Alex Hudson wrote: >>My understanding is that stuff produced by the Federal government is >>automatically public domain. > > I know it's not subject to US copyright, but I don't know about whether > or not that counts for other countries. There isn't a global 'public > domain', copyright is a national issue (subject to the whims of Berne, > obviously). I'm guessing since Berne 'only' requires you to recognise > foreign copyrights, that it probably is essentially copyright free, but > I don't know - database rights are kind of new and all.
It's not subject to _additional_ copyright. If it includes material that was previously copyright, then those parts remain copyright by their original authors. Thus you end up in situations such as: http://www.nyfairuse.org/law_is_copyrighted.xhtml in which the copyright of the law is privately held. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates [EMAIL PROTECTED] OSS Watch http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/ Work Blog http://connect.educause.edu/blog/StuartYeates _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
