Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers
From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver
Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers
Subject: Re: Re: Hershey fonts public domain?
Message-ID: <1104@uw-beaver>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 02:41:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1104
Posted: Mon Apr 29 02:41:45 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Apr-85 05:23:27 EDT
Sender: daemon@uw-beaver
Organization: U of Washington Computer Science
Lines: 29

From: tektronix!hp-pcd!hplabs!sdcrdcf!rdcf.sdc.uucp!darrelj@uw-beaver.arpa

To clarify on the lack of Hershey copyright: it was published in April 1976.
At that time it was necessary to assert copyright on published versions 
for it to be retained.  Both the NBS report itself and NTIS are publications
within the (old) law.  There are NO notices.  Further, the tone of the
forward is that of scientists freely diseminating useful discoveries.
Registration is not particularly an issue, even under the old law it was
possible to have copyright without it, just a harder time in court.

Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90406
(213)820-4111 x5449
...{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,orstcs,sdcsvax,ucla-cs,akgua}
                                                            !sdcrdcf!darrelj
VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPA

[[Editor's note: I've seen similar copyright-related discussions on a
number of other groups and so I believe the issues here have been well
hashed over already.  I will not forward additional messages
concerning this to the list unless they are particularly comprehensive
or in some other way of general use (i.e., if, for example, a
copyright lawyer were to submit a message, I'd probably forward it).
I believe that the copyright law is probably not applicable in this
instance, anyway, as Hershey's work was done for a U.S. Government
agency and in most such cases, I believe, policy is that the the work
is not copyrighted.				--Rick ]]