Hoover, for example, is reprinted in the 1933 volume. While
the volumes are copyrighted, the copyright notice printed
at the beginning of each volume indicates that the
copyright was intended to cover only the editorial
arrangement, titles, introductions and editorial notes. The
note reads:
 
"NOTE, All rights reserved. For permission to reproduce any
introduction, note or title in this book, application must
be made in writing to" the publisher.
 
This is a flat recognition that the source material,
including letters, was not the proper subject of copyright
under the copyright law. From the fact that there are no
reported cases dealing specifically with the question, it
is fair to assume that this conclusion he always been
regarded as more or less axiomatic in governmental circles.
The Federal Copyright Statute specifically provides (17
U.S.C.A., ' 7):
 
    "No copyright shall subsist in the original text of work
which is in the public domain, * * * or in any publication
of the United States Government, or any reprint, in whole
or in part, thereof."
 
     The following excerpt from the foreword appearing in
the second set of "The Public Papers and Addresses" has a
significant bearing on this phase of the question:
 
    "These volumes do not attempt to include any of the
private or unpublished letters of the President. Those will
eventually all be housed at the Franklin D. Roosevelt 
Library at Hyde Park, New York, where, with the other books, 
documents, papers, prints, etc., relating to the administration,
they will be made available to research students in the
future.
 
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