2008/9/30 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2008/9/30 John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com:
UK, Canada and Australia are the only three I can quickly think of where crown copyright is asserted over public laws, however the crown provides simple to fulfil reuse requirements that are essentially in place to prevent misuse.
Do you have a quick link to the reuse requirements?
(I've done websites with reprints of Australian laws and court decisions, on the assumption that restricting doing so wouldn't pass the giggle test.)
It looks like an NC license:
Section 182A
182A Copyright in statutory instruments and judgments etc. (1) The copyright, including any prerogative right or privilege of the Crown in the nature of copyright, in a prescribed work is not infringed by the making, by reprographic reproduction, of one copy of the whole or of a part of that work by or on behalf of a person and for a particular purpose. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the making, by reprographic reproduction, of a copy of the whole or a part of the work, where a charge is made for making and supplying that copy, unless the amount of the charge does not exceed the cost of making and supplying that copy. (3) In subsection (1), a prescribed work means: (a) an Act or State Act, an enactment of the legislature of a Territory or an instrument (including an Ordinance or a rule, regulation or by-law) made under an Act, a State Act or such an enactment; (b) a judgment, order or award of a Federal court or of a court of a State or Territory; (c) a judgment, order or award of a Tribunal (not being a court) established by or under an Act or other enactment of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; (d) reasons for a decision of a court referred to in paragraph (b), or of a Tribunal referred to in paragraph (c), given by the court or by the Tribunal; or (e) reasons given by a Justice, Judge or other member of a court referred to in paragraph (b), or of a member of a Tribunal referred to in paragraph (c), for a decision given by him or her either as the sole member, or as one of the members, of the court or Tribunal.