GLAM

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.

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

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 here)

Australia

The Powerhouse Museum

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