Re: license for Federal Information Processing Standards

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit Arnoud Engelfriet <galactus@stack.nl>

> And under article 5(1) an author, even the US Government,
> can claim foreign copyrights for works that qualify as
> "literary or artistic" under the Berne Convention.

Has there been actual cases where the US government has claimed
copyright in a non-US court on a work that it couldn't claim at home?

Unless we can reference actual instances of this, it might be hard to
convince US government branches to provide explicit license statements
to their work. They may even believe that it is "illegal" for them to
apply any license at all to their work.

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