OtherVerified

Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, April 21, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.

Creative Commons uses its legal and policy expertise to engage with AI governance debates globally, including participating in the IETF AI Preferences Working Group, submitting comments to the U.S. Copyright Office on AI, and engaging EU policymakers on the AI Act.

Details

Creative Commons has engaged in AI policy work since at least 2021, participating in the EU AI Act legislative process, responding to the U.S. Copyright Office's Notice of Inquiry on AI and copyright in 2023, and joining a civil society letter urging U.S. support for openness and transparency in AI. In 2024, CC submitted a position paper to the IETF's AI Preferences Working Group. These activities represent CC's organizational stance-taking and advocacy role, not the deployment of an AI system by Creative Commons itself.

Sources & Evidence

Company Disclosure

Company DisclosureVerified

CC @ SXSW: Protecting the Commons in the Age of AI

Creative Commons·Apr 2025

https://creativecommons.org/2025/04/09/cc-sxsw-protecting-the-commons-in-the-age-of-ai/

Company DisclosureVerified

Artificial Intelligence Archives

Creative Commons·Jan 2025

https://creativecommons.org/tag/artificial-intelligence/

Company DisclosureVerified

Our Work in Policy at CC: Artificial Intelligence

Creative Commons·Dec 2022

https://creativecommons.org/2022/12/03/our-work-in-policy-at-cc-artificial-intelligence/

Cite this record

Trace Foundation. (2026). Creative Commons: Creative Commons uses its legal and policy expertise to engage with AI governance debates globally, including participating in the IETF AI Preferences Working Group, submitting comments to the U.S. Copyright Office on AI, and engaging EU policymakers on the AI Act (data as of 2026-04-21) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/be19c989-c510-4616-bce8-4c3ca6a2ba1c. Accessed September 11, 2026.

Stable link: https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/be19c989-c510-4616-bce8-4c3ca6a2ba1c
Data as of: April 21, 2026
Last verified: April 21, 2026

How to cite AI Trace

Other practices by Creative Commons

OtherCreative Commons announced CC Signals in June 2025, a framework it is building to allow dataset holders to specify how their content can or cannot be used by AI systems for training. As of December 2025, the project is in active development and being tested through pilot efforts, with an alpha release originally targeted for November 2025.

Have evidence about Creative Commons's AI practices? Submit a report.

Report a Sighting →