RE: Sabo Bill: Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research

["T Scott Plutchak" <tscott@uab.edu>]

Just to address the paragraph below -- work done by federal employees in
the course of their duties is typically not subject to copyright. Articles
written by non-government employees reporting on the results of federally
funded research is subject to the normal copyright laws.

T. Scott Plutchak

Editor, Journal of the Medical Library Association
Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham

tscott@uab.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Velterop [mailto:jan@biomedcentral.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:10 PM
To: 'liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu'
Subject: RE: Sabo Bill: Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally
Financed Research 



An important point will be the bill's enforcement. If I understand it
correctly, even now, if research is federally funded in full, the
written-up results cannot be copyrighted in the US. So theoretically, they
should be in the public domain. But are they freely available? If they
are, I'd like to know where.

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