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Under Section 105 of the copyright law, "Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."
Under Section 105 of the copyright law, "Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."
Generally anything published in the United States before 1923 no longer has copyright protection and is in the public domain <ref>http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm</ref>, though works first published in other countries before that time may still be under US copyright. Also, photographs of paintings in the public domain would ordinarily not qualify for copyright protection either.<ref>[[Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.]]</ref>
Generally anything published in the United States before 1923 no longer has copyright protection and is in the public domain <ref>http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm</ref>, though works first published in other countries before that time may still be under US copyright. Also, photographs of paintings in the public domain would ordinarily not qualify for copyright protection either.<ref>''[[Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.]]''</ref>
Works that were published before March 1, 1989 are now in the public domain if they lack a copyright notice, such as the "Copyright" or a (c) (a "c" in a circle) along with name of the copyright owner, the work would be injected into the public domain.<ref>http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter8/8-a.html</ref> There are some narrow exceptions to this rule, and the lack of a notice on an unauthorized copy does not entitle one to copy the work. Works published after that March 1, 1989 are protected by copyright laws even if they lack the notice.
All court decisions and statutes, whether federal, state or local, are in the public domain and may be fully copied. Even pagination inserted into opinions by private publishers is [[fair use]] and may be copied.<ref>''Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publishing Co.'', 158 F.3d 693 (2d Cir. 1998).</ref>
For Conservapedia's copyright policy, see [[Conservapedia:Copyright]].
For Conservapedia's copyright policy, see [[Conservapedia:Copyright]].