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]
Platform name
Number of works (rounded down by millions, November 2014)
Creative Commons offers also a search engine for major databases as: Europeana, Open Clip Art Library, Pixabay, ccMixter and more.[2]
Governments and intergovernmental organizations
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]
Books
Creative Commons maintains a book list themselves.
Internationally syndicated radio and TV news program. All transcripts from broadcasts are republished online and released under a Creative Commons license.
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.[94]
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.[108]
^"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
^ abthe-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
^"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.
^"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.
^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.
^ abMassively 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.
^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.
^"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)