#10. Switzerland – 34 instances
Figure 28. Publication platforms used in Switzerland[1]
Total volume: 674,299 assets
In June 2019, Switzerland passed a law to protect photographs that do not satisfy the threshold of originality necessary for copyright protection. Such photographs will receive a related rights protection irrespective of their “individual design.”[2]
The largest contributor is the Bildarchiv der ETH-Bibliothek, ETH Zürich, publishing 489,161 public domain compliant assets via its own website (or 72.5% of the total volume in Switzerland). The other 33 contribute the remaining 185,138 assets primarily via Wikimedia Commons, which accounts for 69,887 assets mostly published using CC BY-SA. No assets are published via Europeana.
Not included: Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig; Institut et Musée Voltaire; Kunsthaus Zürich; Kunstmuseum Bern; Landesmuseum Zürich; Musée Ariana; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire; Musée d’Ethnographie; Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève; Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève; Museum Rietberg; Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum; Zentrum Paul Klee; and Zunfthaus zur Meisen.
