No works produced by agencies of the US government are elligible for copyright. If they are declared classified, that is another matter separate from intellectual property issues. Which is why we can use de-classified photographs and texts from the DOE as public domain.
(I actually happen to be writing a history on this very question, actually, in regards to national secrecy and patent laws, which are not the same thing as copyright laws in this respect. The government CAN take out patents on things, but it cannot take out copyrights on most things)
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On Apr 7, 2005 11:52 AM, Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Images of classified information can't be public domain - if they were, they can't be classified. They can't be {{copyrightedusefwithpermission}} (or whatever it is) since the image has been *stolen* by the uploader, and is breaking the law. Not GFDL or CC either; possibly could be {{PDUSGovernment}} (or whatever it is, depending on where it came from), but in summary: Images of classified material would be removed by the Image Sleuthing team, because they lack source info.
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