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Argentina
Australia
2.1
Australian government reports recommending CC usage
Austria
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
Croatia
Czech Republic
10
European Union
11
France
12
Georgia
13
Greece
14
Guatemala
15
Indonesia
16
Israel
17
Italy
18
Korea
19
Macedonia
20
Mexico
21
Netherlands
22
New Zealand
23
Poland
24
Russian Federation
25
Serbia
26
Spain
27
Taiwan
28
Ukraine
29
United Kingdom
30
Venezuela
31
United States
31.1
Federal
31.2
State
32
Intergovernmental Organizations
32.1
Commonwealth of Learning
32.2
European Cultural Foundation
32.3
European Funded
32.4
Inter-American Development Bank
32.5
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
32.6
United Nations
32.7
World Bank
Argentina
Official website of the Buenos Aires City Government
. CC BY 2.5 Argentina.
Australia
AusGOAL
, the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework, provides support and guidance to Australia's governments and related sectors to facilitate open access to publicly funded information. AusGOAL makes it possible for organisations to manage their risks when publishing information and data in a way that drives innovation and entrepreneurial activities; providing enhanced economic and social benefits to the wider community. AusGOAL is aligned with numerous open government initiatives around the world and supports the
Australian Information Commissioners Open Access Principles
. AusGOAL endorses the Creative Commons Australia Version 3.0 Licences, and the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
Australian Parliament. The Parliament’s central web portal
houses the most important documents of the Australian Federal Government including all bills, committee reports and, most importantly, the Hansard transcript of Parliamentary Sittings, and the portal will be published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Version 3.0 Australian license.
Australian budget delivered May 12, 2010 was
released
under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Also the
Gov 2.0 response
and the
NBN Implementation Study
government data - three of the largest sources of Australian government data sets -
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Geoscience Australia
and the
data.australia.gov.au
- are all licensed by default under
CC BY 2.5 Australia
and/or
CC BY 3.0 Australia
. 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.australia.gov.au played a major role in the
Mashup Australia
competition run by Australia's
Government 2.0 Taskforce
over 50 datasets released on
for the Mashup Australia contest:
Geoscience Australia's "geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges" during the recent Brisbane flood:
Water Information
- the Australian
Bureau of Meteorology
has
launched
the official website of its Improving Water Information Program with a default
CC BY 3.0 Australia
licence. This aggregates hundreds of other government departments' and agencies' information into the National Water Account. They have a range of explanatory materials about the licence and are building licensing tools and metadata into their
Australian Water Resources Information System
ABC Pool
- this initiative of Australia's largest public broadcaster, the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
(ABC), is releasing material from the ABC archives for reuse under CC licences. It's first major release has been as part of the Gene Pool project, celebrating Charles Darwin's Centenary.
National Library of Australia
- various
policy materials
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
Queensland Museum
releases
photographs
from its collection on
Wiki Commons
under
CC BY-SA
NSW Department of Education and Training -
Dynamic Calculus': Teaching Resource
Aged Care Queensland's
eMentoring Handbook
National Copyright Unit -
Creative Commons for Educators fact sheets
produced for the Smartcopying website in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia.
Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy -
Budd:e E-security Education Package
. The Budd:e package won Best Children's interactive media and digital content at the 2010
AIMIA Awards
Mosman Municipal Council
's
Community Engagement Strategy
is released under a Creative Commons licence and includes as a key priority “to promote the use and dissemination of Council’s materials while retaining Council’s rights of authorship”.
Australian Government Information Management Office has CC licensed its blog:
and the Government 2.0 showcase
Australian Electoral Commission has
applied
CC BY as the default license for its website:
Government of Tasmania, Department of Education has adopted CC BY 4.0
Australian government reports recommending CC usage
Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0
- report of the Australian
Government 2.0 Taskforce
Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce
- agreement in principle that Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) should be the default licence for all PSI
Victorian Government's Economic Development Committee
recommends CC licensing for public sector information.
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) published the Australia's Digital Economy: Future Directions paper under a CC BY-NC-ND in July 2009:
National Broadband Network Implementation Study
was released by DBCDE as a wiki under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Wiki taken down now, but was tweeted:
DBCDE published two reports on its website under CC BY:
Austria
Open Government Data Portal by the City of Vienna
under
CC BY
Brazil
Brazil open government data portal
under CC BY-SA.
Ministry of Justice
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Presidential website
. CC BY ND 2.5 Bulgaria.
Canada
Montreal, Québec, Gatineau, Sherbrooke and the Quebec government
have adopted
CC BY 4.0 International for their open data.
Canada has developed the Government of Canada Open Data License Agreement for their open data portal website
Government of Canada Open Data Pilot Project
. While not a Creative Commons license it would seem that this is heavily inspired by the Creative Commons philosophy and has many similar aspects. The license includes sections on 1.0 Definitions; 2.0 Intellectual Property Rights; 3.0 License Grant; 4.0 Acknowledgement of Source; 5.0 No Warranty and no Liability; and 6.0 Effective Date and Termination.
The license permits individuals or commercial interests to use, reproduce, or add value to government data provided they use the required attribution and that they do not imply any warranty to, nor make any claim of exclusive rights to the data.
This has similarities to the Open Government Licence for public sector information used in the United Kingdom as seen farther down this list.
Chile
Chilean Government Official Site
, whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
Chilean Bureau of Tourism
, whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
Chilean Government - Secretary of Economy
, whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
Chilean Government - Secretary of Communications
, whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
Chilean Government - Secretary of Education
, whose site is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Chile.
The Library of the National Congress
, whose site is licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
The Guidelines for Governmental Websites
and
its Observatory
, run by the Ministry of Economy, are licensed under CC BY NC SA 2.0 Chile.
Croatia
- Centar za otvoreni kod, Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / Center for Open Source, National and University Library in Zagreb, licensed under CC BY SA 3.0 Croatia.
Czech Republic
RVP Metodicky Portal
is an educational portal to Czech open educational resources (OER) licensed under
CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike
and
CC Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives
. It is a government-funded initiative by the Czech Republic and the European Social Fund, and is run as part of a research project by the Institute of Education in Prague and the National Institute of Vocational Education.
European Union
The European Commission released
licensing recommendations
to support the reuse of public sector information in Europe. In addition to providing guidance on baseline license principles for public sector content and data, the guidelines suggest that Member States should adopt standardized open licenses – such as Creative Commons licenses. "Open standard licences, for example the most recent Creative Commons (CC) licences (version 4.0), could allow the re-use of PSI without the need to develop and update custom-made licences at national or sub-national level. Of these, the CC0 public domain dedication is of particular interest. As a legal tool that allows waiving copyright and database rights on PSI, it ensures full flexibility for re-users and reduces the complications associated with handling numerous licences, with possibly conflicting provisions."
France
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 FR
CC BY-SA 3.0 FR
CC BY-SA 3.0 FR
Georgia
Ministry of Education and Science
Greece
CC BY 3.0 Greece
CC BY 3.0 Greece
CC BY-SA 3.0 Greece
CC BY 3.0 Greece, first implementation of the INSPIRE directive
Guatemala
under CC BY-NC-SA international.
Indonesia
The Government of Indonesia launched "Portal Data Indonesia", one stop Indonesia open data, today, using CC-BY license as its copyright policy:
Israel
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Italy
National Institute of Statistics
releases all data under
CC BY
Chamber of Deputies data portal
, CC BY.
The official website of the italian police, CC BY NC ND 2.5 IT
The official open government data portal of the
Regional Government of the Piedmont Region in Italy
CC BY 2.5 Italy for content of the website
CC0 for available databases (all to date: Oct 8, 2010)
Korea
The Official Blog of the President, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Kr
Korea Open Courseware run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS)
Macedonia
Macedonia Center for Research and Policy Making
Mexico
President Felipe Calderon Website, BY NC ND 2.5 Mexico.
National Sports Comission
Netherlands
the
CC0 Public domain dedication
is used as the default copyright policy of the Dutch national government's primary website
www.rijksoverheid.nl
. Since 2010 this website combines al public information published by the Dutch government and has replaced the websites of individual ministeries and agencies. Everything that is available on www.rijskoverheid.nl is available
under CC0 unless otherwise indicated
Creative Commons Netherlands has published a study on
Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector
(pdf)
New Zealand
NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework
standardises the licensing of government copyright works for re-use using Creative Commons licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyright material. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material by individuals and organisations may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. It was released for public discussion on August 27, 2009 and approved by Cabinet on July 5, 2010. The framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by encouraging State Services agencies to license material for reuse on liberal terms, and recommends Creative Commons as an important tool in this process.
In 2011 The Ministers of Finance and Internal Affairs adopted a statement
detailing a new Declaration on Open and Transparent Government
. The Declaration has been approved by Cabinet, and directs all Public Service departments, the New Zealand Police, the New Zealand Defence Force, the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service; encouraged other State Services agencies; and invited State Sector agencies to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process.
The
Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification
has been released under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence
on the
Koordinates
website.
Land Information New Zealand's
Ocean Survey 20/20 web portal
which provides New Zealand with better knowledge of its ocean territory, including New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Continental Shelf and the Ross Sea Region is made available under un
CC BY licence
Reports and interpretations
are available under a
CC BY ND licence
The Department of Conservation
has
many datasets
including
pest species distribution
and
Director-General's expenses
licensed under Creative Commons.
The Department of Internal Affairs website "
data.govt.nz
" which acts as a NZ government dataset directory makes content such as feedback and dataset listings available under a
CC BY licence
. Some datasets referred to on data.govt.nz have also been made available under Creative Commons licences by their
respective agencies
The State Services Commission
has published some annual reports (
eg
), public reports (
eg
) and guidance documents (
eg
) on its
website
under a
CC BY licence
The Department of Labour
has licensed its latest
Annual Report
and
Statement of Intent
under a
CC BY licence
The Ministry of Justice
has licensed its
Statement of Intent 2010–2013
and
Executive Expenses 2010
under a
CC BY licence
The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
has made some
bathymetry grids
available under a
CC BY
and
CC BY ND
licence.
The NZ Parliamentary Library publishes some CC licensed documents such as Bill Digests and Research Papers on the
Parliament website
The
Human Rights Commission
has made various resources available for download on its website available under a
CC BY licence
including reports, guides and Statements of Intent.
DigitalNZ's 'Make It Digital' guides
for making digital content in New Zealand are now available under a
CC BY licence
PHARMAC
has a selection of schedules available under a
CC BY licence
The Charities Commission
released the
Charities Register
as part of its '
open data web service
' under a
CC BY licence
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
has made the
audio tracks for 21 Rita Angus exhibition paintings
and presentation
recordings from the Rita Angus: Life & Vision Symposium
available on their website under a
CC BY NC ND licence
. They have also taken up the
CC BY NC ND licences
to
mark images in their Online Collections
which are able to be shared.
The following local government bodies have released CC licensed GIS datasets on the
Koordinates
platform:
Wellington City Council
offers
datasets
of aerial imagery, contours, building footprints, flood hazards, wind zones and more under a
CC BY licence
Northland Regional Council
currently has 25 GIS
datasets
available here, 19 are licensed under a
CC BY
and 6 under a
CC BY ND
licence.
North Shore City Council
's
Parks layer
is available under a
CC BY licence
Auckland Regional Council
datasets of Wards, Community Boards and some passenger transport information is available under a
CC BY licence
In relation to the
Canterbury Earthquakes
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA)
and the National Library of New Zealand have set up a documentary project of
CC BY NC ND licensed
images by
Ross Becker
as a record of recovery inside the red zone.
Land Information New Zealand
made its aerial photographs of the city's damage available under a
CC BY
licence.
The Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management
released
inner city footage
for screening at public memorial events under a
CC BY
licence.
The Defence Force
makes its Flickr photos sets (including
documentation of Canterbury
) available under
CC BY
CERA
's 2011-2016 Statement of Intent is available under a
CC BY
licence.
Poland
Equal Program projects database
- Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.
Polish Ministry of Economy
is publishing content on its website under a CC BY SA 3.0 Poland license.
Polish Council of Ministers has
adopted
a new Digital School program for Polish schools, which includes 43 millions PLN for Creative Commons Attribution or compatible) textbooks for grades 4-6 in primary schools (K4-K6).
Update:
Russian Federation
All content (fotos, texts, videos, audios, etc.) of
Kremlin.ru (Official Website of President of the Russian Federation)
, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
Letter of authorisation from the Press Secretary to the President of the Russian Federation allowing use of Kremlin.ru materials under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported licence (PDF, English, 3 October 2008)
Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)
All content of
(Official information portal of the official authorities of
The Republic of Bashkortostan
), Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0 Unported)
Letter of authorisation from Administration of President of The Republic of Bashkortostan
Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)
All content of
(Internet-portal of administration of
Volgograd Oblast
), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
Letter of authorisation from Administration of Volgograd Oblast
Template on Wikimedia Commons (English and Russian)
State-owned
Russian International News Agency "RIA Novosti"
, 460 historical images from
database http://visualrian.ru
, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported)
The license specified on the pages of certain images.
Information page on Wikimedia Commons
Special category on Wikimedia Commons
Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Portal of Department of New Media and Communication Theory of Faculty of Journalism, Creative Commons Attribution, version unknown
Some content of
- information portal of
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
, Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.5)
All content of
- portal of state-owned
National Research University Higher School of Economics
, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Serbia
Serbian Government - Administration for Joint Services of the Republic Bodies
: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
Serbian Government - Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government
: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
Serbian Government - Ministry of Mining and Energy
: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
Serbian Government - Institute for Social Insurance
: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
Serbian Government - Agency for Restitution
: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
Serbian Fiscal Council
: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
Serbian National Council for Culture
: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Serbia
Spain
Style and usage guide of the Government of Catalonia’s social networks
under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
Statistical information on the
Statistical Institute of Catalonia
site is licensed by default under
CC BY 3.0 Spain
The Basque government opened a portal called Open Data Euskadi
that uses CC BY 3.0 Spain.
The
Government of the Balearic Islands
website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License
Taiwan
Data.Gov.TW
, the Taiwan government official Open Data Portal, releases most of the dataset hosted there under the
"Taiwan Open Government Data License, version 1.0"
, a license with an one-way CC BY 4.0 switching mechanism implemented and has been evaluated and verified as being conformant with the principles set forth in the
"Open Definition"
. On account of that, most of the materials on the Data Portal can be used under CC BY 4.0 license. Moreover, from 2018.12.25, the Open Government Data Advisory Group Meeting of the
Taiwan Executive Yuan
has approved to add CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA 4.0 as one of the options for the licenses on the Taiwan government official Open Data Portal. That makes some dataset can be released directly and originallly under either CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-SA 4.0 in the CC License Suite.
Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation
Ukraine
Unofficial municila page of Stryi town:
United Kingdom
The
Open Government License
, used for a large amount of crown copyright data and content, is intended to be compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.
National Assembly for Wales use of flickr:
Venezuela
The
Canaima project
aims to give one laptop computer to every pupil in Venezuela (300,000 computers has been distributed so far) is preloaded with educational content (about 400 pieces of content) all of it is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
United States
Federal
Works by the US federal government are automatically part of the
public domain
in the US as stipulated by
Third-party content (such as the text of speeches by the first lady) on the
White House web site
are licensed with CC BY 3.0 US by default.
President-Elect Transition Team, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden
. CC BY 3.0 Unported. (Not an official federal government site, but an election team site, hence not required to be public domain.)
The U.S. Department of Education has made OER an invitational priority in their
Ready to Learn
(PDF) and
Ready to Teach
(PDF) grants.
The U.S. Department of Education has included open educational resources in their
Notice of Proposed Priorities
for discretionary grant funding. Essentially, if the priorities are adopted, it could mean that grant seekers who include open educational resources as a component of an application for funding from the Department of Education could receive priority.
The U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education commit $2 billion to community colleges and career training;
CC BY required for grant outputs
The U.S. Department of Labor Career Pathways Innovation Fund Grants Program;
CC BY required for grant outputs
U.S. Open Data Action plan is under CC0 + some federal datasets: report (
pdf
);
blog post
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.
Washington State open policy and requirement of CC BY
New Hampshire adopts Open Source and Open Data requirements
(policy friendly to CC use, but not a specific CC tool adoption)
OER K-12 bill
passed in WA state. The focus of the bill is to help school districts identify existing high-quality, free, openly licensed, common core state standards aligned resources available for local adoption; in addition, any content built with public funds, must be licensed under “an attribution license” (CC BY)
The city of Washington, D.C. has made available an unofficial copy of the
DC Code
under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
Intergovernmental Organizations
Commonwealth of Learning
The Commonwealth of Learning has incorpoated CC BY-SA as part of its open educational resources (OER) policy:
Interview with Sir John Daniel about the policy:
COL's guidelines for open educational resources (OER) in higher education:
Case_Studies/Commonwealth_of_Learning
European Cultural Foundation
The
European Cultural Foundation's
project
Labforculture.org
releases materials under a CC BY-NC-ND license.
European Funded
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)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) -
CERN
publishes its book catalog online as open data using the CC0 public domain dedication and the results of some Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments are published under various Creative Commons licenses.
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.
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
The
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
is an IGO that supports sustainable democracy, and licenses selected publications under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence.
United Nations
UNESCO OER documentation and toolkits -
United Nations University OpenCourseWare -
United Nations University Media Studio -
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Knowledge Platform -
The UNDP Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean -
World Bank
The World Bank has incorporated CC BY into its Open Access Policy and as a default for Bank-produced research and knowledge products via its OPen Knowledge Repository:
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