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This is a list of major projects and web sites, which either use Creative Commons licenses for their work, or allow users to release work under them.

Sampling of CC adoption scope

This list provides a short sampling of CC-licensed projects which convey the breadth and scope of Creative Commons adoption among prominent institutions and publication modes.

Music

Indaba Music Releases content using Creative Commons through online music collaboration and remix contests of famous artists.

Nine Inch Nails' 2008 albums, Ghosts I–IV and The Slip (under the Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial share alike license)^[1], all original recordings of Allison Crowe

Portals, aggregation, and archives

Flickr, Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, Ourmedia, DeviantArt, ccMixter, Newgrounds, Citizendium.

Broadcasting Footage

Broadcasting footage from Al Jazeera was released as creative commons.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Formal publications

Public Library of Science, Proceedings of Science, Sino-Platonic Papers

Governmental websites

The U.S. White House website (for content that is not already in the public domain)^[8]

Website of President of the Russian Federation ^[9]

Instructional materials

MIT OpenCourseWare, Clinical Skills Online, MIMA Music, Second Life Open SLedware, Wikieductor

Collaborative content

Ekopedia, Wikinews, Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Memory Alpha, Uncyclopedia, Jurispedia, Microsoft Developer Network, Open Architecture Network and many other wikis

Blogs, videoblogs, and podcasts

Groklaw, This Week in Tech, : Rocketboom, Jet Set Show, newspaperindex

Free CC blog hosting services ^[10] : Wordpress.com, Blogger, and Typepad.

Typeface design

FontStruct

Comics

xkcd (by-nc), Bunny

Economics

Ludwig von Mises Institute

Publishing Companies

ImmediumPress

Journalism

20 minutes newspaper; Blast Magazine, lifestyle magazine; Biopact, news on green energy; Democracy Now, progressive TV and radio news program and Crocodyl.

Cartography

OpenStreetMap

Lexicography

EDICT Japanese-English dictionary, Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon (by-nc)

Cultural Heritage, History, and Archaeology

CyArk

Progressive culture

Jamendo, BeatPick, Revver, GarageBand.com, blip.tv

Counterculture

Star Wreck

Movies

Elephants Dream (Short Film), Big Buck Bunny (Short Film), Cactuses (Feature-Length Film), Insecurity (Feature-length Film), The Last Drug (Feature-Length Film), Valkaama (Feature-Length Film), others in the Internet Archive ^[11]

Consumer advocacy

Utility Consumers' Action Network

News

Wikinews

Bumper stickers

Bumperactive

Pornography

The Good Girl

Web Applications

Flash Gallery, Flash MP3 Player

Record labels

• BeatPick
• Cabbit Records
• Comfort Stand Recordings
• Jamendo
• Kahvi Collective
• Krayola Records
• LOCA Records
• Magnatune
• OnClassical
• Opsound
• Positron! Records^[12]
• Small Brain Records
• Quote Unquote Records
• Thinner/Autoplate
• Vosotros
• Sounds Asleep
• TempoStand

References

1. ^ http://www.nin.com
2. ^ Benenson, Fred (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository". creativecommons.org. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12049. Retrieved 2009-01-19.  
3. ^ Steuer, Eric (2009-01-13). "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License". creativecommons.org. http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/12166. Retrieved 2009-01-19.  
4. ^ Cohen, Noam (2009-01-11). "Al Jazeera provides an inside look at Gaza conflict". Herald Tribune. http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/11/technology/jazeera.php. Retrieved 2009-01-19.  
5. ^ "Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage under Creative Commons License". Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository. http://cc.aljazeera.net/content/launch-press-release. Retrieved 2009-01-19.  
6. ^ Andrews, Robert (2009-11-14). "Al Jazeera Offers Creative Commons Video, Lessig Lends Backing". paidcontent.co.uk. http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-al-jazeera-offers-creative-commons-video-lessig-lends-backing/. Retrieved 2009-01-19.  
7. ^ Ito, Joi (2009-01-14). "Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository". joi.ito.com. http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2009/01/14/al-jazeera-laun.html. Retrieved 2009-01-19.  
8. ^ "Copyright Notice". The White House. http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright/. Retrieved 2009-01-21.  
9. ^ Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)
10. ^ HOWTO Publish - CC Wiki
11. ^ Internet Archive: Open Source Movies
12. ^ Randall, Lisa. "Creative Commons". http://www.positronrecords.com/cc/. Retrieved 2008-02-19.