Join CC’s Community Manager to ask more questions about the CC community, share ideas for collaborations with the wider community, and learn more about how to get involved.

Join CC’s Community Manager to ask more questions about the CC community, share ideas for collaborations with the wider community, and learn more about how to get involved.

Today, we kick off celebrations for CC’s 25th anniversary. Please join us throughout the rest of 2026 as we commemorate a quarter century of sharing. 

AI is here and it has already had a profound impact on how we access, share, and interpret knowledge from the commons. We continue to believe that current advances in AI pose a serious threat to the future of the commons. As guided by our mission, we are taking a community-informed lens when evaluating the…

Creative Commons (CC) has launched the Open Infrastructure Circle (OIC)  to ensure our organization is around for years to come. We’re looking for supporters to commit to a recurring or multi-year gift to Creative Commons. Your contributions will specifically support the technical and legal maintenance of our CC Licenses, which is vastly underfunded yet critical…

Before you decide that you want to apply a Creative Commons license or CC0 to your creative work, there are some important things to consider: The licenses and CC0 are irrevocable. Irrevocable means a legal agreement that cannot be canceled. That means once you apply a CC license to a work, the CC license applies…

CC signals reflects CC’s core principles and is part of our wider engagement on AI and the commons. CC signals is an evolving, values-driven framework—currently being tested through a series of pilot efforts. Our strategy is to explore modular approaches across legal, technical, and normative dimensions to encourage responsible AI practices. This allows CC signals…

Attribution and AI Outputs Read the Issue Brief Categorizing Machine Use of the Web Read the Issue Brief Copyright & Generative AI Training Read the Issue Brief Pay-To-Crawl Read the Issue Brief Read the blog post