Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 14:37:37 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: GPL for govt funded/developed projects ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0106091430560.45567-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <DHEDJIFGMBALKGPEKCFKKEILCAAA.arun@sharmas.dhs.org>
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On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Arun Sharma wrote: :> :If it's a work for hire, the law considers it to have been produced BY :> :the government. It has all the rights to the work that exist, and is :> :compelled to relinquish them by putting the work in the public domain. :> :> Well, no. 17 USC 105 : :> :> Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of :> the United States Government, but the United States Government is not :> precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by :> assignment, bequest, or otherwise. :> :> (the Commerce Department produces some standard reference data that is :> covered by copyright, because another statute says it is.) : :In this case, www.sandia.gov seems to be a part of the US government. My :understanding is that people who worked on this project are US government :employees. So their work becomes a work of the government, doesn't it ? If they're Federal government employees, yes. If they're contractors, it's probably true. : :How is "work for hire" legally different from "work of the" government ? It's not much. But not all work done for the government is work for hire. Quite a bit is standard contract work. The Feds usually acquire the code as part of the contract, though. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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