[Open-access] [GOAL] Re: Permissions attaching to pre-publication material

Wed Feb 15 13:50:46 UTC 2012

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Klaus Graf <klausgraf at googlemail.com>wrote:

> > This article was published by Elsevier, and written by an NIH employee.
> > The work of US government employees does not attract copyright in the US,
>
> "US government agencies may claim copyright abroad
> While US government works generally are in the public domain in the
> US, they may be protected by copyright abroad. The feds may claim
> copyright protection for US government works in other countries
> depending on how those countries treat their own government works. So
> just be aware that US government agencies sometimes claim copyright in
> their works outside the US."
> http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/us-government-works.html
> http://www.cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html#317
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government
>
>
Thanks - very useful.

In the present case it would then be a case of asking the US government
dept to provide a licence for use. If they couldn't then we should take it
up with them. But I'd be surprised if by now they didn't have a CC-BY/CC0
policy

> Klaus Graf
>

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Peter Murray-Rust
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Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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