Like Fred says. CENDI has a thorough FAQ on government copyright: http://www.cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html
> "Copyright protection ... is not available for any work of the United > States [federal] Government, but the United States is not precluded > from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by > assignment, bequest, or otherwise." Exceptions are available for > certain works of the National Institute for Standards and Technology > (NIST) and the U.S. Postal Service. Copyright protection may be > available for U.S. Government works outside the United States. When a > copyrighted work is transferred to the U.S. Government, the > Government becomes the copyright owner and the work retains its > copyright protection. > > State and local governments may and often do claim copyright in their > publications. It is their prerogative to set policies that may allow, > require, restrict or prohibit claim of copyright on some or all works > produced by their government units. Fred Benenson wrote: > States retain copyright on their works, while the federal government > doesn't. Its a weird quirk in the copyright statute, to say the least. > > > ~ ~ ~ > thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog > work / http://creativecommons.org > sights / http://flickr.com/fcb > sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis > status / http://twitter.com/mecredis > > > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Samuel Messing > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I apologize if this is really misinformed, but if it's for the > government, doesn't it need to be in the public domain? > ------Original Message------ > From: Clifford Conley Owens III > Sender: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in > particular > ReplyTo: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization > inparticular > Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] To GPL or CC0 > Sent: May 29, 2009 3:25 PM > > HHH FreeCulture Admin wrote: > > I'd go with GPL, LGPL, MIT, libpng or BSD. (Or PD) CC licenses are > > generally not for software. > > No, but this is for publicly funded work. Attaching any strings should > be discouraged. I would go with PD or CC0. Mentioning "no warranty" > may be something worth worrying about, but other than that, go with > PD/CC0. > > ~Conley > > -- > office: Torgersen 2160 W > email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > cell: (540) 597-8820 > xmpp: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > aim: vtconley > sip: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Gavin Baker http://www.gavinbaker.com/ [email protected] The voice called, and I went. I went, because the voice called. Hannah Szenes _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
