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.
Visit Creative Commons01 · 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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Creative Commons
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Creative Commons, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Creative Commons match.
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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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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.
Very close - 03
Liberapay
We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.
Very close - 04
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
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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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Hyphanet
free software
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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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sourceware.org: Free software! Get your fresh hot free software!
Sourceware free software
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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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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.
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Open Source Pledge
Open Source software powers the world, but who supports the maintainers? We do.
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The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
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NLnet Labs - Home
Research & Development, Internet architecture, DNS, Routing, Stability and Security.
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RFC Editor
The official home of RFCs. RFCs outline computer networking and Internet foundations, including Internet Standards and historical or informative content.
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Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
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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.
Close - 17
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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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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Index
computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems
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Welcome to NTPsec
implementation of Network Time Protocol
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Creative Commons’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Creative Commons uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
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, 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.
similarity × popularity
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
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on creativecommons.org 19/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- PHP 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- jQuery · not on creativecommons.org 6/20
- Microsoft 365 6/20
- nginx · not on creativecommons.org 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on creativecommons.org 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on creativecommons.org 5/20
- Atlassian · not on creativecommons.org 5/20
- Matomo · not on creativecommons.org 4/20
- WordPress 4/20
- jsDelivr · not on creativecommons.org 3/20
- Mailgun · not on creativecommons.org 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on creativecommons.org 3/20