Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:17:55 -0700 From: "Arun Sharma" <arun@sharmas.dhs.org> To: "David Scheidt" <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>, "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: GPL for govt funded/developed projects ? Message-ID: <DHEDJIFGMBALKGPEKCFKKEILCAAA.arun@sharmas.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0106091242310.20219-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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> :If it's a work for hire, the law considers it to have been produced BY > :the government. It has all the rights to the work that exist, and is > :compelled to relinquish them by putting the work in the public domain. > > Well, no. 17 USC 105 : > > 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. > > (the Commerce Department produces some standard reference data that is > covered by copyright, because another statute says it is.) In this case, www.sandia.gov seems to be a part of the US government. My understanding is that people who worked on this project are US government employees. So their work becomes a work of the government, doesn't it ? How is "work for hire" legally different from "work of the" government ? -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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