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 Institution accounts for 3,942,729 CC0 assets (or 37.0%) of the total volume.

The US has a high representation of total instances that publish all eligible collections to the public domain: 50 total instances (or 17.1%). For comparative purposes, this list is provided on the next page.

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. 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. Second, there is no federal law on whether copyright subsists in digital surrogates, although the Section 2 discussion of judicial interpretation suggests greater consensus among case law has positively impacted GLAM policies. Third, US GLAMs rely on a combination of public and private funding, with most US GLAMs receiving a majority of funding through private sector, philanthropic funding and self-generated revenue. While these factors may distinguish the US from the other countries with high representations of open GLAM, the outcome for GLAMs is the same: a decision to open collections remains a policy decision rather than one based on clear legal obligations.

Albright-Knox

American Numismatic Society

Art Institute of Chicago

Barnes Foundation

Birmingham Museum of Art

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Carnegie Hall Archives

Clark Art Institute

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cornell University Library

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Detroit Institute of Arts

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum

Grand Rapids Public Museum

Harvard Library

Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

J. Paul Getty Trust

Library of Congress

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Minneapolis Institute of Art

NASA

National Archives and Records Administration

National Gallery of Art

New York Public Library

Newberry Library

Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Saint Louis Art Museum

Science History Institute

Smithsonian Institution (19+ collections)

U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

Walters Art Museum

Yale Center for British Art

Yale University Art Gallery

Yale University Library

 Carnegie Museum of Art; Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Peabody Essex Museum; and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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