Re: U.S. government works in other countries

[jcowan]

Richard Schilling scripsit:

 The WTO countries are supposed to recognize US copyright, as the US is 
 supposed to recognize the IP of the other WTO countries.  Easier said 
 then done, but it's there.

Indeed.  But are the Berne countries supposed to recognize our *non*-copyrights?
The U.S. as an act of sovereign dominion prevents a U.S. entity, namely
itself, from receiving copyright protection within its sovereign domain.
Will other countries treat the work as copyright in their domains nevertheless,
especially if the U.S. claims that it is?

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U.S. government works in other countries

[John Cowan]

The draft NOSA implies that U.S. government works, though in the public
domain in the U.S., are subject to copyright in other countries.  Is this
really true?  The Berne Convention seems ambiguous on the case; it seems
to me that it doesn't clearly foresee the case of works which are never
in copyright in the country of origin.

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