CompuServe Messages

Doug, The public domain stuff would remain in the public domain. The government can't copyright its own workproduct, and any successor to the usgs would not acquire what the usgs never had. If in the future there was the Acme Corporation Geological Service, its own workproduct would be copyrightable. I suspect that the availability of scanning, ocr, and public domain information would lead to a healthy, competitive, and thus low-priced market for old usgs materials, if there are enough potential buyers. Nathan