Today marks another milestone for the commons: the release of the 2016State of the Commons, our annual deep dive and celebration of the global community working to further collaboration, creativity, and access to creativity and knowledge.
This year’s report goes beyond data and metrics to focus on the people that power the commons in every region of the world. These stories illustrate how our movement is growing and evolving, driven by people who choose to share. The commons continues to grow, with the total number of CC licensed works now at 1.2 billion in 2016, including the increased use of licenses that invite remix, commercial use, and collaboration – up to 65% of all content shared this year.
TL;DR: 2016 was our biggest year yet. From incredible sharing of 375,000 public domain works with theMetropolitan Museum of Artto our massiveGlobal Summit,we’re seeing CC communities organize around renewed focus on movement building, free culture, policy reform, sharing, and global collaboration powered by gratitude.
The commons is the largest collection of free and open knowledge in the world. In order to bring you this report, we’ve partnered with a handful of the hundreds of platforms that provide CC licensing to bring you more data and user spotlights in a new and attractive format.
In October, we issued aCall for Submissionsthat asked our community to report on their favorite projects from the commons this year. These impact stories were beyond what we could have imagined: we heard stories of portals that use open data to predict and plan forearthquakes in New Zealand,acitizen-led civic data portalin El Salvador, aseries of medical photographs that surfacesthe untold struggle for independence against Portuguese colonial rule, and the “world’s most beautiful slideshow” of historic monuments submitted by over 10,000 Wikipedians. These examples, only a few of the many, tell the vibrant and life-altering stories of the people behind the commons.
Highlights from our partners include theFreeharmonic Orchestra,12名音乐家在“免费音乐档案”的一个虚拟房间里会面，制作了有史以来最具合作精神的专辑。我们在Flickr上的朋友发起了多媒体共享计划，在这个计划中，世界各地的研究团队利用庞大的1亿张图像数据集构建新的应用程序，探索人们与地方的交互。
通过CC0公共领域专用工具，我们正在积极地管理和帮助公共领域的发展，到目前为止，共有9290万件公共领域作品。CC0服务于多种目的，今年最显著的是支持从大都会艺术博物馆向公众发布37.5万件数字作品。CC0还支持Unsplash等新兴平台上的摄影师，该平台现在拥有一个强大的摄影师社区，“免费提供他们的作品”，并在此过程中获得曝光和赞誉。
这些故事也呼应了我们在3D打印、可用性和全球社区建设等领域所做的工作。大英博物馆在3D设计分享平台Sketchfab上发布了罗马和埃及时期的128个雕塑模型，Thingiverse上超过150万件CC授权物品的混合和社区的故事证明了我们的社区是前沿和中心，它比以往任何时候都更好地合作。
Lastly, the report itself was translated by 30 volunteers into a dozen languages as part of our efforts to make our community more accessible to international communities.
Like everything else, we truly couldn’t have done it without you. Thank you so much for your support in 2016 and beyond. Read, excerpt, share, and tweet the report athttp://stateof.www.familygiver.comwith the hashtag#sotc.
