>>From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-boun...@lists.opensource.org] >>On Behalf Of Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss >>Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 2:33 PM >>To: Christopher Sean Morrison via License-discuss >><license-discuss@lists.opensource.org> >>Cc: Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com> >>Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Government licenses
>>Gov’t regularly distributes software that otherwise has *no* Title 17 >>protections to foreign and domestic recipients, under contractual terms. I’m >>told these have held up in court, though I admit to not having a citation >>handy. Yeah, I found the idea that one could contractually restrict something that is in the public domain (or in the parlance of 17 USC 105, not subject to copyright) odd. Here’s a more than decade old presentation that talks about that: http://www.archivists.org/conference/sanfrancisco2008/docs/session101-Frankel.pdf Maybe someone knows of better, newer, case law or scholarship on that point.
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