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

[Yann Forget]

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.

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.

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