Talk:327th Signal Battalion (United States)

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This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because publications of the U.S. federal government and the U.S. military are automatically in the public domain --Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:12, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that this specific example is an exception of the public domain status of US government works. These exceptions can be found at Wikipedia:Public domain#U.S. government works. Specifically I am referring to the 3rd bullet which talks about things that prohibit commercial re-use. Wikipedia:Non-free content describes free content as "content that does not bear copyright restrictions on the right to redistribute, study, modify and improve, or otherwise use works for any purpose in any medium, even commercially" (emphasis in the original, some emphasis removed). The security and privacy page for the website states that information presented on CMH Online can be copied for non-commercial purposes, making it incompatible with Wikipedia. Ryan Vesey Review me! 04:22, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright law trumps website notices. If the material is in the public domain because it was created by a U.S. government employee or member of the U.S. military as part of their work, then it can be freely reproduced, even for commercial purposes. However, a U.S. government website may include copyrighted information from sources other than the U.S. government, in which case the copyrighted material will normally have a credit line such as "Copyright © 2001 Truro Daily News, used by permission." Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:34, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
A template already exists for information from this source, {{ACMH}}. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:34, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]