Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) scripsit: > I honestly don't know. The ARL lawyer I'm working with thinks that > the USG may have foreign copyright, but he says that until it has been > litigated and settled in court (and I don't know which country's courts > that will be in), there's no way to know for certain.
Indeed, since foreign copyright is a matter of foreign law, the question might be decided different ways in different countries. At any rate, Congress did not intend government copyright in foreign nations to be affected. See https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Copyright_Law_Revision_(House_Report_No._94-1476) which says in the discussion of Section 105: The prohibition on copyright protection for United States Government works is not intended to have any effect on protection of these works abroad. Works of the governments of most other countries are copyrighted. There are no valid policy reasons for denying such protection to United States Government works in foreign countries, or for precluding the Government from making licenses for the use of its works abroad. The corresponding Senate report at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Copyright_Law_Revision_(Senate_Report_No._94-473) uses exactly the same words. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org Ambassador Trentino: I've said enough. I'm a man of few words. Rufus T. Firefly: I'm a man of one word: scram! --Duck Soup _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss