Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: An Opinionated Pri...

Courtesy LWN.net  Wed, 06/18/2008 - 03:19

Attorney James Grimmelmann has put together a detailed history of issues surrounding access to the law as a way of looking at the state of Oregon's attempts to assert copyright privileges on its legal code.

He concludes with a set of principles for access to legal code which has a lot of similarities with our principles regarding source code.

"The right to distribute: Once primary legal information is online, anyone should be able to pick it up and republish...

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