Creative Commons

non-profit-organization creating copyright licenses for the public release of creative works

family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work

free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner

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xeno-canto is a citizen science project and repository in which volunteers record, upload and annotate recordings of birds, orthoptera, bats, frogs and land mammals. Since it began in 2005, it has collected over 1,000,000 sound recordings from more than 12,900 species worldwide, and has become one of the biggest open collections of wildlife sounds in the world. All the recordings are published under one of the Creative Commons licenses, including some with open licences. Each recording on the website is accompanied by a spectrogram and location data on a map displaying geographical variation.

Point of access to public data published by the European Union institutions, agencies and other bodies

Scottish politician, member of the European Parliament 1999-2019

Scottish legal academic

Open Game Art is a media repository intended for use with free and open source software video game projects, offering open content assets.

Brazilian academic

US-based Creative Commons project for efficient web-enabled scientific research, 2005-2009

set of licenses allowing free noncommercial use

American activist

Japanese business woman

American entrepreneur; runs the Consent to Research Project