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Old 03-18-2014, 07:23 PM   #1
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I just discovered the State of California Dept. of Motor Vehicles has the driver's handbook available as a free download at:
http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/pubs.htm
They have versions in Spanish, Punjabi, Russian, Tagalog, Vietnamese and even English.

A quick search shows others states have done the same.

This is good news. (At the least it will save a trip to the DMV just to get a pamphlet.)

My previous find is the California Agriculture Statistics Review (yearly) is also a free download from Calif. Dept. of Agriculture.
(http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/)
Well, did YOU know that California is #1 in the US for eggplant production? Been that way since 2001.

The feds also have publications. Some of them are available in PFD and and some of those are free. Such as "10 Ways to Avoid Fraud" at:
http://publications.usa.gov/USAPubs....D=118&CatID=12

(That would be SO ironic if that one was one of the PAID downloads.)
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Old 03-19-2014, 08:04 AM   #2
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The feds also have publications. Some of them are available in PFD and and some of those are free.
What, I no longer get to write to Pueblo, Colorado?
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What, I no longer get to write to Pueblo, Colorado?
I remember those old commercials on TV. Thanks for the link mrwrite.
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Almost all US government publications are in the public domain.
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Almost all US government publications are in the public domain.
They're either in the public domain or classified.

So you can either copy them freely, or go to jail for copying them...
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They're either in the public domain or classified.

So you can either copy them freely, or go to jail for copying them...
No, some are sold commercially. Institutions which are funded by the US government, but not actually a part of the government don't have to release their work into the public domain. One such organisation that I've personally dealt with which falls into that category is the "Space Telescope Science Institute", which operates the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Almost all US government publications are in the public domain.
Yep. Some such are considered to be in the PD from the time they are created. Like the Private Snafu training cartoons that the Government made circa WWII for example. You can find some of them over at the Internet Archive as a result of that fact.
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Another loophole for government works being copyrighted is for the work to be assigned to a private contractor who does it as a work for hire, and as part of the contract copyrights it, then assigns the copyright to the government department which did the contracting.

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Just how people are suppose to know this (without trial and error testing like I did)?
On the state of TEXAS web site:
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/InternetForms/Default.aspx
You type in DL-7 to get the English version of the Texas Driver's Manual.
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Just how people are suppose to know this (without trial and error testing like I did)?
On the state of TEXAS web site:
http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/InternetForms/Default.aspx
You type in DL-7 to get the English version of the Texas Driver's Manual.
Click on Forms by Section, look for Driver Handbook.
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You can get military manuals on a wide range of subjects.

http://armypubs.army.mil/index.html

http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/

http://www.hnsa.org/doc/

Here's a site with quick access to documents like Navy Electronic Training, Machine Shop Training, Construction, etc.

http://shopdawg.com/navman.htm
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