Creative Commons: A Set of Licenses
Because so much information is shared via digital modes allowing for user generated content (such as YouTube and Flickr) and collaborative projects like Wikipedia, Creative Commons licenses serve the important function of offering alternative legal tools for creators who choose not to enforce (or retain) all their inherent copyrights. As of fall 2018, over 1.4 billion pieces of content have been licensed with Creative Commons.
View the various Licensing Types here. Select the "Creative Commons Licenses" tab in the left navigation pane for more information.
For an artistic rendition of the rationale behind Creative Commons licensing, see below
Jonathan "Song-A-Day" Mann. CC BY
Creative Commons: A Movement
What started as a small group in 2002 in the basement of Stanford Law School has emerged into a worldwide movement, consisting of activists, politicians, educators, technology professionals, and artists. Among the myriad of areas constitute or intersect with this movement are:
For more information or to join the CC Global Network, click HERE.
Central to the movement and all their efforts is the core belief that sharing, rather than restricting, knowledge and culture will result in true democratization of ideas and people.
Creative Commons: Remix, video by Creative Commons. CC BY SA 3.0
Creative Commons: The Organization
Creative Commons has grown from a small group of founders utilizing the basement of Stanford Law School in 2002 to a worldwide group of staff and contractors. Their work consists of generating the legal framework for creators to attribute copyright status and much more. With over 1.4 billion licensed works, Creative Commons is now actively engaged in a rigorous education campaign in addition to an ambitious project translating documents into numerous languages of the world.
For more information, see the following:
Creative Commons staff in February 2018, (C) Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.