An update on locked-up / “owned” government information: In Honor of National Library Week
Posted on 16 April 2008 by r
Works by the U.S. government are in the public domain* — but are they truly available to the public? Some publishers have managed to lock up public domain materials or have not made them accessible as publicly promised.
Government-created public domain materials have been locked away from the public through contract (Westlaw directly with the government) [...]
Filed under: authenticity, copyright, government documents, intellectual property, licensing/ownership dichotomy, public domain, we own it we can do what we want | 4 Comments »
