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Re: the Copyright Act.
 
I'm not so sure that 1976 text still exists in unaltered form - for I do
know that since 1976, the US Postal Service, a government agency, started
and continues to copyrightits stamp images and strongly defends it's rights
to not have them duplicated or used in marketing efforts without
permission.  (And, I'm not speaking about counterfeit kinds of duplication
- you can't even enlargen a design to the point where everyone would know
it's not a valid image for postage purposes, and go print it on a poster,
for example.)  You can't even go make rubber stamps of designs to use on
private greeeting cards, etc.
 
Check this question out further before you have trouble.
 
Regards
Len Nadybal
Washington DC
 
 
 
 
 
At 04:43 PM 22/04/1997 EDT, Dennis McClendon wrote:
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>Joan Zeeb-Roman writes
>
>>I am under the impression that most all maps produced by the U.S.
Government ca
>>n be legally copied, since they are not copyrighted.  However, I am
unsure as t
>>o what U.S. Govt. maps are not permitted to be copied.
>
>Section 105 of the Copyright Act of 1976 reads:
>
>"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 only exceptions I have heard about related to complex audiovisual works
>being created by outside contractors for government agencies.
>
>I wouldn't worry about old maps of Palestine.
>
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