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'''Bold text'''Where CC0 is not desired for whatever reason (business requirements, community wishes, institutional policy…) CC licenses can and should be used for data and databases — with the important caveat that CC 3.0 license conditions do not apply to uses of data and databases that do not implicate copyright. Read more about this [http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26283 here].

==Data and CC license use cases==
This is a list of uses of CC licenses for data. For uses of the [[CC0]] public domain dedication for data, see [[CC0 use for data]]. 

===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#Australia|Australia Federal Government]]===
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Three of the largest sources of Australian federal government data sets — [[Case_Studies/Australian_Bureau_of_Statistics|Australian Bureau of Statistics]] (ABS), [http://www.ga.gov.au/ Geoscience Australia] and the still beta 
[http://data.australia.gov.au/ data.australia.gov.au] — are all licensed by default under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ CC Attribution]. 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 [http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB ABS] and [http://www.ga.gov.au/copyright.jsp Geoscience Australia] have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the [http://mashupaustralia.org/ Mashup Australia] competition run by Australia's [http://gov2.net.au/ Government 2.0 Taskforce]. Results from the contest (over 50 datasets) were released on data.australia.gov.au.
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===[[Case_Studies/Government_Information_Licensing_Framework|Australia Queensland State Government]]===
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[http://pan.search.qld.gov.au/search/search.cgi?collection=qld-gov&profile=oesr&num_ranks=10&tiers=off&query=creative+commons Various data] in the Australian state of Queensland's Office of Economic and Statistical Research are licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/au/ CC Attribution]. The Queensland Government Information Licensing Framework (GILF) seeks to create and implement a new standardized CC licensing arrangement for all Queensland Government information.
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===[[Case_Studies/ChEMBL|ChEMBL]]===
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http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2011/04/chembl-09-as-rdf.html?m=1
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===[[Case_Studies/DBpedia|DBpedia]]===
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DBpedia is a community organized effort to extract structured data from Wikipedia and make it available on the web so that it can be queried and linked to other datasets. DBpedia currently describes 3.5 million things, and is available for [http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Downloads36 download] under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC Attribution-ShareAlike].
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=== [[Case_Studies/Freebase|Freebase]] ===
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Freebase is a collaborative project that imports structured data from a [http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Data_source variety of sources] on the web, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the Stanford University Library. Freebase currently contains information about 20 million topics, or entities, and its data is available for reuse under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ CC Attribution].
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=== [[Case_Studies/Geocommons|Geocommons]] ===
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http://geocommons.com/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/creative_commons_mapping_platform_geocommons_launc.php
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=== [[Case_Studes/Google|Google]] ===
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Google Ngram Viewer has released its dataset under CC BY: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets. 
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===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#Greece|Greece Government]]===
Greece has opened up its geospatial data by implementing CC on [http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ geodata.gov.gr/geodata]. The data is available under CC Attribution or CC Attribution-ShareAlike [http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=6#how according to the type of data]. Greek geodata is also available at [http://opengeodata.gr opengeodata.gr] [http://www.opengeodata.gr/?p=261 under CC Attribution-ShareAlike], an implementation of the [http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/index.cfm INSPIRE] directive.

===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#Italy|Italian Government]]===
Italy's National Institute of Statistics has [http://www.istat.it/it/note-legali released all data] on its site under the CC Attribution license.

=== [[Case_Studies/MusicBrainz|MusicBrainz]] ===
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[http://musicbrainz.org/ MusicBrainz] is a user-maintained database of information about artists and their music, including title, artist, release date, format, and other data. The data on MusicBrainz is available as public domain material free to be reused without restrictions or under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike. The distinctions between types of data are explained [http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_License here].
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===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#New_Zealand|New Zealand Government]]===
New Zealand's [http://www.mfe.govt.nz/issues/climate/lucas/data/land-use-mapping.html Ministry for the Environment’s Land Cover Database and the Land Environments New Zealand classification] was released under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nz CC Attribution license] on the [http://koordinates.com/ Koordinates] website. More info is available at [http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/news_and_events/news/koordinates_showcases_govt_cc_datasets CC New Zealand].

=== Open Directory Project (dmoz) ===
CC-BY, http://www.dmoz.org/license.html

=== [[Case_Studies/OpenStreetMap|OpenStreetMap]] ===
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[http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap] is a user-generated map of the world, amassing geodata collaboratively from around the globe. Its dataset is available under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. After the earthquake in Haiti, OpenStreetMap found an [http://crisiscommons.org/Haiti-Open-Street-Map immediate niche] to fill, launching their [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti Project Haiti page] in an effort to map out what was, at the time, a largely incomplete geographical picture, helping those on the ground in Haiti get to where they needed to be with greater accuracy.
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===[[Case_Studies/Powerhouse_Museum,_Sydney|Powerhouse Museum]]===
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[http://www.powerhousemuseum.com Powerhouse Museum] - releases a large range of material under CC, including its [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/ photo of the day], [http://play.powerhousemuseum.com/ downloadable pdfs] from its Play program and the museum's general [http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/225 collection information and data].
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===[[Case_Studies/Open Data Euskadi|Spain (Basque) Government - Open Data Euskadi]]===
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In 2009, the Basque government opened up its data via the portal [http://opendata.euskadi.net/ Open Data Euskadi], licensing all of its public data under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ CC Attribution]. The Basque government listed as its reasoning for opening data, to "generate value and wealth," "create transparency," and "facilitate interoperability between administrations." The government especially encourages reuse of its data by the private sector, other public administrations, and stakeholders to promote transparency in government.
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===[[Case_Studies/Stack Overflow|Stack Overflow]]===
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*http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/
*http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/
*CC BY-SA
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=== [[Case_Studies/Uniprot|Uniprot]] ===
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Uniprot, the world’s most comprehensive catalog of information on proteins, is available for reuse under [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ CC Attribution-NoDerivs]. The license is viable for all [http://www.uniprot.org/help/license copyrightable parts] of Uniprot's database.
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===[[Government_use_of_Creative_Commons#United_Kingdom|United Kingdom Government]]===
Through [http://data.gov.uk/ data.gov.uk], the United Kingdom has made available a growing number of government datasets (currently at 5,400) under [http://data.gov.uk/terms-and-conditions terms that are interoperable] with the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC Attribution license]. This portal includes all affiliated websites such as the [http://www.ordinancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/licence/ Ordinance Survey's] maps.