Initiative profile

Creative Commons Preference Signals

WIP

Proposed signals for communicating reuse preferences to AI and web agents.

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Website
github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals
Latest update
Aug 26, 2025 Response to feedback
Primary approach
Preference signal

What it is

Creative Commons Preference Signals explores machine-readable ways for creators and platforms to express preferences about AI and automated reuse. The work is still under consultation, so the ideas are important to track but not yet stable enough to treat as a settled standard.

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