involved in the open movement? What drew you to the CC community? Share your CC origin story or favorite memory on social media, tag us, and use the hashtag #25YearsofCC!
"Play, Learn, Serve, Work Summer Camp Program - Ecosystem activity" from the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area is in the public domain.
The Creative Commons Open Education Team is pleased to provide a snapshot of progress made toward opening access and equity in education, through a look at our collective efforts in 2022.1 We laud the CC open education community for its important work throughout 2022. CC and community members' open education efforts in 2022 included, but
