

For example, a state agency may post images online of the final appearance of a building under construction while the images may be "public records", their creator (eg. Note: Works that are considered "public records" but were not created by a state or municipal government agency may be copyrighted by their author the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution prevents state law from overriding the author's right to copyright protection that is granted by federal law. 2d DCA 2004) ( Findlaw)-held that the Collier County Property Appraiser could not require commercial users to enter into a licensing agreement, holding that " has no authority to assert copyright protection in the GIS maps, which are public records."
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State and municipal government agencies may claim copyright for software created by the agency (§ 119.084, F.S.

For example, copyright in works by the Florida Space Authority may have been transferred to Space Florida. Works by defunct state agencies may be copyrighted if these rights were transferred to a new or different agency (note that legislation transferring such right may not have been codified into Florida Statutes).
