Re: Request for Government Copyright (Crown or otherwise) information

From: Jessica Litman <p01046[_at_]psilink.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 94 18:12:31 -0400

xavier lopez <xavier[_at_]grouse.umesve.maine.edu> asks:
>
>I would greatly appreciate the generous help of members from this list
>in locating articles or references concerning legislation, history and/or
>analysis of national (Crown or otherwise) Copyright regimes imposed on
>government information.

You might look at a student law review article from about 10 years back analyzing the question under U.S. law: Andrea Simon, A Constitutional Analysis of Copyrighting Government-Commissioned Work, 34 Copyright Law Symposium (ASCAP) 39 (1987), reprinted from volume 84 Columbia Law Review 425 (1984).

You might also look at the House Judiciary Subcommittee's on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Administration of Justice (the precursor to the current Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration) 1990 Hearings on Computers and Intellectual Property, in which several witnesses discussed proposals to enact exceptions to the policy of no copyright in works of the U.S. Government for particular classes of works. If you have access to Lexis, you can find a couple of interesting newspaper articles on all this: in the Washington Post, take a look at the article by Brent Mitchell on June 25, 1991 at page A17, and the article by Larry Thompson on Novemeber 1, 1988 at page Z5. BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal had a short squib at 42 PTCJ 291-92 (1991).

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Jessica Litman
p01046[_at_]psilink.com Received on Wed Apr 27 1994 - 23:09:33 GMT