Tag: open heritage

Creative Commons Launches TAROCH Coalition for Open Access to Cultural Heritage

by Brigitte Vézina, Beverley Francis Open Culture, Open Heritage
Fancily-dressed people gathered in a field surrounded by trees and a tall fence for the launch of a blue-yellow striped hot-air balloon held by long strings. “ The Launch of Blanchard's Balloon at The Hague in 1785 ” is marked with CC BY 1.0.

Creative Commons (CC) is proud to launch the TAROCH Coalition (Towards a Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage), a collaborative effort to achieve the adoption of a UNESCO standard-setting instrument to improve open access to cultural heritage. We are grateful to the Arcadia Fund for supporting this initiative. Below we share an overview of TAROCH and…

Getty Museum releases 88K+ images of artworks with CC0

by Brigitte Vézina Open Heritage
Close up of vivid orange flowers and blue irises growing above red-ochre soil. “Irises, 1889” by Vincent van Gogh, The J. Paul Getty Museum is dedicated to the public domain by CC0.

The J. Paul Getty Museum just released more than 88 thousand works under Creative Commons Zero (CCØ), putting the digital images of items from its impressive collection squarely and unequivocally into the public domain. This is in line with our advocacy efforts at Creative Commons (CC): digital reproductions of public domain material must remain in the public domain. In other words, no new copyright should arise over the creation of a digitized “twin.”