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Several million pages of web content use Creative Commons licenses. Examples include:

• Opsound
• MoveOn.org's Bush In 30 Seconds contest (See History of MoveOn.org)
• Groklaw
• MIT OpenCourseWare - academic course syllabuses
• Bob Powell Anthology
• The Wired CD; created by Creative Commons in cooperation with Wired Magazine, the Beastie Boys, Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, etc.
• Public Library of Science
• Bitzi Bitpedia (digital media encyclopedia)
• Jamendo
• Ghosts I-IV - The sixth studio album by Nine Inch Nails, which was published under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license upon its release, thus raising considerable media attention.

Academic journals

See Creative Commons licensed journals

Publishers

• Athabasca University Press

Books

• The Honour of the Knights, a science fiction novel by Stephen J Sweeney
• Move Under Ground, a novel by Nick Mamatas
• A Briefer History of Time, the 1999 science humor book by Eric Schulman
• Three of Eric S. Raymond's books, The Cathedral and the Bazaar (the first complete and commercially released book under a CC license, published by O'Reilly & Associates), The New Hacker's Dictionary, and The Art of Unix Programming (all three with added proviso)
• The fiction of Cory Doctorow
• Lawrence Lessig's 2004 book, Free Culture (the first CC-licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin Books)
• Lawrence Lessig's 2001 book, The Future of Ideas (originally published by Random House), under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.
• Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.

News

Newspapers

• 20minutos
• Rooz, attempting to create print-edition

Syndicates

• Indymedia

Webcomics

• Erfworld
• xkcd
• overcompensating

Films

• The Star Wreck amateur movie parodies of Star Trek and Babylon 5 (in Finnish).
• Cactuses - Feature-length movie
• Nasty old people a 2009 film in Swedish by Hanna Sköld.
• Big Buck Bunny ^[1]and Elephants dream^[2] as a result of Blender Foundation projects.
• Sita Sings the Blues

Series

• The online sitcom Where are the Joneses

News footage

• Broadcasting footage of Al Jazeera.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Music

Artists

• Bomb the Music Industry!
• Jonathan Coulton
• Paul and Storm
• Josh Woodward

Albums

• Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails
• The Slip by Nine Inch Nails
• Speedbath by Kristin Hersh (release in progress at CASH Music)
• Free Music by 50 Foot Wave

Record labels

• LOCA Records
• Magnatune
• OnClassical
• Opsound

File-sharing trackers

• Jamendo

Other

Some further examples of a potentially-enormous list of Creative Commons-licensed sites include:

• Gentoo Linux (Documentation Resources)
• Boing Boing popular blog
• Connexions - academic course modules, hosted by Rice University
• Flash Gallery - a web application for creating an online slideshow.
• Zhura, online collaborative site for creation and editing of film, stage play, and television series scripts.
• Yo Frankie!^[9], a game resulting from a cooperation between the Blender Foundation and the Crystal Space community.

Wikis

• Wikia
• Ekopedia spreading practical knowledge related to environmental sustainability.
• Memory Alpha
• Wikitravel
• World66
• Linuxquestions.org wiki
• Jurispedia, the shared law
• Uncyclopedia
• Wikinews
• OpenWetWare
• OrthodoxWiki Eastern Christianity
• Wikipedia

References