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)
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]
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]
^"archimedespalimpsest". Archived from
the original on 21 February 2009. This data is released for use under a Creative Commons license, with attribution
^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.
^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."
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)
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]
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]
^"archimedespalimpsest". Archived from
the original on 21 February 2009. This data is released for use under a Creative Commons license, with attribution
^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.
^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."