List of works available under a Creative Commons License
Encyclopedia
Several million pages of web content use Creative Commons
licenses. Examples include:
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
licenses. Examples include:
- Creative Commons licensed photos
- OpsoundOpsoundOpsound is a website which aggregates links to music released under Creative Commons licenses. Opsound aggregates links to music hosted on other servers, as well as providing discussion forums and organizing real-world events and concerts...
- MoveOn.org's Bush In 30 Seconds contest (See History of MoveOn.orgHistory of MoveOn.orgThe history of MoveOn, began with its opposition to the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1998. MoveOn has emerged as a powerful fundraising vehicle for Democratic Party candidates.- Opposing Clinton's impeachment :...
) - GroklawGroklawGroklaw is an award-winning website covering legal news of interest to the free and open source software community. Started as a law blog on May 16, 2003 by paralegal Pamela Jones at Radio UserLand, it has covered issues such as the SCO-Linux lawsuits, the EU anti-trust case against Microsoft, and...
- MIT OpenCourseWareMIT OpenCourseWareMIT OpenCourseWare is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate- and graduate-level courses online, partly free and openly available to anyone, anywhere. MIT OpenCourseWare is a large-scale, web-based publication of...
- academic course syllabuses - Bob Powell AnthologyBob Powell AnthologyDedicated to the open source community, the Bob Powell Anthology is a collection of recordings of over 60 original songs by Bob Powell spanning a 25-year period. It begins in 1975 with Mississippi Mud and ends in 2001 with A Day at the Races with I Claudius Rip Off Number One...
- The Wired CDThe Wired CDThe Wired CD is an album that was released in 2004 as a collaborative effort between Wired magazine, Creative Commons, and sixteen musicians and groups. The Wired CD was distributed inside the front cover of the November 2004 issue of Wired, which also featured a variety of interviews and bios of...
; created by Creative Commons in cooperation with Wired Magazine, the Beastie BoysBeastie BoysBeastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....
, Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto GilGilberto GilGilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...
, etc. - Public Library of SciencePublic Library of ScienceThe Public Library of Science is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license...
- BitziBitziBitzi is a website where volunteers share reports about any kind of digital file, with identifying metadata, commentary, and other ratings.Information contributed and rated by volunteers is compiled into the Bitpedia data set and reference work, described by Bitzi as a "digital media encyclopedia"...
Bitpedia (digital media encyclopedia) - JamendoJamendoJamendo is a music website and a community of music authors. It bills itself as "the world's #1 platform for free and legal music downloads under Creative Commons licenses."...
- Ghosts I-IV - The sixth studio albumStudio albumA studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by Nine Inch NailsNine Inch NailsNine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
, which was published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license upon its release, thus raising considerable media attention.
Books
- The Honour of the KnightsThe Honour of the KnightsThe Honour of the Knights is a science fiction novel written by Stephen J Sweeney, the First Edition of which is licensed under Creative Commons . It was first published in 2009 and is the first book in the Battle for the Solar System novel trilogy. Sweeney wrote the novel after losing his job...
, a science fictionScience fictionScience fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
novel by Stephen J SweeneyStephen J SweeneyStephen J Sweeney is a British software engineer, probably best known for creating a number of GPL video games , under the banner of Parallel Realities. Much of his work has been featured in British computer magazines such as Amiga Format and Linux Format... - Move Under GroundMove Under GroundMove Under Ground is a horror novel by Nick Mamatas which combines the Beat style of Jack Kerouac with the cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. It was recently made available as a free download via a Creative Commons license at ....
, a novel by Nick MamatasNick MamatasNick Mamatas is an American horror, science fiction and fantasy author and editor for the Haikasoru line of translated Japanese science fiction novels for Viz Media... - A Briefer History of TimeA Briefer History of Time (Schulman book)A Briefer History of Time is a science humor book by the American astronomer Eric Schulman. In this book, Schulman presents humorous summaries of what he claims are the fifty-three most important events since the beginning of time....
, the 1999 science humor book by Eric SchulmanEric SchulmanEric Schulman is an American astronomer and science humorist. Schulman received his bachelor's degree from UCLA and his PhD from the University of Michigan. He is the author of A Briefer History of Time: From the Big Bang to the Big Mac and has been a member of the editorial board of the Annals of... - Three of Eric S. RaymondEric S. RaymondEric Steven Raymond , often referred to as ESR, is an American computer programmer, author and open source software advocate. After the 1997 publication of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Raymond was for a number of years frequently quoted as an unofficial spokesman for the open source movement...
's books, The Cathedral and the BazaarThe Cathedral and the BazaarThe Cathedral and the Bazaar is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail. It examines the struggle between top-down and bottom-up design...
(the first complete and commercially released book under a CC license, published by O'Reilly & AssociatesO'Reilly MediaO'Reilly Media is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics...
), The New Hacker's DictionaryJargon FileThe Jargon File is a glossary of computer programmer slang. The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical cultures such as the MIT AI Lab, the Stanford AI Lab and others of the old ARPANET AI/LISP/PDP-10 communities, including Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Carnegie Mellon...
, and The Art of Unix ProgrammingThe Art of Unix ProgrammingThe Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond is a book about the history and culture of Unix programming from its earliest days in 1969 to 2003 when it was published, covering both genetic derivations such as BSD and conceptual ones such as Linux....
(all three with added proviso) - The fiction of Cory DoctorowCory DoctorowCory Efram Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books...
- Lawrence LessigLawrence LessigLawrence "Larry" Lessig is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive...
's 2004 book, Free CultureFree Culture (book)Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license on March 25, 2004."There has never been a...
(the first CC-licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin BooksPenguin GroupThe Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, the largest in the world , having overtaken Random House in 2009. The Penguin Group is the name of the incorporated division of parent Pearson PLC that oversees these publishing operations...
) - Lawrence Lessig's 2001 book, The Future of IdeasThe Future of IdeasThe Future of Ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world is a book by Lawrence Lessig, at the time of writing a professor of law at Stanford Law School, who is well known as a critic of the extension of the copyright term in US....
(originally published by Random HouseRandom HouseRandom House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...
), under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. - Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.
- Semeurge, a psychological/fantasy graphic novel by Ethan Feuer, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 license.
- The Future Of The InternetThe Future Of The InternetThe Future Of The Internet is a book published in 2008 by Yale University Press and authored by Jonathan Zittrain. The book discusses several legal issues regarding the Internet.The book is made available under a Creative Commons license.-External links:...
, a 2008 book by Jonathan ZittrainJonathan ZittrainJonathan L. Zittrain is a US professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School, a professor of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a faculty co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society...
which discusses several legal issues regarding the InternetInternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
. - Caffeine, a 2009 novel by Ryan Grabow.
- Bourbon For Breakfast: Living Outside the 'Statist' Quo, by intellectual property opponent Jeffrey A. Tucker who is editorial vice-president of the Ludwig von Mises InstituteLudwig von Mises InstituteThe Ludwig von Mises Institute , based in Auburn, Alabama, is a libertarian academic organization engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and political economy. Its scholarship is inspired by the work of Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises...
. - Guts and Sass: An Anti-Epic, a fantasy novel by M.E. Traylor, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
- City of Roses by Kip Manley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
- WarbreakerWarbreakerWarbreaker is a stand-alone fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson, published in hardcover in June 2009 by Tor Books. Sanderson released several rewrites of this title under a Creative Commons license, one chapter at a time. Older drafts of the various chapters are also available. The entire novel is...
by Brandon SandersonBrandon SandersonBrandon Sanderson is an American fantasy author. A Nebraska native, he currently resides in American Fork, Utah. He earned his Master's degree in Creative Writing in 2005 from Brigham Young University, where he was on the staff of Leading Edge, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine...
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Webcomics
- ErfworldErfworldErfworld is a story-driven fantasy/comedy webcomic about a master strategy gamer stuck in a wargame. The first book, The Battle for Gobwin Knob was written by Rob Balder and illustrated by Jamie Noguchi. It was recognized as one of the top 10 graphic novels of 2007 by Time Magazine. The second...
- Johnny WanderJohnny WanderJohnny Wander is a webcomic written by Ananth Panagariya and illustrated by Yuko Ota. It is published bi-weekly. The comic generally focuses on slice of life stories involving Ananth, Yuko, and their friends and family following graduation from college. However, the comic occasionally encompasses...
(the book publication form) - xkcdXkcdxkcd is a webcomic created by Randall Munroe. The comic's tagline describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." It has been recognized in such mainstream media as The Guardian and The New York Times....
- overcompensating
Films
- Oceania, an independent, feature-length film from the San Francisco Bay Area.
- The Star WreckStar WreckStar Wreck is a series of Finnish Star Trek parody movies started by Samuli Torssonen in 1992. The first movie, simply named Star Wreck, was a simple Star Control-like animation with three ships shooting at each other, but later movies featured 3D CGI, animated characters and, in the latest films,...
amateur movie parodies of Star Trek and Babylon 5 (in Finnish). - CactusesCactusesCactuses is a 2006 open-content motion picture created by the Arc2 Project, which consisted of twenty-four High School school students and five college students based in Manteca, CA.This movie is unique in its content, creation, and distribution...
- Feature-length movie - Nasty old peopleNasty old peopleNasty Old People is a 2009 Swedish film directed by Hanna Sköld, Tangram Film. It premiered on 10 October 2009 at Kontrapunkt in Malmö and on file sharing site The Pirate Bay.- Plot :...
a 2009 film in Swedish by Hanna Sköld. - Big Buck BunnyBig Buck BunnyBig Buck Bunny is a short computer animated film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation.Like the foundation's previous film Elephants Dream, the film was made using Blender, a free software application for animation made by the same foundation.-Overview:Work began in October 2007...
and Elephants dreamElephants DreamElephants Dream is a computer-generated short film that was produced almost completely using the free software 3D suite Blender . It premiered on March 24, 2006, after about 8 months of work...
as a result of Blender Foundation projects. - RiP!: A Remix ManifestoRiP!: A Remix ManifestoRiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about "the changing concept of copyright"directed by Brett Gaylor.Created over a period of six years, the documentary film features the collaborative remix work of hundreds of people who have contributed to the Open Source Cinema...
- Sita Sings the BluesSita Sings the BluesSita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by American artist Nina Paley , primarily using 2D computer graphics and Flash Animation.It intersperses events from the Ramayana, illustrated conversation between Indian shadow puppets,...
- Sanctuary Sanctuary (short film)Sanctuary is an upcoming re-mixable science fiction film which became the first production to sign professional union actors to Creative Commons licensing terms. It is in VFX post production as of March 2007. Every production asset, including principal photography shot on 35mm film and digitised,...
is an upcoming re-mixable Science fiction film
Artists
- Bomb the Music Industry!Bomb The Music Industry!Bomb the Music Industry! is band from Baldwin, Nassau County, New York. They write, produce, record, and distribute all of their music under the leadership of songwriter and producer Jeff Rosenstock....
- Jonathan CoultonJonathan CoultonJonathan Coulton is an American singer-songwriter, known for his songs about geek culture and his use of the Internet to draw fans...
- Platinum Bitch
- Paul and StormPaul and StormPaul and Storm are an Arlington, Virginia-based comedic musical duo consisting of Paul Sabourin and Greg "Storm" DiCostanzo. They had formerly been members of the a cappella group Da Vinci’s Notebook....
- Josh WoodwardJosh WoodwardJosh Woodward is a singer-songwriter based in Findlay, Ohio. He is known for releasing his music freely on the Internet in addition to selling hard copies of his albums, as well as releasing his music on iTunes.-History:...
- Samantha Murphy
- byronByron (band)byron is an alternative rock band formed in 2006 in Bucharest, Romania. Dan Byron, former guest of Agathodaimon and ex-member of Urma and Kumm, initially wanted to start a solo project, but it soon developed into an actual band...
- Tiger Cooke
Albums
- Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch NailsNine Inch NailsNine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
- The SlipThe Slip (album)The Slip is the seventh studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on July 22, 2008. It was the fourth consecutive Nine Inch Nails release to be produced by frontman Trent Reznor with collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder...
by Nine Inch NailsNine Inch NailsNine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction... - Speedbath by Kristin HershKristin HershKristin Hersh is an American singer/songwriter who performs solo acoustic concerts; she also continues to perform as lead singer and guitarist for alternative rock group Throwing Muses and the hardcore punk-influenced power trio 50 Foot Wave...
(release in progress at CASH MusicCASH MusicCASH Music is an organization founded by Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses and Donita Sparks of L7. Other participating artists include Xiu Xiu, Adam Gnade, Portugal The Man, 50FOOTWAVE, Colourmusic, Learning Music and Alex Moulton...
) - Free Music by 50 Foot Wave50 Foot Wave50 Foot Wave is an American alternative rock band, formed in 2003. The band is fronted by Kristin Hersh, who writes the group's songs with collaborative efforts from the other group members in composing and arranging the music. The group's name is a reference to both an illustration and the term...
- Somewhere Between Starving & Stardom by Samantha Murphy
- Pulse of the EarthPulse of the EarthPulse of the Earth is the third studio album from American trip hop/indie duo Hungry Lucy. The album was written by the duo, Christa Belle and Warren Harrison, in the Tennessee mountains deliberately away from outside influences, due to concerns that "Hungry Lucy had become more about social media,...
by Hungry LucyHungry LucyHungry Lucy is a darkwave, trip-hop duo with a female vocalist. Beginning in 1998, they have released four full-length CDs. On Alfa Matrix in Europe and on Hungry Media for the US... - Fingertips Of The Silversmith by Tiger Cooke
Record labels
- LOCA RecordsLOCA RecordsLoca Records is an independent electronica and post rock record label based in Brighton, UK. All the music, artwork and videos are released under copyleft licenses and distributed physically on vinyl, CD, and cassette...
- MagnatuneMagnatuneMagnatune is an American independent record label based in Berkeley, California, founded in spring 2003 by John Buckman, then-CEO of e-mail software company Lyris. It aims at treating both its musicians and its customers fairly—its tagline is "We are not evil"...
- New Familiar Music
- OnClassicalOnClassicalOnClassical is a small Italian independent record label based in Pove del Grappa, Italy. It features classical music mostly for piano or chamber ensemble.- History :...
- OpsoundOpsoundOpsound is a website which aggregates links to music released under Creative Commons licenses. Opsound aggregates links to music hosted on other servers, as well as providing discussion forums and organizing real-world events and concerts...
- Urlyd (DenmarkDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
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Other
Some further examples of a potentially-enormous list of Creative Commons-licensed sites include:- Gentoo LinuxGentoo LinuxGentoo Linux is a computer operating system built on top of the Linux kernel and based on the Portage package management system. It is distributed as free and open source software. Unlike a conventional software distribution, the user compiles the source code locally according to their chosen...
(Documentation Resources) - Boing BoingBoing BoingBoing Boing is a publishing entity, first established as a magazine, later becoming a group blog.-History:...
popular blog - ConnexionsConnexionsConnexions is a global repository of educational content provided by Rice University. The entire collection is available free of charge, and students and learners alike can explore all the content they desire....
- academic course modules, hosted by Rice UniversityRice UniversityWilliam Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States... - Flash GalleryFlash GalleryFlash Gallery is a web application that allows users to create a slideshow on their websites. It is based on Flash and PHP, but it can be installed without any programming skills. Users are required to embed a piece of HTML code into their site, and the application automatically generates a...
- a web application for creating an online slideshow. - ZhuraZhuraZhura , merged with screenwriting competitor Scripped as of March 28, 2010, is a free web-based screenwriting software application for writing and formatting screenplays to the film industry standard, as well as other formats...
, online collaborative site for creation and editing of film, stage play, and television series scripts. - Yo Frankie!Yo Frankie!Yo Frankie! is an open video game made by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation, originally scheduled for release in August 2008. It is based on the universe and characters of the free film produced earlier in 2008 by the Blender Institute, Big Buck Bunny...
, a game resulting from a cooperation between the Blender Foundation and the Crystal SpaceCrystal SpaceCrystal Space is a framework for developing 3D applications written in C++ by Jorrit Tyberghein and others. The first public release was on August 26, 1997. It is typically used as a game engine but the framework is more general and can be used for any kind of 3D visualization. It is very...
community. - Perspectivia.netPerspectivia.netPerspectivia.net is an international and interdisciplinary online academic publication platform. The platform publishes articles and reviews in the humanities...
, an online publication platform with articles in the humanitiesHumanitiesThe humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
. - The Cloudberry Project (A Nordic project promoting Creative Commons in dialog with creators)