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Creative Commons Legal Tools

CC legal tools enable the sharing and use of DPGs via standard, international open copyright licenses. CC stewards its open licenses and public domain tools to give every person and organization in the world a free, simple way to share their work in the commons.

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Creative Commons Legal Tools

Owner

Creative Commons

Type

text

Licence

CC-BY-4.0, CC0-1.0, MIT

Last evaluated

24.06.2026

Origin country

United States of America

Release date

-

DPG since

19.08.2024

Core Components Assessed/Included Repositories

The following repositories were submitted by the solution and included in our evaluation. Any repositories, add-ons, features not included in here were not reviewed by us.

Feature

science-and-technology

Scale of the Solution*

Connected members

N/A

Participated Programs

N/A

Available Languages

English

Organisations using it

Creative Commons legal tools have been adopted globally by numerous governments, ministries, educational, scientific, and cultural heritage institutions, and civil society organizations. There are too…

* This information is self-reported and updated annually

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Application Details

DPG ID

GID0091413

Status

DPG

Date Created

2025-06-20

Date Submitted

2025-07-09

Date Reviewed

2026-06-24

Date of Expiry

2027-06-24

Application Log Details

Timestamp

Activity

2026-06-24 22:45:43

Bolaji Ayodeji (L2) (L2 Reviewer) submitted their review of Creative Commons Legal Tools (4723) and found it to be a DPG

2026-06-24 22:45:42

System moved Creative Commons Legal Tools (12743) to expired because parent application is now DPG.

2026-06-24 22:45:42

System unmarked Creative Commons Legal Tools (12743) as a nominee

2026-06-24 22:45:34

Bolaji Ayodeji (L2) (L2 Reviewer) passed Scale of Solution for Creative Commons Legal Tools (12743)

2026-06-24 22:45:24

Bolaji Ayodeji (L2) (L2 Reviewer) passed 9C. Protection from Harassment for Creative Commons Legal Tools (12743)