User talk:Mysterymanblue/Copyright statuses of U.S. coins and medals
A note on design competitions
[edit]Under 17 U.S. Code § 105(a), works of the United States government are generally in the public domain; a work of the United States government is defined by 17 U.S. Code § 101 as "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties". Sometimes, a coin will be designed by a competition, but a mint employee will win that competition. This brings up the question of whether the mint artist's design was truly created as part of their official duties. This Washington Post article says the following in reference to the design process for the Congressional Bicentennial coin series: "Eleven artists were invited to compete with the Mint's staff in design of the congressional coins." This leads me to believe that the mint's staff's designs in these competitions are actually a part of their employment, and thus they are in the public domain. Mysterymanblue 23:00, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
While visual editor is great for tables, it has become very difficult to use with the large number of citations for coin designers. User:Mysterymanblue/U.S. coin designers is a list of coin designers that keeps track of the different artist references in use on this page. Whenever a new designer reference is added here, please add it to the relevant table at the list of U.S. coin designers. Whenever a designer reference goes from being used once to being used multiple times here, please give that reference the next available number and update their entry in the relevant table at the list of U.S. coin designers. thank you. Mysterymanblue 21:46, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
Clarify PD
[edit]Am I correct that "PD" in most of these tables is Public Domain? In reading the text, that seems the most obvious explanation but it isn't explicitly stated -- it's just implied by the "reasoning" notes. Can this be added/clarified somewhere? HalJor (talk) 17:47, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, PD means public domain. I will clarify that. Mysterymanblue 01:02, 23 February 2022 (UTC)