Three New Documents about Creative Commons Licenses for Data

The Creative Commons has released three new documents about the use of its licenses for data: "Data," "Data and CC Licenses," and "CC0 Use for Data."

Here's an excerpt from the announcement by Sarah Hinchliff Pearson:

We have done a lot of thinking about data in the past year. As a result, we have recently published a set of detailed FAQs designed to help explain how CC licenses work with data and databases.

These FAQs are intended to:

1. alert CC licensors that some uses of their data and databases may not trigger the license conditions,
2. reiterate to licensees that CC licenses do not restrict them from doing anything they are otherwise permitted to do under the law, and
3. clear up confusion about how the version 3.0 CC licenses treat sui generis database rights.

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