{"id":22885,"key":"Content_licensing_in_multilateral_institutions","title":"Content licensing in multilateral institutions","latest":{"id":1207217,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T21:47:02Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"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]].\n\nPublications generally have:\n\n* Restrictions on how much can be used (allowing extracts).\n* 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).\n* Ambiguity over whether derivate works are allowed.\n\nAny one of these restrictions make the work incompatible with Appropedia's license.\n\nAll require attribution, which is compatible with any [[Creative Commons]] license.\n\nExamples are:\n\n* [[World Bank]]: [http://web.archive.org/web/20040307075110/http://publications.worldbank.org:80/helpfaq World Bank Publications: Help/FAQ] - \"The World Bank welcomes requests for permissions to excerpt or photocopy\"\n* [[United Nations]]: e.g.\n** [http://web.archive.org/web/20150709060450/https://unp.un.org/Rights.aspx United Nations Publications - Rights and Permissions] - gives no rights beyond regular copyright.\n** [https://web.archive.org/web/20210417203227/https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/copyright-and-termsofuse.html United Nations Development Programme - Copyright & Terms of Use]: \"Extracts of the information in the Web site may be reviewed, reproduced or translated for research or private study but not for sale or for use in conjunction with commercial purposes.\"\n* OECD: [http://www.oecd.org/document/56/0,3343,en_21571361_33915056_34508792_1_1_1_1,00.html OECD Publishing - Rights and Permissions] - \"you can include excerpts from OECD publications, databases and multimedia products in your own documents, presentations, blogs, websites and teaching materials... All requests for public or commercial use and translation rights should be submitted to [email address].\"\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = Knowledge sharing, Licenses, Multilateral institutions, open licenses\n}}\n\n[[Category:Knowledge sharing]]\n[[Category:Licenses]]"}