[License-discuss] US Army Research Laboratory Open Source License proposal

[Maarten Zeinstra]

Is that the correct interpretation of the Berne convention? The convention assigns copyright to foreigners of a signatory state with at least as strong protection as own nationals. Since US government does not attract copyright I am unsure if they can attract copyright in other jurisdictions.

I am of the belief that the US government does not get assigned copyright in other jurisdiction as it is not a right holder in the country of origin. 

Or am I misunderstanding the Berne Convention?

Regards,

Maarten Zeinstra
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> On 22 jul. 2016, at 23:29, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> 
> Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) scripsit:
> 
>> Finally, there is opinion within the US Government that while there is no US
>> copyright protection, copyright attaches outside of the US.  Thus, if a
>> project is downloaded and used outside of the USA, then any work produced by a
>> US Government employee will have foreign copyright protection, and the terms
>> of the License should apply to that copyright as well.
> 
> Presumably it's the US government that holds the foreign copyright, since
> its employees are making works made for hire.
> 
> You should probably add back "copyright holder" so that the license can be
> applied to works made as a whole or in part by contractors.
> 
> The Appendix still says "Apache License".
> 
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