Creative Commons
Internet PublishingCalifornia, United States51-200 Employees
Creative Commons is an international nonprofit active in the Internet publishing field, based in Mountain View, California. It supports a global community of contributors and partners to grow and sustain a commons of shared knowledge and culture aimed at addressing pressing global challenges. The organization focuses on building capacity and infrastructure, delivering practical solutions, and advocating for sharing practices that consider context, promote inclusive participation, fairness, equal access, reciprocal rights, and enduring sustainability. Recent activity includes a collaboration with the McGovern Foundation that supported its Open Climate Data initiative and led to a revised report. The organization has also engaged in the AI Impact Summit to discuss data governance and open infrastructure for AI, and it is developing guidance such as CC Signals to indicate permissible uses of works in AI contexts.