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From: Gordon Talge (no email)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 21:04:29 EDT
George Huxtable wrote:
> >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.
>
> He concluded-
>
> >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.
>
> Here Gordon seems to have misled himself. That exception, exactly as it
> says, applies only to those specific pages, presumably because those pages
> (mainly, the sight-reduction tables) are the contribution of the US
> Government. Every bit of the rest of the Almanac is subject to the
> preceding international-copyright declaration, to US citizens as to
> everyone else, being the work of a UK Government agency which claims its
> copyright.
Not being a lawyer, it is hard to say what it means. There is no U.S.
copyright notice. Moreover, it would seem strange that the U.S.
Government
would print and freely distribute an Almanac copyrighted by another
government.
( I have seen however nautical charts marked "Confidential for US
Government use only" and it turned out they were just reprints of
BA charts by the US and if you wanted a copy of the "confidential" chart
you could just buy it from the British ).
What about the paperback commercial edition that is distributed in the
US
by Celestaire and others?
Also it says at the top
UNITED STATES
For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office etc.
Nothing about a copyright until after the words
UNITED KINGDOM.
This makes me think that the copyright of the daily almanac stuff
does not apply in the United States.
I would of course check with a copyright lawyer before I tried to
make and distribute an almanac using the material from the NA.
-- Gordon
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