Citation[]
Printing Act of 1895, Ch. 23, "An Act Providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents," 28 Stat. 601.
Overview[]
"The Act transferred the position of Superintendent of Documents to the Government Printing Office (GPO), brought all other federal printing plants under GPO's control, provided rules and standards concerning compensation, purchasing supplies, setting prices, and outlined GPO's organization. These changes would form the basis for the public printing and documents statutes contained in Title 44 of the United States Code today."[1]
Section 52 of the Printing Act, which is still in force, provides for the sale by the Public Printer of "duplicate stereotype or electrotype plates from which any Government publication is printed," with the proviso "that no publication reprinted from such stereotype or electrotype plates and no other Government publication shall be copyrighted."[2]
References[]
- ↑ Rebooting the Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed in the Digital Age, at 121,
- ↑ Copyright in Government Publications, in: Copyright Law Revision: Studies Prepared for the Subcomm. on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Senate Comm. on the Judiciary, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. 29-30 (Comm. Print 1961)(Study 33), pp. 23-42.