14 Facts About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

Content owners still maintain their copyright, but Creative Commons licenses give standard releases that replace the individual negotiations for specific rights between copyright owner and licensee, that are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright management.

The first article in a general interest publication about Creative Commons, written by Hal Plotkin, was published in February 2002.

Creative Commons has been an early participant in the copyleft movement, which seeks to provide alternative solutions to copyright, and has been dubbed "some rights reserved".

Creative Commons has been credited with contributing to a re-thinking of the role of the "commons" in the "information age".

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In mid-December 2020, Creative Commons released its strategy for the upcoming five years, which will focus more on three core of goals including advocacy, infrastructure innovation, and capacity building.

Until April 2018, Creative Commons had over 100 affiliates working in over 75 jurisdictions to support and promote CC activities around the world.

Creative Commons Korea is the affiliated network of Creative Commons in South Korea.

Anderson ends up concluding that this is the point, and that "Creative Commons receives significant funding from large information companies like Google, Nature Publishing Group, and RedHat", and that Google money is especially linked to CC's history; for him, CC is "an organization designed to promulgate the interests of technology companies and Silicon Valley generally".

Creative Commons is only a service provider for standardized license text, not a party in any agreement.

Lessig wrote that the point of Creative Commons is to provide a middle ground between two extreme views of copyright protection – one demanding that all rights be controlled, and the other arguing that none should be controlled.

Creative Commons provides a third option that allows authors to pick and choose which rights they want to control and which they want to grant to others.

Creative Commons issued a report in 2009, "Defining noncommercial", which presented research and various perspectives.

Creative Commons has not sought to resolve the confusion, in part because of high consumer demand for the noncommercial license as is with its ambiguity.