Comment Re:Government work non-copyrighed? (Score 1) 223
Works produced by federal government employees during their jobs is in the public domain, which gets us for example great pictures from NASA that have no restrictions on use.
However, works produced by non-employees who simply receive federal funding has no such restriction. If the federal governments contracts out production of, say, a report, it will be under copyright, which can be assigned to the federal government. Thus we have the somewhat interesting situation wherein the federal government holds copyrights only on works they didn't produce.