<div dir="ltr"><div>I thought I would ask.</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Dear Marshall,</div><div><br></div><div>I confirm that IERS allows for unlimited copying and use of</div><div>this and other EOP file,...as far you mention the reference!</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Christian</div><div>Le Dimanche 9 Avril 2017 00:04 CEST, <a href="mailto:tme@asteroidinitiatives.com">tme@asteroidinitiatives.com</a> a écrit:</div><div><br></div><div> Dear Christian;</div><div><br></div><div> I wanted to ask about the copyright status of files such as</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list">https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list</a></div><div><br></div><div> as some people here in the US are nervous about this.</div><div><br></div><div> Can you confirm that the IERS allows for unlimited copying and use of</div><div> this and other EOP files?</div><div><br></div><div> Regards</div><div> Marshall Eubanks</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>____________________________________________________________</div><div>Christian Bizouard</div><div>Service de la Rotation de la Terre - IERS Earth Orientation Parameter Center</div><div>Observatoire de Paris / SYRTE </div><div>61, avenue de l'Observatoire 75014 Paris FRANCE</div><div><a href="mailto:christian.bizouard@obspm.fr">christian.bizouard@obspm.fr</a></div><div>tel : 00 33 1 40 51 23 35</div><div><a href="http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc">http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 4:05 AM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">John Hawkinson wrote:<br>
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(1) A work may be in the public domain without an explicit declaration<br></span>
if the author has made it sufficiently clear in other places....<span class=""><br>
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(2) Just because a file is copyrighted does not mean it cannot be<br></span>
reproduced without permission. In the US we have "fair use,"...<span class=""><br>
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Additionally, *facts* cannot be copyrighted.<br>
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All quite true. Alas, none of these escape hatches would save us if we copied the entire IERS file, as (a) copying the whole thing clearly would not be fair use, (b) the file has not been placed in the public domain (and I doubt whether it can be, as its authors are under French law), and (c) the file clearly contains expression as well as simple records of facts.<br>
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