Creative Commons Grant



Organization - Creative Commons
Grant Amount - $250,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of its organizational sustainability assessment and "Remarking the Public Domain," a project that will help clarify the bounds of the public domain to the creative sector


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