Multilateral institutions, funded by taxpayers around the world, generally have permissions statements which are less restrictive compared to full "all Rights reserved," but not open and compatible with the new era of knowledge sharing through open licenses.

Publications generally have:

  • Restrictions on how much can be used (allowing extracts).
  • Restrictions on commercial use (unlike the CC-BY-SA license used by Wikipedia, Appropedia and others - see Non-commercial clause for the reasons to allow commercial use).
  • Ambiguity over whether derivate works are allowed.

Any one of these restrictions make the work incompatible with Appropedia's license.

All require attribution, which is compatible with any Creative Commons license.

Examples are:

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Keywords knowledge sharing, licenses, multilateral institutions, open licenses
Authors Chris Watkins
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
Related 0 subpages, 2 pages link here
Impact 162 page views
Created January 23, 2010 by Chris Watkins
Modified March 8, 2024 by Kathy Nativi
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