Creative Commons is a form of copyrighting your work in a less formal matter. The non-profit organization describes themselves as, "providing free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." The entire organization is free, and they promote the slogan, "Share, reuse and remix- legally." A richer, more vibrant culture through the simple idea of sharing work is a priority of the group. When formal copyrights are too restrictive, artists and authors use Creative Commons to copyright sections of their work that they choose. This prevents the timely process of requesting permission to use particular parts of creative work. In addition creators can choose whether their work can be used for commercial use, or can be altered.

The site features six major divisions of copyrighting material, Science Commons, iCommons, ccInternational, ccLearn, ccLabs, and ccMixter. The Science Commons is run by MIT, and encourages the sharing of factual data to make progress towards a common intellectual goal. iCommons encourages united global commons through global education, software and open access publishing. This organization is highlighted by a yearly summit. ccInternational works to transcribe copyrights attained through Creative Commons into other legislations and jurisdictions around the world. 40 countries have completed licenses and 11 more countries are considered, "Current Projects". ccLearn's mission is to learn more about copyright laws and support open learning and open education resources (OER). They work to minimize legal, technical and social barriers for Creative Common users. ccLabs features current projects from every component of the Creative Commons program. Finally, ccMixter allows users to remix, sample and interact with music.

Creative Commons is backed by renowned academics across the world. Nobel Peace Prize winners are in support of the site, as are brilliant academics from prestigious Universities worldwide. At the bottom of this web page, apparently before I am supposed to submit this writing is an advisement against copyrighted work. Creative Commons helps to support creative work through their revolutionary copyright techniques!