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Section 105 of the Copyright Act "Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Go
by blueben 16y ago
Section 105 of the Copyright Act
"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."
- tptacek 16y agoThat's clever but besides the point, as Amazon didn't shut WL down over copyright violations.
- blueben 16y agoFeel free to point out which rights to the content that Amazon believes Wikileaks does not have.
- tptacek 16y agoI pointed out several downthread.
- blueben 16y agoYou mentioned trade secrets, contracts, and then did some hand waving about national security and state secrets. The former two are irrelevant, and the latter two don't appear to be "content rights" as defined by the law. So my question still stands.