The EU has the ability to copyright things in general, which is horribly wrong IMO. This is one of the few areas I'll defend the US to the bitter end on. Conte

The EU has the ability to copyright things in general, which is horribly wrong IMO. This is one of the few areas I'll defend the US to the bitter end on. Content produced by a government can not be morally copyrighted. The funding comes from the people, and therefore the copyright belongs to them too. Another way of putting it is the public domain and government copyright are the same thing logically.