Re: Copyright of Government Sponsored Work

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, James Brennan <brennandot[_at_]prodigy.net> wrote:
>
> It is the position of at least some U.S. government experts that
> U.S. Government publications can be copyright in foreign countries
> that allow copyright in publications of the local government on the
> theory that the statutory prohibition in Title 17 applies only to
> U.S. copyrights, and national treatment requires it in the foreign
> country.

I have a publication of the LoC that states

   copyright 1997 by the Library of Congress    except within the U.S.A.

However, since Dutch copyright law has a clause of shortest term, and explicitly does not protect works not protected in the country of origin, the U.S. prohibition also works in the Netherlands, in my, non professional, opinion.

Jeroen Hellingman
<jehe[_at_]kabelfoon.nl> Received on Sat Aug 28 1999 - 14:36:17 GMT