Talk:Rodney Ellis

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[edit] Copyright

This is likely not a copyright violation. The text of this article was copied from the website of the Texas Senate. Text on government websites in the United States are generally in the public domain. There is no copyright notice on this website, as there are on private websites, but I cannot find an explicit statement that the text there is in the public domain. —Centrx→talk • 05:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that unless you get a definitive statement of GFDL or similar from the Texas Senate, the article, it its previous incarnation was 100% copyvio (being a 100% copy and paste of the html of the site). Using the info found there as a source to make a vital article seems the best approach. Budgiekiller 21:27, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I am absolutely 100% positively sure:

* Copyright applies to all works of state and local govenments (unless they have waived it or a different exception applies).

* The "government" exception to copyright only applies to works created by the Federal government, their officers and employees, but NOT their contractors or whomever else they do business with.

therefore, if you find it on a state website, it's probably copyrighted (unless some other reason applies); if you find it on a Federal website, it might be copyrighted, and you need to determine it souce. A weather map on the national hurricane center's website, http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ is just so obviously a work of the Federal government; however, there is material on the White House website that is covered by copyright (as this notice says). studerby 02:35, 10 August 2006 (UTC)