There is no state copyright laws...all federal ...preempted by the federal government in the US... Charlotte >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Quiestion >Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:56:48 -0500 > >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 > > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com