Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that provides free, public copyright licenses. It is for creators, educators, institutions, and anyone who wants to share their work—like writing, images, music, and data—while clearly defining how others can use it. The system helps build a shared pool of knowledge and culture that is legally reusable.

• Standardized Public Licenses: Offers a set of clear, legally robust licenses that creators can apply to their work. These replace the traditional "all rights reserved" with more flexible terms, allowing sharing, remixing, and commercial use based on the license chosen.
• License Chooser and Tools: Provides online tools to help users select the appropriate license for their needs and generate the correct HTML code to mark their work. It also supports tools for discovering content that has been shared under these licenses.
• Global Commons Support: Acts as a central organization advocating for and sustaining the ecosystem of openly licensed materials. It supports a global community and develops resources to promote understanding and adoption of open licensing practices.
• Widespread Adoption: Its licenses are a de facto global standard, used by major platforms like Wikipedia, cultural institutions like The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and educational resources like Khan Academy to share billions of works openly.
• Legal and Technical Infrastructure: Develops and maintains the legal and technical frameworks that make large-scale open sharing possible and reliable, ensuring the licenses work internationally and with different media types.