It might make sense for the state to negotiate a license for widespread free distribution before agreeing to incorporate a document by reference. While I suppo

It might make sense for the state to negotiate a license for widespread free distribution before agreeing to incorporate a document by reference. While I support the end result of this petition, and think it's better than the status quo, it is a little weird to think that something I wrote could automatically become public domain if the state incorporates it by reference into a law. What if I didn't want them to? It'd be a lot cleaner if the state acquired the rights to the document before writing it into a law. Alternately, we could have truly public bodies, rather than quasi-public-sphere but actually private organizations, coming up with these model regulations.