Organization
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a US nonprofit that publishes the Creative Commons licences and the CC0 public-domain tool for sharing work openly.
How it connects
Who is behind it
- Creative Commons licences developed by Creative Commons. Published and maintained by Creative Commons.
Related to
- Creative Commons relates to Open licence. Steward of the Creative Commons licence suite, the best-known family of open licences.
Links
Details
Description
Creative Commons was founded in 2001 and describes itself as the nonprofit behind the world's most widely used open licences. Its licences give reuse permission in advance, and CC0 is a public-domain dedication.
Attributes
| url | https://creativecommons.org/ |
|---|---|
| identifiers | ror: 02ed4cj64, wikidata: Q43449 |
| status | active |
| governance | Nonprofit |
| since | 2001-01 |
| prominence | detail |
| type | Organization |
| orgKind | nonprofit |
| country | US |
| Tags | region: global, openness: open content |
Sources
- https://creativecommons.org/about/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-13): Nonprofit "behind the world's most widely used open licenses"; public-domain tools.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-13): Founded 15 January 2001 by Lessig, Abelson and Eldred; CC0 is a public-domain dedication tool; six licence types.
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43449(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-13)
Last reviewed: 2026-11-13
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