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Projects

Creative Commons has launched a series of projects designed to support and expand the public domain. These projects include the following. If you have ideas that we could launch, email us.

Organization

Science Commons

Establishing CC within the scientific community.

Creative Commons International

Coordinating legal experts around the world.

ccLearn

Establishing CC within the academic community.

ccMixter

Download, Sample, Cut-up, Share.

 
Board Reports

Summaries of Creative Commons board meetings.

Core

Licenses

From “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved”.

CC0
CC0
A protocol that enables people to waive any rights associated with a work.
CC+
CC+
A protocol providing a simple way for users to get rights beyond the rights granted by a CC license.
ccREL
ccREL
A recommendation for metadata and rights expression from CC.
Search

Find CC-licensed works.

Development

ccLabs

CC project development.

Developers
Integrate CC with your project.
Translate

Help us translate our website(s), software projects, and potential future projects.

Information

Case Studies

Explore and add noteworthy global CC stories.

Documentation

CC specifications, recommendations and tutorials.

Marking

Properly mark your work with the rights it carries.

Metrics

Gathering, processing and visualizing licensing data.

ccSalon

Discuss and explore CC in first-life.

Tools

LicenseChooser.js
LicenseChooser.js

A simple javascript widget to add CC licensing to any site.

liblicense

Low-level license metadata integration for applications.

LiveContent

Explore open content and free software through media.

ccHost

Integrate CC into your website.

WpLicense

A simple Wordpress plug-in that uses LicenseChooser.js.

OpenOffice.org Add-in

Allows license information to be embedded in OpenOffice.org documents.