Government in the public domain. Web portal refuses copyright

The new single web portal of the Government of the Netherlands completely rejects copyright with the help of “Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal ”, i.e. The content is in the public domain (NOT to be confused with the concepts of “public domain”, “public access”, “open access”, “state ownership”, “public use” and others !!!) and it can be used for any purpose without any either restrictions.

Creative Commons The Netherlands notes that the copyright policy of the Rijksoverheid.nl website signals a serious openness regarding the open exchange of public information, and recalls that the Dutch portal is the first government website to relinquish copyright.

The government’s web portal, which collects information from various ministries, not only signals genuine openness, but is also an example for other governments.
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And what about us? "Pirates" want to take money from Mikhalkov! I remind you that the portal gosuslugi.ru , made with the money of Russian taxpayers , the purpose of which seems to be the wide dissemination of information, is fully copyrighted . On the website of Vladimir Putin, too, all the nuts are tightened . We must demand that the content of these sites become free (and this is not related to “piracy” or “nationalization” ).

Quite a different picture in the United States , which are called to level by the so-called. “Copywriting” - everything that government officials do (including spacecraft and cosmonauts) is not protected by copyright .

However, we still have a single, but very, very positive point - the content of the Kremlin.ru president’s site is allowed to be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.


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