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

[geni]

2008/9/30 Yann Forget <yann at forget-me.net>:
> geni 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).
>
> 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.

Well I know that UK based systems are going to tend not to have PD
laws. I'm less familiar with french based legal systems.


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geni