geni wrote:
2008/9/30 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
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).
I don't think that is true. For what I precisely know, in France published laws are public domain.
If some texts are public domain but not easily available, they could be hosted on Wikisource.
Yann
UK was thinking about making accessibility hard but decided against it.
Other than that availability of laws especially the older stuff is kinda limited.