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US public-domain government data
US public-domain government data is works authored by the US federal government that carry no copyright and can be redistributed freely, as with TTB's regulatory content and beer statistics. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, TTB - Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Homepage and TTB - Statistics Portal (Beer, Wine & Spirits Reports) (licensing.license are working examples.
What is US public-domain government data?
Works authored by the US federal government that carry no copyright and can be redistributed freely, as with TTB's regulatory content and beer statistics.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - TTB - Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Homepage — "no reuse restrictions asserted". - TTB - Statistics Portal (Beer, Wine & Spirits Reports) (licensing.license — "commercial delivery terms (no licence asserted on site)". - USDA Forest Service FIA DataMart - license (terms of use) — "Data produced by the USDA Forest Service are U.S. Government works free of copyright". - SEC EDGAR XBRL Company Facts API - (terms of use) — "license:".
Why does US public-domain government data matter when choosing a dataset?
License language decides what you may ship to customers. Misreading it has ended product launches, and the gap between free to view and free to redistribute is where most of those failures begin.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and TTB - Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Homepage lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate US public-domain government data in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open TTB - Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Homepage and confirm its record — "no reuse restrictions asserted" — against the files you actually receive. 2. Open TTB - Statistics Portal (Beer, Wine & Spirits Reports) (licensing.license and confirm its record — "commercial delivery terms (no licence asserted on site)" — against the files you actually receive. 3. Read USDA Forest Service FIA DataMart - license's record on terms of use — "Data produced by the USDA Forest Service are U.S.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - commercial delivery terms 4 prescribed citation - edgar fair access policy - irc 6103 redaction - Open Government Licence v3.0 - plot coordinate fuzzing - commercial delivery terms
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of US public-domain government data?
TTB - Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Homepage is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "no reuse restrictions asserted". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "US public-domain government data" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides US public-domain government data?
Open TTB - Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Homepage next to TTB - Statistics Portal (Beer, Wine & Spirits Reports) (licensing.license and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
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Datasets containing US public-domain government data
6 datasets carry us public-domain government data in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
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