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A list of curators of Creative Commons-licensed content. Please add following the examples, or restructure if you have a better idea. Feel free to add "fields". This is just a beginning. Please help make it comprehensive!

There is some minimum combination of quality and quantity for inclusion. We'll know it when we see it.

The entries are listed in ascending order of their main URL, ignoring "www." if present.

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Internet Archive

• Main URL: http://archive.org
• CC-only portal: ?
• CC-only feed: http://www.archive.org/services/collection-rss.php?licensed_only=1
• Formats: audio, video
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Thousands of CC-licensed and PD videos and audio items. Huge.
• Notes: You can use http://creativecommons.org/tools/ccpublisher to license and upload media to archive.org

ArtistServer

• Main URL: http://artistserver.com
• CC-only portal: http://www.artistserver.com/music.cfm (select Search by License)
• CC-only feed: planned
• Formats: audio
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 3,986 songs (as of 20050826)
• Notes:

ccMixter

• Main URL: http://ccmixter.org
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: http://ccmixter.org/rss/remix
• Formats: audio
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 1,608 tracks (as of 20051214)
• Notes:

Wikimedia Commons

• Main URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org
• CC-only portal: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creative_Commons_licenses
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: image (mostly), sound, video, text
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: thousands of images (as of 20050825)
• Notes:

Dmusic

• Main URL: http://dmusic.com
• CC-only portal: ?
• CC-only feed: http://dmusic.com/feeds/cc_licensed.rss
• Formats: audio
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
• Notes:

Flickr

• Main URL: http://www.flickr.com
• CC-only portal: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: image
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ~7.1 million photos (as of 20051216)

Freesound

• Main URL: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/rss.php
• Formats: audio
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 13,317 sound clips (as of 20060124)
• Notes:

Garageband.com

• Main URL: http://www.garageband.com
• CC-only portal: ?
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: audio
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
• Notes: only allows by-nc-nd/2.0

Jamendo

• Main URL: http://www.jamendo.com/
• Notes: Jamendo hosts full music albums, available for both streaming and download on P2P (BitTorrent, eMule) ; Social tools, Web service, amazon-like recommendations ; Services for artists ; organization/recording of CC live performances.
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: RSS/Podcasts/Javascript feeds
• Formats: audio: MP3 192k / Ogg Vorbis Q7
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 500+ full music albums = 5000+ files (as of 20060128)

Magnatune

• Main URL: http://magnatune.com
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed:?
• Formats: audio
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 373 albums (as of 20050823)
• Notes:

Agnula Libre Music

• Main URL: http://muzik.agnula.org/
• CC-only portal: almost everything is CC-licensed (some EFF OAL)
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: audio
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
• Notes:

Open Clip Art Library

• Main URL: http://openclipart.org/
• CC-only portal: everything is public domain
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: image (vector)
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: over 4300 clips (as of 20050823)
• Notes:

Opsound

• Main URL: http://www.opsound.org/opsound.html
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: audio
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
• Notes:

Ourmedia

• Main URL: http://ourmedia.org
• CC-only portal: ?
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: audio, image, text, video
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
• Notes: subset of Internet Archive collection (uses IA for storage and bandwidth)

Public Library of Science

• Main URL: http://plos.org
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: text (with images)
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: all articles from PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine

Remix Reading

• Main URL: http://www.remixreading.org/
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: audio, image, text, video
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
• Notes:

Soundclick

• Main URL: http://soundclick.com
• CC-only portal: http://soundclick.com/genres/cc_license.cfm
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: audio
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 199,733 songs (as of 20060124)
• Notes:

SoundTransit

• Main URL: http://soundtransit.nl
• CC-only portal: everything is CC licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
• CC-only feed: coming soon http://soundtransit.nl/book/rss-feeds.html
• Formats: audio (field recordings only)
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 529 recordings (as of 20051127)
• Notes:

Creative Collective

• Main URL: http://www.tutaj.com.pl/geeklog/public_html/
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: audio:
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 174 files (as of 20050823)

BeatPick - FairPlay Music Label

• Main URL: http://beatpick.com
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: audio: mp3 / OGG / WAV
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 46 artists/bands. 53 albums/EP. about 300 tracks. Catalogue is growing day by day.
• Notes: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5. Selected for quality artists only. Online Music licensing: all music is pre-cleared and can be licensed for commercial purposes.