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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
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Closest alternative
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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

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Creative Commons

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Creative Commons, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than Creative CommonsNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to Creative Commons match.

  1. 01
    Open Source Initiative opensource.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Open Source Initiative – The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

    The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.

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  2. 02
    Privacy Guides privacyguides.org English No trackers

    Privacy Guides

    Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

    Compare Privacy Guides with Creative Commons →
  3. 03
    Liberapay liberapay.com English No trackers

    Liberapay

    We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.

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  4. 04
    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

    Compare Internet Archive with Creative Commons →
  5. 05
    American Civil Liberties Union aclu.org Top 10K English No trackers

    American Civil Liberties Union | The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

    The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

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  6. 06
    Hyphanet freenetproject.org English No trackers

    Hyphanet

    free software

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  7. 07
    Software Freedom Conservancy sfconservancy.org English No trackers

    Software Freedom Conservancy

    The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.

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  8. 08
    Sourceware sourceware.org English No trackers

    sourceware.org: Free software! Get your fresh hot free software!

    Sourceware free software

    Compare Sourceware with Creative Commons →
  9. 09
    Fight for the Future fightforthefuture.org English No trackers

    Fight for the Future

    Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]

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  10. 10
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

    Compare Codeberg e.V. with Creative Commons →
  11. 11
    Open Source Pledge opensourcepledge.com English No trackers

    Open Source Pledge

    Open Source software powers the world, but who supports the maintainers? We do.

    Compare Open Source Pledge with Creative Commons →
  12. 12
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

    Compare Linux kernel with Creative Commons →
  13. 13
    NLnet Labs nlnetlabs.nl Top 10K English No trackers

    NLnet Labs - Home

    Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.

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  14. 14
    RFC Editor rfc-editor.org Top 1K English No trackers

    RFC Editor

    The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.

    Compare RFC Editor with Creative Commons →
  15. 15
    Grants.gov grants.gov English No trackers

    Home | Grants.gov

    USA federal website

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  16. 16
    Let's Encrypt letsencrypt.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Let's Encrypt

    Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Read all about our work in our Annual Report.

    Compare Let's Encrypt with Creative Commons →
  17. 17
    Debian debian.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Debian -- The Universal Operating System

    Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.

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  18. 18
    ICANN icann.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

    ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.

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  19. 19
    The Unicode Standard unicode.org Top 10K No trackers

    Index

    computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems

    Compare The Unicode Standard with Creative Commons →
  20. 20
    NTPsec ntpsec.org English No trackers

    Welcome to NTPsec

    implementation of Network Time Protocol

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04 · 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,209
Vector
384-d
Query
37 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Creative Commons’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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