Featured here are projects currently under development at Creative Commons. All projects are prone to change and are unsupported. Comments and feedback welcome.
An experimental take on the licensing concept. Playing with the idea of licensing components as puzzle pieces, to allow you to figuratively bolt together and customize the CC license of your choice.
A simplified licensing engine, building from our current server-side implementation, and turning it into a responsive client-side javascript application.
The license choosers above generate experimental metadata. Read all about it.
The U.S. Congress decided that it was important to provide a mechanism under which previously sold or licensed rights under copyright could be returned to the original author or their family members. This tool is Creative Commons' attempt at simplifying that process to make it more author-friendly and accessible. Please take a look at the FAQ, and the tool itself, for more information.
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Want to help develop the code behind this site or CC-enable your application? Visit the CC Developer Community for a wiki, lists, IRC, project ideas ... and code.