NGO

How can Creative Commons licensing work with content created by NGOs (non-governmental organizations, a.k.a. non-profit organizations)? What are resources to help explain this to civil society organizations?

• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) uses an all-rights reserved copyright notice on its Web site. [1]
• Panel on nonprofit copyright at Nonprofit Technology Conference [2]
• It makes a lot of sense to advocate CC in the non-profit arena [3]
• Most nonprofits don't have in-house lawyers [4]
• The imaginary revenue of "If we could just sell some of our ___" makes it psychologically hard for the organization to embrace a free culture philosophy [5]
• With Amnesty International we will launch a project to create a space where lawyers, experts and activist can share their contents, I will try to convince them to license it with CC by [6]
• Compare the NonProfit Open Source Initiative [7]
• ATJWeb.org uses CC-NC [8]
• We are working with a Victoria-based non-profit organisation to implement a procedure for releasing their internal documents, training materials and policies under CC [9]
• Creative Commons Taiwan is finishing up a 20-page "Using Creative Commons Licenses" booklet for government agencies and non-profit organizations. [10]
• I am working with colleagues on a project that helps private Foundations think about whether and how they could integrate CC-licensing requirements in grant contracts. [11]
• WITNESS encourages CC licenses for The Hub (Beta), a "YouTube for Human Rights" [12]
• Public Knowledge uses by-sa
• Creative Commons uses by
• Students for Free Culture uses by
• Electronic Frontier Foundation uses by-nc
• Universities Allied for Essential Medicines uses by-nc-sa
• Center for Democracy & Technology uses by-nc
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility uses by-nc
• Association for Progressive Communications uses by-nc-sa
• Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition uses by-nc
• Knowledge Ecology International uses an unspecified CC license
• Open Rights Group uses by-sa[13]
• Marijuana Conversation (Sponsored by ACLU of Washington State) uses NC-BY-ND
• The Holistic Care Foundation encourages CC licenses for Yoga, a "Wiki Yoga Gallery"

External Sites

• Non-governmental organization @ Wikipedia