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WHAT IS CREATIVE COMMONS? - 9 - In 2016, Creative Commons embarked on a new organizational strategy based on building and sustaining a vibrant, usable commons, powered by collaboration and gratitude. This is a shift from focusing only on the number of works out there under CC licenses and available for reuse, to a new emphasis on the connections and collaborations which happen around that content.

Guided by that strategy, Creative Commons’ organizational work loosely falls into two main buckets:
 * Licenses, tools, and technology: The CC licenses and public domain tools are the core legal tools designed and stewarded by Creative Commons. While our licenses have been rigorously vetted by legal experts around the globe, our work is still not done. We are actively working on technical infrastructure designed to make it easier to find and use all the content in the digital commons. We are also thinking about ways to better adapt all of Creative Commons’ legal and technical tools for today’s web.
 * Supporting the movement: Creative Commons works to help people within open movements collaborate on projects and work toward similar goals. Through CC’s multiple programs, we work directly with our global community—across education, culture, science, copyright reform, government policy, and other sectors—to help train and empower open advocates around the world.

Final Remarks

Creative Commons has grown from its home in a law school basement into a global organization with a wide reach and a well-known name associated with a core set of shared values. It is, at one and the same time, a set of licenses, a movement, and a nonprofit organization. We hope this chapter has helped give you a sense of what the organization does and, even more importantly, how you can join us in our work.

1.3 | ADDITIONAL RESOURCES


 * “How I Lost the Big One,” by Lawrence Lessig.
 * Lawrence Lessig describes the details of the Eldred case: http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/March-April-2004/story_lessig_marapr04.msp.