On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Klaus Graf <klausgraf at googlemail.com>wrote:
> > This article was published by Elsevier, and written by an NIH employee. > > The work of US government employees does not attract copyright in the US, > > "US government agencies may claim copyright abroad > While US government works generally are in the public domain in the > US, they may be protected by copyright abroad. The feds may claim > copyright protection for US government works in other countries > depending on how those countries treat their own government works. So > just be aware that US government agencies sometimes claim copyright in > their works outside the US." > http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/us-government-works.html > http://www.cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html#317 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government > > Thanks - very useful. In the present case it would then be a case of asking the US government dept to provide a licence for use. If they couldn't then we should take it up with them. But I'd be surprised if by now they didn't have a CC-BY/CC0 policy > Klaus Graf > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/attachments/20120215/46be0619/attachment.html
