Talk:Battle of Poison Spring

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Copyright problem removed
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Copyright issue... [Unfounded copyright issue with regard to Battle of Poison Spring page, please restore text]
"Justlettersandnumbers" and "Ealdgyth",

I readily admit that I am a bit bewildered as to how OSU (or anyone else for that matter) could have merely scanned a U.S. government publication and then "copyrighted it" when federal laws and regulations read to the contrary. Copyright laws clearly state that any work created by a federal government employee or officer is in the public domain, provided that the work was created in that person’s official capacity.

In fact, every volume of The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies that OSU's Department of History has scanned onto their site clearly states in the "[Preface]" that ... "By an act approved June 23,1874, Congress made an appropriation "to enable the Secretary of War to begin the publication of the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate Armies ... " And because it is a publication in the public domain, numerous academics and nonprofits have repeatedly scanned these ORs and posted them to their respective websites.

Here are but two such examples:


 * The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies at Cornell University
 * The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies at Internet Archive

Please restore the Battle of Poison Spring text.

Lieutcoluseng (talk) 11:20, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
 * , as far as I'm aware, no text from the Official Records was removed from the page – I did, however, provide the necessary attribution for some text from the National Parks Service battle summary, which may well be taken from that source. What was removed was a passage from this page, beginning with the sentence "Beyond the Mississippi River the war was not as flashy, but no less bitter" and ending, as I recall, "Just getting the gunboats back was a victory of sorts". As far as I was able to determine, that text is not from the Official Histories (I looked at the version on archive.org), but is an introduction written by OSU, and protected by copyright. If I was wrong about that, please give the exact page and volume number where that text appears in the PD source and I'll ask for the removal to be undone. If on the other hand I was right, you might want to check whether you have at any other time copied text from that website. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:26, 2 May 2018 (UTC)