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{{Pensapedia copyright}}
Works produced by civilian and military employees of the United States federal government in the scope of their employment are public domain by statute.
However, not every work republished by the U.S. government falls into this category. The U.S. government can own copyrights that are assigned to it by others â — for example, works created by contractors.
Moreover, images and other media found on .mil and .gov websites may be using commercial stock photography owned by others. It may be useful to check the privacy and security notice of the website, but only with an email to the webmaster can you be confident that an image is in the public domain.
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'''United States Code; ''Title 17; Chapter 1; § § 105''''' Subject matter of copyright; United States Government works.
Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.