[pd-discuss] Happy Thanksgiving! Presidents and Turkeys...

Wed Nov 30 10:36:45 UTC 2011

Many thanks for bringing our attention to this Peter. Post has been
changed accordingly.

Do you know what the status of NASA images would be beyond the U.S.?
>From what I can tell there seems to be no limitation to the U.S. in
there copyright policy:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/policies.html#Guidelines - but it would be
good to get your opinion!

> From: Peter B. Hirtle <pbh6 at cornell.edu>
> Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [pd-discuss] Happy Thanksgiving! Presidents and Turkeys...
> To: Public Domain discuss list <pd-discuss at lists.okfn.org>,
> okfn-discuss <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
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> The caption says "Images via Wikimedia Commons, and being works of the
> U.S. federal government are in the public domain."  The images are in
> the public domain in the United States, but they are not in the public
> domain in the rest of the world.  According to the legislative history
> for Section 105 of the Copyright Act:
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> The prohibition on copyright protection for United States Government
> works is not intended to have any effect on protection of these works
> abroad. Works of the governments of most other countries are
> copyrighted. There are no valid policy reasons for denying such
> protection to United States Government works in foreign countries, or
> for precluding the Government from making licenses for the use of its
> works abroad.
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> I bring this matter up because it is a reminder of how the
> territoriality of copyright makes it difficult to talk about a work
> being in the public domain.  As we get close to “public domain day,”
> it is important to make it clear that just because an author died
> before 1942 does not mean that her works are in the public domain.
>
>
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> Public domain resources should either limit themselves to works that
> are truly in the public domain everywhere or they should make clear
> the geographical limitations on their assessment of public domain
> status.
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>
>
> Peter Hirtle
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