Difference between revisions of "Government use of Creative Commons"

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* http://www.president.go.kr/ The Office of the President web site, CC BY 2.0 KR
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* http://www.president.go.kr/ The Office of the President web site, CC BY NC ND 2.0 KR
 
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
 
* http://blog.naver.com/mb_nomics The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
  

Revision as of 09:57, 29 September 2010

Currently this is a scratchpad for referencing known government 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 is inter-governmental bodies such as the European Union and United Nations.

Nation-Specific

Armenia

Australia

Australian government reports recommending CC usage

Bulgaria

Chile

Colombia

Greece

Guatemala

Italy

Korea

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

Russian Federation

Spain

United Kingdom

  • data.gov.uk, including all affiliated websites such as Ordinance Survey's maps. "aligned to be interoperable with any Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence" [1]

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

Intergovernmental Organizations

European Cultural Foundation

European Union

Inter-American Development Bank

  • The Inter-American Development Bank is requiring the adoption of Creative Commons by the organizations that receive funding from the Bank in the context of the FOMIN (Fondo Multiateral de Inversiones) initiatives, particularly the ICT4BUS, a fund that promotes the adoption of e-commerce in the American continent, which has financed more that thirty initiatives in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua and other Latin American countries. Banks require those initiative to use the GPL to license any software developed by organizations receiving support from the bank, and CC to license the documentation related with those computer programs, such as user manuals.

United Nations