Creative Commons Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has release ...

is maintaining a content directory

wiki A wiki ( ) is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or l ...

of organizations and projects using

Creative Commons license A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work". A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and bu ...

s. On its website CC also provides case studies of projects using CC licenses across the world. CC licensed content can also be accessed through a number of content directories and search engines. *

ccHost ccHost is a web-based media hosting engine upon which Creative Commons' ccMixter remix web community is built. The software is written in PHP and uses the MySQL MySQL () is an Open-source software, open-source relational database management s ...

- Server web software used by ccMixter and

Open Clip Art Library Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art. The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original ...

* Common Content - now offline (accessed 16 November 2007). * Creative Commons' Content Directories *Creative Commons' Search Page *

Google Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...

Advanced Search - select an option under Usage Rights, to search for CC content *

Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements curren ...

web browser with default Creative Commons search functionality * Open Game Art - Sound and graphics repository intended for use in

free software Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed open-source license, under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, distribut ...

video games A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual fe ...

The Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including web ...

- Project dedicated to maintaining an

archive An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials, in any medium, or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organ ...

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

resources, among which Creative Commons-licensed content *

Yahoo Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, an ...

's Creative Commons Search

News and media

The Conversation ''The Conversation'' is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written, produced, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert who faces a moral dilemma when his recordings reveal a potential ...

- Content is sourced from the academic and research community. Site content is under a Creative Commons — Attribution/No derivatives license. * Aeon.co - Aeon ideas are interesting pieces and thought narratives re-publishable online or in print under their Creative Commons licence. * Singularity Hub - Providing news coverage of sci/tech breakthroughs, certain articles can be republished for free in any language, online or in print, under the Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 4.0. *

ProPublica ProPublica (), legally Pro Publica, Inc., is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in New York City. ProPublica's investigations are conducted by its staff of full-time reporters, and the resulting stories are distributed to ne ...

- A nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism. Articles and graphics can be republished for free under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US.

Audio and music

* CCMixter - A Creative Commons Remix community site *

Dogmazic Dogmazic is one of the primary free music download managers in France. Dogmazic was created in December 2004 by the Bordeaux-based ''Association Musique libre!'', a major proponent of the French free music movement. Dogmazic's database contains ...

- Archive of free music based in France, one of the main actor of free music movement in Europe *

Electrobel Electrobel is a free online community for electronic music artists that also features free downloads of submitted music. As stated on the website, "the concept behind the website/community, is that online communities are fun, but aren't practical ...

- A Creative Commons Community for Belgium, France, Netherlands, UK, Italy *

Jamendo Jamendo is a Luxembourg-based music website and an open community of independent artists and music lovers. A subsidiary of Belgian company Llama Group, and Independent Management Entity (IME) since 2019. Originally, Jamendo was a music platform ...

- An archive of music albums under Creative Commons licenses
Directory.Audio
- A community collaborative, free database of sound effects, music and audio intros released under a Creative Commons license * Newgrounds Audio portal - All the music submitted to the Newgrounds Audio portal is free to use under BY-NC-SA 3.0.

Photos and images

* Newgrounds Art portal - Artists who submit art to the Newgrounds Art portal may choose to use a Creative Commons licence. *

Pixabay Pixabay.com is a free stock photography and royalty-free stock media website. It is used for sharing photos, illustrations, vector graphics, film footage, stock music and sound effects, exclusively under the custom Pixabay Content License, which ...

- Provides public domain photos, illustrations, vector graphics, and film footage * FreeSVG.org - Provides public domain (CC0) vector images in SVG format * Creativevectors.org - Provides vector images with Creative Commons licences.

References

External links

Creative Commons Content Directories
{{Creative Commons Computer law Free music Copyleft