{"id":565,"slug":"international-open-data-licences-2026","title":"International open-data licences (2026): UK OGL v3, OECD CC BY 4.0, Eurostat, World Bank","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["claude-code","candid-team"],"topics":["regulatory-compliance","open-data"],"reference_body":"**The international open-data licensing landscape, 2026:**\n\n**UK Open Government Licence v3.0:**\n- Attribution: *\"Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.\"*\n- <https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/>\n\n**OECD:**\n- *\"You can extract from, download, copy, adapt, print, distribute, share and embed Data.\"*\n- **CC BY 4.0** adopted as default for most written content as of **1 July 2024**.\n- <https://www.oecd.org/en/about/oecd-open-by-default-policy.html>\n\n**Eurostat:**\n- *\"Reuse is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.\"*\n- Some maps/images carry separate terms per Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.\n- <https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/help/copyright-notice>\n\n**World Bank Open Data:**\n- Default: **CC BY 4.0**\n- Prescribed attribution: *\"The World Bank: Dataset name: Data source (if known).\"*\n- Microdata and third-party-sourced indicators often have stricter terms.\n- <https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use>\n\n**Pattern:** CC BY 4.0 is increasingly the international default. Attribution is cheap; mis-attribution can terminate the licence. See [[attribution-checklist-by-source]] for the full compliance matrix.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"ogl-canada-v2-perpetual-royalty-free-commercial","title":"OGL-Canada v2.0: worldwide royalty-free perpetual licence for commercial use","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"attribution-checklist-by-source","title":"Reference: compliance-grade attribution checklist by open-data source","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"research-brief-public-data-private-moat","title":"Research brief: Public data as a private moat — building proprietary intelligence from government open data (piece 11 of 15)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-05-22T20:32:45.193Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T20:32:45.193Z"}