This is wonderful!
In general, nothing published by the U.S. government can be copyrighted. This is as it should be, of course. We paid for them to write it, after all.
This may be true for other governments as well, which might help the non-English wikipedias. But please let's research it carefully.
You also have to watch out... the White House website has (or did have, during the Clinton administration, I don't know if Dubya's staff has revamped) a biography of every President. But they used those biographies with permission from a copyrighted source.
Therefore, you can't automatically assume that anything on a U.S. government website is fair game. Most of it is, though.
Timothy Shell wrote:
The copyright notice is here: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/rls/index.cfm?docid=3797
Tim
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com wrote:
Tim, where did you find that copyright notice? It's not on that page and I haven't been able to find it. And the site does have much more info than the CIA book; I'd like to begin adding it. :-)
"Unless a copyright is indicated, information on the Department of State Web Site is in the public domain and may be copied and distributed
without
permission."
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/bgn/
These background notes have a great deal of information, more than
the CIA
factbook.
Tim0
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