Government use of Creative Commons

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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 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

New Zealand

OECD

Russian Federation

Spain

  • The Basque government opened a portal called "Open Data Euskadi"

http://opendata.euskadi.net/ that uses CC BY 3.0 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