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On Mar 29, 2006, at 2:07 PM, George Huxtable wrote:

> HM Almanac Office claims worldwide copyright for all the contents,
> except for those small portions
> originating in the US. I would like to know what the copyright
> notice states, that's issued with the
> US version.

The copyright in the U.S. government edition is held by the Council
of the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, which is a
British government organization, acting for HM Almanac Office.   The
U.S. government produced the cover, title page and reverse, the
Preface, pages 6 & 7 (eclipse diagrams), and pages 286-315 (the
tabular part of the sight reduction tables, excluding the two pages
at the end for adjustment to tabulated altitudes).  These portions
are not claimed for copyright in the United State (no mention of
elsewhere).

The notice in the commercial edition (Ken Gebhardt) is similar.  The
commercial edition is produced with permission from the above British
Council.

I suppose the British government could allow British publishers also
to produce a commercial edition.  I wonder whether Celestaire can
sell theirs in Britain.  I don't see why not.  They could make as
much money from that, I expect, as from their own.

Fred Hebard

   

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