Editing Creative Commons (section)

==Purpose and goal==
[[File:Lawrence Lessig (9).jpg|thumb|[[Lawrence Lessig]] (January 2008)]]
[[File:Creative Commons Japan Seminar-200709-1.jpg|thumb|Creative Commons Japan Seminar, [[Tokyo]] (2007)]]
[[File:CC some rights reserved.svg|thumb|CC some rights reserved]]
[[File:Creativecommons spanien.jpg|thumb|A sign in a pub in [[Granada]] notifies customers that the music they are listening to is freely distributable under a Creative Commons license.]]
[[File:Made-with-cc.pdf|thumb|''Made with Creative Commons'', a 2017 book describing the value of CC licenses]]
Creative Commons has been an early participant in the [[copyleft]] movement, which seeks to provide alternative solutions to [[copyright]], and has been dubbed "some rights reserved".<ref>{{cite news|first=Sharee L.|last=Broussard|title=The copyleft movement: creative commons licensing|publisher=Communication Research Trends|url=http://cscc.scu.edu/trends/v26/v26_n3.pdf|date=September 2007|access-date=October 20, 2015|archive-date=February 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201221513/http://cscc.scu.edu/trends/v26/v26_n3.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Creative Commons has been credited with contributing to a re-thinking of the role of the "[[commons]]" in the [[Information Age]]. Their frameworks help individuals and groups distribute content more freely while still protecting themselves and their [[intellectual property]] rights legally.<ref>{{cite web|last=Berry|first=David|url=http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/commons_without_commonality/|title=On the "Creative Commons": a critique of the commons without commonalty|publisher=Free Software Magazine|date=July 15, 2005|access-date=December 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111114020007/http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/commons_without_commonality|archive-date=November 14, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to its founder [[Lawrence Lessig]], Creative Commons' goal is to counter the dominant and increasingly restrictive [[permission culture]] that limits artistic creation to existing or powerful creators.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lessig |first=Lawrence |url=https://archive.org/details/freeculturehowbi0000less |title=Free Culture |publisher=Penguin Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-59420-006-9 |location=New York |page=8 |access-date=October 20, 2015 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Lessig maintains that modern culture is dominated by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema, and that Creative Commons can provide alternatives to these restrictions.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/german_creative_commons/|title=Germany debuts Creative Commons|last=Ermert|first=Monika|work=The Register|date=June 15, 2004|access-date=August 10, 2017|archive-date=August 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822060934/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/german_creative_commons/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://talk.talis.com/archives/2006/01/lawrence_lessig.html|title=Lawrence Lessig on Creative Commons and the Remix Culture|last=Lessig|first=Lawrence|work=Talking with Talis|year=2006|format=MP3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080205034639/http://talk.talis.com/archives/2006/01/lawrence_lessig.html|archive-date=February 5, 2008|access-date=April 7, 2006}}</ref>

In mid‑December 2020, Creative Commons released its strategy for the upcoming five years, which will focus more on three core of goals including advocacy, infrastructure innovation, and capacity building.<ref name="creative-commons-2020">
{{cite book
 | author = Creative Commons
 | title = Creative Commons Strategy 2021–2025
 | date = 14 December 2020
 | publisher = Creative Commons
 | location = Mountain View, California, US
}}
</ref><ref name="stihler-2020">{{cite web
 | last1 = Stihler
 | first1 = Catherine
 | title = Announcing our new strategy: what's next for CC
 | date = 16 December 2020
 | work = Creative Commons
 | url = https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/
 | access-date = 2020-12-29
 | archive-date = December 30, 2020
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201230120849/https://creativecommons.org/2020/12/16/announcing-our-new-strategy-whats-next-for-cc/
 | url-status = live
 }}</ref>