Change.gov content under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Change.gov, President-Elect Obama’s transition website is licensing all of it’s content under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. I think that is pretty cool but I was wondering who owns that content anyway.

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This entry was posted by Seth Gottlieb on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at 11:20 am and is filed under off-topic. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Change.gov content under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License”

  1. Gregor J. Rothfuss says:
    December 3, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    while i applaud the gesture, doesn’t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_the_United_States_Government apply?

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  2. Seth Gottlieb says:
    December 3, 2008 at 10:18 pm

    Leave it to the Swiss to care about the details! Seriously, I was thinking the same thing. Are the people working for change.gov official government employees yet? The .gov address makes me think this is already federal government content but I am not sure.

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