CC Signals: a new AI Social Contract for Creative Commons
This is a new option (as of June 2025) for Creative Commons creators: CC signals will allow dataset holders to signal their preferences for how their content can be reused by machines based on a set of limited but meaningful options shaped in the public interest. They are both a technical and legal tool and a social proposition: a call for a new pact between those who share data and those who use it to train AI models.
As the Github Creative Commons site states, "This is not about creating new property rights; it is more like defining manners for machines."
