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Where CC0 is not desired for whatever reason (business requirements, community wishes, institutional policy…), CC licenses can and should be used for data and databases — with the important caveat that CC 3.0 license conditions do not apply to uses of data and databases that do not implicate copyright. Read more about this here.

Data and CC license use cases

This is a list of uses of CC licenses for data. For uses of the CC0 public domain dedication for data, see CC0 use for data.

Australia Federal Government

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Three of the largest sources of Australian federal government data sets — Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Geoscience Australia and the still beta data.gov.au — are all licensed by default under CC Attribution. 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 ABS and Geoscience Australia have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines to assist with user implementation. data.gov.au played a major role in the Mashup Australia competition run by Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce. Results from the contest (over 50 datasets) were released on data.gov.au.

Australia Queensland State Government

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Various data in the Australian state of Queensland's Office of Economic and Statistical Research are licensed under CC Attribution. The Queensland Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) seeks to create and implement a new standardized CC licensing arrangement for all Queensland Government information.

Austrian government

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The Austrian government has launched an open data portal with much of its data available under CC BY. The portal's terms of use states (via google translator), "The Cooperation for Open Data OGD recommends the license "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Austria ( CC BY 3.0 ) ". We must make the data to copy, distribute, publicly accessible, commercial use, and make modifications and adaptations of the work or of the content. It does not mean that everything on this portal, which will be released in the future as open data, necessarily subject to this license. You see, therefore, indicated in the description of data, the appropriate license for that particular record. In the CC BY 3.0 license just mentioned the name of the author or copyright holder is to be mentioned in a fixed manner."

ChEMBL

http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2011/04/chembl-09-as-rdf.html?m=1

DBpedia

DBpedia is a community organized effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia and make it available on the web so that it can be queried and linked to other datasets. DBpedia currently describes 3.5 million things, and is available for download under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.

Finnish Libraries

Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:

Freebase

Freebase is a collaborative project that imports structured data from a variety of sources on the web, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the Stanford University Library. Freebase currently contains information about 20 million topics, or entities, and its data is available for reuse under CC Attribution.

Geocommons

http://geocommons.com/ http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/creative_commons_mapping_platform_geocommons_launc.php

German railway

http://data.deutschebahn.com/datasets/haltestellen/

Google

Google Ngram Viewer has released its dataset under CC BY: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets.

Greece Government

Greece has opened up its geospatial data by implementing CC on geodata.gov.gr/geodata. The data is available under CC Attribution or CC Attribution-ShareAlike according to the type of data. Greek geodata is also available at opengeodata.gr under CC Attribution-ShareAlike, an implementation of the INSPIRE directive.

Italian Government

Italy's National Institute of Statistics has released all data on its site under the CC Attribution license. The Italian Chamber of Deputies shares its data via CC BY-SA. The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research also launched its Open Data portal under CC BY.

MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is a user-maintained database of information about artists and their music, including title, artist, release date, format, and other data. The data on MusicBrainz is available as public domain material free to be reused without restrictions or under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike. The distinctions between types of data are explained here.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a user-generated map of the world, amassing geodata collaboratively from around the globe. Its dataset is available under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. After the earthquake in Haiti, OpenStreetMap found an immediate niche to fill, launching their Project Haiti page in an effort to map out what was, at the time, a largely incomplete geographical picture, helping those on the ground in Haiti get to where they needed to be with greater accuracy.

Paleobiology Database

One of the largest compendia of fossil data assembled to date is the Paleobiology Database (PBDB), founded in 1998 by John Alroy and Charles Marshall. The PBDB has since grown to include an international group of more than 150 contributing scientists with diverse research agendas. Collectively, this body of volunteer and grant-supported investigators have spent more than 9 continuous person years entering more than 280,000 taxonomic names, nearly 500,000 published opinions on the status and classification of those names, and over 1.1 million taxonomic occurrences. After a year of community feedback and discussion, the Paleobiology Database has taken the decision that “All records are made available to the public based on a Creative Commons license that requires attribution before use.” The Paleobiology Database is now licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License.

Powerhouse Museum

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Powerhouse Museum - releases a large range of material under CC, including its photo of the day, downloadable pdfs from its Play program and the museum's general collection information and data.

Spain (Basque) Government - Open Data Euskadi

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In 2009, the Basque government opened up its data via the portal Open Data Euskadi, licensing all of its public data under CC Attribution. The Basque government listed as its reasoning for opening data, to "generate value and wealth," "create transparency," and "facilitate interoperability between administrations." The government especially encourages reuse of its data by the private sector, other public administrations, and stakeholders to promote transparency in government.

Through data.gov.uk, the United Kingdom has made available a growing number of government datasets (currently at 5,400) under terms that are interoperable with the CC Attribution license. This portal includes all affiliated websites such as the Ordinance Survey's maps.

Other public datasets

A list on Github of Awesome public datasets, not necessarily under CC licenses: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets.

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-This is a list of uses CC ''licenses'' for data. For uses of CC0 public domain dedication for data, see [[CC0 use for data]].
+Where CC0 is not desired for whatever reason (business requirements, community wishes, institutional policy…), CC licenses can and should be used for data and databases — with the important caveat that CC 3.0 license conditions do not apply to uses of data and databases that do not implicate copyright. Read more about this [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26283 here].
 ==Data and CC license use cases==
-===Australian Government===
+This is a list of uses of CC licenses for data. For uses of the [[CC0]] public domain dedication for data, see [[CC0 use for data]].
+===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#Australia|Australia Federal Government]]===
 <div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Australian_Bureau_of_Statistics|?Image Header|link=none}}
 Three of the largest sources of Australian federal government data sets — [[Case_Studies/Australian_Bureau_of_Statistics|Australian Bureau of Statistics]] (ABS), [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/3.0/au/ CC Attribution]. 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]. Results from the contest (over 50 datasets) were released were on data.australia.gov.au.
+[http://data.gov.au/ data.gov.au] — are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC Attribution]. 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.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]. Results from the contest (over 50 datasets) were released on data.gov.au.
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
 </div>
-====[[Case_Studies/Government_Information_Licensing_Framework|Queensland (State) Government]]====
+===[[Case_Studies/Government_Information_Licensing_Framework|Australia Queensland State Government]]===
 <div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Government_Information_Licensing_Framework|?Image Header|link=none}}
 [http://pan.search.qld.gov.au/search/search.cgi?collection=qld-gov&profile=oesr&num_ranks=10&tiers=off&query=creative+commons Various data] in the Australian state of Queensland's Office of Economic and Statistical Research are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/au/ CC Attribution]. The Queensland Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) seeks to create and implement a new standardized CC licensing arrangement for all Queensland Government information.
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
+</div>
+===[[Case_Studies/Open Data Austria|Austrian government]]===
+<div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Open_Data_Austria|?Image Header|link=none}}
+The Austrian government has launched an [http://data.gv.at/ open data portal] with much of its data available under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]. The portal's [http://data.gv.at/nutzungsbedingungen/ terms of use] states (via google translator), "The Cooperation for Open Data OGD recommends the license "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Austria ( CC BY 3.0 ) ". We must make the data to copy, distribute, publicly accessible, commercial use, and make modifications and adaptations of the work or of the content. It does not mean that everything on this portal, which will be released in the future as open data, necessarily subject to this license. You see, therefore, indicated in the description of data, the appropriate license for that particular record. In the CC BY 3.0 license just mentioned the name of the author or copyright holder is to be mentioned in a fixed manner."
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
+</div>
+===[[Case_Studies/ChEMBL|ChEMBL]]===
+<div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/ChEMBL|?Image Header|link=none}}
+http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2011/04/chembl-09-as-rdf.html?m=1
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
 </div>
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 <div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/DBpedia|?Image Header|link=none}}
 DBpedia is a community organized effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia and make it available on the web so that it can be queried and linked to other datasets. DBpedia currently describes 3.5 million things, and is available for [http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads36 download] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
 </div>
-=== Freebase ===
+===Finnish Libraries===
+Several Finnish libraries have opened up their data via the CC BY-SA license:
+* http://labs.kirjastot.fi/blog/helsingin-kaupunginkirjasto-avasi-helmet-luettelointitiedot-avoimena-datana
+* http://www.kirjastot.fi/fi-FI/ajankohtaista/tiedote/ajankohtaista/varsinais-suomen-kirjastojen-data-avoimeksi
+* http://data.kirjastot.fi/data.html
+* https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1403149.7214447972/rid:48e64615892ac6adde9a4066e88c736c
+=== [[Case_Studies/Freebase|Freebase]] ===
 <div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Freebase|?Image Header|link=none}}
 Freebase is a collaborative project that imports structured data from a [http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Data_source variety of sources] on the web, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the Stanford University Library. Freebase currently contains information about 20 million topics, or entities, and its data is available for reuse under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ CC Attribution].
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
+</div>
+=== [[Case_Studies/Geocommons|Geocommons]] ===
+<div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Geocommons|?Image Header|link=none}}
+http://geocommons.com/
+http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/creative_commons_mapping_platform_geocommons_launc.php
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
+</div>
+=== German railway ===
+http://data.deutschebahn.com/datasets/haltestellen/
+=== [[Case_Studes/Google|Google]] ===
+<div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Google|?Image Header|link=none}}
+Google Ngram Viewer has released its dataset under CC BY: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets.
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
 </div>
-===Greece Government===
+===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#Greece|Greece Government]]===
 Greece has opened up its geospatial data by implementing CC on [http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ geodata.gov.gr/geodata]. The data is available under CC Attribution or CC Attribution-ShareAlike [http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=6#how according to the type of data]. Greek geodata is also available at [http://opengeodata.gr opengeodata.gr] [http://www.opengeodata.gr/?p=261 under CC Attribution-ShareAlike], an implementation of the [http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/index.cfm INSPIRE] directive.
+===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#Italy|Italian Government]]===
+Italy's National Institute of Statistics has [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali released all data] on its site under the CC Attribution license. The Italian Chamber of Deputies shares [http://data.camera.it/data/en/ its data] via CC BY-SA. The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research also launched its [http://archivio.pubblica.istruzione.it/scuola_in_chiaro/open_data/index.html Open Data portal] under CC BY.
 === [[Case_Studies/MusicBrainz|MusicBrainz]] ===
 <div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/MusicBrainz|?Image Header|link=none}}
 [http://musicbrainz.org/ MusicBrainz] is a user-maintained database of information about artists and their music, including title, artist, release date, format, and other data. The data on MusicBrainz is available as public domain material free to be reused without restrictions or under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike. The distinctions between types of data are explained [http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_License here].
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
 </div>
+=== [[Case_Studies/Mydosis Portal|Mydosis Portal]] ===
+<div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Mydosis Portal|?Image Header|link=none}}
+The contents of the database Mydosis are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License].
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
+</div>
 ===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#New_Zealand|New Zealand Government]]===
 New Zealand's [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] was released under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC Attribution license] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website. More info is available at [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets CC New Zealand].
+=== Open Directory Project (dmoz) ===
+CC-BY, http://www.dmoz.org/license.html
 === [[Case_Studies/OpenStreetMap|OpenStreetMap]] ===
-<div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/OpenStreetMap|?Image Header|link=none}}
+<div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/OpenStreetMap|?Image Header|link=}}
 [http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap] is a user-generated map of the world, amassing geodata collaboratively from around the globe. Its dataset is available under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. After the earthquake in Haiti, OpenStreetMap found an [http://crisiscommons.org/Haiti-Open-Street-Map immediate niche] to fill, launching their [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti Project Haiti page] in an effort to map out what was, at the time, a largely incomplete geographical picture, helping those on the ground in Haiti get to where they needed to be with greater accuracy.
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
 </div>
-===Poland Government===
+===Paleobiology Database===
-The [http://www.mrr.gov.pl/ Polish Ministry of Regional Development] has required materials produced in the scope of the [http://www.equal.org.pl/baza.php?lang=pl EQUAL Program]. The EQUAL program is an European Union initiative aimed at improving the European economy by developing strategies and models to help the unemployed. The results, which include "duplicable models, materials, publications, technological solutions or good practices," will be collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be made available under a CC license.
+One of the largest compendia of fossil data assembled to date is the Paleobiology Database (PBDB), founded in 1998 by John Alroy and Charles Marshall. The PBDB has since grown to include an international group of more than 150 contributing scientists with diverse research agendas. Collectively, this body of volunteer and grant-supported investigators have spent more than 9 continuous person years entering more than 280,000 taxonomic names, nearly 500,000 published opinions on the status and classification of those names, and over 1.1 million taxonomic occurrences. After a year of community feedback and discussion, the Paleobiology Database has taken the decision that “All records are made available to the public based on a Creative Commons license that requires attribution before use.” The Paleobiology Database is [https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/41216 now licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License].
 ===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
 <div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|?Image Header|link=none}}
 [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].
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
 </div>
+===[[Case_Studies/Open Data Euskadi|Spain (Basque) Government - Open Data Euskadi]]===
+<div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Open Data Euskadi|?Image Header|link=none}}
+In 2009, the Basque government opened up its data via the portal [http://opendata.euskadi.net/ Open Data Euskadi], licensing all of its public data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ CC Attribution]. The Basque government listed as its reasoning for opening data, to "generate value and wealth," "create transparency," and "facilitate interoperability between administrations." The government especially encourages reuse of its data by the private sector, other public administrations, and stakeholders to promote transparency in government.
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
+</div>
+===[[Case_Studies/StackOverflow.com|Stack Overflow]]===
+<div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Stack Overflow|?Image Header|link=none}}
+*http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/
+*http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/
+*CC BY-SA
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
+</div>
+=== [[Case_Studies/Uniprot|Uniprot]] ===
+<div class="smimg">{{#show: Case_Studies/Uniprot|?Image Header|link=""}}
+Uniprot, the world’s most comprehensive catalog of information on proteins, is available for reuse under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ CC Attribution-NoDerivs]. The license is viable for all [http://www.uniprot.org/help/license copyrightable parts] of Uniprot's database.
+<br style="clear: left;"/>
+</div>
-===Spain (Basque) Government===
+===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#United_Kingdom|United Kingdom Government]]===
-* The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
+Through [http://data.gov.uk/ data.gov.uk], the United Kingdom has made available a growing number of government datasets (currently at 5,400) under [http://data.gov.uk/terms-and-conditions terms that are interoperable] with the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution license]. This portal includes all affiliated websites such as the [http://www.ordinancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/ Ordinance Survey's] maps.
-=== Uniprot ===
+==Other public datasets==
-* see http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2006/02/09/worlds-largest-protein-db-now-under-cc-license/
+A list on Github of Awesome public datasets, not necessarily under CC licenses: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets.
-===United Kingdom Government===
-* [http://data.gov.uk/ data.gov.uk], including all affiliated websites such as [http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/ Ordinance Survey's] maps. "aligned to be interoperable with any Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence" [http://data.gov.uk/terms-and-conditions]

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Data and CC license use cases

Australia Federal Government

Australia Queensland State Government

Austrian government

ChEMBL

DBpedia

Finnish Libraries

Freebase

Geocommons

German railway

Google

Greece Government

Italian Government

MusicBrainz

Mydosis Portal

New Zealand Government

Open Directory Project (dmoz)

OpenStreetMap

Paleobiology Database

Powerhouse Museum

Spain (Basque) Government - Open Data Euskadi

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