# Creative Commons

Creative Commons develops public licenses and advocates for sharing knowledge and culture on terms creators can choose.

Type: organization. Context selected by Escape Meridian; inclusion is not endorsement.

[Collection](/entities/creative-commons)
[Original website](https://creativecommons.org/)

## Sources

- [Creative Commons](https://creativecommons.org/): Connect creative reuse and machine training to the choices authors and communities can make.

## Perspectives


## Terminal notes

- [CC licenses still grant permissions, and that does not settle AI reuse](/notes/cc-ai-licenses-2026-09-03.md): Creative Commons says its licensing guidance still holds: the six licenses and two public-domain tools mean what they say. It also says licensing cannot handle every sharing problem once machines reuse work at scale.

## Parallels


## Context references

- [https://creativecommons.org/](https://creativecommons.org/)

Latest published distillations: [Publications API](/api/pipeline/publications?entity=creative-commons)