This is a list of notable works available under a Creative Commons license . Works available under a Creative Commons license are becoming more common. Note that there are multiple Creative Commons licenses with important differences.
Number of Creative Commons works [ edit ]
An analysis in November 2014 revealed that the amount of CC licensed works in major databases and searchable via google sums up to 882 million works. Nine million webpages linking to one of the CC licenses.[1]
The Creative Commons offers also a search engine for major databases as: Europeana , Open Clip Art Library , Pixabay , ccMixter and more.[2]
Governments and intergovernmental organizations [ edit ]
As of January 2016[update] , 31 governments and 7 intergovernmental organizations have made their information available per CC according to creativecommons.org,[3] similarly dozens of organizations from the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).[4]
The Creative commons maintain a book list themselves .
Educational resources [ edit ]
Video games [ edit ]
Images and photos [ edit ]
Name
Description
License
Refs
deviantART
image artwork sharing website
various (15 million CC licensed)
[39]
Flickr
user photo uploading and sharing service
various CC licenses (350 million CC images of 6+ billion images[40] [41] )
Mapillary
Over 30 million free photos
CC BY-SA
Metropolitan Museum of Art
paintings and artworks
CC0 (375.000)
[42]
Mushroom Observer
collaborative amateur mycology database with approx. 600,000 observational photos[43] [44]
CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA [45]
Open Game Art
Media repository for software / game projects
CC BY, CC-BY-SA, CC0, others
[28]
Panoramio
Over 100 million photos
Various
[46]
Pixabay
user photo, vector graphics , and video uploading and sharing service
CC0 (555.000 images)
Fortepan
archival photographs, and family snapshots of everyday life
CC-BY-SA (100.000 images)
Unsplash
user photo uploading and sharing service
CC0
[47] [48]
Wikimedia Commons
free image and data repository, stores Wikipedia images
various free CC licenses (40+ million images in 2018[49] )
Name
Description
License
Refs
20minutos
Spanish free newspaper and news website
CC-BY-SA / CC BY-NC-SA
[56]
Al Jazeera 's broadcasting footage
On January 13, 2009, some broadcasting content from Al Jazeera on the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict was released.
CC BY 3.0
[57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62]
Democracy Now!
Internationally syndicated radio and TV news program. All transcripts from broadcasts are republished online and released under a Creative Commons license.
CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 US
[63]
The Conversation
Online news outlet written by academics and researchers. Localised editions exist for Australia, Africa, Canada, France, Indonesia, the UK and the US.
CC-BY-ND 4.0
[63]
Global Voices
International journalism organisation publishing in over 40 languages.
CC-BY 3.0
[64]
Iran Daily
Iran's third English newspaper published by Islamic Republic News Agency .
CC-BY 4.0
[65]
La Stampa
3rd biggest newspaper of Italy.
CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0
[66]
NBT News
Thai state-run news television channel.
CC-BY
[67]
OpenDemocracy
International online news website. Specific articles are released under a Creative Commons license.
CC-BY-NC 4.0
[68]
ProPublica
US news website.
CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0
[69]
Seychelles News Agency
Government-funded news organisation from Seychelles publishing in English and French .
CC-BY 4.0
[70]
Tasnim News Agency
Iranian news agency publishing in Farsi , English , Arabic , Turkish and Urdu .
CC-BY 4.0
[71]
TorrentFreak
News blog. Text licensed under a Creative Commons license.
CC BY-NC 3.0
[72]
WikiTribune
News website with crowdsourced fact-checking, proofreading and editing. Published in English and Spanish .
CC-BY or CC-BY-SA 4.0
[73]
Knowledge, research and science [ edit ]
Databases and data [ edit ]
Technology, blueprints and recipes [ edit ]
Video and film [ edit ]
The Creative commons maintain a film list themselves .
Websites [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ State of the Commons: Notes and additional resources - Number of Creative Commons--licensed works on github.com (November 2014)
^ CC search on creativecommons.org
^ Government use of Creative Commons on creativecommons.org (January 2016)
^ GLAM on creativevommons.org (January 2016)
^ "The Art of Unix Programming" . 17 March 2005. Archived from the original on 17 March 2005. Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "The Art of Unix Programming" . Archived from the original on 17 March 2005. Retrieved 12 October 2013 .
^ A Briefer History of Time "CC BY-ND-NC 1.0" (archived 2004)
^ "The Archimedes Palimpsest" . University of Pennsylvania Libraries . Retrieved 2016-08-01 . All materials on OPenn are in the public domain or released under Creative Commons licenses as Free Cultural Works
^ "Reading Between the Lines, Smithsonian Magazine " . Retrieved 2009-03-31 .
^ "archimedespalimpsest" . Archived from the original on 21 February 2009. This data is released for use under a Creative Commons license, with attribution
^ a b the-future-of-ideas-is-now-fre-1 on lessig.org
^ Free souls captured and released "This is an celebration of all people who are willing to share" on freesouls.org
^ "Meat Atlas: facts and figures about the animals we eat" . Friends of the Earth Europe . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas" . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Warbreaker Rights and Downloads - Brandon Sanderson" . brandonsanderson.com . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Download Little Brother For Free - Cory Doctorow's craphound.com" . craphound.com . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ Watts, Peter. "Blindsight by Peter Watts" . www.rifters.com . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ Code Version 2.0 , at http://codev2.cc/download+remix/Lessig-Codev2.pdf "the one surprise that teaches us more than everything here. "
^ Code Version 2.0 , at http://codev2.cc/download+remix/Lessig-Codev2.pdf
^ Remix on lessig.org
^ "Remix" . Archived from the original on 2016-04-02. Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ Wealth of Networks wiki . Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University . Last accessed 16 Feb 2012.
^ "Kelly Link on Creative Commons" . Retrieved 20 August 2018 .
^ "Stranger Things Happen" . Retrieved 20 August 2018 .
^ "Fiction Book Review: STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN" . Retrieved 20 August 2018 .
^ Kale, Arun (21 October 2010). "Of Fretting Cats and Wandering Rooks" . Helter Skelter . Square One Media. Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2010 .
^ "Cards Against Humanity" . Cards Against Humanity . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ a b c "16 Sites Featuring Free Game Graphics for Game Developers" . Felgo . Retrieved 22 February 2019 .
^ "Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-NC-SA 3.0" . creativecommons.org . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ Castle Crashers Soundtrack Released Under CC License (2008)
^ tinyspeck (2013-11-18). "Glitch is Dead, Long Live Glitch! - Art & Code from the Game Released into Public Domain" . glitchthegame.com. Retrieved 2013-12-11 . The entire library of art assets from the game, has been made freely available, dedicated to the public domain. Code from the game client is included to help developers work with the assets. All of it can be downloaded and used by anyone, for any purpose.
^ Blackwell, Laura (2013-11-18). "Afterlife of an MMO: Glitch's offbeat art enters public domain" . pcworld.com. Retrieved 2013-12-11 .
^ "Breakthrough for Free Software Gaming--Ryzom Announces Full Release of Source Code and Artwork, and a Partnership with the Free Software Foundation to Host a Repository of the Game's Artistic Assets" . ryzom.com. Retrieved 2010-05-06 .
^ a b Massively Multiplayer Game Ryzom Released as Free Culture and Free Software on creativecommons.org (2010)
^ Free game graphics: Tyrian ships and tiles on lostgarden.com by Daniel Cook (2007-04-04)
^ Lost garden license on lostgarden.com "All licensed items use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License" (2007)
^ "The Ur-Quan Masters Project FAQ - Ultronomicon" . wiki.uqm.stack.nl . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Yo Frankie! license page" . Retrieved 2010-01-26 .
^ "#cc10 Featured Platform: deviantART - Creative Commons" . 7 December 2012. Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ creativecommons on flickr.com
^ Parfeni, Lucian (2011-08-05). "Flickr Boasts 6 Billion Photo Uploads" . Softpedia. Retrieved 2012-03-01 .
^ open-access-at-the-met on metmuseum.org
^ "Site Statistics" . Mushroom Observer . Retrieved 26 March 2016 . Images 599669, Observations 208462, Listed Taxa 51072, Observed Taxa 13184, Authored Name Descriptions 4312, Defined Locations 12812, Authored Location Descriptions 847, Species Lists 685, Species List Entries 89263, Proposed IDs 299937, Comments 113454, Votes 418612, Members 6558
^ Wood, Michael (Summer 2008). "WebWatch: Observing Mushrooms" (PDF) . Fungi Magazine . 1 (2). Retrieved 8 October 2010 . Reproduced on the MykoWeb Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine website.
^ "Introduction" . Mushroom Observer . Retrieved 8 October 2010 .
^ "Panoramio - Archiveteam" . archiveteam.org . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Unsplash is a site full of free images for your next splash page" . The Next Web . Retrieved 2015-11-13 .
^ Crew. "License | Unsplash" . unsplash.com . Retrieved 2017-02-20 .
^ "Category:Free Creative Commons licenses - Wikimedia Commons" . commons.wikimedia.org . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ a b Steuer, Eric (May 5, 2008). "Nine Inch Nails' "The Slip" out under a Creative Commons license" . creativecommons.org. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
^ "#hot11 charts" . starfrosch.
^ "Pulse of the Earth" . Hungry Lucy.
^ Carr, Daphne (May 28, 2008). "Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Free Music and Creative Competition – Page 1 – Music – Los Angeles – LA Weekly " . LA Weekly . Archived from the original on 2008-12-26. Retrieved July 21, 2013 .
^ "Can I use a song in my student film/podcast/awesome dance remix?" . Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
^ "Goldberg Variationen: Johann Sebastian Bach als 'Creative Commons Zero'" , Heise online , 29 May 2012
^ creative-commons Archived 2018-01-02 at the Wayback Machine on 20minutos.es
^ Benenson, Fred (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository" . creativecommons.org. Retrieved 2009-01-19 .
^ Steuer, Eric (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License" . creativecommons.org. Archived from the original on 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2009-01-19 .
^ Cohen, Noam (2009-01-11). "Al Jazeera provides an inside look at Gaza conflict" . International Herald Tribune . Retrieved 2009-01-19 .
^ "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage under Creative Commons License" . Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository. Archived from the original on 2009-01-21. Retrieved 2009-01-19 .
^ Andrews, Robert (2009-11-14). "Al Jazeera Offers Creative Commons Video, Lessig Lends Backing" . paidcontent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-06-27. Retrieved 2009-01-19 .
^ Ito, Joi (2009-01-14). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository" . joi.ito.com. Retrieved 2009-01-19 .
^ a b "Republishing guidelines — The Conversation" . theconversation.com . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Global Voices · Republishing Guidelines" . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Iran Daily" . Islamic Republic News Agency. Retrieved 16 October 2019 .
^ "La Stampa adotta la licenza Creative Commons per la condivisione degli articoli" . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDiP16meQ7c0wzMNPbetsjw
^ "Licensing" . openDemocracy . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Steal Our Stories — ProPublica" . ProPublica . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Copyright & Disclaimer - Seychelles News Agency" . www.seychellesnewsagency.com . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Tasnim News Agency - Tasnim News Agency" . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "Copyright" . TorrentFreak . Retrieved 27 October 2018 .
^ "Copyright" . WikiTribune . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ knol.google.com/k on the Internet Archive
^ "OpenSeaMap: Frequently Asked Questions" . OpenSeaMap .org. Retrieved April 28, 2012 .
^ "OpenStreetMap: Copyright and License" . Openstreetmap.org . Retrieved April 28, 2012 .
^ OpenStreetMap#Licensing terms
^ "Legal FAQ - OpenStreetMap Wiki" . wiki.openstreetmap.org . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "SNPedia:Copyrights" . SNPedia . Retrieved November 15, 2013 .
^ Michael Mrozek (2016-11-20). "Power, Memory and Schematics" . pyra-handheld.com by. As promised, the Pyra will be more open than the Pandora and Nikolaus had some time to clean up the schematics! Attached to this post are the schematics for the current revision (5.1.3) of the Pyra. Unless a bug is found, these won't change anymore.[...] License is CC-BY-NC-SA
^ How can a beer be "free"? Archived 2015-08-02 at the Wayback Machine on freebeer.org "The recipe and the FREE BEER brand is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, which basically means that anyone can use our recipe to brew the beer or to create a derivative of our recipe."
^ Linux goes walkabout by Jack Kapic on theglobeandmail.com (March 4, 2008)
^ schematics on openmoko.com
^ "Big Buck Bunny about page" . Retrieved 2010-01-26 .
^ Project Code Rush. "Project Code Rush" . clickmovement.org. Retrieved 2012-08-17 .
^ Code Rush in the Creative Commons. "Code Rush in the Creative Commons" . Waxy.org. Retrieved 2010-02-02 .
^ Wattercutter, Angela (31 October 2012). "Physics Students Make Zombie Movie Decay Deep Within the Bowels of CERN" . Wired . Retrieved 22 November 2012 .
^ "Elephants Dream license page" . Retrieved 2010-01-26 .
^ pearl-jam-releases-video-under-creative-commons-license on cnet.com (2006)
^ Kirsner, Scott. "CinemaTech Filmmaker Q&A: Brett Gaylor of Open Source Cinema".
^ Sinnott, Shane. "The Load-Down Archived 2007-06-30 at the Wayback Machine ", Montreal Mirror , 2007-03-29. Accessed 2008-06-30
^ IP:_A_Remix_Manifesto on creativecommons.org
^ "Ahimsa: Sita Sings the Blues now CC-0 "Public Domain" « Nina Paley's Blog" . blog.ninapaley.com . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "BdFISH - Bangladesh Fisheries Information Share Home" . www.bdfish.org . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "About Devopedia" . www.devopedia.org . Retrieved 3 September 2018 .
^ "RationalWiki:Copyrights" . RationalWiki . Retrieved 5 November 2018 .
^ "Using Material from Our Site" . The Public Domain Review . Retrieved 4 November 2018 .
^ "Welcome to TV Tropes! / Administrivia" . TV Tropes . Retrieved 5 November 2018 .
^ "Terms of use - Meta" . meta.wikimedia.org . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
^ "List of Wikimedia projects by size - Meta" . meta.wikimedia.org . Retrieved 7 July 2018 .
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