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List of major Creative Commons licensed works

List of major Creative Commons licensed works

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This is a list of notable works available under a Creative Commons license. Works available under a Creative Commons license are becoming more common. Note that there are multiple Creative Commons licenses with important differences.

Number of Creative Commons licensed works as of 2017, per State of the Commons report

Number of Creative Commons works

An analysis in November 2014 revealed that the amount of CC-licensed works in major databases and searchable via Google sums up to 882 million works. Nine million webpages linking to one of the CC licenses.[1]

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Creative Commons offers also a search engine for major databases as: Europeana, Open Clip Art Library, Pixabay, ccMixter and more.[2]

Governments and intergovernmental organizations

As of January 2016, 31 governments and 7 intergovernmental organizations have made their information available per CC according to creativecommons.org,[3] similarly dozens of organizations from the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).[4]

Books

Creative Commons maintains a book list themselves.

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Comics

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Educational resources

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Games

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Video games

See also: Category:Creative Commons-licensed video games and List of open-source video games
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Images and photos

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Music

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News

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Knowledge, research and science

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Databases and data

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Technology, blueprints and recipes

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Video and film

The Creative Commons maintain a film list themselves.

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Websites

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