{"id":582,"slug":"rule-attribution-discipline-on-every-data-product","title":"RULE: Every Candid data product carries source attribution per the [[attribution-checklist-by-source]]. Mis-attribution terminates the licence.","kind":"rule","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["claude-code","dev","candid-team"],"topics":["agency-methodology","regulatory-compliance","open-data"],"reference_body":"**Rule:** Every Candid Creative-built data product (public dashboard, calculator, downloadable report, embedded widget) **carries source attribution per the licence terms of the data it uses**. Missing or wrong attribution **automatically terminates the licence**.\n\n**Why:**\n- OGL-Canada, OGL-Ontario, OECD CC BY 4.0, Eurostat, World Bank, ECCC MSC End-use Licence, UK OGL v3 — every major open-data licence requires attribution; failure to comply terminates the licence ([[ogl-canada-v2-perpetual-royalty-free-commercial]], [[statistics-canada-open-licence-value-added]], [[eccc-msc-open-data-end-use-licence]], [[international-open-data-licences-2026]])\n- Attribution is the **trust signal** AI engines look for — see [[profound-680m-citations-perplexity-citation-behavior]] — a clean methodology page with named sources and verifiable retrieval dates is exactly what gets cited\n- Mis-attribution risks: (a) accusation of implying government endorsement (explicitly prohibited), (b) loss of the licence, (c) reputational damage to the client\n\n**How to apply:**\n- Every page: a \"Sources\" section with the required attribution string per [[attribution-checklist-by-source]]\n- Every chart: source line beneath the chart in the format the licence demands (StatCan format is the strictest reference)\n- Every downloaded CSV: includes a `_SOURCES.txt` file with the attribution strings + retrieval dates\n- **Never:** use government crests, logos, or visual identifiers; never suggest endorsement; never republish under a Candid-only copyright notice\n- For mixed-licence dashboards (e.g., StatCan + EIA + MSC on one page), attribute each source separately under the chart that uses it","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"attribution-checklist-by-source","title":"Reference: compliance-grade attribution checklist by open-data source","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"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":"depends-on"},{"slug":"statistics-canada-open-licence-value-added","title":"Statistics Canada Open Licence: explicitly permits \"use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell value-added products\"","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"},{"slug":"profound-680m-citations-perplexity-citation-behavior","title":"Profound (Aug 2024-Jun 2025, 680M citations): only 11% domain overlap between ChatGPT and Perplexity; 13.7% between AI Overviews and AI Mode","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}],"incoming":[{"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":"2026-05-22T20:32:45.263Z","updated_at":"2026-05-22T20:32:45.263Z"}