Re: Copyright in California Regulations

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not looking to exempt works of state and local governments. It's
> very clear that _most_ works of non-federal government are subject to
> copyright. I'm pointing to the longstanding policy that statutes,
> public ordinances, regulations and other edicts of government are not
> subject to copyright, regardless of whether the government in question
> is the U.S. federal government, a state or local government, or a
> foreign government.

IIRC, this contradicts accounts I've heard from Australia, in which either law, executive policy, or a special reports, produced and/or published by the government, were withheld from publication under copyright, after the government had decided it didn't want the material made public. Relating to privacy/security issues, again, IIRC.

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