Re: Questioning the Public Domain'ness of certain data

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>

> Sec. 105. - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works

> Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of
> the United States Government, but the United States Government is not
> precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by
> assignment, bequest, or otherwise.

Does that also prevent the U.S. government from claiming copyright
protection (as a civil party) on their work in other jurisdictions?
"This title" seems to refer to situations where the copyright
protection would be granted by U.S. law.

-- 
Henning Makholm       "It was intended to compile from some approximation to
                 the M-notation, but the M-notation was never fully defined,
                because representing LISP functions by LISP lists became the
 dominant programming language when the interpreter later became available."