The White House website under Creative Commons

January 26, 2009

Filed under: web — Estevão Mascarenhas @ 18:55

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He know how to use the internet. The White House’s website is now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

“Pursuant to federal law, government-produced materials appearing on this site are not copyright protected. The United States Government may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.

Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to Whitehouse.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.”

You can see the official page here and compare the George W. Bush White House site here.

What do you think about this? :-)

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