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Copyright? #89

Closed lexi-the-cute closed 1 year ago

lexi-the-cute commented 1 year ago

What is the copyright status of the data from api.congress.gov?

rbram commented 1 year ago

Hello, you can read about the copyright status of Congress.gov data available through the API at https://www.loc.gov/legal.

lexi-the-cute commented 1 year ago 
Importantly, works produced by federal government employees in the course of their employment are generally not protected by copyright and are in the public domain in the U.S. This includes works produced by Library of Congress employees in the course of their duties at the Library. Unless otherwise indicated on this site, the Library of Congress has no objection to the international use and reuse of Library U.S. Government works on loc.gov. These works are also available for worldwide use and reuse under CC0 1.0 Universal.

From my understanding, this is Public Domain. Thanks!