Share, Remix, Reuse - Legally

Creative Commons is an international non-profit that provides free licences and tools that copyright owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally.

Creative Commons Aotearoa NZ

Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand is the affiliate that supports Creative Commons in New Zealand and administers, as kaitiaki, the New Zealand Creative Commons licences.

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Culture


Whether you’re a photographer, writer, filmmaker, DJ or government agency, our licences help make your work part of the cultural innovation spreading on the Internet. Learn more


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Education


Access to education is easy and universal when educators and learners use our licences to share and collaboratively build textbooks, lectures and lesson plans. Learn more


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Science


Scientific research, journals and data can be made available to everyone, for the benefit of the planet and us all. We have the legal tools that can help make this happen. Learn more


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Government


Government agencies create and hold vast quantities of useful copyright works. Now they're releasing them for re-use with Creative Commons licences. Learn more

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Creative Commons and the Vertical Cinema Manifesto

Creative Commons and the Vertical Cinema Manifesto

In June 2012, Youtube user ‘gloveandboots’ released ‘The Vertical Video Syndrome – A PSA,’ a video poking fun at film-makers who hold their camera-phone vertically. Common across Youtube, videos shot vertically have two black bands of empty space framing the video, as you can see the screenshot, below. The Vertical Video Syndrome quickly went viral, [...]

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Meena Kadri

Meena Kadri is a Wellington-based photographer, designer and Community Manager for OpenIDEO, a collaborative innovation and design platform. A long-time user of Flickr (under the name Meanest Indian), Meena releases many of her photos under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives licence.  Her CC-licensed images have appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines, blogs and books, [...]

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CCANZ’s Submission to NZ On Air

[This is the response from Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand to NZ On Air's discussion paper "NZ On Air: Online Rights and Public Access" (PDF). You can download the submission in .doc, .odt and .pdf. You can read all the submissions by following the link contained in this media release from NZ On Air.] Response [...]

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The Creative Commons Playlist

The Creative Commons Playlist

Late last year, we ran a crowd-funding campaign to pay two interns to come in and make some new resources. Over thirty people from around the world chipped in, giving us a total of $2765! All that generosity didn’t go unrewarded: We sent out posters, DVDs, remix guides and–by far the most popular reward–our playlist [...]

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