The costs to publish the law is a total non-sequiter. Being expensive to publish doesn't make something copyrightable. It is expensive to publish any number of

The costs to publish the law is a total non-sequiter. Being expensive to publish doesn't make something copyrightable. It is expensive to publish any number of public domain works, that doesn't take them out of the public domain. And, not only are public domain works not copyrightable, they're none-the-less very available, almost always for free. Making it copyrightable does nothing to help provide access to the content, and everything to hinder it.