This is only true of Federal Government publications by the way. State publications have copyrights held by that state's government.
Neil Hetzel CEO made-up-in-my-head-d20-publisher -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 11:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Legacy products and non-copyrightable material In a message dated 11/1/01 10:16:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Well that statement is also not true since there are PLENTY of Department of Defense documents released as public domain daily. That is not to say ALL DOD stuff is PD, research it, but I have been collecting a good chunk of stuff for the last ten years that they make available. >> IIRC, anything published by the U.S. government printing office that is publicly distributed (i.e., not classified or otherwise distributed solely to government offices) is public domain, including Govt. Codes, manuals, reports, etc. Mark Arsenault President, Gold Rush Games | http://www.goldrushgames.com Executive Director, Game Publishers Association | http://www.thegpa.org Director, Game Industry Disaster Fund Auction Fund Board | http://www.gidfa.org ------------------------------------------------------- Action! System Update: http://www.action-system.com/ _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
