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From: Gordon Talge (no email)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 19:49:18 EDT
George Huxtable wrote:
>
> The UK Nautical Almanac office, which is the origin for much of the
> Nautical Almanac, is very jealous of its copyright, and my guess is that
> they would consider that as applying to the layout and design as well as to
> the data within.
>
No "freebies" from the British Government uh?
It is amazing some of the stuff you can get free from
the U.S. Government. I guess no one gets a free ride in
Britain except the Royals and that now even they are having
a rough time with the tax man.
My U.S. version of the Nautical Almanac says
UNITED KINGDOM
(c) Copyright for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils 2001
This publication is protected by international copyright law. All rights
reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system or transmitted in any from or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior
permission of Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office, an office of the
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire 0X11 0QX, United
Kingdom.
Now for the kicker.
The following United States government work is excepted from the above
notice, and no copyright is claimed for it in the United States:
cover, title page and reverse, Preface, pages 6 and 7, pages 286 to 315.
So it looks like the U.S. version of the NA is not copyrighted.
Not being a lawyer I am not sure how this works out.
I would bet that the Almanac is cheaper in the U.S. then in the
U.K. especially if you got one of the "commercial editions" and
not the one from the USGPO.
I wonder if Brits could order the almanac from the U.S.via the
internet and get it for less.
Gordon
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