Creative Commons Finland

Creative Commons (CC) is an international nonprofit organization that has created the Creative Commons open licenses. Furthermore, CC empowers individuals and communities around the world through technical, legal, and policy solutions that enable the sharing of education, culture, and science in the public interest.

Creative Commons Finland chapter was first established under the wings of Aalto University. Since the end of 2018, Creative Commons Finland has operated within Open Knowledge Finland.

The latest chapter lead is Tarmo Toikkanen and the representative of the chapter in the Creative Commons Global Network has been Susanna Ånäs, acting also as member of the latest Creative Commons Global Network Executive Committee.

Creative Commons Finland Reboot

As Creative Commons launches its renewed strategy and revives the Global Network in the beginning of 2025, the Finnish chapter makes a fresh start as well.

  • Join the monthly online meetings to stay tuned with the Finnish as well as global activities in the Creative Commons community.

What does Creative Commons do?

Creative Commons Licenses

Creative Commons offers free and easy-to-use tools, like CC licenses and public domain tools, to help anyone share their creative or academic work. They make it simple to give copyright permissions, ensure proper credit, and let others copy, share, and use the work.

CC officially joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance in March 2024, and now the CC legal tools are formally recognized as part of the Digital Public Goods Registry.

Programs at Creative Commons

Creative Commons runs programs in several areas.

Creative Commons Certificate Program

The Creative Commons Certificate program offers in-depth courses about CC licensing and open practices. The CC Certificate courses are offered for Open Culture/ GLAM, Academic Librarians, and Educators.

Open Culture Program

The Open Culture Program hosts the Open Culture Platform for sharing resources, fostering collaboration, and raising awareness about open access to digital cultural heritage with GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums).

Toward a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage (TAROCH)

The TAROCH initiative by the Open Culture program encourages UNESCO Member States to adopt a Recommendation promoting open solutions for accessing public domain cultural heritage while respecting diverse governance frameworks. Organizations supporting this mission can apply for membership.

Open Education Program

The Open Education Program promotes the use open open licensing and open licensing policies in education. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license.

Open Science Program

Creative Commons works with researchers, librarians, consortia, policy makers, and other stakeholders in scholarly communication to equip them with education and training about CC licenses.

Open Preprints

The Open Preprints project promotes the use of the CC BY 4.0 license on preprints.

Open Climate Data

The Open Climate Data project is facilitating better sharing of climate data with CC licensing, metadata, and database user-interface practices.

Copyright policy

The Creative Commons Copyright Platform is a space for copyright advocates and practitioners to identify, plan and coordinate copyright law and policy-related activities.

2025–2028 Strategy

Over the next few years, Creative Commons’ priorities will focus on ensuring a strong and resilient open infrastructure of sharing, and enabling a healthy and thriving creative commons powered by reciprocity and community in the public interest.

The 2025-2028 strategy is guided by three interconnected goals: 

  1. Strengthen the open infrastructure of sharing
  2. Defend and advocate for a thriving creative commons
  3. Center community

Download your copy of CC’s 2025-2028 strategy.

Contacts

Creative Commons Finland website will be revised in 2025.

Join the Creative Commons Finland channel on OKFI Slack. Join Slack first, then the channel.

Follow the OKFI Calendar to stay updated on the Creative Commons Finland meetings.

Get in touch with Creative Commons Finland.