The Creative Commons will launch a series of projects designed to support and expand the public domain. These projects will include the following. If you have ideas that we could launch, email us.

The Licensing Project

This project enables users to build and attach machine-readable licenses that dedicate at least some of the rights within a "copyright" to the public. LAUNCHED:December, 2002

Founders' Copyright

This project enables contributors to dedicate their work to the public domain after a copyright term of just 14 years – the same term as the initial term established by the First Congress of the United States in 1790. LAUNCHED: December, 2002

The Conservancy Project

The Creative Commons Conservancy will take donations of content and make it available to others under the terms of the donation. The project will function like a "land trust," holding and defending copyright or patent rights donated to the Conservancy. Coming: Spring, 2003