Celebrating 20 Years | State of the Commons | 2021

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In 2001, Creative Commons started with a simple, radical idea: to save the internet from “failed sharing” and create a world where everyone has access to knowledge and creativity. Twenty years later, CC continues this mission by providing legal, technical and policy solutions not only for equitable sharing, but better sharing of knowledge and culture that purposefully serves the public interest.

The founding commitment and values of CC continue to this day and are reflected in our daily work. In this annual report, we are excited to give you a glimpse of how we are advancing better sharing through innovations, achievements, collaborations, conversations, and partnerships. None of this work would be possible without our global community of advocates, activists, scholars, artists, and users committed to strengthening the Global Commons.

For the last 20 years, CC has empowered individuals and communities through our licenses, programs and policy work to address the real challenges they are facing. The result has been freeing over 2 billion pieces of content from restrictive standard copyright. CC is indebted to our founders – true visionaries – and so many global advocates who have laid the foundation for an alternative to all rights reserved copyright.

As we look towards the next two decades, we will continue to support and build the infrastructure for open sharing, working with global institutions and creators to share their creations and collections, and continuing to facilitate conversations with educators, creatives, scientists, technologists, policymakers, developers, and more.

We are immensely grateful to the team, Board, CC network and community. Thank you for celebrating our founding in 2021 and the birth of our licenses in 2022. 

Catherine Stihler CEO, Creative Commons 

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