List of major Creative Commons licensed works

Number of Creative Commons licensed works as of 2014.^[1]

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 able via google sums up to 882 million works. Nine million webpages linking to one of the CC licenses.^[2]

Platform name	Number of works (rounded down by millions, November 2014)	source
Flickr	307 million	https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Wikipedia (all pages in all languages)	111 million	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
Scribd	50 million	Source at Scribd
MusicBrainz	39 million	https://musicbrainz.org/statistics https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About/Data_License
Freebase	39 million	https://developers.google.com/freebase/faq#how_big_is_freebase
deviantART	15 million	https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35540
Geonames	10 million	http://www.geonames.org/about.html
YouTube	10 million	Source at YouTube
Google search	301 million	google-currenttools.csv, google-retiredtools.csv

The Creative commons offering now also a search engine for major databases as: Europeana, Open Clip Art Library, Pixabay, ccMixter and more.^[3]

Governments and intergovernmental organizations

As of January 2016, 31 governments and 7 intergovernmental organizations have made their information available per CC according to creativecommons.org,^[4] similarly dozens of organizations from the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).^[5]

Books

The Creative commons maintain a book list themselves.

Name	Original release	CC Release	Description	License	Refs
The Art of Unix Programming	2003	2005[6]	book about the history and culture of Unix programming by Eric S. Raymond	CC BY-ND 1.0 (with added proviso)	[7]
A Briefer History of Time	1999	2004[8]	science humor book by Eric Schulman	CC BY-ND-NC 1.0
Free Culture	2004		by Lawrence Lessig (the first CC licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin Books)	CC BY-NC 1.0[9]
Freesouls	2008	2010 (digital ebook)	book with essays and photos of key people of the free movement by Joi Ito	CC BY[10]
The Future of Ideas	2001	2001	by Lawrence Lessig (originally published by Random House)	CC BY-NC[9]
The Future Of The Internet	2008		book by Jonathan Zittrain which discusses several legal issues regarding the Internet	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
The Honour of the Knights	2009	2009	A science fiction novel by Stephen J Sweeney	CC BY-NC-SA
Meat Atlas	2014	2014	A collection of graphs and 27 essays on meat consumption and production by Friends of the Earth and Heinrich Böll Foundation	CC BY-SA	[11]
Move Under Ground	2004		A horror novel mashup by Nick Mamatas	CC BY-NC-ND	[12]
The New Hacker's Dictionary	2003 (v4.4.7 by ESR)	2005	by Eric S. Raymond (with added proviso)
Warbreaker	2004	2004	by Brandon Sanderson	CC BY-NC-ND	[13]
Little Brother	2008	2008	by Cory Doctorow	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0	[14]
Open Access	2012	2012	by Peter Suber (published by MIT Press)	CC BY
Networks, Complexity and Internet Regulation: Scale-free Law	2011		by Andres Guadamuz (published by Edward Elgar)	CC BY-NC	[15]
Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice	2012		by Julie Cohen (published by Yale University Press)	CC BY-NC-SA	[16]
Coding Freedom: The Aesthetics of Hacking	2012		by Gabriella Coleman (published by Princeton University Press)	CC BY-ND	[17]
Barefoot into Cyberspace Adventures in search of techno-Utopia	2011		by Becky Hogge (published by Barefoot Publishing Limited)	CC BY-NC	[18]
Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution	2010		by Chris T. Marsden (published by Bloomsbury Academic)	CC BY-NC	[19]
Code: Version 2.0	2006		by Lawrence Lessig dedicated to Wikipedia: "the one surprise that teaches us more than everything here."[20]	CC BY-SA 2.5	[21]
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy	2008		by Lawrence Lessig in describing the remix culture	CC BY-NC	[22][23]
The Wealth of Networks	2006	2006	by Yochai Benkler	CC BY-NC-SA	[24]

Comics

Name	Description	License	Refs
Diesel Sweeties		CC BY-NC 2.5
Erfworld		CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Johnny Wander	(the book publication form)		[25]
Mimi & Eunice	by Nina Paley	CC BY-SA 3.0
Overcompensating		CC BY-NC 3.0
Seedfeeder		CC BY-SA 3.0, public domain
xkcd		CC BY-NC 2.5

Educational resources

Name	Description	License	Refs
Connexions	academic course modules, hosted by Rice University	CC BY
Khan Academy		CC BY-NC-SA
Open Courseware		CC BY-NC-SA
The Saylor Foundation	Peer-reviewed college courses and textbooks	CC BY
WikiEducator		CC BY-SA (default), CC BY, and CC0
Project Euler	Site hosting computer programming problems	CC BY-NC-SA

Games

Name	Description	License	Refs
Cards Against Humanity		BY-NC-SA	[26]
Eclipse Phase
Open Game Art		CC BY and -SA 3.0 without NC, CC0
Star Wreck Roleplaying Game		BY-NC-SA 3.0	[27]
Tagmar
Violence

Video games

Name	Description	License	Refs
Castle Crashers	Soundtrack released under Creative Commons	CC BY-NC-SA	[28]
Glest / MegaGlest	A real-time strategy computer game in a fantasy setup.	Artwork under CC BY-SA
Glitch	MMO. In 2013, most of the artwork and parts of the code were released under a creative commons license.	CC0	[29][30]
Mari0	Super Mario clone mashup with Portal	CC BY-NC-SA
Nothing to hide	A crowdfunded surveillance/privacy themed video game prototype by indie game developer Nick Liow, 2013 opened under CC0 and transferred to GitHub.	Artwork and code under CC0[31]	[32][33][34]
OpenClonk (former Clonk)	A computer game originally developed by RedWolf Design, later opened to the community.	Artwork under CC BY
Red Eclipse	The first-person shooter Red Eclipse is built upon the Cube Engine 2 game engine.[35]	most game assets under CC BY-SA-3.0[36]
Ryzom	Ryzom is a free and open source software PC MMORPG. Originally developed and released 2004 by Nevrax, since 2010 the source code is under the AGPL[37] and the artistic work is under CC BY-SA.[38]	Artwork under CC BY-SA.	[38]
Sintel The Game	A game based on the Blender Foundation movie, Sintel.	CC BY
The Adventures of Fatman	point and click adventure game	CC-SA-NC-ND
Tyrian (now OpenTyrian)	Scrolling shooter	graphic assets under CC BY 3.0 US[39][40]
The Ur-Quan Masters (former Star Control II)	Action RPG	Artwork Cc-by-nc-sa	[41]
Yo Frankie!	A game resulting from a cooperation between the Blender Foundation and the Crystal Space community	Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution	[42]

Images and photos

Name	Description	License	Refs
deviantART	image artwork sharing website	various (15 millions CC licensed)	[43]
Flickr	user photo uploading and sharing service	various CC licenses (350 millionen CC images of 6+ billion images[44][45])
Mapillary	Over 30 million free photos	CC BY-SA
Mushroom Observer	collaborative amateur mycology database with approx. 600,000 observational photos[46][47]	CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA [48]
Panoramio	Over 100 million photos	Various	[49]
Pixabay	user photo uploading and sharing service	CC0 (555.000 images)
Unsplash	user photo uploading and sharing service	CC0	[50][51]
Wikimedia Commons	free image and data repository, stores Wikipedia images	various free CC licenses (millions of images[52])

Music

Name	Description	License	Refs
ccMixter	Community music website	mostly CC BY-NC
Free Music Archive		Various
The Freesound Project		CC0, CC BY, CC BY-NC and Sampling Plus
Ghosts I-IV	By Nine Inch Nails
Jamendo		Various
NINJAM	Music files/archive	CC BY-SA
Pulse of the Earth	By Hungry Lucy	CC BY-SA	[53]
The Slip	By Nine Inch Nails	BY-NC-SA	[54]
Shaking the Habitual	By The Knife
Jonathan Coulton	Jonathon Coulton's Works	CC 3.0 by Attribution
Paul and Storm	Paul and Storm's Works	CC 2.5 By Attribution NonCommercial and ShareAlike
Open Goldberg Variations		CC0[55]

News

Name	Description	License	Refs
20minutos
Rooz
Al Jazeera's broadcasting footage	On January 13, 2009, some broadcasting content from Al Jazeera on the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict was released.	CC BY 3.0	[56][57][58][59][60][61]
La Stampa	3rd biggest newspaper of Italy.	CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0	[62]

Knowledge, research and science

Name	Description	License	Refs
Copernicus Publications		CC BY
Citizendium	a Wikipedia alternative for academics without anonymous editing	CC BY-SA
knol	Website for personal essays. Went offline on May 1, 2012 but was archived on the Internet Archive[63]	mostly CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA
PLOS One		CC BY

Databases and data

Name	Description	License	Refs
OpenSeaMap		CC SA-BY 2.0 / ODbL	[64]
OpenStreetMap	Until September 2012; switched to ODbL	CC BY-SA 2.0 for certain content	[65][66][67]
SNPedia	Database of single nucleotide polymorphisms	CC BY-NC-SA	[68]

Technology, blueprints and recipes

Name	Description	License	Refs
Arduino		CC BY-SA
Free Beer	In December 2004 brewing recipe, brand and label artwork released under CC by Superflex and students of the IT University of Copenhagen	CC BY-SA	[69]
OpenMoko Neo Freerunner	CAD, schematics etc files in 2008	CC BY-SA 3.0	[70][71]

Video and film

The Creative commons maintain a film list themselves.

Name	Description	License	Refs
Big Buck Bunny	Product of the second Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in 2008.	BY	[72]
Code Rush	2000 documentary of Netscape's last year as an independent company, focusing on the rush to make Mozilla's source code ready for release deadline.[73]	BY-NC-SA 3.0 US	[74]
Decay	Zombie film made at CERN
Elephants Dream	Product of the first Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in 2006		[75]
Nasty Old People	A 2009 film in Swedish by Hanna Sköld
Life Wasted	by Pearl Jam in 2006, first music video from a major record label to be CC licensed	CC BY-NC-ND 2.5	[76]
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto	a 2008 open-source documentary film about "the changing concept of copyright" and the remix culture[77][78] directed by Brett Gaylor
Sita Sings the Blues	feature-length animated film by free culture activist Nina Paley	CC0	[79]
Sanctuary	A re-mixable Science fiction film
Sintel	Product of the third Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in 2010
Star Wreck	Amateur movie parodies of Star Trek and Babylon 5 (in Finnish)
Tears of Steel	The fourth Blender Foundation Open Movie Project, released in September 2012.
Where are the Joneses	online sitcom (series)

Websites

Name	Description	License	Refs
Anatomography		CC BY-SA
Association for Progressive Communications		CC BY-SA
BdFISH		CC BY-NC-ND	[80]
Boing Boing	Popular blog	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (most)
Identi.ca		CC BY
Internet Archive		Various
gnu.org		Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Mozilla website	Home of the Mozilla Project	CC BY-SA
Stack Overflow		CC BY-SA
Wikia	Since June 2009	CC BY-SA
Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia	Since June 2009; over 80 million items	Text CC BY-SA (plus GFDL in most cases); some in CC BY and CC-0; hosted content also in public domain and various licenses.	[81][82]
Wikitravel		CC BY-SA

References

1. State of the Commons report on creativecommons.org
2. State of the Commons: Notes and additional resources - Number of Creative Commons--licensed works on github.com (November 2014)
3. CC search on creativecommons.org
4. Government use of Creative Commons on creativecommons.org (January 2016)
5. GLAM on creativevommons.org (January 2016)
6. http://web.archive.org/web/20050317014053/http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/
7. "The Art of Unix Programming". Retrieved 12 October 2013.
8. A Briefer History of Time "CC BY-ND-NC 1.0" (archived 2004)
9. he-future-of-ideas-is-now-fre-1 on lessig.org
10. Free souls captured and released "This is an celebration of all people who are willing to share" on freesouls.org
11. Meat Atlas, Friends of the Earth, download Meat Atlas as pdf
12. http://manybooks.net/titles/mamatasnother07mug.html
15. http://klangable.com/uploads/books/guadamuz.pdf
16. http://klangable.com/uploads/books/Networked_Self.pdf
17. http://klangable.com/uploads/books/Coleman-Coding-Freedom.pdf
18. http://klangable.com/uploads/books/BarefootIntoCyberspace-BeckyHogge.pdf
19. http://klangable.com/uploads/books/NetNeutrality.pdf
20. Code Version 2.0, at http://codev2.cc/download+remix/Lessig-Codev2.pdf "the one surprise that teaches us more than everything here."
21. Code Version 2.0, at http://codev2.cc/download+remix/Lessig-Codev2.pdf
22. Remix on lessig.org
23. Remix on scribd.com
24. Wealth of Networks wiki. Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Last accessed 16 Feb 2012.
25. Kale, Arun (21 October 2010). "Of Fretting Cats and Wandering Rooks". Helter Skelter. Square One Media. Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
28. Castle Crashers Soundtrack Released Under CC License (2008)
29. 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.
30. Blackwell, Laura (2013-11-18). "Afterlife of an MMO: Glitch's offbeat art enters public domain". pcworld.com. Retrieved 2013-12-11.
31. Nothing to hide license on github.com
32. Nothing To Hide Is A Very Smart Anti-Stealth Game by John Walker on Rock, Paper, Shotgun (on February 12th, 2014)
33. Demo + Crowdfunding: anti-stealth game Nothing To Hide takes its name literally by Anthony Swinnich on indiegames.com (February 16, 2014)
34. Attention game designers: Public Domain Jam! on creativecommons.org by Matt Lee (May 16th, 2014)
35. http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/free-open-source-fps-red-eclipse-hits-version-1-0/
36. Red Eclipse Team (January 24, 2012). "Red Eclipse license". sourceforge.net. Red Eclipse Team. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
37. "Breakthrough for Free Software Gaming--Ryzom Announces Full Release of Source Code and Artwork, and a Partnership with the Free Software Foundation to Host a Repository of the Game's Artistic Assets". ryzom.com. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
38. Massively Multiplayer Game Ryzom Released as Free Culture and Free Software on creativecommons.org (2010)
39. Free game graphics: Tyrian ships and tiles Daniel Cook (2007-04-04)
40. Lost garden license
41. The Ur-Quan Masters licensing
42. "Yo Frankie! license page". Retrieved 2010-01-26.
43. cc10-featured-platform-deviantart
44. creativecommons on flickr.com
45. Parfeni, Lucian (2011-08-05). "Flickr Boasts 6 Billion Photo Uploads". Softpedia. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
46. "Site Statistics". Mushroom Observer. Retrieved 26 March 2016. Images 599669, Observations 208462, Listed Taxa 51072, Observed Taxa 13184, Authored Name Descriptions 4312, Defined Locations 12812, Authored Location Descriptions 847, Species Lists 685, Species List Entries 89263, Proposed IDs 299937, Comments 113454, Votes 418612, Members 6558
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69. How can a beer be "free"? 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."
70. Linux goes walkabout by Jack Kapic on theglobeandmail.com (March 4, 2008)
71. schematics on openmoko.com
72. "Big Buck Bunny about page". Retrieved 2010-01-26.
73. Project Code Rush. "Project Code Rush". clickmovement.org. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
74. Code Rush in the Creative Commons. "Code Rush in the Creative Commons". Waxy.org. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
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78. Sinnott, Shane. "The Load-Down", Montreal Mirror, 2007-03-29. Accessed 2008-06-30
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82. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikimedia_projects_by_size#footer