User:Z75SG61Ilunqpdb/Bridge, Florida International University

Copyright status of work by the Florida government
There are various categories of works for which the legislature has specifically permitted copyright to be claimed, mostly for a few applications or development processes wherein the state derives income and while competing with private industries in the commercial realm, such as allowing the Department of the Lottery, the Department of Citrus, and some university research departments to secure copyrights for certain works that are expressly defined and narrowly limited.
 * Florida Statutes §24.105(10)
 * Florida Statutes §601.101
 * Florida Statutes §1004.23

Under Florida's Constitution and its statutes, the state and its agents are not permitted to claim copyright on its public records unless the legislature specifically permits it. This includes a work made or received pursuant to law or ordinance or in connection with the transaction of official business by any state, regional, county, district, municipal, or other unit of government and their associated committees and divisions created or established by the laws of the Government of Florida. Text, communications, and images produced by the government of Florida and any county, region, district, authority, agency, or municipal officer, department, division, board, committee, bureau, commission, or other separate unit of government created or established by law are consequently in the public domain according to court interpretation in Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner.
 * Florida Statutes §119.011(12)
 * Florida Constitution Article I, §24(a)
 * Florida Statutes §119.011(11)
 * Florida Statutes §119.011(12)

Florida International University
Florida International University is a metropolitan public research university in Greater Miami, Florida. FIU has two major campuses in Miami-Dade County, with its main campus in University Park. Florida International University is classified as a research university with highest research activity by the Carnegie Foundation and a research university by the Florida Legislature.
 * "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: University Park CDP, FL" (Archive). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on January 3, 2015.
 * "FIU Campus Maps." Florida International University. Retrieved on April 27, 2011.

FIU belongs to the 12-campus State University System of Florida and is one of Florida's primary graduate research universities, awarding over 3,400 graduate and professional degrees annually. The university offers 191 programs of study with more than 280 majors in 23 colleges and schools. FIU offers many graduate programs, including architecture, business administration, engineering, law, and medicine, offering 81 master's degrees, 34 doctoral degrees, and 3 professional degrees.

Florida Supreme Court : recording copyrights didn’t exist before 1972

 * Flo & Eddie, Inc. v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc., 827 F.3d 1016, 1018 (11th Cir. 2016)
 * https://www.scribd.com/document/362707106/Flo-Eddie-Inc-v-Sirius-XM-Radio-Inc-827-F-3d-1016-1018-11th-Cir-2016
 * https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/siriusxm-wins-appeal-pre-1972-sound-recordings-florida-1052130
 * http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/florida-supreme-court-sides-with-siriusxm-in-royalty-battle-over-pre-1972-recordings-1202600590/
 * https://law.justia.com/cases/florida/supreme-court/2017/sc16-1161.html
 * http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/flo-eddie-v-sirius-florida-supreme-court-rejects-exclusive-performance-right-in-pre-1972-sound-recordings
 * https://www.grammy.com/advocacy/news/florida-supreme-court-no-state-protection-recording-musicians
 * https://www.gordonrees.com/results/2017/miami-team-prevails-in-appellate-case-before-the-florida-supreme-court-on-behalf-of-sirius-xm-radio-inc-

The constitution and statutes of Florida, generally do not permit public records to be copyrighted.

 * Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner, Case no. 2D03-3346, Florida Court of Appeal, Second District (Dec. 1, 2004), construing Florida Statutes § 119.07. See Microdecisions, Inc. v. Skinner
 * Florida senate committee report On public records and copyright, September 2005. (GIS)