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I'd go the other way and write it into law that the law is uncopywritable.
by phjesusthatguy3 8y ago
I'd go the other way and write it into law that the law is uncopywritable.
- rhino369 8y agoThe law is already uncopyrightable. The issue is whether anything incorporated by reference by the law would retroactively remove its copyright. If a court require files be submitted in .docx mean that MS loses copyright on .docx file structure?
- gumby 8y agoThe stuff incorporated by reference has the force of law so should be freely available and resdistributable. What's interesting is metadata: though court decisions themselves are not copyrightable, pagination and such (which is used by the courts to refer to other decisions) is. Disturbingly, when Malamud tried to publish Georgia's state laws he was accused of terrorism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States#Federal_and_state_laws_are_not_protected_by_copyright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
- Gibbon1 8y agoOpinion of mine, abuse of terrorism statutes should be a felony.