{"id":272,"date":"2021-12-13T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/?p=272"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:28:28","slug":"what-is-the-open-government-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/13\/what-is-the-open-government-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Open Government Licence?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/doc\/open-government-licence\/version\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Government Licence<\/a> for public sector information is a copyright licence for Crown Copyright works published by the UK government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other UK public sector bodies may apply it to their publications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was developed and is maintained by The National Archives. It is compatible with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/?s=creative+commons\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Commons Attribution<\/a> (CC BY) licence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/14\/how-do-i-acknowledge-open-government-licensed-material\/\" target=\"_blank\">How do I acknowledge Open Government licensed material?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/2021\/12\/13\/what-are-open-licences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Open licences<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Back<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Home<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:9px\">The author takes no responsibility for the content of this page, which is not intended as binding legal advice. The views are about copyright in the UK Higher Education sector context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Government Licence for public sector information is a copyright licence for Crown Copyright works published by the UK government. Other UK public sector bodies may apply it to their publications. It was developed and is maintained by The National Archives. It is compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. How do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[89,88,85,32],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-licences","tag-cc-by","tag-crown-copyright","tag-open-government-licence","tag-open-licence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.coventry.domains\/copyrightliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}