Gibbons v. Ogden
1977 · National Technical Information Service (via FedFlix)
Finding US Government work
The record names a federal body as the creating agency: Judicial Conference of the United States. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act).
The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate.
- Creating body, as recorded
- Judicial Conference of the United States
- Internet Archive item
- gov.ntis.AV010230VM00
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Equal Justice Under Law Gibbons v. Ogden (4th in a 4 part series). Presents a conflict between the States and Congress over the authority to regulate commerce. In this case, which linked States' authority to license steamboats in federal waters with a seemingly unrelated issue, slavery, Chief Justice Marshall interpreted the Constitution to give the Federal Government the duty to determine the rules of commerce and established how to lay the foundation for an American common market nearly a century before Europe enjoyed it. This series includes: Marbury v. Madison , McCulloch v. Maryland , United States v. Aaron Burr , and Gibbons v. Ogden