From an EFF announcement this week:
Technical requirements like fireplace and electrical codes developed by non-public organizations however integrated into public legislation may be freely disseminated with none legal responsibility for copyright infringement, a federal appeals courtroom dominated Tuesday.
The choose dominated that posting the supplies constituted truthful use — so the nonprofit group doing the posting will not be responsible for copyright infringement. The American Bar Affiliation Journal experiences:
The choice is a victory for public-domain advocate Carl Malamud and the group that he based, Public.Useful resource.org. The group posts authorized supplies on its web sites, together with the requirements developed by the three organizations that sued… “It has been over 10 years since plaintiffs filed swimsuit on this case,” mentioned Malamud in a press launch by the Digital Frontier Basis. “The U.S. Court docket of Appeals has discovered decisively in favor of the proposition that residents should not be relegated to economy-class entry to the legislation.”
In 2012 Carl Malamud answered questions from Slashdot readers.
And now, lastly, from the EFF’s announcement:
Tuesday’s ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholds the concept our legal guidelines belong to all of us, and we should always have the ability to discover, learn, and share them freed from registration necessities, charges, and different roadblocks… “In a nation ruled by the rule of legislation, non-public events don’t have any enterprise controlling who can learn, share, and communicate the principles to which we’re all topic,” EFF Authorized Director Corynne McSherry mentioned. “We’re happy that the Court docket of Appeals upheld what different U.S. courts, together with the Supreme Court docket, have mentioned for nearly 200 years: Nobody ought to management entry to the legislation.”
Or, because the EFF places it on one other web page, “Copyright can not trump the important public curiosity…”
Due to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the information.
