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This case study focuses specifically on V&A Images, while contextualising its activities within the museum’s broader digitisation programmes. It highlights some of the factors that are important to the success of an image licensing operation,…

The public licenses developed by Creative Commons (CC) are tools to make creative works available for free use under certain conditions. As rights holders have different needs and motives, CC offers six different license variants. Some of the most…

A big challenge that is facing performing arts organisations that want to provide online access to their holdings, is that they are often unsure how to determine the rights status of these collections, and how to clear rights. The working group on…

References and Quotes regarding Public Domain and Image Sales and Licensing Activities in Museums. Developed for general reference.

Access to art images –especially images of art works in museum collections here and abroad – is essential to teaching, learning, research and scholarship in the history of art, and indeed in all the many fields engaged with the study of visual…

Although there is a lot of digitised cultural heritage content online, it is still incredibly difficult to source good material to reuse, or material that you are allowed to reuse, in creative projects. What can institutions do to help people who…

This paper situates the activity of digitisation to increase access to cultural and heritage content alongside the objectives of the Open Access movement. It demonstrates that increasingly open licensing of digital cultural heritage content is…