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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known uses of CC licensing and material by the collections and cultural sectors - ie museums, libraries, archives and galleries. Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into Case Studies.
Armenia
Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Science of Armenia
- maintains two open access journals, the Armenian Journal of Mathematics and Armenian Journal of Physics, both of which are under Creative Commons Attribution licences.
Australia
- license educational materials and photos under CC licences
- license their collection descriptions under CC BY-NC and their collection data under BY-SA (specifically for reuse on Wikipedia)
- have written papers on the financial and other benefits of OA, and posted on crowd-sourced discoveries and reuse as a result
The National Library of Australia
- license a large range of their internal documents/policies under CC, mainly through their Open Publish initiative (see background paper)
- encourage donors to use CC as part of their Flickr-based PictureAustralia initiative
- incorporate Wikipedia descriptions and crowdsourced text-correction in their Newspapers Online Australia initiative (see slides here and here)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Australia's main public broadcaster has started releasing material from its archives under CC BY-NC
Collections Council of Australia
- has launched the beta of a digital storytelling initiative, Now and Then, that requires contributors to CC license
- incorporate CC licensed material (and in particular photographs) into their digital storytelling collection
Germany
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 here)
The Land Library of Saxony - State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)
- donated 250,000 photographs from their German Photo Collection (depicting scenes from German history and daily life) with corresponding captions and metadata to Wikicommons - all under Germany’s ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain.
Netherlands
- 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 here)
- and so have 45 other museums in the Netherlands; the full list is also available on the Wiki Loves Art website.
United Kingdom
- 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.
United States
- not exactly uses Creative Commons licences, but has been part of the flickr commons project and produced a valuable report on the benefits of OA to memory institutions (Springer, Michelle, et al. (2008). For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project)
