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WHO WE ARE

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Creative Commons (CC) is an international nonprofit organization that empowers
people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture
we need to address the world’s most pressing challenges and create a brighter
future for all.

Together with our global community and multiple partners, we build capacity and
infrastructure, we develop practical solutions, and we advocate for better
sharing: sharing that is contextual, inclusive, just, equitable, reciprocal, and
sustainable.


OUR MISSION

CC empowers individuals and communities around the world by equipping them with
technical, legal, and policy solutions to enable sharing of knowledge and
culture in the public interest.


OUR VISION

A world where knowledge and culture are equitably shared in ways that serve the
public interest.


OUR STRATEGY

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Creating a brighter future through better, more ethical sharing.

New challenges to open sharing are emerging. That’s why we’re promoting ethical,
inclusive, and purposeful sharing that serves the public interest, guided by our
values of agile leadership, global inclusivity, and informed intention.

Download CC’s full 2021–2025 strategy.


ADVOCACY

Reshape the open ecosystem to support equitable and prosocial sharing in the
public interest.

Together with the CC Global Network and Chapters, we seek to shape the policies,
norms and public opinion that affect the open ecosystem, in support of open
sharing that is impactful, generative, equitable and resilient. We seek to mould
the framework within which sharing takes place to enhance its benefits and
address the challenges it faces. Ultimately, we improve the rules to make
sharing better for all people involved.

Innovation

Enhance the open infrastructure to foster sustainable and ethical sharing in the
public interest.

We seek to develop and steward legal, social, and technical infrastructure that
supports open sharing that is impactful, generative, equitable and resilient. We
want to develop innovative solutions that meet concrete ethical and economic
challenges to make sharing better.


CAPACITY BUILDING

Transform institutions to make knowledge and cultural heritage assets as openly
accessible as possible.

We seek to enable, support, and motivate public and private institutions in the
cultural heritage, education, research and data, and government sectors to open
their content in legally robust ways. We want to optimize institutionss’
potential to make sharing better. We will prioritize institutional partners and
practitioners that represent and cater to underserved communities as part of our
commitment to an open ecosystem that serves all.


OUR VALUES

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AGILE LEADERSHIP

We know that the world is constantly evolving and that we must listen, learn,
and adapt in order to lead at the forefront of the open movement toward
positive, global change.


GLOBAL INCLUSIVITY

The open movement is made up of a multitude of diverse communities and we strive
to play our part in accessible, open-minded, collaborative and inclusive ways.


INFORMED INTENTION

We believe we must take care with the work that we do, and we strive to act with
integrity, accountability, insight and humility.

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