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[27] The State Library of North Carolina considers state documents within its collection to be in the public domain according to U.S. copyright law. [28] Though state law in general describes state and local records as "property of the people", it describes some specific types of records that may have copyright held by the state.
PD-USGov may not be used for the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. If the Federal government runs the IPC, that does NOT mean all the works in the IPC are PD. Many works in Federal museums, owned by the Federal Government are not in the public domain.
Thus, works created by a state or local government may be subject to copyright. Some states have placed much of their work into the public domain by waiving some or all of their rights under copyright law. For example, the constitution and laws of Florida [18] have placed its government's works in the public domain.
Intersection of TM law with public domain works: Majority: Scalia (unanimous) Lanham Act: Trademark cannot preserve rights to a public domain work. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. 545 U.S. 913: 2005: 9–0: Substantive: Secondary liability: Majority: Souter (unanimous) Concurrence: Ginsburg (Rehnquist, Kennedy), Breyer ...
The State Controller’s Office typically issues “personnel letters” to communicate larger changes, and CalHR issues its own instructions to departments through “pay letters.”
Works "prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. government as part of that person's official duties" are automatically in the public domain by law. [29] Examples include military journalism, federal court opinions, congressional committee reports, and census data. However, works created by a contractor for the government are still subject ...
The ballot initiative was backed by gig-work companies that wanted to keep their workers classified as independent contractors and were resisting a 2019 state law that would have considered them ...
The California Public Employees' Retirement System, or CalPERS, the nation's largest state pension fund, experienced a 6.1% investment loss in the fiscal year that ended June 30. It was the first ...