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> But if the government can essentially revoke a private individual or company's copyright merely by incorporating otherwise protected text into legislation, th
by adekok 10y ago
> But if the government can essentially revoke a private individual or company's copyright merely by incorporating otherwise protected text into legislation, that can have adverse effects on copyright holders.
How about:
a) voluntarily giving up copyright if you want your text to become law.
or
b) not making law out of propriety, private, copyrighted works.
The reality is that secret laws are bad. We've known this as a society for millenia:
http://www.crystalinks.com/romelaw.html http://www.crystalinks.com/romelaw.html
Those laws were published publicly where anyone could read them.
- vkreso 10y ago> http://www.crystalinks.com/romelaw.html http://www.crystalinks.com/romelaw.html Lovely link! I find the subject of Roman law fascinating. I'd argue that the reception of it throughout the centuries after the fall of the Roman state (most importantly it's dissemination) helped formed the basis of the modern European identity. Also, fun fact: Roman law has been heavily studied in Japan since after it entered Japanese law as part of the Meiji restoration, so today Japan is one of the centers of Romanist studies.