University of Michigan Library Transfers 700k Bibliographic Records to the Public Domain Using CC0

In addition to changing its licensing policy from CC BY-NC to CC BY, the University of Michigan has authorized the distribution and reuse of more than half a million bibliographic records, transferring them to the public domain using the CC0 public domain transfer. Following the British Library, which only recently released three million bibliographic records in the public domain, the University of Michigan library offered its Open Access bibliographic records for download , which as of November 17, 2010 contained 684,597 records.

The University of Michigan's library has always been particularly advanced in terms of licensing for open content, the public domain, and copyright issues in the digital age.

Since the release of the transmission into the public domain of CC0, its use for data has continued to grow . See a list of current uses of CC0 on the wiki .

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