[open-bibliography] New microshort film on the Public Domain Calculators!

Thu Oct 14 13:39:07 UTC 2010

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:

> I'd like to see "special cases" extended to things produced or
> published by the government or governments. What other governments
> disclaim copyright on works produced in the course of official
> business?

If your "non-other" (to coin a word) government is the U.S.
government, my understanding is that works produced by their employees
are in the public domain *in the U.S.* and that they may be subject to
copyright in other jurisdictions.  I suspect that, like non-commercial
and share-alike clauses, this can complicate the task of reusing and
remixing the data in non-obvious ways downstream.

Tom