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Article has a hatnote saying that it references too many primary sources. I don't see places in article where this is a problem and suspect that editor who placed the note may not have had a complete understanding of when a source is primary or secondary. -- Federalist51 ( talk) 00:40, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
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The section State, territorial and local governments states "Notably, the constitutions and laws of California and Florida have placed their government's works in the public domain." However, the relevent sections in Copyright status of work by U.S. subnational governments only refer to "public records", which may not be identical to "government work". If they are equivalent under the law, this should be clarified. Cheers. --Animalparty-- ( talk) 07:09, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
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Unfortunately it appears that much of this text is copied directly from the study report. That's not copyright infringement (since the work is public domain as this article documents) but it is not properly cited -- right now, the text is not marked as quoted, just as cited; so one would think this is Wikipedia-editor-created prose, backed up by the cited study. Instead it's apparently copied from that study, and should be cited more properly as such, with page numbers; or paraphrased. I'll work on cleaning this up as I can -- I've already done the work on the Printing_Act_of_1895#The_Richardson_Affair_and_prohibition_on_copyright_of_government_works -- but if there are other editors on these pages please help. -- Lquilter ( talk) 15:18, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
US legislation makes (most) works created by the US federal government public domain. But EU law does not incorporate The Printing Law of 1895, as far as I am aware. In the EU, the only way a work can become public domain is for its copyright to expire; before that, the moral rights of the author apply.
So it seems that a US federal document such as this one is in the public domain only within US jurisdiction. It might be possible for the US government to assert copyright in such a document in an EU court.
So I feel rather queasy about this article, which incorporates material from a federal report, alleging that it is in the public domain. Just because Wikipedia operates out of the USA, doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be sued in the EU. Can anyone clarify? MrDemeanour ( talk) 12:41, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
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