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.
Number of Creative Commons works
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]
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]
^"Reading Between the Lines, Smithsonian Magazine". Archived from the original on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
^"archimedespalimpsest". Archived from the original on 21 February 2009. This data is released for use under a Creative Commons license, with attribution
^ a bthe-future-of-ideas-is-now-fre-1 on lessig.org
^Free souls captured and released "This is an celebration of all people who are willing to share" on freesouls.org
^"Meat Atlas: facts and figures about the animals we eat". Friends of the Earth Europe. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas". Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"Warbreaker Rights and Downloads - Brandon Sanderson". brandonsanderson.com. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"Download Little Brother For Free - Cory Doctorow's craphound.com". craphound.com. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^Watts, Peter. "Blindsight by Peter Watts". www.rifters.com. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^Code Version 2.0, at http://codev2.cc/download+remix/Lessig-Codev2.pdf "the one surprise that teaches us more than everything here."
^Code Version 2.0, at http://codev2.cc/download+remix/Lessig-Codev2.pdf
^Remix on lessig.org
^"Remix". Archived from the original on 2016-04-02. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"Kelly Link on Creative Commons". 10 November 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
^"Stranger Things Happen". NPR. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
^"Fiction Book Review: STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN". Retrieved 20 August 2018.
^"Gaia » About / FAQ". Retrieved 15 February 2023.
^Kale, Arun (21 October 2010). "Of Fretting Cats and Wandering Rooks". Helter Skelter. Square One Media. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
^"Sandra and Woo » About / FAQ". Retrieved 15 February 2023.
^"XKCD - A Webcomic - License".
^"Homem-Grilo, super-herói de Osasco, celebra 20 anos" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2020-10-14. Archived from the original on 2020-10-18. Retrieved 2021-03-23.
^"Comemorando os 20 anos do Homem-Grilo com o Copyleft e a Cultura Livre" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2020-01-02. Archived from the original on 2020-09-30.
^"Cards Against Humanity". Cards Against Humanity. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"Violence -- the RPG of egregious and repulsive bloodshed" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-12-27. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
^Castle Crashers Soundtrack Released Under CC License (2008)
^tinyspeck (2013-11-18). "Glitch is Dead, Long Live Glitch! - Art & Code from the Game Released into Public Domain". glitchthegame.com. Retrieved 2013-12-11. The entire library of art assets from the game, has been made freely available, dedicated to the public domain. Code from the game client is included to help developers work with the assets. All of it can be downloaded and used by anyone, for any purpose.
^Blackwell, Laura (2013-11-18). "Afterlife of an MMO: Glitch's offbeat art enters public domain". pcworld.com. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
^"Breakthrough for Free Software Gaming--Ryzom Announces Full Release of Source Code and Artwork, and a Partnership with the Free Software Foundation to Host a Repository of the Game's Artistic Assets". ryzom.com. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
^ a bMassively Multiplayer Game Ryzom Released as Free Culture and Free Software on creativecommons.org (2010)
^Free game graphics: Tyrian ships and tiles on lostgarden.com by Daniel Cook (2007-04-04)
^Lost garden license on lostgarden.com "All licensed items use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License" (2007)
^"Site Statistics". Mushroom Observer. Retrieved 26 March 2016. Images 599669, Observations 208462, Listed Taxa 51072, Observed Taxa 13184, Authored Name Descriptions 4312, Defined Locations 12812, Authored Location Descriptions 847, Species Lists 685, Species List Entries 89263, Proposed IDs 299937, Comments 113454, Votes 418612, Members 6558
^Wood, Michael (Summer 2008). "WebWatch: Observing Mushrooms" (PDF). Fungi Magazine. 1 (2). Retrieved 8 October 2010. Reproduced on the MykoWeb Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine website.
^"Introduction". Mushroom Observer. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
^"16 Sites Featuring Free Game Graphics for Game Developers". Felgo. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
^"Panoramio - Archiveteam". archiveteam.org. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"Unsplash is a site full of free images for your next splash page". The Next Web. 14 August 2013. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
^"Airports for Music, by SheedyJaye". Moderate Potatoe Multimedia. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
^ a bSteuer, Eric (May 5, 2008). "Nine Inch Nails' "The Slip" out under a Creative Commons license". creativecommons.org. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
^"#hot11 charts". starfrosch.
^猫 シ Corp. (2 October 2014). "Palm Mall". Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2022 – via Bandcamp.
^"Pulse of the Earth". Hungry Lucy.
^Carr, Daphne (May 28, 2008). "Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Free Music and Creative Competition – Page 1 – Music – Los Angeles – LA Weekly". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on 2008-12-26. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
^"Can I use a song in my student film/podcast/awesome dance remix?". Retrieved December 9, 2017.
^"Goldberg Variationen: Johann Sebastian Bach als 'Creative Commons Zero'", Heise Online, 29 May 2012
^Steuer, Eric (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License". creativecommons.org. Archived from the original on 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^Cohen, Noam (2009-01-11). "Al Jazeera provides an inside look at Gaza conflict". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^"Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage under Creative Commons License". Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository. Archived from the original on 2009-01-21. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^Andrews, Robert (2009-11-14). "Al Jazeera Offers Creative Commons Video, Lessig Lends Backing". paidcontent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-06-27. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^"About us - Agência Pública". Retrieved 2021-04-02.
^"Jornalismo de interesse público e licenciamento aberto" (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2014-02-07. Archived from the original on 2021-04-02. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
^QUI SOMMES-NOUS?
^ a b"Republishing guidelines — The Conversation". theconversation.com. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"Terms of Use". Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
^"Global Voices · Republishing Guidelines". Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"La Stampa adotta la licenza Creative Commons per la condivisione degli articoli". 19 December 2015. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"Licensing". openDemocracy. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"Steal Our Stories — ProPublica". ProPublica. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"Legal FAQ - OpenStreetMap Wiki". wiki.openstreetmap.org. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
^"SNPedia:Copyrights". SNPedia. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
^Michael Mrozek (2016-11-20). "Power, Memory and Schematics". pyra-handheld.com by. As promised, the Pyra will be more open than the Pandora and Nikolaus had some time to clean up the schematics! Attached to this post are the schematics for the current revision (5.1.3) of the Pyra. Unless a bug is found, these won't change anymore.[...] License is CC BY-NC-SA
^How can a beer be "free"? Archived 2015-08-02 at the Wayback Machine on freebeer.org "The recipe and the FREE BEER brand is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, which basically means that anyone can use our recipe to brew the beer or to create a derivative of our recipe."
^Linux goes walkabout by Jack Kapic on theglobeandmail.com (March 4, 2008)
^schematics on openmoko.com
^"Big Buck Bunny about page". Archived from the original on 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2010-01-26.