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Projects and works using Creative Commons licenses

Several million pages of web content use Creative Commons licenses. Examples include:

Broadcasting footage of Al Jazeera.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
Opsound
Audiofarm - An easy way to find new and interesting CC-licensed music.
The fiction of Cory Doctorow
Lawrence Lessig's 2004 book, Free Culture (the first CC-licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin Books)
Lawrence Lessig's 2001 book, The Future of Ideas (originally published by Random House), under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.
MoveOn.org's Bush In 30 Seconds contest (See History of MoveOn.org)
Groklaw
The Banjo Players Must Die, a novel by Josef Assad
Immedium Press, a publishing company that only published titles under creative commons licenses
MIT OpenCourseWare - academic course syllabuses
Bob Powell Anthology
Sketchory - Over 250,000 drawings
Three of Eric S. Raymond's books, The Cathedral and the Bazaar (the first complete and commercially released book under a CC license, published by O'Reilly & Associates), The New Hacker's Dictionary, and The Art of Unix Programming (all three with added proviso)
The Wired CD; created by Creative Commons in cooperation with Wired Magazine, the Beastie Boys, Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, etc.
History Commons - The History Commons website is an experiment in open-content civic journalism.
Public Library of Science
Bitzi Bitpedia (digital media encyclopedia)
Jamendo
The plays of Max Sparber
A Briefer History of Time, the 1999 science humor book by Eric Schulman
The Star Wreck amateur movie parodies of Star Trek and Babylon 5 (in Finnish).
Cactuses - Feature-length movie
Canciones Pegajosas, an independent music compilation from Argentina.
The online sitcom Where are the Joneses
Open Access News and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, both from Peter Suber and both frequently covering Creative Commons developments.
ASO Radio, the oldest-running anime talk radio podcast. It is released under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Creative Commons license.
Move Under Ground, a novel by Nick Mamatas
2076 (book) A Novel that is nearly-complete and available under "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported" and is a candidate for Open Publication.
Ghosts I-IV - The sixth studio album by Nine Inch Nails, which was published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license upon its release, thus raising considerable media attention.

Academic journals

See Creative Commons licensed journals

News

Newspapers

20minutos
Rooz, attempting to create print-edition

Syndicates

Indymedia

Webcomics

Music

Artists

Albums

Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails
The Slip by Nine Inch Nails
Sinfonia For The Blunt Sword by kARHu
Speedbath by Kristin Hersh (release in progress at CASH Music)
Free Music by 50 Foot Wave

Other

Some further examples of a potentially-enormous list of Creative Commons-licensed sites include:

The Oyez Project MP3 files of hearings in the United States Supreme Court
Olde English Sketch Comedy
CNUK Media Foundation - an organisation dedicated to the promotion and creation of free culture works
Gentoo Linux (Documentation Resources)
Remix Reading UK local remixing project
Boing Boing: a Directory of Wonderful Things
Infodaq Educational resource with information on mixed subjects
Frequently-rotated showcase of South African CC sites
Creative Commons in Scottish law
Connexions - academic course modules, hosted by Rice University
CC Tabletop Gaming - Developing collection of CC Games.
Skyscraper Loved the Ghetto - an album by unsigned band Good Friday.

Wikis

Akban-wiki Martial arts and fitness wiki - Video based.
Ekopedia spreading practical knowledge related to environmental sustainability.
Tip the Planet Environmental wiki.
Unearth Travel
Memory Alpha
Wikitravel
World66
Linuxquestions.org wiki
Jurispedia, the shared law
Uncyclopedia
Wikinews
OpenWetWare
OrthodoxWiki Eastern Christianity
Reformed Word - Christian Wiki

Record labels

Catalogs of CC-licensed content

commoncontent.org - no longer actively maintained
theassayer.org - books only, other licenses as well as CC

Tools for discovering CC-licensed content

References

^ Benenson, Fred (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository". creativecommons.org. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^ Steuer, Eric (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License". creativecommons.org. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^ Cohen, Noam (2009-01-11). "Al Jazeera provides an inside look at Gaza conflict". Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^ "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage under Creative Commons License". Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^ Andrews, Robert (2009-11-14). "Al Jazeera Offers Creative Commons Video, Lessig Lends Backing". paidcontent.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
^ Ito, Joi (2009-01-14). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository". joi.ito.com. Retrieved 2009-01-19.

[1] Benenson, Fred (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository". creativecommons.org. Retrieved 2009-01-19.

[2] Steuer, Eric (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License". creativecommons.org. Retrieved 2009-01-19.

[3] Cohen, Noam (2009-01-11). "Al Jazeera provides an inside look at Gaza conflict". Herald Tribune. Retrieved 2009-01-19.

[4] "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage under Creative Commons License". Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository. Retrieved 2009-01-19.

[5] Andrews, Robert (2009-11-14). "Al Jazeera Offers Creative Commons Video, Lessig Lends Backing". paidcontent.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-01-19.

[6] Ito, Joi (2009-01-14). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository". joi.ito.com. Retrieved 2009-01-19.

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 * [[Opsound]]
+* [http://www.audiofarm.org Audiofarm] - An easy way to find new and interesting CC-licensed music.
 * The fiction of [[Cory Doctorow]]
 * [[Lawrence Lessig]]'s [[2004]] book, ''[[Free Culture (book)|Free Culture]]'' (the first CC-licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, [[Penguin Group|Penguin Books]])