Re: Questioning the Public Domain'ness of certain data
On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 01:19:16AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sec. 105. - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise. Does that also prevent the U.S. government from claiming copyright protection (as a civil party) on their work in other jurisdictions? This title seems to refer to situations where the copyright protection would be granted by U.S. law. I *guess* that the answer to your question is yes, until and unless Congress passes a law amending Title 17, or placing a law into a different Title, asserting copyright protection for the U.S. government in foreign jurisdictions. -- G. Branden Robinson| Human beings rarely imagine a god Debian GNU/Linux | that behaves any better than a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | spoiled child. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein pgppuP8BEAsU3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Questioning the Public Domain'ness of certain data
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scripsit Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sec. 105. - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise. Does that also prevent the U.S. government from claiming copyright protection (as a civil party) on their work in other jurisdictions? This title seems to refer to situations where the copyright protection would be granted by U.S. law. Yes. The basic rule is that works produced by the US Government are simply public domain.
Re: Questioning the Public Domain'ness of certain data
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 04:00:43PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: But, however, I have not had seen anything in writing specifically stating that the data is public domain and I received no reply when I asked them the license of the data via the email address on the above-cited webpage. My intention is to release a debian package containing Berkely DB databases that contain the same data as found in the above-cited URL. How do you suggest I proceed? United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1: Sec. 105. - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise. If you have good reason to believe that the data in question was prepared by the U.S. government, then the material cannot be copyrighted. If you do make such a determination, I would go ahead and target the package for main. -- G. Branden Robinson| Measure with micrometer, Debian GNU/Linux | mark with chalk, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cut with axe, http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | hope like hell. pgpRcwaP8aOl1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Questioning the Public Domain'ness of certain data
Branden writes: United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1: [ ...] If you have good reason to believe that the data in question was prepared by the U.S. government, then the material cannot be copyrighted. If you do make such a determination, I would go ahead and target the package for main. Yes, I have made such a determination. Thank you. Elizabeth
Questioning the Public Domain'ness of certain data
Hi Everyone, I have written a program that parses the data available here: http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/ and places it into a database. I am fairly confident that the data itself is public domain as: * one organization sells the same data re-packaged for MS Access. * another organization releases basically the same data in a different format. The second example, if I recall correctly, doesn't even cite the source although I went over the data personally and can say without hesitation that the data came from the FDA and is essentially the same as in the data available at the above URL. But, however, I have not had seen anything in writing specifically stating that the data is public domain and I received no reply when I asked them the license of the data via the email address on the above-cited webpage. My intention is to release a debian package containing Berkely DB databases that contain the same data as found in the above-cited URL. How do you suggest I proceed? Sincerely, Elizabeth
Re: Questioning the Public Domain'ness of certain data
On Thu, 08 May 2003, Elizabeth Barham wrote: I have written a program that parses the data available here: http://www.fda.gov/cder/ndc/ and places it into a database. Neat. My intention is to release a debian package containing Berkely DB databases that contain the same data as found in the above-cited URL. How do you suggest I proceed? As the information in that database changes rapidly [Data Files Updated through 3/31/2003], perhaps it would be better to include your program that downloads and parses the data on the site instead of including the data itself? I would presume that it is important to the end users of this dataset to have a relatively up to date set of data, and as the package of such data in stable could be out of date by more two years before the next stable release, they'd probably prefer a method of updating the dataset to an outdated one. Don Armstrong -- I leave the show floor, but not before a pack of caffeinated Jolt gum is thrust at me by a hyperactive girl screaming, Chew more! Do more! The American will to consume more and produce more personified in a stick of gum. I grab it. -- Chad Dickerson http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu pgpR7d0cJEFwk.pgp Description: PGP signature
