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Data and content created by government employees within the scope of their employment are not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. § 105. When purchasing data or content from third-party vendors, however care must be taken to ensure the information is not hindered by a restrictive, non-open license. In general, such licenses should comply with [the open knowledge definition](http://opendefinition.org/okd/) of an open license. Several examples of common open licenses are listed below:

## Content Licenses
* [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/about/pdm)
* [Creative Commons BY, BY-SA, or CC0](http://creativecommons.org/choose/)
* [GNU Free Documentation License](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.en.html)

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