Creative Commons is now accepting sponsorship viaGitHub Sponsors!
CC’s small engineering team builds essential open-source infrastructure for CC-licensed and public domain content. Our tools make it easier for anyone to:
- release original content under an open license.
- find and responsibly reuse openly licensed and public domain content.
- connect to the larger ecosystem of openly licensed content on the internet.
Our projects include:
- Our CC Search set of tools
- CC Search:our search engine for openly licensed content.
- CC Catalog API:a free API that allows anyone to integrate CC Search data into their own applications.
- CC Catalog:our index of 500 million+ openly licensed works that power CC Search.
- TheCC Search browser extension:which makes CC Catalog searchable on Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Edge.
- The newCC license chooser:an educational tool that allows users to pick the right license for their needs.
- TheCC WordPress plugin:它允许WordPress用户在CC许可或工具下轻松发布内容。
- The (soon to be launched)CC legal database:其中列出了与CC许可相关的法律先例和文章。
- TheLinked Commons:CC许可对互联网影响的图表分析。
- Our newCC license infrastructure:which will serve legal code, human-readable deeds, and machine-readable RDFs for all 630+ unique Creative Commons licenses (across all jurisdictions), plus translations.
- CC Vocabulary:our open web design system.
…and many more!
You can find more information about our projects and community atCC Open Source.
CC’s open source products are a public good and provide critical infrastructure for the open internet. They are offered for free to the public and used by millions.
Without CC’s open source products, the ecosystem for openly licensed content would suffer considerably. For example:
- cc授权内容的可发现性将受到限制，并锁定在专有平台上。
- There would be no APIs that enable open access repositories to easily use CC licenses.
All of CC’s open source projects are maintained bya small staff on a limited budget我们需要你的帮助来维持我们的项目。
