- Renata Avila
- Jono Bacon
- Mitchell Baker
- Divya Bhat
- Rubi Blumenstein
- Adam Bly
- Jason Bobe
- David Bollier
- Richard Bookman
- Brad Sucks
- Lisa Brooks
- Matt Cockerill
- Jonathan Coulton
- Justin Day
- Zadi Diaz
- Chris DiBona
- Cory Doctorow
- Jesse Dylan
- Robert Greenwald
- Timo Hannay
Renata Avila
Creative Commons Guatemala Project Lead
“Creative Commons gives voice to creativity, and allows us to share symbolic space within society, charting alternative routes to inclusion across the continents, in all languages.”
Jono Bacon
Ubuntu Community Manager, Canonical
“The Creative Commons are a fundamental component in the march towards a new music and media industry, and their stewardship around the licensing of content and raising awareness of Free Culture is important work that I thoroughly support, and encourage others to do so too.”
Mitchell Baker
Chair of Mozilla Foundation
“Creative Commons provides easy and effective tools for creators to share their creative work when they want to. The resulting ability to share and collaborate enables new forms of creativity and enriches us all.”
Divya Bhat
Founder of Jamglue
“Our users apply CC licenses to the tracks they upload as well as the mixes they create online. This way everything in the library is re-mixable, i.e. anyone can use anyone else’s stuff in their own mixes. Without CC it would be very difficult to give users the flexibility they deserve while keeping it simple to use.”
Robi Blumenstein
CHDI Management, Inc./CHDI Foundation, Inc.
“Rapid and open sharing of biomedical research poses a prisoner’s dilemma. While sharing results and reagents accelerates scientific discovery and innovation, legitimate competition for scientific resources and accomplishment may deter collaboration. Science Commons seeks to resolve this dilemma by crafting policy guidelines and legal agreements to lower the barriers to collaborative science, and by developing technology to make biological materials, databases and the research literature easier to find and use.
CHDI Foundation has been a supporter of Science Commons since it first began back in 2005 and continues to be to this day. Finding treatments for Huntington’s disease as quickly as possible requires interoperability at multiple levels of scientific research. Science Commons is making that interoperability a reality.”
Adam Bly
Founder and CEO, Seed
"At Seed, we believe in science's unique potential to improve the state of the world. Today, this potential is being hindered by the largely closed, restricted, and disorganized nature of the world's scientific information. Scientists deserve better. Society needs better. Seed is very proud to support and collaborate with Creative Commons in our joint pursuit of innovative solutions to open science."
Jason Bobe
Director of Community, Personal Genome Project, Harvard Medical School
“The Personal Genome Project is generating an ever increasing amount of biological data and tissues. To promote discovery and advance science, we are committed to making these resources broadly available. Creative Commons and Science Commons provide us the tools to achieve these goals with clarity and legal rigor.”
David Bollier
Author of Viral Spiral
“Creative Commons is not just a provider of free, public licenses, but a champion of a bracing new vision of culture, economics and citizenship. We need to support Creative Commons because it brings ingenuity and leadership to the long-term struggle to advance this vision.”
Richard Bookman
University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine
“We need to find ways to make sharing research results and tools easy, trackable, and useable by scientists on a day-to-day basis. Creative Commons is working on these problems in a way that few other projects contemplate.”
Brad Sucks
Musician
“I think CC licenses, the entire open attitude is absolutely essential for artists that don’t have huge promotion budgets. Without the money to force advertising and radio play down people’s throats, you have to rely on the good will of your fans spreading your music for you. And if you handcuff them by making it illegal, I think you’re doing yourself a real disservice.”
Lisa Brooks
Co-Director, IssueLab
“We collect research work from nonprofit organizations around the world and the majority of that work has no re-use information or a completely restrictive copyright notification. We point folks toward CC licensing at every opportunity because it is an excellent way to mitigate these extremes, and many of the other copyright issues we experience in between.”
Matt Cockerill
Managing Director, BioMed Central Ltd.
“Creative Commons has played a key role in the success of open access publishing. The widespread adoption of Creative Commons licenses by open access publishers means that open access articles are not only freely readable and downloadable, but they can also be freely redistributed, adapted and reused. This is vital, both for the efficient communication of research results, and for the education of the next generation of researchers.”
Jonathan Coulton
Musician
“With Creative Commons, the act of creation becomes not the end, but the beginning of a creative process that links complete strangers together in collaboration. It’s a deeply satisfying and beautiful vision of what art and culture can be.”
Justin Day
CTO of blip.tv
“CC plays a critical role in maintaining an open community from which everyone benefits. Nearly a quarter of the videos uploaded to blip.tv are under CC licensing. By allowing for sharing, re-mixing and re-sharing on the content creator’s own terms we provide more opportunity for shows to grow and build community.”
Zadi Diaz
Co-founder of Epic Fu
“From the very beginning we’ve always believed in Creative Commons. For one thing, the amount of media we have in each show makes traditional copyright useless to us as content creators. The process of gathering clips, photos, and sound bites makes the relevance of CC licenses incredibly apparent on a daily basis.”
Chris DiBona
Open Source Program Manager, Google
“Our culture cannot expand and develop without people willing to share their work with each other and build on each others’ greatness. The use of Creative Commons licensing presents the best way for creative people to share work with each other and through that sharing make the world better for us all. We're lucky that the Creative Commons exists and I'm proud that we've supported the groups work over these many years.”
Cory Doctorow
Author
“As a writer, my problem is not piracy, it’s obscurity, and CC licenses turn my books into dandelion seeds, able to blow in the wind and find every crack in every sidewalk, sprouting up in unexpected places.”
Jesse Dylan
Filmmaker
“Creative Commons has provided me with the tools to collaborate with artists from around the world. I am grateful that Creative Commons has helped millions of creators do the same.”
Robert Greenwald
Founder and President, Brave New Films
“Creative Commons brings major value to filmmakers and creators of all kinds. CC's tools not only make it simple for creators to share their work, they make it easy for any member of the public to find material that they can legally use and build upon. If I need music or imagery for a project, I can turn to the enormous pool of work that CC has helped build — work that is available to literally anyone in the world to share, use, and remix. I release a great deal of my work at Brave New Films under Creative Commons licenses because I want to enable other filmmakers to use my material in new and interesting ways.”
Timo Hannay
Publishing Director, Nature.com
"The sharing of ideas is central to scientific progress. Creative Commons provides a convenient, comprehensible and robust way to share copyrighted works, such as research papers. We are making increasing use of Creative Commons licences in our journals, databases and audio-video content, as well as our new science education service, Scitable. Without the consistent approach fostered by Creative Commons this process would have been far harder for us and a lot less useful for the communities we serve."
Jack Herrick
Founder, WikiHow
“I'd like to live in a world where knowledge can grow and be built upon by many. Creative Commons creates the infrastructure to make this information sharing possible.”
Heather Joseph
Executive Director, SPARC
“As a fellow organization dedicated to empowering open sharing of science and scholarship, we've found Creative Commons, and its Science Commons project, to be an effective, energetic — and tremendously creative — partner. Science Commons, and Creative Commons in general, really understand the power of collaborative action, and have contributed enormously to the worldwide movement to provide Open Access to research results. Whether it's been educating individual researchers on the power they hold to share their results with the wider world, or creating smart tools to help them do just that, Science Commons has been a leader in shining a light on the profound new opportunities that the digital environment holds to change the way science is done — for the benefit of all.”
Molly Kleinman
Copyright Specialist, University of Michigan Library
“I love Creative Commons because it provides an easy answer to so many difficult questions. So many educators are confused about copyright law and terrified of using copyrighted material because they fear they might be sued for infringement, and it limits what they teach and how they teach it. Now there is a vibrant pool of CC-licensed material to draw from and build on, and it enriches the educational experience for everyone.”
Lesa Mitchell
Vice President, Kauffman Foundation
“The Kauffman Foundation supports Creative Commons and its project Science Commons due to our shared interest in focusing our work in areas that will enable outcomes from federally funded research. Science Commons is uniquely positioned to identify opportunities to speed the translation of data into scientific discoveries.”
Eben Moglen
Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University, and Founder of Software Freedom Law Center
“If we are going to achieve even just the next step in our new exploration of humanity that is Webspace, we’re going to have to make sure that freedom isn’t crushed by media companies with patents trying to prevent the future. Supporting Creative Commons isn’t just something I feel I ought to do; it’s something we all have to do.”
Colin Mutchler
Musician
“It all started in 2003 when I uploaded a guitar track to Opsound.org called “My Life” and then about 2 months later, I got an email from a 17 year old violinist in North Carolina named Cora Beth Bridges, who had added to it. She called it “My Life Changed.” I remember being blown away by how beautiful the track was, and also happy to know there were others like me who wanted to collaborate across space and time.”
Elliot Noss
President and CEO, Tucows
“Creative Commons provides a framework that allows people to share, mix and re-use content in the same way that TCP/IP and HTTP allows the open web and a network and application layer. This openness is what makes the Internet special CC is an important part of the fabric of the Open Internet.”
Greg Papapdopoulos
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
“An innovation commons is an engineered place where we decide to collectively and freely contribute ideas and their expressions, serving society's interest by providing a fair place for innovation to thrive and our own business interests by providing even more opportunities to build and be compensated for adding value on some important consumer dimension. The openness of key layers such as networking protocols and web standards have been essential to enabling innovation, while free and open source software has proved a runaway success innovation commons. Now, it is essential that we have a vibrant innovation commons at the content layer, so that society and business can fully realize the value of digital networks for culture, education, and science — this is precisely the mission of Creative Commons, and why I urge you to support them.”
Nina Paley
Filmmaker
“I chose a CC license to prohibit the copyrighting — “locking up” — of my art; to give back to the greater culture which gave to me; to educate about the dangers of copy restrictions, and the beauty and benefits of sharing.”
Rich Pearson
Vice President, Text Monitoring Services, Attributor
“We're a proud supporter of Creative Commons and do everything we can to spread their vision of saving the world from failed sharing.”
Evan Prodromou
Founder, Identi.ca
“I truly believe that within a generation we can open the world’s knowledge to all of its inhabitants and reduce or eliminate the misery caused by lack of access to information, and Creative Commons is a crucial part of the cultural compact that makes that revolution possible.”
Tom Rabon
Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Red Hat
“Red Hat built its business on collaboration, sharing and transparency -- all principles that Creative Commons shares. Creative Common's mission is to provide content creators and licensors with a simple way to say what freedoms they want their creative work to carry, making it easy to share and build upon those creative works. Red Hat supports this mission as Creative Commons enables creators to work collaboratively on a global scale to further drive innovation.”
Sharon Terry
CEO, Genetic Alliance
“Creative Commons advances disruptive innovation by increasing information sharing, access and collaboration. Information and resources need to roam free to fertile minds to take them to the next level. They have that home in Creative Commons.”
Dave Toole
CEO, Outhink Media
“Creative Commons provides an important alternative to assign rights to your content, making it easier to share, create and publish content. We have been a supporter of CC since the start and believe it is critical to open new and creative methods of communications.”
Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia
“Creative Commons is about building infrastructure for a new kind of culture — one that is both a folk culture, and wildly more sophisticated than anything before it.”
Bob Young
Founder and CEO, Lulu.com
“Lulu works every day to solve the problems of authors, educators, researchers and other content creators. We’re proud to support Creative Commons and its innovative solutions to this particularly complex issue. Its goal is the same as ours; to encourage and enable creators to bring their works to the world.”
Jonathan Zittrain
Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
“Creative Commons shows that we can make the world a better and more interesting place without having to pass new laws or amend old ones. We can say we want to share what we create, under terms that express our values. And thanks to the lawyers behind CC, we don't need lawyers to do it.”