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* CC0 as default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's single website. Will contain websites for all the ministries. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available without restrictions unless it is noted otherwise: [http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/copyright]
 
* [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)
 
* [[Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf|Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector]] (pdf)
  

Revision as of 13:07, 2 April 2010

Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known government uses of CC licensing (and government recommendations of CC licensing). 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 is inter-governmental bodies such as the OECD and EU.

Armenia

Australia

Australian government reports recommending CC usage

Bulgaria

Chile

Colombia

European Union

  • http://www.communia-project.eu/about COMMUNIA - The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain], funded by the European Commission (the executive of the European Union), CC-BY-SA (Unported)

Greece

Guatemala

Italy

Korea

Mexico

Netherlands

  • CC0 as default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's single website. Will contain websites for all the ministries. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available without restrictions unless it is noted otherwise: [1]
  • Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector (pdf)

New Zealand

OECD

Russian Federation

Spain

United States

Federal

State

  • New York State Senate, Senate Content, CC-BY-NC-ND with CC+ allowing non-political fundraising use of content.
  • State of Virginia, legislation that indicates a preference for state-funded materials to be released with a CC (or equivalent open) license.

Local government