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From: coller@utah-cs.UUCP (Lee D. Coller)
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Subject: Re: Copyright
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Date: Tue, 22-Jul-86 15:33:33 EDT
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In article <1420@oddjob.UUCP> matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) writes:
>You're safe until they repeal the fifth ammendment.  I'd quote it
>here, but I read it in a copyrighted book, so I can't.        :-)

Actually you can.  Under the 1978 US Copyright act the US Government
cannot hold any copyrights.  Thus anything put out by them or their
agents (text of laws, opinions, etc.) is in the public domain.
-- 
-Lee (coller@utah-cs.arpa, {ihnp4, seismo, hplabs, decvax}!utah-cs!coller)
"They say the mark of a good team is that it wins when it plays poorly."
	-- Jim Fassel, Head Football Coach, University of Utah