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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.

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.


ArtistServer

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

CCHits

ccMixter

Creative Collective

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

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

Dogmazic.net - Musique Libre !

  • Main URL: http://www.dogmazic.net/
  • CC-mainly portal: 80% CC / 20% other Libre licenses
  • CC-mainly feeds: m3u, rss, podcasts
  • Formats: audio: mp3, ogg
  • Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: around 7000 tracks, 400 full EPs - out of total +8200 tracks, 536 EPs; 900 artists, 100 labels (as of 20061106)
  • Notes: music & information portal on copyleft/Libre music; all copyleft/Libre licenses welcome; frenchbased, lang= fr. & eng.

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: Dmusic is the oldest independent music website, featuring non-drm music, an active community, and lots of free upload space.

EngageMedia

Flickr

Freesound

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)

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

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

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

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.

Internet Archive

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

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)

Jamglue

  • Main URL: http://www.jamglue.com
  • Notes: Has a flash-based mixer for remixing right in your browser!
  • CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
  • CC-only feed: RSS/Podcasts feeds
  • Formats: audio: MP3
  • Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 1500+ tracks, 2000+ mixes (as of 20061216)

JumpCut.com

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)

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

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:

Mix2r (pronounced "Mixter")

  • Main URL: http://www.mix2r.com
  • CC-only portal: everything is CC-licensed
  • CC-only feed:?
  • Formats: audio
  • Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 7 GB (as of 20061231) and growing
  • Notes: Site allows users to contribute tracks of reuse stub tracks for their own mixes, audio projects.

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.

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: Free datebase that allows everyone to add and modify information. You can use the database as a content repository using omdb's API to access everything in it.

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:

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:

Opsound

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

Podcast Spot

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

REBOL

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

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: 948 tracks (as of 2006-11-28)
  • Notes: Simuze is not just an online platform but also organizes events where CC musicians perform.

Soundclick

SoundTransit

Starfrosch - Open Content

  • Main URL: http://starfrosch.ch
  • CC portal: Most of the songs are CC-licensed
  • Feeds: http://starfrosch.ch/rss more at http://starfrosch.ch/tags
  • Formats: audio: mp3
  • Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 4000 Songs from over 300 Artists categorized by genre
  • Artists are welcome to blog their songs
  • 30'000 unique visitors monthly on the website, 100'000 unique visitors including spamers, aggregators and other funny animals

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.

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:

Webradio

  • Main URL: http://www.subflow.net
  • CC-only portal: all music streamed is CC-licensed
  • CC-only feed: n/a
  • Formats: mp3 192kbs
  • Size and scope of CC-licensed collection: 24/7 streaming, music from netlabel scene (~20Go, grow every week)
  • Notes: 1 Ambient-Dub-Downtempo streaming + 1 Tech-Minimal streaming

Wikimedia Commons

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