[Foundation-l] NYT: Who owns the law? (Noam Cohen)

[Michael Bimmler]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:27 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/30 David Gerard <dgerard at 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).
>


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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