Russ Allbery writes:
> In practice, the rules that say that work done by the government is
> automatically public domain...

Work done by US federal government employees on government time is
effectively public domain.  This does _not_ apply to work done by state or
local government employees.  It also does not apply to work done by US
federal government contractors.

> ...are undermined by enough special cases that it's best not to rely on
> them without an explicit statement.

Could you describe these special cases?
-- 
John Hasler


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