Andrea Wallace

“ As discussed, the local aggregator platform DigitaltMuseum provides access to assets in both Norway and Sweden, which users can filter by licence or GLAM. [24] Arts Council Norway financed the development of DigitaltMuseum, which accounts for 46.7% (or 469,673 assets) of the total volume in Norway.
Another 8 instances publish 132,640 assets via Europeana. The Vitenskapsmuseet contributes the largest volume, publishing 295,465 open compliant assets via its own website. The largest contributor of public domain compliant assets is Norsk Folkemuseum, with 95,944 assets published to Europeana. ”

“ The majority of UK instances claim new rights and publish data using open licences (49 or 61.3% of instances) . This is similar to current approaches in Germany and the Netherlands. However, across the EU, the practice of applying open licences is expected to shift to public domain tools in compliance with Article 14. ”

“ GLAMs with collections on Flickr Commons and Wikimedia Commons primarily publish on a some eligible data basis.
Three points provide helpful context to the US data. First, works created by federal government employees in the course of employment automatically belong to the public domain. [6] This applies to employees of federal agencies like NASA, but not to employees of national cultural institutions like the Smithsonian Institution, which receives around 66% of funding from the federal government. ”