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Recent Blog Posts

• Sunsetting api.creativecommons.org

  by Timid Robot Zehta on 2026-05-06 Announcements , Cc-legal-tools [author's gravatar]

• Deprioritizing work programs

  by Timid Robot Zehta on 2026-03-11 Announcements , Community , Gsoc , Outreachy [author's gravatar]

• Quantifying the Commons: The end of an era

  by Oreoluwa Oluwasina on 2026-03-03 Open-source , Collaboration , Community , Quantifying-the-commons [author's gravatar]

• Quantifying the Commons: My Journey so far with outreachy

  by Oreoluwa Oluwasina on 2026-01-22 Collaboration , Community , Open-source , Quantifying-the-commons [author's gravatar]

Featured Projects

• CC Legal Tools Application

  Legal tool (licenses, public domain dedication, etc.) management application for Creative Commons

• CC Chooser

  The new and improved CC license selection tool.

• Quantifying the Commons

  Quantifying the Commons: measure the size and diversity of the commons--the collection of works that are openly licensed or in the public domain

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