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It's weird -- legal arguments aren't protected under any sort of intellectual property regime. In fact in common law jurisdictions, it's encouraged for you ba
by JackFr 7y ago
It's weird -- legal arguments aren't protected under any sort of intellectual property regime. In fact in common law jurisdictions, it's encouraged for you base your work off that of previous practitioners. I always wonder how different our intellectual property regime would be if lawyers demanded to be paid royalties for others citing cases which they had won.
- shadowgovt 7y agoCopyright as an institution is grounded on arguments of net societal benefit, and it doesn't take much argument to demonstrate that there is net societal harm to intentionally diminishing people's ability to comply with the law.
- dependenttypes 7y agoSadly the Norwegian courts do not seem to agree. See this series of blog posts by the creator of CSS. https://www.wiumlie.no/2018/rettspraksis/06-11-blog https://www.wiumlie.no/2018/rettspraksis/06-11-blog
- s1artibartfast 7y agoSomewhat tangentially, in some fields and jurisdictions, the legal code which is enforced is copyrighted and paywalled by third parties or the Gov. itself. https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/court-tells-georgia-it-cant-charge-people-read-law https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/court-tells-georgia-it...