The article was talking about videos created at us government expense, not simply material retrieved from the government archives. The difference is perhaps subtle but meaningful. A library (say that of Congress) is a government archive in which there are works not created at government expense and for which you could go to jail if you started copying and reselling works obtained from said library.
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Re: Government copyright exclusion
The article was talking about videos created at us government expense, not simply material retrieved from the government archives. The difference is perhaps subtle but meaningful. A library (say that of Congress) is a government archive in which there are works not created at government expense and for which you could go to jail if you started copying and reselling works obtained from said library.