On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Klaus Graf <[email protected]> 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 [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
