2008/9/30 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
2008/9/30 John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
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