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Government use of Creative Commons

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known government and intergovernmental uses of CC licensing and public domain tools (and government recommendations of same). Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

Examples are needed for national/federal, state/provincial and local/city/county governments (or their equivalents) as well as intergovernmental organizations and bodies such as the European Union and United Nations.
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== [[Government_adoption_strategies|Government adoption strategies]] ==
== Jurisdiction-Specific Case Studies==
=== Armenia ===
* [http://www.president.am/president/cover/eng/ Official website of the Armenian President]. CC BY-ND 3.0 Unported.

=== Australia ===
* [http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/ AusGOAL], the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework, provides support and guidance to Australia's governments and related sectors to facilitate open access to [http://blog.ausgoal.gov.au/2011/07/07/launch-ausgoal-is-online/ publicly funded information]. AusGOAL makes it possible for organisations to manage their risks when publishing information and data in a way that drives innovation and entrepreneurial activities; providing enhanced economic and social benefits to the wider community. AusGOAL is aligned with numerous open government initiatives around the world and supports the [http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/agency_resources/principles_on_psi_short.html Australian Information Commissioners Open Access Principles]. AusGOAL endorses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
* Australian Parliament. The Parliament’s central web portal http://www.aph.gov.au houses the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings, and the portal will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
* Australian budget delivered May 12, 2010 was [http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/bp1/html/bp1_prelims.htm released] under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Also the [http://gov2.net.au/report/ Gov 2.0 response] and the [http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study NBN Implementation Study]
* government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - [http://www.abs.gov.au Australian Bureau of Statistics], [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] - are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ CC BY 2.5 Australia] and/or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce].
** over 50 datasets released on data.australia.gov.au http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/
** Geoscience Australia's "geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges" during the recent Brisbane flood: http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/2501
* [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/ Water Information] - the Australian [http://www.bom.gov.au Bureau of Meteorology] has [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/269 launched] the official website of its Improving Water Information Program with a default [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] licence. This aggregates hundreds of other government departments' and agencies' information into the National Water Account. They have a range of [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/regulations/cc/disseminating.shtml explanatory materials] about the licence and are building licensing tools and metadata into their [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awris.shtml Australian Water Resources Information System].
* [http://www.pool.org.au ABC Pool] - this initiative of Australia's largest public broadcaster, the [http://www.abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Corporation] (ABC), is releasing material from the ABC archives for reuse under CC licences. It's first major release has been as part of the [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool Gene Pool project], celebrating Charles Darwin's Centenary.
* [http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia] - various [http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/cdp/ policy materials]
* [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
* [http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/ Queensland Museum] - [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/270 releases] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection photographs] from its collection on [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki Commons] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA] .
* NSW Department of Education and Training - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/939 Dynamic Calculus': Teaching Resource]
* Aged Care Queensland's [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/247 eMentoring Handbook]
* National Copyright Unit - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956 Creative Commons for Educators fact sheets] produced for the Smartcopying website in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia.
* Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy - [https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/budd-e/common/info/copyright.html Budd:e E-security Education Package]. The Budd:e package won Best Children's interactive media and digital content at the 2010 [http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1.36.7000.7001 AIMIA Awards].
* [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/ Mosman Municipal Council]'s [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] is released under a Creative Commons licence and includes as a key priority “to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship”.
* Realising Our Broadband Future forum (Dec 2009), DBCDE hosted a wiki to gather input from participants whihc was all CC BY-NC-SA licensed http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/webcasts.html
* Australian Government Information Management Office has CC licensed its blog: http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/ and the Government 2.0 showcase http://showcase.govspace.gov.au/
* Australian Electoral Commission has [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3481 applied] CC BY as the default license for its website: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm
'''Australian government reports recommending CC usage'''
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0] - report of the Australian [http://gov2.net.au Government 2.0 Taskforce]
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/govresponse20report/doc/Government-Response-to-Gov-2-0-Report.pdf Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce] - agreement in principle that Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) should be the default licence for all PSI
* [http://www.gilf.gov.au Government Information and Licensing Framework] - a Queensland Government strategy on open access and use of information
* [http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx Venturous Australia: the National Innovation Review] - report recommends government use of CC licences, and is released under CC
* [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/250 Victorian Government's Economic Development Committee] recommends CC licensing for public sector information.
* Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) published the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper under a CC BY-NC-ND in July 2009: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/future_directions_of_the_digital_economy/australias_digital_economy_future_directions
* National Broadband Network Implementation Study http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study was released by DBCDE as a wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Wiki taken down now, but was tweeted: http://twitter.com/miakgarlick/status/13470301666
* DBCDE published two reports on its website under CC BY: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/benefits_of_digital_economy_from_nbn
* Treasury released the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2010 under CC BY: http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1858/PDF/PEFO_2010.pdf

=== Austria ===
[http://data.wien.gv.at/ Open Government Data Portal by the City of Vienna] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.de CC BY]

=== Brazil===
* [http://beta.dados.gov.br/ Brazil open government data portal (beta)] under CC BY-SA.
*Äôs Ministry of Justice [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
* The municipality of São Paulo Department of Education [http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso,sp-vai-colocar-todo-seu-material-pedagogico-na-internet,728448,0.htm has now mandated] that all its educational and pedagogical content will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share-Alike (BY-NC-SA) license.

=== Bulgaria ===
* [http://www.president.bg/main.php Bulgarian President]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.
* [http://www.prb.bg Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria]. CC BY 2.5 Bulgaria
* [http://www.mfa.bg Bulgarian Foreign Ministry]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.

===Canada===

====Federal====

*Canada has developed the Government of Canada Open Data License Agreement for their open data portal website [http://www.data.gc.ca Government of Canada Open Data Pilot Project]. While not a Creative Commons license it would seem that this is heavily inspired by the Creative Commons philosophy and has many similar aspects. The license includes sections on 1.0 Definitions; 2.0 Intellectual Property Rights; 3.0 License Grant; 4.0 Acknowledgement of Source; 5.0 No Warranty and no Liability; and 6.0 Effective Date and Termination.
*The license permits individuals or commercial interests to use, reproduce, or add value to government data provided they use the required attribution and that they do not imply any warranty to, nor make any claim of exclusive rights to the data.
*This has similarities to the Open Government Licence for public sector information used in the United Kingdom as seen farther down this list.

====Provincial====

*'''British Columbia''' has similarly adopted an Open Government License for Government of BC information located on [http://www.data.gov.bc.ca Data BC]. They specifically adapted this license from the United Kingdom Open Government Licence with with the permission of the UK National Archives.

=== Chile ===
* [http://www.gobiernodechile.cl Chilean Government Official Site], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.sernatur.cl Chilean Bureau of Tourism], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.economia.gob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Economy], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.segegob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Communications], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.mineduc.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Education], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.bcn.cl The Library of the National Congress], whose site is licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.guiaweb.cl/ The Guidelines for Governmental Websites] and [http://www.observatoriodeusabilidad.cl its Observatory], run by the Ministry of Economy, are licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.

=== Colombia ===
* [http://www.siac.net.co/Home.php?opc=2 Official website of the Colombian Biodiversity Information System depending from the Ministry of Environment].

=== Croatia ===
* [http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr] - Centar za otvoreni kod, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / Center for Open Source, National and University Library in Zagreb, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0 Croatia.

=== Czech Republic ===
* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education.

===Ecuador===
* Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas del Ecuador http://www.mtop.gov.ec/index.php

=== Georgia ===
*Äôs Ministry of Education and Science [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Greece ===
* http://primeminister.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://www.opengov.gr/ CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
* http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive
* http://antiproedros.gov.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece records the public sector workforce in accordance to the IMF rules

=== Guatemala ===
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobiernodeguatemala/ under CC BY-NC-SA generic
=== Israel ===
*Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Italy ===
* [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali National Institute of Statistics] releases all data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC BY].
* [http://dati.camera.it/it/ Chamber of Deputies data portal], CC BY-SA
* http://poliziadistato.it/ The official website of the italian police, CC BY NC ND 2.5 IT
* http://dati.piemonte.it/ The official open government data portal of the [[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Regional Government of the Piedmont Region in Italy]]
** CC BY 2.5 Italy for content of the website
** CC0 for available databases (all to date: Oct 8, 2010)

=== Korea ===
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/KOCW Korea Open Courseware run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERIS_(Korea_Education_and_Research_Information_Service)

===Macedonia===
* Macedonia Center for Research and Policy Making [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

===Mexico===
* President Felipe Calderon Website, BY NC ND 2.5 Mexico. http://www.presidencia.gob.mx
* National Sports Comission http://www.conade.gob.mx
*[http://www.sip.gob.mx/guiafinal.pdf Federal Government guide for website building] recommends the use CC licenses

=== Netherlands ===
* the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Public domain dedication] is used as the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's primary website [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl www.rijksoverheid.nl]. Since 2010 this website combines al public information published by the Dutch government and has replaced the websites of individual ministeries and agencies. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright under CC0 unless otherwise indicated].

* Creative Commons Netherlands has published a study on [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)

=== New Zealand ===
'''[http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework]''' standardises the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material by individuals and organisations may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. It was released for public discussion on August 27, 2009 and approved by Cabinet on July 5, 2010. The framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by encouraging State Services agencies to license material for reuse on liberal terms, and recommends Creative Commons as an important tool in this process.

In 2011 The Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs adopted a statement '''[http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/declaration-open-and-transparent-government detailing a new Declaration on Open and Transparent Government].''' The Declaration has been approved by Cabinet, and directs all Public Service departments, the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service; encouraged other State Services agencies; and invited State Sector agencies to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process.

* The [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] has [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets been released] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website.
* Land Information New Zealand's [http://www.os2020.org.nz/ Ocean Survey 20/20 web portal] which provides New Zealand with better knowledge of its ocean territory, including New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Continental Shelf and the Ross Sea Region is made available under un [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. [http://www.os2020.org.nz/data-and-reports/ Reports and interpretations] are available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND licence].
*[http://www.doc.govt.nz/ The Department of Conservation] has [http://data.govt.nz/SearchPage_Controller/SearchFormAgency?AgencySearch=Department+of+Conservation&action_doCustomSearch=Go&agency=true many datasets] including [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/947 pest species distribution] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1040 Director-General's expenses] licensed under Creative Commons.
*[http://www.dia.govt.nz/ The Department of Internal Affairs]' website "[http://data.govt.nz data.govt.nz]" which acts as a NZ government dataset directory makes content such as feedback and dataset listings available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. Some datasets referred to on data.govt.nz have also been made available under Creative Commons licences by their [http://data.govt.nz/catalog/ respective agencies].
*[http://www.ssc.govt.nz The State Services Commission] has published some annual reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/ar-2011#stateservices eg]), public reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/gateway-lessons-learned-july11 eg]) and guidance documents ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/workforcestrategy-guidance eg]) on its [http://www.ssc.govt.nz/publications-and-resources website] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.search.dol.govt.nz The Department of Labour] has licensed its latest [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/ar0910/annualreport0910.pdf Annual Report] and [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/soi2010/index.asp Statement of Intent] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.justice.govt.nz The Ministry of Justice] has licensed its [http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/s/statement-of-intent-201020132013/?searchterm=statement%20of%20intent Statement of Intent 2010–2013] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1014 Executive Expenses 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.niwa.co.nz/ The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research] has made some [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/niwa/layers/ bathymetry grids] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
* The NZ Parliamentary Library publishes some CC licensed documents such as Bill Digests and Research Papers on the [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/Search/Results.htm?search=-1320899551 Parliament website]
* [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The New Zealand Defence Force]'s [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/public-documents/creative-commons/alf.htm Army Leadership framework] is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY]
*The [http://www.hrc.co.nz/ Human Rights Commission] has made various resources available for download on its website available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence] including reports, guides and Statements of Intent.
* [http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines DigitalNZ's 'Make It Digital' guides] for making digital content in New Zealand are now available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]
*[http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/ PHARMAC] has a selection of [http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/patients/Schedule/SchedulePublications schedules] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.police.govt.nz/ The New Zealand Police] licensed their [http://www.police.govt.nz/annual-report-2010 Annual Report for year ending June 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.charities.govt.nz/ The Charities Commission] released the [http://www.charities.govt.nz/the-register/purpose/ Charities Register] as part of its '[http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/OpenData.aspx open data web service]' under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] has made the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/downloads.aspx audio tracks for 21 Rita Angus exhibition paintings] and presentation [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/Symposium.aspx recordings from the Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium] available on their website under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licence]. They have also taken up the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licences] to [http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/10/03/reusing-images-from-te-papa/#entry mark images in their Online Collections] which are able to be shared.

*The following local government bodies have released CC licensed GIS datasets on the [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ Koordinates] platform:
**[http://www.wellington.govt.nz/ Wellington City Council] offers [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/wcc/ datasets] of aerial imagery, contours, building footprints, flood hazards, wind zones and more under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.nrc.govt.nz/ Northland Regional Council] currently has 25 GIS [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ datasets] available here, 19 are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and 6 under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
**[http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz North Shore City Council]'s [http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1440-north-shore-city-parks/ Parks layer] is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.arc.govt.nz/ Auckland Regional Council] datasets of Wards, Community Boards and some passenger transport information is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].

*In relation to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake Canterbury Earthquakes]:
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)] and the National Library of New Zealand have set up a documentary project of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licensed] images by [https://picasaweb.google.com/RossBeckerNZ/ Ross Becker] as a record of recovery inside the red zone.
**[http://www.linz.govt.nz/index.aspx Land Information New Zealand] made its [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/post_quake_imagery_of_christchurch_carries_cc_licence aerial photographs] of the city's damage available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/ The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management] released [http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/video-central-christchurch-two-weeks-after-quake-ck-88665 inner city footage] for screening at public memorial events under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The Defence Force] makes its Flickr photos sets (including [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdefenceforce/collections/72157626143610731/ documentation of Canterbury]) available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY].
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ CERA]'s 2011-2016 Statement of Intent is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.

=== Poland ===
* [http://www.equal.org.pl/baza.php?lang=pl Equal Program projects database] - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
* [http://www.mg.gov.pl/ Polish Ministry of Economy] is publishing content on its website under a CC BY SA 3.0 Poland license.
* Polish Council of Ministers has [http://creativecommons.pl/2012/04/digital-school-program-with-open-textbooks-approved-by-polish-government/ adopted] a new Digital School program for Polish schools, which includes 43 millions PLN for Creative Commons Attribution or compatible) textbooks for grades 4-6 in primary schools (K4-K6).
** Update: http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/

=== Portugal ===
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva official photostream under CC BY 2.0 Generic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavacosilva/
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva's announcement on running for reelection. Audio on SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0: http://soundcloud.com/cavacosilva2011

=== Russian Federation ===
* All content (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) of [http://kremlin.ru/eng/ Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kremlin_authorisation-English.pdf Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kremlin.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/ premier.gov.ru (website of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/about.html Terms]

* All content of [http://government.ru/eng/ government.ru (Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)

* All content of http://www.bashkortostan.ru (Official information portal of the official authorities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan]), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkortostan_authorisation-Russian.jpg Letter of authorisation from Administration of President of The Republic of Bashkortostan]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Bashkortostan.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://www.volganet.ru (Internet-portal of administration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast Volgograd Oblast]), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Volganet_authorisation-Russian.pdf Letter of authorisation from Administration of Volgograd Oblast]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Volganet.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://amisharin.ru (official website of Governor of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast])
** [http://amisharin.ru/terms_of_use/ Terms of use]

* State-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti Russian International News Agency "RIA Novosti"], 460 historical images from [http://visualrian.ru database http://visualrian.ru], Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** The license specified on the pages of certain images.
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti Information page on Wikimedia Commons]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_RIA_Novosti Special category on Wikimedia Commons]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University Lomonosov Moscow State University], http://convergencelab.ru - Portal of Department of New Media and Communication Theory of Faculty of Journalism, Creative Commons Attribution, version unknown

* Some content of http://www.mgimo.ru - information portal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)], Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)
** [http://www.mgimo.ru/publish/cc/index.phtml Terms of use]

* All content of http://www.hse.ru/en/ - portal of state-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_-_Higher_School_of_Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
** [http://www.hse.ru/copyright Terms of use]

=== Serbia, Republic of ===
*Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Republic of Serbia [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Spain ===
* [http://www.gencat.cat/web/meugencat/documents/20101116_GUIA_USOS_XARXA_ENG.pdf Style and usage guide of the Government of Catalonia’s social networks] under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
* Statistical information on the [http://www.idescat.cat/en/ Statistical Institute of Catalonia] site is licensed by default under [http://www.idescat.cat/en/idescat/sistemaestadistic/ciutadans/avislegal.html CC BY 3.0 Spain].
* http://www.slideshare.net/justicia/the-use-of-creative-commons-licences-in-the-ministry-of-justice-of-the-government-of-catalonia/
* The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
*The [http://www.caib.es/ Government of the Balearic Islands] website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License

=== Taiwan ===
*Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
=== Thailand ===
*? Official website for Prime Minister (government) http://pm.go.th

=== Ukraine ===
*Unofficial municila page of Stryi town: http://stryi.com.ua/

=== United Kingdom ===
* The [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ Open Government License], used for a large amount of crown copyright data and content, is intended to be interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
* National Assembly for Wales use of flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalassemblyforwales/

=== Venezuela ===
*The "Canaima project" whichs goals is giving one laptop computer to every pupil in Venezuela (300.000 computers has been distributed so far) is preloaded with educational content (about 400 content) all of it is licensed with CC - SA - NC - 3.0

=== United States ===

==== Federal ====
* Works by the US federal government are automatically part of the [[public domain]] in the US as stipulated by http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
* Third-party content (such as the text of speeches by the first lady) on the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright White House web site] are licensed with CC BY 3.0 US by default.
* [http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy President-Elect Transition Team, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden]. CC BY 3.0 Unported. (Not an official federal government site, but an election team site, hence not required to be public domain.)
* The U.S. Department of Education has made OER an invitational priority in their [http://www.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=ynkyLyCpLNWvymvqBplJQYrwRGGlGtdR9gZtncFYJgjm2hTFSJZb!-2132130105?attId=40947 Ready to Learn] (PDF) and [http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2010-1/032310h.pdf Ready to Teach] (PDF) grants.
* The U.S. Department of Education has included open educational resources in their [http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/08/05/2010-19296/secretarys-priorities-for-discretionary-grant-programs Notice of Proposed Priorities] for discretionary grant funding. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
* The U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2 billion to community colleges and career training; [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100 CC BY required for grant outputs].
* The U.S. Department of Labor Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program; [http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-06.pdf CC BY required for grant outputs].

==== State ====
* [[New York State Senate]], Senate Content, CC-BY-NC-ND with CC+ allowing non-political fundraising use of content.
* [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0791 State of Virginia], legislation that indicates a preference for state-funded materials to be released with a CC (or equivalent open) license.
* [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf Washington State open policy and requirement of CC BY]
* [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=741&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=HB418 New Hampshire adopts Open Source and Open Data requirements] (policy friendly to CC use, but not a specific CC tool adoption)
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31756 OER K-12 bill] passed in WA state. The focus of the bill is to help school districts identify existing high-quality, free, openly licensed, common core state standards aligned resources available for local adoption; in addition, any content built with public funds, must be licensed under “an attribution license” (CC BY)

==== Local government ====
* [http://recoverysf.org/intranet/RecoverySF/ RecoverySF], CC BY 3.0 US.

See [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Intergovernmental_Organizations Intergovernmental Organizations] page for information about CC license use by Intergovernmental Organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, and the Commonwealth of Learning.

[[Category:Lists of CC use by jurisdiction]]
[[Category:Public sector information]]

Government use of Creative Commons

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known government and intergovernmental uses of CC licensing and public domain tools (and government recommendations of same). Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

Examples are needed for national/federal, state/provincial and local/city/county governments (or their equivalents) as well as intergovernmental organizations and bodies such as the European Union and United Nations.
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== [[Government_adoption_strategies|Government adoption strategies]] ==
== Jurisdiction-Specific Case Studies==
=== Armenia ===
* [http://www.president.am/president/cover/eng/ Official website of the Armenian President]. CC BY-ND 3.0 Unported.

=== Australia ===
* [http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/ AusGOAL], the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework, provides support and guidance to Australia's governments and related sectors to facilitate open access to [http://blog.ausgoal.gov.au/2011/07/07/launch-ausgoal-is-online/ publicly funded information]. AusGOAL makes it possible for organisations to manage their risks when publishing information and data in a way that drives innovation and entrepreneurial activities; providing enhanced economic and social benefits to the wider community. AusGOAL is aligned with numerous open government initiatives around the world and supports the [http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/agency_resources/principles_on_psi_short.html Australian Information Commissioners Open Access Principles]. AusGOAL endorses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
* Australian Parliament. The Parliament’s central web portal http://www.aph.gov.au houses the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings, and the portal will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
* Australian budget delivered May 12, 2010 was [http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/bp1/html/bp1_prelims.htm released] under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Also the [http://gov2.net.au/report/ Gov 2.0 response] and the [http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study NBN Implementation Study]
* government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - [http://www.abs.gov.au Australian Bureau of Statistics], [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] - are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ CC BY 2.5 Australia] and/or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce].
** over 50 datasets released on data.australia.gov.au http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/
** Geoscience Australia's "geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges" during the recent Brisbane flood: http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/2501
* [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/ Water Information] - the Australian [http://www.bom.gov.au Bureau of Meteorology] has [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/269 launched] the official website of its Improving Water Information Program with a default [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] licence. This aggregates hundreds of other government departments' and agencies' information into the National Water Account. They have a range of [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/regulations/cc/disseminating.shtml explanatory materials] about the licence and are building licensing tools and metadata into their [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awris.shtml Australian Water Resources Information System].
* [http://www.pool.org.au ABC Pool] - this initiative of Australia's largest public broadcaster, the [http://www.abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Corporation] (ABC), is releasing material from the ABC archives for reuse under CC licences. It's first major release has been as part of the [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool Gene Pool project], celebrating Charles Darwin's Centenary.
* [http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia] - various [http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/cdp/ policy materials]
* [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
* [http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/ Queensland Museum] - [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/270 releases] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection photographs] from its collection on [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki Commons] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA] .
* NSW Department of Education and Training - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/939 Dynamic Calculus': Teaching Resource]
* Aged Care Queensland's [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/247 eMentoring Handbook]
* National Copyright Unit - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956 Creative Commons for Educators fact sheets] produced for the Smartcopying website in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia.
* Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy - [https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/budd-e/common/info/copyright.html Budd:e E-security Education Package]. The Budd:e package won Best Children's interactive media and digital content at the 2010 [http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1.36.7000.7001 AIMIA Awards].
* [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/ Mosman Municipal Council]'s [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] is released under a Creative Commons licence and includes as a key priority “to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship”.
* Realising Our Broadband Future forum (Dec 2009), DBCDE hosted a wiki to gather input from participants whihc was all CC BY-NC-SA licensed http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/webcasts.html
* Australian Government Information Management Office has CC licensed its blog: http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/ and the Government 2.0 showcase http://showcase.govspace.gov.au/
* Australian Electoral Commission has [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3481 applied] CC BY as the default license for its website: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm
'''Australian government reports recommending CC usage'''
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0] - report of the Australian [http://gov2.net.au Government 2.0 Taskforce]
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/govresponse20report/doc/Government-Response-to-Gov-2-0-Report.pdf Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce] - agreement in principle that Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) should be the default licence for all PSI
* [http://www.gilf.gov.au Government Information and Licensing Framework] - a Queensland Government strategy on open access and use of information
* [http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx Venturous Australia: the National Innovation Review] - report recommends government use of CC licences, and is released under CC
* [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/250 Victorian Government's Economic Development Committee] recommends CC licensing for public sector information.
* Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) published the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper under a CC BY-NC-ND in July 2009: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/future_directions_of_the_digital_economy/australias_digital_economy_future_directions
* National Broadband Network Implementation Study http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study was released by DBCDE as a wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Wiki taken down now, but was tweeted: http://twitter.com/miakgarlick/status/13470301666
* DBCDE published two reports on its website under CC BY: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/benefits_of_digital_economy_from_nbn
* Treasury released the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2010 under CC BY: http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1858/PDF/PEFO_2010.pdf

=== Austria ===
[http://data.wien.gv.at/ Open Government Data Portal by the City of Vienna] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.de CC BY]

=== Brazil===
* [http://beta.dados.gov.br/ Brazil open government data portal (beta)] under CC BY-SA.
*Äôs Ministry of Justice [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
* The municipality of São Paulo Department of Education [http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso,sp-vai-colocar-todo-seu-material-pedagogico-na-internet,728448,0.htm has now mandated] that all its educational and pedagogical content will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share-Alike (BY-NC-SA) license.

=== Bulgaria ===
* [http://www.president.bg/main.php Bulgarian President]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.
* [http://www.prb.bg Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria]. CC BY 2.5 Bulgaria
* [http://www.mfa.bg Bulgarian Foreign Ministry]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.

===Canada===

====Federal====

*Canada has developed the Government of Canada Open Data License Agreement for their open data portal website [http://www.data.gc.ca Government of Canada Open Data Pilot Project]. While not a Creative Commons license it would seem that this is heavily inspired by the Creative Commons philosophy and has many similar aspects. The license includes sections on 1.0 Definitions; 2.0 Intellectual Property Rights; 3.0 License Grant; 4.0 Acknowledgement of Source; 5.0 No Warranty and no Liability; and 6.0 Effective Date and Termination.
*The license permits individuals or commercial interests to use, reproduce, or add value to government data provided they use the required attribution and that they do not imply any warranty to, nor make any claim of exclusive rights to the data.
*This has similarities to the Open Government Licence for public sector information used in the United Kingdom as seen farther down this list.

====Provincial====

*'''British Columbia''' has similarly adopted an Open Government License for Government of BC information located on www.data.gov.bc.ca. They specifically adapted this license from the United Kingdom Open Government Licence with with the permission of the UK National Archives.

=== Chile ===
* [http://www.gobiernodechile.cl Chilean Government Official Site], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.sernatur.cl Chilean Bureau of Tourism], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.economia.gob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Economy], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.segegob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Communications], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.mineduc.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Education], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.bcn.cl The Library of the National Congress], whose site is licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.guiaweb.cl/ The Guidelines for Governmental Websites] and [http://www.observatoriodeusabilidad.cl its Observatory], run by the Ministry of Economy, are licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.

=== Colombia ===
* [http://www.siac.net.co/Home.php?opc=2 Official website of the Colombian Biodiversity Information System depending from the Ministry of Environment].

=== Croatia ===
* [http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr] - Centar za otvoreni kod, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / Center for Open Source, National and University Library in Zagreb, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0 Croatia.

=== Czech Republic ===
* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education.

===Ecuador===
* Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas del Ecuador http://www.mtop.gov.ec/index.php

=== Georgia ===
*Äôs Ministry of Education and Science [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Greece ===
* http://primeminister.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://www.opengov.gr/ CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
* http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive
* http://antiproedros.gov.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece records the public sector workforce in accordance to the IMF rules

=== Guatemala ===
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobiernodeguatemala/ under CC BY-NC-SA generic
=== Israel ===
*Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Italy ===
* [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali National Institute of Statistics] releases all data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC BY].
* [http://dati.camera.it/it/ Chamber of Deputies data portal], CC BY-SA
* http://poliziadistato.it/ The official website of the italian police, CC BY NC ND 2.5 IT
* http://dati.piemonte.it/ The official open government data portal of the [[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Regional Government of the Piedmont Region in Italy]]
** CC BY 2.5 Italy for content of the website
** CC0 for available databases (all to date: Oct 8, 2010)

=== Korea ===
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/KOCW Korea Open Courseware run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERIS_(Korea_Education_and_Research_Information_Service)

===Macedonia===
* Macedonia Center for Research and Policy Making [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

===Mexico===
* President Felipe Calderon Website, BY NC ND 2.5 Mexico. http://www.presidencia.gob.mx
* National Sports Comission http://www.conade.gob.mx
*[http://www.sip.gob.mx/guiafinal.pdf Federal Government guide for website building] recommends the use CC licenses

=== Netherlands ===
* the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Public domain dedication] is used as the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's primary website [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl www.rijksoverheid.nl]. Since 2010 this website combines al public information published by the Dutch government and has replaced the websites of individual ministeries and agencies. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright under CC0 unless otherwise indicated].

* Creative Commons Netherlands has published a study on [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)

=== New Zealand ===
'''[http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework]''' standardises the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material by individuals and organisations may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. It was released for public discussion on August 27, 2009 and approved by Cabinet on July 5, 2010. The framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by encouraging State Services agencies to license material for reuse on liberal terms, and recommends Creative Commons as an important tool in this process.

In 2011 The Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs adopted a statement '''[http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/declaration-open-and-transparent-government detailing a new Declaration on Open and Transparent Government].''' The Declaration has been approved by Cabinet, and directs all Public Service departments, the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service; encouraged other State Services agencies; and invited State Sector agencies to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process.

* The [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] has [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets been released] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website.
* Land Information New Zealand's [http://www.os2020.org.nz/ Ocean Survey 20/20 web portal] which provides New Zealand with better knowledge of its ocean territory, including New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Continental Shelf and the Ross Sea Region is made available under un [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. [http://www.os2020.org.nz/data-and-reports/ Reports and interpretations] are available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND licence].
*[http://www.doc.govt.nz/ The Department of Conservation] has [http://data.govt.nz/SearchPage_Controller/SearchFormAgency?AgencySearch=Department+of+Conservation&action_doCustomSearch=Go&agency=true many datasets] including [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/947 pest species distribution] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1040 Director-General's expenses] licensed under Creative Commons.
*[http://www.dia.govt.nz/ The Department of Internal Affairs]' website "[http://data.govt.nz data.govt.nz]" which acts as a NZ government dataset directory makes content such as feedback and dataset listings available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. Some datasets referred to on data.govt.nz have also been made available under Creative Commons licences by their [http://data.govt.nz/catalog/ respective agencies].
*[http://www.ssc.govt.nz The State Services Commission] has published some annual reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/ar-2011#stateservices eg]), public reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/gateway-lessons-learned-july11 eg]) and guidance documents ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/workforcestrategy-guidance eg]) on its [http://www.ssc.govt.nz/publications-and-resources website] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.search.dol.govt.nz The Department of Labour] has licensed its latest [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/ar0910/annualreport0910.pdf Annual Report] and [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/soi2010/index.asp Statement of Intent] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.justice.govt.nz The Ministry of Justice] has licensed its [http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/s/statement-of-intent-201020132013/?searchterm=statement%20of%20intent Statement of Intent 2010–2013] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1014 Executive Expenses 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.niwa.co.nz/ The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research] has made some [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/niwa/layers/ bathymetry grids] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
* The NZ Parliamentary Library publishes some CC licensed documents such as Bill Digests and Research Papers on the [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/Search/Results.htm?search=-1320899551 Parliament website]
* [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The New Zealand Defence Force]'s [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/public-documents/creative-commons/alf.htm Army Leadership framework] is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY]
*The [http://www.hrc.co.nz/ Human Rights Commission] has made various resources available for download on its website available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence] including reports, guides and Statements of Intent.
* [http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines DigitalNZ's 'Make It Digital' guides] for making digital content in New Zealand are now available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]
*[http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/ PHARMAC] has a selection of [http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/patients/Schedule/SchedulePublications schedules] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.police.govt.nz/ The New Zealand Police] licensed their [http://www.police.govt.nz/annual-report-2010 Annual Report for year ending June 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.charities.govt.nz/ The Charities Commission] released the [http://www.charities.govt.nz/the-register/purpose/ Charities Register] as part of its '[http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/OpenData.aspx open data web service]' under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] has made the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/downloads.aspx audio tracks for 21 Rita Angus exhibition paintings] and presentation [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/Symposium.aspx recordings from the Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium] available on their website under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licence]. They have also taken up the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licences] to [http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/10/03/reusing-images-from-te-papa/#entry mark images in their Online Collections] which are able to be shared.

*The following local government bodies have released CC licensed GIS datasets on the [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ Koordinates] platform:
**[http://www.wellington.govt.nz/ Wellington City Council] offers [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/wcc/ datasets] of aerial imagery, contours, building footprints, flood hazards, wind zones and more under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.nrc.govt.nz/ Northland Regional Council] currently has 25 GIS [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ datasets] available here, 19 are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and 6 under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
**[http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz North Shore City Council]'s [http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1440-north-shore-city-parks/ Parks layer] is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.arc.govt.nz/ Auckland Regional Council] datasets of Wards, Community Boards and some passenger transport information is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].

*In relation to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake Canterbury Earthquakes]:
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)] and the National Library of New Zealand have set up a documentary project of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licensed] images by [https://picasaweb.google.com/RossBeckerNZ/ Ross Becker] as a record of recovery inside the red zone.
**[http://www.linz.govt.nz/index.aspx Land Information New Zealand] made its [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/post_quake_imagery_of_christchurch_carries_cc_licence aerial photographs] of the city's damage available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/ The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management] released [http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/video-central-christchurch-two-weeks-after-quake-ck-88665 inner city footage] for screening at public memorial events under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The Defence Force] makes its Flickr photos sets (including [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdefenceforce/collections/72157626143610731/ documentation of Canterbury]) available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY].
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ CERA]'s 2011-2016 Statement of Intent is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.

=== Poland ===
* [http://www.equal.org.pl/baza.php?lang=pl Equal Program projects database] - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
* [http://www.mg.gov.pl/ Polish Ministry of Economy] is publishing content on its website under a CC BY SA 3.0 Poland license.
* Polish Council of Ministers has [http://creativecommons.pl/2012/04/digital-school-program-with-open-textbooks-approved-by-polish-government/ adopted] a new Digital School program for Polish schools, which includes 43 millions PLN for Creative Commons Attribution or compatible) textbooks for grades 4-6 in primary schools (K4-K6).
** Update: http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/

=== Portugal ===
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva official photostream under CC BY 2.0 Generic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavacosilva/
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva's announcement on running for reelection. Audio on SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0: http://soundcloud.com/cavacosilva2011

=== Russian Federation ===
* All content (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) of [http://kremlin.ru/eng/ Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kremlin_authorisation-English.pdf Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kremlin.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/ premier.gov.ru (website of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/about.html Terms]

* All content of [http://government.ru/eng/ government.ru (Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)

* All content of http://www.bashkortostan.ru (Official information portal of the official authorities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan]), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkortostan_authorisation-Russian.jpg Letter of authorisation from Administration of President of The Republic of Bashkortostan]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Bashkortostan.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://www.volganet.ru (Internet-portal of administration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast Volgograd Oblast]), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Volganet_authorisation-Russian.pdf Letter of authorisation from Administration of Volgograd Oblast]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Volganet.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://amisharin.ru (official website of Governor of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast])
** [http://amisharin.ru/terms_of_use/ Terms of use]

* State-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti Russian International News Agency "RIA Novosti"], 460 historical images from [http://visualrian.ru database http://visualrian.ru], Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** The license specified on the pages of certain images.
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti Information page on Wikimedia Commons]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_RIA_Novosti Special category on Wikimedia Commons]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University Lomonosov Moscow State University], http://convergencelab.ru - Portal of Department of New Media and Communication Theory of Faculty of Journalism, Creative Commons Attribution, version unknown

* Some content of http://www.mgimo.ru - information portal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)], Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)
** [http://www.mgimo.ru/publish/cc/index.phtml Terms of use]

* All content of http://www.hse.ru/en/ - portal of state-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_-_Higher_School_of_Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
** [http://www.hse.ru/copyright Terms of use]

=== Serbia, Republic of ===
*Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Republic of Serbia [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Spain ===
* [http://www.gencat.cat/web/meugencat/documents/20101116_GUIA_USOS_XARXA_ENG.pdf Style and usage guide of the Government of Catalonia’s social networks] under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
* Statistical information on the [http://www.idescat.cat/en/ Statistical Institute of Catalonia] site is licensed by default under [http://www.idescat.cat/en/idescat/sistemaestadistic/ciutadans/avislegal.html CC BY 3.0 Spain].
* http://www.slideshare.net/justicia/the-use-of-creative-commons-licences-in-the-ministry-of-justice-of-the-government-of-catalonia/
* The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
*The [http://www.caib.es/ Government of the Balearic Islands] website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License

=== Taiwan ===
*Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
=== Thailand ===
*? Official website for Prime Minister (government) http://pm.go.th

=== Ukraine ===
*Unofficial municila page of Stryi town: http://stryi.com.ua/

=== United Kingdom ===
* The [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ Open Government License], used for a large amount of crown copyright data and content, is intended to be interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
* National Assembly for Wales use of flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalassemblyforwales/

=== Venezuela ===
*The "Canaima project" whichs goals is giving one laptop computer to every pupil in Venezuela (300.000 computers has been distributed so far) is preloaded with educational content (about 400 content) all of it is licensed with CC - SA - NC - 3.0

=== United States ===

==== Federal ====
* Works by the US federal government are automatically part of the [[public domain]] in the US as stipulated by http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
* Third-party content (such as the text of speeches by the first lady) on the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright White House web site] are licensed with CC BY 3.0 US by default.
* [http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy President-Elect Transition Team, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden]. CC BY 3.0 Unported. (Not an official federal government site, but an election team site, hence not required to be public domain.)
* The U.S. Department of Education has made OER an invitational priority in their [http://www.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=ynkyLyCpLNWvymvqBplJQYrwRGGlGtdR9gZtncFYJgjm2hTFSJZb!-2132130105?attId=40947 Ready to Learn] (PDF) and [http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2010-1/032310h.pdf Ready to Teach] (PDF) grants.
* The U.S. Department of Education has included open educational resources in their [http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/08/05/2010-19296/secretarys-priorities-for-discretionary-grant-programs Notice of Proposed Priorities] for discretionary grant funding. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
* The U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2 billion to community colleges and career training; [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100 CC BY required for grant outputs].
* The U.S. Department of Labor Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program; [http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-06.pdf CC BY required for grant outputs].

==== State ====
* [[New York State Senate]], Senate Content, CC-BY-NC-ND with CC+ allowing non-political fundraising use of content.
* [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0791 State of Virginia], legislation that indicates a preference for state-funded materials to be released with a CC (or equivalent open) license.
* [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf Washington State open policy and requirement of CC BY]
* [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=741&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=HB418 New Hampshire adopts Open Source and Open Data requirements] (policy friendly to CC use, but not a specific CC tool adoption)
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31756 OER K-12 bill] passed in WA state. The focus of the bill is to help school districts identify existing high-quality, free, openly licensed, common core state standards aligned resources available for local adoption; in addition, any content built with public funds, must be licensed under “an attribution license” (CC BY)

==== Local government ====
* [http://recoverysf.org/intranet/RecoverySF/ RecoverySF], CC BY 3.0 US.

See [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Intergovernmental_Organizations Intergovernmental Organizations] page for information about CC license use by Intergovernmental Organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, and the Commonwealth of Learning.

[[Category:Lists of CC use by jurisdiction]]
[[Category:Public sector information]]

Government use of Creative Commons

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known government and intergovernmental uses of CC licensing and public domain tools (and government recommendations of same). Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

Examples are needed for national/federal, state/provincial and local/city/county governments (or their equivalents) as well as intergovernmental organizations and bodies such as the European Union and United Nations.
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== [[Government_adoption_strategies|Government adoption strategies]] ==
== Jurisdiction-Specific Case Studies==
=== Armenia ===
* [http://www.president.am/president/cover/eng/ Official website of the Armenian President]. CC BY-ND 3.0 Unported.

=== Australia ===
* [http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/ AusGOAL], the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework, provides support and guidance to Australia's governments and related sectors to facilitate open access to [http://blog.ausgoal.gov.au/2011/07/07/launch-ausgoal-is-online/ publicly funded information]. AusGOAL makes it possible for organisations to manage their risks when publishing information and data in a way that drives innovation and entrepreneurial activities; providing enhanced economic and social benefits to the wider community. AusGOAL is aligned with numerous open government initiatives around the world and supports the [http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/agency_resources/principles_on_psi_short.html Australian Information Commissioners Open Access Principles]. AusGOAL endorses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
* Australian Parliament. The Parliament’s central web portal http://www.aph.gov.au houses the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings, and the portal will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
* Australian budget delivered May 12, 2010 was [http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/bp1/html/bp1_prelims.htm released] under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Also the [http://gov2.net.au/report/ Gov 2.0 response] and the [http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study NBN Implementation Study]
* government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - [http://www.abs.gov.au Australian Bureau of Statistics], [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] - are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ CC BY 2.5 Australia] and/or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce].
** over 50 datasets released on data.australia.gov.au http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/
** Geoscience Australia's "geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges" during the recent Brisbane flood: http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/2501
* [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/ Water Information] - the Australian [http://www.bom.gov.au Bureau of Meteorology] has [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/269 launched] the official website of its Improving Water Information Program with a default [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] licence. This aggregates hundreds of other government departments' and agencies' information into the National Water Account. They have a range of [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/regulations/cc/disseminating.shtml explanatory materials] about the licence and are building licensing tools and metadata into their [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awris.shtml Australian Water Resources Information System].
* [http://www.pool.org.au ABC Pool] - this initiative of Australia's largest public broadcaster, the [http://www.abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Corporation] (ABC), is releasing material from the ABC archives for reuse under CC licences. It's first major release has been as part of the [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool Gene Pool project], celebrating Charles Darwin's Centenary.
* [http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia] - various [http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/cdp/ policy materials]
* [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
* [http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/ Queensland Museum] - [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/270 releases] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection photographs] from its collection on [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki Commons] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA] .
* NSW Department of Education and Training - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/939 Dynamic Calculus': Teaching Resource]
* Aged Care Queensland's [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/247 eMentoring Handbook]
* National Copyright Unit - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956 Creative Commons for Educators fact sheets] produced for the Smartcopying website in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia.
* Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy - [https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/budd-e/common/info/copyright.html Budd:e E-security Education Package]. The Budd:e package won Best Children's interactive media and digital content at the 2010 [http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1.36.7000.7001 AIMIA Awards].
* [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/ Mosman Municipal Council]'s [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] is released under a Creative Commons licence and includes as a key priority “to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship”.
* Realising Our Broadband Future forum (Dec 2009), DBCDE hosted a wiki to gather input from participants whihc was all CC BY-NC-SA licensed http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/webcasts.html
* Australian Government Information Management Office has CC licensed its blog: http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/ and the Government 2.0 showcase http://showcase.govspace.gov.au/
* Australian Electoral Commission has [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3481 applied] CC BY as the default license for its website: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm
'''Australian government reports recommending CC usage'''
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0] - report of the Australian [http://gov2.net.au Government 2.0 Taskforce]
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/govresponse20report/doc/Government-Response-to-Gov-2-0-Report.pdf Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce] - agreement in principle that Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) should be the default licence for all PSI
* [http://www.gilf.gov.au Government Information and Licensing Framework] - a Queensland Government strategy on open access and use of information
* [http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx Venturous Australia: the National Innovation Review] - report recommends government use of CC licences, and is released under CC
* [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/250 Victorian Government's Economic Development Committee] recommends CC licensing for public sector information.
* Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) published the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper under a CC BY-NC-ND in July 2009: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/future_directions_of_the_digital_economy/australias_digital_economy_future_directions
* National Broadband Network Implementation Study http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study was released by DBCDE as a wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Wiki taken down now, but was tweeted: http://twitter.com/miakgarlick/status/13470301666
* DBCDE published two reports on its website under CC BY: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/benefits_of_digital_economy_from_nbn
* Treasury released the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2010 under CC BY: http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1858/PDF/PEFO_2010.pdf

=== Austria ===
[http://data.wien.gv.at/ Open Government Data Portal by the City of Vienna] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.de CC BY]

=== Brazil===
* [http://beta.dados.gov.br/ Brazil open government data portal (beta)] under CC BY-SA.
*Äôs Ministry of Justice [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
* The municipality of São Paulo Department of Education [http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso,sp-vai-colocar-todo-seu-material-pedagogico-na-internet,728448,0.htm has now mandated] that all its educational and pedagogical content will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share-Alike (BY-NC-SA) license.

=== Bulgaria ===
* [http://www.president.bg/main.php Bulgarian President]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.
* [http://www.prb.bg Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria]. CC BY 2.5 Bulgaria
* [http://www.mfa.bg Bulgarian Foreign Ministry]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.

===Canada===

====Federal====

*Canada has developed the Government of Canada Open Data License Agreement for their open data portal website www.data.gc.ca. While not a Creative Commons license it would seem that this is heavily inspired by the Creative Commons philosophy and has many similar aspects. The license includes sections on 1.0 Definitions; 2.0 Intellectual Property Rights; 3.0 License Grant; 4.0 Acknowledgement of Source; 5.0 No Warranty and no Liability; and 6.0 Effective Date and Termination.
*The license permits individuals or commercial interests to use, reproduce, or add value to government data provided they use the required attribution and that they do not imply any warranty to, nor make any claim of exclusive rights to the data.
*This has similarities to the Open Government Licence for public sector information used in the United Kingdom as seen farther down this list.

====Provincial====

*'''British Columbia''' has similarly adopted an Open Government License for Government of BC information located on www.data.gov.bc.ca. They specifically adapted this license from the United Kingdom Open Government Licence with with the permission of the UK National Archives.

=== Chile ===
* [http://www.gobiernodechile.cl Chilean Government Official Site], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.sernatur.cl Chilean Bureau of Tourism], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.economia.gob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Economy], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.segegob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Communications], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.mineduc.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Education], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.bcn.cl The Library of the National Congress], whose site is licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.guiaweb.cl/ The Guidelines for Governmental Websites] and [http://www.observatoriodeusabilidad.cl its Observatory], run by the Ministry of Economy, are licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.

=== Colombia ===
* [http://www.siac.net.co/Home.php?opc=2 Official website of the Colombian Biodiversity Information System depending from the Ministry of Environment].

=== Croatia ===
* [http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr] - Centar za otvoreni kod, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / Center for Open Source, National and University Library in Zagreb, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0 Croatia.

=== Czech Republic ===
* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education.

===Ecuador===
* Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas del Ecuador http://www.mtop.gov.ec/index.php

=== Georgia ===
*Äôs Ministry of Education and Science [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Greece ===
* http://primeminister.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://www.opengov.gr/ CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
* http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive
* http://antiproedros.gov.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece records the public sector workforce in accordance to the IMF rules

=== Guatemala ===
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobiernodeguatemala/ under CC BY-NC-SA generic
=== Israel ===
*Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Italy ===
* [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali National Institute of Statistics] releases all data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC BY].
* [http://dati.camera.it/it/ Chamber of Deputies data portal], CC BY-SA
* http://poliziadistato.it/ The official website of the italian police, CC BY NC ND 2.5 IT
* http://dati.piemonte.it/ The official open government data portal of the [[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Regional Government of the Piedmont Region in Italy]]
** CC BY 2.5 Italy for content of the website
** CC0 for available databases (all to date: Oct 8, 2010)

=== Korea ===
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/KOCW Korea Open Courseware run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERIS_(Korea_Education_and_Research_Information_Service)

===Macedonia===
* Macedonia Center for Research and Policy Making [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

===Mexico===
* President Felipe Calderon Website, BY NC ND 2.5 Mexico. http://www.presidencia.gob.mx
* National Sports Comission http://www.conade.gob.mx
*[http://www.sip.gob.mx/guiafinal.pdf Federal Government guide for website building] recommends the use CC licenses

=== Netherlands ===
* the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Public domain dedication] is used as the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's primary website [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl www.rijksoverheid.nl]. Since 2010 this website combines al public information published by the Dutch government and has replaced the websites of individual ministeries and agencies. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright under CC0 unless otherwise indicated].

* Creative Commons Netherlands has published a study on [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)

=== New Zealand ===
'''[http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework]''' standardises the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material by individuals and organisations may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. It was released for public discussion on August 27, 2009 and approved by Cabinet on July 5, 2010. The framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by encouraging State Services agencies to license material for reuse on liberal terms, and recommends Creative Commons as an important tool in this process.

In 2011 The Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs adopted a statement '''[http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/declaration-open-and-transparent-government detailing a new Declaration on Open and Transparent Government].''' The Declaration has been approved by Cabinet, and directs all Public Service departments, the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service; encouraged other State Services agencies; and invited State Sector agencies to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process.

* The [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] has [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets been released] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website.
* Land Information New Zealand's [http://www.os2020.org.nz/ Ocean Survey 20/20 web portal] which provides New Zealand with better knowledge of its ocean territory, including New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Continental Shelf and the Ross Sea Region is made available under un [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. [http://www.os2020.org.nz/data-and-reports/ Reports and interpretations] are available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND licence].
*[http://www.doc.govt.nz/ The Department of Conservation] has [http://data.govt.nz/SearchPage_Controller/SearchFormAgency?AgencySearch=Department+of+Conservation&action_doCustomSearch=Go&agency=true many datasets] including [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/947 pest species distribution] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1040 Director-General's expenses] licensed under Creative Commons.
*[http://www.dia.govt.nz/ The Department of Internal Affairs]' website "[http://data.govt.nz data.govt.nz]" which acts as a NZ government dataset directory makes content such as feedback and dataset listings available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. Some datasets referred to on data.govt.nz have also been made available under Creative Commons licences by their [http://data.govt.nz/catalog/ respective agencies].
*[http://www.ssc.govt.nz The State Services Commission] has published some annual reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/ar-2011#stateservices eg]), public reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/gateway-lessons-learned-july11 eg]) and guidance documents ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/workforcestrategy-guidance eg]) on its [http://www.ssc.govt.nz/publications-and-resources website] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.search.dol.govt.nz The Department of Labour] has licensed its latest [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/ar0910/annualreport0910.pdf Annual Report] and [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/soi2010/index.asp Statement of Intent] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.justice.govt.nz The Ministry of Justice] has licensed its [http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/s/statement-of-intent-201020132013/?searchterm=statement%20of%20intent Statement of Intent 2010–2013] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1014 Executive Expenses 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.niwa.co.nz/ The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research] has made some [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/niwa/layers/ bathymetry grids] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
* The NZ Parliamentary Library publishes some CC licensed documents such as Bill Digests and Research Papers on the [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/Search/Results.htm?search=-1320899551 Parliament website]
* [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The New Zealand Defence Force]'s [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/public-documents/creative-commons/alf.htm Army Leadership framework] is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY]
*The [http://www.hrc.co.nz/ Human Rights Commission] has made various resources available for download on its website available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence] including reports, guides and Statements of Intent.
* [http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines DigitalNZ's 'Make It Digital' guides] for making digital content in New Zealand are now available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]
*[http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/ PHARMAC] has a selection of [http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/patients/Schedule/SchedulePublications schedules] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.police.govt.nz/ The New Zealand Police] licensed their [http://www.police.govt.nz/annual-report-2010 Annual Report for year ending June 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.charities.govt.nz/ The Charities Commission] released the [http://www.charities.govt.nz/the-register/purpose/ Charities Register] as part of its '[http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/OpenData.aspx open data web service]' under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] has made the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/downloads.aspx audio tracks for 21 Rita Angus exhibition paintings] and presentation [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/Symposium.aspx recordings from the Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium] available on their website under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licence]. They have also taken up the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licences] to [http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/10/03/reusing-images-from-te-papa/#entry mark images in their Online Collections] which are able to be shared.

*The following local government bodies have released CC licensed GIS datasets on the [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ Koordinates] platform:
**[http://www.wellington.govt.nz/ Wellington City Council] offers [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/wcc/ datasets] of aerial imagery, contours, building footprints, flood hazards, wind zones and more under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.nrc.govt.nz/ Northland Regional Council] currently has 25 GIS [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ datasets] available here, 19 are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and 6 under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
**[http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz North Shore City Council]'s [http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1440-north-shore-city-parks/ Parks layer] is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.arc.govt.nz/ Auckland Regional Council] datasets of Wards, Community Boards and some passenger transport information is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].

*In relation to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake Canterbury Earthquakes]:
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)] and the National Library of New Zealand have set up a documentary project of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licensed] images by [https://picasaweb.google.com/RossBeckerNZ/ Ross Becker] as a record of recovery inside the red zone.
**[http://www.linz.govt.nz/index.aspx Land Information New Zealand] made its [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/post_quake_imagery_of_christchurch_carries_cc_licence aerial photographs] of the city's damage available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/ The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management] released [http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/video-central-christchurch-two-weeks-after-quake-ck-88665 inner city footage] for screening at public memorial events under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The Defence Force] makes its Flickr photos sets (including [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdefenceforce/collections/72157626143610731/ documentation of Canterbury]) available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY].
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ CERA]'s 2011-2016 Statement of Intent is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.

=== Poland ===
* [http://www.equal.org.pl/baza.php?lang=pl Equal Program projects database] - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
* [http://www.mg.gov.pl/ Polish Ministry of Economy] is publishing content on its website under a CC BY SA 3.0 Poland license.
* Polish Council of Ministers has [http://creativecommons.pl/2012/04/digital-school-program-with-open-textbooks-approved-by-polish-government/ adopted] a new Digital School program for Polish schools, which includes 43 millions PLN for Creative Commons Attribution or compatible) textbooks for grades 4-6 in primary schools (K4-K6).
** Update: http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/

=== Portugal ===
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva official photostream under CC BY 2.0 Generic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavacosilva/
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva's announcement on running for reelection. Audio on SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0: http://soundcloud.com/cavacosilva2011

=== Russian Federation ===
* All content (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) of [http://kremlin.ru/eng/ Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kremlin_authorisation-English.pdf Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kremlin.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/ premier.gov.ru (website of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/about.html Terms]

* All content of [http://government.ru/eng/ government.ru (Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)

* All content of http://www.bashkortostan.ru (Official information portal of the official authorities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan]), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkortostan_authorisation-Russian.jpg Letter of authorisation from Administration of President of The Republic of Bashkortostan]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Bashkortostan.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://www.volganet.ru (Internet-portal of administration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast Volgograd Oblast]), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Volganet_authorisation-Russian.pdf Letter of authorisation from Administration of Volgograd Oblast]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Volganet.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://amisharin.ru (official website of Governor of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast])
** [http://amisharin.ru/terms_of_use/ Terms of use]

* State-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti Russian International News Agency "RIA Novosti"], 460 historical images from [http://visualrian.ru database http://visualrian.ru], Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** The license specified on the pages of certain images.
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti Information page on Wikimedia Commons]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_RIA_Novosti Special category on Wikimedia Commons]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University Lomonosov Moscow State University], http://convergencelab.ru - Portal of Department of New Media and Communication Theory of Faculty of Journalism, Creative Commons Attribution, version unknown

* Some content of http://www.mgimo.ru - information portal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)], Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)
** [http://www.mgimo.ru/publish/cc/index.phtml Terms of use]

* All content of http://www.hse.ru/en/ - portal of state-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_-_Higher_School_of_Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
** [http://www.hse.ru/copyright Terms of use]

=== Serbia, Republic of ===
*Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Republic of Serbia [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Spain ===
* [http://www.gencat.cat/web/meugencat/documents/20101116_GUIA_USOS_XARXA_ENG.pdf Style and usage guide of the Government of Catalonia’s social networks] under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
* Statistical information on the [http://www.idescat.cat/en/ Statistical Institute of Catalonia] site is licensed by default under [http://www.idescat.cat/en/idescat/sistemaestadistic/ciutadans/avislegal.html CC BY 3.0 Spain].
* http://www.slideshare.net/justicia/the-use-of-creative-commons-licences-in-the-ministry-of-justice-of-the-government-of-catalonia/
* The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
*The [http://www.caib.es/ Government of the Balearic Islands] website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License

=== Taiwan ===
*Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
=== Thailand ===
*? Official website for Prime Minister (government) http://pm.go.th

=== Ukraine ===
*Unofficial municila page of Stryi town: http://stryi.com.ua/

=== United Kingdom ===
* The [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ Open Government License], used for a large amount of crown copyright data and content, is intended to be interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
* National Assembly for Wales use of flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalassemblyforwales/

=== Venezuela ===
*The "Canaima project" whichs goals is giving one laptop computer to every pupil in Venezuela (300.000 computers has been distributed so far) is preloaded with educational content (about 400 content) all of it is licensed with CC - SA - NC - 3.0

=== United States ===

==== Federal ====
* Works by the US federal government are automatically part of the [[public domain]] in the US as stipulated by http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
* Third-party content (such as the text of speeches by the first lady) on the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright White House web site] are licensed with CC BY 3.0 US by default.
* [http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy President-Elect Transition Team, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden]. CC BY 3.0 Unported. (Not an official federal government site, but an election team site, hence not required to be public domain.)
* The U.S. Department of Education has made OER an invitational priority in their [http://www.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=ynkyLyCpLNWvymvqBplJQYrwRGGlGtdR9gZtncFYJgjm2hTFSJZb!-2132130105?attId=40947 Ready to Learn] (PDF) and [http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2010-1/032310h.pdf Ready to Teach] (PDF) grants.
* The U.S. Department of Education has included open educational resources in their [http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/08/05/2010-19296/secretarys-priorities-for-discretionary-grant-programs Notice of Proposed Priorities] for discretionary grant funding. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
* The U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2 billion to community colleges and career training; [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100 CC BY required for grant outputs].
* The U.S. Department of Labor Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program; [http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-06.pdf CC BY required for grant outputs].

==== State ====
* [[New York State Senate]], Senate Content, CC-BY-NC-ND with CC+ allowing non-political fundraising use of content.
* [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0791 State of Virginia], legislation that indicates a preference for state-funded materials to be released with a CC (or equivalent open) license.
* [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf Washington State open policy and requirement of CC BY]
* [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=741&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=HB418 New Hampshire adopts Open Source and Open Data requirements] (policy friendly to CC use, but not a specific CC tool adoption)
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31756 OER K-12 bill] passed in WA state. The focus of the bill is to help school districts identify existing high-quality, free, openly licensed, common core state standards aligned resources available for local adoption; in addition, any content built with public funds, must be licensed under “an attribution license” (CC BY)

==== Local government ====
* [http://recoverysf.org/intranet/RecoverySF/ RecoverySF], CC BY 3.0 US.

See [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Intergovernmental_Organizations Intergovernmental Organizations] page for information about CC license use by Intergovernmental Organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, and the Commonwealth of Learning.

[[Category:Lists of CC use by jurisdiction]]
[[Category:Public sector information]]

Government use of Creative Commons

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known government and intergovernmental uses of CC licensing and public domain tools (and government recommendations of same). Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

Examples are needed for national/federal, state/provincial and local/city/county governments (or their equivalents) as well as intergovernmental organizations and bodies such as the European Union and United Nations.
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== [[Government_adoption_strategies|Government adoption strategies]] ==
== Jurisdiction-Specific Case Studies==
=== Armenia ===
* [http://www.president.am/president/cover/eng/ Official website of the Armenian President]. CC BY-ND 3.0 Unported.

=== Australia ===
* [http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/ AusGOAL], the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework, provides support and guidance to Australia's governments and related sectors to facilitate open access to [http://blog.ausgoal.gov.au/2011/07/07/launch-ausgoal-is-online/ publicly funded information]. AusGOAL makes it possible for organisations to manage their risks when publishing information and data in a way that drives innovation and entrepreneurial activities; providing enhanced economic and social benefits to the wider community. AusGOAL is aligned with numerous open government initiatives around the world and supports the [http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/agency_resources/principles_on_psi_short.html Australian Information Commissioners Open Access Principles]. AusGOAL endorses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
* Australian Parliament. The Parliament’s central web portal http://www.aph.gov.au houses the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings, and the portal will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
* Australian budget delivered May 12, 2010 was [http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/bp1/html/bp1_prelims.htm released] under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Also the [http://gov2.net.au/report/ Gov 2.0 response] and the [http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study NBN Implementation Study]
* government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - [http://www.abs.gov.au Australian Bureau of Statistics], [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] - are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ CC BY 2.5 Australia] and/or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce].
** over 50 datasets released on data.australia.gov.au http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/
** Geoscience Australia's "geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges" during the recent Brisbane flood: http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/2501
* [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/ Water Information] - the Australian [http://www.bom.gov.au Bureau of Meteorology] has [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/269 launched] the official website of its Improving Water Information Program with a default [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] licence. This aggregates hundreds of other government departments' and agencies' information into the National Water Account. They have a range of [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/regulations/cc/disseminating.shtml explanatory materials] about the licence and are building licensing tools and metadata into their [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awris.shtml Australian Water Resources Information System].
* [http://www.pool.org.au ABC Pool] - this initiative of Australia's largest public broadcaster, the [http://www.abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Corporation] (ABC), is releasing material from the ABC archives for reuse under CC licences. It's first major release has been as part of the [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool Gene Pool project], celebrating Charles Darwin's Centenary.
* [http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia] - various [http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/cdp/ policy materials]
* [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
* [http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/ Queensland Museum] - [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/270 releases] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection photographs] from its collection on [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki Commons] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA] .
* NSW Department of Education and Training - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/939 Dynamic Calculus': Teaching Resource]
* Aged Care Queensland's [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/247 eMentoring Handbook]
* National Copyright Unit - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956 Creative Commons for Educators fact sheets] produced for the Smartcopying website in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia.
* Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy - [https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/budd-e/common/info/copyright.html Budd:e E-security Education Package]. The Budd:e package won Best Children's interactive media and digital content at the 2010 [http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1.36.7000.7001 AIMIA Awards].
* [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/ Mosman Municipal Council]'s [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] is released under a Creative Commons licence and includes as a key priority “to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship”.
* Realising Our Broadband Future forum (Dec 2009), DBCDE hosted a wiki to gather input from participants whihc was all CC BY-NC-SA licensed http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/webcasts.html
* Australian Government Information Management Office has CC licensed its blog: http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/ and the Government 2.0 showcase http://showcase.govspace.gov.au/
* Australian Electoral Commission has [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3481 applied] CC BY as the default license for its website: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm
'''Australian government reports recommending CC usage'''
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0] - report of the Australian [http://gov2.net.au Government 2.0 Taskforce]
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/govresponse20report/doc/Government-Response-to-Gov-2-0-Report.pdf Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce] - agreement in principle that Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) should be the default licence for all PSI
* [http://www.gilf.gov.au Government Information and Licensing Framework] - a Queensland Government strategy on open access and use of information
* [http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx Venturous Australia: the National Innovation Review] - report recommends government use of CC licences, and is released under CC
* [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/250 Victorian Government's Economic Development Committee] recommends CC licensing for public sector information.
* Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) published the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper under a CC BY-NC-ND in July 2009: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/future_directions_of_the_digital_economy/australias_digital_economy_future_directions
* National Broadband Network Implementation Study http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study was released by DBCDE as a wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Wiki taken down now, but was tweeted: http://twitter.com/miakgarlick/status/13470301666
* DBCDE published two reports on its website under CC BY: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/benefits_of_digital_economy_from_nbn
* Treasury released the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2010 under CC BY: http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1858/PDF/PEFO_2010.pdf

=== Austria ===
[http://data.wien.gv.at/ Open Government Data Portal by the City of Vienna] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.de CC BY]

=== Brazil===
* [http://beta.dados.gov.br/ Brazil open government data portal (beta)] under CC BY-SA.
*Äôs Ministry of Justice [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
* The municipality of São Paulo Department of Education [http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso,sp-vai-colocar-todo-seu-material-pedagogico-na-internet,728448,0.htm has now mandated] that all its educational and pedagogical content will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share-Alike (BY-NC-SA) license.

=== Bulgaria ===
* [http://www.president.bg/main.php Bulgarian President]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.
* [http://www.prb.bg Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria]. CC BY 2.5 Bulgaria
* [http://www.mfa.bg Bulgarian Foreign Ministry]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.

===Canada===

====Federal====

*Canada has developed the Government of Canada Open Data License Agreement for their open data portal website www.data.gc.ca. While not a Creative Commons license it would seem that this is heavily inspired by the Creative Commons philosophy and has many similar aspects. The license includes sections on 1.0 Definitions; 2.0 Intellectual Property Rights; 3.0 License Grant; 4.0 Acknowledgement of Source; 5.0 No Warranty and no Liability; and 6.0 Effective Date and Termination.
*The license permits individuals or commercial interests to use, reproduce, or add value to government data provided they use the required attribution and that they do not imply any warranty to, nor make any claim of exclusive rights to the data.
*This has similarities to the Open Government Licence for public sector information used in the United Kingdom as seen farther down this list.

====Provincial====

*'''British Columbia''' has similarly adopted an Open Government License for Government of BC information. They specifically adapted this license from the United Kingdom Open Government Licence with with the permission of the UK National Archives.

=== Chile ===
* [http://www.gobiernodechile.cl Chilean Government Official Site], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.sernatur.cl Chilean Bureau of Tourism], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.economia.gob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Economy], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.segegob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Communications], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.mineduc.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Education], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.bcn.cl The Library of the National Congress], whose site is licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.guiaweb.cl/ The Guidelines for Governmental Websites] and [http://www.observatoriodeusabilidad.cl its Observatory], run by the Ministry of Economy, are licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.

=== Colombia ===
* [http://www.siac.net.co/Home.php?opc=2 Official website of the Colombian Biodiversity Information System depending from the Ministry of Environment].

=== Croatia ===
* [http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr] - Centar za otvoreni kod, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / Center for Open Source, National and University Library in Zagreb, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0 Croatia.

=== Czech Republic ===
* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education.

===Ecuador===
* Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas del Ecuador http://www.mtop.gov.ec/index.php

=== Georgia ===
*Äôs Ministry of Education and Science [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Greece ===
* http://primeminister.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://www.opengov.gr/ CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
* http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive
* http://antiproedros.gov.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece records the public sector workforce in accordance to the IMF rules

=== Guatemala ===
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobiernodeguatemala/ under CC BY-NC-SA generic
=== Israel ===
*Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Italy ===
* [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali National Institute of Statistics] releases all data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC BY].
* [http://dati.camera.it/it/ Chamber of Deputies data portal], CC BY-SA
* http://poliziadistato.it/ The official website of the italian police, CC BY NC ND 2.5 IT
* http://dati.piemonte.it/ The official open government data portal of the [[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Regional Government of the Piedmont Region in Italy]]
** CC BY 2.5 Italy for content of the website
** CC0 for available databases (all to date: Oct 8, 2010)

=== Korea ===
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/KOCW Korea Open Courseware run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERIS_(Korea_Education_and_Research_Information_Service)

===Macedonia===
* Macedonia Center for Research and Policy Making [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

===Mexico===
* President Felipe Calderon Website, BY NC ND 2.5 Mexico. http://www.presidencia.gob.mx
* National Sports Comission http://www.conade.gob.mx
*[http://www.sip.gob.mx/guiafinal.pdf Federal Government guide for website building] recommends the use CC licenses

=== Netherlands ===
* the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Public domain dedication] is used as the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's primary website [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl www.rijksoverheid.nl]. Since 2010 this website combines al public information published by the Dutch government and has replaced the websites of individual ministeries and agencies. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright under CC0 unless otherwise indicated].

* Creative Commons Netherlands has published a study on [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)

=== New Zealand ===
'''[http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework]''' standardises the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material by individuals and organisations may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. It was released for public discussion on August 27, 2009 and approved by Cabinet on July 5, 2010. The framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by encouraging State Services agencies to license material for reuse on liberal terms, and recommends Creative Commons as an important tool in this process.

In 2011 The Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs adopted a statement '''[http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/declaration-open-and-transparent-government detailing a new Declaration on Open and Transparent Government].''' The Declaration has been approved by Cabinet, and directs all Public Service departments, the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service; encouraged other State Services agencies; and invited State Sector agencies to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process.

* The [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] has [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets been released] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website.
* Land Information New Zealand's [http://www.os2020.org.nz/ Ocean Survey 20/20 web portal] which provides New Zealand with better knowledge of its ocean territory, including New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Continental Shelf and the Ross Sea Region is made available under un [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. [http://www.os2020.org.nz/data-and-reports/ Reports and interpretations] are available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND licence].
*[http://www.doc.govt.nz/ The Department of Conservation] has [http://data.govt.nz/SearchPage_Controller/SearchFormAgency?AgencySearch=Department+of+Conservation&action_doCustomSearch=Go&agency=true many datasets] including [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/947 pest species distribution] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1040 Director-General's expenses] licensed under Creative Commons.
*[http://www.dia.govt.nz/ The Department of Internal Affairs]' website "[http://data.govt.nz data.govt.nz]" which acts as a NZ government dataset directory makes content such as feedback and dataset listings available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. Some datasets referred to on data.govt.nz have also been made available under Creative Commons licences by their [http://data.govt.nz/catalog/ respective agencies].
*[http://www.ssc.govt.nz The State Services Commission] has published some annual reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/ar-2011#stateservices eg]), public reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/gateway-lessons-learned-july11 eg]) and guidance documents ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/workforcestrategy-guidance eg]) on its [http://www.ssc.govt.nz/publications-and-resources website] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.search.dol.govt.nz The Department of Labour] has licensed its latest [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/ar0910/annualreport0910.pdf Annual Report] and [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/soi2010/index.asp Statement of Intent] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.justice.govt.nz The Ministry of Justice] has licensed its [http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/s/statement-of-intent-201020132013/?searchterm=statement%20of%20intent Statement of Intent 2010–2013] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1014 Executive Expenses 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.niwa.co.nz/ The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research] has made some [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/niwa/layers/ bathymetry grids] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
* The NZ Parliamentary Library publishes some CC licensed documents such as Bill Digests and Research Papers on the [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/Search/Results.htm?search=-1320899551 Parliament website]
* [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The New Zealand Defence Force]'s [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/public-documents/creative-commons/alf.htm Army Leadership framework] is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY]
*The [http://www.hrc.co.nz/ Human Rights Commission] has made various resources available for download on its website available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence] including reports, guides and Statements of Intent.
* [http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines DigitalNZ's 'Make It Digital' guides] for making digital content in New Zealand are now available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]
*[http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/ PHARMAC] has a selection of [http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/patients/Schedule/SchedulePublications schedules] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.police.govt.nz/ The New Zealand Police] licensed their [http://www.police.govt.nz/annual-report-2010 Annual Report for year ending June 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.charities.govt.nz/ The Charities Commission] released the [http://www.charities.govt.nz/the-register/purpose/ Charities Register] as part of its '[http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/OpenData.aspx open data web service]' under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] has made the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/downloads.aspx audio tracks for 21 Rita Angus exhibition paintings] and presentation [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/Symposium.aspx recordings from the Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium] available on their website under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licence]. They have also taken up the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licences] to [http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/10/03/reusing-images-from-te-papa/#entry mark images in their Online Collections] which are able to be shared.

*The following local government bodies have released CC licensed GIS datasets on the [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ Koordinates] platform:
**[http://www.wellington.govt.nz/ Wellington City Council] offers [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/wcc/ datasets] of aerial imagery, contours, building footprints, flood hazards, wind zones and more under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.nrc.govt.nz/ Northland Regional Council] currently has 25 GIS [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ datasets] available here, 19 are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and 6 under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
**[http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz North Shore City Council]'s [http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1440-north-shore-city-parks/ Parks layer] is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.arc.govt.nz/ Auckland Regional Council] datasets of Wards, Community Boards and some passenger transport information is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].

*In relation to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake Canterbury Earthquakes]:
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)] and the National Library of New Zealand have set up a documentary project of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licensed] images by [https://picasaweb.google.com/RossBeckerNZ/ Ross Becker] as a record of recovery inside the red zone.
**[http://www.linz.govt.nz/index.aspx Land Information New Zealand] made its [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/post_quake_imagery_of_christchurch_carries_cc_licence aerial photographs] of the city's damage available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/ The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management] released [http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/video-central-christchurch-two-weeks-after-quake-ck-88665 inner city footage] for screening at public memorial events under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The Defence Force] makes its Flickr photos sets (including [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdefenceforce/collections/72157626143610731/ documentation of Canterbury]) available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY].
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ CERA]'s 2011-2016 Statement of Intent is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.

=== Poland ===
* [http://www.equal.org.pl/baza.php?lang=pl Equal Program projects database] - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
* [http://www.mg.gov.pl/ Polish Ministry of Economy] is publishing content on its website under a CC BY SA 3.0 Poland license.
* Polish Council of Ministers has [http://creativecommons.pl/2012/04/digital-school-program-with-open-textbooks-approved-by-polish-government/ adopted] a new Digital School program for Polish schools, which includes 43 millions PLN for Creative Commons Attribution or compatible) textbooks for grades 4-6 in primary schools (K4-K6).
** Update: http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/

=== Portugal ===
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva official photostream under CC BY 2.0 Generic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavacosilva/
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva's announcement on running for reelection. Audio on SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0: http://soundcloud.com/cavacosilva2011

=== Russian Federation ===
* All content (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) of [http://kremlin.ru/eng/ Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kremlin_authorisation-English.pdf Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kremlin.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/ premier.gov.ru (website of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/about.html Terms]

* All content of [http://government.ru/eng/ government.ru (Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)

* All content of http://www.bashkortostan.ru (Official information portal of the official authorities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan]), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkortostan_authorisation-Russian.jpg Letter of authorisation from Administration of President of The Republic of Bashkortostan]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Bashkortostan.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://www.volganet.ru (Internet-portal of administration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast Volgograd Oblast]), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Volganet_authorisation-Russian.pdf Letter of authorisation from Administration of Volgograd Oblast]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Volganet.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://amisharin.ru (official website of Governor of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast])
** [http://amisharin.ru/terms_of_use/ Terms of use]

* State-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti Russian International News Agency "RIA Novosti"], 460 historical images from [http://visualrian.ru database http://visualrian.ru], Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** The license specified on the pages of certain images.
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti Information page on Wikimedia Commons]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_RIA_Novosti Special category on Wikimedia Commons]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University Lomonosov Moscow State University], http://convergencelab.ru - Portal of Department of New Media and Communication Theory of Faculty of Journalism, Creative Commons Attribution, version unknown

* Some content of http://www.mgimo.ru - information portal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)], Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)
** [http://www.mgimo.ru/publish/cc/index.phtml Terms of use]

* All content of http://www.hse.ru/en/ - portal of state-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_-_Higher_School_of_Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
** [http://www.hse.ru/copyright Terms of use]

=== Serbia, Republic of ===
*Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Republic of Serbia [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Spain ===
* [http://www.gencat.cat/web/meugencat/documents/20101116_GUIA_USOS_XARXA_ENG.pdf Style and usage guide of the Government of Catalonia’s social networks] under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
* Statistical information on the [http://www.idescat.cat/en/ Statistical Institute of Catalonia] site is licensed by default under [http://www.idescat.cat/en/idescat/sistemaestadistic/ciutadans/avislegal.html CC BY 3.0 Spain].
* http://www.slideshare.net/justicia/the-use-of-creative-commons-licences-in-the-ministry-of-justice-of-the-government-of-catalonia/
* The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
*The [http://www.caib.es/ Government of the Balearic Islands] website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License

=== Taiwan ===
*Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
=== Thailand ===
*? Official website for Prime Minister (government) http://pm.go.th

=== Ukraine ===
*Unofficial municila page of Stryi town: http://stryi.com.ua/

=== United Kingdom ===
* The [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ Open Government License], used for a large amount of crown copyright data and content, is intended to be interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
* National Assembly for Wales use of flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalassemblyforwales/

=== Venezuela ===
*The "Canaima project" whichs goals is giving one laptop computer to every pupil in Venezuela (300.000 computers has been distributed so far) is preloaded with educational content (about 400 content) all of it is licensed with CC - SA - NC - 3.0

=== United States ===

==== Federal ====
* Works by the US federal government are automatically part of the [[public domain]] in the US as stipulated by http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
* Third-party content (such as the text of speeches by the first lady) on the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright White House web site] are licensed with CC BY 3.0 US by default.
* [http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy President-Elect Transition Team, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden]. CC BY 3.0 Unported. (Not an official federal government site, but an election team site, hence not required to be public domain.)
* The U.S. Department of Education has made OER an invitational priority in their [http://www.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=ynkyLyCpLNWvymvqBplJQYrwRGGlGtdR9gZtncFYJgjm2hTFSJZb!-2132130105?attId=40947 Ready to Learn] (PDF) and [http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2010-1/032310h.pdf Ready to Teach] (PDF) grants.
* The U.S. Department of Education has included open educational resources in their [http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/08/05/2010-19296/secretarys-priorities-for-discretionary-grant-programs Notice of Proposed Priorities] for discretionary grant funding. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
* The U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2 billion to community colleges and career training; [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100 CC BY required for grant outputs].
* The U.S. Department of Labor Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program; [http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-06.pdf CC BY required for grant outputs].

==== State ====
* [[New York State Senate]], Senate Content, CC-BY-NC-ND with CC+ allowing non-political fundraising use of content.
* [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0791 State of Virginia], legislation that indicates a preference for state-funded materials to be released with a CC (or equivalent open) license.
* [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf Washington State open policy and requirement of CC BY]
* [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=741&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=HB418 New Hampshire adopts Open Source and Open Data requirements] (policy friendly to CC use, but not a specific CC tool adoption)
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31756 OER K-12 bill] passed in WA state. The focus of the bill is to help school districts identify existing high-quality, free, openly licensed, common core state standards aligned resources available for local adoption; in addition, any content built with public funds, must be licensed under “an attribution license” (CC BY)

==== Local government ====
* [http://recoverysf.org/intranet/RecoverySF/ RecoverySF], CC BY 3.0 US.

See [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Intergovernmental_Organizations Intergovernmental Organizations] page for information about CC license use by Intergovernmental Organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, and the Commonwealth of Learning.

[[Category:Lists of CC use by jurisdiction]]
[[Category:Public sector information]]

Government use of Creative Commons

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known government and intergovernmental uses of CC licensing and public domain tools (and government recommendations of same). Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

Examples are needed for national/federal, state/provincial and local/city/county governments (or their equivalents) as well as intergovernmental organizations and bodies such as the European Union and United Nations.
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== [[Government_adoption_strategies|Government adoption strategies]] ==
== Jurisdiction-Specific Case Studies==
=== Armenia ===
* [http://www.president.am/president/cover/eng/ Official website of the Armenian President]. CC BY-ND 3.0 Unported.

=== Australia ===
* [http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/ AusGOAL], the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework, provides support and guidance to Australia's governments and related sectors to facilitate open access to [http://blog.ausgoal.gov.au/2011/07/07/launch-ausgoal-is-online/ publicly funded information]. AusGOAL makes it possible for organisations to manage their risks when publishing information and data in a way that drives innovation and entrepreneurial activities; providing enhanced economic and social benefits to the wider community. AusGOAL is aligned with numerous open government initiatives around the world and supports the [http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/agency_resources/principles_on_psi_short.html Australian Information Commissioners Open Access Principles]. AusGOAL endorses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
* Australian Parliament. The Parliament’s central web portal http://www.aph.gov.au houses the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings, and the portal will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
* Australian budget delivered May 12, 2010 was [http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/bp1/html/bp1_prelims.htm released] under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Also the [http://gov2.net.au/report/ Gov 2.0 response] and the [http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study NBN Implementation Study]
* government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - [http://www.abs.gov.au Australian Bureau of Statistics], [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] - are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ CC BY 2.5 Australia] and/or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce].
** over 50 datasets released on data.australia.gov.au http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/
** Geoscience Australia's "geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges" during the recent Brisbane flood: http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/2501
* [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/ Water Information] - the Australian [http://www.bom.gov.au Bureau of Meteorology] has [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/269 launched] the official website of its Improving Water Information Program with a default [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] licence. This aggregates hundreds of other government departments' and agencies' information into the National Water Account. They have a range of [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/regulations/cc/disseminating.shtml explanatory materials] about the licence and are building licensing tools and metadata into their [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awris.shtml Australian Water Resources Information System].
* [http://www.pool.org.au ABC Pool] - this initiative of Australia's largest public broadcaster, the [http://www.abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Corporation] (ABC), is releasing material from the ABC archives for reuse under CC licences. It's first major release has been as part of the [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool Gene Pool project], celebrating Charles Darwin's Centenary.
* [http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia] - various [http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/cdp/ policy materials]
* [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
* [http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/ Queensland Museum] - [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/270 releases] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection photographs] from its collection on [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki Commons] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA] .
* NSW Department of Education and Training - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/939 Dynamic Calculus': Teaching Resource]
* Aged Care Queensland's [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/247 eMentoring Handbook]
* National Copyright Unit - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956 Creative Commons for Educators fact sheets] produced for the Smartcopying website in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia.
* Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy - [https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/budd-e/common/info/copyright.html Budd:e E-security Education Package]. The Budd:e package won Best Children's interactive media and digital content at the 2010 [http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1.36.7000.7001 AIMIA Awards].
* [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/ Mosman Municipal Council]'s [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] is released under a Creative Commons licence and includes as a key priority “to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship”.
* Realising Our Broadband Future forum (Dec 2009), DBCDE hosted a wiki to gather input from participants whihc was all CC BY-NC-SA licensed http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/webcasts.html
* Australian Government Information Management Office has CC licensed its blog: http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/ and the Government 2.0 showcase http://showcase.govspace.gov.au/
* Australian Electoral Commission has [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3481 applied] CC BY as the default license for its website: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm
'''Australian government reports recommending CC usage'''
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0] - report of the Australian [http://gov2.net.au Government 2.0 Taskforce]
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/govresponse20report/doc/Government-Response-to-Gov-2-0-Report.pdf Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce] - agreement in principle that Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) should be the default licence for all PSI
* [http://www.gilf.gov.au Government Information and Licensing Framework] - a Queensland Government strategy on open access and use of information
* [http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx Venturous Australia: the National Innovation Review] - report recommends government use of CC licences, and is released under CC
* [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/250 Victorian Government's Economic Development Committee] recommends CC licensing for public sector information.
* Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) published the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper under a CC BY-NC-ND in July 2009: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/future_directions_of_the_digital_economy/australias_digital_economy_future_directions
* National Broadband Network Implementation Study http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study was released by DBCDE as a wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Wiki taken down now, but was tweeted: http://twitter.com/miakgarlick/status/13470301666
* DBCDE published two reports on its website under CC BY: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/benefits_of_digital_economy_from_nbn
* Treasury released the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2010 under CC BY: http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1858/PDF/PEFO_2010.pdf

=== Austria ===
[http://data.wien.gv.at/ Open Government Data Portal by the City of Vienna] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.de CC BY]

=== Brazil===
* [http://beta.dados.gov.br/ Brazil open government data portal (beta)] under CC BY-SA.
*Äôs Ministry of Justice [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
* The municipality of São Paulo Department of Education [http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso,sp-vai-colocar-todo-seu-material-pedagogico-na-internet,728448,0.htm has now mandated] that all its educational and pedagogical content will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share-Alike (BY-NC-SA) license.

=== Bulgaria ===
* [http://www.president.bg/main.php Bulgarian President]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.
* [http://www.prb.bg Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria]. CC BY 2.5 Bulgaria
* [http://www.mfa.bg Bulgarian Foreign Ministry]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.

===Canada===
*Canada has developed the Government of Canada Open Data License Agreement for their open data portal website www.data.gc.ca. While not a Creative Commons license it would seem that this is heavily inspired by the Creative Commons philosophy and has many similar aspects. The license includes sections on 1.0 Definitions; 2.0 Intellectual Property Rights; 3.0 License Grant; 4.0 Acknowledgement of Source; 5.0 No Warranty and no Liability; and 6.0 Effective Date and Termination.
*The license permits individuals or commercial interests to use, reproduce, or add value to government data provided they use the required attribution and that they do not imply any warranty to, nor make any claim of exclusive rights to the data.
*This has similarities to the Open Government Licence for public sector information used in the United Kingdom as seen farther down this list.

=== Chile ===
* [http://www.gobiernodechile.cl Chilean Government Official Site], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.sernatur.cl Chilean Bureau of Tourism], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.economia.gob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Economy], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.segegob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Communications], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.mineduc.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Education], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.bcn.cl The Library of the National Congress], whose site is licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.guiaweb.cl/ The Guidelines for Governmental Websites] and [http://www.observatoriodeusabilidad.cl its Observatory], run by the Ministry of Economy, are licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.

=== Colombia ===
* [http://www.siac.net.co/Home.php?opc=2 Official website of the Colombian Biodiversity Information System depending from the Ministry of Environment].

=== Croatia ===
* [http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr] - Centar za otvoreni kod, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / Center for Open Source, National and University Library in Zagreb, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0 Croatia.

=== Czech Republic ===
* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education.

===Ecuador===
* Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas del Ecuador http://www.mtop.gov.ec/index.php

=== Georgia ===
*Äôs Ministry of Education and Science [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Greece ===
* http://primeminister.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://www.opengov.gr/ CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
* http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive
* http://antiproedros.gov.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece records the public sector workforce in accordance to the IMF rules

=== Guatemala ===
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobiernodeguatemala/ under CC BY-NC-SA generic
=== Israel ===
*Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Italy ===
* [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali National Institute of Statistics] releases all data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC BY].
* [http://dati.camera.it/it/ Chamber of Deputies data portal], CC BY-SA
* http://poliziadistato.it/ The official website of the italian police, CC BY NC ND 2.5 IT
* http://dati.piemonte.it/ The official open government data portal of the [[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Regional Government of the Piedmont Region in Italy]]
** CC BY 2.5 Italy for content of the website
** CC0 for available databases (all to date: Oct 8, 2010)

=== Korea ===
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/KOCW Korea Open Courseware run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERIS_(Korea_Education_and_Research_Information_Service)

===Macedonia===
* Macedonia Center for Research and Policy Making [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

===Mexico===
* President Felipe Calderon Website, BY NC ND 2.5 Mexico. http://www.presidencia.gob.mx
* National Sports Comission http://www.conade.gob.mx
*[http://www.sip.gob.mx/guiafinal.pdf Federal Government guide for website building] recommends the use CC licenses

=== Netherlands ===
* the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Public domain dedication] is used as the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's primary website [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl www.rijksoverheid.nl]. Since 2010 this website combines al public information published by the Dutch government and has replaced the websites of individual ministeries and agencies. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright under CC0 unless otherwise indicated].

* Creative Commons Netherlands has published a study on [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)

=== New Zealand ===
'''[http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework]''' standardises the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material by individuals and organisations may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. It was released for public discussion on August 27, 2009 and approved by Cabinet on July 5, 2010. The framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by encouraging State Services agencies to license material for reuse on liberal terms, and recommends Creative Commons as an important tool in this process.

In 2011 The Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs adopted a statement '''[http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/declaration-open-and-transparent-government detailing a new Declaration on Open and Transparent Government].''' The Declaration has been approved by Cabinet, and directs all Public Service departments, the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service; encouraged other State Services agencies; and invited State Sector agencies to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process.

* The [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] has [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets been released] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website.
* Land Information New Zealand's [http://www.os2020.org.nz/ Ocean Survey 20/20 web portal] which provides New Zealand with better knowledge of its ocean territory, including New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Continental Shelf and the Ross Sea Region is made available under un [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. [http://www.os2020.org.nz/data-and-reports/ Reports and interpretations] are available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND licence].
*[http://www.doc.govt.nz/ The Department of Conservation] has [http://data.govt.nz/SearchPage_Controller/SearchFormAgency?AgencySearch=Department+of+Conservation&action_doCustomSearch=Go&agency=true many datasets] including [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/947 pest species distribution] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1040 Director-General's expenses] licensed under Creative Commons.
*[http://www.dia.govt.nz/ The Department of Internal Affairs]' website "[http://data.govt.nz data.govt.nz]" which acts as a NZ government dataset directory makes content such as feedback and dataset listings available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. Some datasets referred to on data.govt.nz have also been made available under Creative Commons licences by their [http://data.govt.nz/catalog/ respective agencies].
*[http://www.ssc.govt.nz The State Services Commission] has published some annual reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/ar-2011#stateservices eg]), public reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/gateway-lessons-learned-july11 eg]) and guidance documents ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/workforcestrategy-guidance eg]) on its [http://www.ssc.govt.nz/publications-and-resources website] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.search.dol.govt.nz The Department of Labour] has licensed its latest [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/ar0910/annualreport0910.pdf Annual Report] and [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/soi2010/index.asp Statement of Intent] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.justice.govt.nz The Ministry of Justice] has licensed its [http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/s/statement-of-intent-201020132013/?searchterm=statement%20of%20intent Statement of Intent 2010–2013] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1014 Executive Expenses 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.niwa.co.nz/ The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research] has made some [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/niwa/layers/ bathymetry grids] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
* The NZ Parliamentary Library publishes some CC licensed documents such as Bill Digests and Research Papers on the [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/Search/Results.htm?search=-1320899551 Parliament website]
* [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The New Zealand Defence Force]'s [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/public-documents/creative-commons/alf.htm Army Leadership framework] is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY]
*The [http://www.hrc.co.nz/ Human Rights Commission] has made various resources available for download on its website available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence] including reports, guides and Statements of Intent.
* [http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines DigitalNZ's 'Make It Digital' guides] for making digital content in New Zealand are now available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]
*[http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/ PHARMAC] has a selection of [http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/patients/Schedule/SchedulePublications schedules] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.police.govt.nz/ The New Zealand Police] licensed their [http://www.police.govt.nz/annual-report-2010 Annual Report for year ending June 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.charities.govt.nz/ The Charities Commission] released the [http://www.charities.govt.nz/the-register/purpose/ Charities Register] as part of its '[http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/OpenData.aspx open data web service]' under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] has made the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/downloads.aspx audio tracks for 21 Rita Angus exhibition paintings] and presentation [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/Symposium.aspx recordings from the Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium] available on their website under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licence]. They have also taken up the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licences] to [http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/10/03/reusing-images-from-te-papa/#entry mark images in their Online Collections] which are able to be shared.

*The following local government bodies have released CC licensed GIS datasets on the [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ Koordinates] platform:
**[http://www.wellington.govt.nz/ Wellington City Council] offers [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/wcc/ datasets] of aerial imagery, contours, building footprints, flood hazards, wind zones and more under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.nrc.govt.nz/ Northland Regional Council] currently has 25 GIS [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ datasets] available here, 19 are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and 6 under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
**[http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz North Shore City Council]'s [http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1440-north-shore-city-parks/ Parks layer] is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.arc.govt.nz/ Auckland Regional Council] datasets of Wards, Community Boards and some passenger transport information is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].

*In relation to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake Canterbury Earthquakes]:
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)] and the National Library of New Zealand have set up a documentary project of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licensed] images by [https://picasaweb.google.com/RossBeckerNZ/ Ross Becker] as a record of recovery inside the red zone.
**[http://www.linz.govt.nz/index.aspx Land Information New Zealand] made its [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/post_quake_imagery_of_christchurch_carries_cc_licence aerial photographs] of the city's damage available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/ The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management] released [http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/video-central-christchurch-two-weeks-after-quake-ck-88665 inner city footage] for screening at public memorial events under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The Defence Force] makes its Flickr photos sets (including [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdefenceforce/collections/72157626143610731/ documentation of Canterbury]) available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY].
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ CERA]'s 2011-2016 Statement of Intent is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.

=== Poland ===
* [http://www.equal.org.pl/baza.php?lang=pl Equal Program projects database] - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
* [http://www.mg.gov.pl/ Polish Ministry of Economy] is publishing content on its website under a CC BY SA 3.0 Poland license.
* Polish Council of Ministers has [http://creativecommons.pl/2012/04/digital-school-program-with-open-textbooks-approved-by-polish-government/ adopted] a new Digital School program for Polish schools, which includes 43 millions PLN for Creative Commons Attribution or compatible) textbooks for grades 4-6 in primary schools (K4-K6).
** Update: http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/

=== Portugal ===
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva official photostream under CC BY 2.0 Generic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavacosilva/
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva's announcement on running for reelection. Audio on SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0: http://soundcloud.com/cavacosilva2011

=== Russian Federation ===
* All content (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) of [http://kremlin.ru/eng/ Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kremlin_authorisation-English.pdf Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kremlin.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/ premier.gov.ru (website of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/about.html Terms]

* All content of [http://government.ru/eng/ government.ru (Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)

* All content of http://www.bashkortostan.ru (Official information portal of the official authorities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan]), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkortostan_authorisation-Russian.jpg Letter of authorisation from Administration of President of The Republic of Bashkortostan]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Bashkortostan.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://www.volganet.ru (Internet-portal of administration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast Volgograd Oblast]), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Volganet_authorisation-Russian.pdf Letter of authorisation from Administration of Volgograd Oblast]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Volganet.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://amisharin.ru (official website of Governor of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast])
** [http://amisharin.ru/terms_of_use/ Terms of use]

* State-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti Russian International News Agency "RIA Novosti"], 460 historical images from [http://visualrian.ru database http://visualrian.ru], Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** The license specified on the pages of certain images.
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti Information page on Wikimedia Commons]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_RIA_Novosti Special category on Wikimedia Commons]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University Lomonosov Moscow State University], http://convergencelab.ru - Portal of Department of New Media and Communication Theory of Faculty of Journalism, Creative Commons Attribution, version unknown

* Some content of http://www.mgimo.ru - information portal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)], Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)
** [http://www.mgimo.ru/publish/cc/index.phtml Terms of use]

* All content of http://www.hse.ru/en/ - portal of state-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_-_Higher_School_of_Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
** [http://www.hse.ru/copyright Terms of use]

=== Serbia, Republic of ===
*Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Republic of Serbia [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Spain ===
* [http://www.gencat.cat/web/meugencat/documents/20101116_GUIA_USOS_XARXA_ENG.pdf Style and usage guide of the Government of Catalonia’s social networks] under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
* Statistical information on the [http://www.idescat.cat/en/ Statistical Institute of Catalonia] site is licensed by default under [http://www.idescat.cat/en/idescat/sistemaestadistic/ciutadans/avislegal.html CC BY 3.0 Spain].
* http://www.slideshare.net/justicia/the-use-of-creative-commons-licences-in-the-ministry-of-justice-of-the-government-of-catalonia/
* The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
*The [http://www.caib.es/ Government of the Balearic Islands] website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License

=== Taiwan ===
*Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
=== Thailand ===
*? Official website for Prime Minister (government) http://pm.go.th

=== Ukraine ===
*Unofficial municila page of Stryi town: http://stryi.com.ua/

=== United Kingdom ===
* The [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ Open Government License], used for a large amount of crown copyright data and content, is intended to be interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
* National Assembly for Wales use of flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalassemblyforwales/

=== Venezuela ===
*The "Canaima project" whichs goals is giving one laptop computer to every pupil in Venezuela (300.000 computers has been distributed so far) is preloaded with educational content (about 400 content) all of it is licensed with CC - SA - NC - 3.0

=== United States ===

==== Federal ====
* Works by the US federal government are automatically part of the [[public domain]] in the US as stipulated by http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
* Third-party content (such as the text of speeches by the first lady) on the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright White House web site] are licensed with CC BY 3.0 US by default.
* [http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy President-Elect Transition Team, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden]. CC BY 3.0 Unported. (Not an official federal government site, but an election team site, hence not required to be public domain.)
* The U.S. Department of Education has made OER an invitational priority in their [http://www.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=ynkyLyCpLNWvymvqBplJQYrwRGGlGtdR9gZtncFYJgjm2hTFSJZb!-2132130105?attId=40947 Ready to Learn] (PDF) and [http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2010-1/032310h.pdf Ready to Teach] (PDF) grants.
* The U.S. Department of Education has included open educational resources in their [http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/08/05/2010-19296/secretarys-priorities-for-discretionary-grant-programs Notice of Proposed Priorities] for discretionary grant funding. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
* The U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2 billion to community colleges and career training; [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100 CC BY required for grant outputs].
* The U.S. Department of Labor Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program; [http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-06.pdf CC BY required for grant outputs].

==== State ====
* [[New York State Senate]], Senate Content, CC-BY-NC-ND with CC+ allowing non-political fundraising use of content.
* [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0791 State of Virginia], legislation that indicates a preference for state-funded materials to be released with a CC (or equivalent open) license.
* [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf Washington State open policy and requirement of CC BY]
* [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=741&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=HB418 New Hampshire adopts Open Source and Open Data requirements] (policy friendly to CC use, but not a specific CC tool adoption)
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31756 OER K-12 bill] passed in WA state. The focus of the bill is to help school districts identify existing high-quality, free, openly licensed, common core state standards aligned resources available for local adoption; in addition, any content built with public funds, must be licensed under “an attribution license” (CC BY)

==== Local government ====
* [http://recoverysf.org/intranet/RecoverySF/ RecoverySF], CC BY 3.0 US.

See [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Intergovernmental_Organizations Intergovernmental Organizations] page for information about CC license use by Intergovernmental Organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, and the Commonwealth of Learning.

[[Category:Lists of CC use by jurisdiction]]
[[Category:Public sector information]]

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Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known government and intergovernmental uses of CC licensing and public domain tools (and government recommendations of same). Please add to the list and turn compelling uses into [[Case Studies]].

Examples are needed for national/federal, state/provincial and local/city/county governments (or their equivalents) as well as intergovernmental organizations and bodies such as the European Union and United Nations.
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== [[Government_adoption_strategies|Government adoption strategies]] ==
== Jurisdiction-Specific Case Studies==
=== Armenia ===
* [http://www.president.am/president/cover/eng/ Official website of the Armenian President]. CC BY-ND 3.0 Unported.

=== Australia ===
* [http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/ AusGOAL], the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework, provides support and guidance to Australia's governments and related sectors to facilitate open access to [http://blog.ausgoal.gov.au/2011/07/07/launch-ausgoal-is-online/ publicly funded information]. AusGOAL makes it possible for organisations to manage their risks when publishing information and data in a way that drives innovation and entrepreneurial activities; providing enhanced economic and social benefits to the wider community. AusGOAL is aligned with numerous open government initiatives around the world and supports the [http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/agency_resources/principles_on_psi_short.html Australian Information Commissioners Open Access Principles]. AusGOAL endorses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
* Australian Parliament. The Parliament’s central web portal http://www.aph.gov.au houses the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings, and the portal will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
* Australian budget delivered May 12, 2010 was [http://www.budget.gov.au/2010-11/content/bp1/html/bp1_prelims.htm released] under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Also the [http://gov2.net.au/report/ Gov 2.0 response] and the [http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study NBN Implementation Study]
* government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets - [http://www.abs.gov.au Australian Bureau of Statistics], [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta [http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] - are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ CC BY 2.5 Australia] and/or [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce].
** over 50 datasets released on data.australia.gov.au http://data.australia.gov.au/ for the Mashup Australia contest: http://mashupaustralia.org/
** Geoscience Australia's "geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges" during the recent Brisbane flood: http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/2501
* [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/ Water Information] - the Australian [http://www.bom.gov.au Bureau of Meteorology] has [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/269 launched] the official website of its Improving Water Information Program with a default [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC BY 3.0 Australia] licence. This aggregates hundreds of other government departments' and agencies' information into the National Water Account. They have a range of [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/regulations/cc/disseminating.shtml explanatory materials] about the licence and are building licensing tools and metadata into their [http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awris.shtml Australian Water Resources Information System].
* [http://www.pool.org.au ABC Pool] - this initiative of Australia's largest public broadcaster, the [http://www.abc.net.au Australian Broadcasting Corporation] (ABC), is releasing material from the ABC archives for reuse under CC licences. It's first major release has been as part of the [http://www.pool.org.au/genepool Gene Pool project], celebrating Charles Darwin's Centenary.
* [http://www.nla.gov.au National Library of Australia] - various [http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/cdp/ policy materials]
* [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
* [http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/ Queensland Museum] - [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/270 releases] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:A_E_%22Bert%22_Roberts_plate_glass_photo_collection photographs] from its collection on [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wiki Commons] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA] .
* NSW Department of Education and Training - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/939 Dynamic Calculus': Teaching Resource]
* Aged Care Queensland's [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/247 eMentoring Handbook]
* National Copyright Unit - [http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/956 Creative Commons for Educators fact sheets] produced for the Smartcopying website in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia.
* Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy - [https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/budd-e/common/info/copyright.html Budd:e E-security Education Package]. The Budd:e package won Best Children's interactive media and digital content at the 2010 [http://www.aimia.com.au/i-cms?page=1.36.7000.7001 AIMIA Awards].
* [http://www.mosman.nsw.gov.au/ Mosman Municipal Council]'s [http://mosmanroundtable.net/ces Community Engagement Strategy] is released under a Creative Commons licence and includes as a key priority “to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship”.
* Realising Our Broadband Future forum (Dec 2009), DBCDE hosted a wiki to gather input from participants whihc was all CC BY-NC-SA licensed http://www.broadbandfuture.gov.au/webcasts.html
* Australian Government Information Management Office has CC licensed its blog: http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/ and the Government 2.0 showcase http://showcase.govspace.gov.au/
* Australian Electoral Commission has [http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3481 applied] CC BY as the default license for its website: http://www.aec.gov.au/footer/copyright.htm
'''Australian government reports recommending CC usage'''
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/gov20taskforcereport/index.html Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0] - report of the Australian [http://gov2.net.au Government 2.0 Taskforce]
* [http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/govresponse20report/doc/Government-Response-to-Gov-2-0-Report.pdf Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce] - agreement in principle that Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) should be the default licence for all PSI
* [http://www.gilf.gov.au Government Information and Licensing Framework] - a Queensland Government strategy on open access and use of information
* [http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx Venturous Australia: the National Innovation Review] - report recommends government use of CC licences, and is released under CC
* [http://creativecommons.org.au/node/250 Victorian Government's Economic Development Committee] recommends CC licensing for public sector information.
* Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) published the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper under a CC BY-NC-ND in July 2009: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/future_directions_of_the_digital_economy/australias_digital_economy_future_directions
* National Broadband Network Implementation Study http://www.dbcde.gov.au/broadband/national_broadband_network/national_broadband_network_implementation_study was released by DBCDE as a wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Wiki taken down now, but was tweeted: http://twitter.com/miakgarlick/status/13470301666
* DBCDE published two reports on its website under CC BY: http://www.dbcde.gov.au/digital_economy/benefits_of_digital_economy_from_nbn
* Treasury released the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2010 under CC BY: http://www.treasury.gov.au/documents/1858/PDF/PEFO_2010.pdf

=== Austria ===
[http://data.wien.gv.at/ Open Government Data Portal by the City of Vienna] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.de CC BY]

=== Brazil===
* [http://beta.dados.gov.br/ Brazil open government data portal (beta)] under CC BY-SA.
*Äôs Ministry of Justice [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
* The municipality of São Paulo Department of Education [http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/impresso,sp-vai-colocar-todo-seu-material-pedagogico-na-internet,728448,0.htm has now mandated] that all its educational and pedagogical content will be made available under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share-Alike (BY-NC-SA) license.

=== Bulgaria ===
* [http://www.president.bg/main.php Bulgarian President]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.
* [http://www.prb.bg Chief Prosecutor of the Republic of Bulgaria]. CC BY 2.5 Bulgaria
* [http://www.mfa.bg Bulgarian Foreign Ministry]. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.

===Canada===
*Canada has developed the Government of Canada Open Data License Agreement for their open data portal website. While not a Creative Commons license it would seem that this is heavily inspired by the Creative Commons philosophy and has many similar aspects. These include 1.0 Definitions; 2.0 Intellectual Property Rights; 3.0 License Grant; 4.0 Acknowledgement of Source; 5.0 No Warranty and no Liability; and 6.0 Effective Date and Termination. This has similarities to the Open Government Licence for public sector information used in the United Kingdom as seen farther down this list.

=== Chile ===
* [http://www.gobiernodechile.cl Chilean Government Official Site], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.sernatur.cl Chilean Bureau of Tourism], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.economia.gob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Economy], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.segegob.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Communications], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.mineduc.cl Chilean Government - Secretary of Education], whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.bcn.cl The Library of the National Congress], whose site is licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
* [http://www.guiaweb.cl/ The Guidelines for Governmental Websites] and [http://www.observatoriodeusabilidad.cl its Observatory], run by the Ministry of Economy, are licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.

=== Colombia ===
* [http://www.siac.net.co/Home.php?opc=2 Official website of the Colombian Biodiversity Information System depending from the Ministry of Environment].

=== Croatia ===
* [http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr http://otvorenikod.nsk.hr] - Centar za otvoreni kod, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / Center for Open Source, National and University Library in Zagreb, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0 Croatia.

=== Czech Republic ===
* [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/RVP_Metodicky_Portal RVP Metodicky Portal] is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cz/ CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives]. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education.

===Ecuador===
* Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas del Ecuador http://www.mtop.gov.ec/index.php

=== Georgia ===
*Äôs Ministry of Education and Science [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Greece ===
* http://primeminister.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://www.opengov.gr/ CC BY 3.0 Greece
* http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
* http://opengeodata.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive
* http://antiproedros.gov.gr CC BY 3.0 Greece records the public sector workforce in accordance to the IMF rules

=== Guatemala ===
* http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobiernodeguatemala/ under CC BY-NC-SA generic
=== Israel ===
*Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Italy ===
* [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali National Institute of Statistics] releases all data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/it/ CC BY].
* [http://dati.camera.it/it/ Chamber of Deputies data portal], CC BY-SA
* http://poliziadistato.it/ The official website of the italian police, CC BY NC ND 2.5 IT
* http://dati.piemonte.it/ The official open government data portal of the [[Case_Studies/Piemonte_Regional_Government|Regional Government of the Piedmont Region in Italy]]
** CC BY 2.5 Italy for content of the website
** CC0 for available databases (all to date: Oct 8, 2010)

=== Korea ===
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
* http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/KOCW Korea Open Courseware run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERIS_(Korea_Education_and_Research_Information_Service)

===Macedonia===
* Macedonia Center for Research and Policy Making [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

===Mexico===
* President Felipe Calderon Website, BY NC ND 2.5 Mexico. http://www.presidencia.gob.mx
* National Sports Comission http://www.conade.gob.mx
*[http://www.sip.gob.mx/guiafinal.pdf Federal Government guide for website building] recommends the use CC licenses

=== Netherlands ===
* the [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Public domain dedication] is used as the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's primary website [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl www.rijksoverheid.nl]. Since 2010 this website combines al public information published by the Dutch government and has replaced the websites of individual ministeries and agencies. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright under CC0 unless otherwise indicated].

* Creative Commons Netherlands has published a study on [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)

=== New Zealand ===
'''[http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/nzgoal NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework]''' standardises the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material by individuals and organisations may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. It was released for public discussion on August 27, 2009 and approved by Cabinet on July 5, 2010. The framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by encouraging State Services agencies to license material for reuse on liberal terms, and recommends Creative Commons as an important tool in this process.

In 2011 The Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs adopted a statement '''[http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/declaration-open-and-transparent-government detailing a new Declaration on Open and Transparent Government].''' The Declaration has been approved by Cabinet, and directs all Public Service departments, the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service; encouraged other State Services agencies; and invited State Sector agencies to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process.

* The [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] has [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets been released] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website.
* Land Information New Zealand's [http://www.os2020.org.nz/ Ocean Survey 20/20 web portal] which provides New Zealand with better knowledge of its ocean territory, including New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Continental Shelf and the Ross Sea Region is made available under un [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. [http://www.os2020.org.nz/data-and-reports/ Reports and interpretations] are available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND licence].
*[http://www.doc.govt.nz/ The Department of Conservation] has [http://data.govt.nz/SearchPage_Controller/SearchFormAgency?AgencySearch=Department+of+Conservation&action_doCustomSearch=Go&agency=true many datasets] including [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/947 pest species distribution] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1040 Director-General's expenses] licensed under Creative Commons.
*[http://www.dia.govt.nz/ The Department of Internal Affairs]' website "[http://data.govt.nz data.govt.nz]" which acts as a NZ government dataset directory makes content such as feedback and dataset listings available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]. Some datasets referred to on data.govt.nz have also been made available under Creative Commons licences by their [http://data.govt.nz/catalog/ respective agencies].
*[http://www.ssc.govt.nz The State Services Commission] has published some annual reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/ar-2011#stateservices eg]), public reports ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/gateway-lessons-learned-july11 eg]) and guidance documents ([http://www.ssc.govt.nz/workforcestrategy-guidance eg]) on its [http://www.ssc.govt.nz/publications-and-resources website] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.search.dol.govt.nz The Department of Labour] has licensed its latest [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/ar0910/annualreport0910.pdf Annual Report] and [http://www.dol.govt.nz/publications/general/soi2010/index.asp Statement of Intent] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.justice.govt.nz The Ministry of Justice] has licensed its [http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/s/statement-of-intent-201020132013/?searchterm=statement%20of%20intent Statement of Intent 2010–2013] and [http://data.govt.nz/dataset/show/1014 Executive Expenses 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz/ CC BY licence].
*[http://www.niwa.co.nz/ The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research] has made some [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/niwa/layers/ bathymetry grids] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
* The NZ Parliamentary Library publishes some CC licensed documents such as Bill Digests and Research Papers on the [http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/Search/Results.htm?search=-1320899551 Parliament website]
* [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The New Zealand Defence Force]'s [http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/public-documents/creative-commons/alf.htm Army Leadership framework] is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY]
*The [http://www.hrc.co.nz/ Human Rights Commission] has made various resources available for download on its website available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence] including reports, guides and Statements of Intent.
* [http://makeit.digitalnz.org/guidelines DigitalNZ's 'Make It Digital' guides] for making digital content in New Zealand are now available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence]
*[http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/ PHARMAC] has a selection of [http://www.pharmac.govt.nz/patients/Schedule/SchedulePublications schedules] available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.police.govt.nz/ The New Zealand Police] licensed their [http://www.police.govt.nz/annual-report-2010 Annual Report for year ending June 2010] under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.charities.govt.nz/ The Charities Commission] released the [http://www.charities.govt.nz/the-register/purpose/ Charities Register] as part of its '[http://www.register.charities.govt.nz/CharitiesRegister/OpenData.aspx open data web service]' under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
*[http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa] has made the [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/downloads.aspx audio tracks for 21 Rita Angus exhibition paintings] and presentation [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/exhibitions/ritaangus/Symposium.aspx recordings from the Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium] available on their website under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licence]. They have also taken up the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licences] to [http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2011/10/03/reusing-images-from-te-papa/#entry mark images in their Online Collections] which are able to be shared.

*The following local government bodies have released CC licensed GIS datasets on the [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ Koordinates] platform:
**[http://www.wellington.govt.nz/ Wellington City Council] offers [http://koordinates.com/#/maps/wcc/ datasets] of aerial imagery, contours, building footprints, flood hazards, wind zones and more under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.nrc.govt.nz/ Northland Regional Council] currently has 25 GIS [http://koordinates.com/maps/northland/ datasets] available here, 19 are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] and 6 under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY ND] licence.
**[http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz North Shore City Council]'s [http://koordinates.com/#/layer/1440-north-shore-city-parks/ Parks layer] is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].
**[http://www.arc.govt.nz/ Auckland Regional Council] datasets of Wards, Community Boards and some passenger transport information is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY licence].

*In relation to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Christchurch_earthquake Canterbury Earthquakes]:
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)] and the National Library of New Zealand have set up a documentary project of [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/deed.en CC BY NC ND licensed] images by [https://picasaweb.google.com/RossBeckerNZ/ Ross Becker] as a record of recovery inside the red zone.
**[http://www.linz.govt.nz/index.aspx Land Information New Zealand] made its [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/post_quake_imagery_of_christchurch_carries_cc_licence aerial photographs] of the city's damage available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/ The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management] released [http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/video-central-christchurch-two-weeks-after-quake-ck-88665 inner city footage] for screening at public memorial events under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.
**[http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/ The Defence Force] makes its Flickr photos sets (including [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nzdefenceforce/collections/72157626143610731/ documentation of Canterbury]) available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY].
**[http://cera.govt.nz/ CERA]'s 2011-2016 Statement of Intent is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC BY] licence.

=== Poland ===
* [http://www.equal.org.pl/baza.php?lang=pl Equal Program projects database] - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
* [http://www.mg.gov.pl/ Polish Ministry of Economy] is publishing content on its website under a CC BY SA 3.0 Poland license.
* Polish Council of Ministers has [http://creativecommons.pl/2012/04/digital-school-program-with-open-textbooks-approved-by-polish-government/ adopted] a new Digital School program for Polish schools, which includes 43 millions PLN for Creative Commons Attribution or compatible) textbooks for grades 4-6 in primary schools (K4-K6).
** Update: http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/

=== Portugal ===
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva official photostream under CC BY 2.0 Generic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavacosilva/
* President Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva's announcement on running for reelection. Audio on SoundCloud under CC BY 3.0: http://soundcloud.com/cavacosilva2011

=== Russian Federation ===
* All content (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) of [http://kremlin.ru/eng/ Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Kremlin_authorisation-English.pdf Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Kremlin.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/ premier.gov.ru (website of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://premier.gov.ru/eng/about.html Terms]

* All content of [http://government.ru/eng/ government.ru (Official Website of the Government of the Russian Federation)], Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)

* All content of http://www.bashkortostan.ru (Official information portal of the official authorities of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan]), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bashkortostan_authorisation-Russian.jpg Letter of authorisation from Administration of President of The Republic of Bashkortostan]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Bashkortostan.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://www.volganet.ru (Internet-portal of administration of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd_Oblast Volgograd Oblast]), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Volganet_authorisation-Russian.pdf Letter of authorisation from Administration of Volgograd Oblast]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Volganet.ru Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)]

* All content of http://amisharin.ru (official website of Governor of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast])
** [http://amisharin.ru/terms_of_use/ Terms of use]

* State-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIA_Novosti Russian International News Agency "RIA Novosti"], 460 historical images from [http://visualrian.ru database http://visualrian.ru], Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
** The license specified on the pages of certain images.
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RIA_Novosti Information page on Wikimedia Commons]
** [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_RIA_Novosti Special category on Wikimedia Commons]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University Lomonosov Moscow State University], http://convergencelab.ru - Portal of Department of New Media and Communication Theory of Faculty of Journalism, Creative Commons Attribution, version unknown

* Some content of http://www.mgimo.ru - information portal of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)], Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)
** [http://www.mgimo.ru/publish/cc/index.phtml Terms of use]

* All content of http://www.hse.ru/en/ - portal of state-owned [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_-_Higher_School_of_Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics], Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
** [http://www.hse.ru/copyright Terms of use]

=== Serbia, Republic of ===
*Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society of Republic of Serbia [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]

=== Spain ===
* [http://www.gencat.cat/web/meugencat/documents/20101116_GUIA_USOS_XARXA_ENG.pdf Style and usage guide of the Government of Catalonia’s social networks] under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
* Statistical information on the [http://www.idescat.cat/en/ Statistical Institute of Catalonia] site is licensed by default under [http://www.idescat.cat/en/idescat/sistemaestadistic/ciutadans/avislegal.html CC BY 3.0 Spain].
* http://www.slideshare.net/justicia/the-use-of-creative-commons-licences-in-the-ministry-of-justice-of-the-government-of-catalonia/
* The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
*The [http://www.caib.es/ Government of the Balearic Islands] website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License

=== Taiwan ===
*Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation [[Affiliate_Reporting/2010#Highlights_of_New_Major_Adopters]]
=== Thailand ===
*? Official website for Prime Minister (government) http://pm.go.th

=== Ukraine ===
*Unofficial municila page of Stryi town: http://stryi.com.ua/

=== United Kingdom ===
* The [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ Open Government License], used for a large amount of crown copyright data and content, is intended to be interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
* National Assembly for Wales use of flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalassemblyforwales/

=== Venezuela ===
*The "Canaima project" whichs goals is giving one laptop computer to every pupil in Venezuela (300.000 computers has been distributed so far) is preloaded with educational content (about 400 content) all of it is licensed with CC - SA - NC - 3.0

=== United States ===

==== Federal ====
* Works by the US federal government are automatically part of the [[public domain]] in the US as stipulated by http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
* Third-party content (such as the text of speeches by the first lady) on the [http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright White House web site] are licensed with CC BY 3.0 US by default.
* [http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy President-Elect Transition Team, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden]. CC BY 3.0 Unported. (Not an official federal government site, but an election team site, hence not required to be public domain.)
* The U.S. Department of Education has made OER an invitational priority in their [http://www.grants.gov/search/downloadAtt.do;jsessionid=ynkyLyCpLNWvymvqBplJQYrwRGGlGtdR9gZtncFYJgjm2hTFSJZb!-2132130105?attId=40947 Ready to Learn] (PDF) and [http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2010-1/032310h.pdf Ready to Teach] (PDF) grants.
* The U.S. Department of Education has included open educational resources in their [http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/08/05/2010-19296/secretarys-priorities-for-discretionary-grant-programs Notice of Proposed Priorities] for discretionary grant funding. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
* The U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2 billion to community colleges and career training; [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26100 CC BY required for grant outputs].
* The U.S. Department of Labor Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program; [http://www.doleta.gov/grants/pdf/SGA-DFA-PY-10-06.pdf CC BY required for grant outputs].

==== State ====
* [[New York State Senate]], Senate Content, CC-BY-NC-ND with CC+ allowing non-political fundraising use of content.
* [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+CHAP0791 State of Virginia], legislation that indicates a preference for state-funded materials to be released with a CC (or equivalent open) license.
* [http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf Washington State open policy and requirement of CC BY]
* [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=741&sy=2012&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=HB418 New Hampshire adopts Open Source and Open Data requirements] (policy friendly to CC use, but not a specific CC tool adoption)
* [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31756 OER K-12 bill] passed in WA state. The focus of the bill is to help school districts identify existing high-quality, free, openly licensed, common core state standards aligned resources available for local adoption; in addition, any content built with public funds, must be licensed under “an attribution license” (CC BY)

==== Local government ====
* [http://recoverysf.org/intranet/RecoverySF/ RecoverySF], CC BY 3.0 US.

See [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Intergovernmental_Organizations Intergovernmental Organizations] page for information about CC license use by Intergovernmental Organizations such as the World Bank, United Nations, and the Commonwealth of Learning.

[[Category:Lists of CC use by jurisdiction]]
[[Category:Public sector information]]

Photography

2012-09-13T20:40:32Z

Newflyer: /* Finding CC-licensed photos */

The internet and technology have changed how people access images, and photographers are responding by employing new methods to reach audiences. These methods include personal websites, social media tools, photo-sharing platforms and communities, and tools such as Creative Commons licenses that enable easy sharing and reuse of creative works.

CC licenses are a flexible way to share images while building on the strong foundation of traditional copyright law. Simply put, Creative Commons licenses allow the shift from “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved,” enabling you to share your images under terms of your own choosing. This gives you control over distribution, and the non-exclusivity of the licenses means you can retain all commercial rights if desired.

[[#Photographers_using_CC_licenses|Photographers using CC licenses]] gain new audiences for their work on photo-sharing platforms like [http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons Flickr] and communities like [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]. Mohamed Nanabhay, Head of Online, Al Jazeera English, [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18213 writes]:
:“When launching our [CC] repository, we had thought that it would be a key resource for anyone producing content on the war and that it would primarily be used by other news organisations and documentary filmmakers. What we saw was both surprising and delightful. Soon after posting our first video, Wikipedia editors had extracted images to enhance the encyclopedia entries on the War on Gaza. Soon thereafter educators, filmmakers, video game developers, aid agencies and music video producers all used and built upon our footage.”

Wikipedia is a heavily-trafficked website with over 400 million unique visitors a month. Flickr contains over 200 million CC-licensed photos, establishing it as the Web’s single largest source of CC-licensed content.

In 2008, DigitalPhotoPro published an [http://www.digitalphotopro.com/business/creative-commons.html article on the use of CC licenses by professional photographers] with advice for those thinking of using CC themselves.

==Photographers using CC licenses==

===[[The_Power_of_Open/Text#Jonathan_Worth|Jonathan Worth]]===
:“Creative Commons enables me to use existing architecture really smoothly and to address the digital natives’ social media habits. The mode of information is the same, but the mode of distribution has changed. We don’t have all the answers, but CC lets me choose my ﬂavor and helps me take advantage of the things working against me.”

British photographer Jonathan Worth’s work hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. He teaches photography at Coventry University in the U.K. He has photographed actors Colin Firth, Rachel Hunter, Jude Law and Heath Ledger. He is also one of an emerging group of photographers experimenting with sustainable working practices for professional image makers in the digital age. Jonathan Worth has been featured in:
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8623680/How-the-Power-of-Open-can-benefit-photographers.html The Telegraph] - How the Power of Open can benefit photographers
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13961051 BBC News] - "Photographer Jonathan Worth explained that Creative Commons allowed him to sell his work for commercial use while still giving it free to individuals who wanted it for other reasons."
*[http://thepowerofopen.org/ The Power of Open] - Stories of creators sharing knowledge, art, & data using Creative Commons

===[[Case_Studies/Lan_Bui|Lan Bui]]===
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Lan Bui "makes media." From photography of tech celebrities (Veronica Belmont, Zadi Diaz, Casey McKinnon) and The Ninja to videos for professionals and events (Comic Con and Pixelodeon), Lan (with help from his brother Vu) makes them all from start to finish. Lan echoes the thoughts of other artists using Creative Commons; the idea that your work is, in a way, an advertisement for yourself and future work. Lan expresses this in this way: "I think that people pay me for my time and talent, not for the actual images I deliver."
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===[[Case_Studies/Monkeyc.net|Monkeyc.net]]===
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Monkeyc.net is the moniker of John Harvey, a Brisbane-based former photojournalist who licenses his Flickr photo stream under Creative Commons. John is an active member of the Flickr community, having first uploaded a photo on 26 September 2004 and now sporting a collection of close to 1,000 images, and encourages others to engage likewise. Several of John’s photographs have been featured on Flickr’s ‘Explore’ page, as an indication of their popularity in the Flickr community.
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===Vinoth Chandar===
Vinoth Chandar is a professional photographer who releases many of his photographs under the [[Creative Commons Attribution]] licence, saying that "I use [the] Attribution Creative Commons licence for all my photos because I want everybody to use my photo and credit me ... This way, my photos reach every corner of the world without any effort from my side except taking the photos and uploading it to Flickr."<ref>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-12/16/creative-commons-gallery</ref>

One example he used of the exposure provided by free culture licensing was the use of one of his photos for the cover of a popular Italian magazine. "I am an Indian and how else in the world can an Indian photographer expect his photo to be published in an Italian magazine? CC licence made this possible."<ref>http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-12/16/creative-commons-gallery</ref>

==Enforceability of CC licenses in photography==
CC licenses have been upheld in several [[Case_Law|court cases]] around the world. A few of these cases pertain specifically to CC-licensed images.

*In [[Curry_v._Audax |Curry v. Audax]], Adam Curry, a former MTV VJ and one of the pioneers of podcasting, published photos onto his Flickr account under a BY-NC-SA license. A Dutch tabloid reprinted four of the photos in a story about the Curry family's public persona verses real private life. Curry sued the tabloid for violating the portrait rights of his family and for copyright violation over the improper user of his Flickr photos. The Dutch court held that, in the future, the tabloid could not use any of the photos from Flickr in the future unless under the terms of the photos' CC license or with permission from Curry.
*In [[Gerlach_vs._DVU|Gerlach vs. DVU]], Gerlach took a picture of the German politician Thilo Sarrazin at a public event and published it online under the Creative Commons license BY SA 3.0 Unported. Later the DVU, a German political party used the picture on their website without the plaintiff's name, the license notice or any other requirement of the license. The applicant sent a notice and takedown letter to which the party didn't react. Subsequently the applicant sought preliminary injunction before the Disctrict Court of Berlin against the unauthorized publication of the picture. The District Court of Berlin granted the injunction because the applicant had successfully established prima-facie evidence of authorship, of the licensing and of the breach of the license.
*In [[TA_3560/09,_3561/09,_Avi_Re%27uveni_v._Mapa_inc._%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C:_%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94,_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%94%D7%9E%22%D7%A9_%D7%90%D7%9B%D7%A3_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%98%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A1 |Avi Re’uveni v. Mapa inc.]], plaintiffs uploaded photographs to Flickr and and offered them under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. The defendant made a collage from the plaintiffs’ and other photographs and sold them without attribution. The court found the defendant guilty of copyright infringement. The defendant claimed ignorance of the copyright and license, but the court found that this did not matter.

==Photo-sharing sites that have enabled CC licenses==

===[[Case_Studies/Flickr|Flickr]]===
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Flickr was one of the first major online communities to incorporate Creative Commons licensing options into its user interface, giving photographers around the world the easy ability to share photos on terms of their choosing. As the Flickr community grew, so did the number of CC-licensed images — currently there are well over 200 million on the site — establishing Flickr as the Web’s single largest source of CC-licensed content.
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===[[Case_Studies/DeviantART|DeviantART]]===
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deviantART is an online community dedicated to showcasing art as prints, videos and literature. CC license options are built into deviantArt's UI, allowing users to set the permissions they want their works to carry. Naturally, different users choose different options for their works, including All Rights Reserved.
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===[http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/22882 Fotopedia]===
Fotopedia is a breathtaking application for the iPhone and iPad. The app builds on the concept of a coffee table book, updating and enhancing the browsing experience for the web. This project is possible thanks to Creative Commons, as over 18,000 of the pictures in Fotopedia Heritage book are under one of the CC licenses. The pictures come from all around the world; as individual photographers and organizations license their high quality photos under Creative Commons, the book will only grow as a community contributed and shareable resource.

===[[Case_Studies/National_Library_of_Australia_'Click_and_Flick'|National Library of Australia: 'Click and Flick']]===
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'Click and Flick' is a National Library of Australia (NLA) initiative to open their online pictorial gateway, PictureAustralia, to contributions from the Australian public. PictureAustralia encourages people to make their material available on the archive under the CC licenses, as part of two dedicated Flickr image pools: ‘PictureAustralia: Ourtown’ and ‘PictureAustralia: People, Places and Events’.
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===[[Case_Studies/Newsbank_Image|Newsbank Image]]===
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Newsbank Image is one of South Korea's largest and most comprehensive photo-archives. The photograph archive website provides images produced by Media companies, photographers as well as web-friendly versions containing watermarks, original images, all which maintain the marking of original creators. Users can choose to upload their photos under CC licenses.
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===[[Case_Studies/Culture.si|Culture.si]]===
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A comprehensive online guide to Slovene culture, Culture.si covers contemporary art, culture, and heritage in Slovenia. Over 2,300 articles in English and the fastest growing independent free image bank (currently over 1,500 images) are offered for reuse under Creative Commons licenses.
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==How To Publish photos in an online community==
One way to increase visibility and access to your photos is to share it with an existing community that has enabled CC licensing, making it easy for you to indicate the license along with other information, such as who to attribute. In addition, search engines like Google and Yahoo! will index your work as CC licensed if the metadata is properly attached. See [[Publish/Images]] for more info.

==Finding CC-licensed photos==
Thanks to the machine-readability of CC licenses, CC-licensed images can be found via:

*[http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en Google Advanced Image Search] by specifying options under "Usage Rights"
*[http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/advanced?ei=UTF-8 Yahoo! Advanced Image Search] by specifying options under "Creative Commons License"
*It appears that Yahoo Advanced Image Search no longer offers this option. Can anyone else confirm this?
*[http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=179622 Google Docs], where Google Image Search has been integrated
*[http://search.creativecommons.org/ CC Search Portal], which is not a search engine, but a tool that offers convenient access to search services provided by independent organizations, such as Flickr, Google, and Wikimedia Commons (media repository for articles featured on Wikipedia).

==Related resources==
*[[Journalism|CC in Journalism]]
*[[CC_Factsheet|CC Factsheet]]

==References==
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