Report: Are the Creative Commons Public Domain Tools Fit-For-Purpose in the Cultural Heritage Sector (A New Needs Assessment From CC)

From Creative Commons:

Today Creative Commons is proud to release our report on the Needs Assessment entitled Are the Creative Commons Public Domain Tools Fit-For-Purpose in the Cultural Heritage Sector?.

From 1 January (Public Domain Day) to 15 February 2022, we ran a multilingual online survey using Google Forms to share a 50-question questionnaire in English, French and Spanish. We received responses from 133 field practitioners — working in libraries, museums and archives and other areas of open culture — from 44 different countries on five continents.

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With this report, we gain valuable insight into the unique needs and challenges of the cultural heritage community with regard to our public domain tools: the public domain mark (PDM) and the public domain dedication tool (CC0).

Key findings include:

• The top reason to release content openly is to “increase the institution’s presence, visibility, reach and relevance online.”
• While about a little less than a third share a small part of the collection with CC0 or PDM, only about 4% share their entire collection with either tool.
• The CC website is by far the number one source of information on CC public domain tools.
• About one third do not know which of CC0 or PDM is better to use to release digital reproductions of items in collections.
• 72% see how CC public domain tools can make a difference in how the institution shares its collection.

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