Building a better internet
Creative Commons’ vision is “realizing the full potential of the internet,” with universal access to culture, knowledge, and education.
That’s a vision that we clearly can’t achieve on our own. The licenses provide the foundation that enables sharing; the real magic happens when others build tools and services that use those licenses to do amazing things. Over the past year, third-party developers have been making it easier to find and use CC-licensed materials, and big corporations have been starting to share their own work under CC licenses in new ways. It’s been a big year for the open internet.
This page is a mirror of Building a better internet | The future is open.
Except where otherwise noted, The future is open by Creative Commons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Image credits
- Globe / Edward Boatman / CC BY 3.0
- File Repair (copyright symbol added) / iconoci / CC BY 3.0
- Link / Matthew Exton / Public Domain
- Raised Hand / Stephen JB Thomas / CC BY 3.0
- Money / Alex Berkowitz / CC BY 3.0
- Microsoft Store Logo / Michael Kappel / CC BY-NC 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- Autodesk Blogger Day 2014 Trip / Robin Capper / CC BY-NC 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- Google / Carlos Luna / CC BY 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- DPLA / Diana Geis, Digital Public Library of America / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- Lawrence Lessig / Joi Ito / CC BY 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- Dinocerata / Biodiversity Heritage Library / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- PeerJ / Duncan Hull / CC BY 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- Satellite View of the Americas on Earth Day / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CC BY 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted, public domain icon added)
- Metadata / gabitogol / CC BY 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- factory at night / Kazue Asano / CC BY 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- Wei's 3d printed car / Hsin-Cheng Lin / CC BY 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- Class picture. School of Open. / bagaball / CC BY 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- Open Book / Dave Dugdale / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
- Open class / Jessica Duensing for opensource.com / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped and color adjusted)
The banner illustrations were created by Luke Surl. To the extent possible under the law, Luke has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
The “The future is open” logo is set in Akzidenz Grotesk Bold. This website is set in Roboto Slab.