Public Domain Compliance

Cultural institutions and organisations take different approaches to releasing public domain collections, from which rights statements are applied, to the scope of digital collections released.

The charts on the right provide an overview of the primary statement and approach used by organisations.

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Distribution of Rights and Licensing Information

Public Domain Mark

CC BY-SA

CC BY

CC0

No Copyright - United States

Licence Ouverte

No Known Copyright

Open Government Licence

Open Government Data Licence 1.0

Indicates the machine readable statements used by organisations (e.g., CC0 or CC BY).

Open Access Scope

Some eligible data

All eligible data

Indicates whether an open policy is applied to all eligible collections (i.e., all public domain works) or to only a portion of eligible collections (i.e., some public domain collections).

Compliance

Public domain

Open

Disclaimer

Refers to the primary rights statement used and whether it is a public domain tool, a copyright disclaimer, or an open licence.