Really fantastic news!

Michael 

> On 16 Sep 2020, at 13:41, Lucy Crompton-Reid 
> <lucy.crompton-r...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear all
> 
> The National Lottery Heritage Fund has today announced a significant policy 
> change, with a new requirement for grant recipients to release the digital 
> outputs of funded projects under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. This includes images, 
> research, educational materials, project reports, software, web and app 
> content, databases, 3D models, sound and video recordings.
> 
> I know that a number of people on and off this list have been involved in 
> advocating to NLHF (previously HLF) for this change over a period of years. I 
> was very pleased to have been part of the licensing review advisory group 
> that helped to shape the new policy, which has been steered and nurtured to 
> fruition by Josie Fraser - Head of Digital Policy at NLHF and of course the 
> former Chair of Trustees at Wikimedia UK. 
> 
> All best
> Lucy
> 
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