With respect to third party copyrighted works that may be used on an official website, a proper permission from the
copyright owner must be obtained prior to publishing such work on the website. Posting all the content under
creative commons licenses is a viable solution. It is recommended that the following statement be posted on the official websites:
Recommended copyright notice:
“Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to this official website under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License”
When third parties create the content on behalf of government, or a public body,
copyright to the content, the material rights, must be either waived, or licensed under a
creative commons license. But when content is created by employees and/or officials of a public body, it is automatically deemed to be the property of the employer, i.e. the public body.