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Does government own copyrights

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

For USA, work produced by the government is in general not protected by copyright within USA. The US government may still hold copyright in other countries.

Work produced by contractors on behalf of the US government, on the other hand, is protected by copyright in the usual fashion.

There are some exceptions and special cases, see related link.

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