[od-discuss] Copyright for papers published by US or Commonwealth employees

Tue Apr 29 10:56:26 UTC 2014

Hi Peter,

A very curious notice indeed.  For what its worth, I am not aware of any
Australian jurisdiction, state, territory or federal, that has ever
abandoned copyright, apart from the State of New South Wales by notice in
the Government Gazette, in respect of copyright in its legislation.

Kind regards

b

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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> [posted to Open Definition list as well since they have a lot of
> jurisdiction knowledge]
>
> from a correspondent...
>
> "I have noticed on a few ACS journal papers the following text:
>
> Published by American Chemical Society. Copyright © American Chemical
> Society. However, no copyright claim is made to original U.S. Government
> works, or works produced by employees of any Commonwealth realm Crown
> government in the course of their duties.
>  example :
>
> http://nature.berkeley.edu/ahg/pubs/Chan_etal_JPCC_2014.pdf
>
>
> So it sounds like that there exists no copyright, and therefore the
> ability to freely distribute the text for papers with this statement. The
> odd thing is the inclusion of the Commonwealth in this. Am I interpreting
> things correctly?
>
> Does this include any government worker in the list of authors? For
> example where you have one government employee and four commercial sector.
> Are university employees government, etc?"
>
> PMR: I think this is true for US. I'd welcome the interpretation of
> "Commonwealth" - is this British Commonwealth? Commonwealth of Australia?
> Canada? or all common wealths? and does it apply to (say) Germany? Max
> Planck?
>
> It would be very useful to have a list of territories where this was in
> force
>
> P.
>
> --
> Peter Murray-Rust
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