Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm 99% certain that Bushnell has not authorized that his name be used for > this, and that you will see this crap pulled immediately - followed by > strong legal action. >
That is incorrect. Bushnell is a public figure. Any government official is. What he says in public can be quoted by anyone for any purpose. Government officials have absolutely no copyright control over their utterances in connection with their official duties. Nearly every document published by NASA, the DoE and other government agencies is in the public domain, by definition. The public pays for them. You never see a copyright notice on such documents. There are, of course, secret government documents. That is another matter. In any Bushnell's comments were not secret. - Jed
