Comments on: White House Makes Questionable Copyright Claim On Government Photos http://wiredpen.com/2010/02/06/white-house-makes-questionable-copyright-claim-on-government-photos/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:59:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: kegill http://wiredpen.com/2010/02/06/white-house-makes-questionable-copyright-claim-on-government-photos/#comment-21208 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:24:51 +0000 http://wiredpen.com/?p=2542#comment-21208 Oh. Here’s the law – the White House has no legal authority to assert copyright. There is no “question” about the “question” in this headline.

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105

§ 105. Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works37

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.

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