Making US Government Data License-Free - Sunlight Foundation Blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-12-14

Summary:

"Josh Tauberer, Jonathan Gray and I have released new and improved recommendations for ensuring that US government data remains license-free, and is available worldwide without restriction. From the recommendations: 'It is essential that U.S. federal government agencies have the tools to preserve the United States’ long legal tradition of ensuring that public information created by the federal government is exempt from U.S. copyright and remains free for everyone to use without restriction.'  The recommendations offer specific examples and suggested language for a few different situations, but it amounts to: Use the CC0 public domain dedication wherever copyright may exist, even when it's complicated. You can read a statement of support today by Josh Tauberer (the primary author), the Open Knowledge Foundation, Public Knowledge, and MuckRock. Our recommendations have also been endorsed by quite a few other people and public interest groups. See the document in full at theunitedstates.io/licensing.  We released an earlier version in August, and since then have made a raft of improvements based on feedback and experience since then. The document is hosted using Github, and you can raise feedback and suggestions there ..."

Link:

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/12/12/making-us-government-data-license-free/

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Date tagged:

12/14/2013, 07:44

Date published:

12/14/2013, 02:44