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Many of the digital resources here were created from public
domain materials - that is, materials not protected by
copyright. However, in many other cases the materials are still
within copyright and the owners have only granted permissions
for access and preservation. This is the case for many modern
materials, including artworks, newspapers, books, oral
histories, journals, and more. Additionally, there are many
materials for cases where the rights holder and status was not
clear, and so the contributing institution followed normal due
diligence to locate the rights holder and, finding none,
digitized the materials for access and preservation with a note
for any rights holder, if found, to contact the institution.
Also, a number of materials have been digitized from the US for
creation and presentation as part of a new work, supported as a
transformative creation of works under US co