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> you can not only lose the infringement case but in extreme cases even lose the copyright entirely.

Does the work become public domain or government royalty subject in that case? If the latter, it is worse since the government cannot be sued for copyright misuse, either.



Public domain or some state that approximates it (this is really not a well explored area of law and I'm not an expert).


I asked because government royalty subjects are something extremely (and I consider dangerously) commonplace in Europe.


Do you have any examples of that? I'm European and don't know what you mean.


Works of government that are copyrighted by the government are called government royalty subjects.




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