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And the US is an outlier in that work produced by the federal government is in the public domain. Not the case in Commonwealth countries, for example.
by jumelles 6y ago
And the US is an outlier in that work produced by the federal government is in the public domain. Not the case in Commonwealth countries, for example.
- jhbadger 6y agoAnd this includes scientific papers published by US government scientists -- journals can't call copyright on those and so they are open access even if the journal isn't. Unfortunately this only works if all the authors are government. If it is a collaboration between government scientists and those in a university or company, this loophole doesn't hold.
- matkoniecz 6y agoPoland has quite obvious law that government documents are not protected by copyright. Interestingly, in recent years it gets more and more broadly applied, for example to database listing schools and to aerial imagery taken on a government contracts. What is quite nice if you want to use them for example as a source for OpenStreetMap edits.