On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 11:03:15 -0700, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
One thing I noticed is that the article mentions images created by private companies and then bought for use by the government. It occurs to me that people might have been using FOIA as an endrun to avoid paying the companies for their images - find out that the government happens to be one of their customers, demand copies from the government under FOIA, and then use the images for free "because it's from the government".
Ah, but wouldn't this still breach the original company's copyright? Oh, hang on, I think I misread http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_the_United_States_Government - but it doesn't really say that that *does* include works acquired from other organisations...