Open licensing requirement for competitive grant programs.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 2

For competitive grants awarded in competitions announced after February 21, 2017: (a) A grantee or subgrantee must openly license to the public the rights set out in paragraph (b)(1) of this section in any grant deliverable that is created wholly or in part with Department competitive grant funds, and that constitutes a new copyrightable work; provided, however, that when the deliverable consists of modifications to pre-existing works, the license shall extend only to those modifications that can be separately identified and only to the extent that open licensing is permitted under the terms of any licenses or other legal restrictions on the use of pre-existing works. (b)(1) With respect to copyrightable work identified in paragraph (a) of this section, the grantee or subgrantee must grant to the public a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable license to— (i) Access, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display, and distribute the copyrightable work; (ii) Prepare derivative works and reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute those derivative works; and (iii) Otherwise use the copyrightable work, provided that in all such instances attribution is given to the copyright holder. (2) Grantees and subgrantees may select any open licenses that comply with the requirements of this section, including, at the grantee's or subgrantee's discretion, a license that limits use to noncommercial purposes. The open license also must contain— (i)

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