On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 01:19:16AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > 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. I *guess* that the answer to your question is "yes", until and unless Congress passes a law amending Title 17, or placing a law into a different Title, asserting copyright protection for the U.S. government in foreign jurisdictions. -- G. Branden Robinson | Human beings rarely imagine a god Debian GNU/Linux | that behaves any better than a branden@debian.org | spoiled child. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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