Creative Commons International: A Collected Memoir is an open (CC BY-SA 4.0), multilingual anthology of first-person stories from that formative decade. Its purpose is to preserve the diversity of experiences that shaped CC’s early international growth before those memories and archives fade.

The CCi decade was a legal and organizational experiment—and a human one. People around the world took a set of legal tools and turned them into a shared cultural movement. Capturing those experiences now will help future generations understand how Creative Commons became a truly global idea, and how much of that success depended on volunteer imagination, cross-cultural dialogue, and trust.

Your memories, however small or local, are part of that history.

Note: New essays are published regularly. Submissions are open.