On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:27 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/9/30 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hmm. Is there any practical help the WMF could
provide in this
endeavour? Aside from buckets of money, which appears to be the thing
the endeavour is most in need of.
Are there other countries where the law is not easily available and a
word from us would help?
From what I recall the law is protected by copyright everywhere other
than the US and North Korea (North Korea is kinda unclear it depends
on what exactly is meant by government pronouncements).
Add Switzerland to these two...(are there really no others?). In
Switzerland "laws, decrees, international treaties, means of currency,
decisions, protocols and reports by public authorities, patents and
published patent applications" are all explicitly exempt from
copyright.
Michael
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