At 07:32 AM 6/11/99 -0600, W. David Samuelsen wrote: >ANYTHING done in government domain is not copyrightable. The Clerk >needs to be educated on this. > Not necessarily true. The statute says: CHAPTER 1 - SUBJECT MATTER AND SCOPE OF COPYRIGHT -HEAD- Sec. 105. Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works -STATUTE- 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. http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikegoad/code.htm - --------------------------- Whether state or local documents are copyrightable or not falls under states rights and laws. If they can be copyrighted by state law, they fall under the federal copyright codes and regulations. Works of the governments of most other countries are copyrighted. (source: Section 105 revision notes) Mike ________________ The Goad Family; Dover, AR, USA; mailto:[email protected] ; http://www.cswnet.com/~mgoad/ ; free DAR Patriot Index Lookups: http://www.cswnet.com/~mgoad/dar.html; Our on-line "bookstore:" http://www.cswnet.com/~sbooks Sponsor (Plus) of RootsWeb - To support cooperative, non-commercial, grass-roots genealogy go to http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html