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.
Contents
- 1 Number of creative commons works
- 2 Governments and intergovernmental organizations
- 3 Books
- 4 Comics
- 5 Educational resources
- 6 Games
- 7 Video games
- 8 Images and photos
- 9 Music
- 10 News
- 11 Knowledge, research and science
- 12 Databases and data
- 13 Technology, blueprints and recipes
- 14 Video and film
- 15 Websites
- 16 References
Number of creative commons works
An analysis in November 2014 revealed that the amount of CC licensed works in major databases and searchable able via google sums up to 882 million works. Nine million webpages linking to one of the CC licenses.[2]
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 |
Scribd | 50 million | Source at Scribd |
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 |
The Creative commons offering now also a search engine for major databases as: Europeana, Open Clip Art Library, Pixabay, ccMixter and more.[3]
Governments and intergovernmental organizations
As of January 2016, 31 governments and 7 intergovernmental organizations have made their information available per CC according to creativecommons.org,[4] similarly dozens of organizations from the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).[5]
Books
The Creative commons maintain a book list themselves.
Name | Original release | CC Release | Description | License | Refs |
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The Art of Unix Programming | 2003 | 2005[6] | book about the history and culture of Unix programming by Eric S. Raymond | CC BY-ND 1.0 (with added proviso) | [7] |
A Briefer History of Time | 1999 | 2004[8] | science humor book by Eric Schulman | CC BY-ND-NC 1.0 | |
Free Culture | 2004 | by Lawrence Lessig (the first CC licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin Books) | CC BY-NC 1.0[9] | ||
Freesouls | 2008 | 2010 (digital ebook) | book with essays and photos of key people of the free movement by Joi Ito | CC BY[10] | |
The Future of Ideas | 2001 | 2001 | by Lawrence Lessig (originally published by Random House) | CC BY-NC[9] | |
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 | [11] |
Move Under Ground | 2004 | A horror novel mashup by Nick Mamatas | CC BY-NC-ND | [12] | |
The New Hacker's Dictionary | 2003 (v4.4.7 by ESR) | 2005 | by Eric S. Raymond (with added proviso) | ||
Warbreaker | 2004 | 2004 | by Brandon Sanderson | CC BY-NC-ND | [13] |
Little Brother | 2008 | 2008 | by Cory Doctorow | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | [14] |
Open Access | 2012 | 2012 | by Peter Suber (published by MIT Press) | CC BY | |
Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation: Scale-free Law | 2011 | by Andres Guadamuz (published by Edward Elgar) | CC BY-NC | [15] | |
Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice | 2012 | by Julie Cohen (published by Yale University Press) | CC BY-NC-SA | [16] | |
Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics of Hacking | 2012 | by Gabriella Coleman (published by Princeton University Press) | CC BY-ND | [17] | |
Barefoot into Cyberspace Adventures in search of techno-Utopia | 2011 | by Becky Hogge (published by Barefoot Publishing Limited) | CC BY-NC | [18] | |
Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution | 2010 | by Chris T. Marsden (published by Bloomsbury Academic) | CC BY-NC | [19] | |
Code: Version 2.0 | 2006 | by Lawrence Lessig dedicated to Wikipedia: "the one surprise that teaches us more than everything here."[20] | CC BY-SA 2.5 | [21] | |
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy | 2008 | by Lawrence Lessig in describing the remix culture | CC BY-NC | [22][23] | |
The Wealth of Networks | 2006 | 2006 | by Yochai Benkler | CC BY-NC-SA | [24] |
Comics
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Diesel Sweeties | CC BY-NC 2.5 | ||
Erfworld | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 | ||
Johnny Wander | (the book publication form) | [25] | |
Mimi & Eunice | by Nina Paley | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
Overcompensating | CC BY-NC 3.0 | ||
Seedfeeder | CC BY-SA 3.0, public domain | ||
xkcd | CC BY-NC 2.5 |
Educational resources
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Connexions | academic course modules, hosted by Rice University | CC BY | |
Khan Academy | 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 |
Games
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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Cards Against Humanity | BY-NC-SA | [26] | |
Eclipse Phase | |||
Open Game Art | CC BY and -SA 3.0 without NC, CC0 | ||
Star Wreck Roleplaying Game | BY-NC-SA 3.0 | [27] | |
Tagmar | |||
Violence |
Video games
Name | Description | License | Refs |
---|---|---|---|
Castle Crashers | Soundtrack released under Creative Commons | CC BY-NC-SA | [28] |
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 | [29][30] |
Mari0 | Super Mario clone mashup with Portal | CC BY-NC-SA | |
Nothing to hide | A crowdfunded surveillance/privacy themed video game prototype by indie game developer Nick Liow, 2013 opened under CC0 and transferred to GitHub. | Artwork and code under CC0[31] | [32][33][34] |
OpenClonk (former Clonk) | A computer game originally developed by RedWolf Design, later opened to the community. | Artwork under CC BY | |
Red Eclipse | The first-person shooter Red Eclipse is built upon the Cube Engine 2 game engine.[35] | most game assets under CC BY-SA-3.0[36] | |
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[37] and the artistic work is under CC BY-SA.[38] | Artwork under CC BY-SA. | [38] |
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[39][40] | |
The Ur-Quan Masters (former Star Control II) | Action RPG | Artwork Cc-by-nc-sa | [41] |
Yo Frankie! | A game resulting from a cooperation between the Blender Foundation and the Crystal Space community | Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution | [42] |
Images and photos
Name | Description | License | Refs |
---|---|---|---|
deviantART | image artwork sharing website | various (15 millions CC licensed) | [43] |
Flickr | user photo uploading and sharing service | various CC licenses (350 millionen CC images of 6+ billion images[44][45]) | |
Mapillary | Over 30 million free photos | CC BY-SA | |
Mushroom Observer | collaborative amateur mycology database with approx. 600,000 observational photos[46][47] | CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA [48] | |
Panoramio | Over 100 million photos | Various | [49] |
Pixabay | user photo uploading and sharing service | CC0 (555.000 images) | |
Unsplash | user photo uploading and sharing service | CC0 | [50][51] |
Wikimedia Commons | free image and data repository, stores Wikipedia images | various free CC licenses (millions of images[52]) |
Music
Name | Description | License | Refs |
---|---|---|---|
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 | ||
Jamendo | Various | ||
NINJAM | Music files/archive | CC BY-SA | |
Pulse of the Earth | By Hungry Lucy | CC BY-SA | [53] |
The Slip | By Nine Inch Nails | BY-NC-SA | [54] |
Shaking the Habitual | By The Knife | ||
Jonathan Coulton | Jonathon Coulton's Works | CC 3.0 by Attribution | |
Paul and Storm | Paul and Storm's Works | CC 2.5 By Attribution NonCommercial and ShareAlike | |
Open Goldberg Variations | CC0[55] |
News
Name | Description | License | Refs |
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20minutos | |||
Rooz | |||
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 | [56][57][58][59][60][61] |
La Stampa | 3rd biggest newspaper of Italy. | CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 | [62] |
Knowledge, research and science
Name | Description | License | Refs |
---|---|---|---|
Copernicus Publications | CC BY | ||
Citizendium | a Wikipedia alternative for academics without anonymous editing | CC BY-SA | |
knol | Website for personal essays. Went offline on May 1, 2012 but was archived on the Internet Archive[63] | mostly CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA | |
PLOS One | CC BY |
Databases and data
Name | Description | License | Refs |
---|---|---|---|
OpenSeaMap | CC SA-BY 2.0 / ODbL | [64] | |
OpenStreetMap | Until September 2012; switched to ODbL | CC BY-SA 2.0 for certain content | [65][66][67] |
SNPedia | Database of single nucleotide polymorphisms | CC BY-NC-SA | [68] |
Technology, blueprints and recipes
Name | Description | License | Refs |
---|---|---|---|
Arduino | CC BY-SA | ||
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 | [69] |
OpenMoko Neo Freerunner | CAD, schematics etc files in 2008 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | [70][71] |
Video and film
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 | [72] |
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 release deadline.[73] | BY-NC-SA 3.0 US | [74] |
Decay | Zombie film made at CERN | ||
Elephants Dream | Product of the first Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in 2006 | [75] | |
Nasty Old People | A 2009 film in Swedish by Hanna Sköld | ||
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 | [76] |
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto | a 2008 open-source documentary film about "the changing concept of copyright" and the remix culture[77][78] directed by Brett Gaylor | ||
Sita Sings the Blues | feature-length animated film by free culture activist Nina Paley | CC0 | [79] |
Sanctuary | A re-mixable Science fiction film | ||
Sintel | Product of the third Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in 2010 | ||
Star Wreck | Amateur movie parodies of Star Trek and Babylon 5 (in Finnish) | ||
Tears of Steel | The fourth Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in September 2012. | ||
Where are the Joneses | online sitcom (series) |
Websites
Name | Description | License | Refs |
---|---|---|---|
Anatomography | CC BY-SA | ||
Association for Progressive Communications | CC BY-SA | ||
BdFISH | CC BY-NC-ND | [80] | |
Boing Boing | Popular blog | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (most) | |
Identi.ca | CC BY | ||
Internet Archive | Various | ||
gnu.org | Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License | ||
Mozilla website | Home of the Mozilla Project | CC BY-SA | |
Stack Overflow | CC BY-SA | ||
Wikia | Since June 2009 | CC BY-SA | |
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. | [81][82] |
Wikitravel | CC BY-SA |
References
- ^ State of the Commons report on creativecommons.org
- ^ State of the Commons: Notes and additional resources - Number of Creative Commons--licensed works on github.com (November 2014)
- ^ CC search on creativecommons.org
- ^ Government use of Creative Commons on creativecommons.org (January 2016)
- ^ GLAM on creativevommons.org (January 2016)
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20050317014053/http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/
- ^ "The Art of Unix Programming". Retrieved 12 October 2013.
- ^ A Briefer History of Time "CC BY-ND-NC 1.0" (archived 2004)
- ^ a b he-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, Friends of the Earth, download Meat Atlas as pdf
- ^ http://manybooks.net/titles/mamatasnother07mug.html
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ http://klangable.com/uploads/books/guadamuz.pdf
- ^ http://klangable.com/uploads/books/Networked_Self.pdf
- ^ http://klangable.com/uploads/books/Coleman-Coding-Freedom.pdf
- ^ http://klangable.com/uploads/books/BarefootIntoCyberspace-BeckyHogge.pdf
- ^ http://klangable.com/uploads/books/NetNeutrality.pdf
- ^ 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 on scribd.com
- ^ Wealth of Networks wiki. Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Last accessed 16 Feb 2012.
- ^ Kale, Arun (21 October 2010). "Of Fretting Cats and Wandering Rooks". Helter Skelter. Square One Media. Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Nothing to hide license on github.com
- ^ Nothing To Hide Is A Very Smart Anti-Stealth Game by John Walker on Rock, Paper, Shotgun (on February 12th, 2014)
- ^ Demo + Crowdfunding: anti-stealth game Nothing To Hide takes its name literally by Anthony Swinnich on indiegames.com (February 16, 2014)
- ^ Attention game designers: Public Domain Jam! on creativecommons.org by Matt Lee (May 16th, 2014)
- ^ http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/free-open-source-fps-red-eclipse-hits-version-1-0/
- ^ Red Eclipse Team (January 24, 2012). "Red Eclipse license". sourceforge.net. Red Eclipse Team. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ "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 b Massively Multiplayer Game Ryzom Released as Free Culture and Free Software on creativecommons.org (2010)
- ^ Free game graphics: Tyrian ships and tiles Daniel Cook (2007-04-04)
- ^ Lost garden license
- ^ The Ur-Quan Masters licensing
- ^ "Yo Frankie! license page". Retrieved 2010-01-26.
- ^ cc10-featured-platform-deviantart
- ^ creativecommons on flickr.com
- ^ Parfeni, Lucian (2011-08-05). "Flickr Boasts 6 Billion Photo Uploads". Softpedia. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
- ^ "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 website.
- ^ "Introduction". Mushroom Observer. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
- ^ http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Panoramio&oldid=23723
- ^ "Unsplash is a site full of free images for your next splash page". The Next Web. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ "License | Unsplash". unsplash.com. Retrieved 2015-11-13.
- ^ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_Creative_Commons_licenses
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Goldberg Variationen: Johann Sebastian Bach als 'Creative Commons Zero'", Heise online, 29 May 2012
- ^ Benenson, Fred (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository". creativecommons.org. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ Steuer, Eric (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License". creativecommons.org. 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. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ Andrews, Robert (2009-11-14). "Al Jazeera Offers Creative Commons Video, Lessig Lends Backing". paidcontent.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ Ito, Joi (2009-01-14). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository". joi.ito.com. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ http://www.lastampa.it/2015/12/19/cultura/opinioni/editoriali/condividere-gli-articoli-de-la-stampa-s-ecco-come-gmS0fZpMCDcyjd21c2jT6J/pagina.html
- ^ knol.google.com/k on the Internet Archive
- ^ "OpenSeaMap: Frequently Asked Questions". OpenSeaMap.org. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
- ^ "OpenStreetMap: Copyright and License". Openstreetmap.org. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
- ^ OpenStreetMap#Licensing terms
- ^ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ
- ^ "SNPedia:Copyrights". SNPedia. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
- ^ How can a beer be "free"? 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". Retrieved 2010-01-26.
- ^ Project Code Rush. "Project Code Rush". clickmovement.org. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^ Code Rush in the Creative Commons. "Code Rush in the Creative Commons". Waxy.org. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
- ^ "Elephants Dream license page". Retrieved 2010-01-26.
- ^ pearl-jam-releases-video-under-creative-commons-license on cnet.com (2006)
- ^ Kirsner, Scott. "CinemaTech Filmmaker Q&A: Brett Gaylor of Open Source Cinema".
- ^ Sinnott, Shane. "The Load-Down", Montreal Mirror, 2007-03-29. Accessed 2008-06-30
- ^ ahimsa-sita-sings-the-blues-now-cc-0-public-domain
- ^ bdfish.org
- ^ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use
- ^ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikimedia_projects_by_size#footer
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