<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Klaus Graf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:klausgraf@googlemail.com">klausgraf@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> This article was published by Elsevier, and written by an NIH employee.<br>
> The work of US government employees does not attract copyright in the US,<br>
<br>
</div>"US government agencies may claim copyright abroad<br>
While US government works generally are in the public domain in the<br>
US, they may be protected by copyright abroad. The feds may claim<br>
copyright protection for US government works in other countries<br>
depending on how those countries treat their own government works. So<br>
just be aware that US government agencies sometimes claim copyright in<br>
their works outside the US."<br>
<a href="http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/us-government-works.html" target="_blank">http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/us-government-works.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html#317" target="_blank">http://www.cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html#317</a><br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government</a><br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br>Thanks - very useful.<br><br>In the present case it would then be a case of asking the US government dept to provide a licence for use. If they couldn't then we should take it up with them. But I'd be surprised if by now they didn't have a CC-BY/CC0 policy <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
Klaus Graf<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069<br>