Copyright, Public Domain, and U.S. Government Publications
 
Items on this web site that are from family collections are copyrighted.

Electronic sources are cited using the
Chicago Citation Format: (Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., sections 17.270, 17.237) described in the Library of Congress: How to Cite Electronic Sources..

Many of the other items related to the Civil War, World War 1 and World War 2 appear to be works of the United States Government prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties and is in the public domain, as defined in 17 U.S.C. sec 101 (1994). More details are at:


http://www.gpoaccess.gov/about/legal.html

and

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/copyright/publicdomain.html

The University of North Carolina has an excellent charat on when items pass into the public domain

http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm


The Civil War photos from the Library of Congress are in the public domain. Details are at: Rights and Reproductions.

On the Rhineland Campaign page, permission to use the diorama photo is from Adj. Maj. Jean-Claude Schmetz, Curator, Truschbaum Museum.

On the Normandy Units Research Page, the assault landing credit arrowhead is from https://veteranmedals.army.mil/awardg&d.nsf/0/8d82e0159144671785256e68005f8ccb?OpenDocument

On the Discharge Uniform Page, the photos of the ribbons are almost all from the public domain site:
http://sill-www.army.mil/Graphics/RIBBONS/Page.html

I am confirming the copyright status of all items I have any question about. If an item is not in the public domain, I will obtain permission for its use or if necessary, remove it. Please send copyright concerns to
Leonard H. Cizewski. Thank you.
 
Cizewski, Lovetere, Musbach, & Robinson
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