search

unitedstates / licensing

Best practices language for making open government data "license-free".
https://theunitedstates.io/licensing/
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
27 stars 5 forks source link

added contextual link to US laws exclusion #17

Closed rebeccawilliams closed 10 years ago

rebeccawilliams commented 10 years ago

As a public policy that is not explicitly stated in the Copyright Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_government. I thought it was good idea to link to the Copyright Office's Guidelines stating the Edicts of Government exclusion. This is not the official gov link though, which is not promising: http://www.copyright.gov/compendium/

konklone commented 10 years ago

Just to pull it into the thread, the link @rebeccawilliams is suggesting we link and never to U.S. law to is http://www.copyrightcompendium.com/#206.01. It's a link to the official Copyright office guidance, and seems worth including.

But @JoshData, earlier in the doc you link the position of the U.S. Copyright Office to http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/copyrightcompendium.asp. Is that the same thing? If so, I think @rebeccawilliams' link may be better (since it links right to the text), and worth replacing that link with as well.

JoshData commented 10 years ago

Yeah looks good. Let's replace the old link too. I think that means that instead of adding [2], we can just replace [5] and use "[5]" at the top for a cleaner diff.

konklone commented 10 years ago

OK, merged and followed up with https://github.com/unitedstates/licensing/commit/e9238848c1e62e7c6246e2c0a8c68c8610026d1e which re-adjusts everything.