[Southeast-US] projects? "GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences"

[Newcomb, Doug]

Work done by Federal Employees on the job cannot be copyrighted by the
employee ( i.e., we cannot assign copyright for journal articles because
it's not copyrighted) .  However, work done by contractors may be under
copyright, depending on how the contract is written.  Always good to check.

Doug


On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> Vaclav Petras Wed, 6 May 2015 22:08:02 -0400
> >> Their Term of Use [1] are quite strict.
>
> Really?
>
> http://www2.ucar.edu/terms-of-use
> > 1. Site Content.  Throughout the Site you may access images,
> information, documents, software, data, models and services (collectively,
> the "Materials") developed at UCAR or provided by other Site users
> ("Contributors"). Some of these Materials are governed by their own
> specific terms of use and copyrights. In the absence of specific terms of
> use, these Terms of Use shall apply. The burden of determining that use of
> any Materials on or linked to a Site is permissible, rests with you, the
> user.
>
> > 2. Use. The user is granted the right to use the Site for
> non-commercial, non-profit research, or educational purposes only, without
> any fee or cost. In the event you breach these Terms of Use or any
> Material-specific terms or you infringe any copyrights, UCAR may pursue any
> and all legal and equitable remedies available to it, although UCAR is
> under no legal obligation to do so.
>
> As previously noted,
>
> Tom Roche Wed, 06 May 2015 21:45:58 -0400
> >>> (unless otherwise noted) federally-funded materials are public-domain.
> Furthermore, fork/recreate is pretty clearly "fair use," and there's no
> licensing on any of those pages that even tries to discourage that.
>
> Life Would Be Easier if they stuck a Creative Commons license on their
> materials, but I've never seen one on a Federal document (and I've seen
> lots of EPA docs, which are all public domain).
>
> >> I guess radical changes
>
> or "transformative"[2], hence "fair use"
>
> >> might be needed to adopt the material to a different software.
>
> FWIW, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>
>
> [1]: http://www2.ucar.edu/terms-of-use
> [2]:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#1._Purpose_and_character_of_the_use
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