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

[geni]

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).

UK was thinking about making accessibility hard but decided against it.

Other than that availability of laws especially the older stuff is
kinda limited.

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geni