Re: Copyright of Government Sponsored Work

From: Stephen Fishman <sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:31:35 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jerald Gnuschke <jerald.gnuschke[_at_]nokia.com> wrote:
>
> On 18 August 1999, Peter Groves <petergroves[_at_]compuserve.com> wrote:
> >
> > And what about the position in US copyright law of works of foreign
> > governments (eg Crown copyright works)? The question was posed to
> > me a while ago and I was unable to come up with one.
>
> My guess is national treatment applies. No copyright for foreign
> national government works but perhaps copyright for the works of
> the states of foreign countries.

I don't think this is right. Foreign laws and court decisions are likely in the public domain in the U.S., but foreign governments may claim copyright in other works.

Stephen Fishman
<sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>

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