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0 A.D. (pronounced "zero ey-dee") is a free, open-source game of ancient warfare. Its artistic content has been made available under CC BY-SA, including 3D models, textures, sounds, music tracks and more.

Organized by Creative Commons Korea(CC Korea), 2012 CC Art Happening concert was held in Seoul on May 26, 2012. 12 new songs were created based on 12 different family stories. All music is being distributed under Creative Commons License on SoundCloud.

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Free3dmodels.org supports the development of the Open Source 3D animation industry by offering 3d models, Textures, Animations, Computer Graphics and Visual Effects under CC.

60Sox is a multimedia portfolio and networking site providing a central focal point for emergent creativity in Australia and New Zealand.

80beats is a popular science blog published by Discover magazine.

A Swarm of Angels is a groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over 1 million people using the Internet and a global community of members.

The Fair Use of the Commons in a Transformative World

ABC Pool is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s online collaborative media publishing platform where contributors share and connect with people to grow ideas.

The Australian Creative Resource Online (ACRO) is an open resource repository of reusable digital multimedia materials.

Adhitia Sofyan is a singer-songwriter who utilises Creative Commons licences to help promote his music via free downloads. You can download his brilliant works through http://soundcloud.com/adhitiasofyan.

The Al Jazeera Creative Common Repository hosts select broadcast quality footage that Al Jazeera has released under CC Attribution.

Ali J is an Australian artist and illustrator whose stunning portraits of young modern female figures are housed in private and public collections worldwide, and are increasingly included in print publications.

Ancient Free Gardeners is an indie-rock band in Melbourne, Australia, using Creative Commons licences to distribute their music.

Andrew Garton is a prominent Australian-based writer, producer and digital media adviser who widely employs and advocates the use of Creative Commons licences.

App My State’ is a competition run by the Victorian Government to build mobile and web applications for the benefit of Victorian citizens.

Architecture for Humanity is a non-profit design services organization that aims to build a sustainable future through professional design, seeking architectural solutions to humanitarian crises.

Artabase is a beta social networking site for artists, galleries and art lovers, creating a ‘one stop shop’ for news of exhibitions and events.

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Web-based information resource for artists, theoreticians, and cultural managers.

apc.au, a digital media communications organisation advocating for open content and flexible licensing models, is engaged in both the development of and sustainable access to community-owned information communication technologies and infrastructure.

Audiophile is a not-for-profit organisation which publishes audio works from young and emerging producers on topics such as social justice, the environment, Indigenous issues, the arts and popular culture.

Augensound.de is an online community and gallery for illustrators, photographers, painters and digital/cg-artists.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has made the census available for all through the use of a Creative Commons Licence.

Beatpick is a "fairplay" music label that features a range of music from all over the globe, all released under a CC BY-NC-SA license.

Behance is as an organization that, in their own words, “designs products and services that empower the creative world to make ideas happen.”

Bert Jerred Music Catalogue at Jamendo

Black brow is a collaborative filmmaking organisation based in Brisbane, Australia whose productions include the Creative Commons Australia animations Mayer and Bettle.

The Blender Foundation, lead by Ton Roosendaal, supports the development of the Open Source 3D animation program Blender along with creative works showcasing the ability of both the program and the community of creators.

Bloterdotnet is a blog format website providing’ Bloter’-created contents as community news by collecting them.

Brad Sucks, a CC license using pop/rock musician, is one of the most remixed artists over at ccMixter - he runs an active blog, interacts with fans directly, and released his latest album Out Of It for free online and under a CC BY-SA license.

Promotion Bar for Free Music.

The Brisbane Media Map is an online database that provides a detailed overview of hundreds of Media and Creative Industry organisations servicing or based in Brisbane, Australia.

The British Library has released 3 million British National Bibliography records to the public via the CC0 public domain dedication.

CASH Music is a record label that focuses on CC-licensed projects that promote music through nontraditional means - their focus lies beyond simply music, as they have produced projects from authors and include visual elements as well.

The Creative Commons Music Collaboration Project (CCMCP) provides artists with applications to help them coordinate collaborative audio projects and build a community of practice around learning, sharing, and connecting.

This website provides updated ongoing of president of Republic Of Korea(ROK).

Chris Denaro is an Australian animator who examines industrial processes of prototyping, incorporating Creative Commons materials into his animations to bring spontaneity and serendipity to his works.

Christopher Willits is a prominent experimental musician from the San Francisco Bay area.

ClearBits is an online community, hosting, and distribution site for CC licensed digital media.

Colin Mutchler is one of the original CC success stories - back in 2003, he posted his song, My Life, to Opsound under a CC BY-SA license and a month later a violinist name Nora Beth added a violin track, calling the new work My Life Changed.

Cologne-based libraries in Germany released 5.4 million bibliographic records to the public via the CC0 public domain dedication.

The Commonwealth of Learning has incorporated CC BY-SA as part of its open educational resources (OER) policy.

These groups contain collectively over 400 member institutions in support of openly licensed courseware community colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the world.

Console and Hollawell P.C. is a New Jersey based personal injury law firm which publishes written content across a network or more than 6 unique websites.

Web site with authoring resources to use in social, cultural and educative research, also have links to external resources (open and closed) that could be accesed from free.

The Community Convergent Newsroom (CCN) presents independent news and current affairs bulletins on the Brisbane community radio station 4ZzZfm.

Cory Doctorow is a writer, blogger, and futurist who has embraced the ideals of Creative Commons from the beginning.

Creative Archilogies deliver governance items (archilogies)

Crescat Graffiti is a collection of over 1,100 photographs documenting graffiti written in the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library since September 2007.

Curt Smith, solo-artist and co-founder of Tears for Fears released his latest album, “Halfway, pleased“, under a CC license.

The first artist book of Song hojun, who's leading Open Source Satellite Initiative and making D.I.Y. satellite, is published.

DBpedia is a community organized effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia and make it available on the web so that it can be queried and linked to other datasets.

Dan Gillmor is a journalist and author of "We the Media" and "Mediactive", books about the changing landscape of media.

DeviantART is an online community dedicated to showcasing art as prints, videos and literature.

The Dictionary of Sydney (DoS) is a project to establish a digital encyclopaedia of the history of Sydney, Australia.

Digg is a social news website that has surrendered all copyrights in its user-submitted content via CC0.

Part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, Digital Fringe is dedicated to showcasing the use of digital screen-based technology in the arts.

The first CC licensed PhD thesis in Sweden studies the relationship between the regulation of technology and democracy.

An experimental film project from The Hill Productions.

Dryad is an international online repository for data contained in academic papers and other publications in the sciences. All copyrights to Dryad data are surrendered under the CC0 public domain dedication.

Dublit.com is a publishing and distribution platform for short format literature, in audio and e-book formats.

Usar las ventajas del formato digital para la creación y para la distribución de su obra: los cineastas chilenos cada vez más comienzan a experimentar los beneficios de licenciar con Creative Commons.

"El Cosmonauta", produced by Riot Cinema Collective, is the first Spanish movie to be crowdfunded and released through Internet under Creative Commons licenses.

EngageMedia is a video-sharing website focused on social justice and environment issues in Australia, South East Asia and the Pacific.

Epic Fu is a web-based show that focuses on “the coolest art, tech, and music from the online and offline world” - they post new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday released under a CC BY-NC-SA license.

Festival del Cinema Africano dell'Asia e dell'America Latina is a cinema festival which contributes with its CC BY-SA license to Africanize Wikipedia.

Filter Magazine is the triannual publication of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Australia’s peak industry body for artists working across science and technology.

Flickr is a popular photo- and video-sharing site that has enabled Creative Commons licenses.

Following Alexis West is a documentary film which examines the effect of New Zealand’s switch to a proportional representation system has had on its politics and culture since 1996.

Foncept is a Hong Kong-based design-sharing community website.

Genomes Unzipped is a project that aims to inform the public about genetics via the independent analysis of open genetic data, volunteered by a core group of genetics researchers and specialists.

GiftTRAP is a board game that uses CC licensed images to create its product.

GlaxoSmithKline is a major pharmaceutical company that has surrendered all copyrights in its malarial data set, which includes more than 13,500 compounds known to be active against malaria.

The Global Voices Online project presents writings from an international community of bloggers and translators who create and curate citizen news media pertaining to their regions.

Google Summer of Code is a program that provides students with stipends to work on a broad array of different free software and open source projects over the summer months.

Blog-based knowledge management platform in Thailand with over 70,000 users forming a Community of Practice.

GrassrootsWiki is the knowledge portal for the dissemination of grassroots technologies in the field of development cooperation and humanitarian assistance.

The website of the Australian Greens Senators

‘Hanncom Office Value Pack 2007’

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The IMERSD project employs new media technologies for e-research content design, production and publication within the music industry, emphasising the importance of access to key works with which to teach and from which to compose.

Itcanus is an IT support center for non-profit organization

A new label on the CC-music scene from Sicily: Imago Sound release its catalog under CC BY-NC-SA or BY-NC-ND licenses.

Inmediahk.net is the main citizen media website in Hong Kong, specialising in social issues, current affair commentaries and citizen reportage.

Indaba Music is “an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places”.

Inmyroom Records is an internet-based records label from Indonesia releasing music for free download using Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA.

Interior Excellence has embraced the Creative Commons license in order to help share their extensive collection of design work, photos, and regularly published content in Interior Excellence's blog.

We are a group of italin friends and we would like to create a webradio.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

IssueLab archives research about social issues, shares it with a broader audience, and advocates for the use of open licenses and open access standards in the nonprofit sector.

Jamendo is a music platform offering artists the ability to promote, publish, and be paid for their music made available for download under Creative Commons and the Free Art licences.

James Patrick Kelly is an acclaimed Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction author. He also is a well-known podcaster.

Jamglue is an online community for creating and personalizing audio, allowing for tracks to be easily remixed and reworked by the community at large.

Jay Dedman is a long time videoblogger creating online communities where people can learn, share, and remix their ideas.

Jim Guittard is one of those guys interested in making a mark in this world by spreading his music using the Creative Commons license. Music and writing is the best way to transform the culture into something more positive.

John Quiggin is an Australian economist and academic who writes a blog dealing with local and global issues from a social-democratic perspective.

Jonathan Coulton is an independent/unsigned singer-songwriter who utilises Creative Commons licences to help promote his music via free downloads.

Open share service providing higher educational teaching material run by KERIS(Korea Education and Research Information Service)

Kevin MacLeod uses Creative Commons licenses to help fill a void for film makers that is very under served.

Knives at Noon are an indie-electric-rock band based in Dunedin, New Zealand, who utilise online file sharing technology to collaborate online.

Korea University Open CourseWare

KNUST has adopted a university-wide open educational resources (OER) policy with CC Attribution as the default license for university material.

Wiki-like non-profit OER repository for teachers and content creators. In addition to traditional OER, LeMill includes activity and tool resources to aid teachers in planning their teaching.

Linux Outlaws is a podcast bringing you the tech news of the week, with a strong focus on free and open technologies, some lighthearted humour and from the perspective of the general Linux user.

Loops is a project created collaboratively between the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and The OpenEnded Group that released Merce Cunningham’s choreography for his solo dance "Loops" under a CC BY-NC-SA license.

MCM is the name of an author and artist who has created a series of CC-licensed projects, including a children's book series (The Pig and the Box is his best known) and the TorrentBoy cartoon.

Magnatune: The Open Record Label

Malaysian Artistes For Unity, a collaboration which has since swelled to over 150 active members working with creative, non-partisan projects to build awareness and tolerance in Malaysia.

This is a multimedia campaign sponsored by the ACLU and the ACLU of Washington State with the goal of promoting awareness of the effects of marijuana prohibition.

Mark Pilgrim is a prominent author of software and web development books.

Media Helping Media is a free journalism training resource that anyone can use and share for non-commercial purposes.

MiYoung Yi is a Korean independent artist who publishes her works under CC BY.

Michael Specht provides a blog exploring technology, management and Human Resources issues from both an Australian and international perspective.

The MichiganView Consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Michigan to the public for free over the Web.

Mike Seyfang is an Australian education consultant, ICT strategist, amateur musician and father of teenage children who emphasises the importance of instilling read/write culture through his blog ‘Learning with the Fang.’

The CC-licensed Asian Variations album is a collection of 14 remixes produced by MoShang in his Chinese Chill style of downtempo electronica, melding deeply laid-back beats with Chinese traditional instruments.

Modiba Productions is an international music production/publishing company and record label that aims to combine a love for music and a fervor for activism.

Monk Turner is a musician of eclectic taste and an approach to releasing albums that involves CC licensing through the internet archive.

Monkeyc.net is the moniker of John Harvey, a Brisbane-based former photojournalist who licenses his Flickr photo stream under Creative Commons.

Mosman Municipal Council, the local government administration for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, utilise Creative Commons and social networking as part of their Community Engagement Strategy.

A free 1600 page physics textbook written to be surprising and challenging on every page.

MySinaBlog : A major BSP(Blog Services Providers) in Hong Kong that supports CC.

Feature film.

Click and Flick is a National Library of Australia initiative to open PictureAustralia to photographic contributions from the general public.

Portal dedicado à música independente brasileira.

CC0 is the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's single website, which will contain websites for all the ministries. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available without restrictions unless it is noted otherwise.

En un pequeño y alejado país como Chile, cada vez son más los netlabels que aparecen en el panorama para liberar su música y romper fronteras. A continuación, una mirada a los netlabels más representativos.

While State Governments can exercise a Copyright over their works, the New York State Senate firmly believes in the adoption of open licences for the public to use and share the content generated at the State House.

The NZETC is a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials.

Newsbank Image is a photograph archive website.

Nine Inch Nails releases Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons licence, representing one of the most highly visible implementations of CC licensing by a (formerly) major label artist.

The Slip, a ten-track album by American band Nine Inch Nails (NIN), is the second artistic release made available to fans ‘for free’ under a Creative Commons licence.

On Line Opinion is a not-for-profit e-journal that aims to provide a forum for public social and political debate about current Australian issues.

This collection contains course materials, student projects, and hundreds of other resources for teaching and learning archaeology.

A music competition to promote CC licenses

OpenDemocracy is an independent online magazine offering global perspectives on current issues, fostering democratic debate.

An initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy, OpenEI is a community-driven linked open data platform that releases all contributions to the public under the CC0 public domain dedication.

OpenJurist is a public domain resource for case law in the United States.

Free and open access to course materials from The Open University UK.

OpenVoice Free is a free-for-download voice-prompting service specialising in supplying Australian voice prompts for the Asterisk open source PBX telephone system and other compatible IVR systems.

A theatrical/multimedia performance for a student project.

Otago Polytechnic is a tertiary education provider in Dunedin, New Zealand, which offers a range of open access training courses.

Clear and reduced icons.

PSMSAR is the only dependent Podsafe music PodCast in Hong Kong, with selection from dependent artists all over the world. Listening to his Podcast programme is like entering into a special realm of music.

The Pacific Media Centre is the only media research and community resource centre of its kind in New Zealand and is committed to providing informed journalism specifically with respect to contemporary Maori, Pasifika and ethnic affairs.

Pacific Scoop is the leading independent news publication in New Zealand.

Fashion made from freely licensed patterns

The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses.

Pentagon is an independent feature film from The Hill productions.

The Personal Genome Project released a large data set containing genomic sequences for ten individuals using the CC0 public domain dedication, with future planned releases also to be under CC0.

The Piemonte Regional Government in Italy has launched an open data portal under the CC0 public domain dedication.

Yueh-hsin Chu (a.k.a. Pig Head Skin) is an independent musician/producer in Taiwan, and leads the band Jesus Rocks! The band released an album of the same name in October 2004 under a Creative Commons License.

Platform is a biannual open-access, online graduate journal, published by the Media and Communications Program at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.

Pocketclock Records are an independent music label based in Melbourne, Australia, placing a focus on experimental pop.

The Polar Information Commons is a collaborative initiative between scientists and institutions that has established open data standards to build an open repository of polar data from the most recent International Polar Year.

Pollator offers easy & free Polls for the online community. All results are made available trough the CC-BY-SA license.