This is a list of notable works available under a Creative Commons license. There are multiple Creative Commons licenses, each with important differences.

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 link to one of the CC licenses.State of the Commons: Notes and additional resources - Number of Creative Commons--licensed works on GitHub (November 2014) Platform name Number of works (rounded down by millions, November 2014)SourceFlickr307 million Wikipedia (all pages in all languages)111 million http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_WikipediasMusicBrainz39 million https://musicbrainz.org/statistics https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About/Data_LicenseFreebase 39 million https://developers.google.com/freebase/faq#how_big_is_freebaseDeviantArt 15 millionhttps://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35540GeoNames 10 millionhttp://www.geonames.org/about.htmlYouTube 10 millionhttps://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468Google Search 301 million google-currenttools.csv, google-retiredtools.csv

Creative Commons offers also a search engine for major databases as: Europeana, Open Clip Art Library, Pixabay, ccMixter and more.CC search on creativecommons.org

Governments and intergovernmental organizations , 31 governments and 7 intergovernmental organizations have made their information available per CC according to creativecommons.org;Government use of Creative Commons on creativecommons.org (January 2016) similarly dozens of organizations from the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums).GLAM on creativevommons.org (January 2016)

Conditions of distribution Below is a list of conditions ("rights") of a work's distribution. All Creative Commons licenses grant "baseline rights", such as the right to distribute the copyrighted work worldwide for non-commercial purposes and without modification.

Icon Right Description Attribution (BY) Licensees may copy, distribute, display, perform and make derivative works and remixes based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits (attribution) in the manner specified by these. Since version 2.0, all Creative Commons licenses require attribution to the creator and include the BY element. The letters BY are not an abbreviation, unlike the other rights. Share-alike (SA) Licensees may distribute derivative works only under a license identical to ("not more restrictive than") the license that governs the original work. (See also Copyleft.) Without share-alike, derivative works might be sublicensed with compatible but more restrictive license clauses, e.g. CC BY to CC BY-NC. Non-commercial (NC) Licensees may copy, distribute, display, perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-commercial purposes. No derivative works (ND) Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works and remixes based on it. Since version 4.0, derivative works are allowed but must not be shared.

Books Name Original release CC Release Description License Refs The Art of Unix Programming2003 2005 book about the history and culture of Unix programming by Eric S. Raymond (with added proviso) CC BY-ND 1.0 A Briefer History of Time1999 2004A Briefer History of Time "CC BY-ND-NC 1.0" (archived 2004) science humor book by Eric Schulman CC BY-NC-ND 1.0 Archimedes Palimpsest 3rd century BC 2008 reconstructed and released by OPenn as Free Cultural Works CC BY Free Culture 2004 by Lawrence Lessig (the first CC licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin Books) CC BY-NC 1.0the-future-of-ideas-is-now-fre-1 on lessig.org Freesouls 2008 2010 (digital ebook) book with essays and photos of key people of the free movement by Joi Ito CC BYFree souls captured and released "This is an celebration of all people who are willing to share" on freesouls.org The Future of Ideas2001 2001 by Lawrence Lessig (originally published by Random House) CC BY-NC The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It2008 book by Jonathan Zittrain which discusses several legal issues regarding the Internet CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 The Honour of the Knights 20092009 A science fiction novel by Stephen J Sweeney CC BY-NC-SA Meat Atlas2014 2014 A collection of graphs and 27 essays on meat consumption and production by Friends of the Earth and Heinrich Böll Foundation CC BY-SA Move Under Ground 2004 A horror novel mashup by Nick Mamatas CC BY-NC-ND Warbreaker2004 2004 by Brandon Sanderson CC BY-NC-ND Little Brother2008 2008 by Cory Doctorow CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Open Access 2012 2012 by Peter Suber (published by MIT Press) CC BY Blindsight 2006 by Peter Watts CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 Code: Version 2.0 2006 by Lawrence Lessig, dedicated to Wikipedia CC BY-SA 2.5 Code Version 2.0, at http://codev2.cc/download+remix/Lessig-Codev2.pdfRemix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy 2008 by Lawrence Lessig in describing the remix culture CC BY-NC Remix on lessig.orgThe Wealth of Networks2006 2006 by Yochai Benkler CC BY-NC-SA Wealth of Networks wiki. Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Last accessed 16 Feb 2012.Stranger Things Happen2001 2005 short horror stories by Kelly Link, Salon Book of the Year CC BY-NC-SA There Is No Antimemetics Division2025 2016 by qntm, originally released on the SCP Wiki and as a self-published ebook and paperback under this license before being rewritten and published by Ballantine and Del Ray. CC BY-SA 3.0

Comics Name Description License Refs Bunny by Huw Davies CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Diesel Sweeties by Richard Stevens III CC BY-NC 2.5 Erfworld CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Gaia by Oliver Knörzer and Puri Andini CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Homem-Grilo by Cadu Simões (pt) CC BY-SA-4.0 Jesus and Mo religious satire webcomic by Mohammed Jones CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Johnny Wander (the book publication form) CC BY-NC 3.0 Mimi & Eunice by Nina Paley CC BY-SA 3.0 Overcompensating CC BY-NC 3.0 Pepper&Carrot by David Revoy CC BY 4.0 Sandra and Woo by Oliver Knörzer and Puri Andini CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Seedfeeder's works for Wikipedia by Seedfeeder CC BY-SA 3.0, public domain xkcd by Randall Munroe CC BY-NC 2.5

Educational resources Name Description License Refs Connexions academic course modules, hosted by Rice University CC BY-NC-SA Khan Academy CC BY-NC-SA OpenLearn Short articles, videos and extracts of courses maintained by The Open University CC BY-NC-SA OpenCourseWare CC BY-NC-SA Saylor Academy Peer-reviewed college courses and textbooks CC BY WikiEducator CC BY-SA (default), CC BY, and CC0 Project Euler Site hosting computer programming problems CC BY-NC-SA

Games Name Description License Refs Cards Against Humanity An adult party game using custom-printed cards CC BY-NC-SA Dungeons & Dragons System Reference Document 5.1 & 5.2 The core rules of a popular fantasy role-playing game CC BY 4.0 Eclipse Phase A transhuman science fiction role-playing game CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The first Brazilian fantasy role-playing game fully developed in Brazil CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 BR Violence A heavily satirical role-playing game inspired by excessive violence in other role-playing games and video games CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 Secret Hitler A social deduction party game set in the Weimar Republic CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Video games

Name Description License Refs Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead ASCII graphic rogue like CC BY-SA (artwork and code) DOGWALK A game created as a proof of concept for a workflow pipeline between Blender and Godot. CC BY Glest / MegaGlest A real-time strategy computer game in a fantasy setup. CC BY-SA (artwork) Glitch An MMO. In 2013, most of the artwork and parts of the code were released under a Creative Commons license.CC0 Mari0 Super Mario clone mashup with PortalCC BY-NC-SA OpenClonk (formerly Clonk) A computer game originally developed by RedWolf Design, later opened to the community. CC BY/CC BY-NC (artwork) Ryzom Ryzom is a free and open source software PC MMORPG. Originally developed and released 2004 by Nevrax, since 2010 the source code is under the AGPL and the artistic work is under CC BY-SA.Massively Multiplayer Game Ryzom Released as Free Culture and Free Software on creativecommons.org (2010) CC BY-SA (artwork) Sintel The Game A game based on the Blender Foundation movie, Sintel. CC BY The Adventures of Fatman point and click adventure game CC-BY-NC-ND Tyrian (now OpenTyrian) Scrolling shooter CC BY 3.0 US (graphic assets)Free game graphics: Tyrian ships and tiles on lostgarden.com by Daniel Cook (2007-04-04)Lost garden license on lostgarden.com "All licensed items use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License" (2007) The Ur-Quan Masters (formerly Star Control II) Action RPG CC BY-NC-SA (artwork) Yo Frankie! A game resulting from a cooperation between the Blender Foundation and the Crystal Space community CC BY 3.0

Images and photos Name Description License Refs deviantART image artwork sharing website various (15 million CC-licensed) Flickr user photo uploading and sharing service various (350 million out of 6+ billion images were CC-licensed as of 2011) creativecommons on flickr.com Mapillary Over 30 million free photos CC BY-SA Metropolitan Museum of Art paintings and artworks CC0 (375,000)open-access-at-the-met on metmuseum.org Mushroom Observer collaborative amateur mycology database with approx. 600,000 observational photos Reproduced on the MykoWeb website. CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA Open Game Art Media repository for software / game projects CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0, others Panoramio Over 100 million photos Various Pixar One Thirty 130 textures created for Pixar films CC BY Smithsonian Objects in the public domain and portions of metadata for all object entries CC0 Fortepan archival photographs, and family snapshots of everyday life CC BY-SA (100.000 images) Unsplashuser photo uploading and sharing serviceCC0 prior to 5 June 2017 Wikimedia Commons free image and data repository, stores Wikipedia images various free CC licenses (40+ million images in 2018)

Music Name Description License Refs The Slip By Nine Inch Nails CC BY-NC-SA Ghosts I–IV By Nine Inch Nails CC BY-NC-SA Palm Mall By Cat System Corp. CC BY 3.0 Polygondwanalandby King Gizzard & the Lizard WizardCC BY-NDAirports for MusicBy SheedyJayeCC BY 3.0 ccMixter Community music website mostly CC BY-NC Free Music Archive Various Freesound CC0, CC BY, CC BY-NC and Sampling Plus #hot111 Charts By starfrosch CC BY CC BY-SA Jamendo Various Ninjam Music files/archive CC BY-SA Pulse of the Earth By Hungry Lucy CC BY-SA Jonathan Coulton Jonathon Coulton's works CC BY-NC 3.0 Paul and Storm Paul and Storm's works CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 Open Goldberg Variations CC0"Goldberg Variationen: Johann Sebastian Bach als 'Creative Commons Zero'", Heise Online, 29 May 2012 CloudkickerBy Ben SharpCC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Lud and Schlatts Musical Emporium A project by YouTubers jschlatt and Ludwig to provide royalty-free music to creators. CC BY 3.0 Castle Crashers soundtrackCC BY-NC-SA

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