Open Licensing and Creative Commons (CC)
- Creative Commons – About the Licenses
- Creative Commons – Licence Chooser
- Creative Commons – the Commons belong to us all
- CC is now a member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)
- Creative Commons Global Network Community
- Creative Commons Search Portal
- Creative Commons Public Reports
- Benefits of Using Creative Commons Licences
- Open Licensing (CCCOER)
- Importance Of Creative Commons License in Promoting Open Access
Licensors and Licensees
- CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication – No Copyright
- Considerations for licensors and licensees
- Creative Commons Licenses: What You Need to Know as a Creator and User
- How Creative Commons works, and why it enables access to knowledge (Denise Nicholson & Paul West)
- Open Licensing Checklist
- What to Do if Your CC-Licensed Work is Misused
Creative Commons, Copyright and AI
- AI and Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone—Here’s What to Do Instead (2025)
- AI and the Commons
- Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Why We’re Against Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Output (2020)
- CC – Building the Future in 2026
- CC at the AI Impact Summit: Core Interventions for the Public Interest (Feb 2026)
- CC Signals a new approach to AI (Aug 2025)
- CC Signals – Creative Commons Launches ‘CC Signals’ to Help Photographers Control AI Use of Their Images (June 2025)
- CC Signals lets you set boundaries with AI without locking down your work (June 2025)
- CC Signals: Update on CC Signals: What Changed and Why (Apr 2026)
- CC Signals: What We’ve Been Working On (Dec 2025)
- CC Submission to WIPO Consultation on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Policy (2020)
- CC – Why We’re Advocating for a Cautious Approach to Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (2020)
- Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI (2025)
- Creative Commons Submission to the European Commission Consultation on Artificial Intelligence (2020)
- Dispatches from Wikimania: Values for Shaping AI Towards a Better Internet (2024)
- Generative AI and Creative Commons Licences – The Application of Share Alike Obligations to Trained Models, Curated Datasets and AI Output (2024)
- How Creators and Creative Industries Are Pushing Back Against AI Theft (2026)
- How to Use Creative Commons Videos on YouTube Without Copyright Claims (2019)
- Navigating the Creative Commons: AI, Ownership, and Software Development (2024)
- Policy Lab: Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Creativity
- The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons (2025)
- Understanding CC Licenses and Generative AI (2023)
- Using CC-Licensed Works for AI Training (2025)
- What is Creative Commons – and how is AI turning it on its head?
- 7 Best Practices: Creative Commons & AI Artwork Licensing (2024)
Some CC licensed books
- Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians (2020)
- The Public Domain – Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (2008)
Find CC licensed material (without copyright clearance)
- Best Sites to Download Creative Commons Music
- CC – Image Directories
- CC – Images
- CC – licensed Videos
- CC – Sound Directories
- ccMixter
- Creative Commons Officially Launches a Search Engine That Indexes 300+ Million Public Domain Images (2019)
- Finding and Using Creative Commons Works: How to Cite CC Licensed Materials
- Finding and Using Creative Commons Works: How to Find CC Licensed Materials
- Flikr: Creative Commons
- How To FIND And USE Creative Commons Videos on YouTube (without copyright claims) (2019)
- Legal Music For Videos
- List of Major CC licensed works
- List of Major CC licensed music
- Search and Discovery for OER (2010)
- Search Portal – for CC licensed content to use
- Search for CC licensed content to use
- The 14 Best Sites to Find Free Creative Commons Music (2019)
- UCT Content Finder (2023)
- Wikimedia Commons
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