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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">True. This issue usually comes up when
a government purchases a license from a private company to use an
existing data set the company provides.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">However, if the government is
contracting for services to help build a database that must be
public domain or otherwise "open", they cannot contract with a
company demanding proprietary rights. When I worked for a state
government agency and we contracted out data development, the
contractual language always specified the resulting work was the
property of the state and not the company. Basic work for hire
doctrine.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">There could be other issues at play
regarding the states pointed out below. The Feds running the NAD
project require the data is public domain. Number one may be the
fact that those states either do not explicitly declare the data
is public domain, the license is ambiguous, or they assert some
other license which still may be compatible with OSM (and
OpenAddresses, etc). Or they may explicitly declare GIS data is
"special" and put limits on it. More research required.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Brian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/20/2021 7:11 PM, IsStatenIsland
via Talk-us wrote:<br>
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<div>Works by contractors of the federal government may still be
under copyright. I expect this to apply to works of state
governments and agents thereof.<br>
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<div>For example, the NAD has this note:<br>
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<div><b>Dark Purple color indicates the data may not be in the
public domain for the following (6) whole states:</b> Kansas,
Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and South
Carolina; and <b>the following (3) partial states including
parts of </b>Colorado, Maryland, and South Dakota.<br>
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