creativecommons.org

Creative Commons

Who runs Creative Commons, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open content licensing alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: fsf.org

Measured from Creative Commons’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Creative Commons

Creative Commons creativecommons.org

Wikidata: family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive
Audience: In English

02 · Privacy

What Creative Commons tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

7 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found
US company: 1 tool

Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
- Google AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Creative Commons

Fewer trackers than Creative Commons No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Creative Commons match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Creative Commons adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 8 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,214
Vector: 384-d
Query: 51 ms

Built with

CMS: WordPress page source: /wp-content/
Analytics: Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
CDN: Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562f803aab0ffcf-HAM
Languages & backends: PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting: Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms27657674
Email delivery: SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:sendgrid.net ~all
DNS hosting: Cloudflare DNS NS fiona.ns.cloudflare.com

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What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.