Talk:United States Government/The Annotated Constitution of the United States

Separate column
I just had a suggestion for this page: I thought it would be nice to have the annotations done in a separate column, as is often done in textbooks. I know the markup for this would be pretty hard to do nicely, and it wouldn't print very well, so there are some cons to this idea as well. Anyway, thanks! -Deicidus 03:30, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I agree -- the text is very difficult to read as it is, especially on high-res screens, where the text goes a lot further to the right before wrapping around. --Buggi22 17:39, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Seems like the markup shouldn't be that difficult to implement as a template in a way that makes it quick and easy for editors to use. Here's the beginnings of one attempt, which just floats the annotation to the right in a 25%-width box. - dcljr 17:00, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Copyright
This is a published document of the United States Government (not the Constitution itself, but the annotations and commentary). Does it have copyright restrictions? DSYoungEsq 17:55, 6 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Nothing the US Government produces has ANY Copyright, EXCEPT in the case of Commercial Use, and the only caveat there is the fact that you have to get the specific department's permission to make money off their production. The reasoning behind this system is the fact that all US Government productions are prepared making use of Federal Tax Money, which comes from the People. Thus, the people of the USA paid for the manufacture, publish, etc., of whatever it is the Government has made, and therefore they already own it, and should not have to pay twice for their right to make use of it. When you buy something that contains material produced by the US Government, and it is in a cover, say, with a new introduction by the person preparint the new publication, he can only copyright the work he did preparing the covfer and the introduction. He can't squawk if someone makes use of the original material from his publication, but he can squawk if you copy the whole shebang to make it look like he prepared it. - CORNELIUSSEON 00:36, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikisource
If this is a document originally published by the US Gov its probably better off at Wikisource. Wikibooks is for developing original material. --75.65.208.142 06:48, 10 May 2007 (UTC)