Talk:Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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The vast majority of this page comes from the CDC website (listed at the bottom of the article.) There are no copyrights evident on the article, and some searching of the site didn't bring up any more. I'm making the assumption for now that this document was written by employees of the CDC and is therefore public domain. Dachshund 00:38 Sep 13, 2002 (UTC)
- The CDC is an agency of the US Department of Health and Human services; as such, any material it produces itself is not eligible for copyright. Of course, nothing prevents a government web site from using someone else's copyrighted material with permission, or subcontracting work to a private business that can retain IP, but elsewhere on the CDC site there are copyright notices for such cases (for example, the image library specifically notes that certain images are copyrighted). So it's probably a safe bet that the text appearing here without such notices is in fact CDC text, and therefore public domain. At any rate, I'd leave it alone unless someone actually complains. --LDC
