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  Join us for our next event CC301: AI, Copyright, and the Commons on November 17 from 10 am–11 am EST to hear about the relationship between AI, copyright, and CC licenses, as well as the latest developments in our CC Signals project. The presentation will be followed by a discussion and Q&A. https://creativecommons.org/event/creative-commons-301-ai-copyright-and-the-commons/

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  Where do you go online to follow your curiosity and share what you know? For our Commons Stories series, celebrating CC’s 25th anniversary, Jocelyn Miyara reflects on the value of open spaces. What’s a space for open sharing you wish more people knew about? Read more: https://creativecommons.org/2026/10/27/commons-stories-part-1/

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  What becomes possible when access to knowledge doesn’t depend on where you live or whom you know? For Commons Stories, celebrating CC’s 25th anniversary, Vito Quaglia reflects on access, cooperation, and participation. “To me, the commons means democracy. The commons nurtures the sharing of ideas, solutions, and creativity.” What’s something you think everyone should have the opportunity to learn, experience, or create? Read more: https://creativecommons.org/2026/10/27/commons-stories-part-1/

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  What does the Commons mean to you? Glad you asked! For Creative Commons’ 25th anniversary, we asked some of the people behind CC: What does the commons mean to you? Their answers became this four-part series of personal reflections. We’re kicking things off with four perspectives. Continue to follow along this week as we release more stories! And reply to share what the commons means to you!

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  Creative Commons and Local Contexts’ guidance is now available in Spanish! This practical resource helps museums, libraries, and archives navigate access to and reuse of Indigenous heritage and data, with respect for Indigenous rights, cultural authority, and community protocols. Explore how CC licenses and tools can work alongside Local Contexts Labels to support communities in sharing on their own terms. Read the guidance in Spanish: https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GUIA...

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  This year’s Open Access Week theme, “The Cost of Knowledge,” raises a question: who sustains the knowledge we all depend on? Recently at OPEN @ UNGA, we explored what that responsibility looks like in an increasingly AI-mediated world. “We want a future where openness is not simply an aspiration, but a sustainable practice.” –Anna Tumadóttir, CEO of Creative Commons To kick off #OAWeek2026, share your favorite open resource in the comments!

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  In you missed our License Guidance in the Age of AI webinars, the event recording is now up! We have combined the best of the presentation with both Q&A sessions into one video. This guidance is just one part of our ongoing work, where we will be continuing to work towards tools that give more agency, and clear rules for the AI era. Watch our blog for more to come! https://youtu.be/3FogqpA-I1g

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  To commemorate our anniversary, CC created a zine featuring submissions from the CC community! The theme is “Remix is resistance,” and features creative works that reflect how remix, reuse, adaptation, and sharing challenge power, build community, preserve culture, and imagine more just futures. Download the zine and assemble by simply folding the pages in half and stacking, or read the digital version! Print: https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/CC25-Zine-PRINT.pdf Digital:...

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  More than 10,000 historical images from Chile are now CC licensed through the platform enterreno.com! When uploading, participants can now choose a CC license, making it easier for people and institutions to find and reuse images like this alpaca 🦙 Image: "Alpaca en Hacienda Graneros en Graneros, 1983" by Jorge Sánchez from the Turistel Archive is licensed under CC BY-NC.

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  Our next webinar is tomorrow, October 13, at 12pm EDT! Join CC staff for "Open Preprints: Licensing and Other Practical Policy Tools for Research Funders, Librarians, and Institutions," a 60-minute webinar and discussion on our work with experts across the research ecosystem to adopt open licensing and research preprints. https://pro.gofundme.com/event/open-preprints-licensing-and-other-practical-policy-tools-for-research-funders-librarians-and-institutions/e845859 Image: "Spe...

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  Today is #DAFDay, a national day recognizing the power of generosity through donor-advised funds. For 25 years, CC has been advocating for the commons and powering open sharing online with the help of our community of donors. Join us and support the future of open sharing by initiating a transfer today! https://www.dafdirect.org/DAFDirect/daflink?_dafdirect_settings=MDQzNTg1MzAxXzIxMTFfN2UzNjQyM2QtNzQ2OS00MmQyLWJiMmEtOWM2YmI2NzJiY2U2&designatedText=&amountValue= "12 Apostles&quot...

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  Five months after Creative Commons hosted an Exploratory Dialogue on Open Heritage at UNESCO House, we returned to Paris with a smaller group of open heritage champions to discuss what comes next: how Member States can help advance action at UNESCO to establish a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Heritage. 📑 Read the blog post recap from the event: https://creativecommons.org/2026/10/02/from-reflection-to-action-8-hot-takes-from-ccs-open-heritage-roundtable/ 🎈 Sign the Open Heritage Statement: h...

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  If you missed the event this morning, you can catch the recording now! Watch "Community Voices on AI: Attribution as the Norm," featuring panelists Monica Granados, Todd Carpenter, Archie Davis, Andrew Farrior, Rita Ho, and Pau Giner! https://youtu.be/CZ2qJVQc5as

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  What does it mean to be part of the CC community today? This year, our annual community survey received responses from 62 community members from 23 countries. They shared their experiences, priorities, ideas, and hopes for the future of the Commons. In a new blog post, we share key takeaways and how those learnings are already shaping our community strategy for the year ahead. https://creativecommons.org/2026/10/01/what-we-heard-from-the-creative-commons-community/

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  Our next virtual panel event "Community Voices on AI: Attribution as the Norm" is tomorrow, October 1, from 10-11am EDT! Join practitioners from Creative Commons, NISO, AXM, and the Wikimedia Foundation for a grounded community conversation about why attribution should be the norm in AI systems, and how the field is actually building solutions for the future. Can't make it? We'll be posting the event recording after! Watch our social channels later this week. https://pro.gofu...

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  Recently, CC convened leading experts, practitioners, and builders for a day of conversation about the collaborative underpinnings of openness and what it can—and cannot—do to help communities and nations drive towards digital sovereignty. In a new blog post, Anna Tumadóttir reflects on clear throughlines from the symposium, key moments from the speakers, and what conditions we must build to allow open resources to exist, evolve, and endure. https://creativecommons.org/2026/09/30/openness-digi...

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  In two upcoming webinars on October 14, we will present our updated Guidance on CC Licenses in the Age of AI and how it impacts different sectors like Education, Science and Culture. We will then take questions from the audience and hear about any feedback you might have. Register for the event and submit your questions beforehand! 👉️ Session A, 9:30am EDT: https://pro.gofundme.com/event/guidance-on-using-cc-licenses-in-the-age-of-ai-session-a/e839856 👉️ Session B, 4pm EDT: https://pro.gofundme...

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  Creative Commons has been exploring questions around artificial intelligence for a long time, guided by a commitment to balance creator agency in how people participate in the commons, while preserving the public’s right to reuse. As the technology, its impacts, and what we’ve learned from communities have evolved, so has our thinking. But our principles and the fundamental questions informing our work have not. https://creativecommons.org/2026/09/21/a-principled-approach-as-the-sands-shift/

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  Creative Commons has been exploring questions around artificial intelligence for a long time, guided by a commitment to balance creator agency in how people participate in the commons, while preserving the public’s right to reuse. As the technology, its impacts, and what we’ve learned from communities have evolved, so has our thinking. But our principles and the fundamental questions informing our work have not. https://creativecommons.org/2026/09/21/a-principled-approach-as-the-sands-shift/

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  The first of the four regional events celebrating CC's 25th anniversary took place in Kochi, India a couple weeks ago. The workshop brought together Wikimedians, archivists, GLAM practitioners, and language activists in an event that centered Indigenous languages, community archives, and the knowledge commons. Photos from the event taken by Subhashish are licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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  Tomorrow, September 1 at 3 pm UTC, Creative Commons and Local Contexts are hosting a virtual conversation with the authors of "Guidance for Indigenous Collections and Indigenous Data." Read the report before or after the event to deepen your understanding. If you can't attend, register for the event to be notified when the event recording is published! Register for the event: https://pro.gofundme.com/event/responsibilities-ethics-and-access-a-conversation-with-the-authors-of-guida...

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  Last call to submit work to CC's 25th anniversary zine! Send us your photographs, poems, reflections, memes, remixes, oral histories, and more by August 15. The theme is "Remix is resistance," celebrating how remix, reuse, adaptation, and sharing challenge power, build community, preserve culture, and imagine more just futures. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KyKPJaIjeTGaoeGYRKC7b6-xutjvhdP1BoImIR8SA3A/edit Not sure where to begin? Attend our next webinar about how to find and...

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  Attribution is the mechanism that lets a piece of knowledge or creativity stay connected to the people who made it possible. When AI systems produce outputs without sources, that connection breaks, making it harder to trust the information, verify accuracy, or give credit. In our new blog post, Jack Hardinges and Irina Bejan share reasons to be optimistic that AI systems can credit their sources. https://creativecommons.org/2026/07/24/attribution-in-the-age-of-ai/

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  Join us for our next webinar on August 13 at 10 am EDT to learn how to find CC-licensed content, properly attribute the work, and reuse materials with confidence. We’ll explore some of the best places to discover openly licensed content, decode the different CC licenses, and walk through the ins and outs of proper attribution. https://pro.gofundme.com/event/cc-201-finding-and-reusing-cc-licensed-works/e823630

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  CC merch is more than just t-shirts and hoodies—it can mean real connections with other community members in your everyday life! Hear from Molly Van Houweling on why she loves wearing her CC hoodie, and then snag your own at store.creativecommons.org!

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  After months of collaborative development and iteration with the community of the common European data space for cultural heritage and the Europeana Initiative, the landmark paper ‘The case for Public AI: making it happen with cultural heritage’ has been published. The position paper was developed with over 400 cultural heritage professionals through the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI. 👉 Read the full paper: https://bit.ly/4xLdyU3

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  The open culture community has produced a remarkable amount of practical knowledge: guides, toolkits, case studies, policy templates, and more. What’s been missing isn’t expertise but rather a single place that points to all of it. CC is proud to publish The Open Heritage Companion: a practitioner’s guide developed to help cultural heritage institutions navigate the journey from closed to open collections. Access the Companion in English, French, and Spanish! https://creativecommons.org/2026/07...

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  To advance the work on CC signals, we have been regularly holding convenings and engaging with people at events around the world. We recently held a workshop in London, bringing together policy, legal, and technical experts to discuss the evolution of the CC signals framework into legally enforceable tooling. There were a few clear takeaways that emerged during the workshop. Read our latest blog post, which digs into what surfaced and where we go from here. https://creativecommons.org/2026/07/0...

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  We are thrilled to recap the first in our series of 25th anniversary events, celebrating some of the most notable moments in the history of the development and deployment of our legal tools. Each event highlighted both the ways in which CC licenses created unique movements within each sector but also the commonalities between fields and the people who have dedicated their careers to better sharing. https://creativecommons.org/2026/07/02/the-legacy-of-25-years-of-creative-commons/

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  We commissioned four artists to create limited-edition merch designs for our 25th anniversary, and they are finally here! Order yours now at https://store.creativecommons.org! The first design is by Abraham Tumwine, titled "MAN MADE 00." This mixed-media piece explores the tension and harmony between our biological selves and our digital identities. The 'Man Made' tag serves as a reminder that regardless of how robotic our tools become, the spark behind the internet remains fu...