Giacomo A. Catenazzi said on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:27:13AM +0100,: > >All works of the United States Government (of which FIPS 180-1 is one) > >are ineligible for copyright and are explicitly public domain. > > There are public domain only in the United States, IIRC
Why do you say so?? AFAIK, copyright is granted by countries on a reciprocal basis; no country grants a copyright for a `foreign work' when such work does not enjoy any protection in its country of origin, nor a period longer than what it enjoys in its originating country. Correct me if I am wrong. Again, different countries may treat this differently. -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://paivakil.port5.com +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+