Creative Commons is an internationally active non-profit organisation that aims to promote new copyright management options for creators.

At the core of the Creative Commons project is a suite of standardised licences that are made freely available to copyright holders and which provide a range of protections and freedoms for their material. Content creators can use these licences to increase the ways that the general public can legally access and use their creative material, without giving up their copyright. This voluntary “some rights reserved” concept is designed to build a layer of reasonable and flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules. It is a model based on prior permission utilising private rights for public goods.

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