Creative Commons is a set of legal tools and a nonprofit organization, as well as a global network and a movement — all inspired by people’s willingness to share their creativity and knowledge, and enabled by a set of open copyright licenses. Creative Commons began in response to an outdated global copyright legal system. CC…

SXSW by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 If you’ve been following along on the blog this year, you’ll know that we’ve been thinking a lot about the future of open, particularly in this age of AI. With our 2025-2028 strategy to guide us, we’ve been louder about a renewed call for reciprocity…

Reciprocal Roof (Shed) by Ziggy Liloia is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 A lot has changed in the past few years, and it is high time for Creative Commons (CC) to be louder about our values. Underpinning our recently released strategic plan is a renewed call for reciprocity. Neutrality serves only the status quo and…

General What is the CC Certificate? The CC Certificate is a rigorous 10-week online course, which requires an average of 6-10 hours of work per week.  While this course is mostly asynchronous, you will have graded materials due every week and a minimum of four optional webinars. You will have direct contact with an expert…

CC Certificate content is available in 10 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, English, French, Italian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, and Yoruba!  CC Certificate translations are done by community volunteers who help to make open licensing training more accessible to over one billion people in their native languages. Thank you! If you are a CC Certificate graduate and…

CC maintains access to previously published CC Certificate course content and other resources including past course assignments. 2024 Course Content (Updated December 2023 / January 2024) Word documents – Zipped Epub files mPDF Online 2021 and 2022 Course Content (Updated September 2021) Word documents – Zipped Epub files Online 2020 Course Content (updated December 2019)…

Registration for 2025 CC Certificate Courses is now open! Save your spot today. All CC Certificate courses provide an in-depth study of CC licenses—helping you become an expert in open licensing and the commons! Upcoming CC Certificate Course Calendar June 2 to August 10, 2025: Tickets available CC Certificate for Educators CC Certificate for Librarians…

As an ongoing contribution to the commons, we share all CC Certificate reading content, a template syllabus, and participant-created assignments as openly licensed, publicly available resources. CC Certificate content is updated annually and available for you to review, download, and follow-along, even if you are not currently taking a CC Certificate course. Unless otherwise noted,…

Creative Commons (CC) Certificate training develops people’s expertise in CC licenses in order to openly share and engage in our digital commons. With a foundation in open licensing expertise, we can build and foster a world where education, culture, and science are equitably shared to benefit humanity. Learn more about our training from expert facilitators…

CC’s Open Culture work The CC Open Culture Program offers several resources in multiple languages. The OC platform’s Open GLAM Resources working group developed practical resources for the open culture/open GLAM sector, namely a bibliography and glossary. These are essential, foundational resources for greater understanding and capacity building in the open culture community. Learn more…