Creative Commons - User contributions [en]

CC Amazon Inspire attributions

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CCID-jane: Created page with "Amazon Inspire's page on Creative Commons is a remix of the following resources: * CC’s Education page: https://creativecommons.org/education * CC’s Licenses page: https:..."

Amazon Inspire's page on Creative Commons is a remix of the following resources:

* CC’s Education page: https://creativecommons.org/education
* CC’s Licenses page: https://creativecommons.org/licenses
* CC’s Best practices for attribution: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution
* Lumen Learning’s page about OER: http://lumenlearning.com/about-oer/
* P2PU’s Get CC Savvy challenge: https://courses.p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/ (This resource on P2PU’s site is licensed CC BY-SA, but it is also licensed CC BY because Creative Commons co-authored it.)

Data and CC licenses

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CCID-jane:

Where CC0 is not desired for whatever reason (business requirements, community wishes, institutional policy…), CC licenses can and should be used for data and databases — with the important caveat that CC 3.0 license conditions do not apply to uses of data and databases that do not implicate copyright. Read more about this [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26283 here].

==Data and CC license use cases==
This is a list of uses of CC licenses for data. For uses of the [[CC0]] public domain dedication for data, see [[CC0 use for data]].

===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#Australia|Australia Federal Government]]===
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Three of the largest sources of Australian federal government data sets — [[Case_Studies/Australian_Bureau_of_Statistics|Australian Bureau of Statistics]] (ABS), [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta
[http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] — are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC Attribution]. Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce]. Results from the contest (over 50 datasets) were released on data.australia.gov.au.
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===[[Case_Studies/Government_Information_Licensing_Framework|Australia Queensland State Government]]===
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[http://pan.search.qld.gov.au/search/search.cgi?collection=qld-gov&profile=oesr&num_ranks=10&tiers=off&query=creative+commons Various data] in the Australian state of Queensland's Office of Economic and Statistical Research are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/au/ CC Attribution]. The Queensland Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) seeks to create and implement a new standardized CC licensing arrangement for all Queensland Government information.
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===[[Case_Studies/Open Data Austria|Austrian government]]===
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The Austrian government has launched an [http://data.gv.at/ open data portal] with much of its data available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]. The portal's [http://data.gv.at/nutzungsbedingungen/ terms of use] states (via google translator), "The Cooperation for Open Data OGD recommends the license "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Austria ( CC BY 3.0 ) ". We must make the data to copy, distribute, publicly accessible, commercial use, and make modifications and adaptations of the work or of the content. It does not mean that everything on this portal, which will be released in the future as open data, necessarily subject to this license. You see, therefore, indicated in the description of data, the appropriate license for that particular record. In the CC BY 3.0 license just mentioned the name of the author or copyright holder is to be mentioned in a fixed manner."
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===[[Case_Studies/ChEMBL|ChEMBL]]===
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http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2011/04/chembl-09-as-rdf.html?m=1
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===[[Case_Studies/DBpedia|DBpedia]]===
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DBpedia is a community organized effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia and make it available on the web so that it can be queried and linked to other datasets. DBpedia currently describes 3.5 million things, and is available for [http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads36 download] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

=== [[Case_Studies/Freebase|Freebase]] ===
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Freebase is a collaborative project that imports structured data from a [http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Data_source variety of sources] on the web, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the Stanford University Library. Freebase currently contains information about 20 million topics, or entities, and its data is available for reuse under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ CC Attribution].
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=== [[Case_Studies/Geocommons|Geocommons]] ===
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http://geocommons.com/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/creative_commons_mapping_platform_geocommons_launc.php
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=== German railway ===

http://data.deutschebahn.com/datasets/haltestellen/

=== [[Case_Studes/Google|Google]] ===
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Google Ngram Viewer has released its dataset under CC BY: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets.
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===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#Greece|Greece Government]]===
Greece has opened up its geospatial data by implementing CC on [http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ geodata.gov.gr/geodata]. The data is available under CC Attribution or CC Attribution-ShareAlike [http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=6#how according to the type of data]. Greek geodata is also available at [http://opengeodata.gr opengeodata.gr] [http://www.opengeodata.gr/?p=261 under CC Attribution-ShareAlike], an implementation of the [http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/index.cfm INSPIRE] directive.

===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#Italy|Italian Government]]===
Italy's National Institute of Statistics has [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali released all data] on its site under the CC Attribution license. The Italian Chamber of Deputies shares [http://data.camera.it/data/en/ its data] via CC BY-SA. The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research also launched its [http://archivio.pubblica.istruzione.it/scuola_in_chiaro/open_data/index.html Open Data portal] under CC BY.

=== [[Case_Studies/MusicBrainz|MusicBrainz]] ===
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[http://musicbrainz.org/ MusicBrainz] is a user-maintained database of information about artists and their music, including title, artist, release date, format, and other data. The data on MusicBrainz is available as public domain material free to be reused without restrictions or under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike. The distinctions between types of data are explained [http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_License here].
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=== [[Case_Studies/Mydosis Portal|Mydosis Portal]] ===
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The contents of the database Mydosis are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License].
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===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#New_Zealand|New Zealand Government]]===
New Zealand's [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] was released under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC Attribution license] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website. More info is available at [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets CC New Zealand].

=== Open Directory Project (dmoz) ===
CC-BY, http://www.dmoz.org/license.html

=== [[Case_Studies/OpenStreetMap|OpenStreetMap]] ===
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[http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap] is a user-generated map of the world, amassing geodata collaboratively from around the globe. Its dataset is available under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. After the earthquake in Haiti, OpenStreetMap found an [http://crisiscommons.org/Haiti-Open-Street-Map immediate niche] to fill, launching their [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti Project Haiti page] in an effort to map out what was, at the time, a largely incomplete geographical picture, helping those on the ground in Haiti get to where they needed to be with greater accuracy.
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===Paleobiology Database===
One of the largest compendia of fossil data assembled to date is the Paleobiology Database (PBDB), founded in 1998 by John Alroy and Charles Marshall. The PBDB has since grown to include an international group of more than 150 contributing scientists with diverse research agendas. Collectively, this body of volunteer and grant-supported investigators have spent more than 9 continuous person years entering more than 280,000 taxonomic names, nearly 500,000 published opinions on the status and classification of those names, and over 1.1 million taxonomic occurrences. After a year of community feedback and discussion, the Paleobiology Database has taken the decision that “All records are made available to the public based on a Creative Commons license that requires attribution before use.” The Paleobiology Database is [https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41216 now licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License].

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
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[http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
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===[[Case_Studies/Open Data Euskadi|Spain (Basque) Government - Open Data Euskadi]]===
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In 2009, the Basque government opened up its data via the portal [http://opendata.euskadi.net/ Open Data Euskadi], licensing all of its public data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ CC Attribution]. The Basque government listed as its reasoning for opening data, to "generate value and wealth," "create transparency," and "facilitate interoperability between administrations." The government especially encourages reuse of its data by the private sector, other public administrations, and stakeholders to promote transparency in government.
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===[[Case_Studies/StackOverflow.com|Stack Overflow]]===
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*http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/
*http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/
*CC BY-SA
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=== [[Case_Studies/Uniprot|Uniprot]] ===
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Uniprot, the world’s most comprehensive catalog of information on proteins, is available for reuse under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ CC Attribution-NoDerivs]. The license is viable for all [http://www.uniprot.org/help/license copyrightable parts] of Uniprot's database.
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===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#United_Kingdom|United Kingdom Government]]===
Through [http://data.gov.uk/ data.gov.uk], the United Kingdom has made available a growing number of government datasets (currently at 5,400) under [http://data.gov.uk/terms-and-conditions terms that are interoperable] with the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution license]. This portal includes all affiliated websites such as the [http://www.ordinancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/ Ordinance Survey's] maps.

==Other public datasets==
A list on Github of Awesome public datasets, not necessarily under CC licenses: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets.

Data and CC licenses

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GLAM

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

===Tate Gallery===
Tate Gallery data set under CC0: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/our-work/digital/collection-data

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===New York Public Library===
* http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps
* http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/repository-api
* http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===

'''Update''': The Brooklyn Museum's text and image collection are now under CC BY.

The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===MoMA===
MoMA has released its [https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection dataset] with more than 120,000 records of art works into the public domain using CC0.

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw
===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt===
* http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31853
* http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/releasing-collection-github/
* https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===York Museums Trust===
Released 60,000 images under CC BY-SA or marked with Public Domain Mark: http://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/collections/.

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

= Institutions using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain =

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

= Additional resources =
Some U.S. museum policies on open access, in order of public launch:

*Los Angeles County Museum of Art Terms of Use Agreement (see its paragraph 1a, “Public Domain High Resolution Image Available”), launched in 2011 http://www.lacma.org/about/contact-us/terms-use

*Yale University: Open Access to Digital Representations of Works in the Public Domain from Museum, Library, and Archive Collections, launched in 2011 http://ydc2.yale.edu/open-access-collections

*National Gallery of Art (US): Open Access Policy for Images of Works of Art Presumed in the Public Domain, launched in 2012 https://images.nga.gov/en/page/openaccess.html

*Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University: DAC Open Access Images Policy, launched in 2012 http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess

*The Getty Open Content Program, launched in 2013 http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

*Walters Art Museum - released over 20,000 images freely licensed in 2012; changed licensing on website http://openglam.org/2013/01/22/walters-art-museum-a-case-study-in-sharing/

Related studies and other resources:

* Simon Tanner, “Reproduction Charging Models & Rights Policy for Digital Images in American Art Museums,” August 2004; Seminal research establishes that museum image sales and licensing activities are rarely (if ever) profitable when overhead costs are taken into account http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/USMuseum_SimonTanner.pdf

* Sharing is Caring: Openness and Sharing in the Cultural Heritage Sector; Anthology of 18 essays about open content in GLAMs, by Merete Sanderhoff (contributing editor), Curator of Digital Practice at the National Gallery of Denmark http://www.sharingiscaring.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/free-download-of-artworks/sharing-is-caring/

* Europeana’s Pubic Domain Charter; Excellent document outlines the principles behind the public domain for contributors to Europe’s online cultural aggregator http://pro.europeana.eu/get-involved/europeana-tech/europeana-tech-events/the-europeana-public-domain-charter

* "The Problem with the Yellow Milkmaid"; Interviews and case studies examine the motivations and business models behind open access for cultural materials http://pro.europeana.eu/yellow-milkmaid

* Yellow Milkmaid Syndrome Tumblr; Fun way to show why this work is important http://yellowmilkmaidsyndrome dot tumblr dot com

* Creative Reuse and Digital Collections http://digitalnz.org/blog/posts/creative-reuse-and-digital-collections

* References and Quotes regarding Public Domain and Image Sales and Licensing Activities in Museums; From the Smithsonian’s Web and New Media Strategy wiki, a page that lists over 20 useful resources, with quotes and links http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Public+Domain+and+Image+Sales+References

* Creative Commons and Cultural Heritage Institutions includes examples of GLAM institutions and how they leverage our licenses and public domain tools; http://www.slideshare.net/janeatcc/cc-cultural-heritage

* Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open GLAM initiative; OpenGLAM is an initiative run by the Open Knowledge Foundation that promotes free and open access to digital cultural heritage held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. http://openglam.org/ Twitter: @openglam and #openglam Subscribe to the OpenGLAM mailing list: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-glam

* OpenGLAM Principles; 6 principles to be championed by “open” institutions, developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation and community volunteers http://openglam.org/principles/

* Wikipedia “GLAM-WIKI” conference, April 10-12, 2015, in The Hague, NL; https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015

* GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

* GLAM WikiProject on GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAM

= In the news =
* NYTimes Nov 2015 coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/arts/design/new-online-openness-lets-museums-share-works-with-the-world.html?_r=0

Journalism

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==Emerging Journalism Models & Creative Commons==

Old models of news delivery are changing, being complemented, and even supplanted by entirely new models. Many of these new models leverage Creative Commons licenses, a simple, standardized way for authors to grant copyright permissions to their work in the digital age. Because the rights to copy, distribute, or adapt content are pre-cleared, news is more rapidly and widely disseminated, allowing innovative business models to emerge that rely on free and legal sharing and reuse.

Two examples of non-profit journalism ventures funded by foundations and/or other sponsors are Propublica and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.

===[[Case_Studies/Propublica|Propublica]]===
Led by Paul Steiger, the former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, [http://www.propublica.org/ Propublica] is an independent 32-person newsroom producing investigative journalism. Propublica encourages others to "steal"[1] its stories; it encourages other sites to reproduce their stories as long as they are credited and linked to under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND]). Propublica also gives certain stories first to major news outlets, such as the New York Times and CNN, in order to maximize their impact. After a window of exclusivity, which can be anywhere from seconds to hours after the original publication depending on the agreement, these stories are also published on the Propublica site under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND].

===[[Case_Studies/Huffington Post Investigative Fund|Huffington Post Investigative Fund]]===
The [http://huffpostfund.org/ Huffington Post Investigative Fund] is a professional newsroom that produces watchdog journalism and is staffed by reporters and editors from a variety of news organizations, such as the Washington Post, Business Week, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and more. It's a destination site with all news published under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ CC BY-ND]).

An example of an advertising-supported citizen journalism platform that shares revenue with reporters is Groundreport.

===[[Case_Studies/Groundreport|Groundreport]]===
[http://www.groundreport.com/ Groundreport] covers global news. It has over 5,000 contributors, citizen journalists from all around the world with various levels of experience, who submit articles, photos, and videos of news events, which are vetted by a staff of editors. Groundreport publishes stories on its site and through syndication partners such as Google News, the Huffington Post, and YouTube; and shares 50% of its advertising revenue with its contributors, based on unique traffic to posts. Reporters retain rights to their work and can choose which Creative Commons license to publish under.

An example of community-funded reporting is Spot.us.

===[[Case_Studies/Spot.us|Spot.us]]===
[http://spot.us/ Spot.us] covers local news, and is currently focused on the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. Any member of the public can commission and fund journalists to report a story. Contributions are tax deductible and about 10% usually goes to Spot.us, while the remaining 90% goes to the reporter. If a news organization buys exclusive rights to the story, donations are reimbursed and the news organization gains first publishing rights; it is up to the organization whether they wish to publish the story under default copyright or a Creative Commons license. Otherwise, all content is made available through a Creative Commons Attribution Only license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]), enabling any news organization to republish the story.

For instance, a Spot.us story, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/science/10patch.html Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash]" by Lindsey Hoshaw, was featured in the Science section of the New York Times on November 9, 2009. Freelancer, Lindsey Hoshaw used Spot.us to raise $6,000 from 116 donors to pay for reporting about pollution patches in the Pacific Ocean. The New York Times bought the story and Hoshaw's photos. Spot.us and Hoshaw kept the fees and funders were paid back. In this case, the story is available on the New York Times website under default copyright.

There are also new twists on older models. These include Al Jazeera, GOOD Magazine, and Creative Commons' Student Journalism 2.0.

===[[Case_Studies/Al_Jazeera|Al Jazeera]]===
[http://english.aljazeera.net/ Al Jazeera] is the first major news source to use Creative Commons. Al Jazeera built a [http://cc.aljazeera.net/ Creative Commons video repository] consisting of broadcast-quality video of the war in Gaza and made it available to anyone for use under a Creative Commons Attribution license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]). Because Al Jazeera had access to the region amidst scarcity of news footage available, the CC BY license enabled other news organizations report on the footage while crediting Al Jazeera—increasing both coverage of the war and Al Jazeera as the original news source. The International Herald Tribune states, “In a conﬂict where the Western news media have been largely prevented from reporting from Gaza because of restrictions imposed by the Israeli military, Al Jazeera has had a distinct advantage. It was already there.”

===[[Case_Studies/GOOD Magazine|GOOD Magazine]]===
GOOD Magazine is a print and web magazine focused on social issues and social entrepreneurship. Its basic business model is built on advertising. They also accept subscriptions with all subscription fees going to partner charities, incentivizing consumers to subscribe and partner charities to reach out to their communities—which ultimately produces more readers. After a six-month exclusivity window, all content is published on their site under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license (CC BY-NC).

===Others uses of CC in journalism===
*code open source journalism projects: http://www.poynter.org/news/media-innovation/389914/24-pull-requests-the-journalism-edition/
*boingboing.net
*global voices online
*Pragati - The Indian National Interest Review: http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/issues/
*http://fnewsmagazine.com/
*http://www.category5.tv/license.php
*Prism Magazine (http://prism-magazine.com/about/republishing-rights/), [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/28/prweb8993269.DTL press release]
*[http://thenewinquiry.com/ The New Inquiry] is under CC BY-NC-SA
*http://www.wikinews.org/
*http://theopenglobe.org
*http://chicagostories.org/ (CC BY-NC)
*Democracy Now!
*Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3465
* Syria Deeply: http://beta.syriadeeply.org/
* The Conversation (BY-ND): https://theconversation.com/us/republishing-guidelines

===Additional resources===
*http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/142936/why-would-anyone-pay-to-read-the-new-york-times-online/
*Data Journalism Handbook: http://www.datajournalismhandbook.org/
*Media helping media resources under CC BY-NC-SA: http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/training-resources/journalism-basics
*Journalism related posts at the CC blog: http://creativecommons.org/tag/journalism

GLAM

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

===Tate Gallery===
Tate Gallery data set under CC0: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/our-work/digital/collection-data

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===New York Public Library===
* http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps
* http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/repository-api

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===

'''Update''': The Brooklyn Museum's text and image collection are now under CC BY.

The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===MoMA===
MoMA has released its [https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection dataset] with more than 120,000 records of art works into the public domain using CC0.

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw
===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt===
* http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31853
* http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/releasing-collection-github/
* https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===York Museums Trust===
Released 60,000 images under CC BY-SA or marked with Public Domain Mark: http://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/collections/.

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

= Institutions using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain =

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

= Additional resources =
Some U.S. museum policies on open access, in order of public launch:

*Los Angeles County Museum of Art Terms of Use Agreement (see its paragraph 1a, “Public Domain High Resolution Image Available”), launched in 2011 http://www.lacma.org/about/contact-us/terms-use

*Yale University: Open Access to Digital Representations of Works in the Public Domain from Museum, Library, and Archive Collections, launched in 2011 http://ydc2.yale.edu/open-access-collections

*National Gallery of Art (US): Open Access Policy for Images of Works of Art Presumed in the Public Domain, launched in 2012 https://images.nga.gov/en/page/openaccess.html

*Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University: DAC Open Access Images Policy, launched in 2012 http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess

*The Getty Open Content Program, launched in 2013 http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

*Walters Art Museum - released over 20,000 images freely licensed in 2012; changed licensing on website http://openglam.org/2013/01/22/walters-art-museum-a-case-study-in-sharing/

Related studies and other resources:

* Simon Tanner, “Reproduction Charging Models & Rights Policy for Digital Images in American Art Museums,” August 2004; Seminal research establishes that museum image sales and licensing activities are rarely (if ever) profitable when overhead costs are taken into account http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/USMuseum_SimonTanner.pdf

* Sharing is Caring: Openness and Sharing in the Cultural Heritage Sector; Anthology of 18 essays about open content in GLAMs, by Merete Sanderhoff (contributing editor), Curator of Digital Practice at the National Gallery of Denmark http://www.sharingiscaring.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/free-download-of-artworks/sharing-is-caring/

* Europeana’s Pubic Domain Charter; Excellent document outlines the principles behind the public domain for contributors to Europe’s online cultural aggregator http://pro.europeana.eu/get-involved/europeana-tech/europeana-tech-events/the-europeana-public-domain-charter

* "The Problem with the Yellow Milkmaid"; Interviews and case studies examine the motivations and business models behind open access for cultural materials http://pro.europeana.eu/yellow-milkmaid

* Yellow Milkmaid Syndrome Tumblr; Fun way to show why this work is important http://yellowmilkmaidsyndrome dot tumblr dot com

* Creative Reuse and Digital Collections http://digitalnz.org/blog/posts/creative-reuse-and-digital-collections

* References and Quotes regarding Public Domain and Image Sales and Licensing Activities in Museums; From the Smithsonian’s Web and New Media Strategy wiki, a page that lists over 20 useful resources, with quotes and links http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Public+Domain+and+Image+Sales+References

* Creative Commons and Cultural Heritage Institutions includes examples of GLAM institutions and how they leverage our licenses and public domain tools; http://www.slideshare.net/janeatcc/cc-cultural-heritage

* Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open GLAM initiative; OpenGLAM is an initiative run by the Open Knowledge Foundation that promotes free and open access to digital cultural heritage held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. http://openglam.org/ Twitter: @openglam and #openglam Subscribe to the OpenGLAM mailing list: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-glam

* OpenGLAM Principles; 6 principles to be championed by “open” institutions, developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation and community volunteers http://openglam.org/principles/

* Wikipedia “GLAM-WIKI” conference, April 10-12, 2015, in The Hague, NL; https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015

* GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

* GLAM WikiProject on GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAM

= In the news =
* NYTimes Nov 2015 coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/arts/design/new-online-openness-lets-museums-share-works-with-the-world.html?_r=0

Metrics

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= This page is out of date. Please see [https://stateof.creativecommons.org/ State of the Commons] for latest data.=

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[[Category:Metrics]]
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'''[[#Numbers Explanation|Approximate Minimum Total CC Licensed Works]]''' as of December 2010: 400+ million

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Also see the noisier [[Media:Metrics_Updated_Monthly.png|monthly version]] and the source spreadsheet [[Media:CC-growth-mix.ods|(ods)]], [[Media:CC-growth-mix.xls|(xls)]].
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The [[Metrics]] Portal is about gathering, processing and visualizing metrics about Creative Commons' related projects, with particular emphasis on the adoption and usage of Creative Commons licenses internationally. Join us!

The best place to communicate on this is through the [http://creativecommons.org/contact cc-community mailing list for general discussion, cc-devel for technical discussion, and the #cc chat channel on irc.freenode.net]. If really deep into this, please consider joining into the [[Research|commons-research community]]. Join in the fun!

== 2012-13 CC Metrics agenda ==
A draft of the 2012-13 CC research agenda that in part relates to metrics can be viewed [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Research here]. Input and suggestions welcome!

== CC Monitor Project ==

This is the home of the CC-Monitor online platform, which contains automatically collected data, graphs, research and collectively written commentary on the global adoption of Creative Commons licenses. It is our hope that this will become a valuable online resource for the Creative Commons community, for researchers, the press, and other third parties. We will invite many more experts on CC and all things 'open' to contribute to this [www.pittsburghcourtreporting.com resource] in due time. Click on any of the links below to access statistical information, original research and commentary on the adoption of Creative Commons around the world.

[http://monitor.creativecommons.org See the Site]

==Research and Presentations==
[[Image:Juris-Ranking-Comparison_WebVersion.jpg|400px]]
Chart of Global CC adoption and licensing permissiveness. ''Courtesy the Participatory Media Lab -- more visualizations available [http://pml.wikidot.com/visualizations here] and an explanation of this chart [http://pml.wikidot.com/visualizations#toc5 here].''

Giorgos Cheliotis and the researchers at the Participatory Media Lab based at Singapore Management Univerity have been tracking and analyzing the development of Creative Commons worldwide. His 2007 TRPC paper "Taking Stock of the Creative Commons Experiment," is available [http://web.si.umich.edu/tprc/papers/2007/805/CreateCommExp.pdf here]. The Lab's [http://pml.wikidot.com/ research wiki] is a great resource for some of the latest research on CC adoption. Further slides:
*http://www.slideshare.net/gcheliotis/assessing-cc-adoption-in-asia-manila (2009)

Mike Linksvayer, VP of Creative Commons, has also given a few presentations in the past on the analysis and development of metrics for measuring the progress of CC licensing:
*http://www.slideshare.net/mlinksva/cci-legal-day-metrics-update-2008-07-29
*http://www.slideshare.net/mlinksva/acia-2008-toward-useful-creative-commons-adoption-metrics
*http://www.slideshare.net/mlinksva/creative-commons-metrics/ (2007)

The [[First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture]] held in August, 2008 featured several metrics-related presentations.

Others on [[Metrics/License statistics#Flickr data|Flickr data]].

==Aggregate web pages licensed==

[[License statistics]] has basic information about linkback/page/search-engine-query-based license adoption statistics, as well as the '''code''' used to gather this data and '''dumps''' of the data itself.

==Site-specific metrics==

[[Content Directories]] lists licensed works counts for many sites that collect CC-licensed works, e.g., about 100 million at Flickr.

Counts for selected top sites over time may be found on the [[license statistics]] page.

Eventually code above should be expanded to collect this and finer-grained information (e.g., per site license breakdown) from these sites. See [[Site CC Portal and Metrics]] for information on how your site can help.

==Other quantitative metrics==
* creativecommons.org traffic:
** [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=creativecommons.org&site1=&site2=&site3=&site4=&y=t&z=1&h=300&w=610&range=max&size=Medium&url=creativecommons.org Alexa]
** [http://snapshot.compete.com/creativecommons.org Compete]
** [http://www.quantcast.com/creativecommons.org Quantcast]
** [http://trends.google.com/websites?q=creativecommons.org&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 Google Trends] (also see [http://trends.google.com/trends?q=creative+commons&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 Google Trends on "creative commons" keyword searches])
* Number of journals, publishers (e.g., PLoS)
* Feature [[Films|films]] that have been released in theaters.
* Universities?
* Press agencies?
* '''Add ideas and methodology for collecting metrics here.'''

*CC web server logs:
** Historical data on license choices at the [http://creativecommons.org/license/ "License your work"] CC license chooser
** Indications based on referrers to our image icons to see if people change the license on web pages or other licensed documents
** Indications based on image icon loading frequency as to which licenses are used by content widely seen by users
** Analysis of search.creativecommons.org logs to see what sorts of licenses and items people search for - and if that has changed over time
** Analysis of license deeds to see if deed information affects choices in /license/
** Geographic sub-analysis of the above
** Code to reproducibly and consistently generate the above statistics.
[http://labs.creativecommons.org/category/metrics/ Follow updates on ccLabs.]

==Qualitative metrics==

* [[Case_Studies|Case Studies]]
* Awards Received (grammys, oscars, etc)
* "bestsellers" for some definition of best-seller from [[Books]]
* '''Add ideas here...'''

== Data ==

''Creative Commons Data''

* [[License statistics#Raw_search_engine_query_data|Queries against search engines for linkbacks to our licenses]]
* Site specific license counts
* Scrubbed Creative Commons Apache logs (eventually)

''Other Datasets''

* '''Any other data sets? Add them here...'''

== Tools ==

* [[License_statistics#Software|ccTools used for license statistic gathering]]
* '''Add your tools here!'''

== Numbers Explanation ==

The '''Approximate Minimum Total CC Licensed Works''' is based on licenses reported by Yahoo search queries and [http://flickr.com/creativecommons Flickr] and is the minimum number of licensed works across all licenses (Flickr numbers are used for the 6 main 2.0 licenses -- which are all that Flickr supports -- since we know at least those exist). See the [http://code.creativecommons.org/viewsvn/stats/reports/nightly_ml_calculator.py estimation code], [http://labs.creativecommons.org/metrics/ml-minimum-estimate/ estimates], and [[Metrics/License_statistics|data]].

GLAM

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

===Tate Gallery===
Tate Gallery data set under CC0: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/our-work/digital/collection-data

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===New York Public Library===
* http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps
* http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/repository-api

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===

'''Update''': The Brooklyn Museum's text and image collection are now under CC BY.

The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===MoMA===
MoMA has released its [https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection dataset] with more than 120,000 records of art works into the public domain using CC0.

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw
===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt===
* http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31853
* http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/releasing-collection-github/
* https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===York Museums Trust===
Released 60,000 images under CC BY-SA or marked with Public Domain Mark: http://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/collections/.

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

= Institutions using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain =

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

= Additional resources =
Some U.S. museum policies on open access, in order of public launch:

*Los Angeles County Museum of Art Terms of Use Agreement (see its paragraph 1a, “Public Domain High Resolution Image Available”), launched in 2011 http://www.lacma.org/about/contact-us/terms-use

*Yale University: Open Access to Digital Representations of Works in the Public Domain from Museum, Library, and Archive Collections, launched in 2011 http://ydc2.yale.edu/open-access-collections

*National Gallery of Art (US): Open Access Policy for Images of Works of Art Presumed in the Public Domain, launched in 2012 https://images.nga.gov/en/page/openaccess.html

*Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University: DAC Open Access Images Policy, launched in 2012 http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess

*The Getty Open Content Program, launched in 2013 http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

*Walters Art Museum - released over 20,000 images freely licensed in 2012; changed licensing on website http://openglam.org/2013/01/22/walters-art-museum-a-case-study-in-sharing/

Related studies and other resources:

* Simon Tanner, “Reproduction Charging Models & Rights Policy for Digital Images in American Art Museums,” August 2004; Seminal research establishes that museum image sales and licensing activities are rarely (if ever) profitable when overhead costs are taken into account http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/USMuseum_SimonTanner.pdf

* Sharing is Caring: Openness and Sharing in the Cultural Heritage Sector; Anthology of 18 essays about open content in GLAMs, by Merete Sanderhoff (contributing editor), Curator of Digital Practice at the National Gallery of Denmark http://www.sharingiscaring.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/free-download-of-artworks/sharing-is-caring/

* Europeana’s Pubic Domain Charter; Excellent document outlines the principles behind the public domain for contributors to Europe’s online cultural aggregator http://pro.europeana.eu/get-involved/europeana-tech/europeana-tech-events/the-europeana-public-domain-charter

* "The Problem with the Yellow Milkmaid"; Interviews and case studies examine the motivations and business models behind open access for cultural materials http://pro.europeana.eu/yellow-milkmaid

* Yellow Milkmaid Syndrome Tumblr; Fun way to show why this work is important http://yellowmilkmaidsyndrome dot tumblr dot com

* Creative Reuse and Digital Collections http://digitalnz.org/blog/posts/creative-reuse-and-digital-collections

* References and Quotes regarding Public Domain and Image Sales and Licensing Activities in Museums; From the Smithsonian’s Web and New Media Strategy wiki, a page that lists over 20 useful resources, with quotes and links http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Public+Domain+and+Image+Sales+References

* Creative Commons and Cultural Heritage Institutions includes examples of GLAM institutions and how they leverage our licenses and public domain tools; http://www.slideshare.net/janeatcc/cc-cultural-heritage

* Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open GLAM initiative; OpenGLAM is an initiative run by the Open Knowledge Foundation that promotes free and open access to digital cultural heritage held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. http://openglam.org/ Twitter: @openglam and #openglam Subscribe to the OpenGLAM mailing list: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-glam

* OpenGLAM Principles; 6 principles to be championed by “open” institutions, developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation and community volunteers http://openglam.org/principles/

* Wikipedia “GLAM-WIKI” conference, April 10-12, 2015, in The Hague, NL; https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015

* GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

* GLAM WikiProject on GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAM

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

===Tate Gallery===
Tate Gallery data set under CC0: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/our-work/digital/collection-data

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===New York Public Library===
* http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps
* http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/repository-api

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===

'''Update''': The Brooklyn Museum's text and image collection are now under CC BY.

The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===MoMA===
MoMA has released its [https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection dataset] with more than 120,000 records of art works into the public domain using CC0.

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw
===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt===
* http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31853
* http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/releasing-collection-github/
* https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

= Institutions using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain =

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

= Additional resources =
Some U.S. museum policies on open access, in order of public launch:

*Los Angeles County Museum of Art Terms of Use Agreement (see its paragraph 1a, “Public Domain High Resolution Image Available”), launched in 2011 http://www.lacma.org/about/contact-us/terms-use

*Yale University: Open Access to Digital Representations of Works in the Public Domain from Museum, Library, and Archive Collections, launched in 2011 http://ydc2.yale.edu/open-access-collections

*National Gallery of Art (US): Open Access Policy for Images of Works of Art Presumed in the Public Domain, launched in 2012 https://images.nga.gov/en/page/openaccess.html

*Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University: DAC Open Access Images Policy, launched in 2012 http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess

*The Getty Open Content Program, launched in 2013 http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

*Walters Art Museum - released over 20,000 images freely licensed in 2012; changed licensing on website http://openglam.org/2013/01/22/walters-art-museum-a-case-study-in-sharing/

Related studies and other resources:

* Simon Tanner, “Reproduction Charging Models & Rights Policy for Digital Images in American Art Museums,” August 2004; Seminal research establishes that museum image sales and licensing activities are rarely (if ever) profitable when overhead costs are taken into account http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/USMuseum_SimonTanner.pdf

* Sharing is Caring: Openness and Sharing in the Cultural Heritage Sector; Anthology of 18 essays about open content in GLAMs, by Merete Sanderhoff (contributing editor), Curator of Digital Practice at the National Gallery of Denmark http://www.sharingiscaring.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/free-download-of-artworks/sharing-is-caring/

* Europeana’s Pubic Domain Charter; Excellent document outlines the principles behind the public domain for contributors to Europe’s online cultural aggregator http://pro.europeana.eu/get-involved/europeana-tech/europeana-tech-events/the-europeana-public-domain-charter

* "The Problem with the Yellow Milkmaid"; Interviews and case studies examine the motivations and business models behind open access for cultural materials http://pro.europeana.eu/yellow-milkmaid

* Yellow Milkmaid Syndrome Tumblr; Fun way to show why this work is important http://yellowmilkmaidsyndrome dot tumblr dot com

* Creative Reuse and Digital Collections http://digitalnz.org/blog/posts/creative-reuse-and-digital-collections

* References and Quotes regarding Public Domain and Image Sales and Licensing Activities in Museums; From the Smithsonian’s Web and New Media Strategy wiki, a page that lists over 20 useful resources, with quotes and links http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Public+Domain+and+Image+Sales+References

* Creative Commons and Cultural Heritage Institutions includes examples of GLAM institutions and how they leverage our licenses and public domain tools; http://www.slideshare.net/janeatcc/cc-cultural-heritage

* Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open GLAM initiative; OpenGLAM is an initiative run by the Open Knowledge Foundation that promotes free and open access to digital cultural heritage held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. http://openglam.org/ Twitter: @openglam and #openglam Subscribe to the OpenGLAM mailing list: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-glam

* OpenGLAM Principles; 6 principles to be championed by “open” institutions, developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation and community volunteers http://openglam.org/principles/

* Wikipedia “GLAM-WIKI” conference, April 10-12, 2015, in The Hague, NL; https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015

* GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

* GLAM WikiProject on GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAM

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===New York Public Library===
* http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps
* http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/repository-api

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===

'''Update''': The Brooklyn Museum's text and image collection are now under CC BY.

The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===MoMA===
MoMA has released its [https://github.com/MuseumofModernArt/collection dataset] with more than 120,000 records of art works into the public domain using CC0.

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw
===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt===
* http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31853
* http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/releasing-collection-github/
* https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

= Institutions using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain =

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

= Additional resources =
Some U.S. museum policies on open access, in order of public launch:

*Los Angeles County Museum of Art Terms of Use Agreement (see its paragraph 1a, “Public Domain High Resolution Image Available”), launched in 2011 http://www.lacma.org/about/contact-us/terms-use

*Yale University: Open Access to Digital Representations of Works in the Public Domain from Museum, Library, and Archive Collections, launched in 2011 http://ydc2.yale.edu/open-access-collections

*National Gallery of Art (US): Open Access Policy for Images of Works of Art Presumed in the Public Domain, launched in 2012 https://images.nga.gov/en/page/openaccess.html

*Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University: DAC Open Access Images Policy, launched in 2012 http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess

*The Getty Open Content Program, launched in 2013 http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

*Walters Art Museum - released over 20,000 images freely licensed in 2012; changed licensing on website http://openglam.org/2013/01/22/walters-art-museum-a-case-study-in-sharing/

Related studies and other resources:

* Simon Tanner, “Reproduction Charging Models & Rights Policy for Digital Images in American Art Museums,” August 2004; Seminal research establishes that museum image sales and licensing activities are rarely (if ever) profitable when overhead costs are taken into account http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/USMuseum_SimonTanner.pdf

* Sharing is Caring: Openness and Sharing in the Cultural Heritage Sector; Anthology of 18 essays about open content in GLAMs, by Merete Sanderhoff (contributing editor), Curator of Digital Practice at the National Gallery of Denmark http://www.sharingiscaring.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/free-download-of-artworks/sharing-is-caring/

* Europeana’s Pubic Domain Charter; Excellent document outlines the principles behind the public domain for contributors to Europe’s online cultural aggregator http://pro.europeana.eu/get-involved/europeana-tech/europeana-tech-events/the-europeana-public-domain-charter

* "The Problem with the Yellow Milkmaid"; Interviews and case studies examine the motivations and business models behind open access for cultural materials http://pro.europeana.eu/yellow-milkmaid

* Yellow Milkmaid Syndrome Tumblr; Fun way to show why this work is important http://yellowmilkmaidsyndrome dot tumblr dot com

* Creative Reuse and Digital Collections http://digitalnz.org/blog/posts/creative-reuse-and-digital-collections

* References and Quotes regarding Public Domain and Image Sales and Licensing Activities in Museums; From the Smithsonian’s Web and New Media Strategy wiki, a page that lists over 20 useful resources, with quotes and links http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Public+Domain+and+Image+Sales+References

* Creative Commons and Cultural Heritage Institutions includes examples of GLAM institutions and how they leverage our licenses and public domain tools; http://www.slideshare.net/janeatcc/cc-cultural-heritage

* Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open GLAM initiative; OpenGLAM is an initiative run by the Open Knowledge Foundation that promotes free and open access to digital cultural heritage held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. http://openglam.org/ Twitter: @openglam and #openglam Subscribe to the OpenGLAM mailing list: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-glam

* OpenGLAM Principles; 6 principles to be championed by “open” institutions, developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation and community volunteers http://openglam.org/principles/

* Wikipedia “GLAM-WIKI” conference, April 10-12, 2015, in The Hague, NL; https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015

* GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

* GLAM WikiProject on GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAM

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CCID-jane: /* institutions that are using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain */

Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===New York Public Library===
* http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps
* http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/repository-api

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===

'''Update''': The Brooklyn Museum's text and image collection are now under CC BY.

The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw
===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt===
* http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31853
* http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/releasing-collection-github/
* https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

= Institutions using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain =

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

= Additional resources =
Some U.S. museum policies on open access, in order of public launch:

*Los Angeles County Museum of Art Terms of Use Agreement (see its paragraph 1a, “Public Domain High Resolution Image Available”), launched in 2011 http://www.lacma.org/about/contact-us/terms-use

*Yale University: Open Access to Digital Representations of Works in the Public Domain from Museum, Library, and Archive Collections, launched in 2011 http://ydc2.yale.edu/open-access-collections

*National Gallery of Art (US): Open Access Policy for Images of Works of Art Presumed in the Public Domain, launched in 2012 https://images.nga.gov/en/page/openaccess.html

*Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University: DAC Open Access Images Policy, launched in 2012 http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess

*The Getty Open Content Program, launched in 2013 http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html

*Walters Art Museum - released over 20,000 images freely licensed in 2012; changed licensing on website http://openglam.org/2013/01/22/walters-art-museum-a-case-study-in-sharing/

Related studies and other resources:

* Simon Tanner, “Reproduction Charging Models & Rights Policy for Digital Images in American Art Museums,” August 2004; Seminal research establishes that museum image sales and licensing activities are rarely (if ever) profitable when overhead costs are taken into account http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/USMuseum_SimonTanner.pdf

* Sharing is Caring: Openness and Sharing in the Cultural Heritage Sector; Anthology of 18 essays about open content in GLAMs, by Merete Sanderhoff (contributing editor), Curator of Digital Practice at the National Gallery of Denmark http://www.sharingiscaring.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/free-download-of-artworks/sharing-is-caring/

* Europeana’s Pubic Domain Charter; Excellent document outlines the principles behind the public domain for contributors to Europe’s online cultural aggregator http://pro.europeana.eu/get-involved/europeana-tech/europeana-tech-events/the-europeana-public-domain-charter

* "The Problem with the Yellow Milkmaid"; Interviews and case studies examine the motivations and business models behind open access for cultural materials http://pro.europeana.eu/yellow-milkmaid

* Yellow Milkmaid Syndrome Tumblr; Fun way to show why this work is important http://yellowmilkmaidsyndrome dot tumblr dot com

* Creative Reuse and Digital Collections http://digitalnz.org/blog/posts/creative-reuse-and-digital-collections

* References and Quotes regarding Public Domain and Image Sales and Licensing Activities in Museums; From the Smithsonian’s Web and New Media Strategy wiki, a page that lists over 20 useful resources, with quotes and links http://smithsonian-webstrategy.wikispaces.com/Public+Domain+and+Image+Sales+References

* Creative Commons and Cultural Heritage Institutions includes examples of GLAM institutions and how they leverage our licenses and public domain tools; http://www.slideshare.net/janeatcc/cc-cultural-heritage

* Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open GLAM initiative; OpenGLAM is an initiative run by the Open Knowledge Foundation that promotes free and open access to digital cultural heritage held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums. http://openglam.org/ Twitter: @openglam and #openglam Subscribe to the OpenGLAM mailing list: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-glam

* OpenGLAM Principles; 6 principles to be championed by “open” institutions, developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation and community volunteers http://openglam.org/principles/

* Wikipedia “GLAM-WIKI” conference, April 10-12, 2015, in The Hague, NL; https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015

* GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

* GLAM WikiProject on GLAM Outreach Wiki; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GLAM

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Journalism

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==Emerging Journalism Models & Creative Commons==

Old models of news delivery are changing, being complemented, and even supplanted by entirely new models. Many of these new models leverage Creative Commons licenses, a simple, standardized way for authors to grant copyright permissions to their work in the digital age. Because the rights to copy, distribute, or adapt content are pre-cleared, news is more rapidly and widely disseminated, allowing innovative business models to emerge that rely on free and legal sharing and reuse.

Two examples of non-profit journalism ventures funded by foundations and/or other sponsors are Propublica and the Huffington Post Investigative Fund.

===[[Case_Studies/Propublica|Propublica]]===
Led by Paul Steiger, the former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, [http://www.propublica.org/ Propublica] is an independent 32-person newsroom producing investigative journalism. Propublica encourages others to "steal"[1] its stories; it encourages other sites to reproduce their stories as long as they are credited and linked to under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND]). Propublica also gives certain stories first to major news outlets, such as the New York Times and CNN, in order to maximize their impact. After a window of exclusivity, which can be anywhere from seconds to hours after the original publication depending on the agreement, these stories are also published on the Propublica site under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND].

===[[Case_Studies/Huffington Post Investigative Fund|Huffington Post Investigative Fund]]===
The [http://huffpostfund.org/ Huffington Post Investigative Fund] is a professional newsroom that produces watchdog journalism and is staffed by reporters and editors from a variety of news organizations, such as the Washington Post, Business Week, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and more. It's a destination site with all news published under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ CC BY-ND]).

An example of an advertising-supported citizen journalism platform that shares revenue with reporters is Groundreport.

===[[Case_Studies/Groundreport|Groundreport]]===
[http://www.groundreport.com/ Groundreport] covers global news. It has over 5,000 contributors, citizen journalists from all around the world with various levels of experience, who submit articles, photos, and videos of news events, which are vetted by a staff of editors. Groundreport publishes stories on its site and through syndication partners such as Google News, the Huffington Post, and YouTube; and shares 50% of its advertising revenue with its contributors, based on unique traffic to posts. Reporters retain rights to their work and can choose which Creative Commons license to publish under.

An example of community-funded reporting is Spot.us.

===[[Case_Studies/Spot.us|Spot.us]]===
[http://spot.us/ Spot.us] covers local news, and is currently focused on the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. Any member of the public can commission and fund journalists to report a story. Contributions are tax deductible and about 10% usually goes to Spot.us, while the remaining 90% goes to the reporter. If a news organization buys exclusive rights to the story, donations are reimbursed and the news organization gains first publishing rights; it is up to the organization whether they wish to publish the story under default copyright or a Creative Commons license. Otherwise, all content is made available through a Creative Commons Attribution Only license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]), enabling any news organization to republish the story.

For instance, a Spot.us story, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/science/10patch.html Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash]" by Lindsey Hoshaw, was featured in the Science section of the New York Times on November 9, 2009. Freelancer, Lindsey Hoshaw used Spot.us to raise $6,000 from 116 donors to pay for reporting about pollution patches in the Pacific Ocean. The New York Times bought the story and Hoshaw's photos. Spot.us and Hoshaw kept the fees and funders were paid back. In this case, the story is available on the New York Times website under default copyright.

There are also new twists on older models. These include Al Jazeera, GOOD Magazine, and Creative Commons' Student Journalism 2.0.

===[[Case_Studies/Al_Jazeera|Al Jazeera]]===
[http://english.aljazeera.net/ Al Jazeera] is the first major news source to use Creative Commons. Al Jazeera built a [http://cc.aljazeera.net/ Creative Commons video repository] consisting of broadcast-quality video of the war in Gaza and made it available to anyone for use under a Creative Commons Attribution license ([http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]). Because Al Jazeera had access to the region amidst scarcity of news footage available, the CC BY license enabled other news organizations report on the footage while crediting Al Jazeera—increasing both coverage of the war and Al Jazeera as the original news source. The International Herald Tribune states, “In a conﬂict where the Western news media have been largely prevented from reporting from Gaza because of restrictions imposed by the Israeli military, Al Jazeera has had a distinct advantage. It was already there.”

===[[Case_Studies/GOOD Magazine|GOOD Magazine]]===
GOOD Magazine is a print and web magazine focused on social issues and social entrepreneurship. Its basic business model is built on advertising. They also accept subscriptions with all subscription fees going to partner charities, incentivizing consumers to subscribe and partner charities to reach out to their communities—which ultimately produces more readers. After a six-month exclusivity window, all content is published on their site under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license (CC BY-NC).

===Others uses of CC in journalism===
*boingboing.net
*global voices online
*Pragati - The Indian National Interest Review: http://pragati.nationalinterest.in/issues/
*http://fnewsmagazine.com/
*http://www.category5.tv/license.php
*Prism Magazine (http://prism-magazine.com/about/republishing-rights/), [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/11/28/prweb8993269.DTL press release]
*[http://thenewinquiry.com/ The New Inquiry] is under CC BY-NC-SA
*http://www.wikinews.org/
*http://theopenglobe.org
*http://chicagostories.org/ (CC BY-NC)
*Democracy Now!
*Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3465
* Syria Deeply: http://beta.syriadeeply.org/
* The Conversation (BY-ND): https://theconversation.com/us/republishing-guidelines

===Additional resources===
*http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/142936/why-would-anyone-pay-to-read-the-new-york-times-online/
*Data Journalism Handbook: http://www.datajournalismhandbook.org/
*Media helping media resources under CC BY-NC-SA: http://www.mediahelpingmedia.org/training-resources/journalism-basics
*Journalism related posts at the CC blog: http://creativecommons.org/tag/journalism

Photography

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The internet and technology have changed how people access images, and photographers are responding by employing new methods to reach audiences. These methods include personal websites, social media tools, photo-sharing platforms and communities, and tools such as Creative Commons licenses that enable easy sharing and reuse of creative works.

CC licenses are a flexible way to share images while building on the strong foundation of traditional copyright law. Simply put, Creative Commons licenses allow the shift from “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved,” enabling you to share your images under terms of your own choosing. This gives you control over distribution, and the non-exclusivity of the licenses means you can retain all commercial rights if desired.

[[#Photographers_using_CC_licenses|Photographers using CC licenses]] gain new audiences for their work on photo-sharing platforms like [http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons Flickr] and communities like [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]. Mohamed Nanabhay, Head of Online, Al Jazeera English, [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18213 writes]:
:“When launching our [CC] repository, we had thought that it would be a key resource for anyone producing content on the war and that it would primarily be used by other news organisations and documentary filmmakers. What we saw was both surprising and delightful. Soon after posting our first video, Wikipedia editors had extracted images to enhance the encyclopedia entries on the War on Gaza. Soon thereafter educators, filmmakers, video game developers, aid agencies and music video producers all used and built upon our footage.”

Wikipedia is a heavily-trafficked website with over 400 million unique visitors a month. Flickr contains over 200 million CC-licensed photos, establishing it as the Web’s single largest source of CC-licensed content.

In 2008, DigitalPhotoPro published an [http://www.digitalphotopro.com/business/creative-commons.html article on the use of CC licenses by professional photographers] with advice for those thinking of using CC themselves.

==Photographers using CC licenses==

===[[The_Power_of_Open/Text#Jonathan_Worth|Jonathan Worth]]===
:“Creative Commons enables me to use existing architecture really smoothly and to address the digital natives’ social media habits. The mode of information is the same, but the mode of distribution has changed. We don’t have all the answers, but CC lets me choose my ﬂavor and helps me take advantage of the things working against me.”

British photographer Jonathan Worth’s work hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. He teaches photography at Coventry University in the U.K, and [http://www.phonar.covmedia.co.uk/ his course materials] are released as open educational resources (OER) under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA]. He has photographed actors Colin Firth, Rachel Hunter, Jude Law and Heath Ledger. He is also one of an emerging group of photographers experimenting with sustainable working practices for professional image makers in the digital age. Jonathan Worth has been featured in:
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8623680/How-the-Power-of-Open-can-benefit-photographers.html The Telegraph] - How the Power of Open can benefit photographers
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13961051 BBC News] - "Photographer Jonathan Worth explained that Creative Commons allowed him to sell his work for commercial use while still giving it free to individuals who wanted it for other reasons."
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-20495489 BBC News] - "Photography and open education"
*[http://thepowerofopen.org/ The Power of Open] - Stories of creators sharing knowledge, art, & data using Creative Commons

===[[Case_Studies/Lan_Bui|Lan Bui]]===
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Lan Bui "makes media." From photography of tech celebrities (Veronica Belmont, Zadi Diaz, Casey McKinnon) and The Ninja to videos for professionals and events (Comic Con and Pixelodeon), Lan (with help from his brother Vu) makes them all from start to finish. Lan echoes the thoughts of other artists using Creative Commons; the idea that your work is, in a way, an advertisement for yourself and future work. Lan expresses this in this way: "I think that people pay me for my time and talent, not for the actual images I deliver."
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===MacArthur Fellows===
Photos and video pertaining to the MacArthur Fellows by the MacArthur Foundation is [http://www.macfound.org/creative-commons/ licensed CC BY].

===[[Case_Studies/Monkeyc.net|Monkeyc.net]]===
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Monkeyc.net is the moniker of John Harvey, a Brisbane-based former photojournalist who licenses his Flickr photo stream under Creative Commons. John is an active member of the Flickr community, having first uploaded a photo on 26 September 2004 and now sporting a collection of close to 1,000 images, and encourages others to engage likewise. Several of John’s photographs have been featured on Flickr’s ‘Explore’ page, as an indication of their popularity in the Flickr community.
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===Vinoth Chandar===
Vinoth Chandar is a professional photographer who releases many of his photographs under the [[Creative Commons Attribution]] licence, saying that "I use [the] Attribution Creative Commons licence for all my photos because I want everybody to use my photo and credit me ... This way, my photos reach every corner of the world without any effort from my side except taking the photos and uploading it to Flickr."<ref>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-12/16/creative-commons-gallery</ref>

One example he used of the exposure provided by free culture licensing was the use of one of his photos for the cover of a popular Italian magazine. "I am an Indian and how else in the world can an Indian photographer expect his photo to be published in an Italian magazine? CC licence made this possible."<ref>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-12/16/creative-commons-gallery</ref>

==Enforceability of CC licenses in photography==
CC licenses have been upheld in several [[Case_Law|court cases]] around the world. A few of these cases pertain specifically to CC-licensed images.

*In [[Curry_v._Audax |Curry v. Audax]], Adam Curry, a former MTV VJ and one of the pioneers of podcasting, published photos onto his Flickr account under a BY-NC-SA license. A Dutch tabloid reprinted four of the photos in a story about the Curry family's public persona verses real private life. Curry sued the tabloid for violating the portrait rights of his family and for copyright violation over the improper user of his Flickr photos. The Dutch court held that, in the future, the tabloid could not use any of the photos from Flickr in the future unless under the terms of the photos' CC license or with permission from Curry.
*In [[Gerlach_vs._DVU|Gerlach vs. DVU]], Gerlach took a picture of the German politician Thilo Sarrazin at a public event and published it online under the Creative Commons license BY SA 3.0 Unported. Later the DVU, a German political party used the picture on their website without the plaintiff's name, the license notice or any other requirement of the license. The applicant sent a notice and takedown letter to which the party didn't react. Subsequently the applicant sought preliminary injunction before the Disctrict Court of Berlin against the unauthorized publication of the picture. The District Court of Berlin granted the injunction because the applicant had successfully established prima-facie evidence of authorship, of the licensing and of the breach of the license.
*In [[TA_3560/09,_3561/09,_Avi_Re%27uveni_v._Mapa_inc._%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C:_%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94,_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%94%D7%9E%22%D7%A9_%D7%90%D7%9B%D7%A3_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A1 |Avi Re’uveni v. Mapa inc.]], plaintiffs uploaded photographs to Flickr and and offered them under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. The defendant made a collage from the plaintiffs’ and other photographs and sold them without attribution. The court found the defendant guilty of copyright infringement. The defendant claimed ignorance of the copyright and license, but the court found that this did not matter.

==Photo-sharing sites that have enabled CC licenses==

===[[Case_Studies/Flickr|Flickr]]===
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Flickr was one of the first major online communities to incorporate Creative Commons licensing options into its user interface, giving photographers around the world the easy ability to share photos on terms of their choosing. As the Flickr community grew, so did the number of CC-licensed images — currently there are well over 200 million on the site — establishing Flickr as the Web’s single largest source of CC-licensed content.
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===[[Case_Studies/DeviantART|DeviantART]]===
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deviantART is an online community dedicated to showcasing art as prints, videos and literature. CC license options are built into deviantArt's UI, allowing users to set the permissions they want their works to carry. Naturally, different users choose different options for their works, including All Rights Reserved.
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===[http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22882 Fotopedia]===
Fotopedia is a breathtaking application for the iPhone and iPad. The app builds on the concept of a coffee table book, updating and enhancing the browsing experience for the web. This project is possible thanks to Creative Commons, as over 18,000 of the pictures in Fotopedia Heritage book are under one of the CC licenses. The pictures come from all around the world; as individual photographers and organizations license their high quality photos under Creative Commons, the book will only grow as a community contributed and shareable resource.

===[[Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_'Click_and_Flick'|National Library of Australia: 'Click and Flick']]===
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'Click and Flick' is a National Library of Australia (NLA) initiative to open their online pictorial gateway, PictureAustralia, to contributions from the Australian public. PictureAustralia encourages people to make their material available on the archive under the CC licenses, as part of two dedicated Flickr image pools: ‘PictureAustralia: Ourtown’ and ‘PictureAustralia: People, Places and Events’.
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===[[Case_Studies/Newsbank_Image|Newsbank Image]]===
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Newsbank Image is one of South Korea's largest and most comprehensive photo-archives. The photograph archive website provides images produced by Media companies, photographers as well as web-friendly versions containing watermarks, original images, all which maintain the marking of original creators. Users can choose to upload their photos under CC licenses.
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===[[Case_Studies/Culture.si|Culture.si]]===
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A comprehensive online guide to Slovene culture, Culture.si covers contemporary art, culture, and heritage in Slovenia. Over 2,300 articles in English and the fastest growing independent free image bank (currently over 1,500 images) are offered for reuse under Creative Commons licenses.
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==How To Publish photos in an online community==
One way to increase visibility and access to your photos is to share it with an existing community that has enabled CC licensing, making it easy for you to indicate the license along with other information, such as who to attribute. In addition, search engines like Google and Yahoo! will index your work as CC licensed if the metadata is properly attached. See [[Publish/Images]] for more info.

==Finding CC-licensed photos==
Thanks to the machine-readability of CC licenses, CC-licensed images can be found via:

*[http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en Google Advanced Image Search] by specifying options under "Usage Rights"
*[http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/advanced?ei=UTF-8 Yahoo! Advanced Image Search] by specifying options under "Creative Commons License"
*It appears that Yahoo Advanced Image Search no longer offers this option. Can anyone else confirm this?
*[http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=179622 Google Docs], where Google Image Search has been integrated
*[http://search.creativecommons.org/ CC Search Portal], which is not a search engine, but a tool that offers convenient access to search services provided by independent organizations, such as Flickr, Google, and Wikimedia Commons (media repository for articles featured on Wikipedia).

==Related resources==
*[[Journalism|CC in Journalism]]
*[[CC_Factsheet|CC Factsheet]]

==References==
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GLAM

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===New York Public Library===
* http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps
* http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/repository-api

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===

'''Update''': The Brooklyn Museum's text and image collection are now under CC BY.

The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw
===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt===
* http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31853
* http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/releasing-collection-github/
* https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

== institutions that are using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain ==

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===New York Public Library===
* http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps
* http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/repository-api

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===
The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw
===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt===
* http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31853
* http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2012/releasing-collection-github/
* https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

== institutions that are using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain ==

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===New York Public Library===
* http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps
* http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/legal-notices/repository-api

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===
The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

== institutions that are using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain ==

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

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CCID-jane: /* Libraries */

Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===New York Public Library===
* http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===
The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

== institutions that are using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain ==

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

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CCID-jane: /* Libraries */

Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===Harvard Library===
* http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/
* http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373
* http://librarycloud.harvard.edu/v1/docs/faq/

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===
The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

== institutions that are using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain ==

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

GLAM

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CCID-jane: /* National Historical Museum, Sweden */

Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===
The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
Also known as the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license in early 2010 - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===Te Papa Tongarewa: The Museum of New Zealand===
[http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections/ Te Papa has released] 30,000 high resolution images under either 'no known copyright' or CC-BY-NC-ND licences.

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

== institutions that are using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain ==

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

OER Case Studies/United States

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CCID-jane: /* Higher Education */

Key U.S. Open Education Resources (OER) projects in K-12, Higher Education, and the corporate sector. This is not a comprehensive list of U.S. or [[OER_Case_Studies|global OER projects]].

'''OER Definition''': OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

=K-12 and Higher Education=

===[http://phet.colorado.edu PhET Interactive Simulations] ===
*Overview: 113 interactive, research-based and user-tested simulations for teaching science and math. The simulations are openly licensed with Creative Commons Attribution and the Creative Commons GNU General Public License. Over 25 million simulations run per year; 60 million simulations run to date. Ranked top site on search of 'science simulation' on Google out of 161 million sites (1st on Yahoo & Bing). Translated into 66 languages. Peak usage during K-12 school hours. Used in all 50 states, and by hundreds of universities. 30 published articles about use and impact in education. Demonstrated improvement in learning across multiple topics.
*Cost savings for teachers and schools: K-12 and college teachers can use PhET OER simulations instead of purchasing high-cost, lower-quality simulations from commercial company.
*Cost savings for commercial and non-commercial companies: PhET simulations are being used by numerous commercial and non-commercial companies and organizations for free, including Pearson, Plato Learning, Compass Learning, McGraw-Hill, and many more.
*Open niche: High-quality science and math simulations providing flexible use that transforms the way science is taught and learned across K-16 levels.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ CC BY]; see their [http://phet.colorado.edu/en/about/licensing licensing policy]

===[http://cnx.org/ Connexions]===
*Overview: high quality OER repository with ~20,000 openly licensed content modules.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers can use Connexions OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: online platform so teachers can build customized lessons by combining OER modules in unique ways.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://cnx.org/aboutus/faq#Licenses licensing policy]

===[http://oercommons.org/ OER Commons]===
*Overview: high quality OER referatory with 31,000+ openly licensed content modules from more than 530 content providers.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers and professors can use OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: Resources are user-evaluated by Achieve OER Quality rubrics, user aligned to Common Core State Standards, rated and shared. OER workshops and trainings: train over 1,500 teachers per year on: introduction to OER, open licensing, collaborative content creation and remixing OER.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] for OER Commons; see their [http://www.oercommons.org/help#conditions-of-use conditions of use] for licenses on resources in OER Commons

===[http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy]===
*Overview: A library of over 2,700 videos covering multiple academic topics and 276 practice exercises. All are openly licensed and available for free online.
*Cost savings: Free lessons for many academic topics.
*Open niche: Conversational, short modules that are engaging. Math gaming overlay that awards learners points and badges as learners progress.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ CC BY-NC-SA]

=K-12=
===[http://utahopentextbooks.org/ Utah Open Textbook project] ===
*Overview: Seven public high school science teachers and 1200 students in Utah used adapted openly licensed CK-12 textbooks in their classrooms last year. Student test scores were compared to the control group (traditional textbooks) and cost savings were measured. Conclusion? Simply substituting open textbooks for proprietary textbooks did not impact learning outcomes. 22 students and 2700 students are participating this year. The Utah State Office of Education recently announced that they are encouraging all 6-12 language arts, math, and science teachers to adopt open textbooks starting fall 2012.
*Cost savings: print on demand for the adapted CK-12 textbooks cost the school district just $4.25 per book (including shipping) compared to typical $80 textbooks.
*Open niche: project has proven, with data, open textbooks can both save significant money and be high quality.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; license of original CK-12 material

===[http://www.openhighschool.org/ Open High School of Utah] ===
*Overview: Seven public high school science teachers and 1200 students in Utah used adapted openly licensed CK-12 textbooks in their classrooms last year. Student test scores were compared to the control group (traditional textbooks) and cost savings were measured. Conclusion? Simply substituting open textbooks for proprietary textbooks did not impact learning outcomes. 22 students and 2700 students are participating this year. The Utah State Office of Education recently announced that they are encouraging all 6-12 language arts, math, and science teachers to adopt open textbooks starting fall 2012.
*Cost savings: print on demand for the adapted CK-12 textbooks cost the school district just $4.25 per book (including shipping) compared to typical $80 textbooks.
*Open niche: project has proven, with data, open textbooks can both save significant money and be high quality.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://www.openhighschool.org/opencourseware/ licensing policy]

===[http://curriki.org Curriki] ===
*Overview: 40,000 K-12 openly licensed educational resources.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers can use Curriki OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: OER content is aligned with state education standards.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ CC BY-NC]; see their [http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/TOS licensing policy]

===[http://www.ck12.org/ CK-12] ===
*Overview: 90+ free, high quality OER K-12 textbooks available in various formats like PDF, iPad and [http://kindle.tittbit.in Kindle].
*Cost savings: Books are free; print-on-demand copies are approximately $5, in most states K-12 textbooks cost on average $150; because they’re so expensive they’re often 10+ years out of date.
*Open niche: highest quality, openly licensed, multi-format K-12 open textbooks aligned to state as well as common core content.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://www.ck12.org/about/about-us/technology/ licensing policy]

=Higher Education=

===[http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT Open Courseware]===
*Overview: MIT OpenCourseWare is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. MIT OCW materials have reached more than 125 million individuals worldwide through our site, translations, ITunes U and YouTube, and faculty reuse; accessed by more than 3,500 .edu and .ac domains worldwide; received 97M visits; 14 M zip file copies of courses have been downloaded.
*Cost savings: Course content is free and open to use.
*Open niche: First large, prestigious University to open its content, under a Creative Commons license, to the world.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/#cc licensing policy]

===[http://www.opencourselibrary.org/ Open Course Library]===
*Overview: The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of expertly developed OER courses for Washington State Community Colleges’ highest enrolled 81 courses. 42 courses have been completed so far. 39 more courses will be finished by the end of 2013.
*Cost savings: The courses are openly licensed with Creative Commons Attribution and are free to everyone. Because the textbook cost in each course is limited (by design) to $30, there is a 90% textbook savings for students. This translates to $102 in savings per student per course.
*Open niche: Developing OER for highest enrolled community college courses and making affordability a priority.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [https://sites.google.com/a/sbctc.edu/opencourselibrary/home/faq licensing policy]

===[http://www.saylor.org/ Saylor.org]===
*Overview: Saylor.org is a repository of free, openly licensed, OER based courses on a variety of subjects.
*Cost savings: Saylor provides free access to high quality courses for self learners.
*Open niche: Saylor invests in aggregating the best of OER content from across the web and builds its own online courses. They are also running an open textbook competition which will award $20,000 for the production (or buyout) of openly licensed textbooks.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://www.saylor.org/permissions-initiative/#faq7 licensing policy]

===[http://www.ocwconsortium.org Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC)] and [http://oerconsortium.org/ Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER)]===
*Overview: These groups contain collectively over 400 member institutions in support of openly licensed courseware community colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the world.
*Cost savings: OER content can help save college students hundreds of dollars per quarter as it begins to be use as a supplement or in replacement of expensive commercial textbooks.
*Open niche: These groups have a powerful collective voice in supporting openness on campus, from faculty, students, and administration.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY] for site content; licensing policies vary by member institutions

===[http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/initiative Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (OLI)] ===
*Overview: OLI uses learning science, online learning and cognitive tutoring to transform instruction, significantly improving learning outcomes and achieve significant increases in productivity in learning outcomes.
*Cost savings: OLI courses are high quality and free to use by community colleges. OLI course redesign is data driven, so colleges don’t waste time and money recreating the wheel.
*Open niche: uses rigorous instructional design methodology and feedback loops to: course redesign (so designers are guided by how students learn), students (the curriculum changes in real time), faculty (data dashboards of how students are doing) and learning science (researchers test new pedagogy in OLI courses to advance best practices).
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]

===[http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm MERLOT]===
*Overview: MERLOT is an online repository of 32,000+ online OER materials.
*Cost savings: Free access to high quality OER materials for supplement or replacement of expensive learning resources.
*Open niche: MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND]; see their [http://taste.merlot.org/acceptableuserpolicy.html licensing policy]

===[http://openstudy.com/ Open Study]===
*Overview: OpenStudy is a free, online tutoring service for college and high schools students. It is a social learning network where students ask questions, provide help, and connect with students studying the same subjects and experts wanting to help. OpenStudy connects both learners accessing OER content, OpenCourseWare courses and those enrolled in traditional colleges.
*Cost savings: The free online tutoring service can save an institution up to $25/hour (typically $5000 a semester for a community college) tutoring fees charged by a provider like Tutor.com.
*Open niche: Building a sustainable service powered by peer interactions, driven by a strong social mission of enabling anyone to teach thousands.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://openstudy.com/terms-and-conditions licensing policy]

===[http://collegeopentextbooks.org College Open Textbooks]===
*Overview: College Open Textbooks (COT) is collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving awareness, adoptions, and affordability of open textbooks.
*Cost savings: Provide information to colleges about the cost benefits of open textbooks and best practices for adoption. Colleges that adopt open textbooks save their students significant money, increasing college access and decreasing student debt.
*Open niche: Listing, peer reviewing, and accessibility reviewing open textbooks that are appropriate to community colleges.
*CC license used: none for the site, but they [http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/adoptionresources/copyrightissues drive awareness to CC-licensed textbooks]

===[http://www.projectkaleidoscope.org/ Kaleidoscope]===
*Overview: Kaleidoscope supports the institutional adoption of OER to improve the success of low-income students. The eight college partners are delivering ten high-enrollment courses that use only OER. Rather than creating new open resources, Kaleidoscope partners adopt and improve the best of existing open resources. In the project's first year it is serving over 8,000 students.
*Cost savings: In Fall 2012 the required textbook cost per student for Kaleidoscope courses was $1.20. Ninety-seven percent of students providing feedback believe the open materials to be of equal or greater quality to those they have used previously.
*Open niche: Driving broad adoption of all open education projects for the benefit of low-income students. Kaleidoscope courses use materials from the Open Course Library, the Open Learning Initiative, Saylor.org., MERLOT, College Open Textbooks and others.
*CC license used: none for the site, but they drive awareness to various CC-licensed OER

= Region-specific Higher Education =

===[https://maricopa.instructure.com/courses/811971 Maricopa Millions OER Project]===
*Overview: "Maricopa Millions OER project, through an internal grant process, supports the adoption, adaptation, and development of complete OER course materials for 10-15 high enrollment courses in the MCCCD."
*Cost savings: Aims to "save MCCCD students $5 Million Dollars over the next five years through the use of OER materials."
*Open niche: Incentive to create OER replacements for the district's highest enrollment community college courses by funding most competitive proposals.
*CC license used: CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

===[http://orangegrovetexts.org/ The Orange Grove Text Plus]===
*Overview: The Orange Grove Text Plus is Florida's digital repository of textbooks available for free access and also under various CC licenses.
*Cost savings: The Orange Grove partnered with the University Press of Florida "to reduce the cost of books to students by offering texts that are affordable, accessible, and adaptable to reader preference."
*Open niche: Searchable free access repository of textbooks in PDF format, some under CC licenses.
*CC license used: Various

===[http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/ Affordable Learning Georgia]===
*Overview: Affordable Learning Georgia is "a University System of Georgia (USG) initiative to promote student success by providing affordable textbook alternatives."
*Cost savings: $100 million in potential annual student cost savings with OER in all USG Top 50 Lower-Division Courses [http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/about/numbers 1]
*Open niche: ALG provides CC-licensed textbook alternatives for the top 50-enrolled USG lower-division core curriculum courses.
*CC license used: Various

OER Case Studies/United States

2014-11-12T22:35:25Z

CCID-jane: /* Higher Education */

Key U.S. Open Education Resources (OER) projects in K-12, Higher Education, and the corporate sector. This is not a comprehensive list of U.S. or [[OER_Case_Studies|global OER projects]].

'''OER Definition''': OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

=K-12 and Higher Education=

===[http://phet.colorado.edu PhET Interactive Simulations] ===
*Overview: 113 interactive, research-based and user-tested simulations for teaching science and math. The simulations are openly licensed with Creative Commons Attribution and the Creative Commons GNU General Public License. Over 25 million simulations run per year; 60 million simulations run to date. Ranked top site on search of 'science simulation' on Google out of 161 million sites (1st on Yahoo & Bing). Translated into 66 languages. Peak usage during K-12 school hours. Used in all 50 states, and by hundreds of universities. 30 published articles about use and impact in education. Demonstrated improvement in learning across multiple topics.
*Cost savings for teachers and schools: K-12 and college teachers can use PhET OER simulations instead of purchasing high-cost, lower-quality simulations from commercial company.
*Cost savings for commercial and non-commercial companies: PhET simulations are being used by numerous commercial and non-commercial companies and organizations for free, including Pearson, Plato Learning, Compass Learning, McGraw-Hill, and many more.
*Open niche: High-quality science and math simulations providing flexible use that transforms the way science is taught and learned across K-16 levels.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ CC BY]; see their [http://phet.colorado.edu/en/about/licensing licensing policy]

===[http://cnx.org/ Connexions]===
*Overview: high quality OER repository with ~20,000 openly licensed content modules.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers can use Connexions OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: online platform so teachers can build customized lessons by combining OER modules in unique ways.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://cnx.org/aboutus/faq#Licenses licensing policy]

===[http://oercommons.org/ OER Commons]===
*Overview: high quality OER referatory with 31,000+ openly licensed content modules from more than 530 content providers.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers and professors can use OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: Resources are user-evaluated by Achieve OER Quality rubrics, user aligned to Common Core State Standards, rated and shared. OER workshops and trainings: train over 1,500 teachers per year on: introduction to OER, open licensing, collaborative content creation and remixing OER.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] for OER Commons; see their [http://www.oercommons.org/help#conditions-of-use conditions of use] for licenses on resources in OER Commons

===[http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy]===
*Overview: A library of over 2,700 videos covering multiple academic topics and 276 practice exercises. All are openly licensed and available for free online.
*Cost savings: Free lessons for many academic topics.
*Open niche: Conversational, short modules that are engaging. Math gaming overlay that awards learners points and badges as learners progress.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ CC BY-NC-SA]

=K-12=
===[http://utahopentextbooks.org/ Utah Open Textbook project] ===
*Overview: Seven public high school science teachers and 1200 students in Utah used adapted openly licensed CK-12 textbooks in their classrooms last year. Student test scores were compared to the control group (traditional textbooks) and cost savings were measured. Conclusion? Simply substituting open textbooks for proprietary textbooks did not impact learning outcomes. 22 students and 2700 students are participating this year. The Utah State Office of Education recently announced that they are encouraging all 6-12 language arts, math, and science teachers to adopt open textbooks starting fall 2012.
*Cost savings: print on demand for the adapted CK-12 textbooks cost the school district just $4.25 per book (including shipping) compared to typical $80 textbooks.
*Open niche: project has proven, with data, open textbooks can both save significant money and be high quality.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; license of original CK-12 material

===[http://www.openhighschool.org/ Open High School of Utah] ===
*Overview: Seven public high school science teachers and 1200 students in Utah used adapted openly licensed CK-12 textbooks in their classrooms last year. Student test scores were compared to the control group (traditional textbooks) and cost savings were measured. Conclusion? Simply substituting open textbooks for proprietary textbooks did not impact learning outcomes. 22 students and 2700 students are participating this year. The Utah State Office of Education recently announced that they are encouraging all 6-12 language arts, math, and science teachers to adopt open textbooks starting fall 2012.
*Cost savings: print on demand for the adapted CK-12 textbooks cost the school district just $4.25 per book (including shipping) compared to typical $80 textbooks.
*Open niche: project has proven, with data, open textbooks can both save significant money and be high quality.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://www.openhighschool.org/opencourseware/ licensing policy]

===[http://curriki.org Curriki] ===
*Overview: 40,000 K-12 openly licensed educational resources.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers can use Curriki OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: OER content is aligned with state education standards.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ CC BY-NC]; see their [http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/TOS licensing policy]

===[http://www.ck12.org/ CK-12] ===
*Overview: 90+ free, high quality OER K-12 textbooks available in various formats like PDF, iPad and [http://kindle.tittbit.in Kindle].
*Cost savings: Books are free; print-on-demand copies are approximately $5, in most states K-12 textbooks cost on average $150; because they’re so expensive they’re often 10+ years out of date.
*Open niche: highest quality, openly licensed, multi-format K-12 open textbooks aligned to state as well as common core content.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://www.ck12.org/about/about-us/technology/ licensing policy]

=Higher Education=

===[http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT Open Courseware]===
*Overview: MIT OpenCourseWare is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. MIT OCW materials have reached more than 125 million individuals worldwide through our site, translations, ITunes U and YouTube, and faculty reuse; accessed by more than 3,500 .edu and .ac domains worldwide; received 97M visits; 14 M zip file copies of courses have been downloaded.
*Cost savings: Course content is free and open to use.
*Open niche: First large, prestigious University to open its content, under a Creative Commons license, to the world.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/#cc licensing policy]

===[http://www.opencourselibrary.org/ Open Course Library]===
*Overview: The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of expertly developed OER courses for Washington State Community Colleges’ highest enrolled 81 courses. 42 courses have been completed so far. 39 more courses will be finished by the end of 2013.
*Cost savings: The courses are openly licensed with Creative Commons Attribution and are free to everyone. Because the textbook cost in each course is limited (by design) to $30, there is a 90% textbook savings for students. This translates to $102 in savings per student per course.
*Open niche: Developing OER for highest enrolled community college courses and making affordability a priority.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [https://sites.google.com/a/sbctc.edu/opencourselibrary/home/faq licensing policy]

===[http://www.saylor.org/ Saylor.org]===
*Overview: Saylor.org is a repository of free, openly licensed, OER based courses on a variety of subjects.
*Cost savings: Saylor provides free access to high quality courses for self learners.
*Open niche: Saylor invests in aggregating the best of OER content from across the web and builds its own online courses. They are also running an open textbook competition which will award $20,000 for the production (or buyout) of openly licensed textbooks.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://www.saylor.org/permissions-initiative/#faq7 licensing policy]

===[http://www.ocwconsortium.org Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC)] and [http://oerconsortium.org/ Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER)]===
*Overview: These groups contain collectively over 400 member institutions in support of openly licensed courseware community colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the world.
*Cost savings: OER content can help save college students hundreds of dollars per quarter as it begins to be use as a supplement or in replacement of expensive commercial textbooks.
*Open niche: These groups have a powerful collective voice in supporting openness on campus, from faculty, students, and administration.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY] for site content; licensing policies vary by member institutions

===[http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/initiative Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (OLI)] ===
*Overview: OLI uses learning science, online learning and cognitive tutoring to transform instruction, significantly improving learning outcomes and achieve significant increases in productivity in learning outcomes.
*Cost savings: OLI courses are high quality and free to use by community colleges. OLI course redesign is data driven, so colleges don’t waste time and money recreating the wheel.
*Open niche: uses rigorous instructional design methodology and feedback loops to: course redesign (so designers are guided by how students learn), students (the curriculum changes in real time), faculty (data dashboards of how students are doing) and learning science (researchers test new pedagogy in OLI courses to advance best practices).
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]

===[http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm MERLOT]===
*Overview: MERLOT is an online repository of 32,000+ online OER materials.
*Cost savings: Free access to high quality OER materials for supplement or replacement of expensive learning resources.
*Open niche: MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND]; see their [http://taste.merlot.org/acceptableuserpolicy.html licensing policy]

===[http://openstudy.com/ Open Study]===
*Overview: OpenStudy is a free, online tutoring service for college and high schools students. It is a social learning network where students ask questions, provide help, and connect with students studying the same subjects and experts wanting to help. OpenStudy connects both learners accessing OER content, OpenCourseWare courses and those enrolled in traditional colleges.
*Cost savings: The free online tutoring service can save an institution up to $25/hour (typically $5000 a semester for a community college) tutoring fees charged by a provider like Tutor.com.
*Open niche: Building a sustainable service powered by peer interactions, driven by a strong social mission of enabling anyone to teach thousands.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://openstudy.com/terms-and-conditions licensing policy]

===[http://collegeopentextbooks.org College Open Textbooks]===
*Overview: College Open Textbooks (COT) is collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving awareness, adoptions, and affordability of open textbooks.
*Cost savings: Provide information to colleges about the cost benefits of open textbooks and best practices for adoption. Colleges that adopt open textbooks save their students significant money, increasing college access and decreasing student debt.
*Open niche: Listing, peer reviewing, and accessibility reviewing open textbooks that are appropriate to community colleges.
*CC license used: none for the site, but they [http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/adoptionresources/copyrightissues drive awareness to CC-licensed textbooks]

===[http://www.projectkaleidoscope.org/ Kaleidoscope]===
*Overview: Kaleidoscope supports the institutional adoption of OER to improve the success of low-income students. The eight college partners are delivering ten high-enrollment courses that use only OER. Rather than creating new open resources, Kaleidoscope partners adopt and improve the best of existing open resources. In the project's first year it is serving over 8,000 students.
*Cost savings: In Fall 2012 the required textbook cost per student for Kaleidoscope courses was $1.20. Ninety-seven percent of students providing feedback believe the open materials to be of equal or greater quality to those they have used previously.
*Open niche: Driving broad adoption of all open education projects for the benefit of low-income students. Kaleidoscope courses use materials from the Open Course Library, the Open Learning Initiative, Saylor.org., MERLOT, College Open Textbooks and others.
*CC license used: none for the site, but they drive awareness to various CC-licensed OER

===[https://maricopa.instructure.com/courses/811971 Maricopa Millions OER Project]===
*Overview: "Maricopa Millions OER project, through an internal grant process, supports the adoption, adaptation, and development of complete OER course materials for 10-15 high enrollment courses in the MCCCD."
*Cost savings: Aims to "save MCCCD students $5 Million Dollars over the next five years through the use of OER materials."
*Open niche: Incentive to create OER replacements for the district's highest enrollment community college courses by funding most competitive proposals.
*CC license used: CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

===[http://orangegrovetexts.org/ The Orange Grove Text Plus]===
*Overview: The Orange Grove Text Plus is Florida's digital repository of textbooks available for free access and also under various CC licenses.
*Cost savings: The Orange Grove partnered with the University Press of Florida "to reduce the cost of books to students by offering texts that are affordable, accessible, and adaptable to reader preference."
*Open niche: Searchable free access repository of textbooks in PDF format, some under CC licenses.
*CC license used: Various

OER Case Studies/United States

2014-11-12T19:26:13Z

CCID-jane: /* Maricopa Millions OER Project */

Key U.S. Open Education Resources (OER) projects in K-12, Higher Education, and the corporate sector. This is not a comprehensive list of U.S. or [[OER_Case_Studies|global OER projects]].

'''OER Definition''': OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

=K-12 and Higher Education=

===[http://phet.colorado.edu PhET Interactive Simulations] ===
*Overview: 113 interactive, research-based and user-tested simulations for teaching science and math. The simulations are openly licensed with Creative Commons Attribution and the Creative Commons GNU General Public License. Over 25 million simulations run per year; 60 million simulations run to date. Ranked top site on search of 'science simulation' on Google out of 161 million sites (1st on Yahoo & Bing). Translated into 66 languages. Peak usage during K-12 school hours. Used in all 50 states, and by hundreds of universities. 30 published articles about use and impact in education. Demonstrated improvement in learning across multiple topics.
*Cost savings for teachers and schools: K-12 and college teachers can use PhET OER simulations instead of purchasing high-cost, lower-quality simulations from commercial company.
*Cost savings for commercial and non-commercial companies: PhET simulations are being used by numerous commercial and non-commercial companies and organizations for free, including Pearson, Plato Learning, Compass Learning, McGraw-Hill, and many more.
*Open niche: High-quality science and math simulations providing flexible use that transforms the way science is taught and learned across K-16 levels.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ CC BY]; see their [http://phet.colorado.edu/en/about/licensing licensing policy]

===[http://cnx.org/ Connexions]===
*Overview: high quality OER repository with ~20,000 openly licensed content modules.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers can use Connexions OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: online platform so teachers can build customized lessons by combining OER modules in unique ways.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://cnx.org/aboutus/faq#Licenses licensing policy]

===[http://oercommons.org/ OER Commons]===
*Overview: high quality OER referatory with 31,000+ openly licensed content modules from more than 530 content providers.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers and professors can use OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: Resources are user-evaluated by Achieve OER Quality rubrics, user aligned to Common Core State Standards, rated and shared. OER workshops and trainings: train over 1,500 teachers per year on: introduction to OER, open licensing, collaborative content creation and remixing OER.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] for OER Commons; see their [http://www.oercommons.org/help#conditions-of-use conditions of use] for licenses on resources in OER Commons

===[http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy]===
*Overview: A library of over 2,700 videos covering multiple academic topics and 276 practice exercises. All are openly licensed and available for free online.
*Cost savings: Free lessons for many academic topics.
*Open niche: Conversational, short modules that are engaging. Math gaming overlay that awards learners points and badges as learners progress.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ CC BY-NC-SA]

=K-12=
===[http://utahopentextbooks.org/ Utah Open Textbook project] ===
*Overview: Seven public high school science teachers and 1200 students in Utah used adapted openly licensed CK-12 textbooks in their classrooms last year. Student test scores were compared to the control group (traditional textbooks) and cost savings were measured. Conclusion? Simply substituting open textbooks for proprietary textbooks did not impact learning outcomes. 22 students and 2700 students are participating this year. The Utah State Office of Education recently announced that they are encouraging all 6-12 language arts, math, and science teachers to adopt open textbooks starting fall 2012.
*Cost savings: print on demand for the adapted CK-12 textbooks cost the school district just $4.25 per book (including shipping) compared to typical $80 textbooks.
*Open niche: project has proven, with data, open textbooks can both save significant money and be high quality.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; license of original CK-12 material

===[http://www.openhighschool.org/ Open High School of Utah] ===
*Overview: Seven public high school science teachers and 1200 students in Utah used adapted openly licensed CK-12 textbooks in their classrooms last year. Student test scores were compared to the control group (traditional textbooks) and cost savings were measured. Conclusion? Simply substituting open textbooks for proprietary textbooks did not impact learning outcomes. 22 students and 2700 students are participating this year. The Utah State Office of Education recently announced that they are encouraging all 6-12 language arts, math, and science teachers to adopt open textbooks starting fall 2012.
*Cost savings: print on demand for the adapted CK-12 textbooks cost the school district just $4.25 per book (including shipping) compared to typical $80 textbooks.
*Open niche: project has proven, with data, open textbooks can both save significant money and be high quality.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://www.openhighschool.org/opencourseware/ licensing policy]

===[http://curriki.org Curriki] ===
*Overview: 40,000 K-12 openly licensed educational resources.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers can use Curriki OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: OER content is aligned with state education standards.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ CC BY-NC]; see their [http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/TOS licensing policy]

===[http://www.ck12.org/ CK-12] ===
*Overview: 90+ free, high quality OER K-12 textbooks available in various formats like PDF, iPad and [http://kindle.tittbit.in Kindle].
*Cost savings: Books are free; print-on-demand copies are approximately $5, in most states K-12 textbooks cost on average $150; because they’re so expensive they’re often 10+ years out of date.
*Open niche: highest quality, openly licensed, multi-format K-12 open textbooks aligned to state as well as common core content.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://www.ck12.org/about/about-us/technology/ licensing policy]

=Higher Education=

===[http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT Open Courseware]===
*Overview: MIT OpenCourseWare is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. MIT OCW materials have reached more than 125 million individuals worldwide through our site, translations, ITunes U and YouTube, and faculty reuse; accessed by more than 3,500 .edu and .ac domains worldwide; received 97M visits; 14 M zip file copies of courses have been downloaded.
*Cost savings: Course content is free and open to use.
*Open niche: First large, prestigious University to open its content, under a Creative Commons license, to the world.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/#cc licensing policy]

===[http://www.opencourselibrary.org/ Open Course Library]===
*Overview: The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of expertly developed OER courses for Washington State Community Colleges’ highest enrolled 81 courses. 42 courses have been completed so far. 39 more courses will be finished by the end of 2013.
*Cost savings: The courses are openly licensed with Creative Commons Attribution and are free to everyone. Because the textbook cost in each course is limited (by design) to $30, there is a 90% textbook savings for students. This translates to $102 in savings per student per course.
*Open niche: Developing OER for highest enrolled community college courses and making affordability a priority.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [https://sites.google.com/a/sbctc.edu/opencourselibrary/home/faq licensing policy]

===[http://www.saylor.org/ Saylor.org]===
*Overview: Saylor.org is a repository of free, openly licensed, OER based courses on a variety of subjects.
*Cost savings: Saylor provides free access to high quality courses for self learners.
*Open niche: Saylor invests in aggregating the best of OER content from across the web and builds its own online courses. They are also running an open textbook competition which will award $20,000 for the production (or buyout) of openly licensed textbooks.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://www.saylor.org/permissions-initiative/#faq7 licensing policy]

===[http://www.ocwconsortium.org Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC)] and [http://oerconsortium.org/ Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER)]===
*Overview: These groups contain collectively over 400 member institutions in support of openly licensed courseware community colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the world.
*Cost savings: OER content can help save college students hundreds of dollars per quarter as it begins to be use as a supplement or in replacement of expensive commercial textbooks.
*Open niche: These groups have a powerful collective voice in supporting openness on campus, from faculty, students, and administration.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY] for site content; licensing policies vary by member institutions

===[http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/initiative Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (OLI)] ===
*Overview: OLI uses learning science, online learning and cognitive tutoring to transform instruction, significantly improving learning outcomes and achieve significant increases in productivity in learning outcomes.
*Cost savings: OLI courses are high quality and free to use by community colleges. OLI course redesign is data driven, so colleges don’t waste time and money recreating the wheel.
*Open niche: uses rigorous instructional design methodology and feedback loops to: course redesign (so designers are guided by how students learn), students (the curriculum changes in real time), faculty (data dashboards of how students are doing) and learning science (researchers test new pedagogy in OLI courses to advance best practices).
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]

===[http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm MERLOT]===
*Overview: MERLOT is an online repository of 32,000+ online OER materials.
*Cost savings: Free access to high quality OER materials for supplement or replacement of expensive learning resources.
*Open niche: MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND]; see their [http://taste.merlot.org/acceptableuserpolicy.html licensing policy]

===[http://openstudy.com/ Open Study]===
*Overview: OpenStudy is a free, online tutoring service for college and high schools students. It is a social learning network where students ask questions, provide help, and connect with students studying the same subjects and experts wanting to help. OpenStudy connects both learners accessing OER content, OpenCourseWare courses and those enrolled in traditional colleges.
*Cost savings: The free online tutoring service can save an institution up to $25/hour (typically $5000 a semester for a community college) tutoring fees charged by a provider like Tutor.com.
*Open niche: Building a sustainable service powered by peer interactions, driven by a strong social mission of enabling anyone to teach thousands.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://openstudy.com/terms-and-conditions licensing policy]

===[http://collegeopentextbooks.org College Open Textbooks]===
*Overview: College Open Textbooks (COT) is collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving awareness, adoptions, and affordability of open textbooks.
*Cost savings: Provide information to colleges about the cost benefits of open textbooks and best practices for adoption. Colleges that adopt open textbooks save their students significant money, increasing college access and decreasing student debt.
*Open niche: Listing, peer reviewing, and accessibility reviewing open textbooks that are appropriate to community colleges.
*CC license used: none for the site, but they [http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/adoptionresources/copyrightissues drive awareness to CC-licensed textbooks]

===[http://www.projectkaleidoscope.org/ Kaleidoscope]===
*Overview: Kaleidoscope supports the institutional adoption of OER to improve the success of low-income students. The eight college partners are delivering ten high-enrollment courses that use only OER. Rather than creating new open resources, Kaleidoscope partners adopt and improve the best of existing open resources. In the project's first year it is serving over 8,000 students.
*Cost savings: In Fall 2012 the required textbook cost per student for Kaleidoscope courses was $1.20. Ninety-seven percent of students providing feedback believe the open materials to be of equal or greater quality to those they have used previously.
*Open niche: Driving broad adoption of all open education projects for the benefit of low-income students. Kaleidoscope courses use materials from the Open Course Library, the Open Learning Initiative, Saylor.org., MERLOT, College Open Textbooks and others.
*CC license used: none for the site, but they drive awareness to various CC-licensed OER

===[https://maricopa.instructure.com/courses/811971 Maricopa Millions OER Project]===
*Overview: "Maricopa Millions OER project, through an internal grant process, supports the adoption, adaptation, and development of complete OER course materials for 10-15 high enrollment courses in the MCCCD."
*Cost savings: Aims to "save MCCCD students $5 Million Dollars over the next five years through the use of OER materials."
*Open niche: Incentive to create OER replacements for the district's highest enrollment community college courses by funding most competitive proposals.
*CC license used: CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

OER Case Studies/United States

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Key U.S. Open Education Resources (OER) projects in K-12, Higher Education, and the corporate sector. This is not a comprehensive list of U.S. or [[OER_Case_Studies|global OER projects]].

'''OER Definition''': OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

=K-12 and Higher Education=

===[http://phet.colorado.edu PhET Interactive Simulations] ===
*Overview: 113 interactive, research-based and user-tested simulations for teaching science and math. The simulations are openly licensed with Creative Commons Attribution and the Creative Commons GNU General Public License. Over 25 million simulations run per year; 60 million simulations run to date. Ranked top site on search of 'science simulation' on Google out of 161 million sites (1st on Yahoo & Bing). Translated into 66 languages. Peak usage during K-12 school hours. Used in all 50 states, and by hundreds of universities. 30 published articles about use and impact in education. Demonstrated improvement in learning across multiple topics.
*Cost savings for teachers and schools: K-12 and college teachers can use PhET OER simulations instead of purchasing high-cost, lower-quality simulations from commercial company.
*Cost savings for commercial and non-commercial companies: PhET simulations are being used by numerous commercial and non-commercial companies and organizations for free, including Pearson, Plato Learning, Compass Learning, McGraw-Hill, and many more.
*Open niche: High-quality science and math simulations providing flexible use that transforms the way science is taught and learned across K-16 levels.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ CC BY]; see their [http://phet.colorado.edu/en/about/licensing licensing policy]

===[http://cnx.org/ Connexions]===
*Overview: high quality OER repository with ~20,000 openly licensed content modules.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers can use Connexions OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: online platform so teachers can build customized lessons by combining OER modules in unique ways.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://cnx.org/aboutus/faq#Licenses licensing policy]

===[http://oercommons.org/ OER Commons]===
*Overview: high quality OER referatory with 31,000+ openly licensed content modules from more than 530 content providers.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers and professors can use OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: Resources are user-evaluated by Achieve OER Quality rubrics, user aligned to Common Core State Standards, rated and shared. OER workshops and trainings: train over 1,500 teachers per year on: introduction to OER, open licensing, collaborative content creation and remixing OER.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] for OER Commons; see their [http://www.oercommons.org/help#conditions-of-use conditions of use] for licenses on resources in OER Commons

===[http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy]===
*Overview: A library of over 2,700 videos covering multiple academic topics and 276 practice exercises. All are openly licensed and available for free online.
*Cost savings: Free lessons for many academic topics.
*Open niche: Conversational, short modules that are engaging. Math gaming overlay that awards learners points and badges as learners progress.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ CC BY-NC-SA]

=K-12=
===[http://utahopentextbooks.org/ Utah Open Textbook project] ===
*Overview: Seven public high school science teachers and 1200 students in Utah used adapted openly licensed CK-12 textbooks in their classrooms last year. Student test scores were compared to the control group (traditional textbooks) and cost savings were measured. Conclusion? Simply substituting open textbooks for proprietary textbooks did not impact learning outcomes. 22 students and 2700 students are participating this year. The Utah State Office of Education recently announced that they are encouraging all 6-12 language arts, math, and science teachers to adopt open textbooks starting fall 2012.
*Cost savings: print on demand for the adapted CK-12 textbooks cost the school district just $4.25 per book (including shipping) compared to typical $80 textbooks.
*Open niche: project has proven, with data, open textbooks can both save significant money and be high quality.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; license of original CK-12 material

===[http://www.openhighschool.org/ Open High School of Utah] ===
*Overview: Seven public high school science teachers and 1200 students in Utah used adapted openly licensed CK-12 textbooks in their classrooms last year. Student test scores were compared to the control group (traditional textbooks) and cost savings were measured. Conclusion? Simply substituting open textbooks for proprietary textbooks did not impact learning outcomes. 22 students and 2700 students are participating this year. The Utah State Office of Education recently announced that they are encouraging all 6-12 language arts, math, and science teachers to adopt open textbooks starting fall 2012.
*Cost savings: print on demand for the adapted CK-12 textbooks cost the school district just $4.25 per book (including shipping) compared to typical $80 textbooks.
*Open niche: project has proven, with data, open textbooks can both save significant money and be high quality.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://www.openhighschool.org/opencourseware/ licensing policy]

===[http://curriki.org Curriki] ===
*Overview: 40,000 K-12 openly licensed educational resources.
*Cost savings: K-12 teachers can use Curriki OER instead of purchasing supplemental materials; may be able to be used in place of commercial textbooks in some instances.
*Open niche: OER content is aligned with state education standards.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ CC BY-NC]; see their [http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/TOS licensing policy]

===[http://www.ck12.org/ CK-12] ===
*Overview: 90+ free, high quality OER K-12 textbooks available in various formats like PDF, iPad and [http://kindle.tittbit.in Kindle].
*Cost savings: Books are free; print-on-demand copies are approximately $5, in most states K-12 textbooks cost on average $150; because they’re so expensive they’re often 10+ years out of date.
*Open niche: highest quality, openly licensed, multi-format K-12 open textbooks aligned to state as well as common core content.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://www.ck12.org/about/about-us/technology/ licensing policy]

=Higher Education=

===[http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT Open Courseware]===
*Overview: MIT OpenCourseWare is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. MIT OCW materials have reached more than 125 million individuals worldwide through our site, translations, ITunes U and YouTube, and faculty reuse; accessed by more than 3,500 .edu and .ac domains worldwide; received 97M visits; 14 M zip file copies of courses have been downloaded.
*Cost savings: Course content is free and open to use.
*Open niche: First large, prestigious University to open its content, under a Creative Commons license, to the world.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/#cc licensing policy]

===[http://www.opencourselibrary.org/ Open Course Library]===
*Overview: The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of expertly developed OER courses for Washington State Community Colleges’ highest enrolled 81 courses. 42 courses have been completed so far. 39 more courses will be finished by the end of 2013.
*Cost savings: The courses are openly licensed with Creative Commons Attribution and are free to everyone. Because the textbook cost in each course is limited (by design) to $30, there is a 90% textbook savings for students. This translates to $102 in savings per student per course.
*Open niche: Developing OER for highest enrolled community college courses and making affordability a priority.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [https://sites.google.com/a/sbctc.edu/opencourselibrary/home/faq licensing policy]

===[http://www.saylor.org/ Saylor.org]===
*Overview: Saylor.org is a repository of free, openly licensed, OER based courses on a variety of subjects.
*Cost savings: Saylor provides free access to high quality courses for self learners.
*Open niche: Saylor invests in aggregating the best of OER content from across the web and builds its own online courses. They are also running an open textbook competition which will award $20,000 for the production (or buyout) of openly licensed textbooks.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]; see their [http://www.saylor.org/permissions-initiative/#faq7 licensing policy]

===[http://www.ocwconsortium.org Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC)] and [http://oerconsortium.org/ Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER)]===
*Overview: These groups contain collectively over 400 member institutions in support of openly licensed courseware community colleges and universities in the U.S. and around the world.
*Cost savings: OER content can help save college students hundreds of dollars per quarter as it begins to be use as a supplement or in replacement of expensive commercial textbooks.
*Open niche: These groups have a powerful collective voice in supporting openness on campus, from faculty, students, and administration.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY] for site content; licensing policies vary by member institutions

===[http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/initiative Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (OLI)] ===
*Overview: OLI uses learning science, online learning and cognitive tutoring to transform instruction, significantly improving learning outcomes and achieve significant increases in productivity in learning outcomes.
*Cost savings: OLI courses are high quality and free to use by community colleges. OLI course redesign is data driven, so colleges don’t waste time and money recreating the wheel.
*Open niche: uses rigorous instructional design methodology and feedback loops to: course redesign (so designers are guided by how students learn), students (the curriculum changes in real time), faculty (data dashboards of how students are doing) and learning science (researchers test new pedagogy in OLI courses to advance best practices).
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]

===[http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm MERLOT]===
*Overview: MERLOT is an online repository of 32,000+ online OER materials.
*Cost savings: Free access to high quality OER materials for supplement or replacement of expensive learning resources.
*Open niche: MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND]; see their [http://taste.merlot.org/acceptableuserpolicy.html licensing policy]

===[http://openstudy.com/ Open Study]===
*Overview: OpenStudy is a free, online tutoring service for college and high schools students. It is a social learning network where students ask questions, provide help, and connect with students studying the same subjects and experts wanting to help. OpenStudy connects both learners accessing OER content, OpenCourseWare courses and those enrolled in traditional colleges.
*Cost savings: The free online tutoring service can save an institution up to $25/hour (typically $5000 a semester for a community college) tutoring fees charged by a provider like Tutor.com.
*Open niche: Building a sustainable service powered by peer interactions, driven by a strong social mission of enabling anyone to teach thousands.
*CC license used: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA]; see their [http://openstudy.com/terms-and-conditions licensing policy]

===[http://collegeopentextbooks.org College Open Textbooks]===
*Overview: College Open Textbooks (COT) is collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving awareness, adoptions, and affordability of open textbooks.
*Cost savings: Provide information to colleges about the cost benefits of open textbooks and best practices for adoption. Colleges that adopt open textbooks save their students significant money, increasing college access and decreasing student debt.
*Open niche: Listing, peer reviewing, and accessibility reviewing open textbooks that are appropriate to community colleges.
*CC license used: none for the site, but they [http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/adoptionresources/copyrightissues drive awareness to CC-licensed textbooks]

===[http://www.projectkaleidoscope.org/ Kaleidoscope]===
*Overview: Kaleidoscope supports the institutional adoption of OER to improve the success of low-income students. The eight college partners are delivering ten high-enrollment courses that use only OER. Rather than creating new open resources, Kaleidoscope partners adopt and improve the best of existing open resources. In the project's first year it is serving over 8,000 students.
*Cost savings: In Fall 2012 the required textbook cost per student for Kaleidoscope courses was $1.20. Ninety-seven percent of students providing feedback believe the open materials to be of equal or greater quality to those they have used previously.
*Open niche: Driving broad adoption of all open education projects for the benefit of low-income students. Kaleidoscope courses use materials from the Open Course Library, the Open Learning Initiative, Saylor.org., MERLOT, College Open Textbooks and others.
*CC license used: none for the site, but they drive awareness to various CC-licensed OER

===[https://maricopa.instructure.com/courses/811971 Maricopa Millions OER Project]===
*Overview: "Maricopa Millions OER project, through an internal grant process, supports the adoption, adaptation, and development of complete OER course materials for 10-15 high enrollment courses in the MCCCD."
*Cost savings: Aims to "save MCCCD students $5 Million Dollars over the next five years through the use of OER materials."
*Open niche: Incentive to create OER replacements for highest enrollment courses by funding most competitive proposals.
*CC license used: CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

OER Case Studies

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<h2>Featured OER Case Studies</h2>
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The following is a list of the some of the most compelling OER projects and implementations of CC in educational policies around the world. For a more comprehensive listing, see the [[Casestudies|Case Studies]] project (linked above).
==Argentina==
===[[Case_Studies/Gleducar|Gleducar]]===
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Started in 2002, [http://www.gleducar.org.ar/ Gleducar] is a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. It was declared of National Interest by the Senate of Argentina three years later and is considered one of the most important open educational projects in Argentina. The community is supported by Gleducar's nonprofit/NGO status. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleducar] Community initiatives revolve around building a repository of open educational resources (OER), promoting more open intellectual property and educational policies, encouraging the use of free technologies and distributed networks, open access, and educational innovation in general. All content on Gleducar is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/deed.es CC Attribution-ShareAlike license].
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===[[Case_Studies/Encipel|Encipel]]===
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Started in 2012, [http://www.encipel.com/ Encipel] is an educational community in which users of any gender and age, create documents to share their knowledge. These documents are then reviewed and improved by the community, offering a better quality of content. We use the license CC BY-NC 3.0.[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/]. So all the information is open to everyone. We have decided to use this license because we want people to enhance knowledge an it´s distribution
Since the start we have improved the information, quality of the site an tools available for users. It´s still a very unknown project, but we expect it can grow more.
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==Australia==
===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Southern_Queensland_OpenCourseWare|University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare]]===
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The [http://ocw.usq.edu.au/ University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW)] provides access to free and open educational resources (OER) for students, academics, and interested readers worldwide. USQ OCW contains sample courses from each of the University’s five faculties, together with courses from its [http://www.usq.edu.au/ltsu/learnsupp/tpp/default.htm Tertiary Preparation Program]. USQ is the only Australian member of the [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ OpenCourseWare Consortium], an [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/ wallputih] [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29 international collaboration] of more than 230 higher education institutions and associated organisations ‘creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’ All USQ OCW is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==Brazil==
===OER-Brazil Project===
The OER-Brazil Project, or [http://rea.net.br/site/ Recursos Educacionais Abertos] [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/2012/10/4shared-com.html 4shared], is a website aimed at providing information on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Portuguese language speakers. The site features an extensive FAQ pointing to reference documents, media, and more. The site lists OER projects from Brazil and the rest of the world highlighting their CC license implementations. The OER-Brazil Project also provides information on current bills that aim to promote OER in Brazil if approved, and hopes to engage Brazilian society in the discussions and improvement of such policies. English language navigation of the site is in progress.

==Canada==
===[[Case_Studies/Athabasca_University|Athabasca University]]===
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Athabasca University is Canada's open university that is aiming to replace as many of their course materials with open educational resources (OER) and is home to the worlds first [http://www.aupress.ca/ University Press] dedicated to open access publishing, where authors choose whether to release their work under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license]. Athabasca University is also the base for the [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page UNESCO OER Community] that was first launched in 2005. Athabasca University OER is available under various CC licenses and the UNESCO OER Community publishes all content under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/BCcampus|BCcampus]]===
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The BCcampus initiative is a collaboration of 25 post-secondary institutions contributing and sharing open educational resources under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license or a BCcampus license for use within the system. It is an "online learning and educational technology service agency established and funded entirely by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development." BCcampus also manages an [http://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/ Open Textbook Project] and recently gathered a group of librarians interested in furthering OER called [http://bcoerguides.wikispaces.com/Participants BCOER].
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===Ontario Online Learning Portal===
In addition to hosting OER, the Ontario Online Learning Portal has developed this OER video primer featuring UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources Dr. Rory McGreal: http://contactnorth.ca/tips-tools/open-educational-resources/videos.

==Chile==
===[[Case_Studies/Cybertesis|Cybertesis]] at the Universidad de Chile===
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[http://www.cybertesis.cl/ Cybertesis] is a joint publishing program for academic theses online, and is an initiative of the Université de Montreal, the Université Lyon2 and the Universidad de Chile, among other 50 institutions in Europe, Africa and America. It is financially supported by Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and UNESCO. The objective of Cybertesis is to promote the publication and diffusion of university theses online, implementing international standards for digital publishing, and technology that facilitate the access and interchange of information, based on interoperable and open source tools. Cybertesis supports the copyrights of its authors, by explaining the law and asking the authors for authorization to include their works in the system. Cybertesis offers several options, such as “not authorizing”, “embargo” (which allows postponing the release of the works temporally), and licensing with Creative Commons. The Creative Commons licensing system has become the standard adopted by Cybertesis to manage the rights of authors.
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==Colombia==
===[[Case_Studies/Eduteka|Eduteka]]===
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[http://www.eduteka.org/ Eduteka] is a primary and secondary educational portal for Spanish language open educational resources (OER) offered under a default of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.es_CO CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. It is supported and run by the Gabriel Piedrahita Uribe Foundation in Colombia and has been awarded the National Prize for Technology in Education twice by the Iberoamerican Network for Technology in Education. Eduteka has also run pilot programs, incorporating OER into schools in order to "[increase] the competency of students and teachers in ICTs" and "[improve] the integration of these technologies into the regular curriculum."
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===[[Case_Studies/Escuela_Virtual_del_Deporte|Escuela Virtual del Deporte]]===
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The [http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes Escuela Virtual del Deporte], or the Virtual School of Sports, leverages CC licensing and tools offered by ICT (Information Technology and Communication) to make available open educational resources (OER) in sports education. It is a collaboration between the Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, the United Nations Program for Development, and Colombia Aprende, and was created within the framework of government policies aimed at overcoming the digital divide. All content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/co CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/Virtual_School_for_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean|Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean]]===
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The [http://www.escuelapnud.org/public/index.php Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean] is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau and provides training in the applied sciences for social transformation in three academic areas: Human Development (HD), Democratic Governance (DG) and Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR). Its mission is "to strengthen democratic governance and contribute to human development in Latin America and the Caribbean." School resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives].
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==Czech Republic==
===[[Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal|RVP Metodicky Portal]]===
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The [http://dum.rvp.cz/index.html RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education. The project aims to provide "systematic support for teachers in teaching methodology and didactics, development of learning communities," and more "effective ways of learning."
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==Finland==
===[[Case_Studies/Le_Mill|Le Mill]]===
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[http://lemill.net/ Le Mill] is an online community for "finding, authoring and sharing" open educational resources (OER). Le Mill was developed by the LeMill team led by the Learning Environments Research Group of Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. As of November 2010, Le Mill has nearly ~15,000 teachers contributing from 63 countries and almost 24,000 learning resources in 83 languages. Le Mill resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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==India==
===[[Case_Studies/Open Education Project|Open Education Project]]===
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[http://in.okfn.org/open-education/ Open Education Project] is a crowd sourced platform of free books and education tools that are made available online. It is supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), India [http://in.okfn.org]. All content are free to be downloaded and printed by educators in the country. The Project uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution 3.0 Unported
] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. It especially aims to reach out to economically challenged children with education. There is already quite a large collection of books and educational materials in the project's database.
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===[[Case_Studies/Pratham_Books|Pratham Books]]===
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[http://www.prathambooks.org/ Pratham Books] is a non-profit children's book publishing house in India that uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. The books are available for purchase at low cost or for free online at their [http://www.scribd.com/prathambooks Scribd channel]. Pratham Books also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/prathambooks/ Flickr] account where they publish pictures of their community under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/Computer_Masti|Computer Masti]]===
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[http://www.computermasti.com/ Computer Masti (CM)] is a series of books, activities, and interactive content for [http://combinest.blogspot.com/2013/07/problems-in-computer-and-solution.html computer] [http://tsani-oke.blogspot.com/ education] in primary schools in India. It is a research-based product created at the IIT Bombay in collaboration with InOPEN, a tech start-up that works with Free and Open Source (FOSS) technologies. The books are available online under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/in/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] with additional permissions for commercial use via [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus CC plus] (more info to come in their [http://www.computermasti.com/legal legal] section). Site content is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/in/ CC Attribution].
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===National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)===
[http://nptel.ac.in/ NPTEL] is a large OER publishing project of India. It is operated by a network of federal academic and research institutions in India and is funded by the Ministry of HRD. [http://nptel.ac.in/faq.php NPTEL has published 770 full courses in English] as of this year (each course contains lecture material equal to about 30 hours). They cover mainly STEM topics and are popular (about 117 million views on YouTube, for example, for some of the published courses).

Back in July 2012, NPTEL adopted CC BY SA NC licenses. As of Sep 2014, NPTEL has removed the NC restriction and all materials now are CC BY SA. [http://nptel.ac.in/pdf/CC%20LIcenseNotes.pdf Here is an official note of NPTEL] that explains the rationale for adoption of CC licenses.

===National Repository of Open Educational Resources ===
The [http://nroer.in/home/ NROER] is licensed under CC BY-SA.

==Internet==
===[[Case_Studies/OpenSecurityTraining|OpenSecurityTraining.info]]===
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In the spirit of OpenCourseWare and the Khan Academy, OpenSecurityTraining.info is dedicated to sharing training material for computer security classes, on any topic, that are at least one day long. This site is always seeking new collaborators to broaden the available training, but already has training on assembly languages, reverse engineering, malware analysis, exploits, vulnerability assessment, trusted computing, android forensics, and other topics. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 (unported)].
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==Italy==
===[[Case_Studies/I-CLEEN project|I-CLEEN project]]===
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[http://www.icleen.museum/ I-CLEEN] I-CLEEN is a collaborative project among teachers, willing to create a free database of resources (an information gateway) already tested in the classrooms, aiming to an interactive education of Earth System Science topics. I-CLEEN is a web project by the [http://www.mtsn.tn.it/ Science Museum of Trento](former Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences). The project won the [http://elearningawards.eun.org/ww/en/pub/elearningawards/homepage.htm eLearning award 2010]. All the parts that make up the project and all their respective activities are fully dealt with using an open source web platform called [http://www.liferay.com/ LifeRay] specifically implemented for this project. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC Attribution 3.0 (Italy)]
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==Netherlands==
===[[Case_Studies/Wikiwijs|Wikiwijs]]===
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[http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english/ Wikiwijs] is an open educational resources (OER) platform for teachers launched by the Dutch Ministry of Education to "stimulate development and use of OER", "improve access to both open and 'closed' digital learning materials", "support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization", and to "increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER." Wikiwijs builds on the wiki philosophy of Wikipedia but customizes an existing OER platform, [http://cnx.org/ Connexions], to host and distribute its content. Wikiwijs is focused on all levels of education, from primary to higher education. All content on Wikiwijs is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/ CC BY].
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==New Zealand==
===[[Case_Studies/OERNZ|OERNZ]]===
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[http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ OER NZ] is a joint effort by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the OER Foundation to build an open educational resources (OER) portal for New Zealand schools. In keeping with the [http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework], which specifically recommends "the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material," a national portal for OER would involve building a "sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum." All content will be under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] or otherwise meet the [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition free cultural works definition].
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===[[Case_Studies/Otago_Polytechnic|Otago Polytechnic]]===
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[http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic Otago Polytechnic] is a publicly-subsidised vocational education and training organisation in Dunedin, New Zealand, that offers a range of open access training courses. Otago Polytechnic is the first tertiary institution in the world to adopt a [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8235 default CC Attribution policy] and the first New Zealand tertiary institution to sign the [http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Cape Town Open Education Declaration].
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==Norway==
===[[Case_Studies/Norwegian_National_Digital_Learning_Arena|Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)]]===
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The [http://ndla.no/en/ Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)] is an open educational resources (OER) project and open source platform for sharing OER in secondary education. It is a joint initiative by different provinces in Norway that allocates a portion of state funds to ensure free access to textbooks for Norwegian students and to develop digital resources (or purchase from publishers or other producers) that are released under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. In just a few years, the project has produced a large amount of OER.
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==Poland==
===[[Case_Studies/Akademia_Orange|Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)]]===
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[http://akademiaorange.pl/ Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)] is a grant program for cultural education projects that is funded by the Orange Foundation (Fundacja Orange), a nonprofit, charitable branch of the Polish part of the Orange telecom operator. The licensing policy for all content funded through the Orange Academy is [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution]. The Orange Academy funds around 30 grants per year at ~$17,000 each, and funded projects focus on the Internet and modern technology as educational tools.
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===[[Case_Studies/We_Read_While_We're_Listening|We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)]]===
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[http://czytamysluchajac.pl/ We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)] is an open educational resources project by the Modern Poland Foundation (which is part of the Coalition for Open Education) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The project creates free access to audio versions of obligatory school reading material (the Polish school system has a list of 200+ books which are obligatory reading at different levels of curriculum, considered the cultural canon) by recording audiobooks by professional actors. The books are in the public domain, and the professional recordings are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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==South Africa==
===[[Case_Studies/Siyavula|Siyavula]]===
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Siyavula is working with local communities of teachers to incorporate and create educational materials under CC BY-SA.
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===[[Case_Studies/OER Africa|OER Africa]]===
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OER Africa is a network of projects that enables active participation by educators and other stakeholders in the improvement of education systems in Africa. Originally founded in 1992 by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to address the educational inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa, OER Africa now consists of a number of robust initiatives across the continent, including the African Health OER Network, AgShare project (Agricultural OER), and open university policies such as the default CC BY license policy for all Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology materials. The OER Africa site and its materials is also defaulted under CC BY.
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==South Korea==
===[[Case_Studies/SNOW|SNOW]]===
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[http://www.snow.or.kr/ SNOW] is an open knowledge platform for sharing higher education content. From lectures in the humanities, sciences, design to great addresses given by global leaders, SNOW offers Korean scripts and introductions on these academic subjects, encouraging its users to participate as volunteers who can participate in the OER movement through translations, distribution and creation of their own resources. As of February 2010, SNOW contained 260 Korean script-supported lectures including 145 lectures from TED, 95 voluntarily translated by users. All SNOW content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/kr/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives].
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===[[Case_Studies/Korea_University_Open_Course_Ware|Korea University OpenCourseWare]]===
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Korea University firstly launched its open courseware program in 2009, after joining the OCW consortium in 2007. Korea University OpenCourseWare provides lecture materials for ten departments, including the departments of Technology, Law, and Education. Korea University is also organizing open courseware (Korea Open Courseware) among domestic universities. Including Korea University, nine universities have implemented open courseware policies: Kyunghee University, Kyunghee Cyber University, Pukyung University, Pusan University, Sangmyung University, Seoul National University of Technology, Inha University, and Dongguck University. Korea University OCW is under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives] while other universities, such as [http://ocw.khu.ac.kr Kyunghee University OCW], have implemented [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==Sub-Saharan Africa==
===[[Case_Studies/TESSA|TESSA]]===
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TESSA is a research and development project that works to create open educational resources (OER) and course design guidance for educators across Sub-Saharan Africa under CC BY-SA.
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==United Kingdom==
===[[Case_Studies/OpenLearn|OpenLearn]]===
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[http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/ OpenLearn] is an initiative by the Open University (OU), the United Kingdom's distance learning and research university with an open policy for entry. OU has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available through its successful partnership with the BBC, and now with OpenLearn, it offers a full range of Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level and has seen millions of visitors since launch. The aim of OpenLearn is to reduce the costs of course development for everyone in education and improve quality by openly sharing quality-assured educational materials under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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===Citizen Maths===
[https://citizenmaths.com/ Citizen Maths] is "a mix of short online videos and hands-on activities" designed for the self-paced learner of math online. All materials are [https://citizenmaths.com/attribution-statement/ licensed CC BY] for anyone to use and remix.

==United States==

===[[Case_Studies/Open Course Library|Open Course Library]]===
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Washington State’s [http://opencourselibrary.org Open Course Library] is a large scale effort to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class. Faculty from Washington State Community and Technical Colleges are working together to design 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery. The goal of the Open Course Library is to improve course completion rates, lower textbook costs for students, provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses, and for the SBCTC system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. This last point is straight from a guiding principle of our college system's [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx Strategic Technology Plan] to “cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”
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===Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program===
The [http://creativecommons.org/taa-grant-program TAACCCT] is a grant fund cooperatively administered through the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Education. The program makes available US $2 billion over the next four years for grants that will “provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs.” The solicitation for grant applications (PDF) requires that all resources created using these funds must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY) license.

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The following is a list of the some of the most compelling OER projects and implementations of CC in educational policies around the world. For a more comprehensive listing, see the [[Casestudies|Case Studies]] project (linked above).
==Argentina==
===[[Case_Studies/Gleducar|Gleducar]]===
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Started in 2002, [http://www.gleducar.org.ar/ Gleducar] is a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. It was declared of National Interest by the Senate of Argentina three years later and is considered one of the most important open educational projects in Argentina. The community is supported by Gleducar's nonprofit/NGO status. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleducar] Community initiatives revolve around building a repository of open educational resources (OER), promoting more open intellectual property and educational policies, encouraging the use of free technologies and distributed networks, open access, and educational innovation in general. All content on Gleducar is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/deed.es CC Attribution-ShareAlike license].
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===[[Case_Studies/Encipel|Encipel]]===
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Started in 2012, [http://www.encipel.com/ Encipel] is an educational community in which users of any gender and age, create documents to share their knowledge. These documents are then reviewed and improved by the community, offering a better quality of content. We use the license CC BY-NC 3.0.[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/]. So all the information is open to everyone. We have decided to use this license because we want people to enhance knowledge an it´s distribution
Since the start we have improved the information, quality of the site an tools available for users. It´s still a very unknown project, but we expect it can grow more.
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==Australia==
===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Southern_Queensland_OpenCourseWare|University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare]]===
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The [http://ocw.usq.edu.au/ University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW)] provides access to free and open educational resources (OER) for students, academics, and interested readers worldwide. USQ OCW contains sample courses from each of the University’s five faculties, together with courses from its [http://www.usq.edu.au/ltsu/learnsupp/tpp/default.htm Tertiary Preparation Program]. USQ is the only Australian member of the [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ OpenCourseWare Consortium], an [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/ wallputih] [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29 international collaboration] of more than 230 higher education institutions and associated organisations ‘creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’ All USQ OCW is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==Brazil==
===OER-Brazil Project===
The OER-Brazil Project, or [http://rea.net.br/site/ Recursos Educacionais Abertos] [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/2012/10/4shared-com.html 4shared], is a website aimed at providing information on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Portuguese language speakers. The site features an extensive FAQ pointing to reference documents, media, and more. The site lists OER projects from Brazil and the rest of the world highlighting their CC license implementations. The OER-Brazil Project also provides information on current bills that aim to promote OER in Brazil if approved, and hopes to engage Brazilian society in the discussions and improvement of such policies. English language navigation of the site is in progress.

==Canada==
===[[Case_Studies/Athabasca_University|Athabasca University]]===
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Athabasca University is Canada's open university that is aiming to replace as many of their course materials with open educational resources (OER) and is home to the worlds first [http://www.aupress.ca/ University Press] dedicated to open access publishing, where authors choose whether to release their work under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license]. Athabasca University is also the base for the [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page UNESCO OER Community] that was first launched in 2005. Athabasca University OER is available under various CC licenses and the UNESCO OER Community publishes all content under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/BCcampus|BCcampus]]===
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The BCcampus initiative is a collaboration of 25 post-secondary institutions contributing and sharing open educational resources under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license or a BCcampus license for use within the system. It is an "online learning and educational technology service agency established and funded entirely by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development." BCcampus also manages an [http://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/ Open Textbook Project].
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===Ontario Online Learning Portal===
In addition to hosting OER, the Ontario Online Learning Portal has developed this OER video primer featuring UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources Dr. Rory McGreal: http://contactnorth.ca/tips-tools/open-educational-resources/videos.

==Chile==
===[[Case_Studies/Cybertesis|Cybertesis]] at the Universidad de Chile===
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[http://www.cybertesis.cl/ Cybertesis] is a joint publishing program for academic theses online, and is an initiative of the Université de Montreal, the Université Lyon2 and the Universidad de Chile, among other 50 institutions in Europe, Africa and America. It is financially supported by Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and UNESCO. The objective of Cybertesis is to promote the publication and diffusion of university theses online, implementing international standards for digital publishing, and technology that facilitate the access and interchange of information, based on interoperable and open source tools. Cybertesis supports the copyrights of its authors, by explaining the law and asking the authors for authorization to include their works in the system. Cybertesis offers several options, such as “not authorizing”, “embargo” (which allows postponing the release of the works temporally), and licensing with Creative Commons. The Creative Commons licensing system has become the standard adopted by Cybertesis to manage the rights of authors.
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==Colombia==
===[[Case_Studies/Eduteka|Eduteka]]===
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[http://www.eduteka.org/ Eduteka] is a primary and secondary educational portal for Spanish language open educational resources (OER) offered under a default of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.es_CO CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. It is supported and run by the Gabriel Piedrahita Uribe Foundation in Colombia and has been awarded the National Prize for Technology in Education twice by the Iberoamerican Network for Technology in Education. Eduteka has also run pilot programs, incorporating OER into schools in order to "[increase] the competency of students and teachers in ICTs" and "[improve] the integration of these technologies into the regular curriculum."
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===[[Case_Studies/Escuela_Virtual_del_Deporte|Escuela Virtual del Deporte]]===
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The [http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes Escuela Virtual del Deporte], or the Virtual School of Sports, leverages CC licensing and tools offered by ICT (Information Technology and Communication) to make available open educational resources (OER) in sports education. It is a collaboration between the Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, the United Nations Program for Development, and Colombia Aprende, and was created within the framework of government policies aimed at overcoming the digital divide. All content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/co CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/Virtual_School_for_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean|Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean]]===
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The [http://www.escuelapnud.org/public/index.php Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean] is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau and provides training in the applied sciences for social transformation in three academic areas: Human Development (HD), Democratic Governance (DG) and Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR). Its mission is "to strengthen democratic governance and contribute to human development in Latin America and the Caribbean." School resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives].
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==Czech Republic==
===[[Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal|RVP Metodicky Portal]]===
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The [http://dum.rvp.cz/index.html RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education. The project aims to provide "systematic support for teachers in teaching methodology and didactics, development of learning communities," and more "effective ways of learning."
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==Finland==
===[[Case_Studies/Le_Mill|Le Mill]]===
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[http://lemill.net/ Le Mill] is an online community for "finding, authoring and sharing" open educational resources (OER). Le Mill was developed by the LeMill team led by the Learning Environments Research Group of Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. As of November 2010, Le Mill has nearly ~15,000 teachers contributing from 63 countries and almost 24,000 learning resources in 83 languages. Le Mill resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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==India==
===[[Case_Studies/Open Education Project|Open Education Project]]===
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[http://in.okfn.org/open-education/ Open Education Project] is a crowd sourced platform of free books and education tools that are made available online. It is supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), India [http://in.okfn.org]. All content are free to be downloaded and printed by educators in the country. The Project uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution 3.0 Unported
] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. It especially aims to reach out to economically challenged children with education. There is already quite a large collection of books and educational materials in the project's database.
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===[[Case_Studies/Pratham_Books|Pratham Books]]===
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[http://www.prathambooks.org/ Pratham Books] is a non-profit children's book publishing house in India that uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. The books are available for purchase at low cost or for free online at their [http://www.scribd.com/prathambooks Scribd channel]. Pratham Books also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/prathambooks/ Flickr] account where they publish pictures of their community under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/Computer_Masti|Computer Masti]]===
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[http://www.computermasti.com/ Computer Masti (CM)] is a series of books, activities, and interactive content for [http://combinest.blogspot.com/2013/07/problems-in-computer-and-solution.html computer] [http://tsani-oke.blogspot.com/ education] in primary schools in India. It is a research-based product created at the IIT Bombay in collaboration with InOPEN, a tech start-up that works with Free and Open Source (FOSS) technologies. The books are available online under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/in/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] with additional permissions for commercial use via [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus CC plus] (more info to come in their [http://www.computermasti.com/legal legal] section). Site content is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/in/ CC Attribution].
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===National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)===
[http://nptel.ac.in/ NPTEL] is a large OER publishing project of India. It is operated by a network of federal academic and research institutions in India and is funded by the Ministry of HRD. [http://nptel.ac.in/faq.php NPTEL has published 770 full courses in English] as of this year (each course contains lecture material equal to about 30 hours). They cover mainly STEM topics and are popular (about 117 million views on YouTube, for example, for some of the published courses).

Back in July 2012, NPTEL adopted CC BY SA NC licenses. As of Sep 2014, NPTEL has removed the NC restriction and all materials now are CC BY SA. [http://nptel.ac.in/pdf/CC%20LIcenseNotes.pdf Here is an official note of NPTEL] that explains the rationale for adoption of CC licenses.

===National Repository of Open Educational Resources ===
The [http://nroer.in/home/ NROER] is licensed under CC BY-SA.

==Internet==
===[[Case_Studies/OpenSecurityTraining|OpenSecurityTraining.info]]===
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In the spirit of OpenCourseWare and the Khan Academy, OpenSecurityTraining.info is dedicated to sharing training material for computer security classes, on any topic, that are at least one day long. This site is always seeking new collaborators to broaden the available training, but already has training on assembly languages, reverse engineering, malware analysis, exploits, vulnerability assessment, trusted computing, android forensics, and other topics. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 (unported)].
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==Italy==
===[[Case_Studies/I-CLEEN project|I-CLEEN project]]===
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[http://www.icleen.museum/ I-CLEEN] I-CLEEN is a collaborative project among teachers, willing to create a free database of resources (an information gateway) already tested in the classrooms, aiming to an interactive education of Earth System Science topics. I-CLEEN is a web project by the [http://www.mtsn.tn.it/ Science Museum of Trento](former Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences). The project won the [http://elearningawards.eun.org/ww/en/pub/elearningawards/homepage.htm eLearning award 2010]. All the parts that make up the project and all their respective activities are fully dealt with using an open source web platform called [http://www.liferay.com/ LifeRay] specifically implemented for this project. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC Attribution 3.0 (Italy)]
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==Netherlands==
===[[Case_Studies/Wikiwijs|Wikiwijs]]===
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[http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english/ Wikiwijs] is an open educational resources (OER) platform for teachers launched by the Dutch Ministry of Education to "stimulate development and use of OER", "improve access to both open and 'closed' digital learning materials", "support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization", and to "increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER." Wikiwijs builds on the wiki philosophy of Wikipedia but customizes an existing OER platform, [http://cnx.org/ Connexions], to host and distribute its content. Wikiwijs is focused on all levels of education, from primary to higher education. All content on Wikiwijs is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/ CC BY].
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==New Zealand==
===[[Case_Studies/OERNZ|OERNZ]]===
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[http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ OER NZ] is a joint effort by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the OER Foundation to build an open educational resources (OER) portal for New Zealand schools. In keeping with the [http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework], which specifically recommends "the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material," a national portal for OER would involve building a "sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum." All content will be under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] or otherwise meet the [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition free cultural works definition].
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===[[Case_Studies/Otago_Polytechnic|Otago Polytechnic]]===
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[http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic Otago Polytechnic] is a publicly-subsidised vocational education and training organisation in Dunedin, New Zealand, that offers a range of open access training courses. Otago Polytechnic is the first tertiary institution in the world to adopt a [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8235 default CC Attribution policy] and the first New Zealand tertiary institution to sign the [http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Cape Town Open Education Declaration].
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==Norway==
===[[Case_Studies/Norwegian_National_Digital_Learning_Arena|Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)]]===
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The [http://ndla.no/en/ Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)] is an open educational resources (OER) project and open source platform for sharing OER in secondary education. It is a joint initiative by different provinces in Norway that allocates a portion of state funds to ensure free access to textbooks for Norwegian students and to develop digital resources (or purchase from publishers or other producers) that are released under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. In just a few years, the project has produced a large amount of OER.
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==Poland==
===[[Case_Studies/Akademia_Orange|Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)]]===
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[http://akademiaorange.pl/ Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)] is a grant program for cultural education projects that is funded by the Orange Foundation (Fundacja Orange), a nonprofit, charitable branch of the Polish part of the Orange telecom operator. The licensing policy for all content funded through the Orange Academy is [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution]. The Orange Academy funds around 30 grants per year at ~$17,000 each, and funded projects focus on the Internet and modern technology as educational tools.
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===[[Case_Studies/We_Read_While_We're_Listening|We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)]]===
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[http://czytamysluchajac.pl/ We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)] is an open educational resources project by the Modern Poland Foundation (which is part of the Coalition for Open Education) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The project creates free access to audio versions of obligatory school reading material (the Polish school system has a list of 200+ books which are obligatory reading at different levels of curriculum, considered the cultural canon) by recording audiobooks by professional actors. The books are in the public domain, and the professional recordings are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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==South Africa==
===[[Case_Studies/Siyavula|Siyavula]]===
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Siyavula is working with local communities of teachers to incorporate and create educational materials under CC BY-SA.
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===[[Case_Studies/OER Africa|OER Africa]]===
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OER Africa is a network of projects that enables active participation by educators and other stakeholders in the improvement of education systems in Africa. Originally founded in 1992 by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to address the educational inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa, OER Africa now consists of a number of robust initiatives across the continent, including the African Health OER Network, AgShare project (Agricultural OER), and open university policies such as the default CC BY license policy for all Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology materials. The OER Africa site and its materials is also defaulted under CC BY.
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==South Korea==
===[[Case_Studies/SNOW|SNOW]]===
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[http://www.snow.or.kr/ SNOW] is an open knowledge platform for sharing higher education content. From lectures in the humanities, sciences, design to great addresses given by global leaders, SNOW offers Korean scripts and introductions on these academic subjects, encouraging its users to participate as volunteers who can participate in the OER movement through translations, distribution and creation of their own resources. As of February 2010, SNOW contained 260 Korean script-supported lectures including 145 lectures from TED, 95 voluntarily translated by users. All SNOW content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/kr/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives].
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===[[Case_Studies/Korea_University_Open_Course_Ware|Korea University OpenCourseWare]]===
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Korea University firstly launched its open courseware program in 2009, after joining the OCW consortium in 2007. Korea University OpenCourseWare provides lecture materials for ten departments, including the departments of Technology, Law, and Education. Korea University is also organizing open courseware (Korea Open Courseware) among domestic universities. Including Korea University, nine universities have implemented open courseware policies: Kyunghee University, Kyunghee Cyber University, Pukyung University, Pusan University, Sangmyung University, Seoul National University of Technology, Inha University, and Dongguck University. Korea University OCW is under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives] while other universities, such as [http://ocw.khu.ac.kr Kyunghee University OCW], have implemented [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==Sub-Saharan Africa==
===[[Case_Studies/TESSA|TESSA]]===
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TESSA is a research and development project that works to create open educational resources (OER) and course design guidance for educators across Sub-Saharan Africa under CC BY-SA.
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==United Kingdom==
===[[Case_Studies/OpenLearn|OpenLearn]]===
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[http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/ OpenLearn] is an initiative by the Open University (OU), the United Kingdom's distance learning and research university with an open policy for entry. OU has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available through its successful partnership with the BBC, and now with OpenLearn, it offers a full range of Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level and has seen millions of visitors since launch. The aim of OpenLearn is to reduce the costs of course development for everyone in education and improve quality by openly sharing quality-assured educational materials under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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===Citizen Maths===
[https://citizenmaths.com/ Citizen Maths] is "a mix of short online videos and hands-on activities" designed for the self-paced learner of math online. All materials are [https://citizenmaths.com/attribution-statement/ licensed CC BY] for anyone to use and remix.

==United States==

===[[Case_Studies/Open Course Library|Open Course Library]]===
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Washington State’s [http://opencourselibrary.org Open Course Library] is a large scale effort to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class. Faculty from Washington State Community and Technical Colleges are working together to design 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery. The goal of the Open Course Library is to improve course completion rates, lower textbook costs for students, provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses, and for the SBCTC system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. This last point is straight from a guiding principle of our college system's [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx Strategic Technology Plan] to “cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”
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===Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program===
The [http://creativecommons.org/taa-grant-program TAACCCT] is a grant fund cooperatively administered through the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Education. The program makes available US $2 billion over the next four years for grants that will “provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs.” The solicitation for grant applications (PDF) requires that all resources created using these funds must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY) license.

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The following is a list of the some of the most compelling OER projects and implementations of CC in educational policies around the world. For a more comprehensive listing, see the [[Casestudies|Case Studies]] project (linked above).
==Argentina==
===[[Case_Studies/Gleducar|Gleducar]]===
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Started in 2002, [http://www.gleducar.org.ar/ Gleducar] is a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. It was declared of National Interest by the Senate of Argentina three years later and is considered one of the most important open educational projects in Argentina. The community is supported by Gleducar's nonprofit/NGO status. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleducar] Community initiatives revolve around building a repository of open educational resources (OER), promoting more open intellectual property and educational policies, encouraging the use of free technologies and distributed networks, open access, and educational innovation in general. All content on Gleducar is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/deed.es CC Attribution-ShareAlike license].
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===[[Case_Studies/Encipel|Encipel]]===
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Started in 2012, [http://www.encipel.com/ Encipel] is an educational community in which users of any gender and age, create documents to share their knowledge. These documents are then reviewed and improved by the community, offering a better quality of content. We use the license CC BY-NC 3.0.[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/]. So all the information is open to everyone. We have decided to use this license because we want people to enhance knowledge an it´s distribution
Since the start we have improved the information, quality of the site an tools available for users. It´s still a very unknown project, but we expect it can grow more.
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==Australia==
===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Southern_Queensland_OpenCourseWare|University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare]]===
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The [http://ocw.usq.edu.au/ University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW)] provides access to free and open educational resources (OER) for students, academics, and interested readers worldwide. USQ OCW contains sample courses from each of the University’s five faculties, together with courses from its [http://www.usq.edu.au/ltsu/learnsupp/tpp/default.htm Tertiary Preparation Program]. USQ is the only Australian member of the [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ OpenCourseWare Consortium], an [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/ wallputih] [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29 international collaboration] of more than 230 higher education institutions and associated organisations ‘creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’ All USQ OCW is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==Brazil==
===OER-Brazil Project===
The OER-Brazil Project, or [http://rea.net.br/site/ Recursos Educacionais Abertos] [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/2012/10/4shared-com.html 4shared], is a website aimed at providing information on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Portuguese language speakers. The site features an extensive FAQ pointing to reference documents, media, and more. The site lists OER projects from Brazil and the rest of the world highlighting their CC license implementations. The OER-Brazil Project also provides information on current bills that aim to promote OER in Brazil if approved, and hopes to engage Brazilian society in the discussions and improvement of such policies. English language navigation of the site is in progress.

==Canada==
===[[Case_Studies/Athabasca_University|Athabasca University]]===
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Athabasca University is Canada's open university that is aiming to replace as many of their course materials with open educational resources (OER) and is home to the worlds first [http://www.aupress.ca/ University Press] dedicated to open access publishing, where authors choose whether to release their work under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license]. Athabasca University is also the base for the [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page UNESCO OER Community] that was first launched in 2005. Athabasca University OER is available under various CC licenses and the UNESCO OER Community publishes all content under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/BCcampus|BCcampus]]===
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The BCcampus initiative is a collaboration of 25 post-secondary institutions contributing and sharing open educational resources under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license or a BCcampus license for use within the system. It is an "online learning and educational technology service agency established and funded entirely by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development." BCcampus also manages an [http://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/ Open Textbook Project].
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===Ontario Online Learning Portal===
In addition to hosting OER, the Ontario Online Learning Portal has developed this OER video primer featuring UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources Dr. Rory McGreal: http://contactnorth.ca/tips-tools/open-educational-resources/videos.

==Chile==
===[[Case_Studies/Cybertesis|Cybertesis]] at the Universidad de Chile===
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[http://www.cybertesis.cl/ Cybertesis] is a joint publishing program for academic theses online, and is an initiative of the Université de Montreal, the Université Lyon2 and the Universidad de Chile, among other 50 institutions in Europe, Africa and America. It is financially supported by Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and UNESCO. The objective of Cybertesis is to promote the publication and diffusion of university theses online, implementing international standards for digital publishing, and technology that facilitate the access and interchange of information, based on interoperable and open source tools. Cybertesis supports the copyrights of its authors, by explaining the law and asking the authors for authorization to include their works in the system. Cybertesis offers several options, such as “not authorizing”, “embargo” (which allows postponing the release of the works temporally), and licensing with Creative Commons. The Creative Commons licensing system has become the standard adopted by Cybertesis to manage the rights of authors.
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==Colombia==
===[[Case_Studies/Eduteka|Eduteka]]===
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[http://www.eduteka.org/ Eduteka] is a primary and secondary educational portal for Spanish language open educational resources (OER) offered under a default of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.es_CO CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. It is supported and run by the Gabriel Piedrahita Uribe Foundation in Colombia and has been awarded the National Prize for Technology in Education twice by the Iberoamerican Network for Technology in Education. Eduteka has also run pilot programs, incorporating OER into schools in order to "[increase] the competency of students and teachers in ICTs" and "[improve] the integration of these technologies into the regular curriculum."
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===[[Case_Studies/Escuela_Virtual_del_Deporte|Escuela Virtual del Deporte]]===
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The [http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes Escuela Virtual del Deporte], or the Virtual School of Sports, leverages CC licensing and tools offered by ICT (Information Technology and Communication) to make available open educational resources (OER) in sports education. It is a collaboration between the Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, the United Nations Program for Development, and Colombia Aprende, and was created within the framework of government policies aimed at overcoming the digital divide. All content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/co CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/Virtual_School_for_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean|Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean]]===
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The [http://www.escuelapnud.org/public/index.php Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean] is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau and provides training in the applied sciences for social transformation in three academic areas: Human Development (HD), Democratic Governance (DG) and Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR). Its mission is "to strengthen democratic governance and contribute to human development in Latin America and the Caribbean." School resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives].
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==Czech Republic==
===[[Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal|RVP Metodicky Portal]]===
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The [http://dum.rvp.cz/index.html RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education. The project aims to provide "systematic support for teachers in teaching methodology and didactics, development of learning communities," and more "effective ways of learning."
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==Finland==
===[[Case_Studies/Le_Mill|Le Mill]]===
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[http://lemill.net/ Le Mill] is an online community for "finding, authoring and sharing" open educational resources (OER). Le Mill was developed by the LeMill team led by the Learning Environments Research Group of Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. As of November 2010, Le Mill has nearly ~15,000 teachers contributing from 63 countries and almost 24,000 learning resources in 83 languages. Le Mill resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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==India==
===[[Case_Studies/Open Education Project|Open Education Project]]===
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[http://in.okfn.org/open-education/ Open Education Project] is a crowd sourced platform of free books and education tools that are made available online. It is supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), India [http://in.okfn.org]. All content are free to be downloaded and printed by educators in the country. The Project uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution 3.0 Unported
] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. It especially aims to reach out to economically challenged children with education. There is already quite a large collection of books and educational materials in the project's database.
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===[[Case_Studies/Pratham_Books|Pratham Books]]===
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[http://www.prathambooks.org/ Pratham Books] is a non-profit children's book publishing house in India that uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. The books are available for purchase at low cost or for free online at their [http://www.scribd.com/prathambooks Scribd channel]. Pratham Books also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/prathambooks/ Flickr] account where they publish pictures of their community under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/Computer_Masti|Computer Masti]]===
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[http://www.computermasti.com/ Computer Masti (CM)] is a series of books, activities, and interactive content for [http://combinest.blogspot.com/2013/07/problems-in-computer-and-solution.html computer] [http://tsani-oke.blogspot.com/ education] in primary schools in India. It is a research-based product created at the IIT Bombay in collaboration with InOPEN, a tech start-up that works with Free and Open Source (FOSS) technologies. The books are available online under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/in/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] with additional permissions for commercial use via [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus CC plus] (more info to come in their [http://www.computermasti.com/legal legal] section). Site content is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/in/ CC Attribution].
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===National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)===
[http://nptel.ac.in/ NPTEL] is a large OER publishing project of India. It is operated by a network of federal academic and research institutions in India and is funded by the Ministry of HRD. [http://nptel.ac.in/faq.php NPTEL has published 770 full courses in English] as of this year (each course contains lecture material equal to about 30 hours). They cover mainly STEM topics and are popular (about 117 million views on YouTube, for example, for some of the published courses).

Back in July 2012, NPTEL adopted CC BY SA NC licenses. As of Sep 2014, NPTEL has removed the NC restriction and all materials now are CC BY SA. [http://nptel.ac.in/pdf/CC%20LIcenseNotes.pdf Here is an official note of NPTEL] that explains the rationale for adoption of CC licenses.

===National Repository of Open Educational Resources ===
The [http://nroer.in/home/ NROER] is licensed under CC BY-SA.

==Internet==
===[[Case_Studies/OpenSecurityTraining|OpenSecurityTraining.info]]===
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In the spirit of OpenCourseWare and the Khan Academy, OpenSecurityTraining.info is dedicated to sharing training material for computer security classes, on any topic, that are at least one day long. This site is always seeking new collaborators to broaden the available training, but already has training on assembly languages, reverse engineering, malware analysis, exploits, vulnerability assessment, trusted computing, android forensics, and other topics. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 (unported)].
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==Italy==
===[[Case_Studies/I-CLEEN project|I-CLEEN project]]===
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[http://www.icleen.museum/ I-CLEEN] I-CLEEN is a collaborative project among teachers, willing to create a free database of resources (an information gateway) already tested in the classrooms, aiming to an interactive education of Earth System Science topics. I-CLEEN is a web project by the [http://www.mtsn.tn.it/ Science Museum of Trento](former Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences). The project won the [http://elearningawards.eun.org/ww/en/pub/elearningawards/homepage.htm eLearning award 2010]. All the parts that make up the project and all their respective activities are fully dealt with using an open source web platform called [http://www.liferay.com/ LifeRay] specifically implemented for this project. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC Attribution 3.0 (Italy)]
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==Netherlands==
===[[Case_Studies/Wikiwijs|Wikiwijs]]===
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[http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english/ Wikiwijs] is an open educational resources (OER) platform for teachers launched by the Dutch Ministry of Education to "stimulate development and use of OER", "improve access to both open and 'closed' digital learning materials", "support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization", and to "increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER." Wikiwijs builds on the wiki philosophy of Wikipedia but customizes an existing OER platform, [http://cnx.org/ Connexions], to host and distribute its content. Wikiwijs is focused on all levels of education, from primary to higher education. All content on Wikiwijs is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/ CC BY].
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==New Zealand==
===[[Case_Studies/OERNZ|OERNZ]]===
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[http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ OER NZ] is a joint effort by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the OER Foundation to build an open educational resources (OER) portal for New Zealand schools. In keeping with the [http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework], which specifically recommends "the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material," a national portal for OER would involve building a "sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum." All content will be under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] or otherwise meet the [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition free cultural works definition].
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===[[Case_Studies/Otago_Polytechnic|Otago Polytechnic]]===
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[http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic Otago Polytechnic] is a publicly-subsidised vocational education and training organisation in Dunedin, New Zealand, that offers a range of open access training courses. Otago Polytechnic is the first tertiary institution in the world to adopt a [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8235 default CC Attribution policy] and the first New Zealand tertiary institution to sign the [http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Cape Town Open Education Declaration].
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==Norway==
===[[Case_Studies/Norwegian_National_Digital_Learning_Arena|Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)]]===
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The [http://ndla.no/en/ Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)] is an open educational resources (OER) project and open source platform for sharing OER in secondary education. It is a joint initiative by different provinces in Norway that allocates a portion of state funds to ensure free access to textbooks for Norwegian students and to develop digital resources (or purchase from publishers or other producers) that are released under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. In just a few years, the project has produced a large amount of OER.
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==Poland==
===[[Case_Studies/Akademia_Orange|Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)]]===
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[http://akademiaorange.pl/ Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)] is a grant program for cultural education projects that is funded by the Orange Foundation (Fundacja Orange), a nonprofit, charitable branch of the Polish part of the Orange telecom operator. The licensing policy for all content funded through the Orange Academy is [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution]. The Orange Academy funds around 30 grants per year at ~$17,000 each, and funded projects focus on the Internet and modern technology as educational tools.
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===[[Case_Studies/We_Read_While_We're_Listening|We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)]]===
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[http://czytamysluchajac.pl/ We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)] is an open educational resources project by the Modern Poland Foundation (which is part of the Coalition for Open Education) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The project creates free access to audio versions of obligatory school reading material (the Polish school system has a list of 200+ books which are obligatory reading at different levels of curriculum, considered the cultural canon) by recording audiobooks by professional actors. The books are in the public domain, and the professional recordings are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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==South Africa==
===[[Case_Studies/Siyavula|Siyavula]]===
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Siyavula is working with local communities of teachers to incorporate and create educational materials under CC BY-SA.
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===[[Case_Studies/OER Africa|OER Africa]]===
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OER Africa is a network of projects that enables active participation by educators and other stakeholders in the improvement of education systems in Africa. Originally founded in 1992 by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to address the educational inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa, OER Africa now consists of a number of robust initiatives across the continent, including the African Health OER Network, AgShare project (Agricultural OER), and open university policies such as the default CC BY license policy for all Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology materials. The OER Africa site and its materials is also defaulted under CC BY.
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==South Korea==
===[[Case_Studies/SNOW|SNOW]]===
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[http://www.snow.or.kr/ SNOW] is an open knowledge platform for sharing higher education content. From lectures in the humanities, sciences, design to great addresses given by global leaders, SNOW offers Korean scripts and introductions on these academic subjects, encouraging its users to participate as volunteers who can participate in the OER movement through translations, distribution and creation of their own resources. As of February 2010, SNOW contained 260 Korean script-supported lectures including 145 lectures from TED, 95 voluntarily translated by users. All SNOW content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/kr/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives].
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===[[Case_Studies/Korea_University_Open_Course_Ware|Korea University OpenCourseWare]]===
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Korea University firstly launched its open courseware program in 2009, after joining the OCW consortium in 2007. Korea University OpenCourseWare provides lecture materials for ten departments, including the departments of Technology, Law, and Education. Korea University is also organizing open courseware (Korea Open Courseware) among domestic universities. Including Korea University, nine universities have implemented open courseware policies: Kyunghee University, Kyunghee Cyber University, Pukyung University, Pusan University, Sangmyung University, Seoul National University of Technology, Inha University, and Dongguck University. Korea University OCW is under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives] while other universities, such as [http://ocw.khu.ac.kr Kyunghee University OCW], have implemented [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==Sub-Saharan Africa==
===[[Case_Studies/TESSA|TESSA]]===
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TESSA is a research and development project that works to create open educational resources (OER) and course design guidance for educators across Sub-Saharan Africa under CC BY-SA.
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==United Kingdom==
===[[Case_Studies/OpenLearn|OpenLearn]]===
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[http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/ OpenLearn] is an initiative by the Open University (OU), the United Kingdom's distance learning and research university with an open policy for entry. OU has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available through its successful partnership with the BBC, and now with OpenLearn, it offers a full range of Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level and has seen millions of visitors since launch. The aim of OpenLearn is to reduce the costs of course development for everyone in education and improve quality by openly sharing quality-assured educational materials under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==United States==

===[[Case_Studies/Open Course Library|Open Course Library]]===
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Washington State’s [http://opencourselibrary.org Open Course Library] is a large scale effort to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class. Faculty from Washington State Community and Technical Colleges are working together to design 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery. The goal of the Open Course Library is to improve course completion rates, lower textbook costs for students, provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses, and for the SBCTC system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. This last point is straight from a guiding principle of our college system's [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx Strategic Technology Plan] to “cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”
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===Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program===
The [http://creativecommons.org/taa-grant-program TAACCCT] is a grant fund cooperatively administered through the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Education. The program makes available US $2 billion over the next four years for grants that will “provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs.” The solicitation for grant applications (PDF) requires that all resources created using these funds must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY) license.

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The following is a list of the some of the most compelling OER projects and implementations of CC in educational policies around the world. For a more comprehensive listing, see the [[Casestudies|Case Studies]] project (linked above).
==Argentina==
===[[Case_Studies/Gleducar|Gleducar]]===
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Started in 2002, [http://www.gleducar.org.ar/ Gleducar] is a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. It was declared of National Interest by the Senate of Argentina three years later and is considered one of the most important open educational projects in Argentina. The community is supported by Gleducar's nonprofit/NGO status. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleducar] Community initiatives revolve around building a repository of open educational resources (OER), promoting more open intellectual property and educational policies, encouraging the use of free technologies and distributed networks, open access, and educational innovation in general. All content on Gleducar is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/deed.es CC Attribution-ShareAlike license].
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===[[Case_Studies/Encipel|Encipel]]===
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Started in 2012, [http://www.encipel.com/ Encipel] is an educational community in which users of any gender and age, create documents to share their knowledge. These documents are then reviewed and improved by the community, offering a better quality of content. We use the license CC BY-NC 3.0.[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/]. So all the information is open to everyone. We have decided to use this license because we want people to enhance knowledge an it´s distribution
Since the start we have improved the information, quality of the site an tools available for users. It´s still a very unknown project, but we expect it can grow more.
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==Australia==
===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Southern_Queensland_OpenCourseWare|University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare]]===
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The [http://ocw.usq.edu.au/ University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW)] provides access to free and open educational resources (OER) for students, academics, and interested readers worldwide. USQ OCW contains sample courses from each of the University’s five faculties, together with courses from its [http://www.usq.edu.au/ltsu/learnsupp/tpp/default.htm Tertiary Preparation Program]. USQ is the only Australian member of the [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ OpenCourseWare Consortium], an [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/ wallputih] [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29 international collaboration] of more than 230 higher education institutions and associated organisations ‘creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’ All USQ OCW is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==Brazil==
===OER-Brazil Project===
The OER-Brazil Project, or [http://rea.net.br/site/ Recursos Educacionais Abertos] [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/2012/10/4shared-com.html 4shared], is a website aimed at providing information on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Portuguese language speakers. The site features an extensive FAQ pointing to reference documents, media, and more. The site lists OER projects from Brazil and the rest of the world highlighting their CC license implementations. The OER-Brazil Project also provides information on current bills that aim to promote OER in Brazil if approved, and hopes to engage Brazilian society in the discussions and improvement of such policies. English language navigation of the site is in progress.

==Canada==
===[[Case_Studies/Athabasca_University|Athabasca University]]===
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Athabasca University is Canada's open university that is aiming to replace as many of their course materials with open educational resources (OER) and is home to the worlds first [http://www.aupress.ca/ University Press] dedicated to open access publishing, where authors choose whether to release their work under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license]. Athabasca University is also the base for the [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page UNESCO OER Community] that was first launched in 2005. Athabasca University OER is available under various CC licenses and the UNESCO OER Community publishes all content under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/BCcampus|BCcampus]]===
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The BCcampus initiative is a collaboration of 25 post-secondary institutions contributing and sharing open educational resources under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license or a BCcampus license for use within the system. It is an "online learning and educational technology service agency established and funded entirely by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development." BCcampus also manages an [http://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/ Open Textbook Project].
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===Ontario Online Learning Portal===
In addition to hosting OER, the Ontario Online Learning Portal has developed this OER video primer featuring UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources Dr. Rory McGreal: http://contactnorth.ca/tips-tools/open-educational-resources/videos.

==Chile==
===[[Case_Studies/Cybertesis|Cybertesis]] at the Universidad de Chile===
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[http://www.cybertesis.cl/ Cybertesis] is a joint publishing program for academic theses online, and is an initiative of the Université de Montreal, the Université Lyon2 and the Universidad de Chile, among other 50 institutions in Europe, Africa and America. It is financially supported by Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and UNESCO. The objective of Cybertesis is to promote the publication and diffusion of university theses online, implementing international standards for digital publishing, and technology that facilitate the access and interchange of information, based on interoperable and open source tools. Cybertesis supports the copyrights of its authors, by explaining the law and asking the authors for authorization to include their works in the system. Cybertesis offers several options, such as “not authorizing”, “embargo” (which allows postponing the release of the works temporally), and licensing with Creative Commons. The Creative Commons licensing system has become the standard adopted by Cybertesis to manage the rights of authors.
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==Colombia==
===[[Case_Studies/Eduteka|Eduteka]]===
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[http://www.eduteka.org/ Eduteka] is a primary and secondary educational portal for Spanish language open educational resources (OER) offered under a default of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.es_CO CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. It is supported and run by the Gabriel Piedrahita Uribe Foundation in Colombia and has been awarded the National Prize for Technology in Education twice by the Iberoamerican Network for Technology in Education. Eduteka has also run pilot programs, incorporating OER into schools in order to "[increase] the competency of students and teachers in ICTs" and "[improve] the integration of these technologies into the regular curriculum."
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===[[Case_Studies/Escuela_Virtual_del_Deporte|Escuela Virtual del Deporte]]===
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The [http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes Escuela Virtual del Deporte], or the Virtual School of Sports, leverages CC licensing and tools offered by ICT (Information Technology and Communication) to make available open educational resources (OER) in sports education. It is a collaboration between the Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, the United Nations Program for Development, and Colombia Aprende, and was created within the framework of government policies aimed at overcoming the digital divide. All content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/co CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/Virtual_School_for_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean|Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean]]===
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The [http://www.escuelapnud.org/public/index.php Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean] is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau and provides training in the applied sciences for social transformation in three academic areas: Human Development (HD), Democratic Governance (DG) and Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR). Its mission is "to strengthen democratic governance and contribute to human development in Latin America and the Caribbean." School resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives].
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==Czech Republic==
===[[Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal|RVP Metodicky Portal]]===
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The [http://dum.rvp.cz/index.html RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education. The project aims to provide "systematic support for teachers in teaching methodology and didactics, development of learning communities," and more "effective ways of learning."
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==Finland==
===[[Case_Studies/Le_Mill|Le Mill]]===
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[http://lemill.net/ Le Mill] is an online community for "finding, authoring and sharing" open educational resources (OER). Le Mill was developed by the LeMill team led by the Learning Environments Research Group of Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. As of November 2010, Le Mill has nearly ~15,000 teachers contributing from 63 countries and almost 24,000 learning resources in 83 languages. Le Mill resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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==India==
===[[Case_Studies/Open Education Project|Open Education Project]]===
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[http://in.okfn.org/open-education/ Open Education Project] is a crowd sourced platform of free books and education tools that are made available online. It is supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), India [http://in.okfn.org]. All content are free to be downloaded and printed by educators in the country. The Project uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution 3.0 Unported
] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. It especially aims to reach out to economically challenged children with education. There is already quite a large collection of books and educational materials in the project's database.
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===[[Case_Studies/Pratham_Books|Pratham Books]]===
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[http://www.prathambooks.org/ Pratham Books] is a non-profit children's book publishing house in India that uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. The books are available for purchase at low cost or for free online at their [http://www.scribd.com/prathambooks Scribd channel]. Pratham Books also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/prathambooks/ Flickr] account where they publish pictures of their community under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/Computer_Masti|Computer Masti]]===
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[http://www.computermasti.com/ Computer Masti (CM)] is a series of books, activities, and interactive content for [http://combinest.blogspot.com/2013/07/problems-in-computer-and-solution.html computer] [http://tsani-oke.blogspot.com/ education] in primary schools in India. It is a research-based product created at the IIT Bombay in collaboration with InOPEN, a tech start-up that works with Free and Open Source (FOSS) technologies. The books are available online under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/in/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] with additional permissions for commercial use via [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus CC plus] (more info to come in their [http://www.computermasti.com/legal legal] section). Site content is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/in/ CC Attribution].
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===National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)===
[http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ NPTEL] is a large higher education initiative in India that offers 20,000 lecture hours worth of material in engineering and science. All resources are in English and are distributed under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] license.

===National Repository of Open Educational Resources ===
The [http://nroer.in/home/ NROER] is licensed under CC BY-SA.

==Internet==
===[[Case_Studies/OpenSecurityTraining|OpenSecurityTraining.info]]===
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In the spirit of OpenCourseWare and the Khan Academy, OpenSecurityTraining.info is dedicated to sharing training material for computer security classes, on any topic, that are at least one day long. This site is always seeking new collaborators to broaden the available training, but already has training on assembly languages, reverse engineering, malware analysis, exploits, vulnerability assessment, trusted computing, android forensics, and other topics. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 (unported)].
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==Italy==
===[[Case_Studies/I-CLEEN project|I-CLEEN project]]===
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[http://www.icleen.museum/ I-CLEEN] I-CLEEN is a collaborative project among teachers, willing to create a free database of resources (an information gateway) already tested in the classrooms, aiming to an interactive education of Earth System Science topics. I-CLEEN is a web project by the [http://www.mtsn.tn.it/ Science Museum of Trento](former Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences). The project won the [http://elearningawards.eun.org/ww/en/pub/elearningawards/homepage.htm eLearning award 2010]. All the parts that make up the project and all their respective activities are fully dealt with using an open source web platform called [http://www.liferay.com/ LifeRay] specifically implemented for this project. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC Attribution 3.0 (Italy)]
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==Netherlands==
===[[Case_Studies/Wikiwijs|Wikiwijs]]===
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[http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english/ Wikiwijs] is an open educational resources (OER) platform for teachers launched by the Dutch Ministry of Education to "stimulate development and use of OER", "improve access to both open and 'closed' digital learning materials", "support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization", and to "increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER." Wikiwijs builds on the wiki philosophy of Wikipedia but customizes an existing OER platform, [http://cnx.org/ Connexions], to host and distribute its content. Wikiwijs is focused on all levels of education, from primary to higher education. All content on Wikiwijs is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/ CC BY].
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==New Zealand==
===[[Case_Studies/OERNZ|OERNZ]]===
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[http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ OER NZ] is a joint effort by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the OER Foundation to build an open educational resources (OER) portal for New Zealand schools. In keeping with the [http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework], which specifically recommends "the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material," a national portal for OER would involve building a "sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum." All content will be under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] or otherwise meet the [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition free cultural works definition].
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===[[Case_Studies/Otago_Polytechnic|Otago Polytechnic]]===
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[http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic Otago Polytechnic] is a publicly-subsidised vocational education and training organisation in Dunedin, New Zealand, that offers a range of open access training courses. Otago Polytechnic is the first tertiary institution in the world to adopt a [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8235 default CC Attribution policy] and the first New Zealand tertiary institution to sign the [http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Cape Town Open Education Declaration].
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==Norway==
===[[Case_Studies/Norwegian_National_Digital_Learning_Arena|Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)]]===
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The [http://ndla.no/en/ Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)] is an open educational resources (OER) project and open source platform for sharing OER in secondary education. It is a joint initiative by different provinces in Norway that allocates a portion of state funds to ensure free access to textbooks for Norwegian students and to develop digital resources (or purchase from publishers or other producers) that are released under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. In just a few years, the project has produced a large amount of OER.
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==Poland==
===[[Case_Studies/Akademia_Orange|Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)]]===
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[http://akademiaorange.pl/ Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)] is a grant program for cultural education projects that is funded by the Orange Foundation (Fundacja Orange), a nonprofit, charitable branch of the Polish part of the Orange telecom operator. The licensing policy for all content funded through the Orange Academy is [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution]. The Orange Academy funds around 30 grants per year at ~$17,000 each, and funded projects focus on the Internet and modern technology as educational tools.
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===[[Case_Studies/We_Read_While_We're_Listening|We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)]]===
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[http://czytamysluchajac.pl/ We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)] is an open educational resources project by the Modern Poland Foundation (which is part of the Coalition for Open Education) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The project creates free access to audio versions of obligatory school reading material (the Polish school system has a list of 200+ books which are obligatory reading at different levels of curriculum, considered the cultural canon) by recording audiobooks by professional actors. The books are in the public domain, and the professional recordings are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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==South Africa==
===[[Case_Studies/Siyavula|Siyavula]]===
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Siyavula is working with local communities of teachers to incorporate and create educational materials under CC BY-SA.
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===[[Case_Studies/OER Africa|OER Africa]]===
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OER Africa is a network of projects that enables active participation by educators and other stakeholders in the improvement of education systems in Africa. Originally founded in 1992 by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to address the educational inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa, OER Africa now consists of a number of robust initiatives across the continent, including the African Health OER Network, AgShare project (Agricultural OER), and open university policies such as the default CC BY license policy for all Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology materials. The OER Africa site and its materials is also defaulted under CC BY.
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==South Korea==
===[[Case_Studies/SNOW|SNOW]]===
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[http://www.snow.or.kr/ SNOW] is an open knowledge platform for sharing higher education content. From lectures in the humanities, sciences, design to great addresses given by global leaders, SNOW offers Korean scripts and introductions on these academic subjects, encouraging its users to participate as volunteers who can participate in the OER movement through translations, distribution and creation of their own resources. As of February 2010, SNOW contained 260 Korean script-supported lectures including 145 lectures from TED, 95 voluntarily translated by users. All SNOW content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/kr/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives].
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===[[Case_Studies/Korea_University_Open_Course_Ware|Korea University OpenCourseWare]]===
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Korea University firstly launched its open courseware program in 2009, after joining the OCW consortium in 2007. Korea University OpenCourseWare provides lecture materials for ten departments, including the departments of Technology, Law, and Education. Korea University is also organizing open courseware (Korea Open Courseware) among domestic universities. Including Korea University, nine universities have implemented open courseware policies: Kyunghee University, Kyunghee Cyber University, Pukyung University, Pusan University, Sangmyung University, Seoul National University of Technology, Inha University, and Dongguck University. Korea University OCW is under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives] while other universities, such as [http://ocw.khu.ac.kr Kyunghee University OCW], have implemented [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==Sub-Saharan Africa==
===[[Case_Studies/TESSA|TESSA]]===
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TESSA is a research and development project that works to create open educational resources (OER) and course design guidance for educators across Sub-Saharan Africa under CC BY-SA.
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==United Kingdom==
===[[Case_Studies/OpenLearn|OpenLearn]]===
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[http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/ OpenLearn] is an initiative by the Open University (OU), the United Kingdom's distance learning and research university with an open policy for entry. OU has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available through its successful partnership with the BBC, and now with OpenLearn, it offers a full range of Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level and has seen millions of visitors since launch. The aim of OpenLearn is to reduce the costs of course development for everyone in education and improve quality by openly sharing quality-assured educational materials under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==United States==

===[[Case_Studies/Open Course Library|Open Course Library]]===
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Washington State’s [http://opencourselibrary.org Open Course Library] is a large scale effort to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class. Faculty from Washington State Community and Technical Colleges are working together to design 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery. The goal of the Open Course Library is to improve course completion rates, lower textbook costs for students, provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses, and for the SBCTC system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. This last point is straight from a guiding principle of our college system's [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx Strategic Technology Plan] to “cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”
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===Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program===
The [http://creativecommons.org/taa-grant-program TAACCCT] is a grant fund cooperatively administered through the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Education. The program makes available US $2 billion over the next four years for grants that will “provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs.” The solicitation for grant applications (PDF) requires that all resources created using these funds must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY) license.

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== Argentina ==
* [http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/ Official website of the Buenos Aires City Government]. CC BY 2.5 Argentina.

== Australia ==
* [http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/ AusGOAL], the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework, provides support and guidance to Australia's governments and related sectors to facilitate open access to publicly funded information. AusGOAL makes it possible for organisations to manage their risks when publishing information and data in a way that drives innovation and entrepreneurial activities; providing enhanced economic and social benefits to the wider community. AusGOAL is aligned with numerous open government initiatives around the world and supports the [http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/agency_resources/principles_on_psi_short.html Australian Information Commissioners Open Access Principles]. AusGOAL endorses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
* Australian Parliament. The Parliament’s central web portal http://www.aph.gov.au houses the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings, and the portal will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
* Australian budget delivered May 12, 2010 was [http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/bp1/html/bp1_prelims.htm released] under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Also the [http://gov2.net.au/report/ Gov 2.0 response] and the [http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study NBN Implementation Study]
* government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - [http://www.abs.gov.au Australian Bureau of Statistics], [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] - are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ CC BY 2.5 Australia] and/or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce].
** over 50 datasets released on http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/
** Geoscience Australia's "geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges" during the recent Brisbane flood: http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/2501
* [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/ Water Information] - the Australian [http://www.bom.gov.au Bureau of Meteorology] has [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/269 launched] the official website of its Improving Water Information Program with a default [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] licence. This aggregates hundreds of other government departments' and agencies' information into the National Water Account. They have a range of explanatory materials about the licence and are building licensing tools and metadata into their [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awris.shtml Australian Water Resources Information System].
* [http://www.pool.org.au ABC Pool] - this initiative of Australia's largest public broadcaster, the [http://www.abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Corporation] (ABC), is releasing material from the ABC archives for reuse under CC licences. It's first major release has been as part of the Gene Pool project, celebrating Charles Darwin's Centenary.
* [http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia] - various [http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/cdp/ policy materials]
* [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
* [http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/ Queensland Museum] - [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/270 releases] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection photographs] from its collection on [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki Commons] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA] .
* NSW Department of Education and Training - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/939 Dynamic Calculus': Teaching Resource]
* Aged Care Queensland's [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/247 eMentoring Handbook]
* National Copyright Unit - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956 Creative Commons for Educators fact sheets] produced for the Smartcopying website in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia.
* Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy - [https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/budd-e/common/info/copyright.html Budd:e E-security Education Package]. The Budd:e package won Best Children's interactive media and digital content at the 2010 [http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1.36.7000.7001 AIMIA Awards].
* [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/ Mosman Municipal Council]'s [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] is released under a Creative Commons licence and includes as a key priority “to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship”.
* Australian Government Information Management Office has CC licensed its blog: http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/ and the Government 2.0 showcase http://showcase.govspace.gov.au/
* Australian Electoral Commission has [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3481 applied] CC BY as the default license for its website: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm
* Government of Tasmania, Department of Education has adopted CC BY 4.0 http://www.education.tas.gov.au/About_us/Pages/Copyright-and-Disclaimer.aspx.

=== Australian government reports recommending CC usage ===
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0] - report of the Australian [http://gov2.net.au Government 2.0 Taskforce]
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/govresponse20report/doc/Government-Response-to-Gov-2-0-Report.pdf Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce] - agreement in principle that Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) should be the default licence for all PSI
* [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/250 Victorian Government's Economic Development Committee] recommends CC licensing for public sector information.
* Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) published the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper under a CC BY-NC-ND in July 2009: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/future_directions_of_the_digital_economy/australias_digital_economy_future_directions
* National Broadband Network Implementation Study http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study was released by DBCDE as a wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Wiki taken down now, but was tweeted: http://twitter.com/miakgarlick/status/13470301666
* DBCDE published two reports on its website under CC BY: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/benefits_of_digital_economy_from_nbn

== Austria ==
[http://data.wien.gv.at/ Open Government Data Portal by the City of Vienna] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.de CC BY].

== Brazil==
* [http://beta.dados.gov.br/ Brazil open government data portal] under CC BY-SA.
* [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters|Ministry of Justice]]

== Bulgaria ==
* [http://www.president.bg/ Bulgarian Presidential website]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.

==Canada==
* Montreal, Québec, Gatineau, Sherbrooke and the Quebec government [http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/un-avantage-pour-les-citoyens-montreal-disposera-de-la-licence-ouverte-cc-4-une-premiere-au-canada-en-matieres-de-donnees-ouvertes/ have adopted] CC BY 4.0 International for their open data.
*Canada has developed the Government of Canada Open Data License Agreement for their open data portal website [http://www.data.gc.ca Government of Canada Open Data Pilot Project]. While not a Creative Commons license it would seem that this is heavily inspired by the Creative Commons philosophy and has many similar aspects. The license includes sections on 1.0 Definitions; 2.0 Intellectual Property Rights; 3.0 License Grant; 4.0 Acknowledgement of Source; 5.0 No Warranty and no Liability; and 6.0 Effective Date and Termination.
*The license permits individuals or commercial interests to use, reproduce, or add value to government data provided they use the required attribution and that they do not imply any warranty to, nor make any claim of exclusive rights to the data.
*This has similarities to the Open Government Licence for public sector information used in the United Kingdom as seen farther down this list.

== Chile ==
* [http://www.gobiernodechile.cl Chilean Government Official Site], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.sernatur.cl Chilean Bureau of Tourism], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.economia.gob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Economy], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.segegob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Communications], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.mineduc.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Education], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.bcn.cl The Library of the National Congress], whose site is licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.guiaweb.cl/ The Guidelines for Governmental Websites] and [http://www.observatoriodeusabilidad.cl its Observatory], run by the Ministry of Economy, are licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.

== Croatia ==
* [http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr] - Centar za otvoreni kod, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / Center for Open Source, National and University Library in Zagreb, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0 Croatia.

== Czech Republic ==
* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education.

== European Union ==
* The European Commission released [https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43316 licensing recommendations] to support the reuse of public sector information in Europe. In addition to providing guidance on baseline license principles for public sector content and data, the guidelines suggest that Member States should adopt standardized open licenses – such as Creative Commons licenses. "Open standard licences, for example the most recent Creative Commons (CC) licences (version 4.0), could allow the re-use of PSI without the need to develop and update custom-made licences at national or sub-national level. Of these, the CC0 public domain dedication is of particular interest. As a legal tool that allows waiving copyright and database rights on PSI, it ensures full flexibility for re-users and reduces the complications associated with handling numerous licences, with possibly conflicting provisions."

== Georgia ==
* [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters|Ministry of Education and Science]]

== Greece ==
* http://primeminister.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://www.opengov.gr/ CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
* http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive

== Guatemala ==
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobiernodeguatemala/ under CC BY-NC-SA international.
== Indonesia ==
* The Government of Indonesia launched "Portal Data Indonesia", one stop Indonesia open data, today, using CC-BY license as its copyright policy: http://data.id/

== Israel ==
* [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters|Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]

== Italy ==
* [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali National Institute of Statistics] releases all data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC BY].
* [http://dati.camera.it/it/ Chamber of Deputies data portal], CC BY.
* http://poliziadistato.it/ The official website of the italian police, CC BY NC ND 2.5 IT
* http://dati.piemonte.it/ The official open government data portal of the [[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Regional Government of the Piedmont Region in Italy]]
** CC BY 2.5 Italy for content of the website
** CC0 for available databases (all to date: Oct 8, 2010)

== Korea ==
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/KOCW Korea Open Courseware run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERIS_(Korea_Education_and_Research_Information_Service)

==Macedonia==
* [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters|Macedonia Center for Research and Policy Making]]

==Mexico==
* President Felipe Calderon Website, BY NC ND 2.5 Mexico. http://www.presidencia.gob.mx
* National Sports Comission http://www.conade.gob.mx

== Netherlands ==
* the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Public domain dedication] is used as the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's primary website [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl www.rijksoverheid.nl]. Since 2010 this website combines al public information published by the Dutch government and has replaced the websites of individual ministeries and agencies. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright under CC0 unless otherwise indicated].

* Creative Commons Netherlands has published a study on [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)

== New Zealand ==
* [http://ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/information-and-data/nzgoal NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework] standardises the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material by individuals and organisations may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. It was released for public discussion on August 27, 2009 and approved by Cabinet on July 5, 2010. The framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by encouraging State Services agencies to license material for reuse on liberal terms, and recommends Creative Commons as an important tool in this process.

* In 2011 The Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs adopted a statement [http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/declaration-open-and-transparent-government detailing a new Declaration on Open and Transparent Government]. The Declaration has been approved by Cabinet, and directs all Public Service departments, the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service; encouraged other State Services agencies; and invited State Sector agencies to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process.

* The [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] has been released under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website.
* Land Information New Zealand's [http://www.os2020.org.nz/ Ocean Survey 20/20 web portal] which provides New Zealand with better knowledge of its ocean territory, including New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Continental Shelf and the Ross Sea Region is made available under un [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. [http://www.os2020.org.nz/data-and-reports/ Reports and interpretations] are available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND licence].
*[http://www.doc.govt.nz/ The Department of Conservation] has [http://data.govt.nz/SearchPage_Controller/SearchFormAgency?AgencySearch=Department+of+Conservation&action_doCustomSearch=Go&agency=true many datasets] including [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/947 pest species distribution] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1040 Director-General's expenses] licensed under Creative Commons.
* The Department of Internal Affairs website "[http://data.govt.nz data.govt.nz]" which acts as a NZ government dataset directory makes content such as feedback and dataset listings available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. Some datasets referred to on data.govt.nz have also been made available under Creative Commons licences by their [http://data.govt.nz/catalog/ respective agencies].
*[http://www.ssc.govt.nz The State Services Commission] has published some annual reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/ar-2011#stateservices eg]), public reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/gateway-lessons-learned-july11 eg]) and guidance documents ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/workforcestrategy-guidance eg]) on its [http://www.ssc.govt.nz/publications-and-resources website] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.dol.govt.nz/ The Department of Labour] has licensed its latest [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/ar0910/annualreport0910.pdf Annual Report] and [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/soi2010/index.asp Statement of Intent] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.justice.govt.nz The Ministry of Justice] has licensed its [http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/s/statement-of-intent-201020132013/?searchterm=statement%20of%20intent Statement of Intent 2010–2013] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1014 Executive Expenses 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.niwa.co.nz/ The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research] has made some [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/niwa/layers/ bathymetry grids] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
* The NZ Parliamentary Library publishes some CC licensed documents such as Bill Digests and Research Papers on the [http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/ Parliament website]
*The [http://www.hrc.co.nz/ Human Rights Commission] has made various resources available for download on its website available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence] including reports, guides and Statements of Intent.
* [http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines DigitalNZ's 'Make It Digital' guides] for making digital content in New Zealand are now available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]
*[http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/ PHARMAC] has a selection of schedules available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.charities.govt.nz/ The Charities Commission] released the [http://www.charities.govt.nz/the-register/purpose/ Charities Register] as part of its '[http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/OpenData.aspx open data web service]' under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] has made the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/downloads.aspx audio tracks for 21 Rita Angus exhibition paintings] and presentation [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/Symposium.aspx recordings from the Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium] available on their website under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licence]. They have also taken up the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licences] to [http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/10/03/reusing-images-from-te-papa/#entry mark images in their Online Collections] which are able to be shared.

*The following local government bodies have released CC licensed GIS datasets on the [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ Koordinates] platform:
**[http://www.wellington.govt.nz/ Wellington City Council] offers [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/wcc/ datasets] of aerial imagery, contours, building footprints, flood hazards, wind zones and more under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.nrc.govt.nz/ Northland Regional Council] currently has 25 GIS [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ datasets] available here, 19 are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and 6 under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
**[http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz North Shore City Council]'s [http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1440-north-shore-city-parks/ Parks layer] is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.arc.govt.nz/ Auckland Regional Council] datasets of Wards, Community Boards and some passenger transport information is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].

*In relation to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake Canterbury Earthquakes]:
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)] and the National Library of New Zealand have set up a documentary project of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licensed] images by [https://picasaweb.google.com/RossBeckerNZ/ Ross Becker] as a record of recovery inside the red zone.
**[http://www.linz.govt.nz/index.aspx Land Information New Zealand] made its aerial photographs of the city's damage available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/ The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management] released [http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/video-central-christchurch-two-weeks-after-quake-ck-88665 inner city footage] for screening at public memorial events under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The Defence Force] makes its Flickr photos sets (including [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdefenceforce/collections/72157626143610731/ documentation of Canterbury]) available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY].
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ CERA]'s 2011-2016 Statement of Intent is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.

== Poland ==
* [http://www.equal.org.pl/baza.php?lang=pl Equal Program projects database] - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
* [http://www.mg.gov.pl/ Polish Ministry of Economy] is publishing content on its website under a CC BY SA 3.0 Poland license.
* Polish Council of Ministers has [http://creativecommons.pl/2012/04/digital-school-program-with-open-textbooks-approved-by-polish-government/ adopted] a new Digital School program for Polish schools, which includes 43 millions PLN for Creative Commons Attribution or compatible) textbooks for grades 4-6 in primary schools (K4-K6).
** Update: http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/

== Russian Federation ==
* All content (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) of [http://eng.kremlin.ru/ Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kremlin_authorisation-English.pdf Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kremlin.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]
* All content of http://www.bashkortostan.ru (Official information portal of the official authorities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan]), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkortostan_authorisation-Russian.jpg Letter of authorisation from Administration of President of The Republic of Bashkortostan]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Bashkortostan.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://www.volganet.ru (Internet-portal of administration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast Volgograd Oblast]), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Volganet_authorisation-Russian.pdf Letter of authorisation from Administration of Volgograd Oblast]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Volganet.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* State-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti Russian International News Agency "RIA Novosti"], 460 historical images from [http://visualrian.ru database http://visualrian.ru], Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** The license specified on the pages of certain images.
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti Information page on Wikimedia Commons]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_RIA_Novosti Special category on Wikimedia Commons]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University Lomonosov Moscow State University], http://convergencelab.ru - Portal of Department of New Media and Communication Theory of Faculty of Journalism, Creative Commons Attribution, version unknown

* Some content of http://www.mgimo.ru - information portal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)], Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)
** [http://www.mgimo.ru/publish/cc/index.phtml Terms of use]

* All content of http://www.hse.ru/en/ - portal of state-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_-_Higher_School_of_Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
** [http://www.hse.ru/copyright Terms of use]

== Serbia ==
*[http://www.uzzpro.gov.rs/latinica/ Serbian Government - Administration for Joint Services of the Republic Bodies]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.minrzs.gov.rs/ Serbian Government - Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.mgu.gov.rs/ Serbian Government - Ministry of Construction and Urbanism]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://uap.gov.rs/about-us/ Serbian Government - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management]: CC BY-NC 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.zso.gov.rs/ Serbian Government - Institute for Social Insurance]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.restitucija.gov.rs/index.php Serbian Government - Agency for Restitution]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.nsk.gov.rs/latinica/index.php Serbian National Council for Culture]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters|Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Republic of Serbia]]

== Spain ==
* [http://www.gencat.cat/web/meugencat/documents/20101116_GUIA_USOS_XARXA_ENG.pdf Style and usage guide of the Government of Catalonia’s social networks] under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
* Statistical information on the [http://www.idescat.cat/en/ Statistical Institute of Catalonia] site is licensed by default under [http://www.idescat.cat/en/idescat/sistemaestadistic/ciutadans/avislegal.html CC BY 3.0 Spain].
* http://www.slideshare.net/justicia/the-use-of-creative-commons-licences-in-the-ministry-of-justice-of-the-government-of-catalonia/
* The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
*The [http://www.caib.es/ Government of the Balearic Islands] website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License

== Taiwan ==
* [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters|Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation]]

== Ukraine ==
*Unofficial municila page of Stryi town: http://stryi.com.ua/

== United Kingdom ==
* The [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ Open Government License], used for a large amount of crown copyright data and content, is intended to be compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.
* National Assembly for Wales use of flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalassemblyforwales/

== Venezuela ==
*The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaima_(operating_system) Canaima project] aims to give one laptop computer to every pupil in Venezuela (300,000 computers has been distributed so far) is preloaded with educational content (about 400 pieces of content) all of it is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

== United States ==

=== Federal ===
* Works by the US federal government are automatically part of the [[public domain]] in the US as stipulated by http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
* Third-party content (such as the text of speeches by the first lady) on the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright White House web site] are licensed with CC BY 3.0 US by default.
* [http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy President-Elect Transition Team, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden]. CC BY 3.0 Unported. (Not an official federal government site, but an election team site, hence not required to be public domain.)
* The U.S. Department of Education has made OER an invitational priority in their [http://www.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=ynkyLyCpLNWvymvqBplJQYrwRGGlGtdR9gZtncFYJgjm2hTFSJZb!-2132130105?attId=40947 Ready to Learn] (PDF) and [http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2010-1/032310h.pdf Ready to Teach] (PDF) grants.
* The U.S. Department of Education has included open educational resources in their [http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/08/05/2010-19296/secretarys-priorities-for-discretionary-grant-programs Notice of Proposed Priorities] for discretionary grant funding. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
* The U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2 billion to community colleges and career training; [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100 CC BY required for grant outputs].
* The U.S. Department of Labor Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program; [http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-06.pdf CC BY required for grant outputs].
* U.S. Open Data Action plan is under CC0 + some federal datasets: report ([http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/us_open_data_action_plan.pdf pdf]); [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/05/09/continued-progress-and-plans-open-government-data-0 blog post]

=== State ===
* [[New York State Senate]], Senate Content, CC-BY-NC-ND with CC+ allowing non-political fundraising use of content.
* [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0791 State of Virginia], legislation that indicates a preference for state-funded materials to be released with a CC (or equivalent open) license.
* [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf Washington State open policy and requirement of CC BY]
* [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=741&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=HB418 New Hampshire adopts Open Source and Open Data requirements] (policy friendly to CC use, but not a specific CC tool adoption)
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31756 OER K-12 bill] passed in WA state. The focus of the bill is to help school districts identify existing high-quality, free, openly licensed, common core state standards aligned resources available for local adoption; in addition, any content built with public funds, must be licensed under “an attribution license” (CC BY)
* The city of Washington, D.C. has made available an unofficial copy of the [http://dccouncil.us/UnofficialDCCode DC Code] under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.

==Intergovernmental Organizations==
===Commonwealth of Learning===
* The Commonwealth of Learning has incorpoated CC BY-SA as part of its open educational resources (OER) policy: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27703.
* Interview with Sir John Daniel about the policy: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/28384
*COL's guidelines for open educational resources (OER) in higher education: http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=364
*[[Case_Studies/Commonwealth_of_Learning]]

=== European Cultural Foundation ===
* The [http://www.eurocult.org/ European Cultural Foundation's] project [http://www.labforculture.org/ Labforculture.org] releases materials under a CC BY-NC-ND license.

=== European Funded ===

* http://www.communia-project.eu/about COMMUNIA - The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain, funded by the European Commission (the executive of the European Union), [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA (Unported)].
* European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) - [[Case_Studies/CERN|CERN]] publishes its book catalog online as open data using the CC0 public domain dedication and the results of some Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments are published under various Creative Commons licenses.

=== Inter-American Development Bank ===

* The [http://www.iadb.org/ Inter-American Development Bank] is requiring the adoption of Creative Commons by the organizations that receive funding from the Bank in the context of the FOMIN (Fondo Multiateral de Inversiones) initiatives, particularly the ICT4BUS, a fund that promotes the adoption of e-commerce in the American continent, which has financed more that thirty initiatives in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua and other Latin American countries. Banks require those initiative to use the GPL to license any software developed by organizations receiving support from the bank, and CC to license the documentation related with those computer programs, such as user manuals.

=== International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance ===

* The [[Case_Studies/International_IDEA_Publishing|International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)]] is an IGO that supports sustainable democracy, and licenses selected publications under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.

=== United Nations ===

* UNESCO OER documentation and toolkits - http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/
* United Nations University OpenCourseWare - http://ocw.unu.edu/Courses_listing
* United Nations University Media Studio - http://mediastudio.unu.edu/en/about/
* United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Knowledge Platform - http://logosundp.org/; http://logosundp.org/about/terms
* The UNDP Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean - http://www.escuelapnud.org/

=== World Bank ===
*The World Bank has incorporated CC BY into its Open Access Policy and as a default for Bank-produced research and knowledge products via its OPen Knowledge Repository: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32335.
[[Category:Lists of CC use by jurisdiction]]
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[[CC0]] (read “CC Zero”) is a universal public domain dedication that may be used by anyone wishing to permanently surrender the copyright and database rights (where they exist) they may have in a work, thereby placing it as nearly as possible into the public domain. CC0 is a legal tool that improves on the “dedication” function of our earlier, [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ U.S.-centric public domain dedication and certification]. CC0 is universal in form and may be used throughout the world for any kind of content without adaptation to account for laws in different jurisdictions. And like our licenses, CC0 has the benefit of being expressed in three ways – legal code, a human readable deed, and machine-readable code that allows works distributed under CC0 to be easily found.

CC0 can be particularly important for the sharing of data and databases, since it otherwise may be unclear whether highly factual data and databases are restricted by copyright or other rights. Databases may contain facts that, in and of themselves, are not protected by copyright law. However, the copyright laws of many jurisdictions cover creatively selected or arranged compilations of facts and creative database design and structure, and some jurisdictions like those in the European Union have enacted additional sui generis laws that restrict uses of databases without regard for applicable copyright law. CC0 is intended to cover all copyright and database rights, so that however data and databases are restricted (under copyright or otherwise), those rights are all surrendered. CC0 is also [http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/ particularly relevant to scientific data]. An opinion piece in <em>Nature</em> on "[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7261/full/461171a.html Post-publication sharing of data and tools]" explicitly recommends open sharing and the use of CC0 to put data in the public domain:

<blockquote>"Although it is usual practice for major public databases to make data freely available to access and use, any restrictions on use should be strongly resisted and we endorse explicit encouragement of open sharing, for example under the newly available CC0 public domain waiver of Creative Commons."</blockquote>

==CC0 use cases==
This is a list of uses of CC0 for data and databases. For uses of CC licenses, see [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Data_and_CC_licenses Data and CC Licenses].

===BioMed Central===
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BioMed Central (BMC) is one of the largest open access (OA) publishers in the world with 250 peer-reviewed OA journals, and more than 100,000 OA articles published yearly. BMC is also long-time user of CC licenses to accomplish its mission of husbanding and promoting open science. BMC has been publishing articles under a CC license since 2004. Starting September 3, 2013, in keeping with its forward-looking mission, BMC [https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41329 started] [http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/12/18/cc-by-4-0/ requiring] a CC0 Public Domain Dedication for data supporting the published articles.
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===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|The British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===[[Case_Studies/CERN|CERN Library]]===
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research that is home to the Large Hadron Collider and birthplace of the web, released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Digg|Digg]]===
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All content on [http://digg.com/ Digg], a social news website, is defaulted under CC0, which means that Digg has surrendered all copyrights to its content. Content includes readers' comments, story titles, story descriptions, and all of the other user-contributed content on the Digg site. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14752 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Digital_Public_Library_of_America|Digital Public Library of America]]===
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The DPLA is committed to asserting no new rights—and will claim no rights—over the metadata that it aggregates from its various data-providing partners. It has also pledged to make all of this metadata freely available under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Dryad|Dryad]]===
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Dryad is an online repository for data contained in academic papers and other publications in the sciences. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, in partnership with various [http://datadryad.org/partners journals and societies], comprise the development of Dryad's data set, all of which is released under the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/FigShare|FigShare]]===
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Researchers can publish their data on FigShare in a "citable, searchable, and shareable manner." According to FigShare's [http://figshare.com/faqs FAQ], "All figures, media and multiple file uploads are published under a CC BY license. All datasets are published under CC0."
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===[[Case_Studies/Flickr_Case_Study|Flickr]]===
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[http://flickr.com Flickr] published its [http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/21/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-10/ shapefile dataset] online, surrendering all copyrights via the CC0 public domain dedication. A shapefile is a file containing shapes mathematically generated by thousands of Flickr geotagged photos of particular neighborhoods, countries, and continents. Shapefile data has been used to reverse-engineer maps with user generated longitude and latitude coordinates that are then demarcated by Where-On-Earth IDs, "[http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/ unique numeric identifiers that correspond to the hierarchy of places where a photo was taken: the neighbourhood, the town, the county, and so on up to the continent]." For more information, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14678 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Genomes Unzipped|Genomes Unzipped]]===
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Genomes Unzipped is a project that aims to inform the public about genetics via the independent analysis of open genetic data, volunteered by a core group of genetics researchers and specialists. Genomes Unzipped genetic data is available in the public domain via the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 public domain dedication], while other site content is defaulted under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA].
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===German National Library===
The German National Library has begun publishing its standard data as public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication tool.
*http://de.creativecommons.org/2012/01/27/normdaten-deutsche-nationalbibliothek-kundigt-umstellung-auf-cc0-an/

===[[Case_Studies/Wikipedia, German|German Wikipedia]]===
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The German Wikipedia uses CC0 to dedicate data into the public domain; specifically, their PND-BEACON files are available for download. Since Wikipedia links out to quite a number of external resources, and since a lot of articles link to the same external resources, PND-BEACON files are the German Wikipedia’s way of organizing the various data.
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===[[Case_Studies/GlaxoSmithKline|GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)]]===
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One of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the world, [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chemblntd/#tcams_dataset GlaxoSmithKline] has surrendered all copyrights in its malarial data set via CC0, which includes more than 13,500 compounds known to be active against malaria.
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===[[Case_Studies/Harvard Library|Harvard Library]]===
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Harvard Library has [http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373 released 12 million catalog records] into the public domain using CC0, in accordance with it [http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/ Open Metadata Policy]. Its [http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/public_faq FAQ] explains why.
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===[[Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Spain|National Library of Spain]]===
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datos.bne.es is a joint project of Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) and the National Library of Spain, for the enrichment of the Semantic Web with bibliographic data from their catalog. This initiative has been launched with the publication, in accordance with the principles of Linked Data, information from library catalogs and authority, making knowledge bases available as RDF (Resource Description Framework). Furthermore, these data are interrelated with other existing knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative. Thus, Spain is in addition to projects that other institutions like the British Library and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek have recently begun. The 2.4 million bibliographic records are published according to the specifications and conditions of the Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
*http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/DatosEnlazados/index.html
*http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/DatosEnlazados/DescargaFicheros/

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===[[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Italian Piemonte Regional Government]]===
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The Piemonte Regional Government in Italy has adopted the CC0 public domain dedication for its open data portal (dati.piemonte.it). The Piemonte Region is leading the open data movement in Italy at the government level, being the only regional government to open up all its data for reuse without restrictions.
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===[[Case_Studies/MichiganView|MichiganView]]===
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Using CC0, [http://wiki.americaview.org/display/miview/Home MichiganView] has surrendered all copyrights to its 93+ Gigabytes of Landsat 5 and 7, and NAIP imagery data. The MichiganView consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Michigan to the public for free over the Web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, MichiganView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. For more info, see the [http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2010/01/29/michiganview-releases-remote-sensing-data-under-cc0-waiver/ blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Nature_Publishing_Group_linked_data|Nature Publishing Group linked data]]===
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Nature Publishing Group (NPG) provides access to its publication data via the linked data platform at [http://data.nature.com http://data.nature.com]. The platform includes more than 20 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements, including primary metadata for more than 450,000 articles published by NPG since 1869. The datasets include basic citation information (title, author, publication date, etc) as well as NPG specific ontologies. These datasets are released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which permits maximal use/re-use of this data. Nature's ''Scientific Data'' publication also [http://blogs.nature.com/scientificdata/2013/12/09/metadata-associated-with-data-descriptor-articles-to-be-released-under-cc0-waiver/ announced] it would release all machine-readable metadata accompanying Data Descriptor articles under CC0 to enable advanced users to mine and search our content without legal ambiguity.
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===[[Case_Studies/Netherlands_Government|Netherlands Government]]===
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The [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl Netherlands government] launched [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ www.rijksoverheid.nl], a single website for all Dutch ministries, in March 2010. The default copyright policy for site content is that there is no copyright; using the CC0 public domain dedication, the government surrendered all copyrights in site. The purpose of [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ www.rijksoverheid.nl] is to establish one central location or portal through which all government organizations and ministries can be accessed by the public. The migration process is currently underway. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21473 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/New_York_Public_Library_bibliographic_metadata|NYPL Bibliographic Metadata and Cartographic Works]]===
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NYPL's bibliographic metadata records provided through the [http://api.repo.nypl.org/ NYPL Repository API] are distributed under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Although the bibliographic metadata records are provided consistent with CC0 1.0 Dedication, the content described by the metadata records is not. Content may be subject to copyright, rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division of NYPL has also [http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps released more than 20,000 cartographic works] as high resolution downloads using CC0.
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===Open Clinical Innovation Network===
The Open Clinical Innovation Network seeks to transform clinical research and development by openly sharing clinical tools and data via the CC0 public domain dedication, thereby enabling open innovation. More from the [http://portal.lillycoi.com/2012/04/03/open-innovation-can-transform-clinical-development/ announcement]. Still in its initial stages, you can read the white paper ([https://s3.amazonaws.com/lillycoi/Clinical_Open_Innovation_White_Paper.pdf pdf]) and check out its first tool, [http://www.clinicalcollections.org/trials/ Clinical Commons].

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===
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An initiative of the Internet Archive, the Open Library is an online catalog that aims to provide a web page for every book ever published. Drawing from existing library catalogs around the world and user contributions, the Open Library has 20 million records to date and provides access to 1.7 million scanned books. All rights to Open Library data are surrendered via [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0].
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===[[Case_Studies/OpenEI|OpenEI]]===
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An initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy, OpenEI is a linked open data platform that releases all contributions to the public under the CC0 public domain dedication. It is a community effort devoted to assembling the world's most comprehensive collection of energy information--including datasets, tools, and models.
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===[[Case_Studies/OpenJurist|OpenJurist.org]]===
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Using CC0, [http://openjurist.org/terms-of-use OpenJurist], a resource for case law in the U.S., has made available all Supreme Court and Federal Appellate Court Decisions from the 1700s to the current day.
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===[[Case_Studies/Personal_Genome_Project|Personal Genome Project]]===
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[http://www.personalgenomes.org/ The Personal Genome Project], a pioneer in the emerging field of personal genomics technology, released a large data set containing genomic sequences for ten individuals using CC0, with future planned releases also to be under CC0.
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===[[Case_Studies/Polar_Information_Commons|Polar Information Commons]]===
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The [http://www.polarcommons.org/ Polar Information Commons], a data sharing project growing out of the most recent International Polar Year, has enabled researchers to release their polar data into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication. For those sharing their data, the Polar Information Commons has outlined [http://www.polarcommons.org/ethics-and-norms-of-data-sharing.php Ethics and Norms of Data Sharing].
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===[[Case_Studies/Proteome_Commons|Proteome Commons Tranche Network]]===
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[https://proteomecommons.org/tranche/ Proteome Commons Tranche Network], a public proteomics database for annotations and other information that uses Tranche, a free and open source (Apache 2.0) file storage and dissemination software, has enabled the CC0 public domain dedication as the default uploading option for users.
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===[[Case_Studies/Public.Resource.Org|Public.resource.org]]===
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[http://public.resource.org/uscourts.gov/index.html 1.8 million pages of U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions] (since 1950 onwards) were delivered back into the public domain by [http://public.resource.org/ public.resource.org], who officially surrendered all copyrights in the case law using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Research Libraries UK (RLUK)]]===

"The data provided by RLUK will additionally be made available as Linked Open Data. This is part of The European Library's aim of working with its members to expose a set of their combined bibliographic metadata as a CC0 dataset - a dataset openly available for any type of reuse. RLUK's valuable data will now be integrated into the larger European Library set, thereby providing a rich source of reusable knowledge from Europe's most prestigious libraries." -- http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newsitem/2450

===[[Case_Studies/Safecast|Safecast]]===
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Safecast releases radiation data from the fallout in Fukushima under CC0.
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===[[Case_Studies/Sage_Bionetworks_-_Sage_Commons|Sage Bionetworks - Sage Commons]]===
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[http://sagebase.org/commons/ Sage Commons] is a public resource and information platform for scientists, research foundations, and research institutions to share and develop human disease and biological research. Sage Commons will enable the CC0 public domain dedication as an option for surrendering copyright in data hosted in the network. The [http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/sagecite/ SageCite project], driven by UKOLN, the University of Manchester, and the British Library, and funded by JISC, is set to develop and test an entire framework for citation norms, not attribution, using bioinformatics as a test case.
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===SCOAP3 Repository===
"The repository will also make available the corresponding metadata, under a CC0 license. Metadata will include of course the article DOIs and the ORCID IDs of all authors, when available."
* http://scoap3.org/scoap3-repository
* http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2013/12/open-access-publishing-initiative-scoap3-start-1-january-2014

===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum===
The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum has released its collection data into the public domain using CC0.
*http://www.cooperhewitt.org/collections/data
*http://media.cooperhewitt.org.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/02/23/Cooper-Hewitt%20Metadata%20Press%20Release%202-23-12.pdf

===[[Case_Studies/SimpleGeo|SimpleGeo]]===
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http://blog.simplegeo.com/2011/04/20/open-places-data/
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===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Talis_Connected_Commons|Talis Connected Commons]]===
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The [http://www.talis.com/platform/cc/ Talis Connected Commons] is a project by Talis that works to encourage the growth of public domain data. Talis offers free data hosting on its platform as long as the data is made available under either the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication or the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/University of Florida Library|University of Florida Library]]===
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The University of Florida Smathers Libraries has implemented a default public domain policy for all of its original catalog data. The library has released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication tool, opening up downstream reuse of the data without restrictions.
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===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyright in its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[[Case_Studies/WisconsinView|WisconsinView]]===
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Using CC0, [http://www.wisconsinview.org/ WisconsinView] has surrendered all copyrights in its 6+ Terabytes of imagery data. The WisconsinView consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin to the public for free over the Web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. For more info, see the [http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/07/01/wisconsinview-public-domain/ blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre|Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre]]===
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The Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre has published [http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/ its datasets at Canadensys] via the CC0 public domain dedication, and encourages the rest of the Canadensys community to [http://www.canadensys.net/2012/why-we-should-publish-our-data-unde-cc0 do the same].
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===U.S. Food and Drug Administration===
openFDA is a "new initiative in the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Informatics and Technology Innovation spearheaded by FDA’s Chief Health Informatics Officer. OpenFDA offers easy access to FDA public data and highlight projects using these data in both the public and private sector to further regulatory or scientific missions, educate the public, and save lives." According to openFDA's [http://open.fda.gov/terms/ TOU], "Unless otherwise noted, the content, data, documentation, code, and related materials on openFDA is public domain and made available with a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal dedication."

===U.S. Government Data===
U.S. Open Data Action plan is under CC0 + some federal datasets: report ([http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/us_open_data_action_plan.pdf pdf]); [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/05/09/continued-progress-and-plans-open-government-data-0 blog post]

===[[Case_Studies/Wikidata|Wikidata]]===
"Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects." All structured data from the main and property namespace is available via Creative Commons CC0. More info:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
* https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/04/24/wikidata-all-around-the-world/
* http://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/26/wikidata-is-a-huge-step-for-wikipedia-and-the-internet/

==Other CC0 use cases==

===[[Case_Studies/Mercy Corps|Mercy Corps]]===
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Mercy Corps is a disaster relief organization that has released its package of office management materials (Office in a Box) into the public domain via CC0 for the start-up of new field offices in disaster areas and the improvement of operations in existing offices.
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===[[Case_Studies/Open Clip Art Library|Open Clip Art Library]]===
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All clip art packages generated and uploaded by the Open Clip Art Library community are free to use, distribute, and remix under the CC0 public domain dedication.
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<h2>Featured OER Case Studies</h2>
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The following is a list of the some of the most compelling OER projects and implementations of CC in educational policies around the world. For a more comprehensive listing, see the [[Casestudies|Case Studies]] project (linked above).
==Argentina==
===[[Case_Studies/Gleducar|Gleducar]]===
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Started in 2002, [http://www.gleducar.org.ar/ Gleducar] is a community of educators, students, and activists that self-organize around several educational issues and projects. It was declared of National Interest by the Senate of Argentina three years later and is considered one of the most important open educational projects in Argentina. The community is supported by Gleducar's nonprofit/NGO status. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleducar] Community initiatives revolve around building a repository of open educational resources (OER), promoting more open intellectual property and educational policies, encouraging the use of free technologies and distributed networks, open access, and educational innovation in general. All content on Gleducar is licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/deed.es CC Attribution-ShareAlike license].
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===[[Case_Studies/Encipel|Encipel]]===
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Started in 2012, [http://www.encipel.com/ Encipel] is an educational community in which users of any gender and age, create documents to share their knowledge. These documents are then reviewed and improved by the community, offering a better quality of content. We use the license CC BY-NC 3.0.[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/]. So all the information is open to everyone. We have decided to use this license because we want people to enhance knowledge an it´s distribution
Since the start we have improved the information, quality of the site an tools available for users. It´s still a very unknown project, but we expect it can grow more.
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==Australia==
===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Southern_Queensland_OpenCourseWare|University of Southern Queensland OpenCourseWare]]===
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The [http://ocw.usq.edu.au/ University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare (USQ OCW)] provides access to free and open educational resources (OER) for students, academics, and interested readers worldwide. USQ OCW contains sample courses from each of the University’s five faculties, together with courses from its [http://www.usq.edu.au/ltsu/learnsupp/tpp/default.htm Tertiary Preparation Program]. USQ is the only Australian member of the [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ OpenCourseWare Consortium], an [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/ wallputih] [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=29 international collaboration] of more than 230 higher education institutions and associated organisations ‘creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.’ All USQ OCW is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==Brazil==
===OER-Brazil Project===
The OER-Brazil Project, or [http://rea.net.br/site/ Recursos Educacionais Abertos] [http://wallputih.blogspot.com/2012/10/4shared-com.html 4shared], is a website aimed at providing information on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Portuguese language speakers. The site features an extensive FAQ pointing to reference documents, media, and more. The site lists OER projects from Brazil and the rest of the world highlighting their CC license implementations. The OER-Brazil Project also provides information on current bills that aim to promote OER in Brazil if approved, and hopes to engage Brazilian society in the discussions and improvement of such policies. English language navigation of the site is in progress.

==Canada==
===[[Case_Studies/Athabasca_University|Athabasca University]]===
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Athabasca University is Canada's open university that is aiming to replace as many of their course materials with open educational resources (OER) and is home to the worlds first [http://www.aupress.ca/ University Press] dedicated to open access publishing, where authors choose whether to release their work under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives license]. Athabasca University is also the base for the [http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page UNESCO OER Community] that was first launched in 2005. Athabasca University OER is available under various CC licenses and the UNESCO OER Community publishes all content under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/BCcampus|BCcampus]]===
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The BCcampus initiative is a collaboration of 25 post-secondary institutions contributing and sharing open educational resources under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license or a BCcampus license for use within the system. It is an "online learning and educational technology service agency established and funded entirely by the Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development."
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===Ontario Online Learning Portal===
In addition to hosting OER, the Ontario Online Learning Portal has developed this OER video primer featuring UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources Dr. Rory McGreal: http://contactnorth.ca/tips-tools/open-educational-resources/videos.

==Chile==
===[[Case_Studies/Cybertesis|Cybertesis]] at the Universidad de Chile===
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[http://www.cybertesis.cl/ Cybertesis] is a joint publishing program for academic theses online, and is an initiative of the Université de Montreal, the Université Lyon2 and the Universidad de Chile, among other 50 institutions in Europe, Africa and America. It is financially supported by Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and UNESCO. The objective of Cybertesis is to promote the publication and diffusion of university theses online, implementing international standards for digital publishing, and technology that facilitate the access and interchange of information, based on interoperable and open source tools. Cybertesis supports the copyrights of its authors, by explaining the law and asking the authors for authorization to include their works in the system. Cybertesis offers several options, such as “not authorizing”, “embargo” (which allows postponing the release of the works temporally), and licensing with Creative Commons. The Creative Commons licensing system has become the standard adopted by Cybertesis to manage the rights of authors.
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==Colombia==
===[[Case_Studies/Eduteka|Eduteka]]===
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[http://www.eduteka.org/ Eduteka] is a primary and secondary educational portal for Spanish language open educational resources (OER) offered under a default of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.es_CO CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike]. It is supported and run by the Gabriel Piedrahita Uribe Foundation in Colombia and has been awarded the National Prize for Technology in Education twice by the Iberoamerican Network for Technology in Education. Eduteka has also run pilot programs, incorporating OER into schools in order to "[increase] the competency of students and teachers in ICTs" and "[improve] the integration of these technologies into the regular curriculum."
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===[[Case_Studies/Escuela_Virtual_del_Deporte|Escuela Virtual del Deporte]]===
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The [http://www.deportes.gov.co/escuelavirtualdedeportes Escuela Virtual del Deporte], or the Virtual School of Sports, leverages CC licensing and tools offered by ICT (Information Technology and Communication) to make available open educational resources (OER) in sports education. It is a collaboration between the Universidad Pedagogica Nacional, the United Nations Program for Development, and Colombia Aprende, and was created within the framework of government policies aimed at overcoming the digital divide. All content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/co CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/Virtual_School_for_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean|Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean]]===
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The [http://www.escuelapnud.org/public/index.php Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean] is an initiative of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau and provides training in the applied sciences for social transformation in three academic areas: Human Development (HD), Democratic Governance (DG) and Crisis Prevention and Recovery (CPR). Its mission is "to strengthen democratic governance and contribute to human development in Latin America and the Caribbean." School resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/co/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives].
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==Czech Republic==
===[[Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal|RVP Metodicky Portal]]===
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The [http://dum.rvp.cz/index.html RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education. The project aims to provide "systematic support for teachers in teaching methodology and didactics, development of learning communities," and more "effective ways of learning."
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==Finland==
===[[Case_Studies/Le_Mill|Le Mill]]===
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[http://lemill.net/ Le Mill] is an online community for "finding, authoring and sharing" open educational resources (OER). Le Mill was developed by the LeMill team led by the Learning Environments Research Group of Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. As of November 2010, Le Mill has nearly ~15,000 teachers contributing from 63 countries and almost 24,000 learning resources in 83 languages. Le Mill resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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==India==
===[[Case_Studies/Open Education Project|Open Education Project]]===
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[http://in.okfn.org/open-education/ Open Education Project] is a crowd sourced platform of free books and education tools that are made available online. It is supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), India [http://in.okfn.org]. All content are free to be downloaded and printed by educators in the country. The Project uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution 3.0 Unported
] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. It especially aims to reach out to economically challenged children with education. There is already quite a large collection of books and educational materials in the project's database.
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===[[Case_Studies/Pratham_Books|Pratham Books]]===
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[http://www.prathambooks.org/ Pratham Books] is a non-profit children's book publishing house in India that uses CC licenses, specifically [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike], to further distribution, translation and reuse of its works. The books are available for purchase at low cost or for free online at their [http://www.scribd.com/prathambooks Scribd channel]. Pratham Books also has a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/prathambooks/ Flickr] account where they publish pictures of their community under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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===[[Case_Studies/Computer_Masti|Computer Masti]]===
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[http://www.computermasti.com/ Computer Masti (CM)] is a series of books, activities, and interactive content for [http://combinest.blogspot.com/2013/07/problems-in-computer-and-solution.html computer] [http://tsani-oke.blogspot.com/ education] in primary schools in India. It is a research-based product created at the IIT Bombay in collaboration with InOPEN, a tech start-up that works with Free and Open Source (FOSS) technologies. The books are available online under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/in/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] with additional permissions for commercial use via [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCPlus CC plus] (more info to come in their [http://www.computermasti.com/legal legal] section). Site content is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/in/ CC Attribution].
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===National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)===
[http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ NPTEL] is a large higher education initiative in India that offers 20,000 lecture hours worth of material in engineering and science. All resources are in English and are distributed under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] license.

===National Repository of Open Educational Resources ===
The [http://nroer.in/home/ NROER] is licensed under CC BY-SA.

==Internet==
===[[Case_Studies/OpenSecurityTraining|OpenSecurityTraining.info]]===
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In the spirit of OpenCourseWare and the Khan Academy, OpenSecurityTraining.info is dedicated to sharing training material for computer security classes, on any topic, that are at least one day long. This site is always seeking new collaborators to broaden the available training, but already has training on assembly languages, reverse engineering, malware analysis, exploits, vulnerability assessment, trusted computing, android forensics, and other topics. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 (unported)].
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==Italy==
===[[Case_Studies/I-CLEEN project|I-CLEEN project]]===
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[http://www.icleen.museum/ I-CLEEN] I-CLEEN is a collaborative project among teachers, willing to create a free database of resources (an information gateway) already tested in the classrooms, aiming to an interactive education of Earth System Science topics. I-CLEEN is a web project by the [http://www.mtsn.tn.it/ Science Museum of Trento](former Tridentine Museum of Natural Sciences). The project won the [http://elearningawards.eun.org/ww/en/pub/elearningawards/homepage.htm eLearning award 2010]. All the parts that make up the project and all their respective activities are fully dealt with using an open source web platform called [http://www.liferay.com/ LifeRay] specifically implemented for this project. Resources are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC Attribution 3.0 (Italy)]
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==Netherlands==
===[[Case_Studies/Wikiwijs|Wikiwijs]]===
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[http://wikiwijsinhetonderwijs.nl/over-wikiwijs/english/ Wikiwijs] is an open educational resources (OER) platform for teachers launched by the Dutch Ministry of Education to "stimulate development and use of OER", "improve access to both open and 'closed' digital learning materials", "support teachers in arranging their own learning materials and professionalization", and to "increase teacher involvement in development and use of OER." Wikiwijs builds on the wiki philosophy of Wikipedia but customizes an existing OER platform, [http://cnx.org/ Connexions], to host and distribute its content. Wikiwijs is focused on all levels of education, from primary to higher education. All content on Wikiwijs is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/ CC BY].
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==New Zealand==
===[[Case_Studies/OERNZ|OERNZ]]===
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[http://wikieducator.org/OERNZ OER NZ] is a joint effort by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the OER Foundation to build an open educational resources (OER) portal for New Zealand schools. In keeping with the [http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework], which specifically recommends "the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material," a national portal for OER would involve building a "sustainable Open Education Resource (OER) ecosystem for New Zealand teachers to create, share, repurpose and reuse digital content in support of the national curriculum." All content will be under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution] or otherwise meet the [http://freedomdefined.org/Definition free cultural works definition].
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===[[Case_Studies/Otago_Polytechnic|Otago Polytechnic]]===
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[http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic Otago Polytechnic] is a publicly-subsidised vocational education and training organisation in Dunedin, New Zealand, that offers a range of open access training courses. Otago Polytechnic is the first tertiary institution in the world to adopt a [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8235 default CC Attribution policy] and the first New Zealand tertiary institution to sign the [http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration Cape Town Open Education Declaration].
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==Norway==
===[[Case_Studies/Norwegian_National_Digital_Learning_Arena|Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)]]===
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The [http://ndla.no/en/ Norwegian National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA)] is an open educational resources (OER) project and open source platform for sharing OER in secondary education. It is a joint initiative by different provinces in Norway that allocates a portion of state funds to ensure free access to textbooks for Norwegian students and to develop digital resources (or purchase from publishers or other producers) that are released under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike]. In just a few years, the project has produced a large amount of OER.
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==Poland==
===[[Case_Studies/Akademia_Orange|Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)]]===
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[http://akademiaorange.pl/ Orange Academy (Akademia Orange)] is a grant program for cultural education projects that is funded by the Orange Foundation (Fundacja Orange), a nonprofit, charitable branch of the Polish part of the Orange telecom operator. The licensing policy for all content funded through the Orange Academy is [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution]. The Orange Academy funds around 30 grants per year at ~$17,000 each, and funded projects focus on the Internet and modern technology as educational tools.
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===[[Case_Studies/We_Read_While_We're_Listening|We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)]]===
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[http://czytamysluchajac.pl/ We Read While We're Listening (Czytamy słuchając)] is an open educational resources project by the Modern Poland Foundation (which is part of the Coalition for Open Education) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The project creates free access to audio versions of obligatory school reading material (the Polish school system has a list of 200+ books which are obligatory reading at different levels of curriculum, considered the cultural canon) by recording audiobooks by professional actors. The books are in the public domain, and the professional recordings are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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==South Africa==
===[[Case_Studies/Siyavula|Siyavula]]===
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Siyavula is working with local communities of teachers to incorporate and create educational materials under CC BY-SA.
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===[[Case_Studies/OER Africa|OER Africa]]===
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OER Africa is a network of projects that enables active participation by educators and other stakeholders in the improvement of education systems in Africa. Originally founded in 1992 by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to address the educational inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa, OER Africa now consists of a number of robust initiatives across the continent, including the African Health OER Network, AgShare project (Agricultural OER), and open university policies such as the default CC BY license policy for all Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology materials. The OER Africa site and its materials is also defaulted under CC BY.
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==South Korea==
===[[Case_Studies/SNOW|SNOW]]===
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[http://www.snow.or.kr/ SNOW] is an open knowledge platform for sharing higher education content. From lectures in the humanities, sciences, design to great addresses given by global leaders, SNOW offers Korean scripts and introductions on these academic subjects, encouraging its users to participate as volunteers who can participate in the OER movement through translations, distribution and creation of their own resources. As of February 2010, SNOW contained 260 Korean script-supported lectures including 145 lectures from TED, 95 voluntarily translated by users. All SNOW content is available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/kr/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives].
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===[[Case_Studies/Korea_University_Open_Course_Ware|Korea University OpenCourseWare]]===
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Korea University firstly launched its open courseware program in 2009, after joining the OCW consortium in 2007. Korea University OpenCourseWare provides lecture materials for ten departments, including the departments of Technology, Law, and Education. Korea University is also organizing open courseware (Korea Open Courseware) among domestic universities. Including Korea University, nine universities have implemented open courseware policies: Kyunghee University, Kyunghee Cyber University, Pukyung University, Pusan University, Sangmyung University, Seoul National University of Technology, Inha University, and Dongguck University. Korea University OCW is under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives] while other universities, such as [http://ocw.khu.ac.kr Kyunghee University OCW], have implemented [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==Sub-Saharan Africa==
===[[Case_Studies/TESSA|TESSA]]===
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TESSA is a research and development project that works to create open educational resources (OER) and course design guidance for educators across Sub-Saharan Africa under CC BY-SA.
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==United Kingdom==
===[[Case_Studies/OpenLearn|OpenLearn]]===
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[http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/ OpenLearn] is an initiative by the Open University (OU), the United Kingdom's distance learning and research university with an open policy for entry. OU has been a pioneer in making learning materials freely available through its successful partnership with the BBC, and now with OpenLearn, it offers a full range of Open University subject areas from access to postgraduate level and has seen millions of visitors since launch. The aim of OpenLearn is to reduce the costs of course development for everyone in education and improve quality by openly sharing quality-assured educational materials under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike].
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==United States==

===[[Case_Studies/Open Course Library|Open Course Library]]===
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Washington State’s [http://opencourselibrary.org Open Course Library] is a large scale effort to make core college course materials available on the Web for $30 or less per class. Faculty from Washington State Community and Technical Colleges are working together to design 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses for face-to-face, hybrid and/or online delivery. The goal of the Open Course Library is to improve course completion rates, lower textbook costs for students, provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses, and for the SBCTC system to fully engage the global open educational resources discussion. This last point is straight from a guiding principle of our college system's [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx Strategic Technology Plan] to “cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”
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===Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program===
The [http://creativecommons.org/taa-grant-program TAACCCT] is a grant fund cooperatively administered through the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Education. The program makes available US $2 billion over the next four years for grants that will “provide community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education with funds to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs.” The solicitation for grant applications (PDF) requires that all resources created using these funds must be released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY) license.

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material in the GLAM sector: [[GLAM#Galleries|Galleries]], [[GLAM#Libraries|Libraries]], [[GLAM#Archives|Archives]], and [[GLAM#Museums|Museums]]. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

=Galleries=
===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|National Gallery of Denmark - Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
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SMK (Statens Museum for Kunst), The National Gallery of Denmark, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions.
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===National Portrait Gallery===
National Portrait Gallery in the UK has [http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads added] the CC BY-NC-ND license to its images of portraits. Example: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079.

=Libraries=
===Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford===
Through the Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project, "The images of the Bodleian’s collections included on this site, and linked to via the image viewing interface, may be used for personal and non-commercial purposes under the terms of the UK Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0’ Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)." More info: http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/legal

===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===Canadian University Libraries===
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some University libraries offer Creative Commons licensing options in their Institutional Repositories. More research is required in this field.

===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===Finnish Libraries===
Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c

===[http://www.flib.sci.am Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia]===
* maintains two open access journals, the [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Math/ '''Armenian Journal of Mathematics'''] and [http://www.flib.sci.am/arm/journal/Phys '''Armenian Journal of Physics'''], both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.

===[[Case_Studies/Hood_River_County_Library_District|Hood River County Library District]]===
This new library district in Oregon, United States, has adopted an intellectual property policy licensing the vast majority of District-produced content under CC BY. The Board of Directors and staff felt this was an appropriate way to maximize the impact of the content produced by this publicly-funded entity.

===[http://www.slub-dresden.de/ Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden]===
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13787 donated] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Deutsche_Fotothek 250,000 photographs] from their [http://deutschefotothek.de/ German Photo Collection] (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FotothekBot Wikicommons] - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.

===[http://www.loc.gov/ '''Library of Congress''']===
* Does not exactly use Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf report] on the benefits of OA to memory institutions [http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_report_final.pdf (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)]

===[http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/ '''Library, London School of Economics (British Library of Political and Economic Science)''']===
* Digitised content which is available through LSE Digital Library is licensed under Creative Commons where rights in the original permit - according to a published [http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/collections/digital/strategy_policy/content_licensing.aspx policy which sets out reasons for adopting CC]
* LSE Library also publishes archival photographs of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/ LSE via Flickr Commons]

===[http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia]===
* license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/index Open Publish] initiative (see [http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/viewFile/1046/1315 background paper])
* encourage donors to use CC as part of their [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_%27Click_and_Flick%27 Flickr-based PictureAustralia] initiative
* incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their [http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Newspapers Online Australia] initiative (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley here] and [http://www.slideshare.net/guest7a58d6/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-2-kent-fitch here])
===National Library of New Zealand===
* CC-friendly Use and Reuse Policy for collection items: http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/strategy-and-policy/collection-use-and-reuse-policy; blog post: http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/our-new-use-and-reuse-policy

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===

===[http://www.slq.qld.gov.au State Library of Queensland]===
* incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
* release large parts of their photo archives under the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/ Flickr Commons] project.
*also, Queensland museum?

===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===University of California Santa Cruz Library===
The University of California Santa Cruz Library has [http://library.ucsc.edu/news/library-website-goes-creative-commons adopted] CC BY for all library-produced content. The library [http://library.ucsc.edu/creative-commons details] what is and is not licensed under CC BY.

===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyrights to its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[http://digital.library.villanova.edu/ Villanova University Digital Library]===
* The majority of their digital collections are available under some form of CC license (exceptions are those items still within copyright). Most are available under CC BY-SA, but some materials from partner institutions use different variations of CC licenses.
* Although not available under CC, the Villanova library has also launched two open source library software packages, [http://vufind.org/ VuFind] (a library resource portal) and [http://vudl.org/ VuDL] (digital library administration software), both freely available under a GPL.

=Archives=
===[[Case_Studies/ABC_Pool|Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]===
*[http://www.abc.net.au '''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''']
* Australia's main public broadcaster has started [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC]

===Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive===
*[http://www.bundesarchiv.de/ '''Bundesarchiv - the German Federal Archive''']
* released 100,000 photographs under CC BY-SA for free reuse on Wikicommons and saw sales of prints of the photographs double (see slides [http://www.slideshare.net/wittylama/the-anatomy-of-a-100000-image-cooperation-german-federal-archives-wikipedia-and-the-greater-picture here])

===Collections Council of Australia===
*[http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au '''Collections Council of Australia''']
* has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, [http://www.nowandthen.net.au Now and Then], that requires contributors to CC license

===Internet Archive===
*[[Case_Studies/Archive.org]]

===[http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en '''Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision''']===
Sound and Vision launched [http://www.openimages.eu '''Open Images'''], an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. All media is available under a Creative Commons license. Open Images contains a collection of more than 1,500 videos from the Sound and Vision archives and also welcomes collections from others.

===NHK===
Japan's Public Broadcasting Company: http://www.slideshare.net/cckslide/cckorea-nhk-creative-library

===Staffordshire Hoard===
*[http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/ '''Staffordshire Hoard''']
* In July 2009, an Anglo-Saxon treasure was found in a field near Birmingham, UK. Since mid-September photographs of the items have been on display on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157622378376316/
Some photos are under BY-NC, others under BY-NC-SA.

===Wikimedia Foundation===

===Yale Digital Commons===
*http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
*http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search
*http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/open-access

=Museums=
===[[Case_Studies/Amsterdam Historical Museum|Amsterdam Historical Museum]]===
In March 2010, The Amsterdam Historical Museum (WAAG) released its complete collection online under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing the free redistribution and reuse of the collection for noncommercial purposes. This was the first time in the museum's history that its collection has been available to the public. The collection contains over 70,000 objects dating back to the Middle Ages and is updated on a bi-weekly basis. http://www.waag.org/news/67439

===[[Case_Studies/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]]===
The Brooklyn Museum has incorporated CC-licensing in a number of ways through out its digital footprint. On a broad level, the museum's image collection is released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing others both share and reuse the images in noncommercial derivative works. Similarly, BM developed an open API that community members can query based on a number of identifiers, including the CC license. Lastly, a remix contest collaboration with Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein saw BM release Stein-produced audio stems under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike license.
* On October 30th, 2009, Brooklyn Museum opened [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/ Who Shot Rock & Roll], an exhibition commemorating photographers and their creative role in rock & roll history. To celebrate, the museum has teamed up with Chris Stein for a companion musical project called Who Shot Drums and Bass. Its eight original songs are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Brooklyn Museum is asking remixers to download the tracks from its Soundcloud page and remix them for the Who Shot Rock & Roll: Remix! contest. [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/remix.php Details on the Brooklyn Museum website]. [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18730 (Info from Creative Commons Blog)]

===[[Case_Studies/Historiska_Museet|National Historical Museum, Sweden]]===
In early 2010, Swedish museum National Historical Museum (Historiska museet) released roughly 63,500 item photographs, 1200 illustrations, and 264,500 scanned catalog cards under a CC license - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works or Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike depending on medium. Heralded as a first step, Historiska Museet is looking at avenues to continue opening their catalog with less restrictions in the future as they better understand how the public will engage these new resources.
*[http://www.historiska.se/home/ Historiska museet] in Stockholm [http://blogg.historiska.se/digitalamuseer/2010/03/02/creative-commons_on_shm/ announces] their [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/sok.asp? digital catalogue] under cc-license, see blogpost [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20922 here]

===[[Case_Studies/Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum|Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]]===
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was one of the first major cultural institutions to utilize CC licensing, releasing their classical music podcast The Concert under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license in September of 2006. By allowing the free sharing and re-distribution of their podcast, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been able to reach a wide ranging audience with The Concert seeing over one million downloads from over 116 different countries, creating a positive promotional tool for the museum and its classical music program. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16229

===[[Case_Studies/National September 11 Memorial Museum|National September 11 Memorial Museum]]===
In December of 2008, the National September 11th Memorial Museum launched its Artist Registry, allowing the public the ability to add their 9/11 inspired works to the museum's collection. The museum allowed users to designate a CC license while uploading, encouraging community submissions in a progressive and socially responsible fashion. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11433

===[[Case_Studies/Participatory Museum|Participatory Museum]]===
* (http://www.participatorymuseum.org/)
* Book/wiki about how museums can become more interactive with their patrons
* Released CC BY-NC license
* Creator, Nina Simon, is smart and would be good to build copy with

===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum has integrated CC-licensing into a number of its projects from the inclusion of CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative licensed photos to its Photo of the Day project to offering downloadable resources from Play at Powerhouse, PHM’s education program for children, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. In addition, PHM has released object descriptions, production notes, history notes under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial License, similarly releasing factual data (object dimensions, relevant dates, etc.) under a CC Attribution-Share Alike license
* license [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum educational materials and photos under CC licences]
* license [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/02/powerhouse-collection-documentation-goes-creative-commons/ their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA] (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
* have written papers on the [http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/bray/bray.html financial and other benefits of OA], and posted on crowd-sourced [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/04/27/another-opac-discovery-the-gambey-dip-circle-and-the-value-of-minimal-tombstone-data/ discoveries] and [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2009/10/06/augmented-reality-and-the-powerhouse-images-in-the-commons-or-interesting-things-clever-people-do-with-yout-data-7215/ reuse] as a result

===The Rijksmuseum===
More info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWd2cgYZqqw

===[[Case_Studies/Highlights_from_SMK,_The_National_Gallery_of_Denmark|Statens Museum for Kunst]]===
SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, has released digital images of 160 highlights, and 100 educational videos on YouTube under the CC BY license. The 160 images and 100 videos are also featured in the Google Art Project. The artworks are free of copyright, but the digital images of them have so far been under copyright restrictions. From now on, they are freely available to our users for any purpose. As a national gallery, we believe that those parts of our collections that are in the Public Domain belong to everyone. With this limited selection of content, we want to test how people use these freely available digital resources in new creative and innovative ways.

===Tropenmuseum===
*[http://www.tropenmuseum.nl/ '''Tropenmuseum''']
* has collaborated with the local Wikimedia community, to document materials in the museum’s collection (eg through photography) and upload this material to Wikicommons (see slides [http://www.youtube.com/user/wikimedianl#play/all/uploads-all/0/4aPatvL5kvo here])
* and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the [http://www.wikilovesart.nl/ Wiki Loves Art website].

===Walter Art Museum===
*http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
*http://art.thewalters.org

===Wikipedia Loves Art===

== institutions that are using licenses for materials that should be marked as in the public domain ==

* Walters Art Museum
** http://thewalters.org/news/releases/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=385
** http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/04/the-walters-art-museum-removes-copyright-restrictions-from-more-than-10000-images/
** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_Walters_Art_Museum
** https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Walters_Art_Museum_license
** 2D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Jacob_Miller_-_%22Big_Bowl%22_%28_A_Crow_Chief%29_-_Walters_37194015.jpg
** 3D - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Camel_-_Walters_492383_-_Profile.jpg

* Public.Resource.org on youtube
** https://public.resource.org/
** http://www.youtube.com/user/PublicResourceOrg (CC BY)
** http://archive.org/details/FedFlix

* Yale Digital Commons
** http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/05/public_domain?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/theivorytoweropensitstreasurechest
** http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/Search/Results?lookfor=&type=allfields
** http://britishart.yale.edu/terms/imaging/unrestricted
** http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1665914

* National Portrait Gallery
** http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22082012-npg-changes-image-licensing-to-allow-free-downloads
** http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2012/08/22/npg-adopts-creative-commons-licence/
** example - http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw02079

* Smithsonian
** terms of use - http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse

* Cornell Libraries
** http://www.library.cornell.edu/node/1333

* White House Flickr account?
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse
** U.S. Government Work - http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

* Europeana
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=*:*&qf=RIGHTS:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5393DAD0A2F5D4AB1FDB0D04670AAB7CA803E2C6.html
** http://www.europeana.eu/portal/pd-usage-guide.html

* Library of Congress
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
** no known copyright restrictions - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown

* NASA
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/
** using CC BY NC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en

* Department of Education
** http://www.flickr.com/photos/48445211@N06/
** using CC BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

* Flickr: The Commons
** http://www.flickr.com/commons

* http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
* https://digital.library.ucsf.edu/
* http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace

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== [[Government_adoption_strategies|Government adoption strategies]] ==
== Jurisdiction-Specific Case Studies==
=== Armenia ===
* [http://www.president.am/president/cover/eng/ Official website of the Armenian President]. CC BY-ND 3.0 Unported.

=== Argentina ===
* [http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/ Official website of the Buenos Aires City Government]. CC BY 2.5 Argentina.

=== Australia ===
* [http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/ AusGOAL], the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework, provides support and guidance to Australia's governments and related sectors to facilitate open access to [http://blog.ausgoal.gov.au/2011/07/07/launch-ausgoal-is-online/ publicly funded information]. AusGOAL makes it possible for organisations to manage their risks when publishing information and data in a way that drives innovation and entrepreneurial activities; providing enhanced economic and social benefits to the wider community. AusGOAL is aligned with numerous open government initiatives around the world and supports the [http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/agency_resources/principles_on_psi_short.html Australian Information Commissioners Open Access Principles]. AusGOAL endorses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
* Australian Parliament. The Parliament’s central web portal http://www.aph.gov.au houses the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings, and the portal will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
* Australian budget delivered May 12, 2010 was [http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/bp1/html/bp1_prelims.htm released] under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Also the [http://gov2.net.au/report/ Gov 2.0 response] and the [http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study NBN Implementation Study]
* government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - [http://www.abs.gov.au Australian Bureau of Statistics], [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] - are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ CC BY 2.5 Australia] and/or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce].
** over 50 datasets released on data.australia.gov.au http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/
** Geoscience Australia's "geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges" during the recent Brisbane flood: http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/2501
* [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/ Water Information] - the Australian [http://www.bom.gov.au Bureau of Meteorology] has [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/269 launched] the official website of its Improving Water Information Program with a default [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] licence. This aggregates hundreds of other government departments' and agencies' information into the National Water Account. They have a range of [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/regulations/cc/disseminating.shtml explanatory materials] about the licence and are building licensing tools and metadata into their [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awris.shtml Australian Water Resources Information System].
* [http://www.pool.org.au ABC Pool] - this initiative of Australia's largest public broadcaster, the [http://www.abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Corporation] (ABC), is releasing material from the ABC archives for reuse under CC licences. It's first major release has been as part of the [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool Gene Pool project], celebrating Charles Darwin's Centenary.
* [http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia] - various [http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/cdp/ policy materials]
* [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
* [http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/ Queensland Museum] - [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/270 releases] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection photographs] from its collection on [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki Commons] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA] .
* NSW Department of Education and Training - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/939 Dynamic Calculus': Teaching Resource]
* Aged Care Queensland's [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/247 eMentoring Handbook]
* National Copyright Unit - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956 Creative Commons for Educators fact sheets] produced for the Smartcopying website in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia.
* Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy - [https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/budd-e/common/info/copyright.html Budd:e E-security Education Package]. The Budd:e package won Best Children's interactive media and digital content at the 2010 [http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1.36.7000.7001 AIMIA Awards].
* [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/ Mosman Municipal Council]'s [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] is released under a Creative Commons licence and includes as a key priority “to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship”.
* Realising Our Broadband Future forum (Dec 2009), DBCDE hosted a wiki to gather input from participants whihc was all CC BY-NC-SA licensed http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/webcasts.html
* Australian Government Information Management Office has CC licensed its blog: http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/ and the Government 2.0 showcase http://showcase.govspace.gov.au/
* Australian Electoral Commission has [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3481 applied] CC BY as the default license for its website: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm
'''Australian government reports recommending CC usage'''
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0] - report of the Australian [http://gov2.net.au Government 2.0 Taskforce]
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/govresponse20report/doc/Government-Response-to-Gov-2-0-Report.pdf Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce] - agreement in principle that Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) should be the default licence for all PSI
* [http://www.gilf.gov.au Government Information and Licensing Framework] - a Queensland Government strategy on open access and use of information
* [http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx Venturous Australia: the National Innovation Review] - report recommends government use of CC licences, and is released under CC
* [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/250 Victorian Government's Economic Development Committee] recommends CC licensing for public sector information.
* Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) published the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper under a CC BY-NC-ND in July 2009: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/future_directions_of_the_digital_economy/australias_digital_economy_future_directions
* National Broadband Network Implementation Study http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study was released by DBCDE as a wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Wiki taken down now, but was tweeted: http://twitter.com/miakgarlick/status/13470301666
* DBCDE published two reports on its website under CC BY: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/benefits_of_digital_economy_from_nbn
* Treasury released the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2010 under CC BY: http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1858/PDF/PEFO_2010.pdf

=== Austria ===
[http://data.wien.gv.at/ Open Government Data Portal by the City of Vienna] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.de CC BY]

=== Brazil===
* [http://beta.dados.gov.br/ Brazil open government data portal (beta)] under CC BY-SA.
*Äôs Ministry of Justice [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
* The State of São Paulo State approved PL 989/2011, which establishes a policy whereby educational resources developed or purchased with government funds must be made freely available to the public under an open copyright license. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36081.

=== Bulgaria ===
* [http://www.president.bg/main.php Bulgarian President]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.
* [http://www.prb.bg Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria]. CC BY 2.5 Bulgaria
* [http://www.mfa.bg Bulgarian Foreign Ministry]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.

===Canada===

====Federal====

*Canada has developed the Government of Canada Open Data License Agreement for their open data portal website [http://www.data.gc.ca Government of Canada Open Data Pilot Project]. While not a Creative Commons license it would seem that this is heavily inspired by the Creative Commons philosophy and has many similar aspects. The license includes sections on 1.0 Definitions; 2.0 Intellectual Property Rights; 3.0 License Grant; 4.0 Acknowledgement of Source; 5.0 No Warranty and no Liability; and 6.0 Effective Date and Termination.
*The license permits individuals or commercial interests to use, reproduce, or add value to government data provided they use the required attribution and that they do not imply any warranty to, nor make any claim of exclusive rights to the data.
*This has similarities to the Open Government Licence for public sector information used in the United Kingdom as seen farther down this list.

====Provincial====

*'''British Columbia''' has similarly adopted an Open Government License for Government of BC information located on [http://www.data.gov.bc.ca Data BC]. They specifically adapted this license from the United Kingdom Open Government Licence with with the permission of the UK National Archives.

=== Chile ===
* [http://www.gobiernodechile.cl Chilean Government Official Site], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.sernatur.cl Chilean Bureau of Tourism], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.economia.gob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Economy], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.segegob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Communications], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.mineduc.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Education], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.bcn.cl The Library of the National Congress], whose site is licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.guiaweb.cl/ The Guidelines for Governmental Websites] and [http://www.observatoriodeusabilidad.cl its Observatory], run by the Ministry of Economy, are licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.

=== Colombia ===
* [http://www.siac.net.co/Home.php?opc=2 Official website of the Colombian Biodiversity Information System depending from the Ministry of Environment].

=== Croatia ===
* [http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr] - Centar za otvoreni kod, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / Center for Open Source, National and University Library in Zagreb, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0 Croatia.

=== Czech Republic ===
* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education.

===Ecuador===
* Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas del Ecuador http://www.mtop.gov.ec/index.php

=== Georgia ===
*Äôs Ministry of Education and Science [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Greece ===
* http://primeminister.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://www.opengov.gr/ CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
* http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive
* http://antiproedros.gov.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece records the public sector workforce in accordance to the IMF rules

=== Guatemala ===
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobiernodeguatemala/ under CC BY-NC-SA generic
=== Israel ===
*Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Italy ===
* [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali National Institute of Statistics] releases all data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC BY].
* [http://dati.camera.it/it/ Chamber of Deputies data portal], CC BY-SA
* http://poliziadistato.it/ The official website of the italian police, CC BY NC ND 2.5 IT
* http://dati.piemonte.it/ The official open government data portal of the [[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Regional Government of the Piedmont Region in Italy]]
** CC BY 2.5 Italy for content of the website
** CC0 for available databases (all to date: Oct 8, 2010)

=== Korea ===
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/KOCW Korea Open Courseware run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERIS_(Korea_Education_and_Research_Information_Service)

===Macedonia===
* Macedonia Center for Research and Policy Making [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

===Mexico===
* President Felipe Calderon Website, BY NC ND 2.5 Mexico. http://www.presidencia.gob.mx
* National Sports Comission http://www.conade.gob.mx
*[http://www.sip.gob.mx/guiafinal.pdf Federal Government guide for website building] recommends the use CC licenses

=== Netherlands ===
* the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Public domain dedication] is used as the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's primary website [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl www.rijksoverheid.nl]. Since 2010 this website combines al public information published by the Dutch government and has replaced the websites of individual ministeries and agencies. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright under CC0 unless otherwise indicated].

* Creative Commons Netherlands has published a study on [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)

=== New Zealand ===
'''[http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework]''' standardises the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material by individuals and organisations may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. It was released for public discussion on August 27, 2009 and approved by Cabinet on July 5, 2010. The framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by encouraging State Services agencies to license material for reuse on liberal terms, and recommends Creative Commons as an important tool in this process.

In 2011 The Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs adopted a statement '''[http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/declaration-open-and-transparent-government detailing a new Declaration on Open and Transparent Government].''' The Declaration has been approved by Cabinet, and directs all Public Service departments, the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service; encouraged other State Services agencies; and invited State Sector agencies to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process.

* The [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] has [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets been released] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website.
* Land Information New Zealand's [http://www.os2020.org.nz/ Ocean Survey 20/20 web portal] which provides New Zealand with better knowledge of its ocean territory, including New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Continental Shelf and the Ross Sea Region is made available under un [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. [http://www.os2020.org.nz/data-and-reports/ Reports and interpretations] are available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND licence].
*[http://www.doc.govt.nz/ The Department of Conservation] has [http://data.govt.nz/SearchPage_Controller/SearchFormAgency?AgencySearch=Department+of+Conservation&action_doCustomSearch=Go&agency=true many datasets] including [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/947 pest species distribution] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1040 Director-General's expenses] licensed under Creative Commons.
*[http://www.dia.govt.nz/ The Department of Internal Affairs]' website "[http://data.govt.nz data.govt.nz]" which acts as a NZ government dataset directory makes content such as feedback and dataset listings available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. Some datasets referred to on data.govt.nz have also been made available under Creative Commons licences by their [http://data.govt.nz/catalog/ respective agencies].
*[http://www.ssc.govt.nz The State Services Commission] has published some annual reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/ar-2011#stateservices eg]), public reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/gateway-lessons-learned-july11 eg]) and guidance documents ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/workforcestrategy-guidance eg]) on its [http://www.ssc.govt.nz/publications-and-resources website] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.search.dol.govt.nz The Department of Labour] has licensed its latest [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/ar0910/annualreport0910.pdf Annual Report] and [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/soi2010/index.asp Statement of Intent] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.justice.govt.nz The Ministry of Justice] has licensed its [http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/s/statement-of-intent-201020132013/?searchterm=statement%20of%20intent Statement of Intent 2010–2013] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1014 Executive Expenses 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.niwa.co.nz/ The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research] has made some [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/niwa/layers/ bathymetry grids] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
* The NZ Parliamentary Library publishes some CC licensed documents such as Bill Digests and Research Papers on the [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/Search/Results.htm?search=-1320899551 Parliament website]
* [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The New Zealand Defence Force]'s [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/public-documents/creative-commons/alf.htm Army Leadership framework] is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY]
*The [http://www.hrc.co.nz/ Human Rights Commission] has made various resources available for download on its website available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence] including reports, guides and Statements of Intent.
* [http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines DigitalNZ's 'Make It Digital' guides] for making digital content in New Zealand are now available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]
*[http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/ PHARMAC] has a selection of [http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/patients/Schedule/SchedulePublications schedules] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.police.govt.nz/ The New Zealand Police] licensed their [http://www.police.govt.nz/annual-report-2010 Annual Report for year ending June 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.charities.govt.nz/ The Charities Commission] released the [http://www.charities.govt.nz/the-register/purpose/ Charities Register] as part of its '[http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/OpenData.aspx open data web service]' under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] has made the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/downloads.aspx audio tracks for 21 Rita Angus exhibition paintings] and presentation [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/Symposium.aspx recordings from the Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium] available on their website under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licence]. They have also taken up the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licences] to [http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/10/03/reusing-images-from-te-papa/#entry mark images in their Online Collections] which are able to be shared.

*The following local government bodies have released CC licensed GIS datasets on the [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ Koordinates] platform:
**[http://www.wellington.govt.nz/ Wellington City Council] offers [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/wcc/ datasets] of aerial imagery, contours, building footprints, flood hazards, wind zones and more under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.nrc.govt.nz/ Northland Regional Council] currently has 25 GIS [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ datasets] available here, 19 are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and 6 under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
**[http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz North Shore City Council]'s [http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1440-north-shore-city-parks/ Parks layer] is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.arc.govt.nz/ Auckland Regional Council] datasets of Wards, Community Boards and some passenger transport information is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].

*In relation to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake Canterbury Earthquakes]:
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)] and the National Library of New Zealand have set up a documentary project of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licensed] images by [https://picasaweb.google.com/RossBeckerNZ/ Ross Becker] as a record of recovery inside the red zone.
**[http://www.linz.govt.nz/index.aspx Land Information New Zealand] made its [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/post_quake_imagery_of_christchurch_carries_cc_licence aerial photographs] of the city's damage available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/ The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management] released [http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/video-central-christchurch-two-weeks-after-quake-ck-88665 inner city footage] for screening at public memorial events under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The Defence Force] makes its Flickr photos sets (including [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdefenceforce/collections/72157626143610731/ documentation of Canterbury]) available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY].
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ CERA]'s 2011-2016 Statement of Intent is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.

=== Poland ===
* [http://www.equal.org.pl/baza.php?lang=pl Equal Program projects database] - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
* [http://www.mg.gov.pl/ Polish Ministry of Economy] is publishing content on its website under a CC BY SA 3.0 Poland license.
* Polish Council of Ministers has [http://creativecommons.pl/2012/04/digital-school-program-with-open-textbooks-approved-by-polish-government/ adopted] a new Digital School program for Polish schools, which includes 43 millions PLN for Creative Commons Attribution or compatible) textbooks for grades 4-6 in primary schools (K4-K6).
** Update: http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/

=== Portugal ===
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva official photostream under CC BY 2.0 Generic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavacosilva/
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva's announcement on running for reelection. Audio on SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0: http://soundcloud.com/cavacosilva2011

=== Russian Federation ===
* All content (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) of [http://kremlin.ru/eng/ Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kremlin_authorisation-English.pdf Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kremlin.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/ premier.gov.ru (website of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/about.html Terms]

* All content of [http://government.ru/eng/ government.ru (Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)

* All content of http://www.bashkortostan.ru (Official information portal of the official authorities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan]), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkortostan_authorisation-Russian.jpg Letter of authorisation from Administration of President of The Republic of Bashkortostan]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Bashkortostan.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://www.volganet.ru (Internet-portal of administration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast Volgograd Oblast]), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Volganet_authorisation-Russian.pdf Letter of authorisation from Administration of Volgograd Oblast]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Volganet.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://amisharin.ru (official website of Governor of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast])
** [http://amisharin.ru/terms_of_use/ Terms of use]

* State-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti Russian International News Agency "RIA Novosti"], 460 historical images from [http://visualrian.ru database http://visualrian.ru], Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** The license specified on the pages of certain images.
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti Information page on Wikimedia Commons]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_RIA_Novosti Special category on Wikimedia Commons]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University Lomonosov Moscow State University], http://convergencelab.ru - Portal of Department of New Media and Communication Theory of Faculty of Journalism, Creative Commons Attribution, version unknown

* Some content of http://www.mgimo.ru - information portal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)], Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)
** [http://www.mgimo.ru/publish/cc/index.phtml Terms of use]

* All content of http://www.hse.ru/en/ - portal of state-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_-_Higher_School_of_Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
** [http://www.hse.ru/copyright Terms of use]

=== Serbia ===
*[http://www.uzzpro.gov.rs/latinica/ Serbian Government - Administration for Joint Services of the Republic Bodies]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.minrzs.gov.rs/ Serbian Government - Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.mgu.gov.rs/ Serbian Government - Ministry of Construction and Urbanism]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://uap.gov.rs/about-us/ Serbian Government - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management]: CC BY-NC 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.zso.gov.rs/ Serbian Government - Institute for Social Insurance]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.restitucija.gov.rs/index.php Serbian Government - Agency for Restitution]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.nsk.gov.rs/latinica/index.php Serbian National Council for Culture]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Republic of Serbia [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Spain ===
* [http://www.gencat.cat/web/meugencat/documents/20101116_GUIA_USOS_XARXA_ENG.pdf Style and usage guide of the Government of Catalonia’s social networks] under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
* Statistical information on the [http://www.idescat.cat/en/ Statistical Institute of Catalonia] site is licensed by default under [http://www.idescat.cat/en/idescat/sistemaestadistic/ciutadans/avislegal.html CC BY 3.0 Spain].
* http://www.slideshare.net/justicia/the-use-of-creative-commons-licences-in-the-ministry-of-justice-of-the-government-of-catalonia/
* The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
*The [http://www.caib.es/ Government of the Balearic Islands] website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License

=== Taiwan ===
*Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
=== Thailand ===
*? Official website for Prime Minister (government) http://pm.go.th

=== Ukraine ===
*Unofficial municila page of Stryi town: http://stryi.com.ua/

=== United Kingdom ===
* The [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ Open Government License], used for a large amount of crown copyright data and content, is intended to be interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
* National Assembly for Wales use of flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalassemblyforwales/

=== Venezuela ===
*The "Canaima project" whichs goals is giving one laptop computer to every pupil in Venezuela (300.000 computers has been distributed so far) is preloaded with educational content (about 400 content) all of it is licensed with CC - SA - NC - 3.0

=== United States ===

==== Federal ====
* Works by the US federal government are automatically part of the [[public domain]] in the US as stipulated by http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
* Third-party content (such as the text of speeches by the first lady) on the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright White House web site] are licensed with CC BY 3.0 US by default.
* [http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy President-Elect Transition Team, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden]. CC BY 3.0 Unported. (Not an official federal government site, but an election team site, hence not required to be public domain.)
* The U.S. Department of Education has made OER an invitational priority in their [http://www.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=ynkyLyCpLNWvymvqBplJQYrwRGGlGtdR9gZtncFYJgjm2hTFSJZb!-2132130105?attId=40947 Ready to Learn] (PDF) and [http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2010-1/032310h.pdf Ready to Teach] (PDF) grants.
* The U.S. Department of Education has included open educational resources in their [http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/08/05/2010-19296/secretarys-priorities-for-discretionary-grant-programs Notice of Proposed Priorities] for discretionary grant funding. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
* The U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2 billion to community colleges and career training; [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100 CC BY required for grant outputs].
* The U.S. Department of Labor Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program; [http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-06.pdf CC BY required for grant outputs].
* U.S. Open Data Action plan is under CC0 + some federal datasets: report ([http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/us_open_data_action_plan.pdf pdf]); [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/05/09/continued-progress-and-plans-open-government-data-0 blog post]

==== State ====
* [[New York State Senate]], Senate Content, CC-BY-NC-ND with CC+ allowing non-political fundraising use of content.
* [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0791 State of Virginia], legislation that indicates a preference for state-funded materials to be released with a CC (or equivalent open) license.
* [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf Washington State open policy and requirement of CC BY]
* [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=741&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=HB418 New Hampshire adopts Open Source and Open Data requirements] (policy friendly to CC use, but not a specific CC tool adoption)
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31756 OER K-12 bill] passed in WA state. The focus of the bill is to help school districts identify existing high-quality, free, openly licensed, common core state standards aligned resources available for local adoption; in addition, any content built with public funds, must be licensed under “an attribution license” (CC BY)
* The city of Washington, D.C. has made available an unofficial copy of the [http://dccouncil.us/UnofficialDCCode DC Code] under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.

==== Local government ====
* [http://recoverysf.org/intranet/RecoverySF/ RecoverySF], CC BY 3.0 US.

See [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Intergovernmental_Organizations Intergovernmental Organizations] page for information about CC license use by Intergovernmental Organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, and the Commonwealth of Learning.

[[Category:Lists of CC use by jurisdiction]]
[[Category:Public sector information]]

CC0 use for data

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[[CC0]] (read “CC Zero”) is a universal public domain dedication that may be used by anyone wishing to permanently surrender the copyright and database rights (where they exist) they may have in a work, thereby placing it as nearly as possible into the public domain. CC0 is a legal tool that improves on the “dedication” function of our earlier, [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ U.S.-centric public domain dedication and certification]. CC0 is universal in form and may be used throughout the world for any kind of content without adaptation to account for laws in different jurisdictions. And like our licenses, CC0 has the benefit of being expressed in three ways – legal code, a human readable deed, and machine-readable code that allows works distributed under CC0 to be easily found.

CC0 can be particularly important for the sharing of data and databases, since it otherwise may be unclear whether highly factual data and databases are restricted by copyright or other rights. Databases may contain facts that, in and of themselves, are not protected by copyright law. However, the copyright laws of many jurisdictions cover creatively selected or arranged compilations of facts and creative database design and structure, and some jurisdictions like those in the European Union have enacted additional sui generis laws that restrict uses of databases without regard for applicable copyright law. CC0 is intended to cover all copyright and database rights, so that however data and databases are restricted (under copyright or otherwise), those rights are all surrendered. CC0 is also [http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/ particularly relevant to scientific data]. An opinion piece in <em>Nature</em> on "[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7261/full/461171a.html Post-publication sharing of data and tools]" explicitly recommends open sharing and the use of CC0 to put data in the public domain:

<blockquote>"Although it is usual practice for major public databases to make data freely available to access and use, any restrictions on use should be strongly resisted and we endorse explicit encouragement of open sharing, for example under the newly available CC0 public domain waiver of Creative Commons."</blockquote>

==CC0 use cases==
This is a list of uses of CC0 for data and databases. For uses of CC licenses, see [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Data_and_CC_licenses Data and CC Licenses].

===BioMed Central===
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BioMed Central (BMC) is one of the largest open access (OA) publishers in the world with 250 peer-reviewed OA journals, and more than 100,000 OA articles published yearly. BMC is also long-time user of CC licenses to accomplish its mission of husbanding and promoting open science. BMC has been publishing articles under a CC license since 2004. Starting September 3, 2013, in keeping with its forward-looking mission, BMC [https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41329 started] [http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/12/18/cc-by-4-0/ requiring] a CC0 Public Domain Dedication for data supporting the published articles.
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===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|The British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===[[Case_Studies/CERN|CERN Library]]===
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research that is home to the Large Hadron Collider and birthplace of the web, released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Digg|Digg]]===
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All content on [http://digg.com/ Digg], a social news website, is defaulted under CC0, which means that Digg has surrendered all copyrights to its content. Content includes readers' comments, story titles, story descriptions, and all of the other user-contributed content on the Digg site. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14752 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Digital_Public_Library_of_America|Digital Public Library of America]]===
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The DPLA is committed to asserting no new rights—and will claim no rights—over the metadata that it aggregates from its various data-providing partners. It has also pledged to make all of this metadata freely available under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Dryad|Dryad]]===
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Dryad is an online repository for data contained in academic papers and other publications in the sciences. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, in partnership with various [http://datadryad.org/partners journals and societies], comprise the development of Dryad's data set, all of which is released under the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/FigShare|FigShare]]===
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Researchers can publish their data on FigShare in a "citable, searchable, and shareable manner." According to FigShare's [http://figshare.com/faqs FAQ], "All figures, media and multiple file uploads are published under a CC BY license. All datasets are published under CC0."
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===[[Case_Studies/Flickr_Case_Study|Flickr]]===
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[http://flickr.com Flickr] published its [http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/21/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-10/ shapefile dataset] online, surrendering all copyrights via the CC0 public domain dedication. A shapefile is a file containing shapes mathematically generated by thousands of Flickr geotagged photos of particular neighborhoods, countries, and continents. Shapefile data has been used to reverse-engineer maps with user generated longitude and latitude coordinates that are then demarcated by Where-On-Earth IDs, "[http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/ unique numeric identifiers that correspond to the hierarchy of places where a photo was taken: the neighbourhood, the town, the county, and so on up to the continent]." For more information, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14678 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Genomes Unzipped|Genomes Unzipped]]===
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Genomes Unzipped is a project that aims to inform the public about genetics via the independent analysis of open genetic data, volunteered by a core group of genetics researchers and specialists. Genomes Unzipped genetic data is available in the public domain via the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 public domain dedication], while other site content is defaulted under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA].
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===German National Library===
The German National Library has begun publishing its standard data as public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication tool.
*http://de.creativecommons.org/2012/01/27/normdaten-deutsche-nationalbibliothek-kundigt-umstellung-auf-cc0-an/

===[[Case_Studies/Wikipedia, German|German Wikipedia]]===
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The German Wikipedia uses CC0 to dedicate data into the public domain; specifically, their PND-BEACON files are available for download. Since Wikipedia links out to quite a number of external resources, and since a lot of articles link to the same external resources, PND-BEACON files are the German Wikipedia’s way of organizing the various data.
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===[[Case_Studies/GlaxoSmithKline|GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)]]===
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One of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the world, [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chemblntd/#tcams_dataset GlaxoSmithKline] has surrendered all copyrights in its malarial data set via CC0, which includes more than 13,500 compounds known to be active against malaria.
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===[[Case_Studies/Harvard Library|Harvard Library]]===
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Harvard Library has [http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373 released 12 million catalog records] into the public domain using CC0, in accordance with it [http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/ Open Metadata Policy]. Its [http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/public_faq FAQ] explains why.
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===[[Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Spain|National Library of Spain]]===
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datos.bne.es is a joint project of Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) and the National Library of Spain, for the enrichment of the Semantic Web with bibliographic data from their catalog. This initiative has been launched with the publication, in accordance with the principles of Linked Data, information from library catalogs and authority, making knowledge bases available as RDF (Resource Description Framework). Furthermore, these data are interrelated with other existing knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative. Thus, Spain is in addition to projects that other institutions like the British Library and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek have recently begun. The 2.4 million bibliographic records are published according to the specifications and conditions of the Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
*http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/DatosEnlazados/index.html
*http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/DatosEnlazados/DescargaFicheros/

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===[[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Italian Piemonte Regional Government]]===
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The Piemonte Regional Government in Italy has adopted the CC0 public domain dedication for its open data portal (dati.piemonte.it). The Piemonte Region is leading the open data movement in Italy at the government level, being the only regional government to open up all its data for reuse without restrictions.
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===[[Case_Studies/MichiganView|MichiganView]]===
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Using CC0, [http://wiki.americaview.org/display/miview/Home MichiganView] has surrendered all copyrights to its 93+ Gigabytes of Landsat 5 and 7, and NAIP imagery data. The MichiganView consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Michigan to the public for free over the Web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, MichiganView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. For more info, see the [http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2010/01/29/michiganview-releases-remote-sensing-data-under-cc0-waiver/ blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Nature_Publishing_Group_linked_data|Nature Publishing Group linked data]]===
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Nature Publishing Group (NPG) provides access to its publication data via the linked data platform at [http://data.nature.com http://data.nature.com]. The platform includes more than 20 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements, including primary metadata for more than 450,000 articles published by NPG since 1869. The datasets include basic citation information (title, author, publication date, etc) as well as NPG specific ontologies. These datasets are released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which permits maximal use/re-use of this data. Nature's ''Scientific Data'' publication also [http://blogs.nature.com/scientificdata/2013/12/09/metadata-associated-with-data-descriptor-articles-to-be-released-under-cc0-waiver/ announced] it would release all machine-readable metadata accompanying Data Descriptor articles under CC0 to enable advanced users to mine and search our content without legal ambiguity.
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===[[Case_Studies/Netherlands_Government|Netherlands Government]]===
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The [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl Netherlands government] launched [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ www.rijksoverheid.nl], a single website for all Dutch ministries, in March 2010. The default copyright policy for site content is that there is no copyright; using the CC0 public domain dedication, the government surrendered all copyrights in site. The purpose of [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ www.rijksoverheid.nl] is to establish one central location or portal through which all government organizations and ministries can be accessed by the public. The migration process is currently underway. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21473 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/New_York_Public_Library_bibliographic_metadata|NYPL Bibliographic Metadata and Cartographic Works]]===
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NYPL's bibliographic metadata records provided through the [http://api.repo.nypl.org/ NYPL Repository API] are distributed under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Although the bibliographic metadata records are provided consistent with CC0 1.0 Dedication, the content described by the metadata records is not. Content may be subject to copyright, rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division of NYPL has also [http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps released more than 20,000 cartographic works] as high resolution downloads using CC0.
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===Open Clinical Innovation Network===
The Open Clinical Innovation Network seeks to transform clinical research and development by openly sharing clinical tools and data via the CC0 public domain dedication, thereby enabling open innovation. More from the [http://portal.lillycoi.com/2012/04/03/open-innovation-can-transform-clinical-development/ announcement]. Still in its initial stages, you can read the white paper ([https://s3.amazonaws.com/lillycoi/Clinical_Open_Innovation_White_Paper.pdf pdf]) and check out its first tool, [http://www.clinicalcollections.org/trials/ Clinical Commons].

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===
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An initiative of the Internet Archive, the Open Library is an online catalog that aims to provide a web page for every book ever published. Drawing from existing library catalogs around the world and user contributions, the Open Library has 20 million records to date and provides access to 1.7 million scanned books. All rights to Open Library data are surrendered via [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0].
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===[[Case_Studies/OpenEI|OpenEI]]===
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An initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy, OpenEI is a linked open data platform that releases all contributions to the public under the CC0 public domain dedication. It is a community effort devoted to assembling the world's most comprehensive collection of energy information--including datasets, tools, and models.
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===[[Case_Studies/OpenJurist|OpenJurist.org]]===
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Using CC0, [http://openjurist.org/terms-of-use OpenJurist], a resource for case law in the U.S., has made available all Supreme Court and Federal Appellate Court Decisions from the 1700s to the current day.
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===[[Case_Studies/Personal_Genome_Project|Personal Genome Project]]===
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[http://www.personalgenomes.org/ The Personal Genome Project], a pioneer in the emerging field of personal genomics technology, released a large data set containing genomic sequences for ten individuals using CC0, with future planned releases also to be under CC0.
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===[[Case_Studies/Polar_Information_Commons|Polar Information Commons]]===
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The [http://www.polarcommons.org/ Polar Information Commons], a data sharing project growing out of the most recent International Polar Year, has enabled researchers to release their polar data into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication. For those sharing their data, the Polar Information Commons has outlined [http://www.polarcommons.org/ethics-and-norms-of-data-sharing.php Ethics and Norms of Data Sharing].
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===[[Case_Studies/Proteome_Commons|Proteome Commons Tranche Network]]===
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[https://proteomecommons.org/tranche/ Proteome Commons Tranche Network], a public proteomics database for annotations and other information that uses Tranche, a free and open source (Apache 2.0) file storage and dissemination software, has enabled the CC0 public domain dedication as the default uploading option for users.
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===[[Case_Studies/Public.Resource.Org|Public.resource.org]]===
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[http://public.resource.org/uscourts.gov/index.html 1.8 million pages of U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions] (since 1950 onwards) were delivered back into the public domain by [http://public.resource.org/ public.resource.org], who officially surrendered all copyrights in the case law using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Research Libraries UK (RLUK)]]===

"The data provided by RLUK will additionally be made available as Linked Open Data. This is part of The European Library's aim of working with its members to expose a set of their combined bibliographic metadata as a CC0 dataset - a dataset openly available for any type of reuse. RLUK's valuable data will now be integrated into the larger European Library set, thereby providing a rich source of reusable knowledge from Europe's most prestigious libraries." -- http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newsitem/2450

===[[Case_Studies/Safecast|Safecast]]===
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Safecast releases radiation data from the fallout in Fukushima under CC0.
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===[[Case_Studies/Sage_Bionetworks_-_Sage_Commons|Sage Bionetworks - Sage Commons]]===
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[http://sagebase.org/commons/ Sage Commons] is a public resource and information platform for scientists, research foundations, and research institutions to share and develop human disease and biological research. Sage Commons will enable the CC0 public domain dedication as an option for surrendering copyright in data hosted in the network. The [http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/sagecite/ SageCite project], driven by UKOLN, the University of Manchester, and the British Library, and funded by JISC, is set to develop and test an entire framework for citation norms, not attribution, using bioinformatics as a test case.
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===SCOAP3 Repository===
"The repository will also make available the corresponding metadata, under a CC0 license. Metadata will include of course the article DOIs and the ORCID IDs of all authors, when available."
* http://scoap3.org/scoap3-repository
* http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2013/12/open-access-publishing-initiative-scoap3-start-1-january-2014

===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum===
The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum has released its collection data into the public domain using CC0.
*http://www.cooperhewitt.org/collections/data
*http://media.cooperhewitt.org.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/02/23/Cooper-Hewitt%20Metadata%20Press%20Release%202-23-12.pdf

===[[Case_Studies/SimpleGeo|SimpleGeo]]===
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===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Talis_Connected_Commons|Talis Connected Commons]]===
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The [http://www.talis.com/platform/cc/ Talis Connected Commons] is a project by Talis that works to encourage the growth of public domain data. Talis offers free data hosting on its platform as long as the data is made available under either the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication or the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/University of Florida Library|University of Florida Library]]===
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The University of Florida Smathers Libraries has implemented a default public domain policy for all of its original catalog data. The library has released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication tool, opening up downstream reuse of the data without restrictions.
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===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyright in its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[[Case_Studies/WisconsinView|WisconsinView]]===
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Using CC0, [http://www.wisconsinview.org/ WisconsinView] has surrendered all copyrights in its 6+ Terabytes of imagery data. The WisconsinView consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin to the public for free over the Web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. For more info, see the [http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/07/01/wisconsinview-public-domain/ blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre|Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre]]===
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The Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre has published [http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/ its datasets at Canadensys] via the CC0 public domain dedication, and encourages the rest of the Canadensys community to [http://www.canadensys.net/2012/why-we-should-publish-our-data-unde-cc0 do the same].
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===U.S. Government Data===
U.S. Open Data Action plan is under CC0 + some federal datasets: report ([http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/us_open_data_action_plan.pdf pdf]); [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/05/09/continued-progress-and-plans-open-government-data-0 blog post]

===[[Case_Studies/Wikidata|Wikidata]]===
"Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects." All structured data from the main and property namespace is available via Creative Commons CC0. More info:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
* https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/04/24/wikidata-all-around-the-world/
* http://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/26/wikidata-is-a-huge-step-for-wikipedia-and-the-internet/

==Other CC0 use cases==

===[[Case_Studies/Mercy Corps|Mercy Corps]]===
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Mercy Corps is a disaster relief organization that has released its package of office management materials (Office in a Box) into the public domain via CC0 for the start-up of new field offices in disaster areas and the improvement of operations in existing offices.
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===[[Case_Studies/Open Clip Art Library|Open Clip Art Library]]===
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All clip art packages generated and uploaded by the Open Clip Art Library community are free to use, distribute, and remix under the CC0 public domain dedication.
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CC0 use for data

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[[CC0]] (read “CC Zero”) is a universal public domain dedication that may be used by anyone wishing to permanently surrender the copyright and database rights (where they exist) they may have in a work, thereby placing it as nearly as possible into the public domain. CC0 is a legal tool that improves on the “dedication” function of our earlier, [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ U.S.-centric public domain dedication and certification]. CC0 is universal in form and may be used throughout the world for any kind of content without adaptation to account for laws in different jurisdictions. And like our licenses, CC0 has the benefit of being expressed in three ways – legal code, a human readable deed, and machine-readable code that allows works distributed under CC0 to be easily found.

CC0 can be particularly important for the sharing of data and databases, since it otherwise may be unclear whether highly factual data and databases are restricted by copyright or other rights. Databases may contain facts that, in and of themselves, are not protected by copyright law. However, the copyright laws of many jurisdictions cover creatively selected or arranged compilations of facts and creative database design and structure, and some jurisdictions like those in the European Union have enacted additional sui generis laws that restrict uses of databases without regard for applicable copyright law. CC0 is intended to cover all copyright and database rights, so that however data and databases are restricted (under copyright or otherwise), those rights are all surrendered. CC0 is also [http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/ particularly relevant to scientific data]. An opinion piece in <em>Nature</em> on "[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7261/full/461171a.html Post-publication sharing of data and tools]" explicitly recommends open sharing and the use of CC0 to put data in the public domain:

<blockquote>"Although it is usual practice for major public databases to make data freely available to access and use, any restrictions on use should be strongly resisted and we endorse explicit encouragement of open sharing, for example under the newly available CC0 public domain waiver of Creative Commons."</blockquote>

==CC0 use cases==
This is a list of uses of CC0 for data and databases. For uses of CC licenses, see [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Data_and_CC_licenses Data and CC Licenses].

===BioMed Central===
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BioMed Central (BMC) is one of the largest open access (OA) publishers in the world with 250 peer-reviewed OA journals, and more than 100,000 OA articles published yearly. BMC is also long-time user of CC licenses to accomplish its mission of husbanding and promoting open science. BMC has been publishing articles under a CC license since 2004. Starting September 3, 2013, in keeping with its forward-looking mission, BMC [https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41329 started] [http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/12/18/cc-by-4-0/ requiring] a CC0 Public Domain Dedication for data supporting the published articles.
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===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|The British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===[[Case_Studies/CERN|CERN Library]]===
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research that is home to the Large Hadron Collider and birthplace of the web, released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Digg|Digg]]===
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All content on [http://digg.com/ Digg], a social news website, is defaulted under CC0, which means that Digg has surrendered all copyrights to its content. Content includes readers' comments, story titles, story descriptions, and all of the other user-contributed content on the Digg site. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14752 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Digital_Public_Library_of_America|Digital Public Library of America]]===
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The DPLA is committed to asserting no new rights—and will claim no rights—over the metadata that it aggregates from its various data-providing partners. It has also pledged to make all of this metadata freely available under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Dryad|Dryad]]===
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Dryad is an online repository for data contained in academic papers and other publications in the sciences. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, in partnership with various [http://datadryad.org/partners journals and societies], comprise the development of Dryad's data set, all of which is released under the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/FigShare|FigShare]]===
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Researchers can publish their data on FigShare in a "citable, searchable, and shareable manner." According to FigShare's [http://figshare.com/faqs FAQ], "All figures, media and multiple file uploads are published under a CC BY license. All datasets are published under CC0."
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===[[Case_Studies/Flickr_Case_Study|Flickr]]===
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[http://flickr.com Flickr] published its [http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/21/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-10/ shapefile dataset] online, surrendering all copyrights via the CC0 public domain dedication. A shapefile is a file containing shapes mathematically generated by thousands of Flickr geotagged photos of particular neighborhoods, countries, and continents. Shapefile data has been used to reverse-engineer maps with user generated longitude and latitude coordinates that are then demarcated by Where-On-Earth IDs, "[http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/ unique numeric identifiers that correspond to the hierarchy of places where a photo was taken: the neighbourhood, the town, the county, and so on up to the continent]." For more information, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14678 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Genomes Unzipped|Genomes Unzipped]]===
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Genomes Unzipped is a project that aims to inform the public about genetics via the independent analysis of open genetic data, volunteered by a core group of genetics researchers and specialists. Genomes Unzipped genetic data is available in the public domain via the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 public domain dedication], while other site content is defaulted under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA].
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===German National Library===
The German National Library has begun publishing its standard data as public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication tool.
*http://de.creativecommons.org/2012/01/27/normdaten-deutsche-nationalbibliothek-kundigt-umstellung-auf-cc0-an/

===[[Case_Studies/Wikipedia, German|German Wikipedia]]===
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The German Wikipedia uses CC0 to dedicate data into the public domain; specifically, their PND-BEACON files are available for download. Since Wikipedia links out to quite a number of external resources, and since a lot of articles link to the same external resources, PND-BEACON files are the German Wikipedia’s way of organizing the various data.
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===[[Case_Studies/GlaxoSmithKline|GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)]]===
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One of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the world, [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chemblntd/#tcams_dataset GlaxoSmithKline] has surrendered all copyrights in its malarial data set via CC0, which includes more than 13,500 compounds known to be active against malaria.
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===[[Case_Studies/Harvard Library|Harvard Library]]===
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Harvard Library has [http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373 released 12 million catalog records] into the public domain using CC0, in accordance with it [http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/ Open Metadata Policy]. Its [http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/public_faq FAQ] explains why.
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===[[Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Spain|National Library of Spain]]===
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datos.bne.es is a joint project of Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) and the National Library of Spain, for the enrichment of the Semantic Web with bibliographic data from their catalog. This initiative has been launched with the publication, in accordance with the principles of Linked Data, information from library catalogs and authority, making knowledge bases available as RDF (Resource Description Framework). Furthermore, these data are interrelated with other existing knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative. Thus, Spain is in addition to projects that other institutions like the British Library and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek have recently begun. The 2.4 million bibliographic records are published according to the specifications and conditions of the Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
*http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/DatosEnlazados/index.html
*http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/DatosEnlazados/DescargaFicheros/

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===[[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Italian Piemonte Regional Government]]===
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The Piemonte Regional Government in Italy has adopted the CC0 public domain dedication for its open data portal (dati.piemonte.it). The Piemonte Region is leading the open data movement in Italy at the government level, being the only regional government to open up all its data for reuse without restrictions.
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===[[Case_Studies/MichiganView|MichiganView]]===
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Using CC0, [http://wiki.americaview.org/display/miview/Home MichiganView] has surrendered all copyrights to its 93+ Gigabytes of Landsat 5 and 7, and NAIP imagery data. The MichiganView consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Michigan to the public for free over the Web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, MichiganView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. For more info, see the [http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2010/01/29/michiganview-releases-remote-sensing-data-under-cc0-waiver/ blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Nature_Publishing_Group_linked_data|Nature Publishing Group linked data]]===
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Nature Publishing Group (NPG) provides access to its publication data via the linked data platform at [http://data.nature.com http://data.nature.com]. The platform includes more than 20 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements, including primary metadata for more than 450,000 articles published by NPG since 1869. The datasets include basic citation information (title, author, publication date, etc) as well as NPG specific ontologies. These datasets are released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which permits maximal use/re-use of this data. Nature's ''Scientific Data'' publication also [http://blogs.nature.com/scientificdata/2013/12/09/metadata-associated-with-data-descriptor-articles-to-be-released-under-cc0-waiver/ announced] it would release all machine-readable metadata accompanying Data Descriptor articles under CC0 to enable advanced users to mine and search our content without legal ambiguity.
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===[[Case_Studies/Netherlands_Government|Netherlands Government]]===
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The [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl Netherlands government] launched [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ www.rijksoverheid.nl], a single website for all Dutch ministries, in March 2010. The default copyright policy for site content is that there is no copyright; using the CC0 public domain dedication, the government surrendered all copyrights in site. The purpose of [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ www.rijksoverheid.nl] is to establish one central location or portal through which all government organizations and ministries can be accessed by the public. The migration process is currently underway. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21473 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/New_York_Public_Library_bibliographic_metadata|NYPL Bibliographic Metadata and Cartographic Works]]===
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NYPL's bibliographic metadata records provided through the [http://api.repo.nypl.org/ NYPL Repository API] are distributed under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Although the bibliographic metadata records are provided consistent with CC0 1.0 Dedication, the content described by the metadata records is not. Content may be subject to copyright, rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division of NYPL has also [http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps released more than 20,000 cartographic works] as high resolution downloads using CC0.
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===Open Clinical Innovation Network===
The Open Clinical Innovation Network seeks to transform clinical research and development by openly sharing clinical tools and data via the CC0 public domain dedication, thereby enabling open innovation. More from the [http://portal.lillycoi.com/2012/04/03/open-innovation-can-transform-clinical-development/ announcement]. Still in its initial stages, you can read the white paper ([https://s3.amazonaws.com/lillycoi/Clinical_Open_Innovation_White_Paper.pdf pdf]) and check out its first tool, [http://www.clinicalcollections.org/trials/ Clinical Commons].

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===
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An initiative of the Internet Archive, the Open Library is an online catalog that aims to provide a web page for every book ever published. Drawing from existing library catalogs around the world and user contributions, the Open Library has 20 million records to date and provides access to 1.7 million scanned books. All rights to Open Library data are surrendered via [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0].
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===[[Case_Studies/OpenEI|OpenEI]]===
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An initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy, OpenEI is a linked open data platform that releases all contributions to the public under the CC0 public domain dedication. It is a community effort devoted to assembling the world's most comprehensive collection of energy information--including datasets, tools, and models.
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===[[Case_Studies/OpenJurist|OpenJurist.org]]===
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Using CC0, [http://openjurist.org/terms-of-use OpenJurist], a resource for case law in the U.S., has made available all Supreme Court and Federal Appellate Court Decisions from the 1700s to the current day.
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===[[Case_Studies/Personal_Genome_Project|Personal Genome Project]]===
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[http://www.personalgenomes.org/ The Personal Genome Project], a pioneer in the emerging field of personal genomics technology, released a large data set containing genomic sequences for ten individuals using CC0, with future planned releases also to be under CC0.
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===[[Case_Studies/Polar_Information_Commons|Polar Information Commons]]===
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The [http://www.polarcommons.org/ Polar Information Commons], a data sharing project growing out of the most recent International Polar Year, has enabled researchers to release their polar data into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication. For those sharing their data, the Polar Information Commons has outlined [http://www.polarcommons.org/ethics-and-norms-of-data-sharing.php Ethics and Norms of Data Sharing].
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===[[Case_Studies/Proteome_Commons|Proteome Commons Tranche Network]]===
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[https://proteomecommons.org/tranche/ Proteome Commons Tranche Network], a public proteomics database for annotations and other information that uses Tranche, a free and open source (Apache 2.0) file storage and dissemination software, has enabled the CC0 public domain dedication as the default uploading option for users.
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===[[Case_Studies/Public.Resource.Org|Public.resource.org]]===
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[http://public.resource.org/uscourts.gov/index.html 1.8 million pages of U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions] (since 1950 onwards) were delivered back into the public domain by [http://public.resource.org/ public.resource.org], who officially surrendered all copyrights in the case law using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Research Libraries UK (RLUK)]]===

"The data provided by RLUK will additionally be made available as Linked Open Data. This is part of The European Library's aim of working with its members to expose a set of their combined bibliographic metadata as a CC0 dataset - a dataset openly available for any type of reuse. RLUK's valuable data will now be integrated into the larger European Library set, thereby providing a rich source of reusable knowledge from Europe's most prestigious libraries." -- http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newsitem/2450

===[[Case_Studies/Safecast|Safecast]]===
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Safecast releases radiation data from the fallout in Fukushima under CC0.
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===[[Case_Studies/Sage_Bionetworks_-_Sage_Commons|Sage Bionetworks - Sage Commons]]===
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[http://sagebase.org/commons/ Sage Commons] is a public resource and information platform for scientists, research foundations, and research institutions to share and develop human disease and biological research. Sage Commons will enable the CC0 public domain dedication as an option for surrendering copyright in data hosted in the network. The [http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/sagecite/ SageCite project], driven by UKOLN, the University of Manchester, and the British Library, and funded by JISC, is set to develop and test an entire framework for citation norms, not attribution, using bioinformatics as a test case.
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===SCOAP3 Repository===
"The repository will also make available the corresponding metadata, under a CC0 license. Metadata will include of course the article DOIs and the ORCID IDs of all authors, when available."
* http://scoap3.org/scoap3-repository
* http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2013/12/open-access-publishing-initiative-scoap3-start-1-january-2014

===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum===
The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum has released its collection data into the public domain using CC0.
*http://www.cooperhewitt.org/collections/data
*http://media.cooperhewitt.org.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/02/23/Cooper-Hewitt%20Metadata%20Press%20Release%202-23-12.pdf

===[[Case_Studies/SimpleGeo|SimpleGeo]]===
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http://blog.simplegeo.com/2011/04/20/open-places-data/
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===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Talis_Connected_Commons|Talis Connected Commons]]===
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The [http://www.talis.com/platform/cc/ Talis Connected Commons] is a project by Talis that works to encourage the growth of public domain data. Talis offers free data hosting on its platform as long as the data is made available under either the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication or the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/University of Florida Library|University of Florida Library]]===
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The University of Florida Smathers Libraries has implemented a default public domain policy for all of its original catalog data. The library has released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication tool, opening up downstream reuse of the data without restrictions.
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===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyright in its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[[Case_Studies/WisconsinView|WisconsinView]]===
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Using CC0, [http://www.wisconsinview.org/ WisconsinView] has surrendered all copyrights in its 6+ Terabytes of imagery data. The WisconsinView consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin to the public for free over the Web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. For more info, see the [http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/07/01/wisconsinview-public-domain/ blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre|Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre]]===
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The Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre has published [http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/ its datasets at Canadensys] via the CC0 public domain dedication, and encourages the rest of the Canadensys community to [http://www.canadensys.net/2012/why-we-should-publish-our-data-unde-cc0 do the same].
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===U.S. Government Data===
U.S. Open Data Action plan is under CC0 + federal datasets: report ([http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/us_open_data_action_plan.pdf pdf]); [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/05/09/continued-progress-and-plans-open-government-data-0 blog post]

===[[Case_Studies/Wikidata|Wikidata]]===
"Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects." All structured data from the main and property namespace is available via Creative Commons CC0. More info:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
* https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/04/24/wikidata-all-around-the-world/
* http://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/26/wikidata-is-a-huge-step-for-wikipedia-and-the-internet/

==Other CC0 use cases==

===[[Case_Studies/Mercy Corps|Mercy Corps]]===
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Mercy Corps is a disaster relief organization that has released its package of office management materials (Office in a Box) into the public domain via CC0 for the start-up of new field offices in disaster areas and the improvement of operations in existing offices.
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===[[Case_Studies/Open Clip Art Library|Open Clip Art Library]]===
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All clip art packages generated and uploaded by the Open Clip Art Library community are free to use, distribute, and remix under the CC0 public domain dedication.
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== [[Government_adoption_strategies|Government adoption strategies]] ==
== Jurisdiction-Specific Case Studies==
=== Armenia ===
* [http://www.president.am/president/cover/eng/ Official website of the Armenian President]. CC BY-ND 3.0 Unported.

=== Argentina ===
* [http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/ Official website of the Buenos Aires City Government]. CC BY 2.5 Argentina.

=== Australia ===
* [http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/ AusGOAL], the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework, provides support and guidance to Australia's governments and related sectors to facilitate open access to [http://blog.ausgoal.gov.au/2011/07/07/launch-ausgoal-is-online/ publicly funded information]. AusGOAL makes it possible for organisations to manage their risks when publishing information and data in a way that drives innovation and entrepreneurial activities; providing enhanced economic and social benefits to the wider community. AusGOAL is aligned with numerous open government initiatives around the world and supports the [http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/agency_resources/principles_on_psi_short.html Australian Information Commissioners Open Access Principles]. AusGOAL endorses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
* Australian Parliament. The Parliament’s central web portal http://www.aph.gov.au houses the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings, and the portal will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
* Australian budget delivered May 12, 2010 was [http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/bp1/html/bp1_prelims.htm released] under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Also the [http://gov2.net.au/report/ Gov 2.0 response] and the [http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study NBN Implementation Study]
* government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - [http://www.abs.gov.au Australian Bureau of Statistics], [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] - are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ CC BY 2.5 Australia] and/or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce].
** over 50 datasets released on data.australia.gov.au http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/
** Geoscience Australia's "geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges" during the recent Brisbane flood: http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/2501
* [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/ Water Information] - the Australian [http://www.bom.gov.au Bureau of Meteorology] has [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/269 launched] the official website of its Improving Water Information Program with a default [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] licence. This aggregates hundreds of other government departments' and agencies' information into the National Water Account. They have a range of [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/regulations/cc/disseminating.shtml explanatory materials] about the licence and are building licensing tools and metadata into their [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awris.shtml Australian Water Resources Information System].
* [http://www.pool.org.au ABC Pool] - this initiative of Australia's largest public broadcaster, the [http://www.abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Corporation] (ABC), is releasing material from the ABC archives for reuse under CC licences. It's first major release has been as part of the [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool Gene Pool project], celebrating Charles Darwin's Centenary.
* [http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia] - various [http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/cdp/ policy materials]
* [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
* [http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/ Queensland Museum] - [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/270 releases] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection photographs] from its collection on [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki Commons] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA] .
* NSW Department of Education and Training - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/939 Dynamic Calculus': Teaching Resource]
* Aged Care Queensland's [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/247 eMentoring Handbook]
* National Copyright Unit - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956 Creative Commons for Educators fact sheets] produced for the Smartcopying website in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia.
* Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy - [https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/budd-e/common/info/copyright.html Budd:e E-security Education Package]. The Budd:e package won Best Children's interactive media and digital content at the 2010 [http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1.36.7000.7001 AIMIA Awards].
* [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/ Mosman Municipal Council]'s [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] is released under a Creative Commons licence and includes as a key priority “to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship”.
* Realising Our Broadband Future forum (Dec 2009), DBCDE hosted a wiki to gather input from participants whihc was all CC BY-NC-SA licensed http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/webcasts.html
* Australian Government Information Management Office has CC licensed its blog: http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/ and the Government 2.0 showcase http://showcase.govspace.gov.au/
* Australian Electoral Commission has [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3481 applied] CC BY as the default license for its website: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm
'''Australian government reports recommending CC usage'''
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0] - report of the Australian [http://gov2.net.au Government 2.0 Taskforce]
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/govresponse20report/doc/Government-Response-to-Gov-2-0-Report.pdf Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce] - agreement in principle that Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) should be the default licence for all PSI
* [http://www.gilf.gov.au Government Information and Licensing Framework] - a Queensland Government strategy on open access and use of information
* [http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx Venturous Australia: the National Innovation Review] - report recommends government use of CC licences, and is released under CC
* [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/250 Victorian Government's Economic Development Committee] recommends CC licensing for public sector information.
* Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) published the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper under a CC BY-NC-ND in July 2009: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/future_directions_of_the_digital_economy/australias_digital_economy_future_directions
* National Broadband Network Implementation Study http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study was released by DBCDE as a wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Wiki taken down now, but was tweeted: http://twitter.com/miakgarlick/status/13470301666
* DBCDE published two reports on its website under CC BY: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/benefits_of_digital_economy_from_nbn
* Treasury released the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2010 under CC BY: http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1858/PDF/PEFO_2010.pdf

=== Austria ===
[http://data.wien.gv.at/ Open Government Data Portal by the City of Vienna] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.de CC BY]

=== Brazil===
* [http://beta.dados.gov.br/ Brazil open government data portal (beta)] under CC BY-SA.
*Äôs Ministry of Justice [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
* The State of São Paulo State approved PL 989/2011, which establishes a policy whereby educational resources developed or purchased with government funds must be made freely available to the public under an open copyright license. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36081.

=== Bulgaria ===
* [http://www.president.bg/main.php Bulgarian President]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.
* [http://www.prb.bg Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria]. CC BY 2.5 Bulgaria
* [http://www.mfa.bg Bulgarian Foreign Ministry]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.

===Canada===

====Federal====

*Canada has developed the Government of Canada Open Data License Agreement for their open data portal website [http://www.data.gc.ca Government of Canada Open Data Pilot Project]. While not a Creative Commons license it would seem that this is heavily inspired by the Creative Commons philosophy and has many similar aspects. The license includes sections on 1.0 Definitions; 2.0 Intellectual Property Rights; 3.0 License Grant; 4.0 Acknowledgement of Source; 5.0 No Warranty and no Liability; and 6.0 Effective Date and Termination.
*The license permits individuals or commercial interests to use, reproduce, or add value to government data provided they use the required attribution and that they do not imply any warranty to, nor make any claim of exclusive rights to the data.
*This has similarities to the Open Government Licence for public sector information used in the United Kingdom as seen farther down this list.

====Provincial====

*'''British Columbia''' has similarly adopted an Open Government License for Government of BC information located on [http://www.data.gov.bc.ca Data BC]. They specifically adapted this license from the United Kingdom Open Government Licence with with the permission of the UK National Archives.

=== Chile ===
* [http://www.gobiernodechile.cl Chilean Government Official Site], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.sernatur.cl Chilean Bureau of Tourism], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.economia.gob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Economy], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.segegob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Communications], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.mineduc.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Education], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.bcn.cl The Library of the National Congress], whose site is licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.guiaweb.cl/ The Guidelines for Governmental Websites] and [http://www.observatoriodeusabilidad.cl its Observatory], run by the Ministry of Economy, are licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.

=== Colombia ===
* [http://www.siac.net.co/Home.php?opc=2 Official website of the Colombian Biodiversity Information System depending from the Ministry of Environment].

=== Croatia ===
* [http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr] - Centar za otvoreni kod, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / Center for Open Source, National and University Library in Zagreb, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0 Croatia.

=== Czech Republic ===
* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education.

===Ecuador===
* Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas del Ecuador http://www.mtop.gov.ec/index.php

=== Georgia ===
*Äôs Ministry of Education and Science [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Greece ===
* http://primeminister.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://www.opengov.gr/ CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
* http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive
* http://antiproedros.gov.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece records the public sector workforce in accordance to the IMF rules

=== Guatemala ===
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobiernodeguatemala/ under CC BY-NC-SA generic
=== Israel ===
*Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Italy ===
* [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali National Institute of Statistics] releases all data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC BY].
* [http://dati.camera.it/it/ Chamber of Deputies data portal], CC BY-SA
* http://poliziadistato.it/ The official website of the italian police, CC BY NC ND 2.5 IT
* http://dati.piemonte.it/ The official open government data portal of the [[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Regional Government of the Piedmont Region in Italy]]
** CC BY 2.5 Italy for content of the website
** CC0 for available databases (all to date: Oct 8, 2010)

=== Korea ===
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/KOCW Korea Open Courseware run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERIS_(Korea_Education_and_Research_Information_Service)

===Macedonia===
* Macedonia Center for Research and Policy Making [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

===Mexico===
* President Felipe Calderon Website, BY NC ND 2.5 Mexico. http://www.presidencia.gob.mx
* National Sports Comission http://www.conade.gob.mx
*[http://www.sip.gob.mx/guiafinal.pdf Federal Government guide for website building] recommends the use CC licenses

=== Netherlands ===
* the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Public domain dedication] is used as the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's primary website [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl www.rijksoverheid.nl]. Since 2010 this website combines al public information published by the Dutch government and has replaced the websites of individual ministeries and agencies. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright under CC0 unless otherwise indicated].

* Creative Commons Netherlands has published a study on [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)

=== New Zealand ===
'''[http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework]''' standardises the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material by individuals and organisations may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. It was released for public discussion on August 27, 2009 and approved by Cabinet on July 5, 2010. The framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by encouraging State Services agencies to license material for reuse on liberal terms, and recommends Creative Commons as an important tool in this process.

In 2011 The Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs adopted a statement '''[http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/declaration-open-and-transparent-government detailing a new Declaration on Open and Transparent Government].''' The Declaration has been approved by Cabinet, and directs all Public Service departments, the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service; encouraged other State Services agencies; and invited State Sector agencies to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process.

* The [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] has [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets been released] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website.
* Land Information New Zealand's [http://www.os2020.org.nz/ Ocean Survey 20/20 web portal] which provides New Zealand with better knowledge of its ocean territory, including New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Continental Shelf and the Ross Sea Region is made available under un [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. [http://www.os2020.org.nz/data-and-reports/ Reports and interpretations] are available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND licence].
*[http://www.doc.govt.nz/ The Department of Conservation] has [http://data.govt.nz/SearchPage_Controller/SearchFormAgency?AgencySearch=Department+of+Conservation&action_doCustomSearch=Go&agency=true many datasets] including [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/947 pest species distribution] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1040 Director-General's expenses] licensed under Creative Commons.
*[http://www.dia.govt.nz/ The Department of Internal Affairs]' website "[http://data.govt.nz data.govt.nz]" which acts as a NZ government dataset directory makes content such as feedback and dataset listings available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. Some datasets referred to on data.govt.nz have also been made available under Creative Commons licences by their [http://data.govt.nz/catalog/ respective agencies].
*[http://www.ssc.govt.nz The State Services Commission] has published some annual reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/ar-2011#stateservices eg]), public reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/gateway-lessons-learned-july11 eg]) and guidance documents ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/workforcestrategy-guidance eg]) on its [http://www.ssc.govt.nz/publications-and-resources website] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.search.dol.govt.nz The Department of Labour] has licensed its latest [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/ar0910/annualreport0910.pdf Annual Report] and [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/soi2010/index.asp Statement of Intent] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.justice.govt.nz The Ministry of Justice] has licensed its [http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/s/statement-of-intent-201020132013/?searchterm=statement%20of%20intent Statement of Intent 2010–2013] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1014 Executive Expenses 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.niwa.co.nz/ The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research] has made some [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/niwa/layers/ bathymetry grids] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
* The NZ Parliamentary Library publishes some CC licensed documents such as Bill Digests and Research Papers on the [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/Search/Results.htm?search=-1320899551 Parliament website]
* [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The New Zealand Defence Force]'s [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/public-documents/creative-commons/alf.htm Army Leadership framework] is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY]
*The [http://www.hrc.co.nz/ Human Rights Commission] has made various resources available for download on its website available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence] including reports, guides and Statements of Intent.
* [http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines DigitalNZ's 'Make It Digital' guides] for making digital content in New Zealand are now available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]
*[http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/ PHARMAC] has a selection of [http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/patients/Schedule/SchedulePublications schedules] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.police.govt.nz/ The New Zealand Police] licensed their [http://www.police.govt.nz/annual-report-2010 Annual Report for year ending June 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.charities.govt.nz/ The Charities Commission] released the [http://www.charities.govt.nz/the-register/purpose/ Charities Register] as part of its '[http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/OpenData.aspx open data web service]' under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] has made the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/downloads.aspx audio tracks for 21 Rita Angus exhibition paintings] and presentation [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/Symposium.aspx recordings from the Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium] available on their website under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licence]. They have also taken up the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licences] to [http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/10/03/reusing-images-from-te-papa/#entry mark images in their Online Collections] which are able to be shared.

*The following local government bodies have released CC licensed GIS datasets on the [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ Koordinates] platform:
**[http://www.wellington.govt.nz/ Wellington City Council] offers [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/wcc/ datasets] of aerial imagery, contours, building footprints, flood hazards, wind zones and more under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.nrc.govt.nz/ Northland Regional Council] currently has 25 GIS [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ datasets] available here, 19 are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and 6 under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
**[http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz North Shore City Council]'s [http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1440-north-shore-city-parks/ Parks layer] is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.arc.govt.nz/ Auckland Regional Council] datasets of Wards, Community Boards and some passenger transport information is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].

*In relation to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake Canterbury Earthquakes]:
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)] and the National Library of New Zealand have set up a documentary project of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licensed] images by [https://picasaweb.google.com/RossBeckerNZ/ Ross Becker] as a record of recovery inside the red zone.
**[http://www.linz.govt.nz/index.aspx Land Information New Zealand] made its [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/post_quake_imagery_of_christchurch_carries_cc_licence aerial photographs] of the city's damage available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/ The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management] released [http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/video-central-christchurch-two-weeks-after-quake-ck-88665 inner city footage] for screening at public memorial events under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The Defence Force] makes its Flickr photos sets (including [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdefenceforce/collections/72157626143610731/ documentation of Canterbury]) available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY].
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ CERA]'s 2011-2016 Statement of Intent is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.

=== Poland ===
* [http://www.equal.org.pl/baza.php?lang=pl Equal Program projects database] - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
* [http://www.mg.gov.pl/ Polish Ministry of Economy] is publishing content on its website under a CC BY SA 3.0 Poland license.
* Polish Council of Ministers has [http://creativecommons.pl/2012/04/digital-school-program-with-open-textbooks-approved-by-polish-government/ adopted] a new Digital School program for Polish schools, which includes 43 millions PLN for Creative Commons Attribution or compatible) textbooks for grades 4-6 in primary schools (K4-K6).
** Update: http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/

=== Portugal ===
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva official photostream under CC BY 2.0 Generic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavacosilva/
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva's announcement on running for reelection. Audio on SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0: http://soundcloud.com/cavacosilva2011

=== Russian Federation ===
* All content (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) of [http://kremlin.ru/eng/ Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kremlin_authorisation-English.pdf Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kremlin.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/ premier.gov.ru (website of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/about.html Terms]

* All content of [http://government.ru/eng/ government.ru (Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)

* All content of http://www.bashkortostan.ru (Official information portal of the official authorities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan]), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkortostan_authorisation-Russian.jpg Letter of authorisation from Administration of President of The Republic of Bashkortostan]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Bashkortostan.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://www.volganet.ru (Internet-portal of administration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast Volgograd Oblast]), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Volganet_authorisation-Russian.pdf Letter of authorisation from Administration of Volgograd Oblast]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Volganet.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://amisharin.ru (official website of Governor of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast])
** [http://amisharin.ru/terms_of_use/ Terms of use]

* State-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti Russian International News Agency "RIA Novosti"], 460 historical images from [http://visualrian.ru database http://visualrian.ru], Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** The license specified on the pages of certain images.
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti Information page on Wikimedia Commons]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_RIA_Novosti Special category on Wikimedia Commons]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University Lomonosov Moscow State University], http://convergencelab.ru - Portal of Department of New Media and Communication Theory of Faculty of Journalism, Creative Commons Attribution, version unknown

* Some content of http://www.mgimo.ru - information portal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)], Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)
** [http://www.mgimo.ru/publish/cc/index.phtml Terms of use]

* All content of http://www.hse.ru/en/ - portal of state-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_-_Higher_School_of_Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
** [http://www.hse.ru/copyright Terms of use]

=== Serbia ===
*[http://www.uzzpro.gov.rs/latinica/ Serbian Government - Administration for Joint Services of the Republic Bodies]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.minrzs.gov.rs/ Serbian Government - Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Policy]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.mgu.gov.rs/ Serbian Government - Ministry of Construction and Urbanism]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://uap.gov.rs/about-us/ Serbian Government - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management]: CC BY-NC 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.zso.gov.rs/ Serbian Government - Institute for Social Insurance]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.restitucija.gov.rs/index.php Serbian Government - Agency for Restitution]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*[http://www.nsk.gov.rs/latinica/index.php Serbian National Council for Culture]: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
*Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Republic of Serbia [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Spain ===
* [http://www.gencat.cat/web/meugencat/documents/20101116_GUIA_USOS_XARXA_ENG.pdf Style and usage guide of the Government of Catalonia’s social networks] under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
* Statistical information on the [http://www.idescat.cat/en/ Statistical Institute of Catalonia] site is licensed by default under [http://www.idescat.cat/en/idescat/sistemaestadistic/ciutadans/avislegal.html CC BY 3.0 Spain].
* http://www.slideshare.net/justicia/the-use-of-creative-commons-licences-in-the-ministry-of-justice-of-the-government-of-catalonia/
* The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
*The [http://www.caib.es/ Government of the Balearic Islands] website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License

=== Taiwan ===
*Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
=== Thailand ===
*? Official website for Prime Minister (government) http://pm.go.th

=== Ukraine ===
*Unofficial municila page of Stryi town: http://stryi.com.ua/

=== United Kingdom ===
* The [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ Open Government License], used for a large amount of crown copyright data and content, is intended to be interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
* National Assembly for Wales use of flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalassemblyforwales/

=== Venezuela ===
*The "Canaima project" whichs goals is giving one laptop computer to every pupil in Venezuela (300.000 computers has been distributed so far) is preloaded with educational content (about 400 content) all of it is licensed with CC - SA - NC - 3.0

=== United States ===

==== Federal ====
* Works by the US federal government are automatically part of the [[public domain]] in the US as stipulated by http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
* Third-party content (such as the text of speeches by the first lady) on the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright White House web site] are licensed with CC BY 3.0 US by default.
* [http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy President-Elect Transition Team, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden]. CC BY 3.0 Unported. (Not an official federal government site, but an election team site, hence not required to be public domain.)
* The U.S. Department of Education has made OER an invitational priority in their [http://www.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=ynkyLyCpLNWvymvqBplJQYrwRGGlGtdR9gZtncFYJgjm2hTFSJZb!-2132130105?attId=40947 Ready to Learn] (PDF) and [http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2010-1/032310h.pdf Ready to Teach] (PDF) grants.
* The U.S. Department of Education has included open educational resources in their [http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/08/05/2010-19296/secretarys-priorities-for-discretionary-grant-programs Notice of Proposed Priorities] for discretionary grant funding. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
* The U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2 billion to community colleges and career training; [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100 CC BY required for grant outputs].
* The U.S. Department of Labor Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program; [http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-06.pdf CC BY required for grant outputs].
* U.S. Open Data Action plan is under CC0 + federal datasets: report ([http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/us_open_data_action_plan.pdf pdf]); [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/05/09/continued-progress-and-plans-open-government-data-0 blog post]

==== State ====
* [[New York State Senate]], Senate Content, CC-BY-NC-ND with CC+ allowing non-political fundraising use of content.
* [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0791 State of Virginia], legislation that indicates a preference for state-funded materials to be released with a CC (or equivalent open) license.
* [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf Washington State open policy and requirement of CC BY]
* [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=741&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=HB418 New Hampshire adopts Open Source and Open Data requirements] (policy friendly to CC use, but not a specific CC tool adoption)
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31756 OER K-12 bill] passed in WA state. The focus of the bill is to help school districts identify existing high-quality, free, openly licensed, common core state standards aligned resources available for local adoption; in addition, any content built with public funds, must be licensed under “an attribution license” (CC BY)
* The city of Washington, D.C. has made available an unofficial copy of the [http://dccouncil.us/UnofficialDCCode DC Code] under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.

==== Local government ====
* [http://recoverysf.org/intranet/RecoverySF/ RecoverySF], CC BY 3.0 US.

See [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Intergovernmental_Organizations Intergovernmental Organizations] page for information about CC license use by Intergovernmental Organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, and the Commonwealth of Learning.

[[Category:Lists of CC use by jurisdiction]]
[[Category:Public sector information]]

Archive: School of Open

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===Website (beta): http://schoolofopen.org===
===Follow #schoolofopen hashtag on social media===
''This page also available as a handout ([http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/2/26/School_of_Open_One_pager.pdf pdf])''
==What?==
The School of Open will provide online educational resources and professional development courses on the meaning and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and beyond. Individuals and organizations will learn how to use free technology and tools, such as Creative Commons licenses, to achieve their goals. Participants will also learn how to overcome barriers they run into everyday due to legal or technical restrictions.

==Why?==
Universal access to and participation in research, education, and culture is made possible by openness, but not enough people know what it means or how to take advantage of it. We hear about Open Source Software, Open Educational Resources, and Open Access… But what are these movements, who are their communities, and how do they work? Most importantly—how can they help me?

==Learning about “open.”==
The School of Open will offer courses on the meaning and application of “open” on the web and in offline environments. Courses will be powered by mentors and learners like you, and will be organized into study groups that leverage free and open resources and tools for collaboration. Artists, educators, learners, scientists, archivists, and other creators already improve their fields via the use of open tools and materials. So can you. A long-term objective for the School of Open is to offer certification on the skills learned, so that you can help others take full advantage of what the digital age has to offer. Current courses include [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/teach-someone-something-with-open-content/ Teach someone something with open content] and [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/ Get CC Savvy].

==Who is involved?==
The School of Open is coordinated by [http://creativecommons.org Creative Commons] and [http://p2pu.org P2PU], an active peer learning platform and community for developing and running free online courses. Volunteers, individual creators and organizational representatives, can design courses for peer learning in study groups or for facilitation by a subject expert.

== Get Involved ==
There are many ways you can get started. Here are a few:
*Sign up for these mailing lists:
**school-of-open@googlegroups.com ([http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open Discussion])
**school-of-open-announce@googlegroups.com ([http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open-announce Announcements])
*Check out or improve an existing [https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/ School of Open course]
*[https://p2pu.org/en/groups/create/ Create] a course with support from our growing [http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open online community].
*Help spread the word! Print and hand out copies of this page: [[File:School_of_Open_One_pager.pdf]]

== Running the School of Open openly ==

In the spirit of all it encompasses, the School of Open is being run as an open community project—which means that everything is being documented openly, decisions are made transparently, and the community has input in making those decisions. Here a few of the things we are doing to ensure maximum openness:

*Holding an [http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-call open community call] once a month for those working on courses or who want to shape the future of the project
*Public discussion at school-of-open@googlegroups.com ([http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open join here])
*Enabling collaborative editing and feedback on core documents using etherpads, including:
**A [http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-philosophy draft philosophy] for the School
**[http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-guidelines Draft guidelines] for creating a School of Open course
**Evolving [http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-course-review course review process] for getting it featured
*Documenting all progress at the [http://info.p2pu.org/tag/school-of-open/ P2PU blog]
*Adding all events to a [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=p2pu.org_cpsf6vgs35a5rqq2vn8lul3urs%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz public Google calendar] and [[#Roadmap|Roadmap]]

==Questions or comments?==
Join the [http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open discussion list] and send a note to [mailto:school-of-open@googlegroups.com school-of-open@googlegroups.com]. It’s Open!

If you have a private question, email the [http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark Project Manager] at janepark at creativecommons dot org.

== Roadmap ==
===September 2011===
*'''[[Global_Summit_2011|CC Global Summit]]''': Concept for a School of Open gains support from CC Affiliates and Summit participants as part of the CC Education Strategy Workshop.

===November 2011===
*'''[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Festival2011 Mozilla Festival: Media, Freedom, & the Web]''': School of Open concept tested at the festival, resulting in [http://info.p2pu.org/2011/11/29/the-school-of-open/ five prototype courses] in collaboration with workshop participants as part of a three-hour design challenge.

===June 2012===
*'''[http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33041 Initial Call for Participation]''': Announced on the CC blog, the CC affiliates mailing list, P2PU and CC community mailing lists, other open/free culture mailing lists, and broadcast via CC and P2PU social media channels.
*'''[[Africa/CC_Africa_Regional_Meeting_2012|CC Africa Regional Meeting]]''': Discussion on School of Open held at CC's first regional meeting in Africa. Initial interest in the project, but no immediate capacity for involvement yet.
===July 2012===
* '''[http://info.p2pu.org/2012/08/07/berlin-is-over-school-of-open-is-not/ School of Open working meeting]''': Part P2PU's month-long pop-up office in Berlin. Project Manager and P2PU community members start mapping and developing some key components of the School over two weeks. Events: Virtual sprint (24 July), School of Open challenges workshop (26 July), Open Web Challenges Hackjam w/Mozilla (28 July).
** ''4 participants committed to develop 7 courses in Open Licensing and Education from this meeting.''
===August 2012===
* '''Development of School and course structures'''
===September 2012===
*'''Three courses ready for testing''': [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/teach-someone-something-with-open-content/ (1)] Teach someone something with open content; [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/teach-someone-something-with-open-content-part-2/ (2)] Teach someone something with open content, part 2; [https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/ (3)] Get CC Savvy
*'''[http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/Common_misconceptions School of Open breakout at CC Staff In-Town-Week]''': Intro to School of Open and P2PU course structure, with a large group brainstorm around the most common misconceptions staff run into when talking to people about CC. In small groups, staff found resources to address six common misconceptions shared those resources. The resulting resources and list of misconceptions will inform CC related courses at School of Open going forward.
* '''[[Open_Knowledge_Festival|Open Knowledge Festival]] and [[Europe/Meetings/2012/RM|CC Europe Regional Meeting]]''': OKFestival’s Open Research and Education track includes an “Open Peer Learning: School of Open and School of Data” workshop to engage the OKFN, CC, and European open communities. It will take place right before the CC Europe regional meeting to allow CC affiliates to participate. ([http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34360 Blog post])
* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''

===October 2012===
* '''[[Open_Policy_Institute/2012_Convening|Convening on the Open Policy Institute and School of Open]]''': School of Open and Open Policy Institute convening to get key community representatives from the various “open” sectors on board and involved. CC is organizing and hosting all logistics and content of this meeting. ([http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34550 Blog post])
** ''9 participants committed to develop courses in open education, open policies, and open GLAM/culture from this meeting.''
* '''[[Open_Education_2012|Open Ed Conference]]''': Creative Commons will present School of Open during a closing plenary session and pitchfest to recruit interested initiatives and individuals interested in creating and running courses on "open".
** ''__ participants committed to develop __ courses in Open _____ from this conference.''
* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
* ''Course review process proposed
''
===November 2012===
* '''[[Mozilla_Festival_2012|2012 Mozilla Festival: Making, Freedom, and the Web]]''': Thanks to the success of the School of Open workshops in Berlin, Mozilla has invited us to lead a similar workshop at their annual festival in London. This will be an optimal time to debut progress from Berlin through the October meeting.
** ''__ participants committed to develop __ courses in Open _____ from the festival.''
*'''[http://creativecommons.or.id/ccidap2012/ CC Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting]''': Discussion and/or workshop on School of Open at this meeting (led by CC’s Global Network Manager) to catalyze affiliate involvement.
*'''CC Latin America Regional Meeting''': Workshop on School of Open at this meeting to catalyze affiliate involvement.
* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
* '''[http://open-strategies.de/ Summit on Open Strategies]''': CC Germany's lead will lead a session on School of Open at the summit in Berlin. Wikimedian in Residence in Open Science will help facilitate.
* ''Course review process discussed and drafted''

===December 2012===
* Creative Commons celebrates the [http://10.creativecommons.org/ 10th anniversary] of its license suite!
* [[Open_Video_Forum|Open Video Forum]] (Berlin, Germany): first SOO course sprint to develop a course on Open Video!
* [http://www.thehubla.com/event/thehubla-living-economy-salon/ Living Economy Salon] (Los Angeles, US): 5 minute pitch during Open Mic at HubLA
* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
* ''Course review process posted''

===January 2013===
* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
* '''Design of badges for courses'''

=== February 2013===
* '''Course development in collaboration with various stakeholders and community'''
* '''Design of badges for courses'''
* '''Community Review of all courses'''

===March 2013===
*'''Launch first set of courses during [http://openeducationweek.org/ Open Education Week] (11-15 March)'''
* Feature School of Open as part of Open Ed Week's P2PU Showcase, a webinar led by [https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-ed/ School of Ed]'s Karen Fasimpaur

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[[CC0]] (read “CC Zero”) is a universal public domain dedication that may be used by anyone wishing to permanently surrender the copyright and database rights (where they exist) they may have in a work, thereby placing it as nearly as possible into the public domain. CC0 is a legal tool that improves on the “dedication” function of our earlier, [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ U.S.-centric public domain dedication and certification]. CC0 is universal in form and may be used throughout the world for any kind of content without adaptation to account for laws in different jurisdictions. And like our licenses, CC0 has the benefit of being expressed in three ways – legal code, a human readable deed, and machine-readable code that allows works distributed under CC0 to be easily found.

CC0 can be particularly important for the sharing of data and databases, since it otherwise may be unclear whether highly factual data and databases are restricted by copyright or other rights. Databases may contain facts that, in and of themselves, are not protected by copyright law. However, the copyright laws of many jurisdictions cover creatively selected or arranged compilations of facts and creative database design and structure, and some jurisdictions like those in the European Union have enacted additional sui generis laws that restrict uses of databases without regard for applicable copyright law. CC0 is intended to cover all copyright and database rights, so that however data and databases are restricted (under copyright or otherwise), those rights are all surrendered. CC0 is also [http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/ particularly relevant to scientific data]. An opinion piece in <em>Nature</em> on "[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7261/full/461171a.html Post-publication sharing of data and tools]" explicitly recommends open sharing and the use of CC0 to put data in the public domain:

<blockquote>"Although it is usual practice for major public databases to make data freely available to access and use, any restrictions on use should be strongly resisted and we endorse explicit encouragement of open sharing, for example under the newly available CC0 public domain waiver of Creative Commons."</blockquote>

==CC0 use cases==
This is a list of uses of CC0 for data and databases. For uses of CC licenses, see [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Data_and_CC_licenses Data and CC Licenses].

===BioMed Central===
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BioMed Central (BMC) is one of the largest open access (OA) publishers in the world with 250 peer-reviewed OA journals, and more than 100,000 OA articles published yearly. BMC is also long-time user of CC licenses to accomplish its mission of husbanding and promoting open science. BMC has been publishing articles under a CC license since 2004. Starting September 3, 2013, in keeping with its forward-looking mission, BMC [https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41329 started] [http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/12/18/cc-by-4-0/ requiring] a CC0 Public Domain Dedication for data supporting the published articles.
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===[[Case_Studies/British_Library|The British Library]]===
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The British Library released a large set of their bibliographic data into the public domain via the CC0 public domain dedication. This set is from the British National Bibliography, which contains data on publishing activity from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950, and comprises 20% of the entire British Library catalog. The dataset currently consists of 3 million individual records.
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===[[Case_Studies/CERN|CERN Library]]===
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research that is home to the Large Hadron Collider and birthplace of the web, released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Cologne-based_Libraries|Cologne-based Libraries]]===
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All [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data bibliographic data from Cologne-based libraries] are available to the public with no known copyright restrictions. Cologne-based libraries who surrendered their copyrights using the CC0 public domain dedication include the University and Public Library of Cologne (USB), the Library of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the University Library of the University of Applied Science of Cologne, and the LBZ. The data is currently linked from the [http://www.hbz-nrw.de/projekte/linked_open_data North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz)]. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21344 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Digg|Digg]]===
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All content on [http://digg.com/ Digg], a social news website, is defaulted under CC0, which means that Digg has surrendered all copyrights to its content. Content includes readers' comments, story titles, story descriptions, and all of the other user-contributed content on the Digg site. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14752 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Digital_Public_Library_of_America|Digital Public Library of America]]===
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The DPLA is committed to asserting no new rights—and will claim no rights—over the metadata that it aggregates from its various data-providing partners. It has also pledged to make all of this metadata freely available under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Dryad|Dryad]]===
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Dryad is an online repository for data contained in academic papers and other publications in the sciences. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center and the University of North Carolina Metadata Research Center, in partnership with various [http://datadryad.org/partners journals and societies], comprise the development of Dryad's data set, all of which is released under the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Europeana|Europeana]]===
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Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement which releases metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/FigShare|FigShare]]===
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Researchers can publish their data on FigShare in a "citable, searchable, and shareable manner." According to FigShare's [http://figshare.com/faqs FAQ], "All figures, media and multiple file uploads are published under a CC BY license. All datasets are published under CC0."
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===[[Case_Studies/Flickr_Case_Study|Flickr]]===
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[http://flickr.com Flickr] published its [http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/05/21/flickr-shapefiles-public-dataset-10/ shapefile dataset] online, surrendering all copyrights via the CC0 public domain dedication. A shapefile is a file containing shapes mathematically generated by thousands of Flickr geotagged photos of particular neighborhoods, countries, and continents. Shapefile data has been used to reverse-engineer maps with user generated longitude and latitude coordinates that are then demarcated by Where-On-Earth IDs, "[http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/ unique numeric identifiers that correspond to the hierarchy of places where a photo was taken: the neighbourhood, the town, the county, and so on up to the continent]." For more information, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14678 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Genomes Unzipped|Genomes Unzipped]]===
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Genomes Unzipped is a project that aims to inform the public about genetics via the independent analysis of open genetic data, volunteered by a core group of genetics researchers and specialists. Genomes Unzipped genetic data is available in the public domain via the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 public domain dedication], while other site content is defaulted under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA].
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===German National Library===
The German National Library has begun publishing its standard data as public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication tool.
*http://de.creativecommons.org/2012/01/27/normdaten-deutsche-nationalbibliothek-kundigt-umstellung-auf-cc0-an/

===[[Case_Studies/Wikipedia, German|German Wikipedia]]===
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The German Wikipedia uses CC0 to dedicate data into the public domain; specifically, their PND-BEACON files are available for download. Since Wikipedia links out to quite a number of external resources, and since a lot of articles link to the same external resources, PND-BEACON files are the German Wikipedia’s way of organizing the various data.
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===[[Case_Studies/GlaxoSmithKline|GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)]]===
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One of the leading pharmaceutical companies in the world, [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chemblntd/#tcams_dataset GlaxoSmithKline] has surrendered all copyrights in its malarial data set via CC0, which includes more than 13,500 compounds known to be active against malaria.
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===[[Case_Studies/Harvard Library|Harvard Library]]===
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Harvard Library has [http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373 released 12 million catalog records] into the public domain using CC0, in accordance with it [http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/ Open Metadata Policy]. Its [http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/public_faq FAQ] explains why.
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===[[Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Spain|National Library of Spain]]===
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datos.bne.es is a joint project of Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) and the National Library of Spain, for the enrichment of the Semantic Web with bibliographic data from their catalog. This initiative has been launched with the publication, in accordance with the principles of Linked Data, information from library catalogs and authority, making knowledge bases available as RDF (Resource Description Framework). Furthermore, these data are interrelated with other existing knowledge bases in the Linking Open Data initiative. Thus, Spain is in addition to projects that other institutions like the British Library and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek have recently begun. The 2.4 million bibliographic records are published according to the specifications and conditions of the Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
*http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/DatosEnlazados/index.html
*http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/DatosEnlazados/DescargaFicheros/

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===[[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Italian Piemonte Regional Government]]===
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The Piemonte Regional Government in Italy has adopted the CC0 public domain dedication for its open data portal (dati.piemonte.it). The Piemonte Region is leading the open data movement in Italy at the government level, being the only regional government to open up all its data for reuse without restrictions.
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===[[Case_Studies/MichiganView|MichiganView]]===
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Using CC0, [http://wiki.americaview.org/display/miview/Home MichiganView] has surrendered all copyrights to its 93+ Gigabytes of Landsat 5 and 7, and NAIP imagery data. The MichiganView consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Michigan to the public for free over the Web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, MichiganView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. For more info, see the [http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2010/01/29/michiganview-releases-remote-sensing-data-under-cc0-waiver/ blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Nature_Publishing_Group_linked_data|Nature Publishing Group linked data]]===
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Nature Publishing Group (NPG) provides access to its publication data via the linked data platform at [http://data.nature.com http://data.nature.com]. The platform includes more than 20 million Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements, including primary metadata for more than 450,000 articles published by NPG since 1869. The datasets include basic citation information (title, author, publication date, etc) as well as NPG specific ontologies. These datasets are released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which permits maximal use/re-use of this data. Nature's ''Scientific Data'' publication also [http://blogs.nature.com/scientificdata/2013/12/09/metadata-associated-with-data-descriptor-articles-to-be-released-under-cc0-waiver/ announced] it would release all machine-readable metadata accompanying Data Descriptor articles under CC0 to enable advanced users to mine and search our content without legal ambiguity.
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===[[Case_Studies/Netherlands_Government|Netherlands Government]]===
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The [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl Netherlands government] launched [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ www.rijksoverheid.nl], a single website for all Dutch ministries, in March 2010. The default copyright policy for site content is that there is no copyright; using the CC0 public domain dedication, the government surrendered all copyrights in site. The purpose of [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/ www.rijksoverheid.nl] is to establish one central location or portal through which all government organizations and ministries can be accessed by the public. The migration process is currently underway. For more info, see the [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21473 blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/New_York_Public_Library_bibliographic_metadata|NYPL Bibliographic Metadata and Cartographic Works]]===
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NYPL's bibliographic metadata records provided through the [http://api.repo.nypl.org/ NYPL Repository API] are distributed under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Although the bibliographic metadata records are provided consistent with CC0 1.0 Dedication, the content described by the metadata records is not. Content may be subject to copyright, rights of privacy, rights of publicity and other restrictions. The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division of NYPL has also [http://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/03/28/open-access-maps released more than 20,000 cartographic works] as high resolution downloads using CC0.
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===Open Clinical Innovation Network===
The Open Clinical Innovation Network seeks to transform clinical research and development by openly sharing clinical tools and data via the CC0 public domain dedication, thereby enabling open innovation. More from the [http://portal.lillycoi.com/2012/04/03/open-innovation-can-transform-clinical-development/ announcement]. Still in its initial stages, you can read the white paper ([https://s3.amazonaws.com/lillycoi/Clinical_Open_Innovation_White_Paper.pdf pdf]) and check out its first tool, [http://www.clinicalcollections.org/trials/ Clinical Commons].

===[[Case_Studies/Open Library|Open Library]]===
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An initiative of the Internet Archive, the Open Library is an online catalog that aims to provide a web page for every book ever published. Drawing from existing library catalogs around the world and user contributions, the Open Library has 20 million records to date and provides access to 1.7 million scanned books. All rights to Open Library data are surrendered via [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0].
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===[[Case_Studies/OpenEI|OpenEI]]===
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An initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy, OpenEI is a linked open data platform that releases all contributions to the public under the CC0 public domain dedication. It is a community effort devoted to assembling the world's most comprehensive collection of energy information--including datasets, tools, and models.
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===[[Case_Studies/OpenJurist|OpenJurist.org]]===
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Using CC0, [http://openjurist.org/terms-of-use OpenJurist], a resource for case law in the U.S., has made available all Supreme Court and Federal Appellate Court Decisions from the 1700s to the current day.
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===[[Case_Studies/Personal_Genome_Project|Personal Genome Project]]===
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[http://www.personalgenomes.org/ The Personal Genome Project], a pioneer in the emerging field of personal genomics technology, released a large data set containing genomic sequences for ten individuals using CC0, with future planned releases also to be under CC0.
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===[[Case_Studies/Polar_Information_Commons|Polar Information Commons]]===
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The [http://www.polarcommons.org/ Polar Information Commons], a data sharing project growing out of the most recent International Polar Year, has enabled researchers to release their polar data into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication. For those sharing their data, the Polar Information Commons has outlined [http://www.polarcommons.org/ethics-and-norms-of-data-sharing.php Ethics and Norms of Data Sharing].
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===[[Case_Studies/Proteome_Commons|Proteome Commons Tranche Network]]===
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[https://proteomecommons.org/tranche/ Proteome Commons Tranche Network], a public proteomics database for annotations and other information that uses Tranche, a free and open source (Apache 2.0) file storage and dissemination software, has enabled the CC0 public domain dedication as the default uploading option for users.
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===[[Case_Studies/Public.Resource.Org|Public.resource.org]]===
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[http://public.resource.org/uscourts.gov/index.html 1.8 million pages of U.S. Courts of Appeals decisions] (since 1950 onwards) were delivered back into the public domain by [http://public.resource.org/ public.resource.org], who officially surrendered all copyrights in the case law using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Research Libraries UK (RLUK)]]===

"The data provided by RLUK will additionally be made available as Linked Open Data. This is part of The European Library's aim of working with its members to expose a set of their combined bibliographic metadata as a CC0 dataset - a dataset openly available for any type of reuse. RLUK's valuable data will now be integrated into the larger European Library set, thereby providing a rich source of reusable knowledge from Europe's most prestigious libraries." -- http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newsitem/2450

===[[Case_Studies/Safecast|Safecast]]===
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Safecast releases radiation data from the fallout in Fukushima under CC0.
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===[[Case_Studies/Sage_Bionetworks_-_Sage_Commons|Sage Bionetworks - Sage Commons]]===
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[http://sagebase.org/commons/ Sage Commons] is a public resource and information platform for scientists, research foundations, and research institutions to share and develop human disease and biological research. Sage Commons will enable the CC0 public domain dedication as an option for surrendering copyright in data hosted in the network. The [http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/sagecite/ SageCite project], driven by UKOLN, the University of Manchester, and the British Library, and funded by JISC, is set to develop and test an entire framework for citation norms, not attribution, using bioinformatics as a test case.
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===SCOAP3 Repository===
"The repository will also make available the corresponding metadata, under a CC0 license. Metadata will include of course the article DOIs and the ORCID IDs of all authors, when available."
* http://scoap3.org/scoap3-repository
* http://press.web.cern.ch/press-releases/2013/12/open-access-publishing-initiative-scoap3-start-1-january-2014

===Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum===
The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum has released its collection data into the public domain using CC0.
*http://www.cooperhewitt.org/collections/data
*http://media.cooperhewitt.org.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/02/23/Cooper-Hewitt%20Metadata%20Press%20Release%202-23-12.pdf

===[[Case_Studies/SimpleGeo|SimpleGeo]]===
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http://blog.simplegeo.com/2011/04/20/open-places-data/
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===[[Case_Studies/Swedish National Library|Swedish National Library]]===
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The Swedish National Library signed an agreement in September 2011 that [http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2011/09/21/swedish-national-bibliography-and-authority-data-released-with-open-license/ released] the Swedish National Bibliography and authority files into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/Talis_Connected_Commons|Talis Connected Commons]]===
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The [http://www.talis.com/platform/cc/ Talis Connected Commons] is a project by Talis that works to encourage the growth of public domain data. Talis offers free data hosting on its platform as long as the data is made available under either the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication or the CC0 public domain dedication.
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===[[Case_Studies/University of Florida Library|University of Florida Library]]===
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The University of Florida Smathers Libraries has implemented a default public domain policy for all of its original catalog data. The library has released its book catalog into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication tool, opening up downstream reuse of the data without restrictions.
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===[[Case_Studies/University_of_Michigan_Library|University of Michigan Library]]===
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The University of Michigan Library has surrendered all copyright in its [http://www.lib.umich.edu/open-access-bibliographic-records Open Access bibliographic records] via CC0. As of November 17, 2010, the Library released 684,597 bibliographic records into the public domain. The Library also defaults all of its site content under the most open CC license - CC BY.
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===[[Case_Studies/WisconsinView|WisconsinView]]===
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Using CC0, [http://www.wisconsinview.org/ WisconsinView] has surrendered all copyrights in its 6+ Terabytes of imagery data. The WisconsinView consortium makes available aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin to the public for free over the Web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery collections through education, workforce development, and research. For more info, see the [http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/07/01/wisconsinview-public-domain/ blog post].
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===[[Case_Studies/Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre|Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre]]===
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The Université de Montréal Biodiversity Centre has published [http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/ its datasets at Canadensys] via the CC0 public domain dedication, and encourages the rest of the Canadensys community to [http://www.canadensys.net/2012/why-we-should-publish-our-data-unde-cc0 do the same].
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===[[Case_Studies/Wikidata|Wikidata]]===
"Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access to and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects." All structured data from the main and property namespace is available via Creative Commons CC0. More info:
* https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
* https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/04/24/wikidata-all-around-the-world/
* http://www.ghacks.net/2013/04/26/wikidata-is-a-huge-step-for-wikipedia-and-the-internet/

==Other CC0 use cases==

===[[Case_Studies/Mercy Corps|Mercy Corps]]===
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Mercy Corps is a disaster relief organization that has released its package of office management materials (Office in a Box) into the public domain via CC0 for the start-up of new field offices in disaster areas and the improvement of operations in existing offices.
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===[[Case_Studies/Open Clip Art Library|Open Clip Art Library]]===
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All clip art packages generated and uploaded by the Open Clip Art Library community are free to use, distribute, and remix under the CC0 public domain dedication.
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K-12 Creative Network

2014-04-10T23:55:12Z

CCID-jane: /* About */

== About ==
An informal network of people and organizations empowering students to take an active role in developing knowledge and creative content in the digital age.

* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NR2Oev-zcsQBs5OsHZk5JUbK3ysD7oM6hDISmRLrenM/edit?usp=sharing Draft declaration]
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/k12creativenetwork Google Group]

== Working meetings ==
==== Wed, April 2, 2014 ====
Notes: http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/k12copyright

== Events ==
See the [https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=creativecommons.org_9usrrri4eil3nmv5tn8oq85dts%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar]

== List of existing resources ==
See [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zDR_HdeDjraef8_e2qvkavIkhJXhKtZUKcfu5opCKvI/edit?usp=sharing Google spreadsheet]. ''(Need to incorporate existing list of School of Open resources: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-resources.)''

== Related networks ==
* AASL http://www.ala.org/aasl/about/committees/common-core-tf
* After school (Macarthur)
* ALA
* ALUC (higher education)
* American U. (Fair use)
* ASCD
* CDE foundation (ISKME) (common core)
* Citizen Schools (charter): KIPP, aspire, rocketship
* Connected Educator Month (US Dept of Education) (NWP)
* CSLA
* CUE
* Digital learning day (Feb)
* Digital Youth Network (Chicago) (ASCD)
* DML research hub
* DML Research hub http://dmlhub.net/
* Edtech teachers
* Info literacy groups (Loex)
* Internet archive, national archive
* ISTE
* MacArthur's Hive Digital Learning Networks http://hivelearningnetwork.org
* Maker parties (summer camp association)
* Middle school and up
* Museums, libraries, science centers
* N. association
* NAMLE (national association for media literacy education)
* National council of teachers of English
* National forum info literacy
* NWP Educator Innovator: http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator/
* NWP Educator Network (k-12) (200) – Educator Innovator Network (afterschool, informal) (30)
* OTW – organization for transformative works
* PBS Learning Matters http://learningmatters.tv/
* Principal association (elementary and secondary)
* School Library Journal
* The Hive (NY, Chicago, Pittsburgh, B.A., K.C.) Digital Learning Network
* Wikimedia Europe (K-12)

K-12 Creative Network

2014-04-10T23:53:50Z

CCID-jane: /* About */

== About ==
An informal network of people and organizations empowering students to take an active role in developing knowledge and creative content in the digital age.

* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NR2Oev-zcsQBs5OsHZk5JUbK3ysD7oM6hDISmRLrenM/edit?usp=sharing Draft declaration]
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/k12creativenetwork Google Group] (invite only)

== Working meetings ==
==== Wed, April 2, 2014 ====
Notes: http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/k12copyright

== Events ==
See the [https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=creativecommons.org_9usrrri4eil3nmv5tn8oq85dts%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar]

== List of existing resources ==
See [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zDR_HdeDjraef8_e2qvkavIkhJXhKtZUKcfu5opCKvI/edit?usp=sharing Google spreadsheet]. ''(Need to incorporate existing list of School of Open resources: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-resources.)''

== Related networks ==
* AASL http://www.ala.org/aasl/about/committees/common-core-tf
* After school (Macarthur)
* ALA
* ALUC (higher education)
* American U. (Fair use)
* ASCD
* CDE foundation (ISKME) (common core)
* Citizen Schools (charter): KIPP, aspire, rocketship
* Connected Educator Month (US Dept of Education) (NWP)
* CSLA
* CUE
* Digital learning day (Feb)
* Digital Youth Network (Chicago) (ASCD)
* DML research hub
* DML Research hub http://dmlhub.net/
* Edtech teachers
* Info literacy groups (Loex)
* Internet archive, national archive
* ISTE
* MacArthur's Hive Digital Learning Networks http://hivelearningnetwork.org
* Maker parties (summer camp association)
* Middle school and up
* Museums, libraries, science centers
* N. association
* NAMLE (national association for media literacy education)
* National council of teachers of English
* National forum info literacy
* NWP Educator Innovator: http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator/
* NWP Educator Network (k-12) (200) – Educator Innovator Network (afterschool, informal) (30)
* OTW – organization for transformative works
* PBS Learning Matters http://learningmatters.tv/
* Principal association (elementary and secondary)
* School Library Journal
* The Hive (NY, Chicago, Pittsburgh, B.A., K.C.) Digital Learning Network
* Wikimedia Europe (K-12)

K-12 Creative Network

2014-04-10T23:36:02Z

CCID-jane:

== About ==
An informal network of people and organizations empowering kids to to take charge of their own learning and creativity in the digital age.

* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NR2Oev-zcsQBs5OsHZk5JUbK3ysD7oM6hDISmRLrenM/edit?usp=sharing Draft declaration]
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/k12creativenetwork Google Group] (invite only)

== Working meetings ==
==== Wed, April 2, 2014 ====
Notes: http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/k12copyright

== Events ==
See the [https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=creativecommons.org_9usrrri4eil3nmv5tn8oq85dts%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar]

== List of existing resources ==
See [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zDR_HdeDjraef8_e2qvkavIkhJXhKtZUKcfu5opCKvI/edit?usp=sharing Google spreadsheet]. ''(Need to incorporate existing list of School of Open resources: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-resources.)''

== Related networks ==
* AASL http://www.ala.org/aasl/about/committees/common-core-tf
* After school (Macarthur)
* ALA
* ALUC (higher education)
* American U. (Fair use)
* ASCD
* CDE foundation (ISKME) (common core)
* Citizen Schools (charter): KIPP, aspire, rocketship
* Connected Educator Month (US Dept of Education) (NWP)
* CSLA
* CUE
* Digital learning day (Feb)
* Digital Youth Network (Chicago) (ASCD)
* DML research hub
* DML Research hub http://dmlhub.net/
* Edtech teachers
* Info literacy groups (Loex)
* Internet archive, national archive
* ISTE
* MacArthur's Hive Digital Learning Networks http://hivelearningnetwork.org
* Maker parties (summer camp association)
* Middle school and up
* Museums, libraries, science centers
* N. association
* NAMLE (national association for media literacy education)
* National council of teachers of English
* National forum info literacy
* NWP Educator Innovator: http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator/
* NWP Educator Network (k-12) (200) – Educator Innovator Network (afterschool, informal) (30)
* OTW – organization for transformative works
* PBS Learning Matters http://learningmatters.tv/
* Principal association (elementary and secondary)
* School Library Journal
* The Hive (NY, Chicago, Pittsburgh, B.A., K.C.) Digital Learning Network
* Wikimedia Europe (K-12)

K-12 Creative Network

2014-04-10T23:32:03Z

CCID-jane: /* Meetings */

== Working meetings ==
==== Wed, April 2, 2014 ====
Notes: http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/k12copyright

== Events ==
See the [https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=creativecommons.org_9usrrri4eil3nmv5tn8oq85dts%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar]

== List of existing resources ==
See [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zDR_HdeDjraef8_e2qvkavIkhJXhKtZUKcfu5opCKvI/edit?usp=sharing Google spreadsheet]. ''(Need to incorporate existing list of School of Open resources: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-resources.)''

== Related networks ==
* AASL http://www.ala.org/aasl/about/committees/common-core-tf
* After school (Macarthur)
* ALA
* ALUC (higher education)
* American U. (Fair use)
* ASCD
* CDE foundation (ISKME) (common core)
* Citizen Schools (charter): KIPP, aspire, rocketship
* Connected Educator Month (US Dept of Education) (NWP)
* CSLA
* CUE
* Digital learning day (Feb)
* Digital Youth Network (Chicago) (ASCD)
* DML research hub
* DML Research hub http://dmlhub.net/
* Edtech teachers
* Info literacy groups (Loex)
* Internet archive, national archive
* ISTE
* MacArthur's Hive Digital Learning Networks http://hivelearningnetwork.org
* Maker parties (summer camp association)
* Middle school and up
* Museums, libraries, science centers
* N. association
* NAMLE (national association for media literacy education)
* National council of teachers of English
* National forum info literacy
* NWP Educator Innovator: http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator/
* NWP Educator Network (k-12) (200) – Educator Innovator Network (afterschool, informal) (30)
* OTW – organization for transformative works
* PBS Learning Matters http://learningmatters.tv/
* Principal association (elementary and secondary)
* School Library Journal
* The Hive (NY, Chicago, Pittsburgh, B.A., K.C.) Digital Learning Network
* Wikimedia Europe (K-12)

K-12 Creative Network

2014-04-10T23:31:36Z

CCID-jane: /* Wed, April 2, 2014 */

== Meetings ==
==== Wed, April 2, 2014 ====
Notes: http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/k12copyright

== Events ==
See the [https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=creativecommons.org_9usrrri4eil3nmv5tn8oq85dts%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar]

== List of existing resources ==
See [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zDR_HdeDjraef8_e2qvkavIkhJXhKtZUKcfu5opCKvI/edit?usp=sharing Google spreadsheet]. ''(Need to incorporate existing list of School of Open resources: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-resources.)''

== Related networks ==
* AASL http://www.ala.org/aasl/about/committees/common-core-tf
* After school (Macarthur)
* ALA
* ALUC (higher education)
* American U. (Fair use)
* ASCD
* CDE foundation (ISKME) (common core)
* Citizen Schools (charter): KIPP, aspire, rocketship
* Connected Educator Month (US Dept of Education) (NWP)
* CSLA
* CUE
* Digital learning day (Feb)
* Digital Youth Network (Chicago) (ASCD)
* DML research hub
* DML Research hub http://dmlhub.net/
* Edtech teachers
* Info literacy groups (Loex)
* Internet archive, national archive
* ISTE
* MacArthur's Hive Digital Learning Networks http://hivelearningnetwork.org
* Maker parties (summer camp association)
* Middle school and up
* Museums, libraries, science centers
* N. association
* NAMLE (national association for media literacy education)
* National council of teachers of English
* National forum info literacy
* NWP Educator Innovator: http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator/
* NWP Educator Network (k-12) (200) – Educator Innovator Network (afterschool, informal) (30)
* OTW – organization for transformative works
* PBS Learning Matters http://learningmatters.tv/
* Principal association (elementary and secondary)
* School Library Journal
* The Hive (NY, Chicago, Pittsburgh, B.A., K.C.) Digital Learning Network
* Wikimedia Europe (K-12)

K-12 Creative Network

2014-04-10T23:30:58Z

CCID-jane: /* List of existing resources */

== Meetings ==
=== Wed, April 2, 2014 ===
Notes: http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/k12copyright

== Events ==
See the [https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=creativecommons.org_9usrrri4eil3nmv5tn8oq85dts%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar]

== List of existing resources ==
See [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zDR_HdeDjraef8_e2qvkavIkhJXhKtZUKcfu5opCKvI/edit?usp=sharing Google spreadsheet]. ''(Need to incorporate existing list of School of Open resources: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-resources.)''

== Related networks ==
* AASL http://www.ala.org/aasl/about/committees/common-core-tf
* After school (Macarthur)
* ALA
* ALUC (higher education)
* American U. (Fair use)
* ASCD
* CDE foundation (ISKME) (common core)
* Citizen Schools (charter): KIPP, aspire, rocketship
* Connected Educator Month (US Dept of Education) (NWP)
* CSLA
* CUE
* Digital learning day (Feb)
* Digital Youth Network (Chicago) (ASCD)
* DML research hub
* DML Research hub http://dmlhub.net/
* Edtech teachers
* Info literacy groups (Loex)
* Internet archive, national archive
* ISTE
* MacArthur's Hive Digital Learning Networks http://hivelearningnetwork.org
* Maker parties (summer camp association)
* Middle school and up
* Museums, libraries, science centers
* N. association
* NAMLE (national association for media literacy education)
* National council of teachers of English
* National forum info literacy
* NWP Educator Innovator: http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator/
* NWP Educator Network (k-12) (200) – Educator Innovator Network (afterschool, informal) (30)
* OTW – organization for transformative works
* PBS Learning Matters http://learningmatters.tv/
* Principal association (elementary and secondary)
* School Library Journal
* The Hive (NY, Chicago, Pittsburgh, B.A., K.C.) Digital Learning Network
* Wikimedia Europe (K-12)

K-12 Creative Network

2014-04-10T23:29:04Z

CCID-jane: /* List of existing resources */

== Meetings ==
=== Wed, April 2, 2014 ===
Notes: http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/k12copyright

== Events ==
See the [https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=creativecommons.org_9usrrri4eil3nmv5tn8oq85dts%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Google Calendar]

== List of existing resources ==
See [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zDR_HdeDjraef8_e2qvkavIkhJXhKtZUKcfu5opCKvI/edit?usp=sharing Google spreadsheet]. Need to incorporate existing list of School of Open resources: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-resources

== Related networks ==
* AASL http://www.ala.org/aasl/about/committees/common-core-tf
* After school (Macarthur)
* ALA
* ALUC (higher education)
* American U. (Fair use)
* ASCD
* CDE foundation (ISKME) (common core)
* Citizen Schools (charter): KIPP, aspire, rocketship
* Connected Educator Month (US Dept of Education) (NWP)
* CSLA
* CUE
* Digital learning day (Feb)
* Digital Youth Network (Chicago) (ASCD)
* DML research hub
* DML Research hub http://dmlhub.net/
* Edtech teachers
* Info literacy groups (Loex)
* Internet archive, national archive
* ISTE
* MacArthur's Hive Digital Learning Networks http://hivelearningnetwork.org
* Maker parties (summer camp association)
* Middle school and up
* Museums, libraries, science centers
* N. association
* NAMLE (national association for media literacy education)
* National council of teachers of English
* National forum info literacy
* NWP Educator Innovator: http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator/
* NWP Educator Network (k-12) (200) – Educator Innovator Network (afterschool, informal) (30)
* OTW – organization for transformative works
* PBS Learning Matters http://learningmatters.tv/
* Principal association (elementary and secondary)
* School Library Journal
* The Hive (NY, Chicago, Pittsburgh, B.A., K.C.) Digital Learning Network
* Wikimedia Europe (K-12)