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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.
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]
Platform name | Number of works (rounded down by millions, November 2014) | Source |
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Flickr | 307 million | https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ |
Wikipedia (all pages in all languages) | 111 million | http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias |
MusicBrainz | 39 million | https://musicbrainz.org/statistics https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About/Data_License |
Freebase | 39 million | https://developers.google.com/freebase/faq#how_big_is_freebase |
DeviantArt | 15 million | https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35540 |
Geonames | 10 million | http://www.geonames.org/about.html |
YouTube | 10 million | Source at YouTube |
Google Search | 301 million | google-currenttools.csv, google-retiredtools.csv |
Creative Commons offers also a search engine for major databases as: Europeana, Open Clip Art Library, Pixabay, ccMixter and more.[2]
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]
Creative Commons maintains a book list themselves.
Name | Original release | CC Release | Description | License | Refs |
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The Art of Unix Programming | 2003 | 2005[5] | book about the history and culture of Unix programming by Eric S. Raymond (with added proviso) | CC BY-ND 1.0 | [6] |
A Briefer History of Time | 1999 | 2004[7] | science humor book by Eric Schulman | CC BY-ND-NC 1.0 | |
Archimedes Palimpsest | 3rd century BC | 2008 | reconstructed and released by OPenn as Free Cultural Works | CC BY | [8][9][10] |
Free Culture | 2004 | by Lawrence Lessig (the first CC licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin Books) | CC BY-NC 1.0[11] | ||
Freesouls | 2008 | 2010 (digital ebook) | book with essays and photos of key people of the free movement by Joi Ito | CC BY[12] | |
The Future of Ideas | 2001 | 2001 | by Lawrence Lessig (originally published by Random House) | CC BY-NC[11] | |
The Future Of The Internet | 2008 | book by Jonathan Zittrain which discusses several legal issues regarding the Internet | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | ||
The Honour of the Knights | 2009 | 2009 | A science fiction novel by Stephen J Sweeney | CC BY-NC-SA | |
Meat Atlas | 2014 | 2014 | A collection of graphs and 27 essays on meat consumption and production by Friends of the Earth and Heinrich Böll Foundation | CC BY-SA | [13] |
Move Under Ground | 2004 | A horror novel mashup by Nick Mamatas | CC BY-NC-ND | [14] | |
The New Hacker's Dictionary | 2003 (v4.4.7 by ESR) | 2005 | by Eric S. Raymond (with added proviso) | [which?] | |
Warbreaker | 2004 | 2004 | by Brandon Sanderson | CC BY-NC-ND | [15] |
Little Brother | 2008 | 2008 | by Cory Doctorow | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | [16] |
Open Access | 2012 | 2012 | by Peter Suber (published by MIT Press) | CC BY | |
Blindsight | 2006 | by Peter Watts | CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 | [17] | |
Code: Version 2.0 | 2006 | by Lawrence Lessig dedicated to Wikipedia: "the one surprise that teaches us more than everything here."[18] | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [19] | |
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy | 2008 | by Lawrence Lessig in describing the remix culture | CC BY-NC | [20][21] | |
The Wealth of Networks | 2006 | 2006 | by Yochai Benkler | CC BY-NC-SA | [22] |
Stranger Things Happen | 2001 | 2005 | short horror stories by Kelly Link, Salon Book of the Year | CC BY-NC-SA | [23][24][25] |
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Bunny | by Huw Davies | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | |
Diesel Sweeties | by Richard Stevens III | CC BY-NC 2.5 | |
Erfworld | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | ||
Gaia | by Oliver Knörzer and Puri Andini | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 | [26] |
Jesus and Mo | religious satire webcomic by Mohammed Jones | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | |
Johnny Wander | (the book publication form) | [which?] | [27] |
Mimi & Eunice | by Nina Paley | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
Overcompensating | CC BY-NC 3.0 | ||
Pepper & Carrot | by David Revoy | CC BY 4.0 | |
Sandra and Woo | by Oliver Knörzer and Puri Andini | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 | [28] |
Seedfeeder's works for Wikipedia | by Seedfeeder | CC BY-SA 3.0, public domain | |
xkcd | by Randall Munroe | CC BY-NC 2.5 | [29] |
Homem-Grilo | by Cadu Simões (pt) | CC BY-SA-4.0 | [30][31] |
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Connexions | academic course modules, hosted by Rice University | CC BY | |
Khan Academy | CC BY-NC-SA | ||
OpenLearn | Short articles, videos and extracts of courses maintained by The Open University | CC BY-NC-SA | |
Open Courseware | CC BY-NC-SA | ||
The Saylor Foundation | Peer-reviewed college courses and textbooks | CC BY | |
WikiEducator | CC BY-SA (default), CC BY, and CC0 | ||
Project Euler | Site hosting computer programming problems | CC BY-NC-SA |
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Cards Against Humanity | An adult party game using custom-printed cards | CC BY-NC-SA | [32] |
Dungeons & Dragons System Reference Document 5.1 | The core rules of a popular fantasy role-playing game | CC BY 4.0 | [33] |
Eclipse Phase | A transhuman science fiction role-playing game | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | [34] |
Tagmar | The first Brazilian fantasy role-playing game fully developed in Brazil | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Brasil | [35] |
Violence | A heavily satirical role-playing game inspired by excessive violence in other role-playing games and video games | CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 | [36] |
Secret Hitler | A social deduction party game set in the Weimar Republic | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead | ASCII graphic rogue like | Artwork and code under CC BY-SA | |
Castle Crashers | One of the soundtracks of a proprietary game released under Creative Commons | CC BY-NC-SA | [37] |
Glest / MegaGlest | A real-time strategy computer game in a fantasy setup. | Artwork under CC BY-SA | |
Glitch | MMO. In 2013, most of the artwork and parts of the code were released under a creative commons license. | CC0 | [38][39] |
Mari0 | Super Mario clone mashup with Portal | CC BY-NC-SA | |
OpenClonk (former Clonk) | A computer game originally developed by RedWolf Design, later opened to the community. | Artwork under CC BY / CC BY-NC | |
Ryzom | Ryzom is a free and open source software PC MMORPG. Originally developed and released 2004 by Nevrax, since 2010 the source code is under the AGPL[40] and the artistic work is under CC BY-SA.[41] | Artwork under CC BY-SA. | [41] |
Sintel The Game | A game based on the Blender Foundation movie, Sintel. | CC BY | |
The Adventures of Fatman | point and click adventure game | CC-SA-NC-ND | |
Tyrian (now OpenTyrian) | Scrolling shooter | graphic assets under CC BY 3.0 US[42][43] | |
The Ur-Quan Masters (former Star Control II) | Action RPG | Artwork under CC BY-NC-SA | [44] |
Yo Frankie! | A game resulting from a cooperation between the Blender Foundation and the Crystal Space community | Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution | [45] |
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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deviantART | image artwork sharing website | various (15 million CC licensed) | [46] |
Flickr | user photo uploading and sharing service | various CC licenses (350 million CC images of 6+ billion images[47][48]) | |
Mapillary | Over 30 million free photos | CC BY-SA | |
Metropolitan Museum of Art | paintings and artworks | CC0 (375.000) | [49] |
Mushroom Observer | collaborative amateur mycology database with approx. 600,000 observational photos[50][51] | CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA [52] | |
Open Game Art | Media repository for software / game projects | CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0, others | [53] |
Panoramio | Over 100 million photos | Various | [54] |
Fortepan | archival photographs, and family snapshots of everyday life | CC BY-SA (100.000 images) | |
Unsplash | user photo uploading and sharing service | CC0 prior to 5 June 2017 | [55][56] |
Wikimedia Commons | free image and data repository, stores Wikipedia images | various free CC licenses (40+ million images in 2018[57]) | |
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Airports for Music | By SheedyJaye | CC BY 3.0 | [58] |
ccMixter | Community music website | mostly CC BY-NC | |
Free Music Archive | Various | ||
The Freesound Project | CC0, CC BY, CC BY-NC and Sampling Plus | ||
Ghosts I–IV | By Nine Inch Nails | CC BY-NC-SA | [59] |
#hot111 Charts | By starfrosch | CC BY CC BY-SA | [60] |
Jamendo | Various | ||
NINJAM | Music files/archive | CC BY-SA | |
Palm Mall | By Cat System Corp. | CC BY 3.0 | [61] |
Pulse of the Earth | By Hungry Lucy | CC BY-SA | [62] |
The Slip | By Nine Inch Nails | CC BY-NC-SA | [63][59] |
Jonathan Coulton | Jonathon Coulton's Works | CC BY-NC 3.0 | [64] |
Paul and Storm | Paul and Storm's Works | CC 2.5 By Attribution NonCommercial and ShareAlike | |
Open Goldberg Variations | CC0[65] | ||
Cloudkicker | By Ben Sharp | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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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 | [66][67][68][69][70][71] |
Agência Pública | Online Investigative Journalism outlet with texts in Portuguese, English and Spanish. | CC BY-ND 4.0 | [72][73] |
Corbeau News Centrafrique | French-language news site from the Central African Republic | CC BY-SA 4.0 | [74] |
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 | [75] |
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 | [75] |
Deshabhimani | Malayalam language newspaper | CC BY 4.0 | [76] |
Global Voices | International journalism organisation publishing in over 40 languages. | CC BY 3.0 | [77] |
Haitian Times | Online newspaper for the Haitian diaspora in the United States. | CC BY-ND 4.0 | |
La Stampa | 3rd biggest newspaper of Italy. | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 | [78] |
OpenDemocracy | International online news website. Specific articles are released under a Creative Commons license. | CC BY-NC 4.0 | [79] |
ProPublica | US news website. | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 | [80] |
Tasnim News Agency | Iranian news agency publishing in Persian, English, Arabic, Turkish and Urdu. | CC BY 4.0 | [81] |
TorrentFreak | News blog. Text licensed under a Creative Commons license. | CC BY-NC 3.0 | [82] |
WikiTribune | News website with crowdsourced fact-checking, proofreading and editing. Published in English and Spanish. | CC BY or CC BY-SA 4.0 | [83] |
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Copernicus Publications | CC BY | ||
Citizendium | a wiki encyclopedia | CC BY-SA | |
Cliodynamics | Research | CC BY 4.0 | |
knol | Website for personal essays. Went offline on May 1, 2012, but was archived on the Internet Archive[84] | mostly CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA | |
PLOS One | CC BY |
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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OpenSeaMap | CC SA-BY 2.0 / ODbL | [85] | |
OpenStreetMap | Until September 2012; switched to ODbL | CC BY-SA 2.0 for certain content | [86][87][88] |
SNPedia | Database of single nucleotide polymorphisms | CC BY-NC-SA | [89] |
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Arduino | CC BY-SA | ||
Dragonbox Pyra | pre-release schematics released in November 2016 | CC BY-NC-SA | [90] |
Free Beer | In December 2004 brewing recipe, brand and label artwork released under CC by Superflex and students of the IT University of Copenhagen | CC BY-SA | [91] |
OpenMoko Neo Freerunner | CAD, schematics etc. files in 2008 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [92][93] |
The Creative Commons maintain a film list themselves.
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Big Buck Bunny | Product of the second Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in 2008. | BY | [94] |
Code Rush | 2000 documentary of Netscape's last year as an independent company, focusing on the rush to make Mozilla's source code ready for its release deadline.[95] | BY-NC-SA 3.0 US | [96] |
The Yes Men Fix the World | English language documentary film about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men. | CC BY-NC-ND | [97] |
Decay | Zombie film made at CERN | CC BY-NC | [98] |
Elephants Dream | Product of the first Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in 2006 | CC BY | [99] |
Working Slowly (Radio Alice) | 2004 Italian drama directed by Guido Chiesa. | CC BY-NC-SA | |
Life Wasted | by Pearl Jam in 2006, first music video from a major record label to be CC licensed | CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 | [100] |
Nasty Old People | A 2009 film in Swedish by Hanna Sköld | CC BY-NC-SA | |
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto | a 2008 open-source documentary film about "the changing concept of copyright" and the remix culture[101][102] directed by Brett Gaylor | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0[103] | |
Sita Sings the Blues | feature-length animated film by free culture activist Nina Paley | CC0 | [104] |
Sanctuary | A re-mixable Science fiction film | [which?] | |
Sintel | Product of the third Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in 2010 | [which?] | |
Star Wreck | Amateur movie parodies of Star Trek and Babylon 5 (in Finnish) | [which?] | |
Tears of Steel | The fourth Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in September 2012. | CC BY | |
Where are the Joneses | online sitcom (series) | CC BY-SA |
Name | Description | License | Alexa Rankings [105] | Refs |
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Anatomography | CC BY-SA | |||
Association for Progressive Communications | CC BY-SA | |||
BdFISH | CC BY-NC-ND | [106] | ||
Boing Boing | Popular blog | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (most) | ||
Devopedia | An open community platform for developers by developers to explain technology in a simple, clear and unopinionated way. | CC BY-SA 4.0 (non-code content) | [107] | |
Fandom | Since June 2009 | CC BY-SA | ||
Identi.ca | CC BY | |||
Internet Archive | Various | 170 | ||
gnu.org | Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License | |||
Mozilla website | Home of the Mozilla Project | CC BY-SA | 166 | |
RationalWiki | CC BY-SA | [108] | ||
SCP Foundation | The SCP Wiki is a collaborative urban fantasy writing website about the fictional SCP Foundation, a secretive organization that contains anomalous or supernatural items and entities away from the eyes of the public.[109] | CC BY-SA | [109] | |
Stack Overflow | CC BY-SA | 57 | ||
The Public Domain Review | Online journal showcasing public domain works. | CC BY-SA (unquoted text in collection posts and articles only) | [110] | |
Uncyclopedia | Satirical online encyclopedia. | CC BY-NC-SA | [111] | |
Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia | Since June 2009; over 80 million items | Text CC BY-SA (plus GFDL in most cases); some in CC BY and CC-0; hosted content also in public domain and various licenses. | [112][113] | |
Wikitravel | CC BY-SA |
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