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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. This is just a beginning. Please help make it comprehensive!

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For short lists of notable works, see books and film. This article is being broken up into format-specific directory/repository/curator articles.

Audio

Video

Image

Youraustralia

• Main URL: http://www.youraustralia.eu
• CC-only portal: all images except maps are CC-licensed.
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: image (jpg)
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 350+
• Notes: Landscape images from most regions of Australia, high resolution (800 pixel wide), with location information and notes

Zorger

• Main URL: http://public-domain.zorger.com
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: image (bitmap)
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Approx 1,000 images (as of 20061201)
• Notes: scans from pre-1922 books, 1950s scifi illustraions, photos

Ryoku Stock Photography

• Main URL: http://stock.ryoku.de
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: images
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: First release with 10 high quality images.
• Notes: A free stock photography project. The theme of the first issue is "Agriculture". All images are in very high resolution and under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License. Images are tagged in German.

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:

Taskforge

• Main URL: http://taskforge.njj.dk
• CC-only portal: everything is CC licensed
• CC-only feed:
• Formats: mostly graphics
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection:
• Notes:

h2guide MapWizard

• Main URL: http://www.h2guide.com/h/mapwizard
• Notes: CC-licensed clickable maps
• CC-only portal: ?
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: image,html
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: whole world up to a resolution of 1:500.000

piqs.de

• Main URL: http://www.piqs.de/
• Notes: German image-database with pure CC-content
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed (Attribution License)
• Formats: image
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 6,500+ images (as of 20070613)

Geograph British Isles

• Main URL: http://www.geograph.org.uk/
• Notes: Community creating a digital 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: 461,250 images (as of 20070613)

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: 39,147,924 million photos (as of 20070613)

Design Reaction

• Main URL: http://www.designreaction.org
• CC-only portal: yes
• Formats: image, PDF
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: CC-licensed graphic design in the form of socially conscious posters

DC Nature

• Main URL: http://www.dcnature.com/
• CC-only portal: yes
• Formats: images: jpg
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: around 1000 images
• Notes: A community of natural historians who are showcasing the spectacular natural history and wildlife in the District of Columbia, USA

Text

Unearthtravel

• Main URL: http://www.unearthtravel.com
• CC-only portal: all text is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: NA
• Formats: text
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Approx 1,000,000 words (as of 20061113)
• Notes:

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

IntraText Digital Library

• Main URL: http://www.intratext.com
• Notes: The IntraText Digital Library is a full-text Digital Library committed to accuracy and accessibility, offering texts and corpora as lexical hypertexts. The IntraText interface is best experienced with a Tablet PC or touch screen
• CC-only portal: almost all books and collections in the library are CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: None
• Formats: IntraText (HTML text+concordance) texts, collections and downloadable files
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: about 12 million pages in 40 languages (as of 2007.05.23)

Irish Literary Revival

• Main URL: http://www.irishliteraryrevival.com/
• CC-only portal: all books CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: PDF, Open Office, MS Word
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 12 authors, 14 texts
• Notes: previously published poetry and fiction books, out of print or circulation

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: ?

Education

Open-Of-Course

• Main URL: http://www.open-of-course.org
• CC-only portal: everything is open content
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: text
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: around 30 multilingual courses and tutorials
• Notes:

OER Commons

• Main URL: http://www.oercommons.org
• CC-only portal: Much content CC licenses, but not all.
• CC-only feed: Filter function is available
• Formats: audio, video, text, pdf, flash, powerpoint
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Thousands of CC-licensed and otherwise open resources.

omdb.org

• Main URL: http://omdb.org
• CC-only portal: Everything is CC (http://omdb.org/)
• CC-only feed: Everything is CC (http://omdb.org/movie/latest.xml)
• Formats: Text
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: Free multilingual database for film information, including relations and text information
• Notes: A network of open teaching and learning materials, with ratings and reviews. Materials for K12 and higher education, including lesson plans, videos, podcasts, lecture notes, and more.

Multiple Formats

GroundReport.com

• Main URL: http://groundreport.com
• CC-only portal: Yes
• Formats: text, images, audio, video
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 400+
• Notes: User-generated news source with ratings and revenue sharing

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

Kompoz.com

• Main URL: http://www.kompoz.com
• Notes: Kompoz.com is a social networking site for creating multi-track songs online with other musicians. With Kompoz, you can collaborate with anyone to create and mix a new generation of independent music based on the open standards of the "Creative Commons".
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
• CC-only feed: RSS
• Formats: audio: MP3, WMA, WAV
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 200+ artists, growing daily (as of 20070321)

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.

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 Portuguese

Podcast Spot

• Main URL: http://www.podcastspot.com
• CC-only portal: http://www.podcastspot.com/explore/cc
• CC-only feed: ?
• Formats: audio, video
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 1349 podcast episodes (as of 20070613)
• Notes:

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:

Tree of Life Web Project

• Main URL: http://tolweb.org
• CC-only portal: only some content is CC-licensed (some images, the glossary, tree structure), CC discovery tools are under development
• CC-only feed: coming soon.
• Formats: image, video, audio, pdf, xml, text
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: over 1000 images, growing continuously
• Accepting contributions from scientists and the general public. Many of our current CC-licensed images are imported from Flickr. By integrating them into our collection, they get annotated with taxonomic metadata, and they will become part of taxon-specific CC image feeds.
• Notes: The Tree of Life is a collection of information about biodiversity. We cover all organisms, living and extinct, plants, animals, fungi, protists, microbes. We started implementing CC-licenses in our media uploading tools in February 2007. We still have to build CC options into our search tools, and we are planning to make available CC image/video/audio feeds for any group of organisms.

Virtual Interactive Research Networks

• Main URL: http://www.virn.net
• CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed unless noted otherwise
• CC-only feed: NA
• Formats: All Video, MP3, All Images, Text
• Notes: Unlimited upload space, Social Enabled Site. Its more of a social marketplace.

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: Constantly updating
• Notes:

Other

REBOL

• Main URL: http://www.rebol.org
• CC-only portal: No: ?REBOL is license agnostic; license is decided by each contributor.
• CC-only feed: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/search.r?find=cc-by
• Formats: REBOL scripts
• Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: A few dozen scripts
• Notes: Find scripts by license type here: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/list-all-filters.r