Abstract: This paper systematically reviews the new measures of cultural institutions in the United States, Japan and other countries in recent years to protect the collection resources and the new methods of public release of digital archives, in order to provide reference for further research and practical exploration in this field. Foreign libraries used to rely on the sign of Creative Commons license to manage the digital resources when providing digital information service. In order to overcome the shortcomings of the Creative Commons license used in the past, some national libraries introduced the Rights Statements logo as a supplement. Dependent on the copyright owners’ works, libraries should adopt different protection methods to serve the purpose of protecting intellectual property rights. This paper compares and evaluates the two marking methods in Creative Commons license and Rights Statements, and exploreshow to apply and improve innovation reasonably in practice.