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

[geni]

2008/9/30 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2008/9/30 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>:
>
>> UK, Canada and Australia are the only three I can quickly think of
>> where crown copyright is asserted over public laws, however the crown
>> provides simple to fulfil reuse requirements that are essentially in
>> place to prevent misuse.
>
>
> Do you have a quick link to the reuse requirements?
>
> (I've done websites with reprints of Australian laws and court
> decisions, on the assumption that restricting doing so wouldn't pass
> the giggle test.)
>

It looks like an NC license:

Section 182A

182A  Copyright in statutory instruments and judgments etc.
 (1) The copyright, including any prerogative right or privilege of the
Crown in the nature of copyright, in a prescribed work is not
infringed by the making, by reprographic reproduction, of one
copy of the whole or of a part of that work by or on behalf of a
person and for a particular purpose.
 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the making, by reprographic
reproduction, of a copy of the whole or a part of the work, where a
charge is made for making and supplying that copy, unless the
amount of the charge does not exceed the cost of making and
supplying that copy.
 (3) In subsection (1), a prescribed work means:
 (a) an Act or State Act, an enactment of the legislature of a
Territory or an instrument (including an Ordinance or a rule,
regulation or by-law) made under an Act, a State Act or such
an enactment;
 (b) a judgment, order or award of a Federal court or of a court of
a State or Territory;
 (c) a judgment, order or award of a Tribunal (not being a court)
established by or under an Act or other enactment of the
Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;
 (d) reasons for a decision of a court referred to in paragraph (b),
or of a Tribunal referred to in paragraph (c), given by the
court or by the Tribunal; or
 (e) reasons given by a Justice, Judge or other member of a court
referred to in paragraph (b), or of a member of a Tribunal
referred to in paragraph (c), for a decision given by him or
her either as the sole member, or as one of the members, of
the court or Tribunal.



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