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For short lists of notable works, see [[books]] and [[film]]. This article will eventually be broken up into format-specific directory/repository/curator articles. | For short lists of notable works, see [[books]] and [[film]]. This article will eventually be broken up into format-specific directory/repository/curator articles. | ||
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+ | ==Abacci eBooks== | ||
+ | * Main URL: http://www.abacci.com/msreader/default.aspx | ||
+ | * CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed | ||
+ | * CC-only feed: http://www.abacci.com/mm/msreaderRSS.xml | ||
+ | * Formats: Microsoft Reader | ||
+ | * Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 10,000+ ebooks | ||
+ | * Notes: You can also read these eBooks online with annotated links to wikipedia articles | ||
==Internet Archive== | ==Internet Archive== |
Revision as of 21:29, 4 September 2006
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.
Not certain that something should be added to this list? Add it to Talk:Content Curators.
For short lists of notable works, see books and film. This article will eventually be broken up into format-specific directory/repository/curator articles.
Contents
- 1 Abacci eBooks
- 2 Internet Archive
- 3 ArtistServer
- 4 BeatPick - FairPlay Music Label
- 5 Blip.tv
- 6 CCHits
- 7 ccMixter
- 8 Wikimedia Commons
- 9 GlobalTune.net
- 10 Dmusic
- 11 Flickr
- 12 Freesound
- 13 Garageband.com
- 14 Geograph British Isles
- 15 InterCommunication Center[ICC], HIVE
- 16 Jamendo
- 17 Lulu
- 18 Lulu.tv
- 19 Magnatune
- 20 Odd Job Jack, Freejack animation assets
- 21 Open Clip Art Library
- 22 Opsound
- 23 Ourmedia
- 24 Overmundo Banco de Cultura
- 25 Public Library of Science
- 26 Podiobooks.com
- 27 Remix Reading
- 28 Revver
- 29 SectionZ
- 30 Soundclick
- 31 SoundTransit
- 32 Starfrosch - Open Content
- 33 Creative Collective
- 34 Simuze
Abacci eBooks
- Main URL: http://www.abacci.com/msreader/default.aspx
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://www.abacci.com/mm/msreaderRSS.xml
- Formats: Microsoft Reader
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 10,000+ ebooks
- Notes: You can also read these eBooks online with annotated links to wikipedia articles
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:
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: 85 artists/bands. 100++ albums/EP. 800++ 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.
Blip.tv
- Main URL: http://blip.tv
- Formats: video
CCHits
- Main URL: http://cchits.org
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://cchits.ning.com/recent/rss/?xn_auth=no more at http://cchits.ning.com/faq/#podcast_client
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 223 tracks (as of 20060623)
- Notes: Built on the Ning playground, the whole system is open source and clonable.
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: Runs on CcHost, supports Sample Pool API
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:
GlobalTune.net
- Main URL: http://globaltune.net
- CC-only portal: Yes
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 2000+
- Notes: User contributed radio with listener driven rotation
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/ also CC-enabled search at http://flickr.com/search/advanced/
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ~12.7 million photos (as of 20060516)
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
Geograph British Isles
- Main URL: http://www.geograph.org.uk/
- Notes: Community creating a digitial archive of photos covering every square kilometer of the British Isles
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: RSS/KML/GeoRSS/GPX/Memorymap feeds
- Formats: image
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 200,000+ images (as of 20060809)
InterCommunication Center[ICC], HIVE
- Main URL: http://hive.ntticc.or.jp
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: none yet
- Formats: video: MPEG4, WMV for online-streaming and downloadable files.
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 50+ media art interviews, symposia, concerts, exhibitions, workshops
- Notes: This is the online open video archive of NTT (Nippon Telecommunication&Telegraph) ICC, a media art center located in Tokyo that has promoted artists and activated discussions on new media and artistic expressions since 1997. ICC is one of the biggest-sized, private-run museums of the world, along with such organizations as the ZKM (Center for Arts and Media) in Karlsruhe,Germany, and Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria.
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)
Lulu
- Main URL: http://lulu.com
- CC-only portal: none, but advanced search may be restricted to CC-only
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: books
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
Lulu.tv
- Main URL: http://lulu.tv
- CC-only portal: everything licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
- CC-only feed: http://www.lulu.tv/?feed=atom
- Formats: short videos
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: ?
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:
Odd Job Jack, Freejack animation assets
- Main URL: http://oddjobjack.com/freejack.php
- CC-only portal: ?
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: image (vector), image (bitmap), flash movie (.fla)
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 13 episodes worth of assets from TV's Odd Job Jack. Episode 1 has 77 characters, 28 props, and 231 cameras in an 800 meg torrent
- Notes: Every asset from this years 13 episode run is being released.
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)
Overmundo Banco de Cultura
- Main URL: http://www.overmundo.com.br/banco/banco.php
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://www.overmundo.com.br/rss/rss.php?secao=banco
- Formats: audio, image, text, video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: about 190 works (as of 20060410)
- Notes: in Portugese
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
Podiobooks.com
- Main URL: http://podiobooks.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Serialized audio books which are made available in podcast format
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:
Revver
- Main URL: http://revver.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed (all by-nc-nd 2.5)
- CC-only feed: http://revver.com/rss
- Formats: video
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 19,100 videos (as of 20060408)
- Notes:
SectionZ
- Main URL: http://www.sectionz.com
- CC-only portal: http://www.sectionz.com/cc.asp
- CC-only feed: ?
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 530 songs (as of 20060310)
- Notes: supports most CC-licenses browsable via a flickr-like interface
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: 248,664 songs (as of 20060726)
- 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:
Starfrosch - Open Content
- Main URL: http://starfrosch.ch
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
- CC-only feed: http://starfrosch.ch/rss more at http://starfrosch.ch/tags
- Formats: audio: mp3
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 2000 Songs from over 300 Artists categorized by genre
- Artists are welcome to submit their songs
- 60'000 unique visitors month
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)
Simuze
- Main URL: http://simuze.com
- CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed unless noted otherwise
- Newsfeed: http://www.simuze.nl/live/nieuws/wp-rss2.php
- Formats: audio
- Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 538 tracks (as of 20060313)
- Notes: Simuze is not just an online platform but also organizes events where CC musicians perform.