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## Better Sharing, Brighter Future

“Twenty Years of Creative Commons (in Sixty Seconds)” by Ryan Junell and Glenn Otis Brown for Creative Commons is licensed via CC BY 4.0 and includes adaptations of the multiple open and public domain works. View full licensing and attribution information about all works included in the video on Flickr.

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## The nonprofit behind the licenses and tools the world uses to share

For over 20 years, Creative Commons has supported a global movement built on a belief in the power of open access to knowledge and creativity. From Wikipedia to the Smithsonian, organizations and individuals rely on our work to share billions of historic images, scientific articles, cultural artifacts, educational resources, music, and more!

- “Farmer and his brother making music” by Russell Lee, here cropped, is marked with CC PDM 1.0.
- “Flickr photowalk at the Creative Commons Global Summit 2019, Lisbon” by Sebastiaan ter Burg, here cropped, is licensed via CC BY 2.0.
- “Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2” by NIAID, here cropped, is licensed via CC BY 2.0.
- “Children kabuki theater in Nagahama (warrior Kumagai, 12 y.o.)” by lensonjapan, here cropped, is licensed via CC BY 2.0.

- ## Wikipedia
### 55+ million articles

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- ## The Met
### 492,000+ images

All images of public-domain works in the Met's collection are openly available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
- ## Khan Academy
### 100,000+ lessons

Many of the lessons found on Khan Academy are openly licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA.

## Latest News

- ### Global Call to Action: Open Heritage Statement Now Open for Signature
by Brigitte Vézina, Dee Harris Open Culture, Open Heritage

"Watering Place at Marley" by Alfred Sisley, 1875, CC0, Art Institute of Chicago, remixed with "TAROCH balloon" by Creative Commons/Dee Harris, 2025, CC0.

Creative Commons and the TAROCH Coalition (Towards a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage) announce the launch of the Open Heritage Statement, now open for signature by governments, organizations, and institutions worldwide. Developed by more than 60 organizations across 25 countries within the Coalition, the Statement defines shared values, highlights key challenges, and sets action-oriented priorities for closing the global gap in equitable access to heritage in the public domain.
- ### From Shared Vision to Global Action: Paving the Road to the Open Heritage Statement
by Brigitte Vézina, Dee Harris Open Culture
- ### New Community Chat Platform: Moving from Slack to Zulip
by Jocelyn Miyara Community
- ### The Benefits of Open Heritage in the Digital Environment
by Brigitte Vézina, Dee Harris Open Culture
- ### Understanding Barriers to Accessing Heritage
by Brigitte Vézina, Dee Harris Open Culture

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- "A Turn in the Road" by Alfred Sisley (1873), CC0, Art Institute of Chicago, remixed with "TAROCH balloon" by Creative Commons/Dee Harris, 2025, CC0.
- "2012 Tulip Festival @ Agassiz, BC, Canada" by GoToVan is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
- "Watering Place at Marley" by Alfred Sisley, 1875, CC0, Art Institute of Chicago, remixed with "TAROCH balloon" by Creative Commons/Dee Harris, 2025, CC0.
- "Landscape along the Seine with the Institut de France and the Pont des Arts" by Alfred Sisley, 1875, CC0, Art Institute of Chicago, remixed with "TAROCH balloon" by Creative Commons/Dee Harris, 2025, CC0.

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